Really cool stuff man! Are you from Korea? I'm myself looking for Korean stuff and it's quite hard to find! At least for one not being in Korean and not able to read/write the language!
Sweet! That's a beautiful collection you've got there! Specially all the Comboys Congrats, and welcome to the forum btw!
That's quite the impressive collection, I don't see much Korean gaming stuff. Are the Famicom/NES games translated into Korean? or just the manuals? I assume with Snes/Super Famicom upwards there all translated.
Don't you just love the piss poor consistency with the Super Nintendo boxes. It's as if they couldn't decide what style to go with. Ugly western art, nasty art on Japanese slimmer boxes, Japanese SFC boxes, hacked PAL boxes. man, that's one mess :nod: Yakumo
NES got 0 translated games SNES got 3 translated games (Taekwondo, Hanguk Pro Yagu, Dragonball Z) N64 got 0 (as far as I know) Gamecube got 1 (Digimon Battle Chronicle) GBA got 6 (One of them is a Korean Exclusive) GBC got 3 (Bomberman Selection [Korea Exclusive], Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver) GB got 0 Otherwise they are all basically in English. (4 Korean Gamecube games are in Japanese)
With the exception of Steet Fighter II, which is crushed, all the boxes are the same size and shape of a standard Super Famicom box. Nothing is bigger or smaller than another. As far as the consistency is concerned... Super Famicom games are also pretty bad with box consistency. Figuring out the boxes is simple. All vertical boxes use Japanese art. All Horizontal Boxes use US art. The boxes are vertical or horizontal to accommodate the art choice. I'm surprised you couldn't figure that out. For Donkey Kong Country, the US art of DKC 1 is clearly superior to the Japanese art, and the Japanese art of DKC 2 is superior to the US version. Whoever decided to use that art made the right choice, as more "action and emotion" was captured in their respective pictures. For Street Fighter, I think it was a bad choice to use US art. I wish they went with the Japanese art, but that's Capcom's choice. The box art is either taken from the North American release or the Japanese release. Nothing is its own art. If you don't like the art take it up with Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, or Data East. The labels are in PAL format and match the box art. Super Famicom games don't even come close to that kind of consistency. I love the Super Famicom, but don't bother implying that the Korean Versions are worse. In the case of Nintendo's titles, superior box art was chosen in all cases.
hmm, looks like someone took offence to a none offending comment. As for SFC boxes, they are all the same. All have the same formatting in either vertical or horizontal style. There's no different styles, no different logos, no different box sizes except for special editions. True, there are some BS games and a few games that use some small Bandai cart but these are exception releases, not standard games. Just from your picture I can see a PAL style Super Nintendo Logo, an American one and the Japanese SFC style logo in a black box. That is not consistency at all. I'm not trying to start a battle, just pointing out something that's true and plain to see. There was no malicious point to my original post. Yakumo
Ah, I didn't mean to sound harsh. I know what you're saying. It's just I have a stack of Super Famicom games with formatting all over the place so I don't view it as consistent. The only realy consistent thing about them is the use of the Super Famicom logo, because there is no other logo to use. I was more focused on you bashing the art. I don't think anyone really cares where the logos are. Anyway, I personally believe label consistency on games is more important than where or what logos are on the boxes, but I do hear what you're saying and sorry if I sounded rude.
No worries man. By the way, are you Korean? I noticed your Net provider was in Korea and was just wondering. If you are then I'm pretty sure you are our first ever Korean member! Welcome :thumbsup:
By the way, I think Super Famicom is fairly inconsistent in terms of box design. They might have all the same size, but it's really annoying to put them on a shelf because the spines don't looks the same at all. Different logos/labels all the way, often depending on publishers (i.e. the consistent Konami/Capcom logos) but then with other publishers, not really consistent. N64 was somewhat better because so many games had the N64-square on the spine, but not all 3rd party devs adapted that style so it still looks like crap sometimes. I don't know what Nintendo was thinking, it took them from 1985 until 2001 to create a nice consistent box art concept. I said 1985 because I find the pulse line and silver carts fairly cool in terms of design, and they are very homogenous on a shelf.
Wow, appart from being a really nice collection, I just discovered a fourth revision of the super comboy I didn't know about I thought I owned all of them but the one you have on the right looks like another one. It has printed text near the power button and under the power led. What production year is it ?
