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Old School Game Cover Arts
August 29, 2008
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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Pit Fighter was the best fight game ever....
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
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... :)
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)
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..
I dunno about inspiration, but thanks for the epic tric down memory lane. I feel 12 again.
Oh man ... I'm glad I wasn't into design when I was a kid, or I never would have played any games!
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!
Wow, I don't know how cool these covers are now, but I remember when these games were AWESOME !
Cool post
I love the Mega Drive, and some of those covers are legendary. I'll be adding some of them to my collection.
I remeber those games :d
beautiful roundup
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Haha, this sure reminds me of the good old days.
Pit Fighter indeed! I had the Sega Master System and then the Sega Genesis! Good ole Spy vs. Spy and Ecco the Dolphin!
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!
Aladdin game is great to play. Nice collection of cover arts!
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.
Yes! Cool article. I used to be a Sega fan and played a lot of this games! Good old times :-)
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?
Pit fighter is the best of all time!
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
Oh, my God!
I have played most of these games. Such good times.
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bom post esse!
I love it.
Is it just me, or are the characters on the Goldenaxe cover strangely reminiscent of Mickey Rourke,Dolph Lundgren and Michelle Monaghan (on steroids)?
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Putz! Tive vários destes jogos aí. Ê época boa! :)
Oh nice post! I'll surely replay to my Sega with that... =)
welcome to your DOOM!!
god i loved the maga drive !
godlen axe
sonic
Street fighter
Mortal combat
shinobi 3 was such a hard but brilliant game
and
STREETS OF RAGE FOR THE WIN ! when i completed this with my friend like 6-7 years ago i think it was one of the best days lol.
truly the glory days of games
such awesome times !!!
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