#bgba modpost

The Best Video Game Boxart Tournament is now open!

This is a tournament to submit and vote on the best game box art around! Does everyone know and love your favorite already? Do you have an obscure import release to throw into the ring? Or just a game whose boxart you think is sorely overlooked?

Now's your chance to send in your favorite game covers!

Rules

Video game box art only! This isn't a tournament for board/tabletop games.

Front box art only! Not the manual, back, or any inserts! (Reversible art is A-ok though, as long as it's what ultimately displays on the front of the case!)

Print only! This isn't for home screen, Steam, or eShop icons, it's for boxes! Thus the name!

Propaganda is encouraged! Whether it gets posted is at the mod's discretion.

Unlimited submissions! Can't decide? Maybe you know one that'll get a laugh? Send it in! It's all for the court of popular opinion to decide!

Structure

Submissions are open now until TBD.

The Qualifying Round will start April 5, 2026.

Qualifier polls will consist of 10 entries each.

The winner of each Qualifier will get a free bye to the bracket.

Tournament seeds will be determined by votes earned in the Qualifier.

The entries with the fewest overall votes will not qualify.

The bracket will (tentatively) begin July 1, 2026.

If you have any questions or comments, send me an ask! But please, no submissions in the askbox.

Have fun, and may the best art win!

It's inescapable with this sort of thing, really. You're always going to have biases when polling the general public. Sometimes that's "favorite game" bias, others the assumption that a game does (or doesn't) "deserve" to win a given poll for some reason, and sometimes it really is just an issue of reading comprehension and clicking a button because there's a button on the screen. It's impossible to weed out those biases, but I think it's fun to see where the biases hold and when they get upended. Sometimes something really unexpected causes a major upset, and those are really entertaining (hello, stooge fandom!).

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Hey all, I got this submission for Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One (Deluxe Edition):

Someone entered the reversible art for Hollow Knight, but there's no scan available. The submitter said that either would work, so: if anybody with a scanner and a physical copy of Hollow Knight could send me a scan of the front, I would really appreciate it!

Sending out an honorable mention to this gorgeous flyer for Cinematronics' Star Castle (Arcade, 1980). This piece is absolutely beautiful, without overstating the gameplay, but unfortunately arcade flyers don't count as box art, so it won't be part of this tournament.

While there was a home release of this game (on the Vectrex!), the box for it is unfortunately terrible:

Huh. Well.