A few months back, I made some parody Atari game boxes of four romantic comedy movies. They were published in an issue of Kill Screen Magazine, which I posted about here. I figured it was about time to share them in all their high res glory, so here they are; four Atari games that never were for movies that definitely did not need games.
A big thanks to AtariAge for their awesome fonts, which I now use whenever I can. The bride on horseback in “Runaway Bride” comes from this great photo by Steve Jurvetson on Flickr. All the other graphic elements were done from scratch by yours truly.
I tried to cover a number of different box styles. I’m very fond of Activision’s flat, cartoony art and diagonal banners. My favorite is the expanded Atari 2600 silver style used for “Little Black Book”. Who knows what Little Black Book the Game is about or how it would play. It seems that the programmers didn’t actually see the movie.
