Favorite PCE cover art?

[Digi.k]

[Necromancer]

Those PCE Bonks collages are awesome.

[gex]

Splatter house, PUNCH THOSE SNAKES RIGHT IN THE FACE

[TR0N]

[kosko99]

I like the Rastan Saga 2 cover:



Classic games covers are pretty damn good haha

[gex]

Sylphila!! Yes i forgot about that one

[Gredler]

I like the Rastan Saga 2 cover:

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[jtucci31]

Never played it.


Also completely agree with Luke, all 3 Bonk JP covers are WAY better than the NA ones. That's part of the reason why I sold my NA ones and bought the JP trilogy of games.

[kosko99]

I like the Rastan Saga 2 cover:

can you edit your post so we can see the full image? it's cut off by the page margines
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Years surfing forums and I didn't know I could do that  :oops:
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[Dicer]

I love this cover

[gex]

I love this cover

a MUCH more appropriate cover art than the NA release

Feels like it captures the goofiness much better, or maybe the colour yellow just brings that out more in this cover

[nopepper]

Some of my favorites have already been posted: Gradius, Download, Gate of Thunder, Side Arms and Cadash.

But here's another one I love.



I also love how all of the above's (sans GoT) graphics look in the HuCard itself, especially when inserted into a Coregrafx.

[Punch]

If ever there was a video game cover composition that illustrates the physical/emotional/social/political politics of gender, this is it.

Obviously, the discussion of gender has expanded far beyond this image, but for late-80's, or even today, it is still pretty poignant.

We still sexualize and stylize violence in art/film, etc. etc. we still rely on the tired cliches and tropes.

I think the Tokimeki Memorial cover was inspired by the romantic manga genre and the tone is pretty intense for a children's PCE game.

Context is important. In the late 1980's, the mainstream gamer was not commonly acknowledged to be anything beyond 20-40 year old otaku.

Lots of video game covers have tried to show love, but the compositions were closer in spirit to a VHS cassette sold behind the counter...

...none have the intensity of the seemingly goofy Tokimeki cover. Political politics of gender.

[Punch]

Seriously. Psygnosis raised the bar so damn high that I'm glad that a very little portion of their library has touched the PCE. They were the first company to justify paying a premium for a game in a market saturated widely pirated and heavily discounted crappy games.

How can you look at something like "Awesome" or "Barbarian" alongside regular looking PC boxes and not get your dick hard straight away? There were actual artists employed in making stunning cover arts and I think that a lot of Psygnosis releases still don't have any decent competition in regards to the package art. They basically managed to transfer all qualities of say, a Roger Dean composition simply by association, even if the games inside the boxes fell short in comparison.



Granted this is not one of their best cover arts but it still is awesome, esp. compared to the other NEC software sharing the same shelf space (dungeon explorer lol). Shadow of the beast is a better example but that was already posted.

[pixeljunkie]

really cool thread

I love these games - they are the embodiment of 90's anime





Burning Angels as well



Blood Gear



I was obsessed with the art on this game when it came out