牧場物語2 (Bokujō Monogatari 2)

牧場物語2 (Bokujō Monogatari 2) (Harvest Moon 64) — Nintendo 64, Japan, Pack-In-Soft (Victor Interactive), 1999. Japan: Feb 5, 1999. From JAPAN: THE FIRST FIELDS in the Harvest Moon Games Gallery.

The clay box: a photographed diorama by the series’ own artist, Igusa Matsuyama.

The clay box: Igusa Matsuyama sculpted a clay diorama of the farmer and his dog and photographed it for this cover — the most famous single fact in the whole census. The Japanese box is the tall portrait N64 format; the US box is landscape. The pair teaches Japanese versus American N64 packaging geometry at a glance.

Across the Pacific in this gallery: Harvest Moon GB.

Shown here at its verified native size, 500×698, the largest honest copy the Library holds for this box.