The bad boxart gallery

[Baseley09]

I like those Tuff enuff & Crackdown ones.

I think age is melting my mind.

[PeteJ]

Ugh the Crackdown boxart is horrible....

Or is it?

The game is going for a comic book approach, clearly ripping off GTA (and allowed too seeing as the lead designer created GTA!) and obviously tounge in cheek. Win, I believe. It'll sell like ****e and be ported to PS3, mind.

[Peet]

More like someones BEEN on the crack. >_< ****, thats awful.

Anyway, I counter that ****ness...with THIS





"Master the moves, to master me"

Yeah whatever mate...

I actually bought that a while back, partially because of the boxart and partially because I remember it getting slated pretty badly in a review in about '93. Jaleco really is the king of bad artwork (see also: Rival Turf).

Haven't played the game much, but suffice to say it's a pretty poor. The characters aren't exactly the height of originality either.. you've got your fireball-throwing Japanese martial arts chap, the fast-but-weak girl, the american ex-military with a blonde crewcut, a big-but slow wrestler (though in this game he's dutch) etc...

[Spatial]

The Crackdown boxart does seem to have a lot of homoerotic facial hair

[Darwock]

Another quality post from Spatial101, lol

[Spatial]

Can't believe I'd forgotten about this one

[Lyris]

Did anyone else grow up playing the Apogee shareware games?

For the front of the manuals you got when you bought the game, you got a horrific picture on every game. These were 320x200 16-colour (EGA) games so a hell of a lot got left up to the artist's imagination.

Here's Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure:

[Lyris]

You know how I said a lot got left up to the artist's imagination?

Well, apparently sometimes the artists had a rather homosexual imagination, not that there's anything wrong with that of course:



This one is Monster Bash:

[NekoFever]

Bandwidth thief!

[Lyris]

Woops, links fixed! Thanks!

[Spatial]

Steven Tyler from Aerosmith in scaring small kids shocker!

[Sony Fanboy]

one of the worst in terms of effort and marketing. Probably the 1st time Capcom used this style and will probably be the last.

[muse hunter]

and we have a winner :

[Jakeway]

I like that boxart.

Edit: and no, not because I think she?s attractive... dont assume... I like it becuase I think its nice that a UK television presented can be the star of box art on modern platforms.

[EvilBoris]

The Crackdown boxart does seem to have a lot of homoerotic facial hair

That must be photoshopped, its clearly the boxart of insert humorous arse crack pun here


But any way , here is a goodun