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SolidChocobo

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/21/07 22:06:24)

Konami's MSX boxarts were usually pretty good.

SolidChocobo

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/21/07 22:09:36)

I actually beat this game just last week, and even though I hated it when I was younger I ended up really enjoying it. I always thought it had a nice cover, though.

SolidChocobo

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/22/07 05:19:27)

I always liked this one because of Mario's off-model colors.

May as well post the US art, since I like that as well.

SolidChocobo

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/22/07 05:22:07)

I liked to pretend this was a He-Man game when I was a kid because of the box art.

SolidChocobo

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(04/22/07 05:24:32)

Crawl and 1OOO

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(04/22/07 08:54:32)

The Metal Gear box art was based on The Terminator

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Flying Omelette

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/22/07 09:26:45)

I'm not a huge fan of CGI boxart overall, but this is one of the few I think was especially well-done.

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Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/22/07 13:51:11)

Going back a little bit in this topic, one thing that's kind of funny about that Drakan boxart is that it looks like the dragon's engulfing itself in its own flames.

Here are some more that I like:

Never been a huge fan of Doom, but I've always thought this artwork was cool anyway.

Man, why did they change this to a blank white box for the American release?

I think it's possible they just took a cel from the opening sequence of the show to make this, but I haven't actually done a side-by-side comparison. It could be redrawn. I don't know, but I still think it's neat either way.

I could've sworn versions of this existed without that obnoxious Pizza Hut ad, but I couldn't find one.

I think this is the greatest game box art ever.

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Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/22/07 14:34:19)

Okay, this one will need a post all its own.

When I first saw this, it kind of blew me away. It's Rendezvous With Rama for the Commodore 64. There might have been other Commodore 64 art like this, but nothing for any console games I've seen.

The box was about the size of an LP vinyl record. The front and back might not look that special:

But when you open it up, there's double wide artwork:

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And then you could open that up for quadruple wide artwork:

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CLOUDBOND007

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/22/07 15:47:23)

This guy looks scares out of his mind.

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SolidChocobo

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/22/07 15:57:10)

Quote:
This guy looks scares out of his mind.

Very scares indeed.

CLOUDBOND007

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/22/07 16:23:53)

Curse you.

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Crawl and 1OOO

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(04/22/07 17:32:43)

I noticed something about the Mario Bros. box art. You can clearly see a border around Mario. It looks like they printed Mario, with a black background, on a slip of paper, and placed it by hand (titled) in the rest of the scene.

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Flying Omelette

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(05/01/07 16:17:55)

Some oldies:

Too bad I could not find a version of this one that doesn't have text obscuring the cat's face, and I've long since lost my original box for this game. (This might actually be a manual scan, but the box had the same art.)

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Re: Favorite box arts.

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(06/04/07 19:16:14)

Okay, I know I shouldn't post this here, because this is for *favorite* box art, not just any old box art, and is probably in fact supposed to counter all the "worst game boxes ever" articles on the web. But I've never seen this before (I found it while going through some of our older stuff; it was in a box of mostly FO's belongings), and when I first glimpsed it, I was pretty shocked at how ridiculous it was.

Plus, this thread hasn't been too busy lately, anyway, so what the hell.

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SolidChocobo

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(06/12/07 03:14:04)

Man, that's wretched.

Crawl and 1OOO

Re: Favorite box arts.

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(08/30/07 08:31:24)

I was just looking through Codie's worst box art feature.

While the characters don't look like Lemmings (I'd guess they might be ants), I don't think there's much wrong with the Adventures of Lomax art. I'd probably go so far as to say it looks pretty good.