Graphics card packaging is so boring these days. It’s usually just a photo of the GPU itself on a dark background, which is deeply unexciting. But in the ’90s and early-to-mid ‘00s, the art on graphics card boxes was absolutely unhinged. For reasons I’ll never truly understand, manufacturers used wizards, weird little goblins, aliens, amphibians in mech suits, and other poorly rendered oddities to sell their graphics cards. Here are some particularly wild examples of this brilliantly chaotic aesthetic. This is how you get people excited about an expensive chunk of silicon.
