Most Visually-appealing Box artwork

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Re: Most Visually-appealing Box artwork

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Similar thread done a while ago. Here's mine again though.
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 89#p206489
CRTGAMER wrote:Some of the older computer game cover art were pretty cool.

When EGA VGA PC's were the best game in town, the game packaging were very unique.

The Infocom series had some huge boxes:
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Big boxes for a text adventure game.

Spectre VR and Marathon had some odd shape packages that drove the retail store merchandisers nuts:
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http://www.answers.com/topic/marathon-infinity-1

Velocity Jet Fighter II had an Origami box that opened in the middle triangle:
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http://www.listal.com/game/jetfighter-ii-25074
The Sim was actually pretty cool the way you could pan the camera all the way around the aircraft.

Remember all the huge manuals that came with the various Flight Sims.
I have Falcon 4.0, literally a Pilot Flight 3 Ring Binder Manual:
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2 ... 362,00.asp

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I personally like the cover art for Super Mario Galaxy 2. It's colorful, vibrant, and portrays the game quite well. Everything a good cover should be.
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Pretty much any US/EU Master System or US/EU early Genesis/Mega Drive boxes (with the black designs as shown in a couple mosts already in this thread). Sega should've kept up with that!
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Here are some of my personal favorites
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this may not be my favorite, but i seriously don't see why everybody hates. i actually like it.
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I'm gonna focus on US art I like since US Box art typically gets such a bad rap
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Gamerforlife wrote:I'm gonna focus on US art I like since US Box art typically gets such a bad rap
yup, that TMNT: Turtles in Time for SNES is an Awesome cover.
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