Pelea de arte de caja – Duelo: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Luchadores de torneo (SNES)
We are back, back, back for another edition Pelea de arte de caja!
Ultima vez we matched up three regional covers for the DS’ Súper garabatos and it was North America’s character-focused design that walked away with the win, recepción 55% del voto. Europe followed in second with 33% while the Japanese variant brought up the rear with 12%.
This time, we’re heading back into the sewers as we match up two different covers for Konami’s totally bodacious SNES fighter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Luchadores de torneo (‘Teenage Mutant Hero tortugas‘ for those in Europe and ‘TMNT: Mutant Warriors‘ in Japan — yep, it’s confusing). Released on the SNES in 1993, this was one of a trio of games that Konami developed for the NES, SNES and Genesis respectively, each with their own unique story and characters. You can check out all versions on the brilliant Cowabunga Collection, we might add.
With Europe and North America sharing almost identical covers this time (aside from the title change, obvio) we have ourselves a good old-fashioned head-to-head with the spicy Japanese design. Let’s check them out.
Asegúrese de emitir sus votos en la siguiente encuesta; pero primero, echemos un vistazo a los propios diseños de box art.
América del norte / Europa
It’s gritty. It’s dark. It has surprisingly little focus on actual fighting. This cover is dominated by a grimacing Donatello in the background as a much smaller sprite faces off against Armaggon in the bottom right (the NES and Genesis versions had a similar format but with different match-ups — Leo vs. Hothead on NES and Raph vs. Triceraton on Genesis, if you’re wondering). It’s all pretty nice, though that slogan of “No street fighter has ever seen fighters or fighting like this” could do with an edit.
Japan
Japan’s design goes for something completely different. The dark tones are here replaced by vibrant reds as the four Turtles stand front and centre while a collection of their enemies lurk menacingly behind them. It might lack some of the grit of the former cover, but we like how eye-catching this one is and it’s interesting to see the Turtles looking like their 2003 animated counterparts a decade earlier.
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