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Worst video game box art

For such a prestigious franchise these days, the Elder Scrolls sure had a bad looking initial cover, I mean really if you saw this in a game store I highly doubt you would even consider buying it. It just really, really screams of 90s cheese to be perfectly honest.

Elder_Scrolls_Arena_Cover.jpg
 

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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Yakuza 3 has a horrible box art, doesn't convey anything about the game.

Makes sense why the game sold like 10k copies only.

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NullMoon

Neo Member
ICO US boxart
Was just about to mention this too. I remember seeing this in store and laughing about how badly it looked. It seriously looked like a shitty budget title and I didn't even bother to look at the back of the case. Just wrote it off based off the front, which I'm sure most did too. And oh boy was I wrong ICO is seriously one of the most beautiful games in existence and it was completely betrayed by the fact that it suffered from a horribly misleading box art.
 
For such a prestigious franchise these days, the Elder Scrolls sure had a bad looking initial cover, I mean really if you saw this in a game store I highly doubt you would even consider buying it. It just really, really screams of 90s cheese to be perfectly honest.

Elder_Scrolls_Arena_Cover.jpg

would have 100% bought that if i saw it in a store. both now and when it w as released (having no idea what it was)
 

KainXVIII

Member
For such a prestigious franchise these days, the Elder Scrolls sure had a bad looking initial cover, I mean really if you saw this in a game store I highly doubt you would even consider buying it. It just really, really screams of 90s cheese to be perfectly honest.

Elder_Scrolls_Arena_Cover.jpg
Its not best box art thread, bro.
 
I want to say this is bad.....but it's so god damn good


my vote goes for karnaaj rally - that was a great game though



and yes that is a biker chick scalping a chicken with a weedwhacker

That is 100% accurate to the game. It's Wizardry but even more absurd and SNL as hell.

A space game you say? Let's put banjo man on the cover!

I forgot the name of this game so I just typed space banjo into Google and it got my back.

And that's exactly why they did it.
 

RedBoot

Member
Well he was the star of the movie.

Yup, and that was one of the common images/posters for the movie, so it makes sense to use it as the game's cover.

I guess Cliffhanger has kind of faded from the public knowledge? I wouldn't be surprised if someone who didn't grow up around that time wouldn't know the movie existed.
 
Phalanx and Karnaaj Rally are up there for me.

It's one thing for a bad, small, or niche game to have bad box art, where it's just not the focus... Or for the hundreds of shit ware DS games like Marriage Planner or Ballet Studio, but those covers are evocative of the game and specifically target the audience.

Phalanx, in particular, makes no sense. Utterly no sense.

Ico US cover is a good one because it's just so cheesy.
 
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