The Great Disney Genesis Conspiracy
Don't say we don't break the absolutely hottest next-gen news here at GameSetWatch, thanks to tipsters like Sander Van De Vegte, who has provided us with the following red-hot image of classic Sega Megadrive/Genesis box art, and the following explanation:
"While sitting at the dining table, I looked at some Sega Megadrive covers and saw a funny resemblance. It's probably not very newsworthy, but maybe you like to see it anyway." Well, apparently it's newsworthy enough to make front page news here!
Basically, De Vegte's hypothesis is that there was a global conspiracy to subvert the cause of justice and brainwash the world's kids with deliberate placement of Disney icons in SUSPICIOUS POSES and... oh, OK, he's just spotted that a bunch of the Genesis game covers had very similar hero, enemy, and sidekick layouts. But we like it, so we're bally well posting it.
Comments
1. That's not a Disney thing at all. It's a cartoon mascot game thing.
2. Not even all the box art offered follows the pattern: Shere Khan is by no means the funny animal sidekick of the Jungle Book.
3. This isn't even nearly as big a deal as what I call the "Disney leer," the tendency for video game covers with Disney mascots on them to give them angry, "extreme" expressions and poses completely out of character for them, and usually not even representative of the game itself, in an attempt to convince young boys that the game is cool despite the fact that it's Disney. Check out the look on Mickey's face in that one, and know that's not nearly the worst of the bunch -- check out the cover of that horrible "PK: Into The Shadows" game they released early in the Gamecube's lifespan, and try to mentally connect that hateful toon on the cover with Donald Duck.
Posted by: John H. | July 21, 2006 11:22 PM
Wouldn't be the first time:
http://www.hemmy.net/2006/04/26/disney-animation-reuse/
Posted by: asdf | July 22, 2006 1:03 AM
Nope... no pr0n here then...
:(
Where's Yuriy?
Posted by: gnome | July 22, 2006 2:52 AM