N64 Month | Nintendo 64 Box Art Part 2: Best of the West

By Jorge Ba-oh 14.03.2012 3

Cubed3 has explored Japanese Nintendo 64 box-art and is now reminiscing with a selection closer to home, artwork readers may remember seeing leaping from store shelves, or a fresh look at the artwork of old.

Western artwork often differed from its Japanese companions, opting for a possibly more aggressive and bolder look; more rendered 3D images and stronger colours. That said, some of the designs for these titles were simply gorgeous -- complementing classic masterpieces or so good that they were able to sell even the worst games on the format.

The boxes themselves were also turned horizontally, sitting on a landscape view compared to the Japanese vertical stance, with Europeans getting a more compressed look with chunky black borders.

Here is Cubed3's selection of US/European Nintendo 64 boxes that readers may or may not have seen before [ Click to Enlarge ]:








Be sure to let the Cubed3 team know what Western box art took your fancy at the time or ones that have been stumbled across further down the line.

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bornforthis43 is offline. bornforthis43 15.03.2012#1

Oh man, Super Mario 64's box art is pure awesome! That was a major reason why that was my first video game. And boy was it an incredible one.

 
Martin_ is offline. Martin_ 15.03.2012#2

For me, it's out of OoT (gotta love the PAL box for that game), Hybrid Heaven, Shadow Man, and I guess Banjo-Kazooie.

 
jesusraz is offline. jesusraz 15.03.2012#3

Martin_ said:
For me, it's out of OoT (gotta love the PAL box for that game), Hybrid Heaven, Shadow Man, and I guess Banjo-Kazooie.

The two bolded ones share the crown for me, with Holy Magic Century in 3rd.

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