Olly Moss started something fantastically original. He took the original Penguin Classic literature theme, and applied it to hit games. After the Something Awful.com community got ahold of this, they went bonkers. The result? A myriad of classic gaming covers for you to go wild over. Hit the jump for more.
If these actually came out someday, I would easily buy some!
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I love this. Absolutely dynamite stuff! There’s so much creativity out there amongst the gameratii it never ceases to amaze me.
My favourite is THE SIMS, REAL LIFE SIMULATOR.
Fantastic.
I love that one, and I’m fond of the Killer 7 one myself. The Something Awful community is a collective consciousness of some of the most hardcore gamers, and talented artists.
Absolutely incredible. If Splinter Cell and Smash Bros. is fair game, I want to see Resident Evil.
I dug through the article and found a few more gems. The Resident Evil one you requested, Tim, and the famous “What is a man?!” speech from Dracula in Symphony of the Night.
Wow, those are all brilliant.
I really like the Devil May Cry one. It kinda looks like a movie poster. Hmm…that makes me think.
Wow. I am blown away.
I’m glad I stumbled on these. Amazing…..
Is awesome
Great work, love to see more sometime.
The killer 7 one was really cool.
Stumbled here. Those are awesome.
To the creator of this article; I stumbled here. Looking at your site more, you have stuff like this every week. Registered.
For some reason people are bitching this is from Somethingawful.com. The article writer gives them credit twice, so I don’t understand the problem.
K7 one is sick
Stumbled. This is fantastic. I love the resident evil one!
Loved the Left 4 Dead one, the brown circle for Louis made me chuckle.
Great job overall.
Ugh, I suddenly have to play Shining In The Darkness!
I actually noticed the comparison from the Twelve Angry Men cover to the RE4 cover.
Favorites are the DMC and Guitar Hero covers.
all of these are…well, full of win
stumbled with delight
WTF
I want to know what is an original title of an old game that looks like this.
Lulz @ teh L4D one. brown dot. rofl.
Something Awful, the source of much internet awesomeness.
Something Awful, the source of much internet awesomeness.
wow, some of those are better than the original box art.
I just had to take another look at these this month: yep, still awesome!
“Prince of Persia;An Arabian epic.” wow… that was really stupid. persia and arabia are two very different cultures (very). it is like “prince of italy; a norwegian epic”
all of these are stupid
Fincan, don’t be too harsh there exist Arabian tales about Persian princes, Just like English Shakespeare wrote about Italian princes.
Stumbled here, nice covers. Im glad im not the only one in the world who loved shining in the darkness. Good show
somethingawful did this too. Anyone see that?
this is what they would look like if steam owned them
I can smell the old book smell as I speak.