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.
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II, good game, great cover! Released for the NES in 1989, Ironsword was the follow up to the hit Wizards & Warriors. A single player platformer developed by Zippo game and published by Rare; the game … [ Read More... ]
You read that right. The number one selling book on Amazon.com, the worlds largest online bookstore, is Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia. Hyrule Historia is Nintendo’s official encyclopedia for all things Zelda, penned by the father of Zelda himself, Shigeru Miyamoto. Don’t think this is just a heartless cash grab either, fans are loving it as can be seen by the ecstatic reviews…
“The Holy Bible … [ Read More... ]
Then it would look like this.
Mark Darin, who is one of the writers for the highly successful Walking Dead video games, decided to go ahead and see how it would look as a retro game. The Walking Dead games won game of the year from the Spike Video Game Awards. Check out the accurate to spec looking C64 Walking Dead screens below.
8-bit pixel art zombies can … [ Read More... ]
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.
Awesome looking 80’s game cover art at it’s best. Space Harrier II was published by Sega for multiple systems, but most notably the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. It was first released in 1988. Space Harrier II was developed by Sega’s internal … [ Read More... ]