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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."

2 of 247 comments (clear)

  1. It needs something by Rhinobird · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hmmm...this post needs something...how about we go around and start photoshopping pictures with one of the lines from this game, say..."All your base are belong to us" or something. then string all the photo's together into a flahs animation with a groovy little techno beat....

    naw... that would be a silly waste of time, nobody would ever do that.

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    If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
  2. Re:While I wouldn't say it was hideous by SpaceRook · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, for no other reason than that that is, in fact, the one and only Fabio, in silly costume, portraying the main character.

    Thanks for telling me which one was Fabio. At first I thought he was the sword.