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Lets make our own terrible Switch icons and annoy Neiteio

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The Cartographer

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I tried.
 
MoogleMan

MoogleMan

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Chao said:
Don't worry, I got you:

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From egm sept 2001:

"Q: What was the deal with that old dude on the cover of the SNES shooter Phalanx?

A:phalanx was just another Super NES sidescrolling shooter that we all probably would have forgotten by now - if not for the inexplicable shot of the bearded geezer strummin' a banjo on the game's box cover. Why the old guy? The problem is that all the game art looked alike at the time - monsters or spaceships or something," explains Matt Guss, head of the advertising company behind the Phalanx campaign. "We wanted to create shock value so somone would have to pick the game up. We called it the 'Heavy Huh?!' factor." Art director Keith Campbell says they did the photo shoot themselves, hiring a model for the role of the 80-something hayseed. "I'd used him before as Santa Claus on an album-cover shoot," Guss adds. "I remember him coming into the studio, and I though the poor guy was gonna die right there on the stage. I think he'd had a stroke earlier - not earlier that day, but in the past . . . We stuck a banjo in his hands, and I think we stuck a spaceship behind his head that he was supposed to be staring at in wonder, sort of a Star Wars-come-to-the-Ozarks kind of thing." You gotta admit Guss' cover concept was mighty effective. After all, we're still talking about the game 10 years after its release. Heavy, huh? If you're too young to remember this game, don't worry Kemco's rereleasing it for the Game Boy Advance. "

So bad it's good.
 
A

AkimbO_Arcana

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Snake Pass devs MUST be aware of what they have done. Baffling, that they still haven't changed it back. They want to see the world on fire, don't they?
 
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L Thammy

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I like to think all the icons on the bottom row are peeking up over the menu at the rest of the icons, and their faces are the reactions to what they're seeing.
 
L

L Thammy

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Toxi said:
I'm lost trying to spot it. :(
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Some many years ago, long before I posted in this thread, I was in a console menu and we suffered from a terrible menu icon. Now, this relationship was toxic to begin with and doomed to fail regardless, so that the terrible menu icon was the straw that broke the camel's back came as no surprise. It was a console neither of us wanted in the first place, so the event didn't effect me nearly as much as it would, say, Neiteio. Still, I saw the emotions it can bring up first hand, and I saw how it could truly hurt someone. It's a tough thing to handle because it's nobody's fault. There's nobody you can blame.

A terrible menu icon is definitely not a joke, and I have no intention of making light of it. And it can be a tough and emotional thing for couples to go through, speaking from personal experience. And I know that it's often much harder on Neiteio than on the average gaffer. However, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of tears for the rest of your life. People can move past it, and heal.
 
T

Toxi

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L Thammy said:
Some many years ago, long before I posted in this thread, I was in a console menu and we suffered from a terrible menu icon. Now, this relationship was toxic to begin with and doomed to fail regardless, so that the terrible menu icon was the straw that broke the camel's back came as no surprise. It was a console neither of us wanted in the first place, so the event didn't effect me nearly as much as it would, say, Neiteio. Still, I saw the emotions it can bring up first hand, and I saw how it could truly hurt someone. It's a tough thing to handle because it's nobody's fault. There's nobody you can blame.

A terrible menu icon is definitely not a joke, and I have no intention of making light of it. And it can be a tough and emotional thing for couples to go through, speaking from personal experience. And I know that it's often much harder on Neiteio than on the average gaffer. However, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of tears for the rest of your life. People can move past it, and heal.
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Goddamnit
 
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FutureLarking

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I prefer the ones that actually have good quality art here - but are totally generic in their representation and no game title. Like the Call of Cuty ones, all on point (but not even from this thread D;)
 
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