GERMAN MARIO!

[Sephex]

http://smwwtf.ytmnd.com/
This is supposedly the german cover to the unofficial Super Mario World strategy guide.

To give this a topic, what do you think of knock-off stuff like this? Pro Action Replay covers are notorius for bootleg artwork. I used to see it all the time in GameStop. I couldn't find any pics on the internet, but here is another odd piece of artwork from outside the U.S.

http://www.ncsx.com/2003/ncs052603/Thursday/gba_par_front.jpg

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I blame Asterix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix).

[Spammerman]

That looks like a digimon. Wth does a mario guide have to do with it?

[Rase]

Well, I think that is an awesome song.

Bootleg/knock-off art and the such almost always makes me smile.

[KentaRawr!]

That looks like a digimon. Wth does a mario guide have to do with it?

The Super Mario World Guide cover art is in the link. The Digimon thing is just another example of strange cover-art.

[theundeadhero]

In Germany Mario looks just like Mario.

[Rainecloud]

The Yoshi looks awesome, and Mario resembles some sort of Knight.

Perhaps the makers of the strategy guide were afraid of being slapped with a lawsuit for putting official images on the front cover and so decided to draw their own version.