Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast.

Can you hear a game and instantly recall the box art for it?

Do you remember the days of picking a game solely based on the box art for it? Do you remember the days of picking a game

solely based on the box art and the screenshots on the back? What about some of the incredible

modern art we've seen for game releases? Well, on today's episode, we're going to be drafting

the best video game box art from the memorable to the iconic.

We're going head to head to see whose team will reign supreme.

But first, some introductions are in order.

I am your host Josh and joining me.

He's the Earl to my toe jam, the clank to my ratchet and the knuckles to my sonic it's Ryan

you got me a little worried now about my picks going deep with that you're going deep buddy

worried about your picks I don't know this but anytime we do a draft we're always a little bit

worried you should be scared I got fire today okay I don't know if you know this, but anytime we do a draft, we're always a little bit worried.

You should be scared.

I got fire today. Okay. We'll see. You do have the age to remember some, like, some of the better box art at least. So you do have something going for you on this one. Call me old, buddy. All right. And joining us. he had to ask us what we meant when we said box art,

which led us to Googling the more modern answer. And apparently it's called key art now, since games don't come in boxes anymore. It's ace. You know, they say to never judge a book by its cover, but they never said anything about video games.

Yeah. Dude. Let's be honest, man, a good cover art, that's what we're going to call it. We're going to call it cover art for the rest of this show. Key art's dumb and it's not box art anymore because there are no more boxes. Yeah, because there's no boxes anymore. So it's like, you know, whatever that picture is, when a game is announced and you get the picture, that picture that is what you see when you Google the game. That's what we're talking about. That's what we're talking about,

people. Yeah. Box art, cover art, key art, whatever you want to call it. There have been some

iconic ones, iconic ones out there.

I mean, that's why I said in the intro, man, you just close your eyes and it's like, boom,

I can picture this instantly, you know?

Yeah.

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