Best and worst of reissue boxart

[harborline_765]

I’m sure most of us are familiar with some of the worst boxart in the land of reissues.

The Konami Europe “Double Pack” selections:

European PSP Essentials:

But what about those times where it was handled tastefully? In Japan, it’s not uncommon for publishers to have their own “best price” labels in addition to the platform holders, but I wanted to kick things off with the Japanese “Minna no Susume” releases on Wii.

I had no idea until today that the “Minna no Susume” (known as Nintendo Selects globally) packaging actually took on the form of a sleeve that goes over the original case and art. Classy!

What are some of your favourites or most derided reissues?

[D.Lo]

Aha lol, Konami has form with this

I loved the parodies too

[D.Lo]

Always thought the Zombies ate my neighbours reprint missed the mark in art style too, with fantasy novel style realistic shading.

Why didn’t they just use the existing PAL box art if they wanted to drop the original b-movie poster style one? Not brilliant but looks more like the game.

[razorbeamz]

I think that the European Platinum Hits boxes for PS2 are really ugly

Also the North American PS3 greatest hits with the red cases look really bad in a collection.

The European “PSP Essentials” collection also looks pretty bad.

[D.Lo]

@razorbeamz

I think that the European Platinum Hits boxes for PS2 are really ugly

Yeah, the only thing that beats them in the ugly battle are NTSC PS1 Greatest Hits.

[razorbeamz]

The Japanese BEST HIT collection on PS2 and PS3 is also pretty bad

And the EA Best Hit is even worse.

[harborline_765]

I’m slightly partial to the BEST HIT selection for some reason, I guess it’s just the left border that’s actually quite attractive somehow. had no idea Mamorukun Curse saw a rerelease under that label!

The EA Best Hits though…ugly!