New vs Old?

[Mista_Ed]

Aren't they the same size/shape as Acclaim and Accolade games too?

almost, but not quite...the accolade ones are slighly bevelled on the top edge as you look at it...and the screws on the back are covered too unlike the EA cases

[Obviously]

I mean white as in the cover design, not the actual clamshell itself. It was bland.

That was really only for the sports titles though. The rest of their boxes are like the older 3rd Party Genesis titles that have whatever box art they felt like having. Most EA boxes are crappy looking though with the main art framed by some bland colors and shapes.

Also when Sega moved to cardboard some games stopped using the stripes. Monopoly and Wheel of Fortune come to mind.

[tehflah]

I only own one or two of the games contained in the cardboard box, but man, you gotta wonder how much money that was saving Sega. Probably a decent amount

Sucks that we, the consumer, had to deal with having nothing durable to store the blame thing in. I was always scratching my head as to where the hell to put the S&K cart both because it came in a cardboard box and because it was a strange shape. Think I ended up settling on a plastic bag.... Ghetto as hell

~FlaH

[gamegenie]

yeah, pink definately made it so much cooler to buy Game Gear games.^^

Nah, you´re all wrong. The black/white grid does not look dated at all imo, it´s pure awesomenes.

The stripes always remind me of the Gameboy, which had the grey stripe.

the gamegear was purple not pink.

Red = Genesis
Blue = Sega CD
Purple = Game Gear
Gold = 32X
White/Silver = Saturn

[Guntz]

the gamegear was purple not pink.

Looks pretty damn pink to me:

Gold = 32X

That's really stretching it. 32X boxes are clearly yellow. They have no metallic appearance whatsoever.

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[Mista_Ed]

....Looks pretty damn pink to me....

thats not pink....thats 'cerise'

[snotmaw]

thats not pink....thats 'cerise'

no! it's magenta lol

[kool kitty89]

I mean white as in the cover design, not the actual clamshell itself. It was bland.

Again, I've never seen an EA game line that. I wasn't talking about the plastic color either, but the box art and styling in general. (looks pretty attractive from what I've seen and on the couple EA games I have -a bit PC-like, but that's not a bad thing )

[Tasuke]

I'm just going to say, the grid was painfully 80's. The stripe still holds up pretty well.

and WHAT, pray-tell, was so BAD about 1980's styling?!

[retrospiel]

^^yeah that's one reason I prefer the red stripes, because the black grid games were far from looking uniform and many games neglected to use it at all.

Interestingly in Europe they kept the grid with each and every single release up until late 1993 when they switched to blue (which I hated but still do prefer over red).

In Japan they stuck with the theme from day one to the very end. They just added a blue stripe to the front cover in 1994 but kept the original theme for the spine.

I remember when my brother bought James Pond II: Robocod which was the very first EA release we had. It looked awful on our shelf with the other games. A year later they switched to the blue template which again really frustrated me. And around that time EA switched from black/yellow to white for their sports games. >_<

[Obviously]

and WHAT, pray-tell, was so BAD about 1980's styling?!

Coming from the guy who made fun of the totally 80's cool US Arrow Flash cover.

Looking "too 80's" probably isn't the right term to use though since we can look on it with fond nostalgia now. More like the design looked dated to the executives of the time plus they probably wanted to differentiate it from the Master System.

[Olls]

and WHAT, pray-tell, was so BAD about 1980's styling?!

Everything out of the 80s is known to be extremely cheesy and bad. Clothing, hair cuts, tv shows, you name it.
Except -some- of the music.

[Obviously]

But it gave us some fantastic movies like Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones... etc.

[retrospiel]

Video games of the (late) 80s were AWESOME!

[snotmaw]

everything about the eighties (besides the black grid genesis design) was super over the top awesomeness