One artist re-imagined an old-school Atari 2600 game case for Minecraft, with cover art that is incredibly faithful to the 80s design and aesthetic.
Artist Ultimate Ink Trash created a fan-made retro-inspired box art reimagining what Minecraft would have looked like on the Atari 2600. The Atari 2600 was released back in 1980 and has a library filled with now-classic arcade games such as Pacman, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, and the more infamous E.T.
Box art for Atari 2600 games typically came in two flavors. They were either silly and cartoony for games like Mario Bros and Donkey Kong, or realistic and dramatic like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Berzerk, and Solaris. In either case, these box covers were colorful and attention-grabbing, thus they have stayed in people's minds even decades later. One fan appears to have taken this style and applied it to a much more modern game.
From the grainy texture, dramatic tone, color palette, and fonts, to the gray border around the art, Ultimate Ink Trash's art is a remarkably faithful replication of the art style seen on the classic cartridge boxes. The original boxes drew in buyers with their vibrant covers, only for the games to be comprised of bare-bones basic pixel images with limited color palettes.
The game of Minecraft itself has served as a platform for imagination for over a decade now. It's inspired countless pieces of art both in and out of the game. From innovative buildings and sculptures inside the game itself, some structures replicate ones in real life. To fan art like the Atari cover, animations, original music, theory videos, fully developed stories and characters, and beyond.