Comments on: AVGN Bad Game Cover Art #6 – Phalanx (SNES) https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/ Sat, 07 May 2016 04:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Rackvin Solmni https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-196386 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:54:43 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-196386 In reply to Rackvin Solmni.

R2-D2 and the cockpit and 4 wings, clear as day when you see the close up.

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By: Rackvin Solmni https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-196385 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:52:52 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-196385 Isn’t that space ship an X-Wing from star wars??!!

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By: gamelover200 https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-193231 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 01:55:58 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-193231 In reply to gamelover200.

Seriously, a game, for kids, having a phallic spaceship. At least the game doesn’t have a spaceship station that has an opening where the front enters…

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By: Grandmasterp https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-193074 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:53:35 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-193074 In reply to OMA.

So that’s the reason “Cotton Eye Joe” is on the cover. All this time I thought it was just lazy marketing.

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By: Jay_Oh_Aitch_En https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-192939 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 04:05:23 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-192939 It would be interesting if next “Season” he did advetnure games. Risk, DnD, Settlers of Catan. And turned it into a LotR, Or GoT, type adventure.

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By: OMA https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-192917 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:23:42 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-192917 In reply to DeathBlow.

Well, I guess that was the idea, to have the cover be memorable. This is from an actual interview with the marketing people behind this crazy cover, from Electronic Gaming Monthly, September 2001:

“THE PHALANX FACTOR

Q: What was the deal with that old dude on the cover of the SNES shooter Phalanx?

A:Phalanx was just another Super NES sidescrolling shooter that we all probably would have forgotten by now – if not for the inexplicable shot of the bearded geezer strummin’ a banjo on the game’s box cover. Why the old guy? The problem is that all the game art looked alike at the time – monsters or spaceships or something,” explains Matt Guss, head of the advertising company behind the Phalanx campaign. “We wanted to create shock value so somone would have to pick the game up. We called it the ‘Heavy Huh?!’ factor.” Art director Keith Campbell says they did the photo shoot themselves, hiring a model for the role of the 80-something hayseed. “I’d used him before as Santa Claus on an album-cover shoot,” Guss adds. “I remember him coming into the studio, and I though the poor guy was gonna die right there on the stage. I think he’d had a stroke earlier – not earlier that day, but in the past . . . We stuck a banjo in his hands, and I think we stuck a spaceship behind his head that he was supposed to be staring at in wonder, sort of a Star Wars-come-to-the-Ozarks kind of thing.” You gotta admit Guss’ cover concept was mighty effective. After all, we’re still talking about the game 10 years after its release. Heavy, huh? If you’re too young to remember this game, don’t worry Kemco’s rereleasing it for the Game Boy Advance”

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By: OMA https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-192911 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:14:53 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-192911 In reply to Cain Nuke.

I disagree, these reviews are entertaining and far from poorly executed, plus the language is perfectly fine. And I’m not even a native English speaker. Why do you think this needs “simpler language”? What’s so complicated about it?

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By: Michael Archer https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-192883 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:03:40 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-192883 In reply to barlitone.

I can’t stop laughing when I hear that part

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By: Kent Gissing https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-192854 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:11:08 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-192854 …… why?? … i mean… just ….. WHY? XD .. an old man playin’ a banjo? .. WHYYYYYYYY?? 😀 laughin right now.. to use a by-now probably trademarked expresion .. “WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??” 😀

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By: gamelover200 https://cinemassacre.com/2015/12/06/avgn-bad-game-cover-art-6-phalanx-snes/#comment-192814 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:35:50 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30392#comment-192814 Someone needs to fire the spaceship designer.

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