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Title: boxart unreleased games
Post by Dutch nes gamer on 08. Mar 2010 at 14:33

Finaly picking up the nes hobby again after again some bad health,but ok.
I got some time on my hands so i did some internet searching instead of game hunting in the wild.
And found a great list from skrybe about unreleased nes games.
great to read,but out dated.2002 i believe.

There where some pictures of unreleased games etc.
Wich got me thinking.How did some repros got there box art?
Some games are easy because of ads(escape from atlantis) or snes or genesis covers where used (hit the ice).
But wich are made up? i think dracs night out was made up ,because if ound an old nesworld article BUT the pictures where missing ;D
anybody got ideas?

Title: Re: boxart unreleased games
Post by albailey on 09. Mar 2010 at 19:41

I think where possible, people try to base it on existing work, as you said (releases for other platforms, ads, etc..)

Heroquest is based on the art for its board game.

I believe there was an ad for California Raisins.

I made one for Recca, where I just altered the art from the Soundtrack packaging.

No idea about Drac. I think that one is actually completely someone's idea.

I've actually never liked the artwork for Earthbound. The japanese version is all red, so most NES repros do the same thing. What I did, what took the same look, but make the red look more like a nebula.

In the case of Mike Ditka, I believe NGD had the official promo art. Same for Happy Camper.

Al

Title: Re: boxart unreleased games
Post by klax on 19. Jul 2011 at 15:24

Offical promo art? Do you mean this ad, the only place happy camper was ever mentined until NGD found it?

Title: Re: boxart unreleased games
Post by Buyatari on 09. Oct 2011 at 23:20

The art from Ditka came from one of those Vidpro cards.

Title: Re: boxart unreleased games
Post by Martin on 09. Oct 2011 at 23:25

Well and NGD got the Happy Camper artwork along with the ROM chips... :-)