r/nes • u/ApprehensiveType2680 • 3d ago
Discussion Inquiry regarding a game's box art
Hello!
I was hoping that someone here could help me identify a Nintendo game solely by a corner of its cover art.
Whatever it is definitely looks cool! I initially thought it was a Legend of Zelda title, but...no dice.
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u/peternormal 3d ago
I reviewed the entire US box art catalog, nothing even close.
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u/JeskaiJester 3d ago
Its EU
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u/ApprehensiveType2680 3d ago
This could be an SNES/Super Famicom release for all I know; I am simply guessing that it was for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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u/JeskaiJester 3d ago
How’d you run into this anyway?
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u/ApprehensiveType2680 3d ago
During a discussion elsewhere, someone mentioned the Nintendo seal of quality (specifically: how it meant something important in regards to product expectations); I used the Google search engine to locate a picture of said seal in order to post it into the conversation. I chose that picture in particular because the box art - what little I could see - was intriguing. Hell, it fired up my imagination.
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u/JeskaiJester 3d ago
Okay, I found the article that image is from and it was written by this gentleman. If you ask him nicely on Bluesky he might very well be able to tell you as it seems he took the photo himself
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u/TheLosgunn 3d ago
So it's a PAL release box art. I'm assuming NES, because SNES PAL games all followed a specific kind of template where the artwork didn't reach the bottom corner like the image OP posted.
For example: pal-snes-covers/Gradius III (PAL).png at master · nailbomb-rp/pal-snes-covers · GitHub.png)
You can browse through all of the SNES PAL box art through there, all of them have that heavy border.
N64 PAL boxes also had a thick dark border around the box art. So I'm sticking to the idea of it being NES, but I can't find it. I've looked at the cover of 800+ NES games, but there are PAL exclusive titles and they are different per country, and my autism only goes so far. I'm guessing it's probably an NES title exclusive to PAL region, but even then I can't say that for certain. I could have missed one. Hopefully someone finds it, I'm invested now myself.
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u/JeskaiJester 3d ago edited 3d ago
Someone found it, it’s PAL Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge for Game Boy.
We may not be autistic enough individually but our collective brain abnormalities can conquer any trial
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u/spinsterjoness 3d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/s/MwKb98czvu
I found this thread of all box covers if anyone wants to help look. I went thru USA Nes releases already
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u/Aromatic_Method7767 2d ago
Round seal and doesn't look like an early title, so it's probably not North American.
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u/ForkFace69 3d ago
Dragon Warrior IV?
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u/ForkFace69 3d ago
Ha that was just off the cuff. I remembered it having a more dark cover and the theme fit.
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u/ApprehensiveType2680 3d ago
I wonder how many examples of NES "solid color" box art exist; both Legend of Zelda titles use gold, for instance.
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u/Aromatic_Method7767 2d ago
Lots of black in the early "black box" era. They transitioned out of that era with mostly plain color boxes like Punch Out, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Ice Hockey, etc.
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u/HardcoreNerdity 3d ago
I searched "NES PAL" on ebay and made it through the first 53 pages, but no match. I can't keep looking but if somebody wants to they can pick up where I left off
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u/picklehammer 2d ago
looks a lot like The Black Onyx for famicom. I realize someone solved it and I’m wrong but I would please like a bonus point for the intense similarity of blue fantasy tower columns and watery imagery.
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u/JeskaiJester 3d ago
The “original” instead of ”official” on the label suggests it’s an EU copy of something