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http://penneydesign.tumblr.com/search/retro

http://penneydesign.tumblr.com/search/retro

is it bad that I prefer driving down Pratt and Lombard listing to Muse - The Uprising?

is it bad that I prefer driving down Pratt and Lombard listing to Muse - The Uprising?

Video game adaptations of movies have almost always been a little lacking in the quality department. Usually rushed money-grabs hoping to ride on the coattails of a film's popularity, very few of them ever seem to recapture the magic and thrill of the source material. I mean, there are a lot of very good reasons why Atari buried the E. T. game in the middle of the New Mexico desert.

But we do like a good retro mash-up around these parts, and these video game box mock-ups from Australian graphic artist Robert Penney are pretty fantastic. I can almost hear a much younger version of myself whining at my mother for a copy of "Avatar: The Game". "But look, mom! Aren't the graphics awesome?"

You can check out the full set, including Cloverfield and Snakes On A Plane, at Penney Design's tumblr. Anything you'd like to see done up in the old Atari style?