I remember this adventure.

Nice. You can die. Nice graphic.

4/5

Thanks. Yeah, I love old game box art, nowadays it is a more or less dead art form. Even those who bother doing boxed copies mostly do the bare minimum and end up doing rather bland and sterile work. I don't think I've seen an interesting looking game box since the '00s.

Well yeah, since of course game boxes themselves are dying. This is quite parallel to the death of music cover art, first with the near-death of vinyl and its large art, and now with the near-death even of small CD/DVD art.

Some Amiga games had amazing fantasy art from Roger Dean, who also did amazing covers for vinyl for bands like Yes back in the day. Great, great art. The games never lived up to it. :-S

This is a major example of how new technology displacing old brings both positives and negatives, not *just* progress.

I wouldn't give up modern technology for anything, but I sure wish we had a way of bringing back great cover art somehow.

That really is the best part of the old game box art. No matter if it's a realistic piece by Bors Vallejo or Photo of Maria Whittaker in a skimpy armour bikini, the old game boxes had to be creative the same way old b-movie posters had to be creative in an entirely different manner any modern mainstream movie poster even knows how to. There's a great book by Tim Lapetino called Art of Atari, which goes through the history of art Atari used to sell their games on their consoles and arcades.

The book is also accompanied by a poster collection, which is recommended as well, as the artwork for those old Atari games really is something else.