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Cover Art: Wing War (Colecovision)

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Mar 032013

Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.

Wing War was developed by Imagic, a somewhat popular developer in the 80′s. They released Wing War for several systems including Colecovision and Atari 2600 in 1983. As you can guess, you play a dragon in the game.

In Wing War, you play a dragon who needs to capture a diamond. In order to do that you need to collect crystals, which then form into a super crystal unlocking areas for you to find the diamond. It may not sound like much, but it’s actually a pretty cool game with rather impressive level design and graphics, considering the time.

Wing War on Moby Games

Covert Art: Friday the 13th (NES)

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Dec 222012

Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.

Although Jason Voorhees has been in 12 films, he’s only officially been in about 2 games. Today we present you with Friday The 13th for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was developed by Pack-In-Video, that Japanese developer who brought us other such NES gems like Die Hard, Predator, Rambo and Terminator 2… Right. Friday the 13th for NES was released in 1989.

Friday the 13th doesn’t have the best reputation… It received poor reviews upon release and since then has been included in various lists for bad games. Magazines and sites including IGN, Gamepro Nintendo Power, and Games Radar have all included it in lists as one of the worst games ever.

Friday the 13th NES game wiki

Cover Art: Time Lord (NES)

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Sep 222012

No, this is not a Doctor Who video game… This is a game released by Milton Bradley and developed by Rare for the NES. Its an adventure game about time travel. Check out the cool cover art below…

Time Lord Wiki

Cover Art: Megaman on theTT NES (US release)

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Jun 282012

Hey everybody,

Imagine walking into a modern game store and asking to buy this…

Yeah…. That’s embarrassing.. although still slightly less suspect than buying a game with a young boy in tights and go-go boots.

Megaman is now officially in a new versus game! Street Fighter X Tekken! As an exclusive to PS Vita and PS 3, along with a bunch of other characters including Pac-Man in a Mokujin Mechsuit…. I swear I’m not making this sh!t up, I really couldn’t if I tried. But specifically, its Digger… aka Megaman from the first cover art….. Yeah…….