Fake Atari 2600 Box Art That Fooled the Internet
Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)
In 2008, the blog Mightygodking posted a series of photoshopped Atari 2600 box covers with absurd titles like 'It's Fucking Checkers' and 'Obligatory Educational Game.' The images were so convincing that many readers believed they were real, sparking nostalgia for the console's heyday and its famously sturdy joysticks.
I'm an idiot. I didn't suspect anything until Fucking Checkers, and then I sat there for a few minutes wondering how that was allowed into the stores…
- gorgoiler
“Rainbow Tennis” was actually pretty good, if it’s a reference to International 3D Tennis! The games back then gave a frisson of the glamorous international world of the professional tour by changing the court ambience as follows:
Solid lime green: Wimbledon!
Hard brick red: Roland Garros!
Deep blue: the hard court ones!
Here’s an example of the, at the time in the mid 1980s, some pretty innovative 3D wire rendering in the game: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1JorNBSs4Q
- tobadzistsini
That's a pisser. Thank you xoxo
- vunderba
These are great.
Salvador Dalí’s Pinball Thrills could also have been the title of the pinball segment on Sesame Street back in the day.
Every sport ever in pong form was completely true. Magnavox Odyssey Pong + a crappy blue cellophane transparency overlay == ice hockey!.
Anyone remember Slalom for the NES?
- Panzerschrek
Was it allowed to use such cover art having nothing to do with in-game (pretty-limited) graphics?
- smcin
"Buzz Aldrin’s Space Rainbow Tennis" just needs a four-fingered sentient alien opponent. The great man would have approved...