The bad boxart gallery

[Lyris]

Well lookee here, a new game that manages to both suck and blow in the boxart department.



Well worth digging out this thread for, I thought.

How in the hell did that pass Nintendo of America's seal of approval thing?

[Kubrick]

Has this one been posted yet?

[Spatial]

My links on the previous page have stopped working and so have a few others in this thread, so I apologise if some of these are reposts



I see Mario had a hand in writing the box art for Strider









Bad being the main word



They missed the word homoerotic from the title



I had this game and I don't remember the cover art being this bad

[Yoshimax]

Oh man I loved rock 'n' wrestle - Melbourne House did that originally did they not ?

3rd World War for Mega-CD just rocketed (!) it's way into my must haves.

[Yoshimax]

Spatial you must've had this one like me






Available at Boots

[Spatial]

Couldn't see your above image but I assume it's this one



Got mine from Boots too

[Leon Retro]

Thanks for this hilarious cover:

" In days of old when men were gay icons "

[Lyris]

The guy on the rights' mustache is very very Village People.

[MoFo2]

And Dalai Lama has pumped iron and is relaxing with some lager.

MoFo2

[Flabio]

Not sure whether to post this in the good or bad boxart thread. I can't actually decide myself which I prefer.

Wanda:

Shadow:

[spagmasterswift]

This should be in the good boxart thread - its genius

[Combination]

Thanks for this hilarious cover:

" In days of old when men were gay icons "

Is that cat looking up his crotch?

err... nevermind

[Lyris]

CLAW has atrocious box art:



I don't know why American publishers like to do this "make simplified cartoonish characters look ugly and real" thing?

[the_dude]

US Gameboy Micro boxart. God only knows what the UK will get?

[muse hunter]

^ i really like it i actually hope we get the same packaging for the micro