The good and clean box art of the Atari 2600

Tyranitar24 | September 16, 2008 | News | PC Playstation 3 Misc

In the past, box art was clean and simple, such as the Atari 2600's. Nowadays, we have these amazing designs for box covers, but what if the games we play today had the same covers of the Atari 2600? the-minusworld has created some, such as Halo 3 and No More Heroes.

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Before the over the top, logo heavy madness of todays next-gen masterpieces became the visual norm for video game cover art, there was the basic beauty of the Atari 2600s approach to package design. Clean composition and vague descriptive text came together to create something that was just sointangibly fresh and mesmerizing.

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Halo 3 [XBOX360]
No More Heroes [Wii]
Portal [PC]
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Deathsythe | September 17, 2008

Oh man this takes me back - back to the days of Atlantis, Pole Position, and the original Dungeons and Dragons videogame.

This stuff is really great - very sexy.

I might mock up a few more in my free time.
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kspiess | September 18, 2008

Personally I'm more a fan of the hand-drawn '80s box art, like in Mega Man 9