Wednesday 15 June 2016

Cover Art: Sega Mark III - Part 1

I haven't posted as many cover-art comparisons as I would have liked here at Red Parsley yet, but even without having featured many systems (yet), I don't think many would argue that the one with the greatest differences in regional cover art must surely be Sega's Master System. Despite their dreadfulness, I have a certain affection for the covers our MS games had over here in the UK, but while doing the comparison posts it became clear that many of the Japanese Mark III games are quite superb. I therefore thought it might be swell to share what I believe to be all of them here with all of you splendid fellows. They aren't all great quality, sadly, but they're the best copies I could find. Here are the first 40 covers - the rest will follow in Part 2 of the post. Hope you like them!

Action Fighter...
After Burner...

Aleste (Power Strike)...
Anmitsu Hime (Alex Kidd 3)...

Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars...
Alex Kidd in Miracle World...

Alien Syndrome...
Ashura (Rambo/Secret Command)...

Astro Warrior...
Aztec Adventure...

Blade Eagle...
Bomber Raid...

Captain Silver...
The Circuit (World Grand Prix)...

Double Dragon...
Double Target (Quartet)...

Enduro Racer...
Family Games (Parlour Games)...

Fantasy Zone...
Fantasy Zone II...

Fantasy Zone: The Maze...
Final Bubble Bobble...

Galactic Protector...
Golvellius...

Great Baseball...
Great Basketball...

Great Football...
Great Golf...

Great Golf (again?)...
Great Volleyball...

High School Kimeguni...
Hokuto no Ken (Black Belt)...

Hoshiwo Sagashite...
Kenseiden...

Kung Fu Kid...
Lord of the Sword...

Loretta no Shouzzou...
Mahjong Sengoku...

Maze Walker (Maze Hunter)...
Megumi Rescue...
 

6 comments:

  1. Very nice!
    Those "Great" sports game covers are interesting, look like something you'd expect to see on a Spectrum cassette cover rather than a Japanese console...

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  2. I love Japanese 80s box art, but I have to admit I'm not a fan of the gold trim

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  3. I quite like it actually, although considering how few 'Silver Cartridges' there are, and none of any other colour, you have to wonder why prompted them to use it :P

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  4. Aleste & Captain Silver are my fave covers! :)

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  5. Yeah, Aleste/Power Strike is a great one, and a rare case of Japanese and UK box art being the same.

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