Localizations (the best and worst)

[miyabi95_]

That ugly American art was done by the late Greg Martin who was famous for his game and VHS cover art. But he does have bad ones as well.
For one thing he's notable for is the infamous "Assface & Mohawk" Sonic that plagued most of the American and some PAL version covers.
Sega openly hated this design, and requested him to make Sonic more on-model. But still allowed AOSTH Robotnik for some reason.

I personally enjoyed his Sonic design when I was little. The US boxart (because I had no access to PAL/Japanese games) for many old games drew me closer to drawing and being creative in general. The way he designed Sonic is fine through my eyes, but the human characters he drew look like they belong in Animaniacs.