Favourite vintage computer game box art

[subzero]

After a bit of discussion in another thread about vintage games it got me thinking about my favourite game box art, there are many more that I love as equally as the following 4 below but am sticking to these as they came to mind first. I used to love sitting there waiting for a game to load on my C64 and spent a lot of that time admiring the box art, I used to love how they were painted and with me being quite artistic I used to scan all the little fine details. I used to imagine what scenarios could have been playing out in the art images and what might have happened next, which made for some fun and weird thought processes as a kid.

Feel free to share your own favourite vintage/retro box art, these are all from what I had on the C64...

 

[Crumm]

Good topic, a few of mine...

I also like the cover art for "Barbarian" but all the guys in my school did too (surprise surprise).

 

[subzero]

Great box art, I always did love the Shadow of The Beast art, never seen the Jet Set Willy before. And yes Barbarian that was a good one too that always sticks in my mind.

 

[poncho]

 

[subzero]

Love that art, really thought invoking stuff.

 

[Mini99]

All the ones Crumm listed plus these few, oh there are so many classics

 

[subzero]

Sweet, never seen that Ghosts n Goblins cover before, there must be several different ones.

I used to love the 'Turbo' Outrun version of that game too.

 

[Grant_C]

Love it. Some amazing memories

 

[Mini99]

Sweet, never seen that Ghosts n Goblins cover before, there must be several different ones.

I used to love the 'Turbo' Outrun version of that game too.

There was also this one, but I remember the first one above.

Ah chase HQ, what a game?

 

[subzero]

Chase H.Q. was one of my fave covers, I forgot about that one, game was real fun too.

Never seen Tank Trax before, I like it!

 

[subzero]

Iv'e only seen that Ghosts & Goblins cover in very recent years, this is another one on the C64 I had as a kid, Ghouls N Ghosts though but practically the same game...

 

[Mini99]

Iv'e only seen that Ghosts & Goblins cover in very recent years, this is another one on the C64 I had as a kid, Ghouls N Ghosts though but practically the same game...

ghoulsnghostsibm.jpg

I remember the first one as I had one of those crapy Spectrum's you were banging on about earlier! :roll: :lol:

 

[subzero]

Iv'e only seen that Ghosts & Goblins cover in very recent years, this is another one on the C64 I had as a kid, Ghouls N Ghosts though but practically the same game...

ghoulsnghostsibm.jpg

I remember the first one as I had one of those crapy Spectrum's you were banging on about earlier! :roll: :lol:

:lol:

 

[Grant_C]

Ghouls n' Ghosts on the C64 was epic. One of the hardest games to complete

 

[subzero]

Ghouls n' Ghosts on the C64 was epic. One of the hardest games to complete

It was solid as **** :lol: but yeah it was proper fun too because of the challenge, I remember luckily getting about half way into the map the one day, and then never managed to get back there again.

 

[Crumm]

Yep, there were some tough games back then, very unforgiving some of them.

Taught us young un's a thing or two about patience, persistence and swearing :lol:

Almost forgot this one below, very 80's (although i'm not sure maces were in such widespread use in the 80's). Love the "Joystick operated" quote in the bottom corner.

 

[TheJabbaWookie]

Yep loved Outrun and Monkey Island. These were cool too:
- Citadel (Loved the Citadel artwork. Always reminded me of the Jawas)
- Golden Axe
- Street Fighter II
- Speed Ball II
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City

 

[Mini99]

Yep loved Outrun and Monkey Island. These were cool too:
- Citadel (Loved the Citadel artwork. Always reminded me of the Jawas)
- Golden Axe
- Street Fighter II
- Speed Ball II
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City

How on earth did they get away with the cover art of "Golden Axe"?

 

[TheJabbaWookie]

Yep loved Outrun and Monkey Island. These were cool too:
- Citadel (Loved the Citadel artwork. Always reminded me of the Jawas)
- Golden Axe
- Street Fighter II
- Speed Ball II
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City

How on earth did they get away with the cover art of "Golden Axe"?

Well... it was the end of the 80s! :lol:

 

[subzero]

Renegade!!!, a game I could never ever get to load for some reason and I was desperate to play it, it became a bit of a myth to me as one day my big bro came to pick me up from a boys club and all the way home told me about how he got the game to work and told me all about what the game was like and I was amazed, and then it still never worked for me. :lol: .. loved that artwork I used to sit there for hours in total staring at it whilst trying to load the game.

Citadel is very Star Wars, I wonder where the artist got inspiration from? :? :lol: