Super Spaceout

I created this for the Shacknews Game Jam V, which has the theme is “Before the NES/FamiCom”. Ive loved the artwork on old Atari products a ton, but in the case of a lot of Atari 2600 games, wondered what on earth happened between the design of the games cover art, and development of the game itself. Adventures cover had an amazing-looking dragon wandering a beautiful hedge maze the game had a bunch of giant chunky pixels and a dragon that looked more like a duck. Basic Math had psychedlic swamp...