A bit of an odd choice this time but an interesting contrast in how games are marketed in different regions. Kid Niki the game is a cute action-platformer with a goofy sense of humor. For the North American cover, the company went with this more realistic and fiece image of the hero facing down his enemies with his sword already running with blood, with the damsel in distress at the center looking like a swipe from Frazetta's Egyptian Queen. Not an uncommon occurence in the marketing of 8-bit video games, as we saw with Deadly Towers.
The original Japanese cover for comparison:
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