Check out the 20 worst examples of
SNES game box artwork ever, from Freddie Mercury lookalikes to blind airport execs.
They've created a pitch perfect homage to a classic
SNES game box, all the way down to the pseudo-Nintendo Seal of Quality in the corner.
Of course Gone Home lacks the licensing muscle to portray actual
SNES game boxes inside the experience, so it makes do with an approximation that echoes this physical box.
Not exact matches
The
game itself comes on an authentic cartridge and packaged in a premium
SNES era
game box with a classic
game manual that will be inevitably lost by a younger sibling.
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Box Nintendo NES 1994 Blockbuster World Video
Game Championship HAT and PIN X-MEN VS STREET FIGHTER —
Boxed SNES Pirate.
Zelda Edition Super Nintendo
SNES 101 Mini Console Complete In
Box — Target Exclusive Zelda version that comes with The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past
game.
One of the reasons Switch was chosen was because the Joy - Cons can be used for two - player multiplayer right out of the
box, similarly to what most people experienced with the original
game and the
SNES.
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GAME BOY 228 PS1 Playstation 1
Game Lot Wholesale Lot of 74 Nintendo NES Games Nintendo 3DS XL Pikachu Yellow Nintendo NES Official Binder UK 1992 SNES Merchandise 1990 Nintendo World Championships NES Newspaper Press Photo Magic Paperwork Technos Internal Paperwork Nintendo NES Binders Patent Nintendo Merchandising Inc Internal Paperwork Book Employee Handbook Lot of 13 GameCube Kiosk Demo Discs GC Nintendo Game Cube Store Not for Resale Treasure Goblin — Blizzard Employee Exclusive The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Big Box Especial Edition 3 Ninjas Kick Back Super Nintendo with Box, Poster and Inserts 1991 Nintendo GAME BOY Comic # 1 by Valiant Max Payne 3 Flask Halo Reach Legendary Edition Xbox 360 Noble Team Statue Display Lot of 100 issues of Nintendo Power Magazine — Issues 2 through 104 Nintendo Fun Club & Nintendo Power Lot (Ranges from Winter 1987 to Sept. 1996) Nintendo Gamecube Store Display Jungle Hunt (Colecovision, 1983) Xonox Chuck Norris Superkicks (Colecovision, 1983) CIB Atari 2600 Joystick Special Pack Joystick Tron + 2 Games Call of Juarez The Cartel — Collector Edition — Box LOT OF 33 NES NINTENDO BOXES ONLY SEGA Vinyl Messenger Bag Big Lot Of Nintendo Nes Games Boxes And Manua
Game Lot Wholesale Lot of 74 Nintendo NES Games Nintendo 3DS XL Pikachu Yellow Nintendo NES Official Binder UK 1992
SNES Merchandise 1990 Nintendo World Championships NES Newspaper Press Photo Magic Paperwork Technos Internal Paperwork Nintendo NES Binders Patent Nintendo Merchandising Inc Internal Paperwork Book Employee Handbook Lot of 13 GameCube Kiosk Demo Discs GC Nintendo
Game Cube Store Not for Resale Treasure Goblin — Blizzard Employee Exclusive The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Big Box Especial Edition 3 Ninjas Kick Back Super Nintendo with Box, Poster and Inserts 1991 Nintendo GAME BOY Comic # 1 by Valiant Max Payne 3 Flask Halo Reach Legendary Edition Xbox 360 Noble Team Statue Display Lot of 100 issues of Nintendo Power Magazine — Issues 2 through 104 Nintendo Fun Club & Nintendo Power Lot (Ranges from Winter 1987 to Sept. 1996) Nintendo Gamecube Store Display Jungle Hunt (Colecovision, 1983) Xonox Chuck Norris Superkicks (Colecovision, 1983) CIB Atari 2600 Joystick Special Pack Joystick Tron + 2 Games Call of Juarez The Cartel — Collector Edition — Box LOT OF 33 NES NINTENDO BOXES ONLY SEGA Vinyl Messenger Bag Big Lot Of Nintendo Nes Games Boxes And Manua
Game Cube Store Not for Resale Treasure Goblin — Blizzard Employee Exclusive The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Big
Box Especial Edition 3 Ninjas Kick Back Super Nintendo with
Box, Poster and Inserts 1991 Nintendo
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Box LOT OF 33 NES NINTENDO
BOXES ONLY SEGA Vinyl Messenger Bag Big Lot Of Nintendo Nes Games
Boxes And Manuals!!
I vaguely recall seeing the
box cover at movie /
game rental stores growing up when
SNES games were on the shelves but nothing about the cover had interested me to take a further look at it.
The former is an inexpensive emulation
box with a preselected handful of the system's best
games; the latter is a pricey system that runs your old cartridges just like a real
SNES would.
Even if not every
game holds up that well (sorry, fans of Star Fox and Kirby's Dream Course), the
SNES Classic is, right out of the
box, basically a whistle - stop tour of what made the
SNES great.
Between Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) Wii U, Valve's Steam
Box, Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) mysterious console and Sony's (NYSE:
SNE) PlayStation 4, the
game industry is about to get very crowded.
The
games are what made me happy while playing the
SNES Classic, not the
box.
The
SNES Classic, like the NES Classic before it, packs a bunch of old video
games into a single, tiny
box that just plugs right into any standard HD TV via an HDMI cord.
Why we're doing this: because the
SNES Mini is a thing, and it's out in September at the same time as the Sega Genesis Flashback, another diminutive system pre-loaded with a bunch of
games (the differences being the Flashback has a slot to play original cartridges, and the
SNES line - up out of the
box is so, so much better).
It even includes a totally - unnecessary - but - cool
SNES - style
box for Super Turrican Director's Cut, which is the
game Factor 5 wished it could have released for
SNES, before the developer was forced to hack it up to make it fit on a space - constrained cartridge.
Hackchi2 will then go off and crawl Google Images to find the
box art for each
game because, let's be honest, we all want the
box art to appear in the
games list when you start the
SNES Classic Mini up, don't we?
Announced yesterday, the Street Fighter II 30th Anniversary Edition - celebrating the launch of the arcade version of the original Street Fighter in 1987, rather than the sequel's
SNES release in 1994 - is a 5,500 - unit run of
SNES cartridges containing a copy of the
game, tri-fold
box with foil and embossments, a premium instruction booklet, and «pack - in surprises» aimed at collectors and fans of the
game.
On this episode they talk Atari
Box,
SNES Classic and the state of the retro gaming market and classic
game collecting.
Because, while it is indeed a fantastic
box of nostalgia, the «Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System» (to give it its proper, full airs and graces title) is missing a number of key
games that any
SNES owner of the 90s wouldn't have been seen dead without.
Star Fox 2 is the 21st
game loaded onto the
SNES Classic Edition, Nintendo's nostalgic emulator
box that compiles the console's iconic
games.
Even if not every
game holds up that well (sorry, fans of Star Fox and Kirby's Dream Course), the
SNES Classic is, right out of the
box, basically a whistle - stop tour of what made the
SNES great.
So, to help you figure out what to play first on your new
SNES Classic (assuming you've been lucky enough to snag one), here are all 21
games on Nintendo's retro
box ranked from best to worst.