Thread 12102375

I miss clusterfuck boxart like this, but now that I actually look at it, wtf is going on?

>>12102375 (OP)
Mario and his two small sons flee desperately from the Tatanga army as global warming causes the ocean to flood the continent. Big Mario is one second from drowning in the coming wave, but his sons may survive.

>>12102375 (OP)
Why do zoomers get anxiety attacks with box art that's not either just one character standing around or literally a giant face?

>>12102469
why do boomers zoomer zoom boom zoom boom zoom zoom boom boomer?

>>12102484
wow you sure showed him, junior.

>>12102490
the based noomer vs the virgin foomer

>>12102375 (OP)
BUT UHHH if mario is THERE
HOW can he also be THERE?

Atari 2600 games did have some amazing box art

>>12102490
Ok jooner

>>12102375 (OP)
If you played the game, you would understand

I can't unsee that this is practically all retouched clipart

>>12102375 (OP)
This kind of art is great and it makes me sad we got away from it.
Speaking of super Mario Brothers, I love how the NES trilogy and even World has a theme going on.

>>12102502
Those two small Italian creatures are clearly not Mario.

>>12102375 (OP)
>right
Moai guy throws a rock as a flower while the hopping enemies vaguely chase Mario. The moait heads represent Easton while the mountain in the back represent Chai (I think, though Chai is more of a woodsy area(
>above
Representing the last level of the game, Maria in the Sky Pop. This looks relatively normal except Tatanga looks like he's going to crash into the sphinx guy, though I think he's supposed to be giving orders or tring to snatch Daisy.
>left
Lion guy from Birabuto pyramids trying to roast Mario, who is on those invisible Muda blocks.
Yeah this is a clusterfuck, the other Mario boxarts were better.

>>12102576
I think what's going on is: left Birabuto, bottom Muda, right Easton, up Chai.

>>12102552
Looking at the evidence and reaching THAT conclusion actually requires effort, or at least a concussion.

>>12102375 (OP)
The reason this schizo action packed type of box art got less common is because the people who grew up with them grew up and became parents themselves, so when they go to the store, the parental mentality is to pick something clean and simple looking like an Apple product. Look at one of the box arts they almost went for the New Super Mario Bros games. Mario versus the Koopalings, like on the Japanese SMB3 & SMW boxarts. Replaced pretty late (after the rating) with a basic sterile bing-bing wahoo computergame art.

>>12102375 (OP)
jiangshi are the dumbest undead ever conceived by human beings

>>12102745
? Look how badly Totomesu is aligned on the sand.

Kids don't have the attention-span for "Where's Waldo?" anymore. To them, "puzzles suck!!!"

>>12102375 (OP)
Where is her nose and her eyebrows?

>>12103457
they're at the shop

>>12102750
Not retro

>>12102765
thank goodness that lion is there to protext daisy

>>12102449
holy underrated

>>12102375 (OP)
this cover is pretty much just the game verbatim. there are many covers that feature enemies that arent even in the game

>>12106332
Fun trope, the movie Midsommar did that too with the opening frame

>>12102518
I'm sure than more than half the budget for these games went directly to the cover artist.

>>12102375 (OP)
It’s Mario, you stupid bitch.

>>12106521
Up A yours, A Luigi

>>12102484
all i wanna do is zooma zoom zoom zoom in your boom boom

>>12103457
She got hit by an Alien nose&eyebrows stealing ray!

These are extremely dynamic clusterfuck designs that I think somehow stopped happening after the 90s. It seems to be something more characteristic of late 80s and early 90s, these sort of hype as fuck depictions of action with lots of characters interwined and with different very lively expressions. You can almost see them moving.
Whenever I see modern art that also looks clusterfucky it lacks that dynamic movement and just the soul isn't there in the same way.
Pic related I think captures the essence of what I have in mind. Similar to the classic western Konami box arts like Castlevania, Contra and TMNT, it was also seen in many action toys packagings during those times.

I like how SML is basically /x/ Mario

I kinda enjoy how the basic resource for a certain mindset to assert understanding and control of things that they don't quite grasp, is to have a label for them. And when there's none because said thing is not concrete enough, they just make one up anyway.

It's more and more common to the point that it's unsurprising we're living in a future where language, a handy tool for communication but ultimately subordinate to context and reality in general, is liberally used as if it implicitly contained the former and/or had the power to define the latter.

>What's this game about?
>Apparently it's about people running away from a city while airplanes whizz by overhead

>>12102750
Right is kino.

>>12110517
I don't see why you are singling this out as a unique, modern phenomenon. Naming things is ultimately how they exist in a human mindset. If something is nameless, it cannot exist, for if it has no name, then how can it be discussed? If it cannot be discussed, then for humans, how does it exist?

Moreover, we are in a web search dominated world now, so being able to name something is inherent to being able to find it. Have you ever tried searching for something online that you didn't know the name of? If there's one upside, it's that AI is capable of processing descriptions and offering decent answers, but see? Even that is ultimately giving a name to the thing which for you is presently nameless. We label things, it's what people do and have done for as long as communication has existed. I don't know why you suggest that this is strange.

>>12110517
U wot

>>12102518
Flag Capture is a big favorite for the system but I still don't know why it has pirates on it.

>>12102375 (OP)
Feels bad that I left this and my DS on an airplane.

>>12110745
In a way it's appropriate of the algorithmization of human thought to add a commutative property to such a basic cognitive process: we label things as we become aware of them, study them, and ultimately get to understand them. Stupidity comes in when we jump right to labeling and obviate the actual understanding as being naturally contained in it.

Though not unique to modern cognition and communication, the issue is certainly getting exponentially worse, basically by the reasons you yourself mention and even before the current spike of crippling technological dependency: why build a library in your head if a catalogue will do?

>>12102484
xoomie mad

>>12108813
>actual
>no difference

>>12102484
le ZOOMER I am BOOOOOMER

>what is going on?
All the things that hapoen in the game

>>12110710
Which is true.

>>12110517
I like your post nigger. Genuinely.

>>12108295
pum pum, you deaf bastard.

Notice how the OP image is related to the accompanying text.

>>12102518
I remember when I was 5 this one gave me a boner

>>12114976
How exactly does that happen

>>12116294
You had to be there

>>12116294
gradiually

>>12114976
>gave me a boner
There's not sexy ladies on it.

>>12116332
>>12116493
these hints gave me my big hard answer