These retro video game box designs for popular contemporary movies and television programes are by artist Robert Penney. While they are, unfortunately, fake games designed for a fake system, they look just like the old Atari 2600 covers, complete with fake discount bin stickers and hand-scrawled writing. Penney describes them as:
Graphic illustrations of 1970 and 80s-style video game boxes with modern themes of movies/TV shows, using the fake system gaming CVS. There’s a rather long history of lackluster video game tie-ins (1982’s E.T. for example) that were clearly rushed, sharing very little of the storyline, look and behavior of their respective films. This inspired a series of late ’70s and ’80s computer game boxes with modern themes, keeping only the bare minimum information.
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