Greg Martin, the awesome 90s Sonic boxart guy passes away

I've been looking at some of the tributes to this guy online and they're showing sketches and hi-res scans of box art he worked on. He didn't just make Sonic but a ton of other stuff too.

There's some intense nostalgia for me in many of these gorgeous pictures he worked on... back then you couldn't afford all these beautiful looking games so all you could do was stare at them in the shop and be absorbed into those worlds. That's what gaming in the early '90s was like for many kids.

Now that I've played many of these games, they rarely live up to their box art! The legacy of his work is not to be forgotten in a hurry. You can still see some of this art when you look at the games being advertised on the eShop!