Intellivisioner Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Just awful - Sunrise Mountain King for Colecovision. The Sunrise boxes are all that "great": 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800Lover Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Just awful - Sunrise Mountain King for Colecovision. The Sunrise boxes are all that "great": I don't know - it doesn't look any worse than those stylized renditions that Activision had on their early Atari 2600 covers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) Heres a few, but maybe more awesome than bad I think I got them off a thread something like this, as you can see there is numbers in the bottom corner: Edited January 17, 2012 by Dirty Harry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 The Ninja Golf cover isn't so bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I think the Ninja Golf cover is perfectly adequate considering the tongue-in-cheek nature of the game. The cover would actually be bad if it tried to be serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Strider for the Sega Genesis (US) has a pretty lame cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) Actually, most covers post-VCS are pretty awful, be it Japanese or USA or else. Best ever cover: Edited January 17, 2012 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameGirl420 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 LOL what's with these dorks? And this ,ugh. Another example of how they should have used the original manga style artwork. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameGirl420 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Please y'all, post some moar bad game covers! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
so_tough! Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) compared to The game sucks , not exactly streets of rage... Edited January 19, 2012 by so_tough! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I'll also go with some of the Master System box art. Especially the Sega Card games... I mean... they didn't even try. This one just brings back all sorts of bad memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameGirl420 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 okay a few more..... Some diehard fans will disagree,but I never thought this cover was good. Why is the captain from the Love Boat on the cover!?! and he's passing the telephone to the guy who borrowed Marvin the Martian's space helmet lol. and uhhh, I think this guy needs to brush his teeth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I'll also go with some of the Master System box art. Especially the Sega Card games... I mean... they didn't even try. Yeah, that's pretty bad. A plain white grid label against a plain white grid box. It's like an infinite regress of boring: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd30 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 The guy in the blue overalls looks like he's having a good time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd30 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) okay a few more..... and uhhh, I think this guy needs to brush his teeth. Why the "NEW" in the title? Was there an older Dracula game for the Intellivision that they were distinguishing it from? Edited January 19, 2012 by mbd30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800Lover Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Panic Restaurant, 1992, NES - this title showed up later on in the system's life. That chef looks like Mark Twain with a cold. The character is supposed to be a Japanese ninja...why is he carrying a European style sword on the box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeETC Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 (edited) E.T. Go Come and all the Master System games. I could draw better when I was 6. Edited June 15, 2013 by JadeETC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakogame 箱亀 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 It seems there was a mentality back in the 1980's about Japanese style artwork not being "marketable" or "readily accepted" in the US. Business people are VERY conservative when it comes to marketing, and they they try to give the consumer what they think they want, and in the 80's and early 90's, that would have been "westernized" art. Marketers advertise to parents as much as kids, and I can only assume that market research revealed that many parents in the 80's were biased against Japanese style art. Probably due to old attitudes carried over from WW2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorussell Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Zoom! (Sega Genesis) WTF is this thing?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorussell Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Wonder Dog (Mega-CD) Wow. I want to urinate on this, it's so bad. How is this crappy artwork supposed to sell a game? Did a staff member's kid make this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelated Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 The PAL Megaman on the NES. Terrible. Not as bad as the U.S. version, but still... The contrasting art styles of this box cover looks terrible: Oh yeah, the game sucks too. But I do suppose the cover is....accurate to the gameplay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorussell Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Strider for the Genesis is a great game! Alas, the box art sucks. This looks like some high school wrestling coach, not a ninja. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dripfree Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 hillariouse topic there are so many. I always laugh at iron sword. Thats freakin Fabio Is that a game or a ramance novel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorussell Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Yeah, Fabio before the smashed nose! I went on the ride on which he got his schnozz smashed by a wayward bird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorussell Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Wow, this is just stupid. Pac Man with a skinny teenage body and shorts and sneakers? Just looks awful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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