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Is it wrong to include a videogame cover because it has a racoon (or tanuki) on it? Probably, but no matter. As Hardcore Gaming points out, its cops are essentially Harrison Ford and Billy-Dee Williams, with the latter’s moustache placed on the former. Like so many hand-painted covers from the 80s and 90s, Chase HQ‘s artwork used photographs as a reference. Giving the player the task of apprehending a variety of criminals by smashing repeatedly into their fleeing vehicles, Chase HQ’s high-octane gameplay and bickering snatches of dialogue (“Let’s go, mister driver”) were crystallised in the game’s artwork. Just as movies such as Rambo: First Blood Part II and Commando provided the inspiration for an incalculable number of military shooters throughout the 80s and 90s, so the buddy-cop antics of Lethal Weapon and 48Hrs appeared to inspire Taito’s action driving game, Chase HQ.
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Colourful and full of fun, this cover for a relatively obscure Konami release (it only came out in Japan, though a Game Boy version did appear in 1993) sneaked onto the list thanks to its clean, simple style and playful typography.
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Just as Parodius provided a more light-hearted, surreal angle on the Gradius series, so Akumajo Special sent up Konami’s Castlevania games, with a young, white-heard Kid Dracula waking from his sleep to battle through a series of side-scrolling levels. Wakelin’s box art for Green Beret is infinitely better than the artwork generated for the coin-op cabinet or the console versions – and as we’ll see later on, Wakelin’s artwork would appear time and again on classic cover illustrations throughout the 80s and early 90s.
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With all that in mind, let the nostalgia commence… And bear in mind, too, that beauty is very much in the eye of the box art beholder, so your opinions of the running order are also sure to vary.
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There’s sure to be plenty of favourites we either didn’t think of or didn’t have room to include, so feel free to add your suggestions in the comments. Other than these (somewhat arbitrary) rules, we’ve chosen freely from the realms of computer games and consoles with a range of origins – from America to Europe to Japan.
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We’ve gone for covers which are hand-rendered rather than photographic (though some are drawn from photographs), and original pieces of artwork rather than replications of movie posters. This list is therefore dedicated to the artists and designers responsible for a golden age of cover design, which we’ve limited to the years 1982 to 1992. At a time when games couldn’t come close to replicating the sights and sounds of movies, the best box designs provided a stronger sense of identity and place. For those of us raised in an era when games still came on cartridges, discs or (whisper it) cassettes, box designs were an integral part of the experience – not necessarily because we judged the games by their cover (though that probably did happen now and again), but because the best examples expressed a level of movement and detail that the games themselves could only hint at. It’s weird to think that, as the videogame drifts inexorably from the physical to the digital, the days of buying treasured experiences in boxes is drawing to a close.