Comments on: Modern video games covers as classic books

Modern video games covers as classic books

ColdChef — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:13:30 -0800

Modern video game covers reimagined as Classic Books.

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:17:00 -0800

The World Of Warcraft cover is particularly ... poignant? Yes, let's be charitable and say poignant.

By: hellphish

hellphish — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:17:26 -0800

I loved them.

By: painquale

painquale — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:24:38 -0800

Yes! These are excellent. Video game cover art is the ugliest art there is.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:31:15 -0800

Very nice. Reminds me of the stark difference between the N. American cover art for Ico and the version everyone else got.

By: jozxyqk

jozxyqk — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:33:38 -0800

brundlefly: better check your second link. Looks like the webmaster of www.geekculture.dk isn't too happy about people linking directly to images there...

By: Sargas

Sargas — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:34:23 -0800

I like alot of those. Also this is just plain true.

By: Sargas

Sargas — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:36:40 -0800

opps that link was posted in the post, my bad.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:38:47 -0800

Ha! Whoops. Here's the second link.

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:40:46 -0800

The Hitman one is awesome.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:43:50 -0800

By: podwarrior

podwarrior — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:58:56 -0800

Those are nicely done.. I also like the Giorgio de Chirico style Ico box.

By: pokermonk

pokermonk — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:12:27 -0800

MOVIES TOO!

By: Science!

Science! — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:17:40 -0800

I was thinking of printing some of these and slipping them into my game cases, but then I got to the Gears of War cover and said, "Screw it." I'm not wasting that much ink. My girlfriend's printer though...

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:19:22 -0800

These are ...beautiful. The Penguin Classics Format has been a huge boon for designers and jokesters alike. It's a hard and fast system of roles that you can play with. Follow the Penguin Square, use 3 colors, and you have something that works. As a designer and bibliophile, I've always loved the ways people remix the Penguin format into something exciting, especially the newer series which mimics the older style. This is just icing on the cake. (I would totally buy half these books)

By: Phire

Phire — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:23:54 -0800

Awesome find! Now I'm tempted to try my own.

By: box

box — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:24:20 -0800

Two great tastes that taste together--thanks, ColdChef.

By: crossoverman

crossoverman — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:42:31 -0800

MOVIES TOO! Yes, this was discussed five days ago in a very badly tagged post! Seriously, why isn't that tagged with "books" and "covers" and something that might join these two posts together!

By: fuq

fuq — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:26:13 -0800

"Hey," He said, "...You're pretty good."

By: doobiedoo

doobiedoo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:27:15 -0800

man, what can't be improved by a bit of 60's book cover minimalism?

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:04:16 -0800

I love the Penguin style. My folks have a lot of Penguin paperbacks on their shelves. This is a really sweet and nostalgic remix.

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:09:55 -0800

Jeez man, cite your sources. Not everyone surfs the internet in the same order you do.

By: Liver

Liver — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:41:42 -0800

Not everyone surfs the internet in the same order you do. I don't see what that has to do with citing sources, but please, don't let a snark go unsnarked.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:50:31 -0800

Missile Command is my favorite by far; I wanted more like these... Pac Man, Kangaroo, etc... I'd also like to see Spyro the Dragon done up all YA Eragon-style.

By: Ben Light

Ben Light — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:59:39 -0800

Jeez man, cite your sources. These are a few images from a (still-active) Something Awful photoshop thread that Kotaku highlighted in a recent article. Many, many more can be found under the first link. The first post in that Something Awful thread says: "As recently seen on Kotaku..." Who's linking who? I think my head just exploded.

By: Liver

Liver — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:23:54 -0800

Olly Moss made several. Kotaku posted them. User Wonderpants on SA started a thread calling on other users to attempt the same. Kotaku ran another story about that, and this FPP is a link to the gallery for that story.

By: Super Hans

Super Hans — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:31:05 -0800

I really want to write Bubble Bobble now. Come on, look at that cover. The saga of two great nations, teetering on the brink of collapse, locked in an epic struggle for supremacy... The greatest thing about these is how well it illustrates how incredibly important graphic design is, or can be. By reinventing the context for some words - even very familiar words! - you can twist and spin their interpretation, and suddenly an ancient 8-bit game is a classic masterpiece of literature. I love good design.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:06:48 -0800

Someone needs to do one of these for Rolling Thunder.

By: graventy

graventy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:18:32 -0800

I highly recommend clicking through that Something Awful thread. Some fantastic work there. (Presumably, there was a story on Kotaku that linked to the gallery, mentioning the SA thread. In the post, all we're given is the gallery, which gives no context or attribution at all. I think a link to the original Kotaku post would have helped, at least.)

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:55:17 -0800

Came to post "Hey go read the SA thread because it's fucking brilliant" but it turns out to be unnecessary. :D

By: querty

querty — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:44:37 -0800

Some of these ideas are very good for web/layout designs; could be of use for a Smashing Magazine feature.