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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: headwalk on June 04, 2013, 08:31:46 PM

Title: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: headwalk on June 04, 2013, 08:31:46 PM
For lovers of cheap tattoos and carnival ride backdrops:

(http://i.minus.com/iYIQON1tgaojq.jpg)
(http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/819/Palit_HD4870_Box.jpg)
(http://i.minus.com/ibpPhVpJVVzBMu.jpg)
(http://i.minus.com/i9Y6mPRtPyDNV.jpg)
(http://i.minus.com/ibrXly5ksysYa3.jpg)
(http://www.3dnews.ru/documents/12071/GBT7300GS-box-front-big.jpg)
(http://www.building-your-own-computer.com/gainward_geforce3_ti_200_retail_box.jpg)

make your dreams a reality.
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Bebpo on June 04, 2013, 08:35:22 PM
Yeah, it's always been the best part of walking through computer stores.
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 04, 2013, 08:44:20 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on June 04, 2013, 08:35:22 PM
Yeah, it's always been the best part of walking through computer stores.

Like a 1990 cyberpunk fever dream just jizzed all over your face, and then drove away in a van with a wizard fighting a dragon painted on the side.
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 04, 2013, 08:50:35 PM
even on newer cards...uses guys that could easily be rendered on the older cards

(http://i.imgur.com/acZn3dX.jpg)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: headwalk on June 04, 2013, 09:00:42 PM
Quote from: Google
No results found for "palit frog tattoo".

who wants to step up to greatness?
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 04, 2013, 09:01:47 PM
(http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/603/xfx_8800gt_box.jpg)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 04, 2013, 09:01:58 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/skSxDet.jpg)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 04, 2013, 09:04:05 PM
Quote from: Don Flamenco on June 04, 2013, 09:01:58 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/skSxDet.jpg)
pfftt 128 MB DDR?  :gddr5
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 04, 2013, 09:04:58 PM
Quote from: headwalk on June 04, 2013, 09:00:42 PM
Quote from: Google
No results found for "palit frog tattoo".

who wants to step up to greatness?


All of us. 

We need to kick this "neogaf spin-off" label and become "that forum with the guys who all got tattoos of that frog from a graphics card box"
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: nudemacusers on June 04, 2013, 09:07:52 PM
ALL BOW TO THE 3DFX GODS

(http://www.techspot.com/reviews/hardware/voodoo3-3000/box.jpg)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: cool breeze on June 04, 2013, 09:08:06 PM
Quote from: Flannel Boy on June 04, 2013, 09:01:47 PM
(http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/603/xfx_8800gt_box.jpg)

I have that exact box in my garage.  Still haven't played the included copy of Compact of Heroes.
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 04, 2013, 09:08:47 PM
Quote from: macuser3of5 on June 04, 2013, 09:07:52 PM
ALL BOW TO THE 3DFX GODS

(http://www.techspot.com/reviews/hardware/voodoo3-3000/box.jpg)


THEY FUCKIN' CHEATED THAT'S JUST A PICTURE OF A GUY
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 04, 2013, 09:47:11 PM
I wonder how many Chinamen died for this? :'(

(http://i.imgur.com/Nl75W3Z.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 04, 2013, 09:57:47 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/vjtpbXo.jpg)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: nudemacusers on June 04, 2013, 10:12:04 PM
Quote from: Don Flamenco on June 04, 2013, 09:08:47 PM
Quote from: macuser3of5 on June 04, 2013, 09:07:52 PM
ALL BOW TO THE 3DFX GODS

(http://www.techspot.com/reviews/hardware/voodoo3-3000/box.jpg)


THEY FUCKIN' CHEATED THAT'S JUST A PICTURE OF A GUY
sometimes doing less looks better than doing more
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: nudemacusers on June 04, 2013, 10:17:39 PM
(http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww245/sgt76/20042010121.jpg)

kinda glad creative died. jesus.  :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\  :-X
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: pilonv1 on June 04, 2013, 10:24:00 PM
My first card

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l131/Gripen90/HPIM0276.jpg)

Gainward have the best covers

(http://www.guru3d.com/miraserver/images/reviews/videocard/gainward-fx5900/DSC03002.jpg)

(http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/g70-2/gainward-7800gtx-box.jpg)

(http://www.3dnews.ru/_imgdata/img/2008/04/10/79302.jpg)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: nudemacusers on June 04, 2013, 10:29:50 PM
look at this classy bitch

(http://www.x-fish.org/blog_picture/110503_17.jpg)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Bebpo on June 04, 2013, 11:03:55 PM
Do you all think it's like one freelance graphic artist who does all the boxarts for every company's 3d card?

I picture him as this Greatful Dead looking 60 year old whose high all the time and is still playing Starcraft 1 and complaining about how modern RTS games all suck.
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: The Sceneman on June 04, 2013, 11:15:27 PM
Quote from: macuser3of5 on June 04, 2013, 10:29:50 PM
look at this classy bitch

(http://www.x-fish.org/blog_picture/110503_17.jpg)

thats a MAN, man
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Yeti on June 04, 2013, 11:33:50 PM
It's Kefka
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 05, 2013, 12:02:55 AM
i want all my cards delivered by a jester from now on
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: nudemacusers on June 05, 2013, 12:06:31 AM
Quote from: The Sceneman on June 04, 2013, 11:15:27 PM

thats a MAN, man
as long as there isn't any armpit hair I'm not choosy.

Quote from: Bebpo on June 04, 2013, 11:03:55 PM
Do you all think it's like one freelance graphic artist who does all the boxarts for every company's 3d card?

I picture him as this Greatful Dead looking 60 year old whose high all the time and is still playing Starcraft 1 and complaining about how modern RTS games all suck.
I wonder if any of these are like, legitimately passionate artists who are starting out/etc and just want to make cool art. Then their marketing director swoops in and says, "That's really beautiful, but can you chop all the polygons out and up the contrast?

And make the eyes glow a cool color?
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Brehvolution on June 05, 2013, 11:35:42 AM
 :yuck So glad to be out of the stone ages of PC gaming.
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 05, 2013, 11:41:09 AM
I like the Bored Guy in Chair era Matrox cards:

(http://i.imgur.com/nEWtvNO.jpg)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on June 05, 2013, 12:20:52 PM
Why cant they get some normal fucking art.

Just buy a stock picture of some fucking Lion or something.
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: headwalk on June 05, 2013, 03:52:29 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on June 05, 2013, 11:41:09 AM
I like the Bored Guy in Chair era Matrox cards:

(http://i.imgur.com/nEWtvNO.jpg)

it takes a certain dude to build a 100 screen concave fortress of pixels then orient his living room facing away from it.
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: nudemacusers on June 05, 2013, 05:43:32 PM
maybe we aren't seeing that the whole room is nothing but screens

...which explains why he's so upset. no doors  :-\
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 06, 2013, 08:41:14 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/OT3cRFz.png)
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 06, 2013, 09:03:21 AM
:bow
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: nudemacusers on June 06, 2013, 09:28:16 AM
Quote from: Don Flamenco on June 06, 2013, 08:41:14 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/OT3cRFz.png)
Needs the Soul Calibur 5 treatment if you know what i'm sayin
Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: chronovore on June 07, 2013, 01:50:32 AM
Quote from: macuser3of5 on June 06, 2013, 09:28:16 AM
Quote from: Don Flamenco on June 06, 2013, 08:41:14 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/OT3cRFz.png)
Needs the Soul Calibur 5 treatment if you know what i'm sayin
Or the Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball treatment.
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And by that, I mean "cheap counters."
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Title: Re: Graphics card boxart appreciation thread.
Post by: nudemacusers on June 07, 2013, 02:32:42 AM
there's nothing better than an artificial woman with cheap counters