Deception

[kaustik]

Who here remembers going to the store and buying a game based on the back of the box and then being sorely dissapointed in not reading the fine print? "Actual screenshots from arcade." The two I remember the most were Kid Niki and Karnov. Both of these games looked much different than advertised. I actually returned Kid Niki because of this.

Was Nintendo the only system guilty of this or were there other systems that pulled this fast one?

[Flack]

Pretty much every system back then did this. I remember buying lots of Apple II games that had Commodore 64 screenshots on the box. Then when I bought Commodore 64 games, they had Commodore Amiga screenshots on the back!*

And of course, really old systems didn't have ANY screenshots -- they just had really great artwork that really pulled you in. It wasn't until you got the game home that you learned the real, blocky truth.

(*I never bought computer games, but you get the idea.)