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.