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From the Akumajō Dracula \ Castlevania Famicom Disc System instruction booklet - enemy artwork.

Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire / Vampire Savior: World of Darkness / Darkstalkers 3 - Lilith ending artwork.

Super Mario Odyssey - The Moon concept artwork.

Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time - PlayStation ad (1999).

Dragon Quest III - Super Famicom box artwork.

Rockman 8 / Mega Man 8 promotional artwork.

Nintendo Fun Club News Mail Bag (Feb / March 1988). It's interesting to see how people back then interpreted how a character looked based on in-game sprites. Official Nintendo artwork wasn’t always easy to find in 1987. That Ganon was a total shot in the dark.

Double Dragon II: The Revenge - NES ad (1990).

Cloud Strife - Kingdom Hearts (manga) artwork.

Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers' Revenge / Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge - Donovan concept artwork.

Donkey Kong cereal - 25 cents off coupon (1983).

Mega Man & Bass - GameBoy Advance ad (2003).

Four pages from a 1983 Donkey Kong coloring book where Donkey Kong takes Pauline into a haunted house and Mario goes in to rescue her.

Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu - two-page multi-platform ad (2003).

Hoshi no Kirby 64 / Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - promotional artwork.

Nintendo NY has TWO Halloween shirt designs this year… Got both shirts and they threw in this Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary shirt. Apparently it’s free with a $100 purchase.

Mario Brothers for Virtual Boy blurb from Electronic Gaming Monthly issue 68 (March 1995).

Biohazard 2 / Resident Evil 2 - promotional artwork.

Street Fighter: The Movie - PlayStation / Sega Saturn ad (1995).

In case you missed it ~ The General Insurance cross-promotion commercial for the new Street Fighter movie.

Balrog - Street Fighter movie trading card (1994).

Street Fighter - DC Comics movie adaption comic book cover artwork (1994).

Fatal Fury - Super Nintendo ad (1993).

Hoshi no Kirby Super Deluxe / Kirby Super Star / Kirby's Fun Pak - promotional artwork.

Super Mario Bros. 2 \ Super Mario USA - Princess Peach promotional artwork.

Ms. Pac-Man made an appearance on SNL last night in a skit about a man whose wife left him, so he makes the bedroom a super room for himself. But in doing so exposes mold and hallucinates.

Biohazard 2 \ Resident Evil 2 - Claire Redfield concept artwork.

Mario Paint promotional artwork.

Super Scope 6 - Super Famicom ad (1993).

Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters - Nintendo Power Super Power Club trading card.

Spy Fox in “Dry Cereal” - PC ad (1997).

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD - promotional artwork.

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex - PlayStation 2 ad (2001).

Gun Smoke - arcade promotional artwork.

A Week of Garfield - Famicom box artwork.

The King of Fighters '94 - Choi Bounge promotional artwork.

Artwork created by Splatoon art director Seita Inoue to thank fans for participating in an official Splatoon art contest. The contest ran on Tumblr from April 27 to May 29, 2015, right before the game was released

Rocko’s Modern Life - Super Nintendo ad (1994).

Toys R Us - Kid Ecology Coloring / Activity Book cover artwork and pages featuring Mario. Back in 1990, Toys R Us and NBC teamed up to create this free coloring book featuring characters from NBC’s Saturday Morning lineup.

From Super Mario Bros. issue 3 (Valiant Comics) - Fryguy High Yearbook Activity Page.

Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers' Revenge / Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge - promotional artwork.

New Mario Kart World merch spotted at Nintendo NY. Those bags are actually insulated food bags.

Tiny Toons Adventures: Cartoon Workshop - NES ad (1993).

Persona Super Live 2015 in Nippon Budokan: Night of the Phantom promotional artwork.

Nintendo Power vol. 88 - Super Mario 64 coverage excerpts (1996). They call it "Princess Toadstool’s Castle" here even though this was the first mainline Mario game in the US to use "Peach." Maybe they thought their preview copy had unfinished translations and assumed it would change upon release.

Super Mario 64 - early promotional artwork.

Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 - Nintendo Wii ad (2009).

Mario Quiz Card - Where are most of the world’s oil reserves?

Various Sonic concepts from Sonic Team artists. The Sonic the Hedgehog artbook these came from doesn’t specify which games these concepts were created for. Sometimes devs will just doodle ideas for future use, so not every concept is connected to a specific game.

Planet 51: The Game - various consoles ad (2009).