Before discs became the default way of storing data for video games, it was all about cartridges—and those cartridges used to have paper stickers on featuring a picture associated with the game. We're all familiar with the iconic ones like Super Mario. Bros, but there were thousands of others for all different games and consoles.
This humble canvas is what's celebrated in an annual art show called My Famicase Exhibition, hosted by METEOR, an independent gaming and clothing store in Tokyo. The show, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, asks people to submit custom-designed NES cartridges, which are printed on stickers, while also thinking up the concept behind their fictional video game.
This year there are 113 cartridges on display and the designs range from pixel art to anime, movie references, graphic design and lots more. Some of them look so intriguing you wish they were actual games. The exhibition runs until 31 May.
Check out some of the designs from this year's below:
mystic triangle by Darkness Knight
ZOMBIE MIXER!! by Mountain Graphics
Mama's Boy by Hangedman
THAT / ザット by Takobot (Marc Rios) / Game Artist
Excape from the Glitch Dimension by Daruma Studio x Game&Graphics/Graphic Designer
Jin Roh by KLGgames
Children. by Cory Schmitz
h/t Core77, via The Fox is Black
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