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The good and clean box art of the Atari 2600

September 16, 2008 in News comments 2

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 today’s next-gen masterpieces became the visual norm for video game cover art, there was the basic beauty of the Atari 2600’s approach to package design. Clean composition and vague descriptive text came together to create something that was just so…intangibly fresh and mesmerizing.
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    Deathsythe Sep 17, 08
    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 Sep 17, 08
    Personally I'm more a fan of the hand-drawn '80s box art, like in Mega Man 9

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