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When a Console is mentioned, What Boxart Immediatly pops into your head?
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nightmare-slain
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Pokemon Gold and Silver boxes were my favourite as a kid
i think i liked them because i saw them in gaming magazines. the games came out in japan/usa before europe so i spent months reading about the games in the magazines. the games looked like a big improvement over red/blue/yellow so i was super hyped for them. my dad bought me both copies because i begged and begged him. even after i got the games i would still sit and stare at the boxes and even go into my local game stores to look at them. i know it might sound weird but the games just fascinated me and i was in love with them lol.
i think i liked them because i saw them in gaming magazines. the games came out in japan/usa before europe so i spent months reading about the games in the magazines. the games looked like a big improvement over red/blue/yellow so i was super hyped for them. my dad bought me both copies because i begged and begged him. even after i got the games i would still sit and stare at the boxes and even go into my local game stores to look at them. i know it might sound weird but the games just fascinated me and i was in love with them lol.
Sleepwalker
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01011001
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Pokemon Gold and Silver boxes were my favourite as a kid
i think i liked them because i saw them in gaming magazines. the games came out in japan/usa before europe so i spent months reading about the games in the magazines. the games looked like a big improvement over red/blue/yellow so i was super hyped for them. my dad bought me both copies because i begged and begged him. even after i got the games i would still sit and stare at the boxes and even go into my local game stores to look at them. i know it might sound weird but the games just fascinated me and i was in love with them lol.
yeah these are the quintessential GBC games, so it's only natural to think of them when thinking about the GBC.
but more so than the covers I'm thinking of the carts themselves. the glittery gold and silver plastic with the shimmering foil print
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nightmare-slain
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mansoor1980
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legendary boxart
01011001
Banned
aww yeah. they were nice but not as nice as the crystal cart
yeah that one is pretty as well, but that's an awful picture of one lol. you can't even see the blue tint of the plastic in this
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Sleepwalker
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Pokemon Gold and Silver boxes were my favourite as a kid
i think i liked them because i saw them in gaming magazines. the games came out in japan/usa before europe so i spent months reading about the games in the magazines. the games looked like a big improvement over red/blue/yellow so i was super hyped for them. my dad bought me both copies because i begged and begged him. even after i got the games i would still sit and stare at the boxes and even go into my local game stores to look at them. i know it might sound weird but the games just fascinated me and i was in love with them lol.
More or less the same happened to me. I finally got a GBC with pokemon silver for my birthday and it promptly got stolen like 2 weeks later. My birthday is at the end of november and it got stolen mid december, I cried and cried and was legitimitately devastated, "santa" ended up getting me another one for xmas.
EruditeHobo
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Both shitty games, but i loved the boxes:
Those are excellent... bayou billy is worthy of a poster.
01011001
Banned
I got my GBC with the launch of Yellow, yet I more strongly associat the system with Gold and Silver.
shows what branding can do I guess lol.
because even tho it's not officially branded as one, Yellow is indeed a GameBoy Color game (at least in the west, in Japan it's not GBC enhanced because it launched too early there)
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EruditeHobo
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Mega Man is roughly 100 times a better title in English, so good job Joe.
Sleepwalker
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I remember! I had yellow as well, pretty much ended up getting all 5 (never owned crystal) but yeah there just was something special about silver/gold. I still have vivid memories of going through the manuals and looking at the art over and over.
01011001
Banned
my most vivid memory about playing Gold was the first time I played it in the evening and it was nighttime in the game as well.
it was mind-blowing back then that the game had the same time of say as the real world. it was also super cozy, I loved the color pallet of the forest area at night... and you could find different Pokémon as well.
my first nighttime catch was a Hoothoot.
Diseased Yak
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EruditeHobo
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NeoIkaruGAF
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NES
Game Boy
Super NES
PlayStation
Game Boy
Super NES
PlayStation
anthraticus
Banned
Boxart in the early 2600 & Intellivision days was the best and had great style. Beat the hell out of all this generic bs that came after.
Wouldn't expect most of the tasteless younger crowd on a place like this being able to get it though.
Wouldn't expect most of the tasteless younger crowd on a place like this being able to get it though.
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The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Title would have been alot more fun if their were two of them.
The Stig
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eh, Im from the UK and even I know that hero turtles was lame. dumb pearl-clutching mothers got the name changed.Hero Turtles > Ninja Turtles
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Was there supposed to be boxart? No boxart or titles here on my end.Back in the day, us old folk (~30+) had to either wait a fortnight/Month for your Local Newsagent to get their gaming magazines in OR you just went to town and decided how to part with your hard earned cash by aimlessly looking at the boxes. Naturally, the first thing your eyes were drawn to in the 80's/90's was the front boxart.
Seemingly, after over 30 years of gaming, SOME games are synonymous with the console for my own personal reasons. Not so much the game at times, but the memories associated with the case.
Gameboy
First game I remember Opening for Xmas. Finally, My own Gameboy!
Master System
The first Master System game I personally remember having full colour box art, not just a clip art figure standing in front of graph paper (As iconic as it is)
Megadrive
First game I played at a friends house. I remember staring at it, waiting for him to finish Sonic wso I could be Papa Shango
Nintendo 64
Had a Blast (No pun Intended) on this. Inexplicably one of my favourite N64 Games
Playstation
Feburary 1998, I was laid up in bed with Glandular Fever and could only really muster the energy to pay curling on this for 2 weeks solid.
Dreamcast
Bloody Awful game, but I played the hell out of it. Kinda scratched the "Streets of Rage itch". Kinda.
LightofRohan
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Did this fast in my brain for whatever console and this is what came up
No idea why Lair, Bouncer and Tenchu were the first things that popped into my head...
No idea why Lair, Bouncer and Tenchu were the first things that popped into my head...
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Josemayuste
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SmokedMeat
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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These are just among games I either remember personally buying and/or spending A LOT of time on. But if talking box arts that define the consoles in particular, I'd have to do a completely separate posting with all Japanese box arts, because those are usually 99% better than the American and even European versions, and look way cooler.
Portugeezer
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STARSBarry
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StreetsofBeige
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Manuscript Replica
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Yoooooooooooooo!! This brings back memories! The amount of sass and sarcasm Seaman thought me is still practiced to this day
Manuscript Replica
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I loved this game. GameStop midnight opening line was no joke, but watching Snake smoke cigarettes during the installation was worse.Everyone thinks of mgs4 with ps3, I’m not a huge old snake fan but I love mgo.
Manuscript Replica
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I’ve secretly wished for a Bouncer remake or sequel… as repetitive as it was, I loved that game.NES:
Sega Genesis:
SNES:
Sega Saturn:
Playstation:
PS2
Xbox
Naked Lunch
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I dont even remember playing the game (but I know my bro played it), but what a cool cover.
Scotty W
Gold Member
SNES:
I wonder if anyone at Nintendo of America was aware that by changing the color scheme of the Super Famicom to its SNES colors, they were making the Special World in SMW completely inexplicable.
mako
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Fucked that up