/ Rob Beschizza / 8:16 am Wed Jan 13, 2010

Avatar for Atari 2600

tumblr_kw17rsfST71qa9g6uo1_500.jpg Illustration: Penney Design.

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    1. I think you’re right. For comparison, here’s Combat for the 2600. I remember a lot of game covers having movie-poster style artwork, even if they didn’t come from movies.

  10. Avram,

    I def remember some games with screenshots on the cover, as well as the standard box-art ones. I think the screenshot ones were cheap re-releases, rather than the original publisher.

  11. It should be noted that Cameron has wanted to work on this story since that was a NEW, cutting edge game system. People used to spend $200 for an Atari 2600 and $45-65 per game…

    If he’d managed to do Avatar at that time, at twice the effective cost for half the visuals, you’d jolly well bet the investors would do an “ET” on 2600 to get any, every possible money making option to get their money and profits… I don’t blame them either, “ET” just had to happen the way they ran things…

  12. Never fails. Someone does something cool, and people have to say it’s not perfect. Criticize by creating, or shut up, get off the internet, and do something productive.

    1. i agree with tamgoddess (#14). i loved avatar, and i don’t mind being told familiar stories in new ways (for example, see how many ways shakespeare has been redone). also, i would totally have played this game back in 1983, and i would totally play it now. brilliant idea!

  13. ANACHRONISTIC FONT ALERT
    The black text is set in the Myriad typeface, which *everyone* knows was not even designed until the 90’s. (Well, ok, not “everyone.”)
    Faked historical artifacts are about the details.

    (and tamgoddess, I see where you’re coming from about everyone being a critic, but as a designer, I appreciate criticism when I can learn from it and make the next thing I create better. criticism can of course be an aid to creativity.)

  15. @elricky: Oh, good, I’m not the only one who was bothered by the use of Myriad. And I think they would probably have used Helvetica rather than Arial for the “critically acclaimed movie” sticker, too.

    And what’s sad is, that bugged me more than the use of a screenshot on the front. I really need a life.

  20. I don’t know what’s more impressive. The design of this package, or the perfect simplification of the story to game.
    wtf, ‘belittle science’!? wtf kinda Captcha is this???

  21. Ten to one Cameroon has never been ‘in nature’. Hollywood types depict nature as if it were some kind of planet-sized puppy dog, playfully licking at the fingers of humans and nuzzling them with cuddly, warm fuzzies – or as a circus act, where nature is simply there to bedazzle and perform for our amusement and entertainment. Farmers know what they’re talking about when they talk about nature. Cameroon doesn’t.

  22. did this as a school project handed it in last week, thought of it first week of jan,

    http://fumpr.com/img_01/picture151.png

    i think there was obviously a concept winding around that a few antennae picked up, and no, i appreciate the idea, but the main reason i went with nintendo was for the little bit of box structure verisimilitude, to be honest the idea and execution is great, but maybe just as a back of box shot? either way its awesome

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