{"id":113201,"date":"2016-12-07T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113201"},"modified":"2016-12-07T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T11:08:00","slug":"video-game-cover-art-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/113201-video-game-cover-art-then-and-now","title":{"rendered":"Video game cover art – then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Video game box art is constantly evolving alongside player expectations and the game it advertises.<\/p>\n

It is interesting to note that some long-running game franchises retain the basic cover art structure of their early titles, while some scrap it completely in favour of a more modern style.<\/p>\n

We’ve compared the earliest and latest video game cover art from a number of long-running franchises, with interesting results.<\/p>\n

Check out how much these games’ cover art has changed since their debut titles, and how much it hasn’t (Click on the images to enlarge)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Tomb Raider<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1996 – 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"tomb-raider\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Doom<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1993 – 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"doom\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Call of Duty<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2003 – 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"cod-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Final Fantasy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1987 – 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"final-fantasy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Civilization<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1991 – 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"civilization\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Grand Theft Auto<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1997 – 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"gta\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Elder Scrolls<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1994 – 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"elder-scrolls\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mortal Kombat<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1992 – 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"mortal-kombat\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Diablo<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1996 – 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"diablo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ultima Series<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1981 – 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ultima\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Assassin’s Creed<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2007 – 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"assassins-creed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Metal Gear<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1987 – 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"metal-gear\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Legend of Zelda<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1986 – 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"legend-of-zelda\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fallout<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1997 – 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"fallout\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now read:\u00a0Does a virtual reality affair count as cheating?<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We compare the earliest and latest video game cover art from a number of long-running franchises, with interesting results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":113257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[8084,13676,1966,23677],"class_list":["post-113201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-box-art","tag-cover-art","tag-games","tag-through-the-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113267,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113201\/revisions\/113267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}