Author Topic: Atari 2600 best boxarts  (Read 1741 times)

90snostalga

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Atari 2600 best boxarts
« on: April 21, 2014, 01:34:33 pm »
Although there are lots of cool box art covers throughout all of video game history, I will have to say that Atari 2600 games seems to stand out the most to me.  This is for pure art only not quality of the game.  How would you rate your top 10 Atari 2600 game box arts?

turf

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Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2014, 01:38:06 pm »
Although there are lots of cool box art covers throughout all of video game history, I will have to say that Atari 2600 games seems to stand out the most to me.  This is for pure art only not quality of the game.  How would you rate your top 10 Atari 2600 game box arts?

Missile Command's art is awesome.


dreama1

Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2014, 01:58:28 pm »


Much manlier, and better box art than that nintendo kiddie stuff.
« Last Edit: April 21, 2014, 02:26:23 pm by dreama1 »


pacpix

Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2014, 08:13:14 pm »
Space Cavern has my favorite box art on the 2600.
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burningdoom

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Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2014, 08:15:03 pm »
The cart looked just as cool:


pacpix

Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2014, 08:24:23 pm »
Oh nice, I have only ever seen the blue label before.  I really want that red cart now!
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burningdoom

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Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2014, 08:25:32 pm »
^ Atari computer system it says, wrong cart. My bad.

pacpix

Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2014, 08:35:13 pm »
No you have it right.  When the 2600 was first released it competed with the Fairchild Channel F Video Entertainment System so Atari called their system the Atari Video Computer System.  The red cart is just a label variant.
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burningdoom

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Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2014, 08:43:15 pm »
Oh. I thought it meant it was for the Atari 400/800.

thecrypticodor

Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2014, 10:04:54 pm »
Here's a some of my favorites.


Acitvision's box art is generally very good, and for the most part they were actually reflective of what the game inside was actually like.

argyle

Re: Atari 2600 best boxarts
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2014, 12:11:02 am »
A few of my favorites:

 

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed
if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I
became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the
desire to be very grown up.” ― C.S. Lewis