Showing posts with label box art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label box art. Show all posts
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Nice Package! (Tabemon, Wii)

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Last week, the Cool Box Art Twitter account wisely highlighted the European cover of Namco's colorful, Pac-Man -esque Wii game, The Mun...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

The best box art of 2016

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This past year was a great one for games. It also was great for game cover art--as the following examples hopefully prove. Culdcept Rev...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Five favorites: North American GameBoy box art

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A couple of years ago, I published a post that highlighted five of my favorite pieces of Japanese GameBoy box art . This post, of course, ...
Thursday, November 03, 2016

Let's ogle six lovely examples of Japanese PS4 and Vita cover art

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To know me is to know I love a good piece of game box art. Sure, most of the cover art I shine a light on here is of the "retro"...
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Nice Package! (Pikmin, GameCube)

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I'm sorry if I've mentioned this before, but I think it's pretty relevant to this post,  my last post  and a handful of posts th...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

I know almost nothing about Thomas the Tank Engine, so why am I strangely attracted to this upcoming Japanese 3DS game?

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The game in question: Tetsudou Nippon! Rosen Tabi: Kikansha Thomas-hen Oigawa Tetsudou! I have no idea what that means in English, but I t...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Shots fired: Zero Time Dilemma's Japanese box art massacres its North American counterpart

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While talking about Zero Time Dilemma 's North American box art last week, I mentioned that I wouldn’t have minded if its designers had ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Let's chat about Zero Time Dilemma's cover art

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Once I finally got around to playing it, I fell head over heels in love with 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors . I can't say the same f...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Let's ogle some Japanese PS4 and Vita box art

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OK, so not all of the PS4 and Vita box covers that can be seen below are all that recent. In fact, two of them are kind of old. Still, I...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Nice Package! (Mappy, Game Gear)

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I don't know if you're aware, but I'll play pretty much any version of Namcot's--or, you know, Namco's-- Mappy that com...
Monday, March 07, 2016

Nice Package! (Rainbow Islands, Famicom)

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I haven't always been a fan of the Famicom version of Taito's Rainbow Islands . For the longest time, in fact, I turned up my nose...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Nice Package! (City Connection, Famicom)

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Until a few months ago, City Connection was nowhere to be found on the extensive gaming "wish list" that resides on my trusty lap...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Square Enix's beautiful throwback of an RPG, Ikenie to Yuki no Setsuna, will be mine (and yours, too?) sometime on or around Feb. 18

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If you're anything like me, you slobbered all over Project Setsuna 's first trailer , which made its debut during a Sony Japan event...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Let's talk about RPG Maker MV's awesome Japanese cover art

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Did any version of the Enterbrain-made, Degica-published RPG Maker MV actually earn a physical release somewhere in the world? I ask beca...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

You've ogled The Legend of Legacy's lovely Japanese packaging, now ogle that 3DS game's North American packaging

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Don't remember the fabulousness of  The Legend of Legacy 's Japanese packaging? Check out  my blog post about it , which features ph...