The image is real to people who have grown up with this image, before the internet people who played video game get their sources magazine or cover art  to show them what the game could be  about.  The image that was shown on my last blog was a popular among the video game player  as they were  deceived by the cover of the game.

The people that would not care are the younger generation, mainly kids that have access to the internet.  The internet  can provided them with all the information needed to know about the game, so instead of being able to look at the image they are looking up different media to get a sense of what the game is about.  Another reason that they would not care is that the character of the art does not match the modern image of that game with the same name today.  They are being fed with a different image for a different generation.

it doesn’t give me any feeling about the game as the image comes up as a joke, and I didn’t know that the cover look like that when the game came out, I was just able to come across the image when I research the character name. today  the picture is considered to be a joke since the image have  nothing to do with the game.  The developers of the image know that the cover was considered  to be a joke today, so they paid homage to the cover by creating a cover for their recent game with the same style and misleading image.

The Things We See Hides The Truth

the cover art for the first Mega Man game

 

What we see in this video game cover shows what games should be all about: they advertise to people the games with their cover.  Back then we wouldn’t be able to know what the games is about because the internet didn’t exist at that time and so the only way of trying to figure out what the game was about was by looking at the box art and that gave us an  idea of what the game could be about.

The one media that I decided to pick to discuss about is the art cover of one Nintendo game called Mega Man.  Mega Man was brought out in America in the 1987.  The game came out in the Japanese market first and when they brought it out to the  American market,  they completely changed the cover of the game to appeal to this specific market.

Fact  - From what we see from the cover it should show what we get to see with what we are able to see in the game.  We see that this  is a futuristic game and we would believe that the hero of our game would be the one on the cover - an old person wearing blue and yellow and uses a gun as his main weapon.

Inference – if you have played the game then you would know that the biggest change that you would see is the character, as we see in the actual game,  the character is blue, instead of  blue and yellow.  Another thing that we would find out when we play the game is that the character does not use a gun.  The gun did not even exist in the game and the character uses an armed cannon.  Basically the art cover is a complete lie because what we see on the cover art does not exist in the game itself at all.

Judgments – from what we can see on the cover art, the game seems to be a shooting game and since this is an old Nintendo game it’s going to be a 2D side scrolling game.  With the gold saucers in the background,  the game can also be a plat former.  We can hopefully see all the things we see on the cover in the actual game itself.

Photos to Look Good

Christine Rosen argues in “The Image Culture” that in digital media and photo imagery people are given the power to alter any type of pictures.  Her writing Rosen talks about how anyone can use this program and exploit it to their liking as she describes it in her writing “(like inexpensive cameras and picture-editing software) that give almost everyone the power to create, distort, and transmit images”.  Everyone can alter any picture, including me.  I had the experience of altering images myself when I took pictures for a group of people and altered  the picture to make them look as good as possible.  My friend was so impressed with my work that she wanted to learn how to do it herself. 

With technology becoming more and more advanced, it makes photography more accessible to everyday people as well.  Before the invention of cameras, we looked at images through paintings and sculptures.  As cameras became popular, paintings and sculptures were replaced with photos and artists seemed to move on to create more abstract works.  Images through the lens made a great advancement through black and white.  Even though at that time there were no computers, photographers were still able to alter images.   It might not be as easy as using Photoshop but it was still doable.  People then started catching on and realized that pictures can be altered and they cannot always believe what they see.  However, they allow themselves to be thrown into believing the images are real.  When I was a child, I would think most of the pictures I see represented what things really looked like.  As I grew older, I came to the realization that most pictures I see everywhere were altered and modified.  Some people enjoy looking at real and altered pictures to see if they are fake or not.  I like looking at these pictures as well but not for the purpose of looking at them to determine if they are fake or not.  When I look at these photos, I like to find out the techniques that are put to use to alter  the photos.  I have done a lot of alteration in the pictures I took, yet I have not been able to alter them to such degrees that subjects in the photo look completely different.  People may see a fake photo but they should not simply determine if they have been altered or not.  Instead, they should try to understand the photos themselves and how are they able to make them look completely different from the original images.