Pokémon as Muse, or This is Just Effing Brilliant
There’s some amazing Pokémon fan art out there, but this collection might just be my favorite.
deviantART user CasteelArt has mashed up the style of the hand drawn field guide with his love of pocket monsters to create some incredible art, including the following which offers an examination of the temperaments of the simian Pokémon…
I can’t mention any Pokémon art with out giving a nod to Maré Odomo’s wonderful Letters To An Absent Father…
And since for some silly & awesome reason I’m playing “Red” on a GBC right now (yes, I did buy the Magikarp — the little guy needed a better home) and have not received HM 01, I can’t help but think of this by deviantART user RNZZZ…
- Andy
(spotted on Kotaku)
I’ve never seen this Zelda art before. How cool!
- Kyle
via insert your coin, please try again and game and graphics
Metroid Famicom Disk System Art
The Famicom Disk System’s main feature was the ability to rewrite disks and save games, which wasn’t available at the time on the current cartridges. Eventually the ability to save came to cartridges which quickly made the ridiculous Famicom Disk System obsolete.
My favorite part about the Disk System is it’s absolutely cute yellow disk dude logo. So superb! My second favorite part would be the absolutely awesome boxart some of the disk games had. The packaging is awesome too; from the translucent box to the engraved Nintendo in the plastic of the disk, it really just is too cool to not look at, or not want in your collection.
The art for Metroid is absolutely awesome, and it gets me stoked for Team Ninja’s new Metroid: Other M game. Even better, no other Metroid boxart features Samus leaping while firing her blaster at some unknown foe. Probably Ridley’s punk ass.
Like I said above, even the back of the box has awesome design.
Check out that engraved caps locked Nintendo logo! Don’t forget that cute yellow disk logo dude. So awesome.
- Images via this Hit Japan eBay auction.
- Kyle