Why does NOA love to "goldify" all the boxarts? Nintendo strikes again with XCX!

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ExplodingBlock on 10 December 2014

Why do they do this? The box art looks fine and they ruin by making it a gold, most of the time it is Zelda games, but here are some prime examples

Xenoblade Chronicles X

A Link Between Worlds

Captain Toad: Treasue Tracker

Ocarina of Time 3D

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Wind Waker

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What do you think? Do you like these golden boxarts better or should they be left how they originally were?

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Areym on 10 December 2014

Why not? Gold means power and riches! ...and bitches :D

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kljesta64 on 10 December 2014

because its Zelda.

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 10 December 2014

Cause NA is all about greed

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Ljink96 on 10 December 2014

Man, the Jap versions looked like that! DAYUM! In short, I guess it's because of The Legend of Zelda on NES. It was manufactured with a gold cartridge so I guess NOA just started following that trend due to the success of the game. It's like, you knew you were getting something golden, the best of the best.

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Wright on 10 December 2014

Wind Waker gamecube looks AWESOME in the Japanese version!

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toot1231 on 10 December 2014

The only one I do not like goldified is the OOT 3D

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NiKKoM on 10 December 2014

Man... I wish we had golden cartridges today.. When i look at that NES game... Its special

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vivster on 10 December 2014

Maybe tradition? The first Zelda had a golden cartridge.

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plip.plop on 10 December 2014

I heard that the Original Zelda cartridge in Japan were green, it was here in N. America that they made them gold.
Maybe just following tradition, since there is no longer cartridges, they want to make something else gold. Everybody that grew up in the 80's knew a gold cart was a Zelda game. It's iconic

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