For whatever reason that anime didn't get mainstream attention in the 1980s, there seemed to be an associated fear that youth wouldn't purchase a foreign product unless an American artist was instructed to Americanize a Japanese design. Sometimes that tactic works, and sometimes it doesn't.
I would consider the flyer for Atomic Punk to be a success art-wise, but a failure in gameplay instructability.
It's like the artist saw nothing except for a few screenshots while composing this image. The grid on the floor, a multi-coloured rogues gallery, a laughing demon sun, and an evil-looking wizard. Yet all of these pale in comparison to one key element of this design.
The children.
"You know", I bet the artist thought, "all of these characters have Lego faces. They look like wall sockets. I think what would sell is if I put children's faces in there instead.
"And not just any faces, but those of photographs I have around the house! My nieces and nephews, immortalized!"
I bet Captain Waffle cried that day, too.
Addendum: In the Land of the Four Fingered, the Purple Villain Child with Five Fingers is King!
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