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Celebrating Bad Game Packaging Art

Posted by timothy on from the cel-berate dept.

May Kasahara writes "Recently, I discovered The Gallery of Hideous Box Art, a collection of some of the worst illustrations ever to grace video game packaging. Many of the entries compare the US cover artwork to the (superior) Japanese ones; in some cases, comparisons with screenshots are also made. Come browse through the annals of video-game-artwork badness, from Strider on through to Wonder Boy III."

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  1. BBC game covers? by tedDancin · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say that games for the BBC microcomputer had some of the worst cover images around. Looking back to Barbarian II (love the boobs!), Frak!, or even Spycat brings back disturbingly nightmarish images from my childhood.

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  2. yo by leekwen · · Score: 5, Informative

    don't forget this gamespy article.

  3. Re:A dying trend? by Lank · · Score: 5, Informative

    The little parody that took the web by storm a few years ago is right here. Click on the two video links in the left bar. Go check it out!

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  4. Top 10 Worst Covers by mjjk2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out Gamespy's list of Top 10 Worst Box Covers in their Humor section.