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kainemaxwell
07-30-2011, 04:42 PM
Anyone here have favorite box art from the Atari 2600 years? Any publisher.

MachineGex
07-30-2011, 07:13 PM
http://www.giantbomb.com/outlaw/61-17826/all-images/52-180971/outlaw_us_front/51-1478893/
I love the Boxart for "Outlaw". I am a big Spaghetti Western fan. I grew up watching them and playing VCS so the boxart is perfect. I would love to have Eastwood sign my boxart one day. I always wondered how they got away with ripping off the movie poster for "The Outlaw Jossie Wales" .

Emperor Megas
07-30-2011, 09:33 PM
Man, I LOVE Atari 2600 box art. A lot of them really were works of art. I think Yar's Revenge is probably my favorite if I had to pick one. Yar's is always the first one that comes to mind when I think about it. I used to draw the cover all the time when I was a kid. Every one of my folders and notebooks had that fly on it somewhere.

kupomogli
07-30-2011, 09:38 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Berzerk.jpg

Favorite 2600 game and box art.

Griking
07-31-2011, 01:39 AM
There are so many great ones but a few that come to mind are Adventure, Haunted House, Chopper Command and Pitfall

Emperor Megas
07-31-2011, 02:25 AM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Berzerk.jpg

Favorite 2600 game and box art.That one was definitely in the running. Man, there was so much great 2600 artwork.

tom
07-31-2011, 01:30 PM
I always love to show off my X-Man (kinda funny how he's holding his private parts to protect him from the jaw, crab and scissors)
http://roomofdoom.powweb.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=194847&g2_serialNumber=2

gotta love Boing!, one of the first game to show the actual screen on the front of the box
http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo12/Alison123456789/Boing.jpg

Drixxel
07-31-2011, 05:02 PM
There's a ton of awesome box art but my favourite may be Pheonix.

http://www.bomberoza.net/data/collections/consoles/games/atari-2600-phoenix.jpg

brandonsh
08-02-2011, 04:44 PM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5L4JifdQmfg/RzdxYpMU0BI/AAAAAAAAA0E/m4LHYpkFrOo/s400/et_2600_1.jpg
A true work of art, as was the game.

Joking of course. I don't really know, I haven't spent much time with Atari box art.

MrRoboto19XX
08-03-2011, 01:33 AM
Personally, I love some of the Froggo label/box arts. The games themselves are complete trash, but for me the box art for Task Force is tops. Wonderfully minimalist in color scheme.

A close second probably goes to Night Driver, the box art conveys such intensity!

OldSkoolBrian
08-03-2011, 12:48 PM
I like Barnyard Blaster.

tpugmire
08-03-2011, 04:37 PM
Asteroids, as seen in my avatar.
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nimbus2
08-03-2011, 05:06 PM
I like Barnyard Blaster.

Me too, but that's not a 2600 game.

Bloodreign
08-05-2011, 03:52 AM
http://thepumpkin.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/b_Joust_Silver_front_751.jpg

It's all about the Joust.

alec006
08-06-2011, 08:28 AM
Defender, it always had that 80's feel to it

http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_Defender_Color_front.jpg

Oobgarm
08-06-2011, 08:57 AM
http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_DemonAttack_front.jpg http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_Freeway_Original_front.jpg http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_HauntedHouse_Color_front.jpg http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_BasicProgramming_Color_front.jpg