Dope Box art

MintyJuffowup · February 19, 2026, 1:36pm

What a cool thread.

loki · February 20, 2026, 9:56pm

Mothra · March 3, 2026, 1:25am

Dragon Slayer (Mega Drive) (shoutout to Rudie)

Silpheed (PC-88)

boojiboy7 · March 4, 2026, 1:15pm

Dragon Slayer was for PCs, not Mega Drive.

Dragon Slayer The Legend of Heroes was for Mega Drive, but its cover looks like this:

Rudie · March 15, 2026, 9:26am

I’ve never been so excited to roll dice!!

smbhax · March 15, 2026, 11:21pm

Torneko no Daibouken: Fushigi no Dungeon (Super Famicom)

– https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/581043-torneko-no-daibouken-fushigi-no-dungeon/boxes/22163

Cerium · March 16, 2026, 3:31am

Japan cover

Europe cover

loki · March 22, 2026, 1:40am

razorbeamz · March 23, 2026, 4:37am

This is an interesting one where the Japanese version is the heavily edited one and the western is the original

loki · March 26, 2026, 12:55am

smbhax · March 28, 2026, 12:30am

Street Fighter III: W Impact (Dreamcast)

Illustration by Kinu Nishimura

smbhax · April 3, 2026, 4:14pm

– Sonic & Garfield Pack PC CD-ROM Game Sega Sonic the Hedgehog Knuckles Baku Baku | eBay
– https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_%26_Garfield_Pack

cylindrome · April 4, 2026, 6:20am

smug overload

smbhax · April 5, 2026, 10:55pm

DragonStomper (Atari 2600) and the Starpath Supercharger

– https://www.mobygames.com/game/18206/dragonstomper/cover/group-19120/cover-621382/

smbhax · April 12, 2026, 9:35pm

– https://www.mobygames.com/game/574/donkey-kong/cover/group-31768/cover-101188/

Back cover of Donkey Kong for Atari 8-bit computers, 1983.

smbhax · April 12, 2026, 10:05pm

Pinball (NES)

– Pinball (Nintendo NES) – J2Games

smbhax · April 12, 2026, 10:41pm

^ The so-called “Pulse Line” of Nintendo-published Famicom game carts with matching simple label design.

The boxes were still illustrated:

Eventually, Nintendo started putting most* of the carts out with illustrated labels–the so-called “Picture Label” versions:

''Picture Label'' cart pics, ''Pulse Line'' title list, source links

*I couldn’t find pictures of Famicom “Picture Label” carts for four games with “Pulse Line” carts: Gomoku Narabe Renju, Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Pinball, and Donkey Kong 3; I don’t know if that’s because Nintendo never released “Picture Label” versions of those carts, or if they did but Google doesn’t know about them.

"The 14 “Pulse Line” titles in order of release are: