What is your favorite cover art?

Any system, any region.

I like that of Killzone 2 (although I dislike the game itself a bit, I never was an avid FPS player)

 

So many ha! I'd say my favourite is a tie between Bubble Bobble FMT and Splatterhouse FMT.

Shamefully nabbed from Gamengai as I don't have pics of any of my copies to hand, hope that's ok GP.


http://www.gamengai.com/info.html?type=games&id=927

(It's a china money pot...a pic of one of mine...
)


http://www.gamengai.com/info.html?type=games&id=932

 

Lovely! The Bubble Bobble one is truly beautiful. I also love it a lot, but I do not own the game unfortunately.

Three more favourites of mine:

Phalanx, X68000. The port of this game isn't as good as other X68k games, but the beauty of this cover art always inspired my imagination. As if every shooting game starts with a lot of preparation by an entire crew, loading the ship with ammunition, kerosene et cetera. Fantastic art! I bought the game just to scan and enlarge this image


I also love Rainbow Islands for Famicom... for obvious reasons! I think it captures the playfulness and childlike happiness of the gameplay perfectly in a sugary sweet artwork.


To throw in some newer art - I think Katamari Damashii's PS2 cover is one of the most beautiful covers of the 128bit generation. It looks sleek, is funny, and summarizes the goal of game perfectly in a nutshell.

 

It's too dificult to choose just one. Can't really pick one at random.

As for Killzone2 alphagamer, i prefer the European / Asian cover: http://www.buttonmasher.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/Killzone2coverart_127DE/killzone2cover_thumb.jpg

 

At first I thought that was a book cover, and ironically that game got some of the worst cover art from any SNES game (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Phalanx_North_American_SNES_box_art.jpg)

I can't think of one specific one right now, let me think about it for a while.

 

I'm a fan of the reversible cover that came with soul sacrifice's original release

 

Gotta go with NTSC Ico and Deadly Premonition... wait.

In all seriousness, I've always been a fan of Final Fantasy IX's and X's cover art.

 

I like the Marvel VS. Capcom 3 cover why well there is just alot going on

 

I remember this gem.

 

I have a copy of that US Phalanx, one of the biggest WTF of gaming IMHO.

 

I really like Star Wars: Rogue Squadron box art, I don't know if it is my favorite but it is one of them for sure.

 

I could not number all my favorite covers. The world of gaming covers has many real masterpieces, but i will try to pick some i like a lot:

Spoiler

(Defender, Atari)








(I`ve seem a Nes Renegade cartridge with this same cover art, long time ago)

 

Can't decide between this one


Or this one. Such a hard choice.

 

Clearly the best one right here



Just kidding, this one:

 

One of the best games ever made. I still play DOOM every now and then. I use to play it on my 360 but I have since migrated to GZDoom and using the WAD from the SW disc and some old DOOM floppy backups. I still use the 360 controller on there.

 

I had posted some covers here yesterday, but they didnt show up :S

(i may have done something wrong about it, don`t really know)