The bad boxart gallery

[Ady]

Hmm... maybe it's just me, but I never pictured Strider Hiryu looking like Elvis.

And the lady in the X-Man must be anorexic. The proportions are terrible.

[Ady]

Now I admit, I kinda liked this one as a kid (for obvious reasons), bit it hasn't aged well.:-

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That meticulously hairsprayed 80s perm is great; just what you'd imagine on a jungle-dwelling amazonian..

She must have special high heels, too. Ones that don't break when she's wrestling bears and stuff. Wow.

[Saurian]

ROFL @ Dino City!!11!

They're trying to outcamp eachother with such vigor. XD

[goldbricker]

Street Fighter Alpha



The original Street Fighter 2 snes classic



Deja Vu



You can see the confusion on the guys face as he looks at the photo (or is it a mirror?)

Superspike Vs Ball



Some chiselled jaws here.

Kid Kool and the Quest for the Seven Wonder Herbs



Wonder herbs?

[Saurian]

What's that humping Kid Kool's leg!?!?

[ThoseOfTheUnlight]

This is a damn funny thread!

Where do you find all this crap???

[goldbricker]

What's that thing on his shoulder as well???

[Saurian]

You kant look Kool with something humping your leg - no matter how much you flex your arms.

[DCharlie]

not sure if these phone camera taken picks will work, but here goes :






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[Geoff D]

LMAO at Super Spike Volleyball

There's an anti-steroid ad if ever I've seen one

[gozaimas]

Right stand aside kids. Its time for the heavies to come through. Let me start with games beginning with 'A'

















They poured a bit more cash into the US version...









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Arnie= aka Bobby Davro



They even perfectly recreated the powder brush technique for the title screen:





Oh- get this- Thousands of hours of footage and they choose this grab=





Swing that boob...



Realising how crap that artwork was- they commissioned another bloke to redo it...

[Ady]

LMAO at Super Spike Volleyball

There's an anti-steroid ad if ever I've seen one

Yes. The guy on the far left has a special and rare talent. His head has almost gone 360. Very Exorcist.

That SFA picture is amusing, too. Its Ryu contorts like a spastic. Its great how the other fighters look on in 'shock and awe' whilst Ken unbelts an almost balletic flying kick. Notice how he's not even looking where he's kicking.

[dataDave]

That 'AlleyKat' cover reminds me of Halo.

[Ady]

A stiff, awkward-footed and obviously constipated footballer (with a nice slab of kebab meat for a right leg) kicks ball. Nice.

[Mayhem]

I think someone's been raiding Lemon64 for covers now eh Goz?

Yes there's some crap for the C64, but there's also quite a lot of good stuff. The Ancipital one is class... as with Alleykat... but yeah Kickoff is grim and many of the others are due usually to the earlyness of things.

You want some good C64 stuff? Here's the two originals I own of Bob Wakelin...

Wizball

Parallax