Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Mario Paint (SNES)

NA / Europe handily wins this one. Just so much more personality and the mouse is advertised without taking up the entire package.

I much prefer the art on the US/Europe one but much prefer the layout and brightness of the Japan one. Honestly can’t choose today.

@Ogbert Same for me, but I decided to give my vote for NA/Europe because the Japanese cover seems more like the cover for the mouse more than that of a video game that can be played with the mouse.

Focusing so much on the mouse kinda makes it look more like an ad than a game box.

So America/EU wins this one for me. Easily.

I also love the fact he just has those unrealistic textured paints laying around.

The North American/European one looks a lot more exciting to me.
The Japanese box art is so empty and makes the game look like a digital colouring book, or at best a painting program.
But the game is SO much more.

I do not read Japanese, but the front of the box has so little text, that I can't imagine it saying a lot about what the game has to offer.

I don’t even think the North America / European box gets everything across..
I would maybe write something like:

Super Mario Art!
Paint, animation and music!

Let the creativity grow and flow!
Make digital art with high precision with the NEW Super Nintendo Mouse and Mouse Pad!

All on your TV:

• Vibrant colours!
• Draw and paint with: Pens, paint brush and airbrush!
• Copy, rotate, flip and erase elements!
• Make Stamps!
• Use premade stamps and backgrounds!
• Colouring book!
• Make animations!
• Make music!
• Combine animations and music!
• Play the new and exciting Gnat Attack!

@JohnnyMind
Thanks for the translation!

The visual focus on the Japanese box is like 50% game and 50% mouse. A strange choice, I think.

Even though a lot of Japanese box arts have had the philosophy of keeping things simple and have focus on one or two things/characters to carry the box, the Japanese Mario Paint does feel like a sloppy predecessor to Wii Series box arts, emphasizing peripheral, purpose and novelty under a basic background. I don’t like either box arts, but I dig the JPN design a bit more.

The western cover manages to make the extra information look fitting and harmonious. Plus the picture itself just looks very pleasant.

The japanese one looks like one of those cheap chinese 8bit machine clone systems. NA/EU for me this week.

NA/EU easy for reasons already mentioned. Japanese one has Yoshi but that's not enough even for me to save it lol, that box art is just bad.

I like to say both suck but NA/EU sucks less.

I admit up front the nostalgia I have for the NA box art, as this is the first game I got when I sold off my NES and entire library to buy the SNES. There’s still a VHS in my childhood home filled with all my crude animated shorts.
Thankfully I don’t have to confront my bias in this competition, however, as the Japan box is about as exciting as the instruction manual for a laser printer.

I like how Mario has a tube of paint that just already comes out looking like bricks.

Seems to be the unpopular opinion, but I'm going with the JPN box.

The actual art piece on the NA/EU box certainly is better, but otherwise it's way too cluttered (both with text & the incorporation of the mouse).

The JPN box may seem a bit more plain, but it's cleanly formatted & easy on the eyes.

EUR all the way. Total Bob Ross vibes.

This game, man. My friends and I spent seriously too much time swatting flies in this game. One of my friends was going through a Rob Liefeld drawing phase and used that dang mouse to create a pretty amazing Spider-Man rip-off with a 20-pack, lol. Oh, and NA/Europe box art, all the way.

The NA/EU box art by a long shot. The Japanese version looks too bland, in my opinion.

They say that often less is more. While there's definitely truth to that, for the Japanese cover, less is definitely less. Such a poor use of space.

The western cover has layout issues, but it's still a lot better. Mario has some suspicious paint, though.

I like simplicity of the Japanese one, the black border around the US one looks terrible and useless.

I don’t think there has ever been an easier choice to make.

Mario Paint was waaay ahead of its time, later on, kids would fool around with Paint, and it's a tool that I still use to this day, for work!

Box Art Brawls Current Total:

Europe: 78

Japan: 73

North America: 87

Australia and New Zealand: 1

I haven't played this game as much as I would have liked to, but i think I'll go with the western cover, only because it also (slightly) conveys the fact it also has a music maker.

Cartridge art
North America

...Brazilian variant?

Europe

Australian variant

Japan

@HammerGalladeBro Yes, Playtronic was the company Nintendo had a contract with to distribute products in Brazil, because Brazil tax laws made it FAR more desirable for foreign companies to license distribution to a local company than to do it themselves.

It was a hard choice, but... JP one for me. I like how it shows the actual game's UI(screenshot). But the PAL/NA one looks prettier, anyway.

NA/Europe is far better. The Japanese one is so bland and lifeless. I wish nintendo would release this again. With the way controllers are now, they have no reason not to

@Vyacheslav333
This is the first time I also want to see the back of the box! That probably has a few screenshots in both cases I'd imagine! But cool to see someone prefer the one I think is the underdog here!

I think the NA one is magical. It gives all the whimsy and fun, shows the mouse you get with it, and lists all the cool things this game could do!

As others said, the Japanese one looks like it will be a coloring book style game. They may should have gone with a drawing that's less perfect.

EU/Na for me. I love that the tubes have paint in them that actually look like gramy textures.

As for what can actually be done with mario paint, anyone remembers that James rolfe video with Mike Matei giving it a try?

Gotta go North America with this one it has so much more personality.

This is a very interesting one. Totally different marketing strategies.

@garfreek Sorry, but I think that you have mistaken me for someone else. I wasn't talking about the box's back. I mentioned the game's UI/screenshot of the game on the game's box art only.

United States, & European.

Edit: The reason some of the paints are unrealistically already the textures is to coyly elaborate you can paint, and make textures, without listing it as a bullet point on the front of the box. Also, some of the features of the game are meant to be secrets, naturally discovered by the players. I would love the multiple versions of this released to NSO, along with the complete suite of Mario Artist.

@Vyacheslav333 yes, I thought they would maybe have included those in the NA version on the back of the box.

But we're not judging that of course!