Favorite games boxart (non-RPG)

[Section8]

Psygnosis win.

 

[Fez]

Section8 delivers the good stuff. I didn't think anyone else had played some of those games you've chosen. They seem to be pretty obscure now.

 

[Jasede]

Ah, Shadow of the Beast! How could I forget that. I don't think I ever heard of "Amnios", "Brataccas" or "Stryx" before. Are those good?

Oh, and... - what a great website! All my favourite Amiga games! This brings back memories. Even their boxes were better than these days!

 

[Texas Red]

Hey, in the future there might be a huge collectors market for box art for games. There always is for these kinds of things. Look at the Soviet propaganda posters, telephone cards etc.

 

[Fez]

Amnios was a pretty fun shooter as far as I can remember. Really hectic and relying a lot on fast twitch reactions. Very simple though. It seemed visually good at the time too, though that has faded.

I can't remember much about the other two.

 

[dagorkan]

 

[Fez]

I see the MobyGames cover is very popular.

 

[dagorkan]

Shit.

If you right-click on the image and do view image does that load it?

 

[Fez]

Nope. You have to link to the page or rehost it.

 

[dagorkan]

Well I can see my own images plus the images of other people who have posted from Mobygames.

 

[Flink]

Warcraft 2

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Section8 delivers the good stuff. I didn't think anyone else had played some of those games you've chosen. They seem to be pretty obscure now.

Alot of those were ported to the mega drive, when i was a kid i'd go with my brothers to some scruffy shop full of games and just have a renting and buying spree. (second hand so they were cheap)

So many good games on the mega drive, ecco, golden axe, altered beast, splatter house, chuck rock, cool spot, chakan, revenge of shinobi, james pond, zool.....ohh my.[/img]

 

[Pegultagol]

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bi ... _front.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bi ... _front.jpg

http://www.short-media.com/images/prime ... ts_box.jpg

http://www.hylianworlds.net/media/image ... Tingle.jpg

 

[Section8]

Ah, Shadow of the Beast! How could I forget that. I don't think I ever heard of "Amnios", "Brataccas" or "Stryx" before. Are those good?

To be perfectly honest, there are probably pretty good reasons for not having heard of them. Most Psygnosis games of the era were decidedly average scrolling shooters with ironically, pretty piss poor graphics. I guess the idea was to have a beautifully presented box that would sell regardless of what was inside.

Shadow of the Beast on the other hand was something else. It still looks gorgeous graphically, especially with those layers of parallax scrolling. And on top of that, it was very playable, and very fucking difficult.

 

[Fez]

I didn't think the Beast games were all that playable really, there were a lot of silly flaws and the absurd difficulty of them was frustrating. Gorgeous to look at though. Even the c64 version looked good for the platform thanks to the cartridge format.

 

[Jasede]

I am a graphic whore for Shadow of the Beast.

And the music! Oh, the music.

 

[A_Leftist_Pig?]

Nothing beats the good old worms in a new graphic package!

 

[Surgey]

While obviously not the best X-Com game, I really like the Apocalypse box. It's too bad the soldiers didn't look that cool in-game.

 

[Cthulhugoat]

Well, I've played Dark Seed, Beneath A Steel Sky and Fate of Atlantis. Only really enjoyed BASS.

Here's one YOU probably didn't played:

 

[crufty]

 

[A_Leftist_Pig?]

Ahh...That game Good old times. Used to play it at a friends house as a lil kid together with the lemmings and this awesome Macintosh game about a little thief running away from the cops in black and white + you could put holes in the ground. Loved them all.

 

[Surgey]

HARD BOILED

Black and white is cool on box art.

 

[Jasede]

I like the sequel['s boxart] better.

 

[AZ]

I really liked Max Payne 2 boxart. What about Fragile Allegiance?

 

[User was nabbed fit]

Oh shit yeah! The Max Payne games were sweet and had some pretty cool artwork (not just the covers).

 

[Kingston]

HARD BOILED

Black and white is cool on box art.

FINLAND IN DA HOOOOOUSE!