Minecraft Atari Cover Fan Art Looks Like A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
Artist Ultimate Ink Trash created a fan-made retro-inspired box art reimagining what Minecraft would have looked like on the Atari 2600. The Atari 2600 was released back in 1980 and has a library filled with now-classic arcade games such as Pacman, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, and the more infamous E.T.
Box art for Atari 2600 games typically came in two flavors. They were either silly and cartoony for games like Mario Bros and Donkey Kong, or realistic and dramatic like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Berzerk, and Solaris. In either case, these box covers were colorful and attention-grabbing, thus they have stayed in people's minds even decades later. One fan appears to have taken this style and applied it to a much more modern game.
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Under the Reddit username U_Ink_Trash, the artist created a fake box art cover for Minecraft, reimagined as what it could have looked like as an Atari 2600 cartridge, as a tribute to both the game and console. Taking a page from the realistic and dramatic Atari game boxes, the image depicts a less square imagining of Minecraft's Steve, having his home invaded by a ghastly interpretation of a Creeper. The Creeper's eyes and mouth glow red with fire, primed to explode, but perhaps the most ghoulish thing about its appearance is that it bears an uncanny valley sort of resemblance to a human. The post is capturing fans' attention and imagination as they theorize about what an Atari version of Minecraft could have played like.
From the grainy texture, dramatic tone, color palette, and fonts, to the gray border around the art, Ultimate Ink Trash's art is a remarkably faithful replication of the art style seen on the classic
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