![]() Only Kirby sits on top of everything, waving genially and totally indifferent to the punch from Mario in the cell behind him. The comic book cells isolate all the main characters, with each one also presenting their names, although they're obscured here, too. Japan Again, the hand-drawn cartoon stylings of the main eight fighters suggests this is something new and exciting, and as with most of the Japanese covers, there's a novelty for westerners to seeing the portrait perspective. Overall, despite being playful and colourful, we're left thinking that more could have been made of this most seminal of gaming crossovers. 'DUKE IT OUT as your favourite Nintendo characters' kinda gets lost at the bottom and Yoshi and DK are AWOL. Curiously, both Fox and Pikachu are facing away, and poor old Kirby and Link are hidden behind the red strip on the right. The background is a swirling vortex into which Samus is falling comically after getting 'BIFFED' by Fox McCloud. Australia got a PAL cover almost identical to this one. Presumably this was done to reinforce the idea that all these characters are part of a child's toybox and it's actually the child who's responsible for having them beat the living daylights out of each other. North America br After clocking Mario on the left, your eye tends to hover around the middle of the image for a while until it rests on the title and you try to parse the scrawled yellow over the 'SMASH' logo. Yes, it's more than a simple border swap between the North American and European ones today! But which region has what it takes to give the competition a good thrashing, six-o'-the-best, trousers down? Let's take a look at how they measure up. Each regional cover contender brings a special something this week, and although they're obviously related, they're all unique and special snowflakes, too. If you thought last week was an all-out guns-blazing brawl, you're in for a real treat today because bout #20 features the original superstar video game brawler, for Nintendo 64. Congratulations to Jimbo and Sully commiserations to Arnie, duckface child soldier, RD008 and RC011. Okay, it isn't that dramatic - it's just a poll - but let's get into the spirit and pretend that the stakes are incredibly high this lovely Sunday afternoon, hmm? the North American version of run-and-gunned its way all over its Schwarzenegger-stealing Japanese counterpart and its robotic European cousin by winning over 80% of the vote. Nintendo Life A real brawler by Share: Welcome back to, the series where we pit regional variations of video game box covers from back in the day against each other in a savage fight to the death. Poll: Box Art Brawl #20 - Super Smash Bros.
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