Tag: Boxart

Its early 90’s, Christmas time and it’s cold outside, you are staring at the shop fronts in your favorite part of the high street, the part with the blinky and attention seeking computer shops, it crossed your mind in one of your philosophical concerns, that if there is going to be paradise etc, can it be something like that? I…

It’s a Pixel THING Youtube show talks about how the publishers used to sell their games back in the 80s: Cover art, magazine adverts and posters! In the 80s, and even early 90s, graphics weren’t, at all, the selling point of a videogame. Covers and adverts on magazines were!  Let’s take a look at some examples on how to sell…