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Showing posts with label Company - Irem Corp. Show all posts
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Friday, 26 August 2011
Atomic Punk (1991, Irem America Corp via Hudson Soft)
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.
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