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We devoted an entire section tolaughable licensed game covers, but that doesn’t always have to be the case. Sometimes a good cover can make even the worst game downright memorable:
Above: Bad Game, Awesome Cover #2
Above: Okay, Great Game with one of the best covers in the history of paper
Above: You’ll never see a Tomb Raider cover this breathtaking for as long as you live
Above: Atari Age covers had a tough road to hoe, but I’d play anything that looked this awesome… even if it was an outright lie
Above: I joked about some of the poor screen capture technology, but I love how it looks likeEGM did little more than snap a shot of TV, yet it helps the otherwise generic Sonic art stand out
Above: NBA Jam was one of the hottest games of the day, yet fairly difficult to adapt into an visually exciting cover. Unless you’re Gamepro
Above: Next Generation took a lot of grief in my article, but one of the things I loved about their covers was the chances it took with new IP on the cover. Nowadays, everything is a sequel orestablished in some form or another. Although these characters never reached iconic status everyone, except the chick from Malice, certainly deserved to
Above: PC Gamer has a long, phenomenal legacy of great covers, but I stopped looking immediately upon finding this slice of elegance
Above: While admittedly a wildly inaccurate representation of Phantasy Star II,Gamepro holds this cover up as the finest its ever produced, and I’m inclined to agree
That's all!Hope I've enlightened a couple of you cruel younglings out there. Iknow only a fraction of the people will who looked at The Bad will bother to look at The Good, but I wouldn't have been able to sleep this weekend if I didn't give these mags their fair shake. After all, we've got history together...
Above: From our tearfulEGM: Gone but not forgottenarticle... which wasn't necessaryas it turns out!
Jun3, 2010
60 bits of olde tyme game propaganda we dug out of our closets
25 of the year's ugliest attempts at game packaging
Ever wish you could take back something you said? Imagine it printed on millions of game boxes
