{"id":751573,"date":"2026-02-08T23:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751573\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:48:18","slug":"box-art-brawl-duel-super-bomberman-2-snes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751573\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Art Brawl: Duel – Super Bomberman 2 (SNES)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Super<\/a> Image: Nintendo Life<\/p>\n

Ahoy! Welcome, one and all, to another edition of Box Art Brawl<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Last time, we checked out Red Alarm for the Virtual Boy, which of course will be joining the launch lineup for Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics on NSO later this month. It was a surprisingly close contest, with North America just about claiming victory with 54% of the vote.<\/p>\n

So, we skip ahead to today, where we’ll be looking at Super Bomberman 2<\/strong> for the SNES. This game is now, of course, fully playable on the Switch and Switch 2 as part of the newly-released Super Bomberman Collection<\/a>, so we thought it wise to go back and see how the box art stacks up in each region.<\/p>\n

US and EU designs are largely the same for this one (EU has a gold border, and that’s about it), so we’re going for a good ol’ duel against Japan. Let battle commence!<\/p>\n

North America \/ Europe
\n\"Super<\/a> Image: Konami \/ Launchbox<\/a><\/p>\n

Okay, so the Western design seems pretty standard at first glance, but it’s a lovely composition nevertheless. We’ve got Bomberman in the extreme foreground with a load of enemies filling up the remainder of the space. There’s some lovely use of colour, and you certainly can’t say it isn’t eye-catching.<\/p>\n

Japan
\n\"Super<\/a> Image: Konami \/ Launchbox<\/a><\/p>\n

Japan’s design is a bit more, shall we say, symmetrical. Which is good! It seems a bit busier in its composition, and again, the use of colour is simply superb.<\/p>\n

Which region got the best Super Bomberman 2 box art? (1,341 votes)<\/p>\n

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  1. \"North
    \nNorth America \/ Europe<\/strong>45%<\/li>\n
  2. \"Japan\"\/
    \nJapan<\/strong>55%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Thanks for voting! We’ll see you next time for another Box Art Brawl.<\/p>\n

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    \"Ollie<\/p>\n

    Nintendo Life\u2019s resident horror fanatic, when he\u2019s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Life Ahoy! Welcome, one and all, to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[11837,126,125,22873,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-751573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-box-art-brawl","tag-features","tag-polls","tag-snes","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116037688260260236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}