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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. A dying trend? by duffhuff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Having looked at the site before it gets slashdotted I'd like to comment on it.

    All of the box he featured were from games from the 16-bit era, or earlier. Does this suggest that hideously bad box art is a dying trend? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any recent game that has had bad box art. Most box art today is spectacular, like for Warcraft 3.

    Has anybody seen any recent (i.e. N64 / PSX and onward) games with bad box art? Maybe there was a few for the PSX / N64, but the latest consoles? It's hard to say, though recent Japanese games may have "wierd" box art.

  2. Better one.... by Chanc_Gorkon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about the game that head the best looking box art but REALLY SUCKED when you played it?

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    Gorkman

  3. It could be REALLY worst!!! by happyhangone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I hope that the illustration of this game... was somehow misleading... o not so creative like their atari siblings... trying to capture the essence of this game in an image... may need help from the goat.cx photographer