who in the world made the box art for the orginal megaman?! (NES)

does anybody knowexactly who and why did they make the boxart for the megaman on the nes?

They had a few hours or a single day to make it. Either way, they had a very short time to create it.

yea and it looks like hes doing some weird dancething

It doesn't look like a dance, it looks like his right leg is disjointed and twisting off, LOL.

Edit: looking at the pic again it might actually be he is turning towards the viewer and his other leg is actually the one being broke off.

Some one at Capcom made it. Keiji Inafune made the comcept art for the original bosses, but Capcom already had Megaman designed for the game before he was involved, they probably based the cover art on what he was supossed to be in their minds.

Lots of NES games just had really bad box art compared to the games, especially the lesser known ones.

I always assumed they paid some guy on the street to do the cover art with only telling him "The name of the game is MegaMan and he shoots things and saves the world".

actally my (nintendo power's) thery is that they had a contest the best fan art from people whove never even heard of megaman wold get it on the boxart and instead of choosing the wionner they choose the loser :P and theres also that other game phalanx which is abot space ships and shooting but the box art on it is an old hill billy with a banjo wtf? :question:

High resolution graphics...yummy. The first two covers in the MM series are among my favorite though, since they're so bad.

Capcom American felt as though the anime inspired box art used for the Japanese version of the game would not appeal to American consumers. So they hired an american artist to quickly draw some box art for the American version. You can see what the Japanese version of the original mega man a.k.a Rockman looked like HERE. Joystiq also has a collection of mega man covers from different regions that you can check out HERE.

The US version of Mega Man 9 Box art is inspired by the US Mega Man 1 box art. Here is an example of the Art for the Japanese version of Mega Man 1 & 9.

This should also shed some light on it too for those who haven't seen it

G4 Kenji Inafune

This should also shed some light on it too for those who haven't seen it

G4 Kenji Inafune

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I believe former GameSpot video super-dude Tim Tracy had some kind of connection with the man who did the cover art for the original Mega Man box. I'll ask him.