Boxart. Name your favourite.

[Beastro]

Koei always had great covers, I forgot about em.

 

[Merlkir]

Man, Noriyoshi Ohrai...what an artist.

 

[:Flash:]

The funniest part about this box art is that the American Publisher thought "well, this is not so good, I'm sure we can do better":

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[Beastro]

It was the 90s!

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

The funniest part about this box art is that the American Publisher thought "well, this is not so good, I'm sure we can do better":

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The story of too many game covers when coming to America.

 

[Dodo1610]

Here are my favourites:

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

 

[disposable]

 

[Strange Fellow]

Always liked the box art of SotSB. All the Gold Box games have good box art, but this is my favourite:

I think it might have been the cover of some D&D novel before it was cover art, but I'm not sure.
However, there can only be one all-time best, and there's no doubt in my mind as to which that is. I'm sure it's been posted before, but it bears reposting:

How evocative is that? Just brilliant.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Not sure I've ever seen that one.

When I got it the cover was this:

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Always liked the box art of SotSB. All the Gold Box games have good box art, but this is my favourite:

I think it might have been the cover of some D&D novel before it was cover art, but I'm not sure.

That Larry Elmore illustration first appeared as the cover of FR5 The Savage Frontier in 1988, and was re-used by TSR as a black-and-white interior illustration for FR14 The Great Glacier, an interior color illustration for the Player's Guide to the Forgotten Realms, and a booklet cover for The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier.

 

[Strange Fellow]

I think it might have been the cover of some D&D novel before it was cover art, but I'm not sure.

That Larry Elmore illustration first appeared as the cover of FR5 The Savage Frontier in 1988, and was re-used by TSR as a black-and-white interior illustration for FR14 The Great Glacier, an interior color illustration for the Player's Guide to the Forgotten Realms, and a booklet cover for The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier.

Ah, I was kind of hoping some D&D nerd would come out of the woodwork and clear things up. Well, I have my new desktop background. Thanks!


... but why are all the horses staring at me? What do they know?

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Front and back to Capcom's Secret Files booklet for 19XX The War Against Destiny

The rest of the booklet

 

[Beastro]

Everything's different except for Yamato. How Japanese.

 

[disposable]

Everything's different except for Yamato. How Japanese.

There's also Mogami and... Kagero maybe?
Plus Me 262 and 193, He 219, Vought XF5U. One of the gyrodynes looks similar to Ka-22. Small sub looks like a cartoon Typhoon. I don't know about the rest, some of them might be based on real things too.

 

[Black Plague]

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[abnaxus]

 

[Anthedon]

Isn't there another thread just like this?

Can't find my Dune box anymore.

Looking at these, I seem to like black boxes an awful lot.

 

[Bigg Boss]

I figure most of the good PC boxes have been posted so take PSX instead.

These big boxes didn't last very long.

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[Falksi]

 

[Bigg Boss]

The first two games I ever played...three technically.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

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[Bigg Boss]

I had this game on the PC in a time when I had to use the keyboard to play it.

This is one of my favorite worlds in gaming.

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[Ninja Destroyer]