Favorite All-Time Videogame Box Art Rated

Thanks to GameSpy for its feature discussing and rating the best videogame box art of all-time. The author cheekily argues: "Video games have indeed been graced with some wonderful covers over the years, art that you'd be proud to put in a frame and hang on your wall for all to enjoy... Except when girls come over, when it must be hidden in the closet", before highlighting game covers including Pinball Construction Set ("Rather than showcase a typical pinball scene like most pinball games have done, this cover is mostly symbolic"), the non-U.S. cover for ICO ("Impressionistic and surreal, as if it's capturing a moment in fantasy or memory rather than reality"), and DOOM ("Bottom line, this is a classic.") What's your favorite game cover art of all time?

Comments

what art ?

[Anonymous Coward]

most games I had were just floppy disks with a name written on them..

No Atari boxes.

[sammaffei]

Atari had great artwork on their boxes. Actually, they set the standard for others that followed.

Check out Defender, Berzerk and Missle Command

Even Mattel Intellivision (boo, hiss) had some cool artwork.

Article seemed kinda biased to late 80s / early 90s if you ask me.

Re:No Atari boxes.

[Craig Maloney]

The Atari artwork for the early 2600/5200 cartridges and 8 bit computer software was some of the best artwork to grace videogames, bar none. The paintings were almost a trademark of the early Atari software. These were most definitely works of art, and anyone from the era would be proud to have thse hanging in their living room.

An Infocom classic

[stardeep]

I have always been fond of the atmospheric cover art for Wasteland and the naive-yet-groovy picture on the Tass Times in Tone Town box as well as the "artist's rendition" of an LCP on the little cassette case for Little Computer People.

(I'm too lazy to google for links. Be my guest and explore the Internet yourself!)

I will give you a link to my absolute favourite, tough. I love the way it all looks completely different from what I'd pictured in my head, especially the house. I guess Infocom's motto still holds true...