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Some were good, and some were not good.

Do we know how well it sold? this tactic works like once. 3. 1. I vividly remember seeing this box art at game stores when I was 9 or 10. Everything is still pretty "Xtreme". Your IP: 85.187.128.25

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I prefer this kind of marketing malarkey over shady expansion packs or micro-transactions. And btw, this wasn't an "average" 2d shooter, Phalanx actually was an amazing game.

After analysing the box for a solid 3 hours I still couldn't wrap my head around why there was a guy with a banjo on the box. Then again, that could just be my childhood memories trying to trick me again. Or, they could have just taken inspiration from the Super Famicom cover. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. 1 of 27. But the box art didn't turn me off, I just wasn't buying a lot of games at that time.

I dug and dug. Totally funny story though The first thing I said was WTF when is aw the pic on the NL home page hahaha, "His name is Bertil Valley, and he sadly passed away in 2004.". I always loved that cover art.

@MegaTen I realise they didn't develop the game, but they published it. I think he lived a good, long life.

First time I've seen this cover, honestly. Hands On: Immortals: Fenyx Rising Could Be The Switch Adv... Popular Twitch And TikTok Star Pokeprincxss Has Been Sued... Best Cheap Nintendo Switch Games: Switch eShop Deals (US). They will do what they have to. I remember renting this because of the boxart. I kept wondering what other one he meant. By the time he passed in 2004, he would have been like 99 years old. Needless to say I was a dumb kid when it came to buying video games, judged them entirely on the cover. Hosted by 44 Bytes. Very 80ish. .

Balls and all? 1 of 46. If I can find that game, it had to be better than this lame banjo guy. Anecdote time. I was the opposite. It had great graphics, great levels and boss fights, and it was a blast to play.

Looking at the cover made me think maybe they were going for a space ballad kinda feel.

Tonebridge. I actually find it sad that the marketing guys state "we knew the game didn't have a lot to offer", but of course this is coming from people who didn't play games at all. I thought this was a really great game; I played it a lot as a kid.

@Shiryu So they stole the Trifoce logo for that one.....still cheap marketing.

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I always ask why people is lamenting on that cover when I find it excellent, very 80ish. Weaker games needed more help graphically to get them to stand out on the retail shelf. And all in all you know this game actually is pretty good.

I got the chance to play the game recently, and it's actually not bad! @GameOtaku Was just going to post my thoughts but you hit the nail on the head. My parents came to pick me back up when they were done.

It was completely nonsensical - but it turns out that was always the intention. There is no strumming pattern for this song yet.

It was... drumroll... Civilization 3! 1 of 15.

The package was also used to help Kemco sell the game to retailers, so it had to make the buyers think the game would sell at their stores (i.e. I would look at the back and be disappointed. I was a young kid and I also passed on it (wouldn't have bought it if it had a different cover anyways as I don't give a shit about that genre) but the cover image and ads live rent free in my head even 20+ years later.

And old man with a banjo playing it while someone is fighting in the space. Somehow, knowing all of this makes that odd cover art even more appealing. I never even looked at the back of it for years when I passed by it in the video store.

Keith called this kind of thing the "heavy huh factor."

This article explains it perfectly fine, sorry you apparently need someone to hand connect the dots for you but it's pretty easy to grasp. We have an official Old Man tab made by UG professional guitarists. C. 1. I work in the retail industry and it really pains me some of the things are creative team comes up with to “differentiate” us.

Now I know, now I freaking know. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices.

I don’t even see it as being that weird. Close . Yep, I passed by this game every time at the rental store.

Good times!

The game actually isn't garbage, I played it on my SNES CLASSIC recently... there's WAY WORSE space shooters from that era... and god don't get me started on side scrollers... ugh! Even at the time of release, people simply couldn't fathom what an old man playing a banjo had to do with a sci-fi shooter with spacecraft and aliens. Phalanx was released in 1991 and in that cover photo, Bertil looked to be about 86 years old.

Even as a kid, I could tell that it’s clearly a space shooter type game. 2. X's are so enticing to children. Even as a kid I thought this cover was awesome.

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And so you pick it up and look on the back out of curiosity. It was the final sale and my parents and grandparents spent 3 hours trying to find the best going out of business deals. Reading boxes was a thing! @Averagewriter Well it is not word for word. 3. Nothing but phalanx. F/D (5th Fret) D Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. 1. Like the article said, sometimes it worked, and other times it was just lipstick on a pig.

Always confused me, never wanted to play it but I like the weirdness of it.

I always liked the idea that he was telling his grandkids about his voyage. There was also a conversion of it later on for the GBA as well so you can have it on the go or on your SNES. In an interview with Destructoid, Matt Guss, an advertiser who worked on Phalanx's cover, stated that the idea for the art came from coworker Keith Campbell.

I did not like the explanation or the site to which it was attributed (I had never liked that site due to the rude language in many of its articles).

He has some clever remarks about it, but deduced it was all about differentiating this game from others. http://www.gamerseason.com/random-heres-why-snes-shooter-phalanx-had-that-weird-banjo-guy-on-its-cover/. That kind of sums up most Western publishing and the obsession with visuals above all else, doesn't it? Cloudflare Ray ID: 5e6568e51a3d2212

Some were good, and some were not good. Now we know.

lol.

It's nothing amazing but it was still fun. Hey, as a kid we didn’t know that sex sells.

Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Could someone have possibly missed something else deep in the bin? I'd be interested to see if their strategy worked!

That old, assumedly banjo-addicted man stood out to me. When ZombZ put out the call to help him find this guy’s identity, I was all over it. By the way: No swear-warning? The Original Fire Emblem Is Coming To The West For The Fi... Guide: Pokémon Sword And Shield - All Ash’s Pikachu Codes.

And ugh, RT3 on the GBA the developer should be drug out back and shot for that one. I absolutely remember passing on this game because I didn't know what it was. Popped it in but it was not, in fact, Cov2. "Let me tell ya boys and girls of a little ship called the phalanx that saved our little world from evil" then he would start singing a ballad of adventures in space and who knows in his ballad it could turn out he was in fact the pilot!

Cool article.

Sort of like the Last Starfighter minus the arcade connection. Look at late 90s to current day marketing. @dew12333 Seems like you're having a slow comment day, chum.

They dropped me off near a bin of SNES games and told me I could get one if I behaved until they were done. @gurtifus Does it look like a penis?

How could a game be good if it's a shooter with a guy playing a banjo? I'd see a weird cover and I'd say "OK, I gotta look at the back to see what this is.".

The two men responsible for this iconic cover are Matt Guss and Keith Campbell. @Shiryu @tanookisuituuuuuuuuug... that R type GBA port.. totally agree.Whats with all the sub par ports on that system?Wolfenstein 3D (and the Doom ports work way better), Earthworm Jim and even the original Sonic port was hideous.

The Outer Worlds On Switch Has Been Updated To Version 1.2. It's a great photo, and it brings the space action down to Earth, which is where people would find the box on shelves.

I definitely looked and remember this. D F C G Love lost, such a cost, Give me things that don't get lost.

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Either someone doesn't know english or this was done by a bot, I'm not sure which.

There were far fewer choices then and no internet to help you know what was what. 2. Differentiate itself maybe, but as a young kid if I saw a game with an old guy on it playing a banjo I would just pass it by.. 1 of 17.

Walmart, etc.).

1. And the space is there, the ship too. When I was a kid my mom let me rent a lot of games and I have memories of passing this game up numerous times. So, what was it that actually made them use that specifically for the box art, since the headline of this article leads us to believe we’ll be informed of that reason? Maybe someone picked a game up, begged their parents, then just threw it on a different shelf after being rejected? Guitar Ukulele Piano new.

@Averagewriter I don’t think you know what “word for word” means.

Word for word. They probably could have used any number of a 1000 different ideas to create the same result, they just picked this one probably mostly by chance. And this man is doing it right. I remember the advertisement in Electronic Gaming Magazine back in the day. I actually owned this game on my original SNES and it was actually my favorite shooter! Sounds like a great deal for an 8 year old. Not sure the word "vital" means what they think it means though. If we couldn't do anything else, we'd try and get the potential purchaser to stare at the package and try and figure out what just happened. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Has Received A New Update On Nin... Super Smash Bros.

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Some were good, and some were not good.

Do we know how well it sold? this tactic works like once. 3. 1. I vividly remember seeing this box art at game stores when I was 9 or 10. Everything is still pretty "Xtreme". Your IP: 85.187.128.25

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I prefer this kind of marketing malarkey over shady expansion packs or micro-transactions. And btw, this wasn't an "average" 2d shooter, Phalanx actually was an amazing game.

After analysing the box for a solid 3 hours I still couldn't wrap my head around why there was a guy with a banjo on the box. Then again, that could just be my childhood memories trying to trick me again. Or, they could have just taken inspiration from the Super Famicom cover. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. 1 of 27. But the box art didn't turn me off, I just wasn't buying a lot of games at that time.

I dug and dug. Totally funny story though The first thing I said was WTF when is aw the pic on the NL home page hahaha, "His name is Bertil Valley, and he sadly passed away in 2004.". I always loved that cover art.

@MegaTen I realise they didn't develop the game, but they published it. I think he lived a good, long life.

First time I've seen this cover, honestly. Hands On: Immortals: Fenyx Rising Could Be The Switch Adv... Popular Twitch And TikTok Star Pokeprincxss Has Been Sued... Best Cheap Nintendo Switch Games: Switch eShop Deals (US). They will do what they have to. I remember renting this because of the boxart. I kept wondering what other one he meant. By the time he passed in 2004, he would have been like 99 years old. Needless to say I was a dumb kid when it came to buying video games, judged them entirely on the cover. Hosted by 44 Bytes. Very 80ish. .

Balls and all? 1 of 46. If I can find that game, it had to be better than this lame banjo guy. Anecdote time. I was the opposite. It had great graphics, great levels and boss fights, and it was a blast to play.

Looking at the cover made me think maybe they were going for a space ballad kinda feel.

Tonebridge. I actually find it sad that the marketing guys state "we knew the game didn't have a lot to offer", but of course this is coming from people who didn't play games at all. I thought this was a really great game; I played it a lot as a kid.

@Shiryu So they stole the Trifoce logo for that one.....still cheap marketing.

I like it. Old Man (Solo) – Neil Young; Cripple Creek; Undone In Sorrow – Ola Belle Reed; Redemption Song – Bob Marley; You’ve Got a Friend in Me – Randy Newman ; Agape – Bears Den; Psychotic Girl – The Black Keys; I Walk The Line – Johnny Cash; Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison; Cotton Eyed Joe; When The Saints Go Marching In – Louis Armstrong; Hurt – Johnny Cash; Hotel California –

I always ask why people is lamenting on that cover when I find it excellent, very 80ish. Weaker games needed more help graphically to get them to stand out on the retail shelf. And all in all you know this game actually is pretty good.

I got the chance to play the game recently, and it's actually not bad! @GameOtaku Was just going to post my thoughts but you hit the nail on the head. My parents came to pick me back up when they were done.

It was completely nonsensical - but it turns out that was always the intention. There is no strumming pattern for this song yet.

It was... drumroll... Civilization 3! 1 of 15.

The package was also used to help Kemco sell the game to retailers, so it had to make the buyers think the game would sell at their stores (i.e. I would look at the back and be disappointed. I was a young kid and I also passed on it (wouldn't have bought it if it had a different cover anyways as I don't give a shit about that genre) but the cover image and ads live rent free in my head even 20+ years later.

And old man with a banjo playing it while someone is fighting in the space. Somehow, knowing all of this makes that odd cover art even more appealing. I never even looked at the back of it for years when I passed by it in the video store.

Keith called this kind of thing the "heavy huh factor."

This article explains it perfectly fine, sorry you apparently need someone to hand connect the dots for you but it's pretty easy to grasp. We have an official Old Man tab made by UG professional guitarists. C. 1. I work in the retail industry and it really pains me some of the things are creative team comes up with to “differentiate” us.

Now I know, now I freaking know. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices.

I don’t even see it as being that weird. Close . Yep, I passed by this game every time at the rental store.

Good times!

The game actually isn't garbage, I played it on my SNES CLASSIC recently... there's WAY WORSE space shooters from that era... and god don't get me started on side scrollers... ugh! Even at the time of release, people simply couldn't fathom what an old man playing a banjo had to do with a sci-fi shooter with spacecraft and aliens. Phalanx was released in 1991 and in that cover photo, Bertil looked to be about 86 years old.

Even as a kid, I could tell that it’s clearly a space shooter type game. 2. X's are so enticing to children. Even as a kid I thought this cover was awesome.

Posted by 22 days ago. Nope.

And so you pick it up and look on the back out of curiosity. It was the final sale and my parents and grandparents spent 3 hours trying to find the best going out of business deals. Reading boxes was a thing! @Averagewriter Well it is not word for word. 3. Nothing but phalanx. F/D (5th Fret) D Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. 1. Like the article said, sometimes it worked, and other times it was just lipstick on a pig.

Always confused me, never wanted to play it but I like the weirdness of it.

I always liked the idea that he was telling his grandkids about his voyage. There was also a conversion of it later on for the GBA as well so you can have it on the go or on your SNES. In an interview with Destructoid, Matt Guss, an advertiser who worked on Phalanx's cover, stated that the idea for the art came from coworker Keith Campbell.

I did not like the explanation or the site to which it was attributed (I had never liked that site due to the rude language in many of its articles).

He has some clever remarks about it, but deduced it was all about differentiating this game from others. http://www.gamerseason.com/random-heres-why-snes-shooter-phalanx-had-that-weird-banjo-guy-on-its-cover/. That kind of sums up most Western publishing and the obsession with visuals above all else, doesn't it? Cloudflare Ray ID: 5e6568e51a3d2212

Some were good, and some were not good. Now we know.

lol.

It's nothing amazing but it was still fun. Hey, as a kid we didn’t know that sex sells.

Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Could someone have possibly missed something else deep in the bin? I'd be interested to see if their strategy worked!

That old, assumedly banjo-addicted man stood out to me. When ZombZ put out the call to help him find this guy’s identity, I was all over it. By the way: No swear-warning? The Original Fire Emblem Is Coming To The West For The Fi... Guide: Pokémon Sword And Shield - All Ash’s Pikachu Codes.

And ugh, RT3 on the GBA the developer should be drug out back and shot for that one. I absolutely remember passing on this game because I didn't know what it was. Popped it in but it was not, in fact, Cov2. "Let me tell ya boys and girls of a little ship called the phalanx that saved our little world from evil" then he would start singing a ballad of adventures in space and who knows in his ballad it could turn out he was in fact the pilot!

Cool article.

Sort of like the Last Starfighter minus the arcade connection. Look at late 90s to current day marketing. @dew12333 Seems like you're having a slow comment day, chum.

They dropped me off near a bin of SNES games and told me I could get one if I behaved until they were done. @gurtifus Does it look like a penis?

How could a game be good if it's a shooter with a guy playing a banjo? I'd see a weird cover and I'd say "OK, I gotta look at the back to see what this is.".

The two men responsible for this iconic cover are Matt Guss and Keith Campbell. @Shiryu @tanookisuituuuuuuuuug... that R type GBA port.. totally agree.Whats with all the sub par ports on that system?Wolfenstein 3D (and the Doom ports work way better), Earthworm Jim and even the original Sonic port was hideous.

The Outer Worlds On Switch Has Been Updated To Version 1.2. It's a great photo, and it brings the space action down to Earth, which is where people would find the box on shelves.

I definitely looked and remember this. D F C G Love lost, such a cost, Give me things that don't get lost.

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