BogusMeatFactory wrote:You are right Dave...those logos do get in the way.
They're no less intrusive than the required logos on most recent games. The difference is that on these Nintendo boxes most of the companies kept the artwork smaller and placed the logos around the key art, whereas now the trend is to put some of the logos over the key art (including on PC games) and to also have some kind of border.
I actually prefer the clean, larger look of something like this:
over the art on a lot of those NES boxes. Obviously there are ridiculous examples still today:
but there were ridiculous examples of over-logoization then too:
