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Mad Wack posted:i miss danny elfman music in web videos http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah I used to have one that my home town's school district got rid of. I used it as a camera obscura to trace underdrawings for paintings on panel. I didn't have a laptop at the time, so using a used digital projector wasn't an option. I got rid of it because it was a colossal pain in the rear end to store and transport.
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I'm happy that the "PC" is now the smartphone/tablet and that PCs can go back to being workstations. Hoping Microsoft realizes it soon
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Catch you suckas later; i've gotta go Escape from Hell:
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Gonz posted:Catch you suckas later; i've gotta go Escape from Hell: That's a badass cover art
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I love the idea that Satan has decorative wrought iron gates You know, that neighborhood association is just the worst
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Non Serviam posted:That's a badass cover art  but with the "I" in "IBM" fully intact    Jerry Cotton posted:A lot of those hell-folk seem awfully happy
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Found it at this Twitter account, which is pretty rad sometimes: https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/799245461836234752 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/798633016801140736 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/797946423312609280 https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/704901307866468354
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Gonz posted:Found it at this Twitter account, which is pretty rad sometimes: We're roughly at a point where, with shaders and art direction, games can look like the above, but I think we're a good long way before games can play the way they look like they should play based on the above. Double breasted suit guy: get me a fuckin chopper, we're taking over an offshore drilling platform, right loving now. How it looks: 
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And let's read a review: https://archive.org/stream/commodore-user-magazine-72/Commodore_User_Issue_72_1989_Sep#page/n24/mode/1up
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More box art, courtesy of psygnosis:         One of these things is not like the other... The Art Outside The Box: The Story Of Roger Dean Psygnosis Game Generator
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The Sausages posted:More box art, courtesy of psygnosis: I've never heard of any of those games (except Lemmings of course). I get the feeling that none of them are as rad as their box art. Lemmings owns though. Edit: Oh poo poo that guy designed the covers for Budgie's Squawk and pretty much all of Yes' albums. Kick rear end. While we're on the topic of rad box art, Wasteland will always be my favorite ever: 
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I loving love old Psygnosis.Mak0rz posted:I've never heard of any of those games (except Lemmings of course). I get the feeling that none of them are as rad as their box art. Agony in particular owns bones! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLs4eyhnRIQ
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That AWESOME cover is some Syd Mead poo poo.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I have it framed on my wall Oh you mean they're fiends with benefits? 
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Mak0rz posted:While we're on the topic of rad box art, Wasteland will always be my favorite ever: I worked at Software Etc. when this came out and I was allowed to borrow games. I borrowed the poo poo out of this one until I was obliged to buy it.
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Those Psygnosis covers are legendary but this, this is probably my favorite cover of all time. It's an incredibly good cover.
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Code Jockey posted:Those Psygnosis covers are legendary but this, this is probably my favorite cover of all time. It's an incredibly good cover. And you don't even see anyone exploding like a blood sausage.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh you mean they're fiends with benefits?  :notbad: Oh one of these must work :ace:   Code Jockey posted:Those Psygnosis covers are legendary but this, this is probably my favorite cover of all time. It's an incredibly good cover. There is a reason the sequel and the announced third game in the series pretty much just go "yeah, we are not going to top that, so here it is in a different environment."
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Trabant posted:I loving love old Psygnosis. Okay that's fair, but if I bought that Agony game I would be pretty confused about being a lavender owl flying through the forest. I'd still probably enjoy it though. Actually I might be confused that it's a video game at all because I'd probably expect it to be an underground speed metal album.
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There's something about low-res/high-color game art that really revs me up. Don't care if the pixels are the size of cinderblocks, if it's 16-bit color and well-done pixel art I am so there. Probably just the usual nostalgia thing, but I've just always loved the aesthetic, since all the way back when it was the purest expression of futuristic high-tech and infinite possibility.
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The Sausages posted:More box art, courtesy of psygnosis: Holy hell, picking up any one of these from the shelves and lugging home must've been the most amazing feeling. Too bad I wasn't an Amiga kid.
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The Sausages posted:More box art, courtesy of psygnosis: I just found out that these weren't the same artist as Syd Mead.
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I have to wonder how many, if any, were painted specifically for the box. I know that the Terrorpods cover is a Martian tripod, from Dean's War of Worlds pictorial.
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foozwak posted:I have to wonder how many, if any, were painted specifically for the box. I know that the Terrorpods cover is a Martian tripod, from Dean's War of Worlds pictorial. LGR did a video review of a bunch of those covers including the Terrapods one. Later today I'll find it. It was very interesting.
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Mak0rz posted:Okay that's fair, but if I bought that Agony game I would be pretty confused about being a lavender owl flying through the forest. I'd still probably enjoy it though. You're right, there really is no connection between the art and gameplay in many of these cases. Just wanted to point out that the games were fun in their own right, even if slightly... misrepresented by the box 
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foozwak posted:I have to wonder how many, if any, were painted specifically for the box. I know that the Terrorpods cover is a Martian tripod, from Dean's War of Worlds pictorial. I know that at least Barbarian was, as I picked up the PC version for $5 on a trip to OfficeMax with my mom way back when. I never got past that dragon. http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/barbarian/screenshots/gameShotId,2289/ Also, that game had the screwiest control scheme. You either clicked the icons with the mouse to perform the various actions or you pressed the function keys. Stuff like F1 starts walking left, F2 starts walking right, F3 stops movement, etc.
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Trabant posted:You're right, there really is no connection between the art and gameplay in many of these cases. Just wanted to point out that the games were fun in their own right, even if slightly... misrepresented by the box One popular example of a good game with somewhat misleading cover art: 
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And here's where LGR talks about the Terrorpods cover art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=474ebauHEeQ&t=165s
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Humphreys posted:And here's where LGR talks about the Terrorpods cover art: i liked this vid a lot. LGR is generally pretty badass and fits this thread pretty well. If anyone here hasn't checked out his oddware series yet, you should: http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB9FA1979AB986522 Basically he just reviews stupid, weird and mostly completely irrelevant dumb poo poo he finds from "virtual" pool sticks to obsolete disk drives. e: him and techmoan need to link up and make a perfect "totally obsolete poo poo" video Iron Prince has a new favorite as of 09:21 on Nov 24, 2016 |
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luv 2 date boys posted:e: him and techmoan need to link up and make a perfect "totally obsolete poo poo" video It would be nice, teachmoan has helped 8-bit guy for one video though, so that's kinda close.
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I think most Psygnosis covers were created in-house for each game, but I can't remember. Kim Justice has created a few interesting documentaries about the old developer/distributor powerhouses, and the one on Psygnosis is no exception. Lots of interesting tidbits about the development and business practices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvYlxnHOY-Q
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luv 2 date boys posted:LGR is generally pretty badass and fits this thread pretty well. I've watched LGR basically since the beginning, and Clint is my favorite Duke Nukem-impersonating retro gaming dork. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxPoan-Xjtc
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One of these days I will hit up an old client who was one of the original Ocean devs. I see him maybe once every few months, so many questions to ask him. Sadly the only time I had a chance I was too busy getting drunk with his mates and screwing around with his guns. He did show me a lot of old paper documentation on some of Oceans' classic games though.
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Techmoan uploaded this yesterday, and it's pretty drat cool. I kinda want a Tektronix 760A now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTuFB5QXHo
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empty baggie posted:One popular example of a good game with somewhat misleading cover art: I love that Capcom just stood up and owned this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edBLFoRHRfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USushqMW11I And then when they made a retro NES-style Mega Man game for the Wii, this is their deliberately misleading period box art: 
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