Old School Game Cover Arts
Back in the day, the Master System, the Sega Genesis (a.k.a. Mega Drive), and the Super Nintendo would just make us over our heads... 16 and 32 bits were HOT stuff back then. Those bits would make us spend whole afternoons playing Mickey's Castle of Illusion, Desert Strike and many other games... and a great way to remember those days, is taking a look at game cover arts.
While writing the Michael Jackson's Inpiration post, I ran into the old Moonwalker game cover art, and memories began to flow like crazy... then we connected the dots and just thought: why not posting about it? I'm totally in!! It was a wonderful experience searching for these covers and selecting cool ones. Today we get to see really amazing cover arts. Compared to the Genesis, Super Nintendo has 500% better graphics, but since Sega's console is even more old school, we're gonna stick just to it. For those of you who are older than 22, this post will probably lit that childhood sparkle once more. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do. Cheers!
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Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo, a 24 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. At Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you guys... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! Cheers! *Now on Twitter.
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Nooooosssaa Lemmings é um classico
bom post esse!
RIIISE FROM YOUR GRAAAAVE!!!!1!1
Oh, my God!
I have played most of these games. Such good times.
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omg.. most of those games are the epic games i've ever played.
golden axe and pit fighter.. yes yes.. those are legend.
no mem cards, lack of cheat, etc.
this is what makes the 25 yr and above people, never surrender, yes
Pit fighter is the best of all time!
Wow!!! 16 bit Video Games.
I was crazy for video games in my childhood and I have a Super Nintendo (SNES) video game, an Atari (not the original, but the clone) but I never turned it on again. Nowadays, only emulators.
Mortal Kombat! One of my favourites games. Sonic, Another World and the rest rocks to!
Paulo can you create the same post with art covers from Snes and Atari?
Yes! Cool article. I used to be a Sega fan and played a lot of this games! Good old times :-)
Yes sega era covers are amazing and not only megadrive, snes also has great covers. I remember 4 months ago ive been inspired a lot by the cover of moonwalker and a mixed altered beast and streets of rage to do a design.
p.d: sorry for my bad english.
Aladdin game is great to play. Nice collection of cover arts!
the frequency and intensity of michael jackson's appearance in recent posts is an overkill to be honest...
also, SNES had some awesome designs on game boxes!
Pit Fighter indeed! I had the Sega Master System and then the Sega Genesis! Good ole Spy vs. Spy and Ecco the Dolphin!
Haha, this sure reminds me of the good old days.
beautiful roundup
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I remeber those games :d
I love the Mega Drive, and some of those covers are legendary. I'll be adding some of them to my collection.
Wow, I don't know how cool these covers are now, but I remember when these games were AWESOME !
Cool post
Never had a Mega Drive, i had a SNES but Quackshot is one of my favorite games of all time and Streets of Rage was wicked!
Oh man ... I'm glad I wasn't into design when I was a kid, or I never would have played any games!
I dunno about inspiration, but thanks for the epic tric down memory lane. I feel 12 again.
Martin, indeed... the best game for SNes was Super Star Soccer Deluxe. I had that too!! "Suuuper Star Soccer... DELUXE!!!!" lol
Os melhores clássicos da única Mega drive! Obrigado pelas boas recordações..
Im 22, and didnt had SEGA, but had SNES. My favourites games I had were Super Mario World of course, Donkey Kong Country 3, Mortal Kombat, and then the most greatest games played in those days: International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (hours and hours) and Street Fighter II (my brother used to play with Ryu and I with Ken. Our fingers burned with the combos).
Then I had others like Kawasaki Superbike Challenge, The Flinstones, NBA Jam. And thousands of other games that I played in friend houses or rented.
(More SNES games? look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjak4ByHnco)
Uau!! tardes e tardes jogando Streets of Rage, bons tempos, hoje em dia os jogos são muito bem feitos porém perdeu aquela magia da diversão que existia nos consoles de 32, 16 e 8 bits... só quem jogou sabe... :)
All my youth with my second console of video games (the first is the MasterSystem). Quoted check design it was not brilliant after 20 years.
Thank you for this instant of nostalgia
Pit Fighter was the best fight game ever....
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