If you were a computer gamer in the West in the '80s, you're probably familiar with Epyx and their iconic box art. I love a lot of it but I'm also curious what people that didn't grow up with this stuff think of it.
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Do you like Epyx's neon '80s box art?
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This.. What a load of nonsense. Especially when you're talking about Winter Games.
I like how they balanced their neon outline theme with the marketing need to have a full-color picture of Barbie for the box art.
I also like how they call it and the GI Joe game "Computer Activity Toys." Because "video games" rot kids brains, I guess.
I also like how they call it and the GI Joe game "Computer Activity Toys." Because "video games" rot kids brains, I guess.
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"Strategy Games for the Action Game Player" sort of applies to some of their games but not others. Impossible Mission is platforming mixed with puzzle elements, Apshai is action mixed with RPG (there weren't as many games that mixed those genres at the time), Puzzle Panic mixes puzzles and reflexes.
Oil Barons is video/board game hybrid. It might be Epyx's least impressive game graphically.
Oil Barons - Wikipedia
Action games with strategic elements? Action games for the strategic mind? Thinking man's action games?
I grew up with it and I don't like it, although it was well illustrated compared to all the aerographed child drawings you found on game covers (mega man nes)
I have zero nostalgia for the 80's and i'm really tired of being fed this aesthetic in a never ending revival. It was a bad time in my youth and everything from this time period makes me cringe and takes me to shitty memories.
Same for the music, fucking hate vapourwave and it's endless variations.
I have zero nostalgia for the 80's and i'm really tired of being fed this aesthetic in a never ending revival. It was a bad time in my youth and everything from this time period makes me cringe and takes me to shitty memories.
Same for the music, fucking hate vapourwave and it's endless variations.
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I get it. The worst years of my life were in the '90s so sometimes stuff from that era triggers shitty memories but I usually try to separate the popular culture from it.
Oh man,thanks for this OP.Nostalgia overload!!
Every weekend my friends would come round to my house and we'd binge on Summer Games 1/2 and Winter Games on my C64.
We destroyed so many joysticks playing those games,lol.....haven't seen those boxarts for years.Great memories!
Every weekend my friends would come round to my house and we'd binge on Summer Games 1/2 and Winter Games on my C64.
We destroyed so many joysticks playing those games,lol.....haven't seen those boxarts for years.Great memories!
And the impressive thing is that almost all of those games were very, very good.
Epyx was a beast back then.
Loved them, and most of the games too. Remember getting this turkey for christmas though:
Shame Epyx abandoned the neon covers from '86 with the releases of World Games and Super Cycle.
Shame Epyx abandoned the neon covers from '86 with the releases of World Games and Super Cycle.
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I had some fun with it but it's not even really a proper game, just a roam around chore sim. The theme song is pretty cool, though.
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I'm disappointed they didn't use the original art for the box of the Switch version of Impossible Mission (which includes the C64 game).
It would have been nicer than this:
It would have been nicer than this: