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[Gummifaust]

Great - in a weird way.

 

[Fritz]

Maten Densetsu, too bad I cannot find a better quality.

 

[G-Fex]

 

[Krauser Kat]

You are saying army of darkness copied off of Zak McKracken. Zak came out 4 years earlier.

Also some of these postings are terrible.

Name. Check.
Fire. Check.
Huge Mech ready to kick ass. Check.

 

[gnat_]

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Those Psygnosis covers look like they tore their favorite pieces out of an issue of Heavy Metal.

Some of these (Shadow of the Beast, The Barbarian) were drawn by the great Roger Dean.

 

[cj_iwakura]

 

[karobit]

Can't find a hi-res scan of the box art, but here's a photo.

I saw this in a discount bin at a Book-Off last summer and almost bought it besides a complete inability to play it, just based on the cover.

 

[Kid Marin]

 

[Gummifaust]

 

[donkey show]

Section-Z

Loved this game.

OH FUCK FUCK FUCK this was my shit back in the day. Thanks for the flash backs!

The arcade art for it was pretty cool as well.

 

[Luigi87]

That remains beautiful.

That... Not so much.

 

[WEGGLES]

All the Ultima covers were incredible.

Oh man.

I always thought "Lord British" was a joke!

 

[Patryn]

Mog has no legs! Soon as I realized that, I could never unsee it.

 

[RelentlessRolento]

My question is do people have the names of the artists who did the covers?

 

[LayLa]

 

[CJUNDERGROUND]

This box art is all a lie!! LIES!!!

 

[flyover]

All the Ultima covers were incredible.

Yeah, I thought about posting Ultima IV's, which I still love.

I've always liked this one a lot:

If you consider 1993 retro, then this one still holds up, too:

 

[cj_iwakura]

Fun fact about Night Trap's original boxart: for having live action footage of people being murdered by blood-sucking vampires in black jumpsuits, it had no rating whatsoever.

Just a parental advisory warning in very, very small font on the side.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

Unrated version of night trap goes for a good chunk of change around $150

 

[cj_iwakura]

Unrated version of night trap goes for a good chunk of change around $150

I still own it. It sold for like $20 on ebay.


'Unrated' is kind of a misnomer. The only differences between the original red box and the later versions are that Commander Simms uses a Sega Genesis controller in the opening, and they're called the 'Sega Control Attack Team', instead of Special in the 3d0 and PC versions.


Though I once heard the Sega version was actually filmed LATER and 'Special' was the original version. I can't recall the source.

 

[Augemitbutter]

double dragon II wins, i used to love that one as a kid. good art doesn't age. CG crap on the other hand....



here is another favorite:

 

[Rich!]

representing some classic game boy art:

 

[Ronabo]

The first thing that popped into my mind was this.

It sold me on the game way back then.

 

[Raul_Atreides]

That Psygnosis stuff looks a lot like Howard Dean artwork. Does anyone know if it's actually him or if it's someone doing a good ripoff?

 

[Sega]

 

[Atolm]

Looking at all those forgotten covers one only can think about how terrible and lifeless nowadays covers are.

Also...

 

[cj_iwakura]

 

[chun li's thighs]

 

[woodypop]

Nearly every single Atari game cover now looks amazing as that art style is not done anymore. As kid though I hated how they looked.

Agreed. Wholeheartedly.

 

[The Bookerman]

Continuing with the Contra Theme:

 

[dubc35]

"Over 500,000 units sold!" LOL...also 1 meg required

 

[Fowler]

Only one really stands out for me:

 

[Atomski]

Id really like to hear the story behind this cover. What does this old dood have to do with the game?

 

[Evolved1]

 

[Boaty McBoatface]

 

[Oreoleo]

 

[kuYuri]

Double Dragon one reminds me of Tetsuo Hara for some reason. Anyway...

 

[Chittagong]

 

[54-46!]

Reminds me of Gunbuster.

 

[electristan]

Scanned these a while ago, bought the game mostly for my love of the art (and book)

More here, with schematics

 

[depths20XX]

I know, but a Tanooki is a raccoon, and even with the leaf power up, mario still clearly has ears and a tail. He is basically a tanuki without the complete suit. And yes I know it can change into a statue.

A Tanuki is not the same as a raccoon. They actually belong to different families.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Id really like to hear the story behind this cover. What does this old dood have to do with the game?

There was eleventy billion Shmups with covers of space ships zooming around on them (it was the bald space marine of its day), and the guy knew this dude that played Santa as well as various touristy photos for the Seattle area. Voila.

 

[larvi]

You are saying army of darkness copied off of Zak McKracken. Zak came out 4 years earlier.

Both this and the Zak McKracken are parodies of a cliche romance novel cover, i.e.

 

[DrFunk]

Old Genesis/Mega Drive box art > all

an old favorite:

 

[cj_iwakura]

Or, rather:

 

[54-46!]

I need to buy this box set one day..

 

[beelzebozo]

dvd cases are boring and newfangled

I MISS CARDBOARD BOXES

 

[The Lamp]

I think that's my Calculus professor.

 

[SovanJedi]

representing some classic game boy art:

Haha, I remember trying to recreate this boxart when I was about 12 using MSPaint for an IT project in school (produce a games magazine with some ancient version of Word or whatever). So good! I wish the next Mario game would have boxart drawn like this again.

Id really like to hear the story behind this cover. What does this old dood have to do with the game?

I think the official story is that it was literally just to grab attention, because they knew if they just stuck a spaceship on the cover nobody would give it a second glance. XD