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The Art of Atari (2016)
- j_m_b 1y agoThe spaceship beaming people up in Defender always looked like it's proportions were off. As a kid, I remember seeing the spaceship and thinking it looked like a metal glove.
- myth_drannon 1y agoThere is also one from Bitmap Books but more about the actual game graphics. https://www.bitmapbooks.com/en-ca/collections/all-books/products/atari-2600-7800-a-visual-compendium https://www.bitmapbooks.com/en-ca/collections/all-books/prod...
- pico303 1y agoThank you for posting this. I had no idea this was out there!
- criddell 1y agoHave you played Atari today? 11 year old me was able to always answer that question yes. So many times the box art would totally capture my imagination. I'd ask for some cartridge for Christmas or my birthday and it was always a bit of a gut punch to see the screen for the first time. https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/11ddevl/atari_2600_box_art_vs_game_play_outlaw/ https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/11ddevl/atari_...
- abetusk 1y agoI would love to see someone do video synthesis using the cover art as a basis. I wish I were more adept at it to try it out.
- amypetrik8 1y ago>Have you played Atari today? I don't know about Atari, but I'm willing to say we've all played ARTari today
- coachgodzup 1y agoThese were really quite a piece of art. Unfortunately nowadays a box is so rare.
- gxd 1y agoI own the poster version ("The Art of Atari, the poster collection") and it's great. I have three of their posters hanging in my office right now. It's not just nostalgia, the art is terrific. EDIT: the poster collection now costs $600+ on Amazon. Wow.
- LaundroMat 1y agoAargh. I've been wanting a large poster of Missile Command for a while now, but can't seem to find one at a decent price. Having one printed is difficult too as I can't find high-res, large image files of it.
- bluedino 1y agoI always enjoyed the Magnavox Odyssey 2 box art as well https://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-wonderful-covers-of-odyssey-2.html?m=1 https://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-wonderful...
- JKCalhoun 1y agoThe Art of Over-Promising and Under-Delivering, ha ha. (Truly, I did just want something closer to a gently stylized screenshot so I knew what I was getting.)
- bitwize 1y agoI loved art like this. It encouraged you to use your imagination to see the little blob of pixels on your screen as a warrior, spaceship, etc. It made the simple graphics more meaningful. It's kinda like how in Clue (Cluedo), the characters like Reverend Green, Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, etc. so richly detailed in the box art and on the cards are represented by simple one-color game pieces in-game.
- dole 1y agoContrasting this with the similarly fantastic and ridiculous GPU Box Art from the 90's kind of shows how in 15-20 years at least back then, "the more things change, the more they stay the same." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/relive-the-days-of-unhinged-gpu-box-artwork-new-book-catalogs-300-retail-boxes-with-both-horrors-and-delights https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/relive-the-d...
- progmetaldev 1y agoThe box art for Haunted House (not the racy, original version) always frightened me as a child. I got the same feeling when I would go through my dad's vinyl collection and would run into the cover of The Moody Blues' "On The Threshold Of A Dream." The surreal style captured the types of nightmares I would have when young. Atari Haunted House: https://e.snmc.io/lk/o/x/5585d64c8bad9592834b18b0c8394b44/10351717 https://e.snmc.io/lk/o/x/5585d64c8bad9592834b18b0c8394b44/10... On The Threshold Of A Dream: https://rockandrollglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/25056680247_92bde0efe0_b.jpg https://rockandrollglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2505...
- figital 1y agoI have this book. It’s fantastic.