Seeing this German board game, ÖL, on one of my Kleinanzeigen searches reminded me how I used to collect vintage board games for the beautiful box art like this.
Always arresting and high quality, board game box art was fabulous in the Sixties and Seventies, standards which took these games around the globe. I guess you could call it boomer box art, when everything was still an adventure.
Here's the UK and Finnish versions, OIL and ÖLJY.
Other fantastic boxes I've found over the years include these Waddingtons beauties, all good enough to hang on a wall:
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Do you have some favourite board game box art readers?
Those are stunning. Alas, I never had many board games, and very few boxed ones. Certainly none in this league.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting how the Oil game has its artwork cropped differently in each version, and the different BP logos on the funnel of the ship.
I found a bargain board game in the 70's I think it was called Operation Moonbase and it was Italian? It featured pressed tin hemispheres of the Earth and Moon and magnetic lander vehicles to place on each. There were two plastic space station number spinners and I think a figure 8 board path.
ReplyDeleteThe cover art was a full length astronaut in Mercury style silver suit, somewhat like the first cover of Ranger magazine...
All long gone now and I can find no trace of it, from my attempts at Googling for it...