[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Ugh. It might have been difficult to get the license to produce the original box art, but honestly, that was the only thing this series of releases had going for me. Those window boxes are horrible looking. There were NES and Genesis games for both Terminator and Robocop, I would have rather they released this wave with their respective box covers (especially if they would have used the incredible Sega CD version of Terminator for a reference...)instead of this rather generic look for the packaging.

Hopefully NECA will give the NES treatment to the Aliens and Gremlins line. Both had pretty decent NES games, and a cell shaded dog alien would be killer!

Well doing a separate figure for Robocop isn't necessary since we already have the NES figure, I suppose we could see one later for Terminator, posiibly. I think it may be that the NES window with a cover flap (like the NES Robocop, Predator, etc.) costs a little more than doing this regular window box. Since this will be a series of figures, not just one-off special limited production figures, they may have chosen to use the slightly cheaper packaging. That being said, I think this packaging also makes it easier to identify what toy you're buying. With the NES figures it's just look at the box/movie poster and know that there's only one figure it could be, If they used the Robocop Vs Terminator box design for all figures with the same flap-window front then you'd only have the back of the bow to identify which figure is inside. I'm not totally defending this packaging design, but I can see why they may have chosen to use this instead.
Also I agree, Alien 3 is the first (and only I think) Alien game on the NES so I definitely think a blue cel-shaded dog-alien would be pretty bad-ass.