That's A Dope Disc

Syzygy

Bushido Blade NTSC-J SLPM-86020

Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix Original Soundtrack

Silver Jiken NTSC-J SLPS-02320

“the silver incident”
sucked a lot of blood.
claimed a lot of lives.
created the hero.
rubbed out the hope.
was act obeyed on very naturally human instinct……

The hex string is the title in Shift_JIS.

Minor IC forum meme Suzuki Bakuhatsu NTSC-J SLPM-86513

Phantasy Star Online Ver.2 PAL MK-51193-50

I wasn’t going to get into it in the top 10 thread but SORRY NOOBS, Ver.2 specifically is the best PSO

I have a lot more but I’ll trickle them in.

JoJoestar

Funbil

I’m a big fan of how the Valis discs use blue! Obviously it’s really striking on this first disc, along with the pure black Yuko silhouette, but I really like how it’s used to color and shade characters on the sequels’ discs. Just a really neat convention to have across the four games.

Syzygy

PDZ and UFO were on my shortlist too!

Funbil
fetus8
More silhouettes, an easy way to make a striking image:

北斗の拳世紀末救世主伝説 SLPS-02993

Gorgeous low-poly game BTW.

ブレイヴフェンサー武蔵伝 SLPS-01490

By coincidence, the inverse of the above.

DON’T PANIC! SEAMAN heh, heh T-39401M

I can’t find the disk alone in good resolution but looking confirmed similar designs for Seaman 2, the bonus disc, and even this (still?) undumped promotion disc.

Space Channel 5 HDR-0029 (in hindsight a poor choice of product code)

The PAL release isn’t bad either and arguably better for its simplicity. For some reason many Dreamcast games have entirely different disc art in each region and PAL got a lot of the best ones. Thankfully the DC does 60Hz VGA!

kory

While I brainstorm specific examples, let me just say that every PS1 disc is a dope disc because that black surface is so badass. The purplish-bluish PS2 ones were aight too. Oh, and the GCN discs were adorable.

billy

Serious answer: the rounded edges of Wii U discs are so pleasant to handle.

◉◉maru

I am pretty sure that’s the only time in my life (about two years ago) that I have bought a game solely because of the disc art.

Syzygy

That’s one of them in my queue lol

For another example that uses the rest of the paper inserts:

Diablo NTSC-U SLUS-00619

fetus8

Here’s some of my favs from my personal collection:

Sorry about my fingers. Lol

pasquinelli

fetus8

lots of great discs here, but my heart cries out for this one, not because of the game either, but it’s just… it’s the sg1000 all over again, i don’t know.

Jax

Ore no Ryouri

Persona 2 Eternal Punishment (There’s some cool texture here that might not fully come through in the photo)

UFO ~ A day in the life ~

treefroggy

Jax
Mine is the demo version :j

beets

we <3 katamari

beets

Octotune : Splatoon 2 Ost.
(I hope I haven’t opened the non videogame disc floodgates)

Syzygy

beets
That’s inevitable: many collector’s editions with a soundtrack that forms a pair with the game disc, etc..

◉◉maru
Huh, never consciously noticed this SFZ thing.

Kirby Air Ride NTSC-U

I never owned a Gamecube so this is the only GC disc I’ve got to show.

As for fighting games . . .

Capcom vs. SNK Millenium Fight 2000 Pro NTSC-J T-1247M

The King of Fighters ’99 Evolution NTSC-J T-3102M

This one is also hard to see in a photo, it’s a “hologram” of K in with a dark gunmetal texture.

◉◉maru

That Splatoon disc design reminds me I love two-tone stuff and generally Nintendo’s covers following that technical limitation and/or economical mantra have left an impression on me. Gamecube discs were cute like all small things but they gave very little space for fun design once you remove all the obligatory logos and legal lines. Wii gave much more real estate to the creative minds at the company. Also there were sometimes cute variations among regions.

I believe the first Wii game to break the two-tone rule at Nintendo was New Super Mario Bros. in 2009 (feel free to correct!). Which at the time definitely made the game disc pop, and the character symmetry with dot patterns on this specific disc art is iconic, but the art of subsequent Nintendo games on Wii lost the charm of two-tone discs, retrospectively. Only notable exception that comes to mind is the pretty clever use of the disc hole for Xenoblade’s disc art.

Among Non-Nintendo examples of two-tone ascetism, I like the continuity of Street Fighter Zero with its heroines, even across different platforms with different design guidelines.

Syzygy

Never doubt Sega’s copy in the 90s

fridgeboy

I’ve always been partial to these ice blue MGS disks

kory

fridgeboy I especially appreciated the contrast with the classy minimalist red and white cover art

tokucowboy

Hot damn these are very good

I was just reminded today that I once owned this Yoshi’s Story soundtrack CD that is actually shaped like Yoshi’s head: