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[Polari]

According to Gamespot, "White Van Racer" comes out October 26 in Europe, awesome.

 

[BigGreenMat]

I remember playing all those Sega Master System games!!! The boxes were terrible though. The graphics blew away NES though.

 

[Antdogg355]

holy shit, is this for real? :lol

:lol :lol :lol I really want this game now.

 

[DarknessTear]

Legaia 2 US had lens flare.

 

[Ranger X]

Who the hell is that publisher Phoenix? What the hell are those games? I want the story behind all this. :lol :lol

 

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/uk/index.html

Edit:

:lol :lol

 

[Leonsito]

I NEED to play White Van Racer NOW.

PS: "Snakes on a White Van" would be awesome.

 

[Xdrive05]

 

[Great Rumbler]

OH GOD NO!!!

 

[Doom_Bringer]

[IMGs.com/gimg/639914-Xbox-Freestyle-Metal-X.jpg[/IMG]

:lol :lol

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

OH GOD YES!!!

Fixed...for me at least.

 

[Hyoushi]

thread is useless without Power Instinct

manboobs ftw

 

[SantaC]

thread is useless without Power Instinct

manboobs ftw

:lol

 

[Orobi]

Bob's bad day for Amiga! the game was funny (it was a clone of cameltry) but the cover box... still look ugly

 

[jamesinclair]

The all-in-one box

 

[shuri]

the first ever post I did on those forums ages ago was that cover :lol

 

[Bezz]

Anything that says "Miami Vice" is crap...dog crap

 

[g23]

http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/images/packshots/whitevanracerbig.jpg

ZOMG wtf! Rofl

 

[VibratingDonkey]

White Van Racer will be mine...if I can find a place that stocks it.

 

[Father_Brain]

 

[Great Rumbler]

My eyes!!

 

[AdmiralViscen]

 

[Scenester]

This thread delivers.

Most of these covers are friggn awesome. Except for that Saturn Bust-A-Move one. That one plain sucks

 

[Beezy]

Is this "Pheonix" a developer? Are horrible covers their trademark? :lol

 

[Brobzoid]

phoenix is a super-low budget publisher according to themselves :lol

 

[Mar]

This is the best thread I've ever seen in my life.

Also, why leave out next gen?

 

[robot]

This was always a personal favorite - when I used to work at babbages there would be 15 copies of this staring at me everyday for like 3 years:

lol, found this one while looking for Khalaan:

 

[Illuminati]

Someone enjoys the photoshop shape tools:

Nothing better then communits, mutants, and space...combined!

Spaceballs underwater?

 

[solarplexus]

A drug dealing game?

Girl Zone? Could be fun

COMPANY PROFILE

Phoenix Games Ahead of it's Time

With a small elite team of 5 people specializing in licensing, marketing and publishing of value priced games, development and manufacturing are bundled through outsourcing and collaboration.

Phoenix Games (Holland) B.V. has established itself as an exclusive publisher without any internal development. With contacts now established with more than 50 development companies there is no other company in the European game industry that has dealings with so may development companies.

We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months.

3-5 months? Rare should hire some of these guys.

 

[Scenester]

Someone enjoys the photoshop shape tools:

I dont think Photoshop was around when this came out...

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

I still have the game box lying around somewhere. :lol

 

[leesmapman]

Where is red-haired Adol?

 

[mr jones]

HOLY. FREAKIN'. CRAP.

Last year, Phoenix Games had maybe 20-26 PS2 titles. They now have over 50. FIFTY TITLES. And that's just PS2.

W....wha.... HOW are they churning out games that fast? That's IMPOSSIBLE. Where's the playtesting? How are they programming multiple games in a quarter of a year? WTF!?!

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

What about Suikoden?

I don't think this one is bad. I actually like it.

 

[mr jones]

Other than it looks like a bad 80's fantasy novel cover? Nothing at all.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

thread is useless without Power Instinct

manboobs ftw

Wow, one of the ugliest covers of all time. :lol

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Other than it looks like a bad 80's fantasy novel cover? Nothing at all.

Yes, it does look like it should belong on one of those. It was probably the same artist from one of those novels.:lol

 

[Scenester]

HOLY. FREAKIN'. CRAP.

Last year, Phoenix Games had maybe 20-26 PS2 titles. They now have over 50. FIFTY TITLES. And that's just PS2.

W....wha.... HOW are they churning out games that fast? That's IMPOSSIBLE. Where's the playtesting? How are they programming multiple games in a quarter of a year? WTF!?!

I think earlier on in the thread it was mentioned that Phoenix publish games from over 50 Developers Europewide, so I guess that figure is possible. The games are rubbish, Im assuming

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

My eyes!!

Whoa!! This one is up with the proverbial Mega Man. :lol :lol

 

[Safe Bet]

White utility vans are good for nothing except bad guy chases....

Dude...

If you cant pimp out of the back of a white utility van, you can't pimp.

"Honey where's a picture of my old white van?"

Damn thing use to use more oil than gas.

 

[smurfx]

lol somebody has to make a photoshop thread featuring that pic.

 

[mr jones]

That Chuckle Egg II cover is nightmarish.

I think that has Mega Man beat. I can at least look at Mega Man's cover. CEII is positively unsettling.

What's even scarier? The artist was so proud, so pleased with his work, that he signed his name in the picture.

 

[alistairw]

What's even scarier? The artist was so proud, so pleased with his work, that he signed his name in the picture.

I think I'd be pretty happy if I could draw something that horrifying that people couldn't even look at it.

 

[Great Rumbler]

We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months.

I literally spit all over my laptop when I read that. :lol

 

[Infernal Monkey]

 

[thetrin]

thread is useless without Power Instinct

manboobs ftw

Oh man, THAT's the US cover for Power Instinct? Wow....

 

[Space Runaway]

Was this posted yet?

 

[Vexidus]

one of my favourite games, but the box art is terrible:

 

[tawal]

Obviously, there are far, far worse covers, but Rygar himself has always looked pretty silly in this cover, to me.

 

[D-X]

surprised no one posted the Shenmue 2 cover.

The one we got was actually a huge leap over the original cover

Seems Max Payne had an influence on the artist