Box art of the budget line – is it “good” or a sin against everything good and pure?
When it comes to box art, we at Nintendo Life Towers are committed. Our Box Art Brawl series, which compares and contrasts regional variations of box art and invites you to vote for your favorite, recently returned after a hiatus, and it made us take another look at our shelves and admire fantastic (and sometimes not so fantastic) covers decorating our favorite retro games.
However, browsing through our collections also reminded us of an annoyance that is familiar to anyone with a physical library of games – yes, we’re talking about that decline in the beauty of Billy’s bookcases around the world, a terrible budget box art option.
We are speaking ‘anyone with the physical library of games”, but perhaps this is presumptuous. Maybe there are gamers who don’t care if they have one silver spine breaking the cohesion of their GameCube shelf. Perhaps there are people who really Like Nintendo Selects border needlessly thrown on this 3DS gem they bought for a very reasonable $19.99! …
Eh, no. We simply cannot approve of this idea. Can’t people live like this?
To answer this question, we thought we’d reach out to you lovely folks for your thoughts on the Player’s Choice and Nintendo Selects budget lines that Nintendo has offered over the years to ensure you end up paying. for the audacity of buying software. at less than full launch RRP.
Of course, it’s not just Nintendo; most major platform holders and publishers have polluted their catalogs with the “Classic” or “Platinum” lines at one time or another. In fact, since we’re more reluctant to turn to digital purchases than ever before, at least we don’t have this issue to contend with when we download from an online store.
Ah, but if you buy the game cheaper, what’s the problem? You can ask. To which this writer would reply that he would rather pay more for No there is a sticky cover thank you very much! Illogical? Certainly. Irrational? Provided. Stubborn, weird and more than crazy? Uh, what were we talking about again?
Ah yes, sinful crimes against video game box art. Yes, we admit we turn down great deals on sealed games in order to buy the same pre-owned or digital games, just to avoid rude, ugly covers.
All shameful photos in this article, unfortunately, are taken from the personal library of the writer. Asking NL HQ for any images, we received the following response:
— We don’t have such muck in the office collection.
Also absolutely true.
We know what you’re thinking. You think… yes, it makes perfect sense to apply this zero-tolerance approach to slightly different-looking video game boxes. Absolutely, this writer is of sound mind and judgment! This is almost certainly what you think.
While we’re pretty sure any sane person would agree, we promised a poll, so here it is:
Feel free to share in the comments about the worst box art crimes you’ve witnessed and don’t forget to check out our weekly Box Art Brawl where we promise you’ll never run into a terrible budget option. Player choice? Pa!
