Boxart appreciation station. Show me your favorites (1 image per post)

[Potato]

Just came across the boxart for the upcoming Chrono Cross remake and I think this is one of the nicest boxarts I've seen in a while.





It's bright, looks fun and gives a sense of adventure, which is what you want from an RPG.


Show me your favorites.

[HardcoreRetro]

I like the black and white one more than the red one.

[Transhuman]

[Transhuman]

To quote Winston Churchill: "My tastes are simple. I'm easily satisfied by the best"

[bork]

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I don't mean to derail further, but this came up in a search result:

[Pissy F Benny]

Like this post if you also know who both cheggers and Russell grant are 

[benjipwns]

I don't mean to derail further, but this came up in a search result:

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This is the American cover:

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[The Sceneman]

[naff]

haven't really cared about box art since the psx. a mix of good and so bad it's good, would usually just choose games from the video store based on box art and those sweet inserts with flavour text for the game on the back

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[tiesto]

This game was vaporwave years before vaporwave was a thing.

[naff]

strider 2 western vs jpn 

[naff]

this dude tom dubois did some gooood shit

[Tasty]

[Potato]

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I like the black and white one more than the red one.

Proper bold choice this one. I love the simplicity.

[Potato]

this dude tom dubois did some gooood shit

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This is lovely. I miss the old NES style hand drawn boxarts.

[Potato]

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This one captures the spirit of the game perfectly. That gritty dirty grindhouse feel

[bork]

this dude tom dubois did some gooood shit

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He came back and did some more artwork recently, in the same style, too!

https://retrographicbooks.com/video-game-art

[Potato]

Holy shit, that website is like the NES boxart holy shrine. Amazing stuff.

[Potato]

[HardcoreRetro]

I love Atari 2600 box art because it captures exactly what the games look like.

[Sho Nuff]

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This game was vaporwave years before vaporwave was a thing.

FUCK YES. My copy is sitting right on my shelf right now, in front of my Hiroshi Nagai artbooks



I have a print of this one signed and framed. So awesome.

[bork]

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This game was vaporwave years before vaporwave was a thing.

Holy shit, you can still get this brand new for normal price.  Just snagged a copy.

[Borealis]

[Tasty]

FFCC media always warms my heart.

[tiesto]

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This game was vaporwave years before vaporwave was a thing.

Holy shit, you can still get this brand new for normal price.  Just snagged a copy.

There's not really much 'game' here as you are at the mercy of the wind, which is random... but the soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal and it's fun to just fly around in dated early PS1 3D open world environments. Artdink was such an interesting and experimental game dev.

[Tycoon Padre]

Seeing this giant fat PC box in the store:



Opening up the front flap and staring at these wild ass graphics:




Getting it, waiting like 40 minutes for it to install from CD and then finding out that yeah, this game really does look like that?

[pilonv1]

Late 90s/Early 00s fat PC boxes

[Polident Hive]

Love the ones that game with huge manuals.

The trapezoid ones eidos used to release, used to dump them in my closet. Didn’t fit the shelf.

[pilonv1]

If the game didn't come with some sort of copy protection wheel I didn't want it

[Potato]

Not normally a fan of SquareEnix style boxart, but this is great