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Knyte
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Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
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I have never noticed this before until now:
Gee Ultra, don't put too much creativity or origanality into the cover art! Save some for Snake's Revenge!
Dear god... You REALLY should have just ripped off another movie character, instead of this crap. You could have just airbrushed over a picture of Escape From New York, or something.....
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Tebor
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Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
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Yep. It's true. I think I saw EGM point that out a few years ago. I miss the days we could just steal likenesses for 8-bit video games. Those were the days...
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FNJ
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what years did hte two come out?
it very well could have been done on purpose, as homage to the movie. gooks are odd like that.
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Murdar Machene
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Title: bimmy
Joined: Nov 06 2005
Location: the black warriors turf
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Pretty common practice for old game covers, my friend.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
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what years did hte two come out?
it very well could have been done on purpose, as homage to the movie. gooks are odd like that. |
Did you just say gooks? That was a typo right? Please say that was a typo.
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| A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd. |
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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Rambo, Terminator, Commando, and Alien all precede Contra.
Contra came out before Predator, but the NES port of Contra did not.
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Murdar Machene
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| Contra came out before Predator, but the NES port of Contra did not. |
And thank god that Predator was made before the NES version, or we'd have had this shit on our NES games:
You guys! I just realized that the Star Wars SNES game totally ripped off the movie's cover, look at this shit
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FNJ
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| Valdronius wrote: |
| JEW wrote: |
what years did hte two come out?
it very well could have been done on purpose, as homage to the movie. gooks are odd like that. |
Did you just say gooks? That was a typo right? Please say that was a typo. |
I said gooks.
I also said this two weeks ago at least.
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Valdronius
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| JEW wrote: |
| I also said this two weeks ago at least. |
I know. I responded on the same day.
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| A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd. |
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FNJ
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this is pac man eating a mushroom.
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Murdar Machene
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This is a guy ranting at an unimpressed Kirby.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
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This is a guy throwing up on Mega Man's shoes.
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BBH
Joined: Mar 13 2006
Location: Portland, OR
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And thank god that Predator was made before the NES version, or we'd have had this shit on our NES games:
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Man, I friggin love how Konami used real people so much on their arcade cabinet art and flyers. Soooo cheesy.
This is my favorite:
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BBH's Waste of Bandwidth - shitty reviews of obscure arcade games |
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FNJ
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I like the contra one better because of the plastic plants.
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Mr. Bomberman
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Konami's MSX game Gradius: Gofer no Yabou Episode 2 (Gofer's Ambition) had a boxart which was inspired by Star Trek III: The search for Spock.
Here's Episode 2:
and here's Star Trek III.
Basically, they changed the face, removed the characters, and put the Vic Viper in front of it.
Fun facts: Episode 2 was a gaiden (side-story) to Gradius II.
And it was released in Europe as Nemesis 3: The eve of Desruction if anyone wants to play.
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