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Boxart. Name your favourite.

Berekän

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Do any of you gentlemen know if any of these box covers are available online in high resolution, all nicely ordered in one place, so that they may be printed and turned into posters? Been looking for something to put on my bare, depressing walls. Guess my best bet is google images, though...


Dunno if you're an adventure games fan or not but there's this pretty awesome post at the ScummVM forums with images of the old classics (and some recent ones too) at resolutions high enough to be made into posters.
 
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This is amazing. :lol:
 

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Man, the Amiga had some great box art... some that caught my eye on the Exotica site:

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I don't know much about these games (aside from Kult aka "Chamber of the Sci-mutant Priestess") but these covers make me want to play them.
 

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Birthright was amazing. Still waiting for someone to do another game that has both blobber dungeon crawling and overmap strategy gameplay.
 

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Birthright was amazing. Still waiting for someone to do another game that has both blobber dungeon crawling and overmap strategy gameplay.
Really? You liked it? I was going to feature it in my book, but everyone kept saying it was shit. Would you like to write about it?
 

Zeriel

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Birthright was amazing. Still waiting for someone to do another game that has both blobber dungeon crawling and overmap strategy gameplay.
Really? You liked it? I was going to feature it in my book, but everyone kept saying it was shit. Would you like to write about it?

Maybe it was shit in an objective sense, but I've never played a game like it, and I tend to value games like that, especially when they are in the wheelhouse of themes I like (D&D-ish fantasy in the case of Birthright).
 

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Thief's boxart was amazing, not only because of the art, but also because of the shape of the box:

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Also:

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Personally, I'd want Metal Gear box artworks to look like this. Even the Shagohod artwork by the same guy looks incredible.

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Gozma

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Archon.The way how the whole box is made is just art.It's not only a picture question.Vinyl no dead!!!
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It was actually a Trip Hawkins thing to pack up games like vinyl albums with elaborate covers and bios of the photographed developers w/ their names on the cover. I remember Seven Cities of Gold being packaged up the same way.
 

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"Sexy" is not the word I would use for that boxart. "Nice, "Amusing", "Appropriate", yes. But not "sexy".
 

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X-com Playstation. The cover made me rent the game, and what a game it was (still is). The loading times was horrible though :)
 

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