Games iconic game archaeology: miscellaneous artifact pile [image heavy!!] (Read 6185 times)

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i remember all of these and actually used GRAC. that box brings back a lot of memories.
ya game-maker boxart is worth a closer look
 
 

 
 
 

 
 



 
 



"the only limit is your garbage imagination..." might be my favourite boxart genre
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this was the first game-making software i ever used (besides GRAC and Spectrum / BBC BASIC...)



ah, the memories... (think i still have the floppies upstairs...)
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 :fogetteach:​ AMOS Basic of course was the Amiga's follow-up to STOS Basic for the Atari ST... buuut the same gamemakermakers later abandoned doing Basic dialects in favour of mouse-driven interface... resulting in the immortal Klik & Play!


hmmmmm... maybe there should be a spin-off thread dedicated exclusively to defunct commercial game-creator tools... perhaps with an open/ongoing challenge to make one new tiny game for as many of em as possible...?
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Nintendo's original 1976 Duck Hunt light gun game
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
fisherman's extension for the Game Boy
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full-page ad for the original Multi-User Dungeon, 1986
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I remember seeing the Pocket Sonar in a magazine and I have wanted it ever since.  One day I hope to come across a Pocket Sonar.
 
I've always been sort of obsessed with weird Gameboy peripherals in general.  Like even though the service is gone and it's not useable anymore I still really want that GB cart that is basically just email.  Like you just hook the GB cart into your dialup and check your email through their proprietary system.  I also really like the bizarre interfaces of GB memory cards/gamesharks and desperately want to buy a new BrainBoy since I had one as a kid.  The BrainBoy was great because it had a lot of Pokemon-specific stuff programmed in, so you could alter all your Pokemon's stats individually.  Like, you could use it to backup (and maybe edit?? I forget) any gameboy game but it had a lot of extra stuff added in just for Pokemon.  Something about the aesthetics of the menu though really struck a chord with me, but now as an adult I can't remember what they looked like.  I also can't seem to find a video of it.  I guess I have to just give in and spend $15 to get one off ebay and find out for myself.  It'd be nice to have a second backup for my Pokemon saves anyway.
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also i like that chips challenge right box feats buddy holly as aspiring wacko chemistry nerd or whatever
 
ya me too, hoodie with dungarees is a good look... here's a big/less obscured (but spanish) version:
 
http://i.imgur.com/Ywlhfav.jpg
 
alt game title based on this boxart: "action crotch"
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also just noticed in that version, no apostrophe in "CHIPS"
 
:mspaint: thats some finnegans wake shit  
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The Game Over Tinies (2013): pastiche of Edward Gorey's macabre Gashlycrumb Tinies (1963)

(from the Brentalfloss webcomic)
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live the mario lifestyle™
with these luxurious home furnishings...
 

stay cool beneath these official nintendo ceiling fan blades

 

curl up in the soft lap of your favourite plumber

 

stay cool again (by blocking out the sun) with these 1991 "beach bum"-design curtains

 

eat like a king... a mushroom king! (of the mushroom kingdom)
with the official super mario world twin cooker

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this is incredible

might be my fave thing in the thread....
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art comparison: Puffy's Saga (1989)
 


title screen
 


monster screen


ending screen
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I love this pokemon prototype that never ended up existing adn it'd be cool to see more of those sorts of things that didn't make it in the original games
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stay cool beneath these official nintendo ceiling fan blades


 
 

I thought these were oddly shaped paddles when I first saw them, then I read "fan blades", pretty kinky though if they were used in such a fashion I think.
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I love this pokemon prototype that never ended up existing adn it'd be cool to see more of those sorts of things that didn't make it in the original games
 
 
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are there more of these/ also second form is terrifying for some reason
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I love this pokemon prototype that never ended up existing adn it'd be cool to see more of those sorts of things that didn't make it in the original games
 
 
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are there more of these/ also second form is terrifying for some reason
I got it from the site that denzquix linked in one of his posts. its just that and a picture of the polywag evolution line
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disney clownbug transformation.