These aren’t all winners–but I think the cumulative effect is hilarious ; D
Golden Axe for Android, Atari ST, DOS, DOS (Taiwan), Genesis, Mega Drive, Mega Drive (Japan), Xbox360, Master System, WonderSwan Color, PS2 (3D remake)
Golden Axe (1989) box cover art - MobyGames
Golden Axe | Golden Axe Wiki | Fandom
I like how either Ax and/or Tyris got turned into blonds in a lot of those–and the actual blond, Gilius, went white-haired in a few of them! ; D
adorable
Rushing Beat, Rushing Beat Ran — Fukusei Toshi, Rushing Beat Shura (SFC)
Rushing Beat - Wikipedia
rushing beat box art - Google Search
https://twitter.com/coolboxart/status/1322972424133054465
https://twitter.com/Guarda_Belo87/status/1090975949942935552
japanese gba boxes rocked for being landscape format, a very interesting design shift from the portrait (or square) paradigm of almost everything before / after
Famicom and SNES boxes were also horizontal–although not quite as wide an aspect ratio as GBA.
Did they just make that lady Terry Bogard
Softporn Adventure (Apple II)
1981 text adventure game
The game’s cover features three nude women and a male waiter in a hot tub. The hot tub is actually that of Sierra’s owners, Ken and Roberta Williams. From left to right, the first woman was the company’s bookkeeper at On-Line Systems. The second is the wife of Bob Davis, the creator of another Sierra title, Ulysses and the Golden Fleece. The waiter was an actual waiter from a local restaurant, The Broken Bit. The woman on the far right is Roberta Williams.
On-Line Systems became Sierra Online in 1982.
The story goes–I think this was from an interview I listened to with someone who worked with or for Sierra On-Line back in the day, probably either in an episode of The Ted Dabney Experience Podcast, or the Time Warp podcast–that that waiter was chosen because he was gay and thus not likely to get ideas in the tub.
Image from Softporn Adventure cover or packaging material - MobyGames
IIRC the full story is in that 1984 Hackers book.
