#theartofthebox

Bitmap Booksbitmapbooks
2025-05-06

As a young freelance artist, Mike Winterbauer cold-called his way into the games market and was rewarded by commissions for games including Solstice, Power Blade, Spaceward Ho!, The Keys to Maramon and Wing Commander.

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Bitmap Booksbitmapbooks
2025-05-06

The Art Of The Box

The story of video game box art is presented in meticulous detail, with 80,000 words of interviews, anecdotes and gaming history, complete with never-before-seen reproductions of the original artworks, uncluttered by logos and labels.

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Bitmap Booksbitmapbooks
2025-03-19

British gamers will be familiar with the legend that is the late, great Bob Wakelin. His amazing artwork graced much of Ocean Software’s output, with classics such as Head Over Heels, Slap fight, Batman, Operation wolf, Chase H.Q. and many, many others.

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Bitmap Booksbitmapbooks
2025-03-19

The Art Of The Box

With more than 80,000 words, 350 full colour images and 26 artist’s biographies, The Art Of The Box is a glorious celebration of video game box art, as told by the men and women who created the covers with paint, ink, pen and airbrush.

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Bitmap Booksbitmapbooks
2025-01-23

One of the new breed of video game box artists, Dudu Torres works digitally, usually for smaller independent games companies. Over the last decade he’s done some 30 covers for the likes of FROG X BIRD, Teocida, Blazing Chrome and The Distraint Collection.

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Bitmap Booksbitmapbooks
2025-01-23

The Art Of The Box

A visually stunning celebration of the artists who created the cover art for generations of video games.

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Bitmap Booksbitmapbooks
2024-12-05

The Art Of The Box

From VCS to Series X, The Art Of The Box presents a lavish cross section of the imagery that has graced video game packaging over the last 40 years. Includes 26 artist biographies and hundreds of colour reproductions of classic box art.

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choppschopps
2023-10-07

ich freu mich gerade wie bekloppt :)

2023-08-26

New arrival! 🤩

Much thicker than I was expecting. Super nice quality, will be very enjoyable to read and browse.

Super well packed too (it's almost as if they packed and shipped books for a living! -- see this post for a photo mastodon.social/@Gamrok/110940 )

#TheArtOfTheBox #BitmapBooks #RetroGaming

The Art of the Box book by Bitmap BooksPages from The Art of the Box showing artwork for Super Castlevania IV and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛Gamrok
2023-08-23

And here's how Bitmap Books protects the books 📦👍

(plus the package is protected from water by plastic bag!)

Shipped from England on Monday afternoon and received in France on Wednesday morning! 👍👍

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Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛Gamrok
2023-08-23

Received this very morning 🤩 (that was fast!)

Lots of illustrations of game boxes and portraits of artists 🎨 (564 pages!)

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Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛Gamrok
2023-08-14

Pre-orders for The Art Of The Box are now open! 📚🕹️

➡️ bitmapbooks.com/collections/al

Just ordered my copy 😃

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