Which box design do you like best?

[Genesis Knight]

Apparently you don't remember the griping about plastic packaging being chucked into landfills.

Which wouldn't have been a problem but for all the boneheads who tossed their boxes and manuals after they got the games. Morons...

[Mr Smith]

Which wouldn't have been a problem but for all the boneheads who tossed their boxes and manuals after they got the games. Morons...

I can't believe there were people out there who were stupid enough to do that.

The original black is the best box design. I never liked the Genesis red, so it's a good job I'm English.

[David J.]

I like the black with the gray/silver grid.

I hope to get boxes for my loose games that have those color boxes. Well, it's not a concern, but it looks cool. I dunno...

[TidalTempest]

I liked the original grid on black design of the boxes better than the lame blue with light blue dots that came out for the Mega Drive from 1993 onwards. And don't get me started about the cheap-arse cardboard cases... I think the red stripe on the Genesis cases is much more striking and stands out, even if it's just as lame from as design point-of-view.

The original silver and black stylized MEGA DRIVE logo was awesome. Then Sega went and gave us the lame-arse text-only logo. Gee, how attractive....not.

[Seldane]

I like the later European design (blue). Here's an example of that:

[108 Stars]

I think all of the designs are okay, but I do prefer the black boxes after all.
The metallic Mega Drive logo looked better than the US Genesis-logo too.
But the name Genesis sounds better to me thn Genesis.

[Seldane]

But the name Genesis sounds better to me thn Genesis.

Joking aside, I prefer the name Mega Drive, although I think both names are pretty weird, and not very good either.

[Genesisdoes]

the name "mega drive" sounds to similar to Super Nintendo. I like genesis but maybe thats because im from america.

[Nazza]

I like Mega Drive better, partly because of bias and partly because whenever Genesis is mentioned on a non-gaming forum I think of the band.

[Mr Smith]

Surely all of this topic is clouded by bias?
Americans perfer the term Genesis and the red box colour while us Europeans like the words Mega Drive and the blue colours. Obviously this doesn't apply to those who like the original black.

[Elusive]

Surely all of this topic is clouded by bias?
Americans perfer the term Genesis and the red box colour while us Europeans like the words Mega Drive and the blue colours. Obviously this doesn't apply to those who like the original black.

Who said we have to agree on the best? All people have done so far is explain why they prefer box style x over y. Come on, I don't think we're at the point we can get fanboyistic about flipping box art styles.

[Mr Smith]

Who said we have to agree on the best? All people have done so far is explain why they prefer box style x over y. Come on, I don't think we're at the point we can get fanboyistic about flipping box art styles.

I never said we had to agree, what I'm saying is there seems to be a bias towards whichever design was grown up with. I'm not complaining, just observing.

[David J.]

I like the black box the best.

[ThunderForce]

I found the black box to be very disorganize (don't ask).

I perfer the Japanese boxes because they look so nice that you can hang them on a wall!.

[Keranu]

I prefer the original like 3Dchris; black with grey grid lines. Has anyone ever noticed that the games for Master System by Activision (well at least Cyborg Hunter) also uses the black background with grey gridlines, like the original Genesis boxes? Do you think Sega noticed that and thought it would be cool to use for their Genesis boxes or was it just a coincidence by taking the normal grid design of Master System boxes and changing their color? I assume it's just a coincidence, but it's interesting.