Survey: Box Art Brawl # 43 – Super Turrican

It's time for another Box Art Brawl series, your weekly chance to be optimistic and opinionate about the regional covers that once adorned video game packaging around the world.

Last week, European coverage of Pikmin 2 He was victorious after scrapping his brothers from Japan and the United States. Yes, the EU coverage (which was also used in Canada) won with more than half of the total votes cast, with the American version. United States Not far away and Japan languishes last.

This week we are jumping two generations to factor 5 Super Turrican on the Super Nintendo. Great! This run and gunner was launched in 1993, although more recently you have seen (or played) the ingenious 6MB Director & # 39; s Cut built into each Analog Super NT.

Let's wrap up the discussion and take a look at this week’s candidates, starting in North America …

North America

The North American version uses the art of Turrican II: the final fight (just like the European version and the sequel), a game released on other platforms. He's surrounded by the usual NA Super NES cover accoutrement

, including a motto to brag about technology. We are stupid for this sort of thing and "HIGH TECHNOLOGY TERROR IN A FULL DOLBY SURROUND SOUND" presses our right buttons perfectly. The recommendations included on the cover of GamePro and EGM are less welcome. In fact, the EGM is fine, but while the GamePro gives us a bit of nostalgia (Ah, do you remember the days of the "Funny Factors"?), this is a box that is lousy distracting and which hides the key art of quality below.

Top it off with a cute red-orange-yellow logo, not to mention the elegant Seika editor logo, and you have a strong door opener that could have been better.

Japan

The Japanese cover used totally different illustrations that focus on a figure with an unlike pistol the guy. We love the gold logo embossed on the fireball and the background pretty much conveys the sense of movement. However, the blurred blue background looks a bit bland. And the Tonkin House publisher logo (the yellow oval in the lower right corner) is frankly a trash can.

So once again decent but could do better.

Europe

The European version returns the art used in the NA variant (probably so that the logo can stay in the center without blocking our view of the big gun) and we can see creatures flanking the old Tony Turrican. The entire image is reduced in size compared to the American version, as is the logo, and there is a lot of black on this cover which could have been better used.

This version has its tab which distracts the yellow box thanks to the Hudson Soft logo, a real annihilator if we are honest. He also loses the slogan and feels (for us) like a conservative and moderate version of the American cover.

So there they are. They all have their faults, but who floats your boat? Click on your favorite and press the "Vote" button to inform us below: