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LGR - Best Classic PC Game Cover Art [Pt. 3]
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Andy
As always, awesome video. It found me in a thinky-thought mood of slightly deeper than average thinkyness, most likely because of the notion that there must have been a brief sweet spot between the late eighties and the mid to late nineties when a whole generation of physical hardware airbrush artists were diverted from producing cheap swords'n'sandals paperback covers and direct to VHS boxes and whatnot to making a demographic that would not normally engage with art. engage with art, even if it was commercial art. Stuff nowadays - if physical packaging exists at all - seems to have been put together with a high degree of competence in packaging by people with the imagination of packing foam.
Where are all the airbrushers now? No pulp book covers, precious little poodle rock album sleeves these days either. I doubt a couple of motorbike fuel tanks a month'll pay for Christmas. I guess they're down to paid-for installation graffiti and Magic: The Gathering cards. Bummer.
And ohhhh man. Those Usborne books. 8: 12 - there's an image from my childhood. I remember that. The amount of loitering in public libraries I did for those things.
Compare a google image search for Usborne Books and Usborne Books 90s. Honestly. I'm glad I'm 36.
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As always, awesome video. It found me in a thinky-thought mood of slightly deeper than average thinkyness, most likely because of the notion that there must have been a brief sweet spot between the late eighties and the mid to late nineties when a whole generation of physical hardware airbrush artists were diverted from producing cheap swords'n'sandals paperback covers and direct to VHS boxes and whatnot to making a demographic that would not normally engage with art. engage with art, even if it was commercial art. Stuff nowadays - if physical packaging exists at all - seems to have been put together with a high degree of competence in packaging by people with the imagination of packing foam.
Where are all the airbrushers now? No pulp book covers, precious little poodle rock album sleeves these days either. I doubt a couple of motorbike fuel tanks a month'll pay for Christmas. I guess they're down to paid-for installation graffiti and Magic: The Gathering cards. Bummer.
And ohhhh man. Those Usborne books. 8: 12 - there's an image from my childhood. I remember that. The amount of loitering in public libraries I did for those things.
Compare a google image search for Usborne Books and Usborne Books 90s. Honestly. I'm glad I'm 36.
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TonyVS
Man, MegaRace, that really brings back some memories. I remember getting it with a Mindscape PC game bundle (that I can't seem to find any information on) as a kid along with D/Generation, Dragon Lore, Metal Marines, Commander Blood and a few other games that I can't remember the names of. The games didn't come with any kind of packaging and were just fitted in the box, but it was the first set of PC games I called my own.
Well I ended up finding out the name of the bundle in case anyone was curious, it was cleverly named Mindscape's Big 16.
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Man, MegaRace, that really brings back some memories. I remember getting it with a Mindscape PC game bundle (that I can't seem to find any information on) as a kid along with D/Generation, Dragon Lore, Metal Marines, Commander Blood and a few other games that I can't remember the names of. The games didn't come with any kind of packaging and were just fitted in the box, but it was the first set of PC games I called my own.
Well I ended up finding out the name of the bundle in case anyone was curious, it was cleverly named Mindscape's Big 16.
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Best
One of my favorite old box covers is Full Throttle with the motorcycle looking like it's going to fly out of the box into your living room. The guy riding it is gritting his teeth while everything explodes behind him.
The only -recent- box cover that caught my eye was for the MMO Rift. Cute girl with a giant jeweled dagger with textures and other details. Meanwhile there are these giant ugly plants above her that are about ready to pop and you want to see her chop all of the vines with her giant dagger before they grab her.
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One of my favorite old box covers is Full Throttle with the motorcycle looking like it's going to fly out of the box into your living room. The guy riding it is gritting his teeth while everything explodes behind him.
The only -recent- box cover that caught my eye was for the MMO Rift. Cute girl with a giant jeweled dagger with textures and other details. Meanwhile there are these giant ugly plants above her that are about ready to pop and you want to see her chop all of the vines with her giant dagger before they grab her.
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Pablo
It just occurred to me what a priceless time capsule you've got going on there. Not only do you have all these games that are so representative of a bygone era, but you also have the means to play them the way we all did back in the day, with the right hardware; no remasters or crappy emulations. Makes me a bit nostalgic just to think about it, transporting me back to the good old days of Hidden & Dangerous in coop, Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Also a pretty good cover) and, of course, No One Lives Forever! (My oh my, Cate: v)
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It just occurred to me what a priceless time capsule you've got going on there. Not only do you have all these games that are so representative of a bygone era, but you also have the means to play them the way we all did back in the day, with the right hardware; no remasters or crappy emulations. Makes me a bit nostalgic just to think about it, transporting me back to the good old days of Hidden & Dangerous in coop, Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Also a pretty good cover) and, of course, No One Lives Forever! (My oh my, Cate: v)
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Jari
Just wondering, those big-ass boxes used to come with all sorts of mcguffins with them, from copy-protection wheels, huuuge manuals, with battlemaps and ship identification things for sims and such, and even novels, like the flight sim -Flight of the Intruder-, which came with the book of the same name. Would love to see a video about such things in the future, (aside from the collectors edition things with statues and stuff these days, what cool stuff the retail versions of these games of past came with.
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Just wondering, those big-ass boxes used to come with all sorts of mcguffins with them, from copy-protection wheels, huuuge manuals, with battlemaps and ship identification things for sims and such, and even novels, like the flight sim -Flight of the Intruder-, which came with the book of the same name. Would love to see a video about such things in the future, (aside from the collectors edition things with statues and stuff these days, what cool stuff the retail versions of these games of past came with.
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TheNacropolice
I think for me Total Annihilation's box cover really drew my attention. A futuristic battle scene with a massive robot looming in the center. Dear God was it a wonderful game; sure it looks old now(can buy it on Steam, and yes modern day RTS's are probably more flashy and can add a bit more interesting stuff. But this is it early late 90s early 2000s stuff we are talking about here, and as far as i am concerned, TA is one of the best RTS's every made, on par with the C&C series.
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I think for me Total Annihilation's box cover really drew my attention. A futuristic battle scene with a massive robot looming in the center. Dear God was it a wonderful game; sure it looks old now(can buy it on Steam, and yes modern day RTS's are probably more flashy and can add a bit more interesting stuff. But this is it early late 90s early 2000s stuff we are talking about here, and as far as i am concerned, TA is one of the best RTS's every made, on par with the C&C series.
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MaitreMechant
I love the cover arts of System Shock 1 and 2 and especially the first game, since it reminds me a little bit Jodorowsky's Metabarons comics, I don't know why.
Now that everything is digital, I don't pay too much attention to cover art (and good covers are most rare now) but I loved the one for Dark Souls Prepare to die edition, simple yet beautiful and Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon because it's so cheesy, 80's and over the top that it's good (so I got the poster of course)
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I love the cover arts of System Shock 1 and 2 and especially the first game, since it reminds me a little bit Jodorowsky's Metabarons comics, I don't know why.
Now that everything is digital, I don't pay too much attention to cover art (and good covers are most rare now) but I loved the one for Dark Souls Prepare to die edition, simple yet beautiful and Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon because it's so cheesy, 80's and over the top that it's good (so I got the poster of course)
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Rogue
Nice video. One of my favorite boxarts where from a post apocalyptic 3rd person arcade driver game. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called but you would drive around in these dunebuggies that you could outfit with different kinds of weapons like rocket launchers or shotgun-type weapon. You would pick up ammo from the enemies you killed and yeah. Anyway whatever that game was called it had a very Thunderdome feel to it with a boxart to match.
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Nice video. One of my favorite boxarts where from a post apocalyptic 3rd person arcade driver game. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called but you would drive around in these dunebuggies that you could outfit with different kinds of weapons like rocket launchers or shotgun-type weapon. You would pick up ammo from the enemies you killed and yeah. Anyway whatever that game was called it had a very Thunderdome feel to it with a boxart to match.
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JazGalaxy
Max Payne is such a weird game. It sold well. I had sequels. People know it. But SOMEHOW I feel like it doesn't get the credit it deserves for that first game being truly astounding. The design was so well done and so unique that I feel like it is a classic that deserves mention alongside the big, great games of the industry.
I remember that I would play scenes and then quit and replay them not because I failed but because I didn't get them PERFECT.
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Max Payne is such a weird game. It sold well. I had sequels. People know it. But SOMEHOW I feel like it doesn't get the credit it deserves for that first game being truly astounding. The design was so well done and so unique that I feel like it is a classic that deserves mention alongside the big, great games of the industry.
I remember that I would play scenes and then quit and replay them not because I failed but because I didn't get them PERFECT.
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Jip
I have actually been seriously thinking of finally buying an airbrush. Allways wanted one as a kid but computer graphics kept getting better and thought, well Im not gonna go backwards (there is a reason I sold the darkroom equipment) but like many others things, digital just doesn't truly replace it. No matter how good its gotten you can spot true airbrush art IMMEDIATELY. Its like great stained glass. Nothing substitutes for the real.
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I have actually been seriously thinking of finally buying an airbrush. Allways wanted one as a kid but computer graphics kept getting better and thought, well Im not gonna go backwards (there is a reason I sold the darkroom equipment) but like many others things, digital just doesn't truly replace it. No matter how good its gotten you can spot true airbrush art IMMEDIATELY. Its like great stained glass. Nothing substitutes for the real.
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