The bad boxart gallery

[abigsmurf]

"A fright Simulator"

The box 'art' is bad enough without the awful pun.

[Darwock]

Who the hell is T. Kanazawa and why do we care what he thinks?

[abigsmurf]

A google reveals nothing but some scientists and wikipedia lists no notable T kanazawas

[Spatial]

That box art is like they've stopped even trying.

edit: Although they still seem to enjoy creating some things. Like quotes from a non-existent T. Kanazawa.

[Flabio]

You should've linked the US boxart from Kotaku as well. It's not quite as bad, but still deserves a place in the thread...

[abigsmurf]

It would be fine were it not for the HAUNTED HOUSE SIMULATOR (fair description of the game but it just sounds ultra lame)

[egparadigm]

This western box-art is pretty terrible, IYAK.

[hudson]

Not too bad box art, but I was looking at my Super Famicom Street Fighter II box the other day and noticed how Zangief has a Popeye like sailor tattoo on his arm. I shed a tear.

Did someone add it in on the sly before they went to print?

[egparadigm]

Hideous. Still, at least we can't see Palin's ugly face.

[Brad]

This western box-art is pretty terrible, IYAK.

Look at his sword wielding arm! It's come out of its socket or something!

[JazzFunk]

I don't think the Bayonetta artwork is that bad. Especially in comparison to the abhorrent miscarriage displayed in post #952.

The US SGN'G, gosh, it was one of those vulgar, badly-drawn pieces, starting out as a bad sketch then airbrushed/painted over in order to make it look 'acceptable'. I wouldn't be surprised if the 'penciller' was 15 years old - I mean look at the ogre, look at the ogre....

However, as the US SGN'G was one of the very first games I got for my SNES, that fantastically crappy boxart holds fond, nostalgic memories for me, Xmas '92 was pretty cool.

[Ady]

The dictionary definition of gaudy.

[Number45]

You know that's just a 'hotlinking is forbidden' image, right?

[toythatkills]

Copy and paste the URL. It's truly atrocious, what is up with the dev logo too :/

[Number45]

Rehosted:



That's the dev logo? They clearly don't want their name associated with the product.