Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: 1080° Avalanche

US stands out more, but the JP art is objectively better graphic design despite being a bit busy.

The JP cover gives me wipeout vibes, love it. As usual, I’ll be picking the minority cover!

Neither are great, but I prefer Japan, as pamphlety as it looks.

I mean, it’s light and day.

For the japan one you have to squint your eyes to see what the game is about. An edgy line doesn’t improve that one.

The European one is way, way better in every way. The centerpiece art, the logo, everything

This was Nintendo trying be be cool and it worked!

I went for Japan. It's trying something different and the more technical clinical approach harkens back to the original 1080 promise which was hey if you want triple flips and ten feet jumps go to the competition, we're doing realism here.

Also I loved Avalanche and played it so much back in the day. I can't wait for it to hit NSO. I remember turning the music off (even though it's quite good mind you) and playing my Offspring Splinter CD in the background while going after that back and forth time attack competition I had with a friend. Great memories.

Japanese version is so much classier.

Anyone else buy this to get the Zelda Collector’s Edition disc back in the GameCube days? Nice bonus that it turned out to be a good game as well!

@cybus
What was on the extra CD?

Funny thing about this game, Wave Race and F-Zero, I preferred the N64 ones by a landslide. The GC versions were too fast for me. I liked the slower going varieties.

As for art, NA EU on this one.

Japanese is so... different, as if you were buying some extreme sports manual. European is more pronounced, but it's pretty standard.

I really like that minimalistic Japanese design, I think it really brings the attention to the icons and the top art

Work your box art,
work your box art.

Japan leans a bit too far into the Snow storm concept.
I.e...you won't see much in one!

USA cover looked better than Japanese cover in my opinion.

The JP box art is the most aesthetically pleasing box art I‘ve ever seen.

If you picked Japan this week we can't be friends lol. It should be 100% NA/EU

In itself the Japanese one is weird, because of all the white space. But I can imagine it stands out amidst other boxes.

Ok so that font on the EU/NA one is a 10/10! But the rest of the cover is pretty basic.

I REALLY love what the Japan one is trying to do. It feels very WipEout / Designers Republic. But I don't think it works with the standard box layout / gamecube logos and ends up looking a little like a manual.

Honestly I think my vote has to go to Japan just for trying (and damn near succeeding) to do something so different and cool.

We need more bold and brave choices like this!

Should have been a Star Wars one today.

Japan one is very classy. Maybe the “Conquer your fears” text is a bit much but otherwise I love it.

Game itself had nothing on the SSX games though.

That Japan cover is phoned in...and it still got votes.

This could be the biggest blowout in box art brawl history.

The Japanese one looks like the fake art GameStop prints off to display on the box when they didn't have the original

The Japanese one looks like the front cover for an instruction manual for some old computer software (y'know, back when software was delivered in boxed discs). NA/EU for me this week.

@mlt you could send your receipt to Nintendo and they would send you a GameCube disc with the two NES games, Ocarina and Majora’s mask for free.

Never seen the Japanese art before, but it's terrible. I like the name though.

Japanese version is just oozing Y2K style. Guess people just don't have good taste then 😔

Hands down NA/EU. Much better use of their available box art, AKA not enough whitespace to give me retina burn.

I'm actually shocked that the Western boxart won by such a large margin. Looks cheesy, unclassy, like the call-of-Duty "Man with Gun" covers but for snowboarding. Japanese one has the vibe down a lot more. It may look like an ad, but it's a damn good ad!

From a pure design standpoint, I LOVE the Japanese one. Doesn't seem very impactful as cover art per se, but it would make for an excellent print ad.

I would've picked it up, as 1080 on the n64 was awesome, BUT gamecube also had access to ssx.

As great as 1080 was, ssx was extraordinary.

Still, it's too bad nintendo won't continue 1080, given that ea gave up on ssx after their bizarre "gritty reboot" of a snowboarding game back in the early 2010s.

Wow, "peel the skin off your face?" That's a bit intense for the outside of a game box, no?

As people have said, JP looks like it's a GameStop replacement box, a magazine ad, or some sort of slip case for a demo disc.
US looks like box art. Not particularly memorable, but definitely serviceable.
JP can have points for originality, but not enough points to deserve a vote.

Japan much better represents an avalanche. White out!

"The game that started the extreme sports genre"?!
If I was a Japanese gamer I would have boycotted this one out of principle!
By the time 1080 Snowboarding released there had already been 2 Coolboarders games on PSX, and that was just its direct competition.
And let's not forget the likes of Skitchin' back on the Mega Drive/Genesis.

Silver Storm is a better name than Avalanche, but still went with US because it's classic. Also realized I NEVER played this game after LOVING 1080 on the N64.

Wow. The JP cover looks awful.

Also, thinking back, I loved both this, and Blue Storm way back when.
Shame Blue Storm wrecks the data on my big memory card.

As I scrolled down the page, my first thought about the western cover was that it was a bit generic, especially with how you can't see the expression on the person's face. I thought to myself, Japan's cover should be better. Then I saw it. Wow! Japan's cover is impressively horrible. It really does look like a print ad of some sort, though I would not rate it as an especially good one. It does nothing for me. It doesn't even communicate that it's a video game. Those little circular icons add nothing of value to the cover and just don't work. I wonder if they're just there because, otherwise, the extremely poor use of space would be even more glaring. The Japanese cover, to me, is the very definition of lazy design. It is totally inadequate as a game cover. It would be only slightly better if it were a magazine ad, though still not good. It is, frankly, one of the worst covers I've seen.

@cybus
So basically the one I had with my limited edition of Wind Waker. Interesting I didn't know you could have it with 1080. Maybe it was a US only thing.

The silverstorm subtitle surprised me, I knew 1080 for gamecube was also named White Storm in the prototype phase but I thought there were no remnants of such name in the finished product anywhere.

When I read beta reports in magazines I liked how the subtitle linked the franchise with Wave Race Blue Storm. I even imagined how a potential Excitebike for gamecube could carry the torch and be named "Black Storm".

@Ooyah i literally thought it was the back of the box

They didn't even try for the Japanese cover here, it feels like. Honestly I would feel ripped off with that box art.

Rare NA slam dunk

Oh gosh, the Japanese cover is terrible. The only imagery on the case is a shot of a dude's butt. Who the heck green-lit this?

That’s one classy box, Japan by a mile.

I’ve never seen the Japanese one before and honestly I love it!

NA hands down! It I get what the japanese cover was trying to accomplish but the American/ Europe cover is much better it gives a better feel what the game is like the cool action pose helps too.

NA is bog-standard. “Here’s a video game about X.” Japan for having b*lls and for catching my attention.

@mlt yeah near enough. The only difference being the wind waker was ocarina and master quest. This one had Majora’s Mask which was a big deal before the virtual console became a reality.
UK here. The disc is called Zelda Collector’s Edition if you want to look it up. Think it came with a Mario Kart GameCube bundle in the US but I’m not sure.

In some weird way I like both!

Honestly I prefer the US/EU box art.
The JP box art, i honestly don’t have any words about how nothing that box art is. Though SilverStorm is a pretty cool subtitle for the game even if avalanche makes more sense.
Also now I wanna see 1080 Avalanche on NC GameCube.

The Japanese one looks like an ad, not a game cover. Atrocious.

I love that hame so much

@cybus even in europe. Mario kart with a double disk case and zelda inside. Weird but good

@SoIDecidedTo Personally, I much preferred the N64 game. Same with F-Zero and Wave Race, I felt the N64 versions were much better. The GC ones felt like theyball played on 1,5x speed, and not in a good way. But I might be the minority in that.

Wow the Japanese art is horrible. Usually they have the better covers, but this time the international market wins.

I debate that claim on the Japanese box that 1080 was the extreme sports game "that started it all". Pretty sure the PlayStation competing game, Cool Boarders was already out, if not already into sequels territory. Even Sega's Saturn snowboarding game came out around the same time.

They look the same

Box Art Brawls Current Total:

Europe: 100

Japan: 92

North America: 115

Australia and New Zealand: 1