![]() It may not be the best cover exactly, but Phalanx for the SNES definitely stands out in my mind. I don’t have a physical copy of it anymore, only a downloaded version on my PlayStation 4, but the fact that I can remember it all these years later makes it a standout for me. It became one of my favourite games on the PlayStation 2. I liked what I read on the back and bought it. I was pretty new to gaming at the time and didn’t know about the game, but the box art really did its job in grabbing my attention in the game shop (the cheesy name Max Payne in large red letters helped too!) as I picked it up to see what it was about. In front of that was yellow crime scene tape with the words ‘A man with nothing to lose. It was a white brick wall with a silhouette of Max holding a gun. It was incredibly simple, but that simplicity made it really stand out. I have a lot of art (on my walls and also some books) from my favourite games, especially the Uncharted series.īut for the most memorable I’ll go for the first Max Payne. The Micro Museum did a video of his work last year The list is endless but the outstanding artwork is Where Time Stood Still, Rampage, Operation Wolf, Green Beret, Cabal, Mikie, Chase H.Q., Pang, Rainbow Island, Batman, Game Over, and my personal favourite RoboCop. The best artist who created the artwork for the games is the late Bob Wakelin when working for Ocean. When I get emails from companies about new games they’re releasing, I am more likely to click through when the image looks interesting – same when I see a game on a digital store I wasn’t aware of.įor me, the best cover art was from the 80s and 90s, when cover art sold the game, good or bad. I think key art for games is certainly still very important. I would like to give a shoutout to Bahamut Lagoon (again Super Famicom) too, which also had wonderful box art. But Jordan Mechner did mention that he loved it, and given it was selected for the special edition cover I guess there must be a certain amount of people who feel the same way as me. I don’t think it’s that iconic either inside or outside of gaming – certainly not in the West since the only region that got to see it properly was Japan, and even then only for that one platform release almost 30 years ago. I did finally have a chance to buy a small copy of the Prince Of Persia art recently as a French company did a print run of the Jordan Mechner (who created Prince Of Persia) journal, with one of the special editions of the book having the Super Famicom art as both the cover and as a bookplate (I’d already bought the journal on Kindle so didn’t worry about not being able to actually read the French book!). The artist, Katsuya Terada, is fantastic, a lot of his art cropped up in the early Zelda games too, up to Link’s Awakening. I didn’t buy it right then because it was so expensive, and I already had the European version anyway. A few years later I saw the Japanese version in an import shop and was blown away by it. We did kind of get a version of it in Europe, but because our boxes were horizontal (and had a lot of logos around the edges), you could only see a small part of it, whereas in Japan with the vertical box and very little logo information, almost the whole thing was visible. In the same way as physical music is being replaced by digital formats, it’s a real shame some of the beautifully designed video game box art will not be seen at the size it deserves.įor me, the most memorable box art is the Super Famicom version of Prince Of Persia. Widgets are only available on macOS 11 Big Sur and higher.Some of the box art during the PS1 heyday was amazing, especially WipEout 2097, but there was also a lot of which had a heavy reliance on (now very basic looking) 3D rendered artwork, which has not aged well. Widget Art Gallery is available on iOS and macOS and its sister app TV Art Gallery is available for tvOS. Please upgrade to Art Gallery Premium today. There is a one-time in-app-purchase that unlocks an unlimited number of widgets and helps support further development of the app. The free version allows the use of one widget. Widget Art Gallery is free to download and contains no ads. You can add any piece to your favorites list for easy viewing later in the favorites gallery or in a widget. Tap the play button to view a slide show containing pieces from the current gallery or collection. In the app you can browse or search all of the included artwork from several of the world's best art galleries. Add helpful overlays like time, date, battery, or add your own text. Widget Art Gallery allow you to view over 10,000 beautiful works of art in your Notification Center.Īdd an Art Gallery widget to your Notification Center and then choose to view pieces from a gallery, collections, favorites, or specific artwork.
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