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Classic Video Game Labels + Modern Games = Pure Genius
I used to absolutely love the old Atari 2600 video game boxes and their crazy artwork. Remember those days? Before "branding" and "product placement" took over the video game industry. When games were simply called Football or Bowling or Adventure?
No fancy brands or celebrities to sell your product. Just a simple name and some groovy cover art that you hoped convey the awesomeness that was 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe.
Which is what makes the site Label Maker 2600 so much fun. Mixing and matching the latest state-of-the-art games with 1970s cartridge technology and viewing the results is endless fun. You can even select the ancient text labels, the classic picture label, and the futuristic silver label. You just need to upload an image, type in some text, and the site does the rest. Pure awesome.
Now I just need to find a label maker for the 5200, 7800, Intellivision, Odyssey, Vectrex, ColecoVision, Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, and every other obsolete gaming system ever to exist and I'll be in heaven!
Heh, a Genesis would be nice. :D
Posted by Eligecos at November 28, 2007 10:38 PMClever! And this is much better than looking at the frozen image of that Guitar Hero kid every time I log on.
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