PS2 What PS2 Game Boxes Almost Looked like

[Demon_Skeith]

Earlier this year, Phil Salvador wrote a fantastic piece on The Obscuritory about Hock Wah Yeo, a designer whose wild and weird packaging designs were the best this business has ever seen. If you were alive and wandering into video game stores in the 90s, you’d have seen and remembered his work, on games like Jetfighter. The above image is what PS2 game discs could have looked like before being shut down by PlayStation leaders.

 

[froggyboy604]

I prefer the current design of PS2 boxes which look like DVD cases.

 

[Ash]

I thought the circular thing was just a random thing until I saw the next picture. That would definitely have been a very weird and awful design.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I thought the circular thing was just a random thing until I saw the next picture. That would definitely have been a very weird and awful design.

I kind of like it, but I think it wouldn't resist damage very well.

 

[Ash]

Would be weird and difficult to store them as well. I wonder if they would look better if the whole thing had the box art on it instead of the art just being a rectange.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Would be weird and difficult to store them as well. I wonder if they would look better if the whole thing had the box art on it instead of the art just being a rectange.

you have to stack them, no way they could stand.

 

[froggyboy604]

you have to stack them, no way they could stand.

I feel Sony can also include a cardboard box to hold these circular cases, so they can stand upright.

But, some game buyers may feel a cardboard boxes are kind of cheap feeling, and prefer a durable rectangle DVD movie style plastic case for their game.

 

[Grungie]

Looks like the old PS1 long box cases that were the original packaging for PS1 games, except with some disc tray sticking out.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I feel Sony can also include a cardboard box to hold these circular cases, so they can stand upright.

But, some game buyers may feel a cardboard boxes are kind of cheap feeling, and prefer a durable rectangle DVD movie style plastic case for their game.

Sony wouldn't waste money like that sadly.

Looks like the old PS1 long box cases that were the original packaging for PS1 games, except with some disc tray sticking out.

I think I remember that.

 

[Grungie]

I think I remember that.

Sony went through 3 or 4 different style cases before settling on the standard CD jewel case. I forgot about them until I got back into collecting retro gaming and saw them at stores. The only long box game I own is og Resident Evil.

 

[Sincerem]

I am believing PS2 console is now considered a retro gaming console? its simply outdated. It was famous during earlier time, around 2010 but now other new franchise consoles have taking over.