+Cinemassacre Z-95 Headhunter. Close enough. It's not like the designers gave a rat shit about sketching their own starfighter. Easier to steal and claim it wasn't.
I think maybe the guy playing the banjo is the one piloting the ship. He got sick of all the alien invaders abducting his kin to probe them, so he's taken to space to wipe them all out so he can finally get back to playing his banjo in peace.
+Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) I could really see that in a 90's commercial. The banjo guy sitting in front of the camera, complaining about how aliens have abducted his farm buddies, cut with gameplay video, then saying it's time to get up there and kick their butts.
+Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) I doubt it. Where did he learn to pilot and figh in a space ship? hillbilly school?. also, for a 80 something guy his reflexes are way too sharp. people at that age can barely drive a car
The Guy on the cover was a man named Bertil Valley who was indeed a Mall Santa Clause. He also appeared on magazine covers. I read somewhere that he also played the banjo. He passed away in 2004, sadly. James description off the idea off the cover was indeed true. The company in charge off making the cover thought the game was an average generic game and then somebody came up with the idea off an old guy with a banjo.
It just makes me wonder how much more awsome this game would have been if the old man was actually the player-character. Sitting on his rocket-powered rocking chair, shooting his laser banjo while providing the soundtrack for the game simultaneously.
THE PHALANX FACTOR 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.
The guy actually was a rental Santa. XD Apparently the company in charge of making the cover also did some Christmas stuff for another client and the banjo guy was dressed as Santa. Somebody got the bright idea to hire him and put him in the hillbilly outift. Apparently he had recently suffered a stroke or something because he couldn't move much.
Phalanx is a military formation, but is also a singular term for the phalanges bones in the hands. To play banjo you would use your phalanges so...makes sense?
This is actually a good cover. A memorable one. It's the dream of this old man, playing the banjo at night, looking at the stars and imaging himself in his spaceship crossing the galaxies.
+Neo McDoom Yeah...Have this guy be on the left, look up and to the right. In the starry sky, the main ship can be seen flying and chasing some alien robots.
That would actually make a lot of sense.. Whole situation kinda reminds me of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils song "Spaceship Orion" from their 1973 debut album.
Kemco actually responded to fans about the cover. Here's what they said: "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."
This was during a time period in the 90s where everything was advertised rather stupidly, with lots of weird, random, and hyperactive things, and maybe three actual seconds of gameplay footage in the commercial (if that). I'm not surprised it made its way onto box covers as well.
+FyberOptic look at record covers from the 1950s-1980s, you'll find some odd ones there too like the one of a guy wearing glasses laying on a subway sandwich bun. (I don't recall the record name, sorry.)
"Gather 'round, youngsters. Let ol' pop pop tell you how he traveled the cosmos, and beat back them alien immigrants for they could take our jobs." "Mom! Grandpa skipped his medication again!"
+Intimidation Maybe in an alternate timeline. The kid from the movie actually didn't play banjo. They picked him for the part based on the way he looked. Apparently an actual banjo picker sat behind him for that scene and pulled the ol' "someone else's arms" move.
It's a space shooter on the Super Nintendo. The old man represents how archaic space shooters were at that time, how they represent simple, old time gaming of the days of atari. It's laughing at itself by pointing out "hey, we made an old style game on a brand new platform". Making a space shooter in the 90's was like saying "we got a game your grandpa might like"
Emanuele Sand I've played it, and while I don't think it's necessarily bad, I don't really think it's good either. It's just mediocre, which is what I can say about nearly every game by Kemco I've played. The level design is uninspired, the music is very forgettable, and the artwork is nothing to write to write home about (It's a bit silly that the enemy bullets were made dark red 4x4 pixel spheres, as they're kind of hard to see). I wonder if some of the game's praise comes from the fact that there really aren't many good shooters for the SNES, but if I were to recommend good shooters for the system, I'd say pick R-Type III and Space Megaforce.
Actually I always thought like this guy with the Banjo was the pilot of the Phalax ship, but now he is a intergalactic war veteran who has fond memories about the war and now he remembers all events playing his banjo and the game is a tribute of his war efford.
According to Wikipedia, the box art designers later admitted that they had deliberately chosen this theme in order to attract the customer with something original, considering there were many space shooters in the market that looked alike.
I remember actively avoiding this game because of the cover. It was back when there wasn't quick access to videos or pictures of the game so I had no idea what it was about. I just knew that the guy on the front box art made me not want to play it. Am I the only one that happened to?
+Jason McGraw Same...pre-internet 90's You had to go based on word-of-mouth, playing it at a friend's house, or Nintendo Power if you were lucky. If you picked a bad game you were stuck with it all weekend.
James...these were funny, I needed this. I laughed quite loud. Love this idea. Cannot wait to see them all and the X-mas episode!. Enjoy all your creations. Thank you.
This pays homage to the song "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the Eagles. It is perhaps one of the most important songs for post modern sci-fi. Douglas Adams wanted the song to sound gritty as a person who lived in a sci-fi world take most things for granted rather than be impressed by it. From what I've sen from Phalanx the game does however not translate this grittiness at all and it goes straight for your typical flashy sci-fi. So it's still strange that the cover art is what it is. No matter how much the Millennium Falcon looked like a piece of junk to Luke Skywalker, a gritty sci-fi seems to go over many fans heads and it seems to feel a little too out there. For gritty sci-fi games you have the classic Rock n' Roll Racing, more obscure ones like Jets'n'Guns and newer ones like Sunless Skies.
I kind of dig this cover. Here you are seeing this old man plinking away on his banjo about god knows what when millions of miles above an intergalactic war rages to protect his unknowing planet from alien devastation. If this were a modern indie game I could totally see that old man singing about angels and devils warring above, not knowing how right he was.
Funny thought to bring up... Back in 2013, I made a video game based on that boxart. It's called The Other Phalanx. It's an action-adventure all about the old man with the banjo. (Available on GameJolt in the NukeOTron Sucks Collection. Shameless plug.)
Fun fact: The guy responsible for Phalanx' Cover picked him for the photo because they had made some Santa-Claus-themed commercials together. So James' comment about him being a mall-santa isn't all that far off ^^. Wonder if he ever had the chance to hear about all the hype surrounding the cover...
Its like a joke I would suggest but no one would ever allow me to do. Yet, here we are. And here it is. I now play this game as a tribute to the old timer on front. His final voyage
HAHAHA. I had never seen the US version of this game's cover! Absolutely hilarious. That's great humor that wouldn't fly with a marketing department these days. Great fun.
I think that dude on the cover was the pilot of the Spaceship. He was powering the thing with his Banjo and firing lasers with his whisky infused breath. Truly, that banjo playing Hillbilly was an intergalactic hero.
Well, I think western/country music and space oddly go together, like ice cream and french fries. They're both about discovering new territory while you're a loner cowboy/spaceman. The cover also points to the fact that you can see space from Earth, and that something cool that happens in space close enough to Earth could've been seen by any random person sitting on their front porch. Just imagine how epic it would be if your grandpa was sitting outside playing his banjo when suddenly he spots a spaceship in battle in the sky?!
My take o this cover is that the old man is staring at the hyper-speed space shootout from his porch and is in complete awe. They just put the spaceship in the corner just to show you what he was staring at
And I'm still a proud owner of this cartridge regardless what anyone has to say about the game....and actually it descends from space to the planet's core. -Ryan Phoenix
Is it just me or does the ship at 0:22 look exactly like an X-Wing from Star Wars? I think you can even see R2-D2 inside! - Mike
+Cinemassacre Wow, it is! It just has the cannon barrels removed.
It looks like it. Mike you have some eyes man.
+Cinemassacre Z-95 Headhunter. Close enough. It's not like the designers gave a rat shit about sketching their own starfighter. Easier to steal and claim it wasn't.
+Cinemassacre First thing I thought of aswell :)
and what about the game? was it any good?
"Super Nintendo.. The fuck is that?" Holy shit I'm in tears, I don't know why.
+SweetTaLe cause that sounds like something a banjo playing hillbilly might say if you talked to him about SNES.
+SweeTaLe I saw you on Juutas' Bloodborne DLC playthrough! Hi!
Loch Taylor Yep, I'm subscribed to him. Good stuff.
+SweetTaLe nah wait youre that finnish guy that used to do things
***** I stopped functioning as a human being long ago
I think maybe the guy playing the banjo is the one piloting the ship. He got sick of all the alien invaders abducting his kin to probe them, so he's taken to space to wipe them all out so he can finally get back to playing his banjo in peace.
+SDRockman Did you really need to shoehorn in your secret closet Nazi comments into a video about a computer game cover?
+Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) I could really see that in a 90's commercial. The banjo guy sitting in front of the camera, complaining about how aliens have abducted his farm buddies, cut with gameplay video, then saying it's time to get up there and kick their butts.
Dayum son, where'd you find this?
+Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) I doubt it. Where did he learn to pilot and figh in a space ship? hillbilly school?. also, for a 80 something guy his reflexes are way too sharp. people at that age can barely drive a car
vance astrovik
Maybe the ship is designed by the people, who make console video games today; so it basically just flies itself.
The Guy on the cover was a man named Bertil Valley who was indeed a Mall Santa Clause. He also appeared on magazine covers. I read somewhere that he also played the banjo.
He passed away in 2004, sadly.
James description off the idea off the cover was indeed true. The company in charge off making the cover thought the game was an average generic game and then somebody came up with the idea off an old guy with a banjo.
He featured heavily in the gameplay. kidding.
I distinctly remember standing in the video rental store looking at this banjo man. I decided not to risk my weekend to such box art.
It wasn’t true dude
He is driver of Big Rigs.
*slow claps
+WH250398 *slow claps* *
+Zack Jones clow slaps *
PollyGlodd *sigh*...
*slow clops
It just makes me wonder how much more awsome this game would have been if the old man was actually the player-character. Sitting on his rocket-powered rocking chair, shooting his laser banjo while providing the soundtrack for the game simultaneously.
I like to imagine that the old man was actually the player character's future self.
THE PHALANX FACTOR
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.
Amazing that at 0:52 James correctly guess that this guy was a Santa...
1:19 Best video game art song ever
We need the full song. It will be a hit
Please
Scrolled down to find this specifically.
I need 10 hours of this
4 years later and still a hit
The guy actually was a rental Santa. XD Apparently the company in charge of making the cover also did some Christmas stuff for another client and the banjo guy was dressed as Santa. Somebody got the bright idea to hire him and put him in the hillbilly outift. Apparently he had recently suffered a stroke or something because he couldn't move much.
Phalanx is a military formation, but is also a singular term for the phalanges bones in the hands. To play banjo you would use your phalanges so...makes sense?
No😂🤣😂
This is actually a good cover. A memorable one.
It's the dream of this old man, playing the banjo at night, looking at the stars and imaging himself in his spaceship crossing the galaxies.
+pidrosoft Actually a better cover would have been an old man playing the banjo looking up at the sky.
+Neo McDoom Yeah...Have this guy be on the left, look up and to the right. In the starry sky, the main ship can be seen flying and chasing some alien robots.
That would actually make a lot of sense.. Whole situation kinda reminds me of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils song "Spaceship Orion" from their 1973 debut album.
This is actually bullshit cover in memorable way!
Or, he is the pilot, and he and his fellow pilots are off duty. And just singing about their adventures together
Phalanx guy for smash bros!
Squiggy Peterson it’s 2019 smash ultimate came out last month and I’m still waiting
Still hoping dude!
Phalanx guy for TV games!
But Smash Player thinks he's a Banjo Kazooie Echo.
Yes!
Kemco actually responded to fans about the cover. Here's what they said:
"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."
What am I doing here? Motherfuckers...Super Nintendo....what the fuck is that...
Need this on mp3
This was during a time period in the 90s where everything was advertised rather stupidly, with lots of weird, random, and hyperactive things, and maybe three actual seconds of gameplay footage in the commercial (if that). I'm not surprised it made its way onto box covers as well.
Lol srsly what the fuck was up with 90s ads? Flip through a comic book from that decade sometime, all the ads are just surreal and/or disgusting
+FyberOptic look at record covers from the 1950s-1980s, you'll find some odd ones there too like the one of a guy wearing glasses laying on a subway sandwich bun. (I don't recall the record name, sorry.)
0:48
Funny thing is, that guy was really working as a part time Santa Claus. His name was Bertil Valley, he died in 2004.
How did he die? ☹️
1:18 killed me instantly.
"Gather 'round, youngsters. Let ol' pop pop tell you how he traveled the cosmos, and beat back them alien immigrants for they could take our jobs."
"Mom! Grandpa skipped his medication again!"
1:18-1:23
This ditty got stuck in my head today.
yo same haha its so good
Happened to me just now at complete random. Had to explain why I just started laughing.
I'd like to imagine that man is playing a banjo version of Space Truckin by Deep Purple.
This is what the banjo playing kid from the movie "Deliverance" end up doing.
+Intimidation That movie is a classic but creepy as F.
+Intimidation That "squeal like a piggy" scene was pretty disturbing.
+Intimidation Maybe in an alternate timeline. The kid from the movie actually didn't play banjo. They picked him for the part based on the way he looked. Apparently an actual banjo picker sat behind him for that scene and pulled the ol' "someone else's arms" move.
It's a space shooter on the Super Nintendo. The old man represents how archaic space shooters were at that time, how they represent simple, old time gaming of the days of atari. It's laughing at itself by pointing out "hey, we made an old style game on a brand new platform". Making a space shooter in the 90's was like saying "we got a game your grandpa might like"
boy that art's a strange way of saying that
you stretched that quite a bit
I knew this was going to show up sooner or later
+Karl Schweinfurth You know nothing Jon Snow!
🎵What am I doing here (mudderfukker)🎵
🎵Super Nintendo (thefuckisthat)🎵
lol @ RUclips serving an ad 2:18 long for a video that's only 1:56 long. Of course I'm skipping that shit.
+mjc0961 You should watch the add and skip the video.
+mjc0961 There are ads on RUclips? Kappa
+HandjesBreda *phone users
+mjc0961
Ad Blocker Plus
+mjc0961 adblockplus , just get it and start wondering why you havent gotten it earlier.
Maybe it's trying to say the music is better than the actual game
+Crafty Seagull Debatable.
The game itself is actually good
Emanuele Sand I've played it, and while I don't think it's necessarily bad, I don't really think it's good either. It's just mediocre, which is what I can say about nearly every game by Kemco I've played. The level design is uninspired, the music is very forgettable, and the artwork is nothing to write to write home about (It's a bit silly that the enemy bullets were made dark red 4x4 pixel spheres, as they're kind of hard to see). I wonder if some of the game's praise comes from the fact that there really aren't many good shooters for the SNES, but if I were to recommend good shooters for the system, I'd say pick R-Type III and Space Megaforce.
Actually I always thought like this guy with the Banjo was the pilot of the Phalax ship, but now he is a intergalactic war veteran who has fond memories about the war and now he remembers all events playing his banjo and the game is a tribute of his war efford.
The old dude with the banjo was remembering all times when the aliens came to his farm and anally probed him.
This does relate at the same time the old man is playing banjo on earth, 35 light years away there is a space shootout with aliens.
1:19 I always laugh at this part
Honestly if I had that game as a kid I would have thought that he was the Character who was flying the spaceship you play as 🚀
Theres a level in Phalanx called "Advertise Area" that has lots of neon signs. I am not kidding.
I like to believe that this cover was the inspiration for Firefly.
According to Wikipedia, the box art designers later admitted that they had deliberately chosen this theme in order to attract the customer with something original, considering there were many space shooters in the market that looked alike.
I remember actively avoiding this game because of the cover. It was back when there wasn't quick access to videos or pictures of the game so I had no idea what it was about. I just knew that the guy on the front box art made me not want to play it. Am I the only one that happened to?
+Jason McGraw Same...pre-internet 90's
You had to go based on word-of-mouth, playing it at a friend's house, or Nintendo Power if you were lucky.
If you picked a bad game you were stuck with it all weekend.
James...these were funny, I needed this. I laughed quite loud. Love this idea. Cannot wait to see them all and the X-mas episode!. Enjoy all your creations. Thank you.
Bertil Valley was the guy on the cover and he was volunteer santa, he died in 2004 though
A hillbilly with a banjo as cover of a space shooter, what were they thinking
We had the same cover in Germany
Weird.
+Marcel El Assadi
No we had same as all of europe.
There could be old german farmer
1:19 best part.
Back in my day, we played with our own Turds & we were happy to do it. "Silent Rob",
+HBKanedge818 mmmm... Some things never get old = )
SchlargNoise Hahhhhahahahahaha. I miss Rob. He hasn't made a video in more than a year.
Hey guys, different shirt guy here, just enjoying some brony tears.
Jim DarkMagic What are your thoughts Guy with Pork Rinds in his Left Hand?
I remember seeing the box in a video store when I was a child, thinking "What the fuck is that shit supposed to be" and never renting it.
I'm glad you addressed this box art, James. And you did so on my 23rd birthday!
"What am i doing here, mother fuckers"
"Super nintendo, da fuck is that"
IM IN FUKING TEARS RIGHT NOW XD
Goddamit, now I want to hear more of that song. Was that Kyle?
I love these. They really help make the month go by faster.
This was actually my favorite 2d space shooter on the SNES. I always thought it was a weird cover but at least we didn't get the dickship
How I interpret this cover. An old man tells a story to children about some spaceship, and he was the pilot himself.
This pays homage to the song "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the Eagles. It is perhaps one of the most important songs for post modern sci-fi. Douglas Adams wanted the song to sound gritty as a person who lived in a sci-fi world take most things for granted rather than be impressed by it. From what I've sen from Phalanx the game does however not translate this grittiness at all and it goes straight for your typical flashy sci-fi. So it's still strange that the cover art is what it is. No matter how much the Millennium Falcon looked like a piece of junk to Luke Skywalker, a gritty sci-fi seems to go over many fans heads and it seems to feel a little too out there. For gritty sci-fi games you have the classic Rock n' Roll Racing, more obscure ones like Jets'n'Guns and newer ones like Sunless Skies.
These episodes must be soooo much easier to make then a normal AVGN episode. Not complaining, lovin these. Well done!
I kind of dig this cover. Here you are seeing this old man plinking away on his banjo about god knows what when millions of miles above an intergalactic war rages to protect his unknowing planet from alien devastation. If this were a modern indie game I could totally see that old man singing about angels and devils warring above, not knowing how right he was.
Funny thought to bring up... Back in 2013, I made a video game based on that boxart. It's called The Other Phalanx. It's an action-adventure all about the old man with the banjo.
(Available on GameJolt in the NukeOTron Sucks Collection. Shameless plug.)
I'd like to see this series done again.
His name is Bertil Valley and he passed away in 2004
Fun fact: The guy responsible for Phalanx' Cover picked him for the photo because they had made some Santa-Claus-themed commercials together.
So James' comment about him being a mall-santa isn't all that far off ^^.
Wonder if he ever had the chance to hear about all the hype surrounding the cover...
OMFG I love the Phalanx cover art! It's amazing!
Phalanx is actually a prequel for Outer Wilds and they couldn't do the six-eyed aliens at the time, but that is the old astronaut at the moon
And hand slapping spoons🤣😂 what am I doing here 🎶
I died of laughter at the song at 1:19 XD
The real crime here is that there isn't even any actual banjo music in this game. Or in this video, for that matter.
1:19
+Plastiware Always watch the video before commenting.
+Warrax i doubt it is a banjo playing at 1:19. it sounds more like a guitar
theres a banjo playing in the background the whole time!!
+duranfe Yup, banjos are more twangy.
Its like a joke I would suggest but no one would ever allow me to do. Yet, here we are. And here it is. I now play this game as a tribute to the old timer on front. His final voyage
those seconds of song are probably the most hilarious thing I've heard singing in avgn in a long time hahahaha
HAHAHA. I had never seen the US version of this game's cover! Absolutely hilarious. That's great humor that wouldn't fly with a marketing department these days. Great fun.
It would be funny playing a game about an old man and his banjo fighting space invaders
Actually, I like the Phalanx cover.
The color palette's really nice, and it sets a nice atmosphere.
I love this cover! XD
I bought the game on SNES, having no idea what it was, just because I liked the box. They must have done something right.
Brah... these daily videos are making Christmas quite comedic.
I think that dude on the cover was the pilot of the Spaceship. He was powering the thing with his Banjo and firing lasers with his whisky infused breath. Truly, that banjo playing Hillbilly was an intergalactic hero.
Gather 'round and listen to a folk song about a hyper-speed shoot-out in space.
Please Nerd, give us more of these videos.
Finland's Independence day! Torille!
+arski15 Tortillat avataan!
Suomiiiiii
Saku Koivu
Ei te olitte siellä
The Boss Stage1 Russia
Love this part at 1:19
I think the banjo player implies that you'll need the speed and dexterity of a banjo player with your hands to handle the "hyper speed" challenge.
0:35
Cowboy Bebop did it (bluesy twang + IN SPACE!!)
I knew this one would make the list
The greatest entry so far in this series. Of course, I've been wanting to see him comment on any part of this game for a long time. B-)
1:19 always puts a smile on my face
Dude looks like someone snuck up on him. " What, where did you come from? Get off my land!" Omg can't breathe, too funny.
0:22 Yep! That's an X-Wing.
It kind of reminds me of that FOX show Firefly.
I remember this one being covered in Nintendo Power a couple years back. Man, it still looks bad to this day.
Well, I think western/country music and space oddly go together, like ice cream and french fries. They're both about discovering new territory while you're a loner cowboy/spaceman.
The cover also points to the fact that you can see space from Earth, and that something cool that happens in space close enough to Earth could've been seen by any random person sitting on their front porch. Just imagine how epic it would be if your grandpa was sitting outside playing his banjo when suddenly he spots a spaceship in battle in the sky?!
1:18
My sides have reached orbit
Dot Gobbler is a work of art that all should see.
"This version wasn't Phalanx, it was Phallus".
That caught me by surprise and made me laugh more than the American cover.
The dog in the picture with its head down, looking like just this weird hairy lump, is the strangest thing in the cover.
i've been expecting for this cover art since the episode 91
That banjo song cracked me up.
The old dude looks like the old dude in Close Encounters who is sat on the side of the road waiting for the ships to pass.
The comedy from this comes from how he manages to find a sarcastic way to make these covers seem logical.
My take o this cover is that the old man is staring at the hyper-speed space shootout from his porch and is in complete awe. They just put the spaceship in the corner just to show you what he was staring at
Bro, that's Papa G from Kid Cosmic
Or Wander from Wander Over Yonder.
Another classic song from Cinemassacre.
And I'm still a proud owner of this cartridge regardless what anyone has to say about the game....and actually it descends from space to the planet's core.
-Ryan Phoenix
I believe the old dude saw the spaceship and combat and all of that while playing his banjo on the porch, hence the funny face.
The plane in the top right: It's an X-Wing o.O
That old man has one super long thumb peeking from behind the neck of that banjo.
FINALLY! I wanted to see more on this picture
These are so good. Hope this December isn't the last we see of them.
The space ship in front of all of that fairy dust is an x-wing too! Look at it! That's totally an x-wing!
I'm having a feeling that James records multiple of these at once, and then releases them every day.