Boxart. Name your favourite.

[Gregz]

Might and Magic 6. One of my very favorite Elmore prints. (I've got it hanging up in my living room)

Elmore is my favorite fantasy artist of evar.

Saw him at a Dragon*Con panel in '91, very humble cool dude. He even looks like a dwarf, which is a bonus (hopefully he'll live longer with the +1 CON).

Here, he is BROfisting like a BOSS

 

[hydd]

Might and Magic 6. One of my very favorite Elmore prints. (I've got it hanging up in my living room)

Elmore is my favorite fantasy artist of evar.

Saw him at a Dragon*Con panel in '91, very humble cool dude. He even looks like a dwarf, which is a bonus (hopefully he'll live longer with the +1 CON).

Here, he is BROfisting like a BOSS

Did you participate in his Kickstarter? Cannot wait to get my art book!

 

[Jack Dandy]

I probably like Ultima V's the best. So ominous. So detailed. So simple. I love it. Really set the mood nicely for the game.

 

[SCO]

Psygnosis early boxes always were trippy (before they went to shit):
http://www.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi-bin/drupal/?q=node/435

things like this:

(^ my current wallpaper)

Other companies had some pretty good stuff occasionally:

but more stylized towards clichés

 

[cvv]

Did you participate in his Kickstarter? Cannot wait to get my art book!

Goal - 17k.
Pledged - 300k.
Hooooooooly shit. What's he gonna do with this ginormous pile of money? Build his own gallery on Pennsylvania Avenue?

 

[SCO]

While looking at amiga box covers on exotica i found a photo of Radisshu dad (click on the name to see avatar)

 

[mindx2]

This is just beautiful to me... simple elegance with so much mystery waiting to be explored.

 

[octavius]

Psygnosis early boxes always were trippy (before they went to shit):
http://www.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi-bin/drupal/?q=node/435

things like this:

Oh yeah! I love Roger Dean's artwork. I discovered Yes thanks to his fantastic covers; their music was equally fantastic. The cover of Relayer is my desktop wallpaper.

 

[SCO]

We don't get covers like that anymore. Nowadays a cover is exactly like a film poster unless it's a 'special' edition, and then it's also either still tacky somehow, or so overbearing and ironic/selfware (like that deus ex hr cover above, golden age hurdurr) that it really spoils things.

 

[cvv]

Yeah this Psygnosis stuff is legendary.


This one stuck in my mind for a long time, for some reason

 

[Zep Zepo]

The broken CD picture frame is great.

To awesome it up even more, get a bronze name plate at the bottom of the frame that titles the piece "RAGE QUIT"



Zep--

 

[Lady_Error]

Yeah, that Ork cover was awesome. Also:

 

[circ]

This kind of just turned into awesome 80's boxart from any genre. But seriously, anything back then was imaginative even if they just licensed fantasy art. Special mention to Ultimas, already posted.

 

[Giauz Ragnacock]

Since we are not limiting to CRPGs, this has always been one of my tabs:

 

[ghostdog]

Yeah this Psygnosis stuff is legendary.


This one stuck in my mind for a long time, for some reason

used by many, apparently :

 

[octavius]

These were my early favourites:

 

[Sranchammer]

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Some of my favorites.

 

[FeelTheRads]

These were my early favourites:

Man, the 80s game covers were awesome.
Spectrum had some particularly good ones too.

 

[agentorange]

 

[circ]

 

[Ulminati]

 

[Jashiin]

There is something about these boxes. When I got these I knew I was in for a treat. They looked grand. Magical worlds awaited... Opening these boxes, finding the disks, the manual... Last time I had that unboxing feeling was Torment I think.

Fuck dvd cases and their killing of manuals

 

[Firewater Burns]

I forgot how awesome Betrayal at Krondor's box art was, I should go find it in the attic and frame that shit.

I liked these as well.

 

[Tzaero]