Hello there, Today I've been thumbing through an old russian Sega Genesis cheat book ("1700 игр для Sega"), and found this: It is a pirate Sonic Spinball cartridge box cover. The thing is, this art is unknown: none of the original Sonic Spinball games used it. Russian pirates have never made Genesis cover arts completely from scratch, so there must be the source picture. It reminds one of the AoSTH VHS covers, but it looks much neater. Any ideas?
Yes, I've already mentioned that in the main post. These two are obviously similar, but the game's cover looks much more detailed. Maybe it was a fan-redrawn version, I don't know. Pitates never make any big efforts when it comes to the cover art, TRUST ME.
Umm, not to damper this discovery (Because its pretty cool) and not to sound like I'm backseat modding, but doesn't something like this go in The Supreme Topic of 'Other' Knowledge?
Looks like you have a point. Is there any way to move my thread? And just check out what I've found in the topic you've mentioned:
Your black-and-white image has Sega's official seal of quality in the lower-right corner of it as well. Pirates tend to make a habit of removing that stuff where applicable -- or does that only apply to within the rom files themselves?
It depends how the planets are aligned. Sometimes you find companies trying to take the credit for other people's work, other times they like to slap Sega branding on everything to give the product a sense of legitimacy. You also get instances where a console is known as a "Sega" rather than a "Mega Drive" so it doubles up as a way of identifying compatibility.
Good news y'all. I found this bastard at some local godforsaken electronics market. Here's the scanned box art: Anyway, still have no idea where did this artwork come from.
I'll stick with a redrawn bootleg version of that AoSTH cover. Not uncommon to see that happen with bootlegs.
I'm pretty sure the US box art had a different logo than the actual game as well. It'd be kinda nice if there were a version with all the music changes from the JP and EU versions, as well as the original REV00 US themes.
We're talking early 90s here. I really don't think the average bootlegger would have had the tools to make a logo like that. A regular font with rainbow gradients, perhaps, but certainly not an official-looking one that even cares about putting that slanted hole in the O (hell, not even the Megamix guy bothered!). Also, see how the other pirate cartridge has a clean version of that same illustration, in the same fashion of those official classic covers that were leaked at Sonic Cult a while ago. It's possible that they got the logo and the unrelated illustration (probably a scrapped design for Mean Bean Machine's) from a press release, or from wherever they used to get the ROMs before release, as happened with Sonic 2. In any case, the VHS cover must have been based on this illustration, and not the other way around... It just wouldn't make sense otherwise.
