Animal Crossing, NEs style!
Gears of War 2 on the humble NES? You wish
Imagine if video game console technology stopped at the NES and never progressed to the 3D powerhouses we have today.
A scary thought, perhaps?
Not for the people at video game comedy site the-minusworld (yes, that is how it’s spelt); they’ve posted up some fake box art for some seriously cool ‘modern NES classics’ such as Dead Space, KillZone 2 and Call of Duty.
Check out the complete gallery here.
You might also want to check out the site's excellent Atari 2600 cover fakes, too.
Here’s a few of our personal faves from the NES range:
1. CowLaunch
02 Apr 2009, 11:12 BST
These are so cool, I'd like to have the Mario Kart one as a t-shirt or something. I think the Animal Crossing picture looks like a patchwork drawing.
2. Corbie
02 Apr 2009, 11:25 BST
I love these too. Ahhh brings back the memories of the good ole NES days when I spent every penny I had on NES games.
3. LinkGalaxy
02 Apr 2009, 12:00 BST
Soo cool!!
And the games could be cool in 8-bit style!
4. Kevin
02 Apr 2009, 12:44 BST
Cool box arts. Gotta love the NES!
5. chunky_droid
02 Apr 2009, 12:58 BST
I'm certain Mario Kart could look better than that
Cool nonetheless!
6. Turkey Brutus
02 Apr 2009, 14:48 BST
Yeah, Mario Kart looks awful!
I'd still like to play it though...
7. Tony
02 Apr 2009, 15:23 BST
This is really good. I would love to try Animal Crossing in 8-bit graphics. And I think Mario Kart would look better than that box shot.
8. SmaMan
02 Apr 2009, 15:30 BST
Actually, the software pirates made a Mario Kart motorcycle type game for the NES. They even made Kart Fighter... which is actually kinda good, for being a pirate.
9. jncorp
02 Apr 2009, 15:34 BST
That is quite awesome. I think they would make awesome tshirts as well. Maybe this can serve as inspiration for Nintendo and others to make 8bit sequels to some of their franchises, as Capcom did with MegaMan.
10. Quimby
02 Apr 2009, 15:50 BST
Thats sweet! I have been bored recently so I thinks I might try my hand at making some deliberately retro games and see if I can make them sweet while sticking fairly close too an imagined NES's capabilities.
11. Bensei
02 Apr 2009, 16:25 BST
I'm sure Mario Kart would look better
12. Ricardo91
02 Apr 2009, 16:41 BST
Awesome! Mario Kart looks pretty bad, but all the other ones are very cool. I'd love to play an 8-bit version of Animal Crossing and a top-down shooter version of Gears of War.
13. sponge
02 Apr 2009, 16:56 BST
i would play ALL of those.
14. SilentJ
02 Apr 2009, 18:41 BST
Those all look really cool! I was going to recommend they do Little Big Planet & Fallout 3 but that was before checking the link. They did a great job! Portal looks like it would have actually been a pretty cool Atari game.
15. Cryo
03 Apr 2009, 00:01 BST
I love the-minusworld, there hilarious
16. gameking23
03 Apr 2009, 01:52 BST
Wow love the 8-bit Animal Crossing
17. StarDust
03 Apr 2009, 05:41 BST
Hahaha, hilarious!
My mother and father denied me a Nintendo for years when I was growing up
My obsession with Nintendo started in 2002 - We were cleaning out the garage, and at the Tender age of 21, I uncovered a Vintage Nintendo system, still in the original box - I made a little shopping visit to Game-X-Change and went berserk buying NES games - So here I am 7 years and 5 consoles later 
18. Relevant Latty
03 Apr 2009, 13:14 BST
How did the do that! Its amazing!
Would like to see a Halo cover or maybe even Conker in the NES Era
19. Rad-RKR
03 Apr 2009, 14:10 BST
ha, ha, Dead Space on NES! Like that would have really happened. This article is great stuff, by the way.
20. stubag
03 Apr 2009, 20:30 BST
Absolutely awesone stuff, May try and get a T-shirt made up just as CowLaunch suggested. Which image to use though?
21. AlphaNerd01
04 Apr 2009, 05:51 BST
So many people are making designs in old-Nintendo style box art. I saw a John Cena t-shirt today in this type of design. Weird.
22. sukTHEfac
05 Apr 2009, 05:49 BST
lol what a great article.
23. sukTHEfac
05 Apr 2009, 05:50 BST
do resident evil and little big planet next!
24. Bazly
21 Apr 2009, 17:35 BST
The funny part is, I would seriously play these, no hesitation. NES Sports? Hells yes I would play that. I can imagine the controls now...
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