box art & manuals

pls post yr favourite box art and manuals (quite hard to find pics of these tho)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/429919237_4f416643fd.jpg

http://image4.play-asia.com/640/6j/pa.117875.1.jpg

http://f-mode.planets.gamespy.com/media/scans/f-zero4.jpg

(apols will stop starting threads now)

http://f-mode.planets.gamespy.com/games/fzx/f-zero_x_5.jpg

NOW YOULL LEARN HOW MEN DO BATTLE!

bad box art also welcome

http://www.gamershell.com/static/boxart/large/5166.jpg

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/jetsetradio/jsrj.jpg

http://bbs.co2ky.com/Game%20Information/PS2%20Game/Zettai%20Zetsumei%20Toshi/Zettai%20Zetsumei%20Toshi%20JPN.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41153BXFP3L._SS400_.jpg

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KAHJ2vVrL._SS500_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EDJP2MJTL._SS500_.jpg

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XtH1FXHjL._SS500_.jpg

http://jonnyram.com/img/potm/katamari.jpg

I don't remember Judge Dredd being in F Zero X...

I always dug this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Mortal_Kombat_II_for_Sega_32X.jpg

It was pretty much perfect, you know? Took the original logo, which was kinda cool, and just made it really foreboding and hype-inducing. this is back when they were still doing this mortal kombat thing right and people cared.

Czn any chance you can tel us what some of those Japanese ones are? They look totally AWESOME

"Inferno" - can't find a webpage with scans, but the instruction manual was also a graphic novel explaining the back story.

japanese games (apt from the obv ones):
i. zettai zetsumei toshi (raw danger lol)
ii. tsuki no hikari: shizumeru kane no satsujin
iii. hayarigami 2
iv. hayarigami revenge
v. hayarigami portable

anata wo yurusanai
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dYyGyP6oL._SS400_.jpg

iii. hayarigami 2

looks interesting

http://i35.tinypic.com/25rnj93.jpg

there is a hidden third character on this cover (via the neogaf secrets thread)

http://www.megatonnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/super-mario-bros3.jpg

^^^ does it really get better than this? Such confidence, such joy!

http://www.phyton.dk/ultima/ultima72box.jpg

http://www.owo.com/archive/ftp/maps/u72/serpenti.gif

^^^ BAD ASS. God bless the cloth maps.

god, the SMB3 cover is still so great

http://www.sofos.com/blog/scottpilgrim3.jpg

^^^ it so warms my tired, grouchy old heart when people manage to use videogames in art with sincere love, not just trying to cash in on reference-points.

http://i.testfreaks.co.uk/images/products/600x400/168/the-legend-of-zelda-phantom-hourglass-ds.441256.jpg

http://219.117.236.243/palet_img/90129a.jpg

Wait...what's this about a hidden third character on the cover? Also, what's this about a neogaf secrets thread?

this
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=232550

http://i38.tinypic.com/10qao3t.jpg

WHOA!
SF2T Cover artist was smoking blunts like cigarettes when he threw that in there.

The best manual is for SMB2 bcz it explains that Birdo is video game land's first trans character:

"Birdo thinks he is a girl and likes to be called Birdetta. He likes to wear a bow on his head and shoot eggs from his mouth."

http://www.mariowiki.com/images/8/8e/Birdolol.gif

Additionally, in the game's second trailer, Little Mac from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! speaks about Birdo, calling her a "young lady," only to take a short break and ponder. His final verdict is "Depending on one's view point, she is a young lady."

Re: Scott Pilgrim, it's a shame that didn't actually get used for the book's cover art. I wonder why?

http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/bigtiger/cabinet/00693847/img55565793.jpg

thats nice

what is it

secret of mana aka seiken densetsu 2

this thread OWNES good job cozen

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dYyGyP6oL._SS400_.jpg
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KAHJ2vVrL._SS500_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EDJP2MJTL._SS500_.jpg

covers make me wish i could play these, whatever they are!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Box-l-jp.jpg

pretty obvious but w/e, still a klassikk

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/TheNostalgiaoftheInfinite.jpg

(based off dis nigga - AWESOME)

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/3/563073_23248_front.jpg

http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/gba/301to350/0350.jpg

^^super robot taisens R & A

http://saitonetwork.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/mega-man-9-cover.jpg

hot lincoln not allowed

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/59214154_4297f0af02.jpg?v=0

sucker for jp gba boxes

for taiko no tatsujins' artwork too
http://www.gamestorrents.com/torrents_img/taikko7.jpg

http://www.speedys-cover.de/Cover_Seiten/PSX-Cover/vib.ribbon-pal-front.jpg

super robot taisen A

taiko no tatsujin

it so warms my tired, grouchy old heart when people manage to use videogames in art with sincere love, not just trying to cash in on reference-points.

That's my exact problem with the scott pilgrim series, is that it feels so cash-in-y. i've only read the first two but i read them in the same way i ruberneck car crashes.

Huh - well, I guess YMMV on that - but it's always felt convincingly loving of, and steeped in, the stuff that it uses. The matter-of-factness of the way videogame stuff shows up reminds me a lot of the way something like Ranma 1/2 works, where of course there are these sex-changing Chinese curses and eighty ex-fiancees of Ranma running around shooting fireballs and stuff.

See also Scott Pilgrim!

http://www.nin-tenpo.com/images/CND-002-1.jpg

http://www.rombomb.com/images/screens/gba.8aebf21c5a6bd55be353447a0e2dae851743.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/Shadow_of_the_beast_cover_art.jpg/256px-Shadow_of_the_beast_cover_art.jpg

this sticks in my memory, probably 'cause it was the biggest fanciest game box i'd seen

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/dos-games/1285-1.jpg

nb this site is quite handy (click on 'games' in the middle)
http://www.coverbrowser.com/

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/atari-st-games/86-1.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/japanese-games/28-1.jpg

http://static.gamecrazy.com/images/games/boxart/12990.jpg

great game, too

http://www.wiiwii.tv/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/rhythm.jpg

I really like the simple and clean design, even though the text could actually read "the person holding this box is a gigantic asshole" for all I know

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/1309/godhanddj0.jpg

technically a poster rather than box art but WHO CARES

The cover of Elite's novella - also used for the poster
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Elite_The_Dark_Wheel_Novella.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/14y991f.jpg

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/rez/rez.jpg

want to try:
http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/lovedelic/ufolarge.jpg http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/lovedelic/lollarge.jpg http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/lovedelic/moonlarge.jpg

http://www.rpgclassics.com/shrines/snes/som/images/manamap.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/AlexKiddInMiracleWorldBox.jpg

http://www.8bitheavenretrogames.com/images/P1030035.JPG

this fucken game: http://www.planetmic.com/orbit/feinbox.htm

Plz give a hint to the title of the game if it's all in japanese

And, along with that Ico box-art, is proof that whoever designs the art for the NA-releases fucking suuuuuucks:

http://www.iplayplaystation.com/wp-content/uploads/we-love-katamari-cover.jpg

I mean, look! there's a giraffe on the roof of that building there! Why is it there? Who fucking knows! It's awesome!

http://gamovr.mx981.com/data/images/2008/11/thumb800x800-2990220833-ca43ba82bc-o.jpg

Isn't that secret character on the SFII:T cover just Sagat's ghostly motion shadow? And yes, those Japanese covers are WOAH DO WANT.

http://ian-albert.com/misc/gamemaps.php

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/anothercode.jpg

I'm kind of surprised that red tank top and the blue jeans were enough to ID that box as a Trace Memory game... but it worked.

full PDF of starflight sleeve, code wheel and manual!!!

http://www.starflt.com/SF1Manual.pdf

http://www.geocities.com/lorenzolio/starfppl.jpg

mojib ribbon
http://homepage.mac.com/dmowczan/Sites/iSale/Pictures/1232246409_0.jpg

anyone feeling olly moss' videogames classics?

those are just posters or something?

they're just mock-ups afaik, something awful's taken up the baton

http://wtfserve.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/e8/e8036d156bd8035f3a737b89960714f843c3071f.jpg

link to SA thread

anyway forks I thought you read boing boing too

http://wtfserve.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/03/038cb3169141b95b4a47f8f8fd73f41ab126afc9.jpg

sin & punishment 2
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2653/o0210030010246198671.jpg

^ coming out Oct 29th in japan. better be coming out worldwide soon after, dammit.

It's been kind of funny watching people whine about the new ps3 box template on joystiqan kotaju, etc. Amusingly reminescent of the portion of Criterion fans who were really upset by their packaging redesign.

i haven't even seen it - i think all the current-gen european packaging templates have been pretty bad up til this point though

like the lime green xbox boxes - who thought "yeah, lime green - that'll totally look cool"?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2521/3936440942_1a5b5dd36c_o.jpg

Stumbled across this ^ tonight... Found a description too, "Daichikun Crisis: Do Natural - A weird strategy game. You play some kind of cow family and have to plant and harvest vegetables, crops etc. You can buy tools and distribute them to your fellow cows which fulfill certain tasks to help you, for example with removing stones and fending of hostile monsters, which are somehow sent by an evil being, that threatens to destroy your homeland."

Cozwn - love that Mojib-Ribbon cover above. I think my brother has that game (I seem to remember trying it out)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFg2cuo1eos

that's a game?

sequel to vib ribbon. japan only :(:(:(:(:(

we still haven't even gotten vib ribbon in the US :(

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/2/198402_15812_front.jpg

^treasure's rakugaki showtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91SPUK_kfVk