By Benj Edwards , Technologizer Jul 13, 2011 3:28 am
Mario, the Norse God of Thunder
In the days when video game pixel counts were low, retail box artists struggled to realistically depict the often abstract situations in which video game characters found themselves. This resulted in a large number of amazingly strange video game box covers in the 1980s, and Donkey Kong for the Mattel Intellivision (1982) is no exception.
Here we see a He-Man-style Mario - no hat - wielding what appears to be Thor's Mjolnir hammer. Donkey Kong is a fearsome monster who has trapped Pauline in a cage. Somewhere in Japan, Miyamoto is laughing.
(Photo: Mattel)
A good slideshow of more oddities here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/235475/d ... tx_h_crawl
