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Super Meat Boy PC Box Art Is Amazing

Oh, hey, did you know Team Meat was releasing a boxed edition of its new PC game? Now you do!

Around the end of January, Team Meat will put out a boxed edition of Super Meat Boy for the PC. It'll be sold independently through the game's official website and ship with several goodies such as behind-the-scenes videos, sketches, and images of cutting room floor characters and art. For most SMB fans, these traditional inclusions are enough to warrant a purchase. But Team Meat has managed to make the set an almost irresistible purchase for dudes like me with just a casual interest in this really, really, frustratingly hard platformer. The cover art, folks, is just too amazing to pass up.

Seriously. Take a look:
 

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Dave Rapoza, a freelance artist who's best known for his work on Magic: The Gathering cards, is the man responsible for the box art. According to the Team Meat blog entry about this SMB In A Box, Rapoza caught the indie developers' attention with a similarly stirring and inspired piece around the launch of the Xbox Live Arcade version of the game's release. The decision to go with him for the boxed version was pretty simple after a glance or three.

SMB In A Box will run you about 20-25 bones, depending on the final price of the printing, Team Meat has said on its blog. And it's looking to be worth every penny, right?

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Around the end of January, Team Meat will put out a boxed edition of Super Meat Boy for the PC. It'll be sold independently through the game's official website and ship with several goodies such as behind-the-scenes videos, sketches, and images of cutting room floor characters and art. For most SMB fans, these traditional inclusions are enough to warrant a purchase. But Team Meat has managed to make the set an almost irresistible purchase for dudes like me with just a casual interest in this really, really, frustratingly hard platformer. The cover art, folks, is just too amazing to pass up.

Seriously. Take a look:
 

No Caption Provided

Dave Rapoza, a freelance artist who's best known for his work on Magic: The Gathering cards, is the man responsible for the box art. According to the Team Meat blog entry about this SMB In A Box, Rapoza caught the indie developers' attention with a similarly stirring and inspired piece around the launch of the Xbox Live Arcade version of the game's release. The decision to go with him for the boxed version was pretty simple after a glance or three.

SMB In A Box will run you about 20-25 bones, depending on the final price of the printing, Team Meat has said on its blog. And it's looking to be worth every penny, right?
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Nice! 
 
That is one impressive sack of meat!

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wow, this is oddly good, but also disgusting.
 
first, for the second time D:

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Best. Box. Ever.

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Its decidedely awesome yet extremely disturbing at the same time.

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I bought it on Xbox and Steam.

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Looks great, i remember box art used to be highly interpretive of the included software, those where good times

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The box art is better than the game.

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holy shit

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I own the game on Xbox AND Steam... 
 
...but I still want this. I knew Team Meat would get $60 out of me sooner or later.

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That really is perfect.

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He looks more like he'd had his skin flayed off @.@

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Bandage girl is hot.

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@Messier:
 
 "Meatbags."
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that's gross, not amazing.

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This looks amazing. Almost enough to make me want to subject myself to playing it.

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Dude should do metal album covers instead of Magic The Gathering cards.
 
edit: or should I say MEATL covers?

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Very imaginative. Love it!

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I might end up buying this.  I haven't bought the game for the PC and would sort of like to see the behind the scenes stuff for the game so that  I can get into the mind's of the sick fucks that made this game!....unless those video's are on their website? Maybe I should go check.

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This is all well and good but can anyone tell me if they patched out all the problems on the xbla version? 

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@Abyssfull said:

"He looks more like he'd had his skin flayed off @.@ "


Meat Boy DOES have his skin flayed off. 
 
http://supermeatboy.com/65/Super_Meat_Boy_vs_Peta_/#b     
 
"First off I want to thank Peta for helping us turn Super Meat Boy into a house hold name and of course for making themselves look quite foolish in the process... see (as mentioned in countless interviews) Meat Boy isn't made of animal meat, he's simply a boy without skin whos name is Meat Boy.. but sshh don't tell them that."
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Dudes meat crotch is showing.

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Fantastic.

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@Laketown said:

" that's gross, not amazing. "

Yeah. I prefer the original version any day. 
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Man, I already bought this game for both XBLA and Steam. Stop making me want to buy it again!

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That would make a great poster in my future game room.

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Thank god they didn't show Meat Boy's meat.

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I hope it's one of those oldschool full sized PC game boxes. You know, the ones the size of city phone directories.

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@Little_Socrates
I own the game on Xbox AND Steam... 
 
...but I still want this. I knew Team Meat would get $60 out of me sooner or later.
I too own both the steam and xbla versions. I think this may be enough to get me to buy a 3rd copy.

I'm also waiting for the soundtrack CD that should be out soon.
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I have Super Meat Boy on my xbox, but I might just have to buy this. Especially if it's only $25.

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I've already purchased two copies of this game: One from XBLA, and another from Steam.  Worth it.

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Now that looks awesome never thought he looked like that
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@papercut: What problems? This is the first I've heard of any...
 
I'm reluctant to buy this game twice, but come on' THIS is just waaaay too awesome to pass up.
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disgusting 

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That's appropriately disturbing.

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I would only pay $20 for that if it was a poster. Still, glad to see someone making the PC version better for a change.

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They should also sell that as a poster.

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ew
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ewww

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What i wouldn't do for a Dr. Fetus action figure in that style!!

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What is with all these babies saying ew and gross?

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@MrKlorox said:
" I hope it's one of those oldschool full sized PC game boxes. You know, the ones the size of city phone directories. "
Oh god yes, make it trapezoidal or something too.  Like the Thief boxes.   I would buy a third copy if it came in a trapezoidal box.
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@mosbawn said:
" What i wouldn't do for a Dr. Fetus action figure in that style!! "
This
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Am I the only one that realized that Dr. Fetuses monocle is on the wrong eye?

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@MattyFTM: Thank you, would love to get a 1080p version ;)
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That's oddly disturbing

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The PC version of the game is looking better and better with its awesome box art and added characters.

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Am I the only one that realized that Dr. Fetuses monocle is on the wrong eye?
The monocle is never consistently one one side.