My vote goes to the SNES the art on the boxes for those games were always bright and colorful and everything about them screamed awesome to me. Even the crappiest of games seemed to come with cool box art.
My vote goes to the SNES the art on the boxes for those games were always bright and colorful and everything about them screamed awesome to me. Even the crappiest of games seemed to come with cool box art.
I'm tempted to say SNES but for the sake of not getting into a personal rut I'll mention that I think the US PlayStation jewel cases had a simple, yet pleasant layout to them.
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I will say the initial atari vcs games had awesome cover art.
Different box color - check
Awesome hand drawn art - check
Cool, simple layout - check
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for me the best were a toss up between
NES and Atari 2600
The cover art you'd find on some of those games almost sucked you into their world cause the artist would put so much detail
i mean what isn't there to love in that art work?
The larger the case normally the better the art, looking at a stack of 360 games though, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I think the 16/32 bit era was kind of the sweet spot.
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I have to nod my head to the 2600 for the best cover art. They just made every game seem so deceptively epic on their cover. I mean, just look at this:
Now compare that to this:
I'm unsure why someone decided to photoshop a scantily clad woman onto the cover art of Missile Command. All I can do is repost the photo and shake my head.
I actually really liked the 3DO cases. Most of the Long Boxes looked really damn cool. Check it out, man!
http://pics.mobygames.com/images/cov...2063033-00.jpg
http://www.videogamegazette.com/3do/...tfighterfc.jpg
http://www.videogamegazette.com/3do/...control2fc.jpg
http://www.videogamegazette.com/3do/...rdianwarfc.jpg
http://www.videogamegazette.com/3do/...ewarriorfc.jpg
Loved the black-box Genesis covers. Something about them being presented in that format gave it a much more "cinematic" feel.
And don't bring up that stupid girlie Aladdin rip off! Shantea?
Genesis had some awesomely atrocious box art in its heyday, but I think one of my favorite labels/premises that seals it for the 2600 has to be this:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/atari2600/58...ages/box-37970
'nuff said.
If only Atari games actually remotely resembled their covers.
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I'll probably give another vote for the VCS. Mega drive games had potential- the black grid pattern was elegant and cool at the same time and the logo- well, the PAL logo, anyway- is timeless.
Shame most of the actual cover art was below par...
As far as vintage gaming goes, can you really pick? I mean, just about every system has its fair share of bad ass artwork and total shit.
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Neo Geo had good box art
Is it strange that I've never really liked any cover art that didn't remotely resemble the game? I suppose that disqualifies pretty much any game made before the mid-90s but for at least for RPGs and such covers were often made using concept art used in the development of the game.
A lot of those 2600 covers make me think of some sort of "artist's rendition" of their concept of the game, as somebody not really involved with the design process, rather than the world the game designer(s) themselves were thinking about when they thought up the game in the first place.
Sega Genesis for me, loved the original black label releases.
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The NES. Even say, Color Dreams, Which produced crappy games had amazing cover art. *Coughs* Battletoads, Castlevania, TMNT.
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VCS also was the first console to feature an actual screenshot as the cover, game: Boing! by First Star