Imagination is the key!

Take a look at this screen pic of an Atari 2600 game:

This game is called Surround. Think a light cycle battle from the movie Tron, and you get the idea of this game. And if you don't know what Tron is...well, get out. Ha, ha, ha! Basically you're this square that leaves a trail behind you. You try to surround your opponent so he crashes into your wall. You score points, have fun, and call it an evening.

But what I want to talk about is the actual box art. Take a look at this:

That's some imagination eh? Pretty wild and creative. I mean its just basically two blocks leaving a trail behind them. In those days, that is the Seventies and early Eighties, game companies had to think outside the box (or in this case the 'square'). Two guys back-to-back in front of what appears too be a doomsday machine battling it out. I love it. 

Now take a look at this:

Yawn...How utterly boring! MOST box art these days are just awful. No sense of charm, no spark of creativity. Just symbols, and drab pictures. Scratch those grey cells and get that imagination flowing people! -^>^