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Sony Japan ended up cancelling the project, but for a while the PS2's cases were going to be very weird
PS2 game boxes were entirely unremarkable, because they looked like every other plastic case available at the time, from Xbox games to DVDs. But an earlier design for them that Sony ended up ditching was a lot more interesting.
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:
These, and loads more of his works, were incredible, and would instantly catch your eye as you walked into a store. By the end of the decade however, shifts in the way the video game business worked had taken place, and a push for growing standardisation in packaging from retailers and distributors led to the demise of these unique game boxes.
Read the full article on Kotaku
