Tag Archives: Cover Art

MVC Origins: September Release dates announced for PSN & XBLA

Capcom is releasing a cool new compilation pack on PSN and XBLA called Marvel VS Capcom: Origins, this will contain Marvel Super Heroes and the original Marvel VS Capcom. The pack is being priced at 1200 Microsoft points on XBLA and $14.99 on PSN. The official release dates are September 25th for PSN and September 26th for XBLA.

So all of us fighter fans better get … [ Read More... ]

Cover Art: Super R-Type (SNES)

Ah the glory days… stage memorization… brutal difficulty… continues… Check out this freaky cover art of Irem’s Super R-Type for the Super Nintendo.

You can still play this shmup today, just pick it up at your local used crap store. It’s also available for the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console.

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Cover Art: Haunted House on the Atari 2600

This is a pretty cool retro box art. It’s of a game called Haunted House released in 1982 for the Atari 2600. It is one of the earliest survival horror games ever made…

It’s since been rereleased for iOS, Windows and Xbox 360. Furthermore a sequel was released on Wii, Xbox 360 and Windows which has the same name but is set 30 years later.

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Cover Art: Phalanx (SNES)

So imagine a game with the tag line “A hyper-speed shoot out in space”… A game called Phalanx on the SNES did. What would you imagine?

 

 

Well according to some dude who worked at Kemco, you’re wrong. Obviously, its an old hill billy and his banjo. Yeah, maybe they were appealing to America’s grassroots schmup crowd? I think they should’ve been fired.… [ Read More... ]