As described on their site Penney Design, video games based on movie franchises can be seen going as far back as E.T. (which supposedly has a warehouse dedicated to housing all the unsold copies of the ill received game). While Hollywood and the video game industry have attempted to merge with video game to movie tie-ins like Street Fighter or Super Mario Bros., the real moneymakers come from frequently rushed movie games which attempt to stretch out plots of a two hour movie over a ten hour game, usually to dismal results.

Taking all this knowledge and cynicism to heart, Penney Design has crafted some custom video game box art if recently released properties like Avatar had been released in the Atari 2600 era. Take a look below at some of the stylized designs which, though simplistic, do a great job of capturing the essence of the properties they pay homage too.

Also, take the time to appreciate the subtle nuances to the works like the “Instructions missing” from the Cloverfield box or the fact that they think anyone would ever pay $4.00 for a The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift game on any generation console.

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As the next installment of the Resident Evil series picks up steam some casting news has been revealed in a somewhat unofficial way. According to actor Boris Kodjoe, Prison Break‘s Wentworth Miller will be appearing in Resident Evil: Afterlife. While nothing official has come out regarding his character there is speculation that he may play Leon Kennedy, a police officer from the video game itself who has yet to appear in any of the films.

Kodjoe also gave an idea of how his character will meet up with Milla Jovovich’s Alice in the new film, “She comes across an LA jail surrounded by [zombies]… and there’s a couple of survivors and she lands on top of the roof and partners up with me to fight the guys that are coming after them. We’re trying to get all of the survivors out of the jail to safety.”