Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl, a weekly vote for the best of the retro game box variety.
Last week we ran into a headliner in the middle Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. For the first time in the series the votes led to a hot deadlock between North America and Japan, both tied with 37 percent of the votes while Europe plunged into third place in the polls. Never before!
Fortunately, we managed to get behind the buzzing mainframe here at Nintendo Life Towers and took a closer look at the statistics behind those percentages. After just one week it has revealed that with only 5 votes to it – the winner of Box Art Brawl # 37 in fact (a drum roll) …
In North America with 605 of the 600 votes in Japan! That is the closest outcome so far in this series. Shamelessly covered was not a work of art, but – hello – That's all part of the fun.
This week the excitement went up the gear as Mario dropped another well-known team Mario Party 2 Nintendo 64. The game celebrated its 20th anniversary earlier this year and is a solid entry into a long-running series that has had its ups and downs but has continued to ride the truck, recently. Super Mario Party.
Are you ready then? What do you mean you should stay home? Cimmon, it would look awful if we didn't show our face at least. Oh, it's going to be fun! Take a bottle with your N64 pad – you know that its always stuck. Yes, yes, I remember the last one; it will be different in this! Oh, come get your coat …
Japan
We start in the East with an explosion of ammunition that counteracts the pink layer. Under the Japanese title the logo includes an English title, though it is made up of & # 39; Money 2 Party & # 39;
All the founders of the Mushroom Kingdom are wearing fancy hats, and Mario is up, Luigi playing Elizabethff ruff and Yoshi have just lost the eye-catching charm in his battle dress. There's a lot going on, maybe it's great, but we love it. Extra points for Wizard Toad.
Europe
The EU cover uses the same major character art pieces that have been redesigned to work on the look of the world. The pink color layer has been replaced with yellow and is made up of a standard black border that is the majority of the Nintendo-published N64 catalog.
Including most of the material from the Japanese version, we love how this brings the focus to Mario, even though it does decrease the wizard hiding points of Wizard Toad.
North America
The North American variant uses the same art as the European version, though it introduces a black border with the region's transparent strap holding the bottom right. This means that everything is great, even though the Bowser & # 39; it's hidden. This version also carries a special tagline: "Find a place to skip!"
The differences between the European and North American versions are small (as in most Nintendo Western covers) but they are significant. We love them both, even though we think they threw a trick with that tagline. It & # 39; g & # 39; finally & # 39; breaking & # 39; it poses an equitable, oppressive atmosphere that suggests more than racism with the illusion of splendor from a needy keeper. This Mario Party (Second) sounds like a warm G&Ts and pattern vol-au-vents, that kind of thing; not Out-and-Out, furniture-garage, china key, that's fine party-The library. Mario needs to get out of there if indeed you want to make a jumin party & # 39 ;.
Or maybe we learn a lot from it.
And the party started! Click on your preferences in the three below and hit the & # 39; Vote & # 39; to let us know which one you think looks like the protagonist.
Yeahhh-y-yeahhh-y-yeahhh, que no pare la fiesta, don-stop-the-par-TAY! Be nice and nice people, and remember to drive yourself. Until next week, stay young.
