Retro NES cover art

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Retro NES cover art

Post by redled » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:23 pm

Game cover art should inspire you. When I look over my collection of games and decide what to play, I'm looking for a game cover to speak to me and get me into the game, draw me in to play it. :shock:

Besides using a consistent format, my favorite NES game covers use pixelated art from the game itself, for example:
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These covers while more realistic or artistic, don't inspire me to play these games, and they are among my favorite games! I don't get a good sense of what the game looks like or any of my favorite items or features from the game are hidden.
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So I went to Photoshop and made a quick template with a few elements online:
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After about 3 hours creating ~30 covers for my favorite NES games...

Before:
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After:
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I'd like to spend more time crafting some really unique and interesting screenshots from games, and that takes a lot of time surprisingly!

Will post these files if people like/want them. I'm updating a few things still. :mrgreen:

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Re: Retro NES cover art

Post by woans » Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:06 pm

Cool idea :) Clean and nice template tought... I will follow your progress on this !

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Re: Retro NES cover art

Post by chexistrash » Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:37 pm

what was the font for the cover art under the 8-bit image? :)

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Re: Retro NES cover art

Post by Vernpi » Wed May 20, 2020 5:22 pm

Shit is clean. I'd rock it if I had a bad label.

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Re: Retro NES cover art

Post by smnarnold » Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:42 pm

I love it! I was wondering what it would look like with homebrew games?

So I redid 20 of them with your concept. Some of these games didn't have official covers that I was aware of, while others already had amazing ones, but for the purpose of the exercise, I redid them all anyway.

https://imgur.com/a/zHUkqyj

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Before and After
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P.S Did you endup doing any others after your original post?

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