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Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:06 am
by paranoid marvin
Most Ultimate artwork was great. This and Atic Atac were the best.
Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:30 am
by paranoid marvin
One of my favourite 8 bit covers. Great artwork , great game.

Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 9:16 am
by ianpmarks
paranoid marvin wrote:
Most Ultimate artwork was great. This and Atic Atac were the best.
I forgot Underwurlde... awful game, brilliant cover. At least as good as my previous vote for Ant Attack.
Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:04 am
by markopoloman
Underwurlde was brilliant! Lost many hours playing that on the C64
Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:21 am
by retrojc
Always been fond of Fm Towns Bubble Bobble:

Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 5:00 pm
by Antiriad2097
markopoloman wrote:Underwurlde was brilliant! Lost many hours playing that on the C64
I played a lot on Speccy, one of the routes to finish was quite short and simple.
Good game, shame about the ropey cover. That demon thing looks like a kid's drawing, its so rough. One of their weakest covers imo.
Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:40 pm
by thompson9980
Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:46 am
by stvd
Almost everything by Bob Wakelin purely down to artistic skills.
The Underworld cover is terrible. Instantly recognisable, iconic maybe but terrible.
A lot of the early Atari VCS games have great artwork. Not always 100% representative of the game though!

Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 3:38 am
by ianpmarks
Antiriad2097 wrote:markopoloman wrote:Underwurlde was brilliant! Lost many hours playing that on the C64
I played a lot on Speccy, one of the routes to finish was quite short and simple.
Good game, shame about the ropey cover. That demon thing looks like a kid's drawing, its so rough. One of their weakest covers imo.
This is why this forum and retro gaming is great. You having the complete opposite opinion is really interesting.
I hated Underwurlde, all that bouncing about being knocked off ledges. To me it was the epitome of frustration . Always loved the cover though, can't explain why, just liked it.
Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:48 am
by paranoid marvin
Lots of great VCS covers. One of my favourites

Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 8:03 am
by paranoid marvin
A VCS game with a cover that made it look a far more exciting game than it was.
One of the great covers of all time. Again, the gameplay doesn't quite match up to the visuals
One of my favourite Speccy covers. Lots going on there, most of it not illustrative of the actual gameplay. Very imaginitive though.

Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 8:19 am
by Hiro

This one has got everything: the girl, the Ferrari, the road, the expectation of a fantastic drive listening to wonderful music.

It just rocks, I couldn't do without the Supremacy poster in my room

Wow.

Bob Wakelin, what an artist.

All the more impressive considering it's been drawn by Eric Chahi himself.

Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:51 pm
by Mayhem
Hiro wrote:
Bob Wakelin, what an artist.
Yep, heh...

Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 1:25 am
by Guitar_Geek
My favourite, damn beautiful.

Re: The best box art ever
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:29 am
by scunny
I have always loved this cover.
I loved the game, and this cover helped set the scene - so what if you were actually a square trying to impale badly animated ducks with an arrow - thanks to the box art I could image I was actually a warrior charging at the dragon with my magic spear.
A great cover like so many of the Atari 2600 classics.
