/vr/ - Retro Games

>>732953
Dude, you coulda used literally 3/4s of Atari's boxart. They had fantastic staff artists to stoke your imagination.

Back in the day when every motion picture to be released had at least one if not several dead serious oil paintings for posters. These days...

>How can I into art without a cornputer?

>>733001
>an action/thriller film with nic cage/bruce willis/the rock
>black and white poster with orange + explosions

Even as a Megaman ripoff, the cover art stands on its own

I personally prefer the NTSC box-art of SotN because it's just the castle. It's always seemed like the most ominous of all Castlevania game box-art, for that reason

This one's pretty cool too.

>Do you feel lucky, punk?

While it's not the artist's fault, cover art like that set up unrealistic expectations. Especially back then, when looking at the box in the store factored hugely into the decision to buy.

>>733093
>Not the artist's fault
See: Phalanx (SNES)

Also, this one rules.

>>733114

>>733090
You don't want to know what they did to the "remake" of that they released on XBox Live.

>>733065

>Darth Vader
>Glenda the good witch
>Ram-Man
>fire bird that's on fire

I feel bad that the artists probably never got a copy of the games they did the cover for, and possibly never even saw screenshots. It's like they were working with text descriptions.

>>733093
Have you ever PLAYED a game from that era?
Of course they had paint fantastic box covers to inspire your imagination so that the actual limited graphical representation in-game made some kind of sense, other than just "the white block shoots a smaller red block into a line of green squares".

>>733123
is that Dio?

>>733107

I'm pretty sure nobody who has ever held a pencil or brush was involved in the Phalanx cover. But by the 90's cover art had taken a serious dip in general quality.

>>733134

That is what I implied, which is deceptive. Anybody who bought games during that era would agree.

>>733146
How was that deceptive?
Looking back from today's graphical standards it may seem deceptive, but I think anyone who bought Warlords at the time wasnt expecting a fucking brilliantly rendered knight in shining armor to appear in their RCA wood panelled tv via there Atari 2600 when they got home and plugged it in.

>>733170

Because children also buy games.

>>733202
Children have income to buy games?

I thought this was a still life as a kid. Not God-tier, but I like it.

>>733137
OC just for you

>>733202

I must've been a fucking smart child because I knew those games didn't look shit like the covers. Any kid who did was seriously living in an even bigger fantasy land than I was living in.

>>733235

you forgot the grey soldier/space marine/assassin walking towards the camera with a touch of blue lighting on one side and orange on the other

>>733214

Yes. I had money to buy games as I child, it was given to me by my parents. Now you're just arguing for the sake of argument.

If everyone knew that the box art was not representative of the game, then no game company would spend money on box art, and just put screenshots on the cover. No, I wouldn't have preferred that. But in addition to looking good, box art does serve the purpose of fooling some people into buying the game, that was the intent.

>>733235
All that blue n'gold...

>>733258
This is why you shouldn't give money to five year olds or retards.

>>733271

I'm sorry to have upset you.

>>733258
As a child I received this and at no time did I expect brilliant flying fucking dinosaurs. I had no huge expectations as I had other Atari games and knew the calibre of graphics the system was capable of.
The artwork was to excite the mind and to see a fantastic representation of what was basically happening on the screen. If anyone was ever let down by comparing the box art to the on screen happenings then well, as another poster has commented, they were most likely retarded.

>>733281
I just feel bad that you were five years old with twenty to fifty dollars in you pocket and you walked into a store, saw a VCS game with awesome cover art and bought it believing that the game would look like that when you got it home and then you got it home and were so disappointed that to this day you still believe the artists and producers and stores were trying to trick you. It's just sad all around, like for your parents too who gave you that money. I hope they felt like it was a good investment toward hardening you as a consumer and didn't just feel like they made a mistake trusting you to make your own purchasing decisions and/or thought less of you for being ungrateful.

>>733290
Lol dem spray painted toy dinosaurs with model airplane parts shoved up their asses

>>733290

What about people who were buying their first video game?

>>733301
Man lots of Psygnosis games have sweet box art.

>>733290
Fucking shit this is AMAZING.

>>733304
I refer to this guy
>>733298

>>733298

Thank you for your sympathy, but that never happened, so I cannot accept your thinly veiled insult. I'm sorry you're offended that I suggested that good art can serve a venal marketing purpose, but that is my view on the matter.

>>733313
You should go to the thrift stores for some junk bin toys then hit walmart for the silver spray paint and make yourself some.

>>733328
Sounds like a good summer project. Make up something that sounds like the name of an indie electropop band and post the results on /mu/

>>733352
Call it Diamond Attack

>>733362
Good idea.

>>733314
Yeah, they cornered the market on wicked airbrush(?) artwork.

>>733402
I guess it's all that one artist who did the imaginary landscapes

>>733413
Roger Dean

>>733402
Hey, wait a second...

>>733459
better version

>>733560

>>733423
Wow, and I thought they reminded me of Yes album covers

A favorite of mine. It looks like it belongs on the cover of an old pulp magazine.

>>733483
>was just about to post this
my BoC nigga.

>>733483
>>733402
I'd watch that movie/read that book. That drawing alone is so interesting...

>>733684

I like this one

>>733497

wat

too bad there is no level like that where you fight walkers on tatooine

>>733314
It was the same guy that did the old Yes album covers, used to love seeing those games in shops just cause of the art.....

I really loved this one.
I wish they made more artwork like this nowadays.

pew pew

Oh hey, a thread where I can post all the cool art Roger Dean did for Psygno...

Never mind.

>>732953

>>734173
His face almost looks like a pasted-on mask.

Which is metal as fuck. It's like mocking those asshole skeletons.

Fabio's gunna fuck yo shit up