I’m a big, big fan of old game box art. Some of it is nostalgia, yes. A lot of it is just loving the tone conveyed by the one piece of key art that wasn’t necessarily produced under the same strict constraints of whatever older computer the devs were working with at the time.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/wjkdwq/sonic-mania-sega-genesis