RadioShack is gone, but it is not forgotten. Amidst all the weekend obituaries for a company that had already been dead for years, though, people seem to have forgotten one thing: the company’s legacy of making its own supremely dorky box art.
https://gizmodo.com/so-long-radioshack-officially-goes-bankrupt-1683952033
I mean, get a load of the fonts! The placement! Some of them look like cereal boxes, others like magazine covers.
Vintage Computing & Gaming has a big gallery showing off decades of the store’s best/worst attempts at making their own box art, but I figured I’d post a few gaming-related (and GIANT MOBILE PHONE-RELATED) highlights below.
I love that this is endorsed by the biggest celebrity chess has ever known, and then…the endorsement is shown as fine print where most folks in a store won’t even see it.
