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April 11, 2016 09:39 am PDT
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Weird and wonderful 1980s video game box art
Liza Daly writes: "Im fascinated by the fertile period between 79 and 83, when computers and consoles went mainstream and hundreds of game companies sprung up overnight. These developers were often obscuresometimes just a P.O. box and a single teenager but a few racked up enormous profits. And while there were no real rules yet, there was one agreed-upon convention: graphics were primitive and were never to be shown on the cover. This led to an awful lot of experimentation, for better or worse."
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