It's a similar style to a comic book cover. Definitely more interesting than the Corporate Memphis that has taken over today.

It reminds me of an old school movie poster.

It's art from an era when the art wasn't meant to represent the product in any concrete way.

It's a lot like art from old Atari 2600 games, or text adventures: The product itself had either handfuls of pixels or screenfuls of text. Print that on the box, sucker... These days, the whole culture has changed, and people get annoyed when ads for games show pre-rendered cutscenes with graphics that are merely markedly better than what the game itself can accomplish, as opposed to being in a genre of art your hardware is physically incapable of reproducing.

Same energy, I think: https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Volkswagen-Alive-Step-Step/dp/15...

If you look through old byte magazines from the 70s and 80s there’s a lot of cool ads like this. When 15 vendors were selling upgrade boards for your computer, they had to differentiate somehow.

Wow you weren’t kidding. This particular cover looks opulent.