Was clearing out some junk the other week from my loft, and came across a box random stuff I had put up there years ago before I left for Uni. Tons of crap such as libray books I had forgotten to take back, NES carts, a few old magazines and other tat. At the bottom of this box, was this...
My very own made...custom box for Street Fighter II on the Snes!
This thing, is probably no less than 13 years old!!! When SFII came out over here in PAL land, if you bought the console pack in version, you got the game in a little baggie. After about 3 years of owning the system and getting back then a respectable amount of games (probably about 8! ) it annoyed me that my SFII cartridge was the only boxless one of the lot. So it was then, I decided to make my own... :UNGGGHARGH:
I butchered many pages of Mean Machines and CVG to make this monster. All I used was a pair of scissors (obv...), Pritt Stick and...*sigh* a VHS case. Not just any VHS case, noooo. I had to wreck a priceless piece of videogame culture...
A SUPER MARIO ALLSTARS VHS PROMO VIDEO! Man...what did I do? 
Theres more though, heres a scan of the the cover...so you can print off your very own! Show it with pride to your friends and family. But also use it to zoom up up on some of my skillz.
So bad. xD
As you can see, I used the cover of the Mario Allstars page to stick all of the cut out magazine art on. I made a few mistakes and left a bit off a mess on the white background. So what did I do? Yup, used Tipp Ex to make it all dissapear without a trace! Yeah that worked, totally not visible at all.
I love how I cut out the Super Nintendo and Capcom logo with a black background on it.
The back of the box is half decent though, just that my scissor skills let it down a bit. Didn't bother with a blurb for it though. :P
But wait!!! Theres more! >_<;;; This was not just any standard SFII case...made from a VHS case of a Mario Allstars Promo...no! Its a super Special Edition!
Interior art and cart holder! To hide the fact that Mario would be visible through the see through case, I plastered the bastard up with white sticky labels. >_< I then butchered some more magazines for SFII art, and stole a SSFII picture of Ryu and plonked him in there as well.
...I remember cutting off his nose by accident. >_<
The cart holder was made by overlapping mutliple sticky labels over eachother, untill I got something resembling a box so I could put the cart in. :P It worked actually.
I bet I could edit that in photohop and make it quite good, but I would need to learn how to use photoshop. Really cheered me up finding this strangley, as it just reminded me how much I loved to play games back then as much as I do now, that I went to such lengths to do this. ^_^
So yeah, thats my attempt at making my own custom box art when I was 13-14 years old. :P What do you think? :\/
Did anyone else make their own box art when they were kids\now for games that had no boxes? Has anyone made their own custom cases or artwork for games they dont like the official art for? Well this is the thread to post it up then.
I can't have been the only sad bastard!
My very own made...custom box for Street Fighter II on the Snes!
This thing, is probably no less than 13 years old!!! When SFII came out over here in PAL land, if you bought the console pack in version, you got the game in a little baggie. After about 3 years of owning the system and getting back then a respectable amount of games (probably about 8! ) it annoyed me that my SFII cartridge was the only boxless one of the lot. So it was then, I decided to make my own... :UNGGGHARGH: I butchered many pages of Mean Machines and CVG to make this monster.
All I used was a pair of scissors (obv...), Pritt Stick and...*sigh* a VHS case. Not just any VHS case, noooo. I had to wreck a priceless piece of videogame culture...A SUPER MARIO ALLSTARS VHS PROMO VIDEO!
Man...what did I do? Theres more though, heres a scan of the the cover...so you can print off your very own! Show it with pride to your friends and family. But also use it to zoom up up on some of my skillz.
So bad. xD
As you can see, I used the cover of the Mario Allstars page to stick all of the cut out magazine art on. I made a few mistakes and left a bit off a mess on the white background. So what did I do? Yup, used Tipp Ex to make it all dissapear without a trace! Yeah that worked, totally not visible at all.
I love how I cut out the Super Nintendo and Capcom logo with a black background on it.
The back of the box is half decent though, just that my scissor skills let it down a bit. Didn't bother with a blurb for it though. :P
But wait!!! Theres more! >_<;;; This was not just any standard SFII case...made from a VHS case of a Mario Allstars Promo...no! Its a super Special Edition!
Interior art and cart holder!
To hide the fact that Mario would be visible through the see through case, I plastered the bastard up with white sticky labels. >_< I then butchered some more magazines for SFII art, and stole a SSFII picture of Ryu and plonked him in there as well....I remember cutting off his nose by accident. >_<
The cart holder was made by overlapping mutliple sticky labels over eachother, untill I got something resembling a box so I could put the cart in. :P It worked actually.
I bet I could edit that in photohop and make it quite good, but I would need to learn how to use photoshop.
Really cheered me up finding this strangley, as it just reminded me how much I loved to play games back then as much as I do now, that I went to such lengths to do this. ^_^So yeah, thats my attempt at making my own custom box art when I was 13-14 years old. :P What do you think? :\/
Did anyone else make their own box art when they were kids\now for games that had no boxes? Has anyone made their own custom cases or artwork for games they dont like the official art for? Well this is the thread to post it up then.
I can't have been the only sad bastard!
although looking at them now, they do seem a bit ropey - especially the FSW one. maybe one day i'll be arsed enough to finish it.
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