{"id":135988,"date":"2026-02-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-197177"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:00:00","slug":"poll-box-art-brawl-duel-super-bomberman-2-snes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/poll-box-art-brawl-duel-super-bomberman-2-snes\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel &#8211; Super Bomberman 2 (SNES)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/31a5fe898f055\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/31a5fe898f055\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"31a5fe898f055\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Super Bomberman 2 - BAB\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/31a5fe898f055\/super-bomberman-2-bab.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/31a5fe898f055\/super-bomberman-2-bab.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"516\" alt=\"Super Bomberman 2 - BAB\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ahoy! Welcome, one and all, to another edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/box-art-brawl\">Box Art Brawl<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Last time, we checked out Red Alarm for the Virtual Boy, which of course will be joining the launch lineup for Virtual Boy &#8211; 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<p>So, we skip ahead to today, where we&#8217;ll be looking at <strong>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/super-bomberman-collection-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">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<p>US and EU designs are largely the same for this one (EU has a gold border, and that&#8217;s about it), so we&#8217;re going for a good ol&#8217; duel against Japan. Let battle commence!<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/snes\/related-articles:197105 @ 1770627302 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<h2>North America \/ Europe<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"067cc41eca3f3\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Super Bomberman 2 - NA \/ EU\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/067cc41eca3f3\/super-bomberman-2-na-eu.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/067cc41eca3f3\/super-bomberman-2-na-eu.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"657\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Super Bomberman 2 - NA \/ EU\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com\/games\/details\/2403-super-bomberman-2\">Konami \/ Launchbox<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Okay, so the Western design seems pretty standard at first glance, but it&#8217;s a lovely composition nevertheless. We&#8217;ve got Bomberman in the extreme foreground with a load of enemies filling up the remainder of the space. There&#8217;s some lovely use of colour, and you certainly can&#8217;t say it isn&#8217;t eye-catching.<\/p>\n<h2>Japan<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"d147762658b81\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Super Bomberman 2 - JP\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d147762658b81\/super-bomberman-2-jp.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d147762658b81\/super-bomberman-2-jp.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"1644\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Super Bomberman 2 - JP\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com\/games\/details\/2403-super-bomberman-2\">Konami \/ Launchbox<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Japan&#8217;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<div id=\"poll-11490\" class=\"poll\" data-uri=\"polls\/which_region_got_the_best_super_bomberman_2_box_art\" data-id=\"11490\" data-question=\"Which region got the best Super Bomberman 2 box art?\">\n<div class=\"results hidden\">\n<h3 data-toc=\"skip\">Which region got the best Super Bomberman 2 box art? (1,580 votes)<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"poll-results\">\n<li class=\"result with-image first\">\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df22cbe9487c6\/100x60.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" alt=\"North America \/ Europe\"><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"answer\">North America \/ Europe<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"705 votes (44.6%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"45\"><span class=\"val\">45<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"result with-image last\">\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e19dce3a976a6\/100x60.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Japan\"><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"answer\">Japan<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"875 votes (55.4%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"55\"><span class=\"val\">55<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Thanks for voting! W<\/em><em>e&#8217;ll see you next time for another Box Art Brawl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life Ahoy! Welcome, one and all, to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we checked out Red Alarm for the Virtual Boy, which of course will be joining the launch lineup for Virtual Boy &#8211; Nintendo Classics on NSO later this month. It was a surprisingly close contest, with North America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}