TG-16 boxes in the US -- An Artistic Catastrophe

[timewarpgamer]

The TG-16 doesn't seem to get much press around here, but anyone can enjoy bad box art. Here's a recent feature I did comparing PC-Engine game boxes to their U.S. counterparts:

http://timewarpgamer.com/features/tg16_box_art_disparity.html

The wonderful console known as the TG-16 failed to make a dent in the U.S. market for numerous reasons, and--as hopefully this feature demonstrates--bad box art/marketing was one of them.

[Flak Beard]

The Dungeon Explorer disparity is hilarious.

[ZeroAX]

well..... omg they suck.


but still 1 or 2 of them imo are better in the western version. not that it's a good piece of boxart. just that the japanese is so bad to begin with, you can't go wrong

[Dylan]

Nice article, I actually had no idea TG16 box art suffered so badly from westernization. Of course, at the time I had no idea the TG16 existed regardless.

[jfrost]

I kinda liked US Galaga's cover better.

[MrPopo]

I believe this is one of the reasons there are so few TG covers on TCP.

[buttonmasher123]

My favorite bad TG-16 artwork


What is up with all these wimpy looking guy's on these TG-16 covers. These guy's here look like they would be good friends with the the dudes from the Dragon's Curse and Neutopia II covers lol.

[Citizin]

Good one, nice to see more TG16 material. Wasn't there a thread on here about how the same thing happened to a few PS2 releases?

[Dakinggamer87]

TG-16 box art in US wasn't very good but system had some great titles...

[Hobie-wan]

Earlier US covers are like the person who was doing the US SMS covers was fired, bought an airbrush, spent 5 minutes learning how to use it, and conned NEC into hiring them.