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Post by parrothead on Mar 15, 2009 23:41:13 GMT -5
The "Peach and Bowser artwork" thread caused me to create this fun and interesting thread. This is about the earliest and latest looks of Nintendo characters. You are welcome to post some of the earliest and latest looks of the characters This is Donkey Kong's, Pauline's and Mario's oldest looks. Pauline is being held by Donkey Kong in the second image:  This is Mario's, Pauline's and Donkey Kong's newest looks:    This is Bowser's (and Peach's, Toad's and any other character that first appeared in SMB1) oldest looks:  This is Bowser's newest look, I don't know what are the newest looks of others:  This is Captain Falcon's and Samurai Goroh's oldest looks as they appear in the original F-ZERO:  This is Captain Falcon's and Samurai Goroh's newest looks:   This is Marth's oldest look as he appears in the very first Fire Emblem:   This is Marth's newest look as he appears in "Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragons":  This is Little Mac's earliest look:  This is Little Mac's newest look:  This is Pit's oldest look:  Besides his two SSBB looks below, this is Pit's newest look as he appears in "Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters":   His prototype SSBB look:  His final SSBB look and his newest look:  Here are Popo and Nana's oldest looks:  Here are Popo and Nana's newest looks:  I'll post more images later in this thread. |
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on Mar 16, 2009 3:02:34 GMT -5
What the fuck is going on with the Ice Climbers?
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 16, 2009 4:25:45 GMT -5
No no no! Many of the early fliers for FC/NES or VS. games were commissioned by artists outside of Nintendo. That Ice Climbers flier isn't technically "official art".
The only existing official art of Ice Climbers is what appears on the box.
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Post by 8bitretroshit on Mar 16, 2009 4:40:43 GMT -5
Jesus Christ the Ice Climbers. Nana looks like a friggen' goblin. HAF! HAF!
I kinda like Marth's old look actually. Looks like a Roman.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Mar 16, 2009 7:41:54 GMT -5
At least this Ice Climber image isn't too far from their current appeareance.
And seriously... Marth should be pantless!
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Post by Arcadenik on Mar 16, 2009 9:54:00 GMT -5
Link's was way shorter than Marth's in A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening. He was practically half-naked you could see his butt.
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Post by parrothead on Mar 16, 2009 10:31:33 GMT -5
No no no! Many of the early fliers for FC/NES or VS. games were commissioned by artists outside of Nintendo. That Ice Climbers flier isn't technically "official art". The only existing official art of Ice Climbers is what appears on the box. Well, it's the earliest artwork showing both of them together, but how did you know it wasn't drawn by Nintendo? The Famicom version was released the same year, but only showed one, which appears to be Nana. Perhaps there are more artworks in the Japanese manual. |
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Post by Manspeed on Mar 16, 2009 13:23:47 GMT -5
You can tell that flier wasn't drawn by Nintendo because it looks nothing like the artwork from the manual, plus pretty much all the arcade fliers were done by outside artists at the time as Fry already mentioned. I'm pretty sure the Ice Climber on the NES box is actually supposed to be Popo with a red parka and blonde hair. Things were weird like that.
And that Mvs.DK2 image just reminded of how ugly the modern DK looks with realistic teeth. He'd look better with just one row.
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Mar 16, 2009 14:56:24 GMT -5
This forum avatar, is it from a Donkey Kong artwork, or from Saturday Supercade?  |
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Post by seanking64 on Mar 16, 2009 15:03:50 GMT -5
God, I want to punch the new Captain Falcon design in the face.
Pretty sure that Mario is from Arcade artwork, from what I've seen of the Supercade artstyle he doesn't have that red nose and squinty eyes.
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Mar 16, 2009 15:14:26 GMT -5
Somebody also needs to post those old photos of the Star Fox crew that appeared in manuals and flyers. They were so hilarious.
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Post by parrothead on Mar 16, 2009 17:10:49 GMT -5
You can tell that flier wasn't drawn by Nintendo because it looks nothing like the artwork from the manual, plus pretty much all the arcade fliers were done by outside artists at the time as Fry already mentioned. I'm pretty sure the Ice Climber on the NES box is actually supposed to be Popo with a red parka and blonde hair. Things were weird like that. Just because they don't look like they were drawn by Nintendo doesn't mean they weren't drawn by them. You're probably thinking it's the U.S. arcade flyer, but NO, it's the Japanese arcade flyer, which I found it here, along with the Excitebike arcade flyer, which the art was used for the front cover of the Famicom version of Excitebike. This forum avatar, is it from a Donkey Kong artwork, or from Saturday Supercade? That's from the US arcade flyer, look at the Japanese arcade flyer. Here are the Star Fox Team's oldest looks:  |
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Post by Flint on Mar 17, 2009 13:35:14 GMT -5
The original Starfox artwork its the best, none of the subsecuent games has been able to match it.
There are someother interesting changes incharacters Link and Kirby do have significant variations trough the years (Link more than Kirby)
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Post by BeamClaws on Mar 17, 2009 15:13:54 GMT -5
Ness then:   Ness now:  Looks similar, no? God, I want to punch the new Captain Falcon design in the face. PAUWNCH |
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Post by seanking64 on Mar 17, 2009 16:07:56 GMT -5
No, just a normal punch. And then shoot him with a normal gun, like the one he has in his holster.
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