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Bad mistakes, the gaming industry has made a few. Nowhere is this more apparent than when looking at some of the more infamous box art of the medium. Before the age of digital trailers, the box art was likely to be the first thing you saw of a game, assuming you hadn't seen the kicking rad full page ads in your favorite comic mags or the amazing tv spots while watching reruns of Scooby Doo. So why are so many of these first impressions flat-out horrible?  Mega Man for the NES While some hideous box art was caused by low budget localizers with no real art team trying to cobble something together in the early days of the industry, some others have absolutely no excuse for how bad they look.  Arkham City, GOTY Edition for the PS3 And of course, some of them were simply Sega Master System box art, an entire platform of bad.  Black Belt for the SMS There are repeat offenders in the Bad Box Art world, such as Jaleco of North America, and some others are just awful one-offs. What are some of your favorite bad box arts? Post about them in this thread! Feel free to post the original ones in the case of those that were inexplicably ruined while being localized or re-released. Have fun, and  please don't start arguments about thinking the bad box arts are actually good!And now, some more bad box art.  Tuff Enuff for the Super Nintendo  Rival Turf for the Super Nintendo  Mega Man 2 for the NES  Phalanx for the SNES (yes, this is a space shooter)  Karnaaj Rally for the Game Boy Advance  Street Warrior for the Playstation 2 ... and much, much more! Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Feb 20, 2016 |
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Lurdiak posted:
This is not bad box art. To contribute, while not bad exactly I couldn't help but feel EU got way better art on some of its games over NA. The Final Fantasy series' EU covers were simplistic but very pretty, and tied the games together more as a series that the NA's covers. Also Ico's EU cover was gorgeous:  compared to the NA cover 
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Feb 20, 2016 10:52
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Alris posted:This is not bad box art. You failed the only rule of the thread, but that's ok! I believe you can do better!  Mega Man 2 for the NES (european variant)
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Seriously, Phalanx had great box art. It did a great job of setting the game apart visually from a then-saturated genre full of big ships and lasers and explosions. Of course, the game itself was about as middle-of-the-road as you can get. E: on my phone now, but Lufia 2's art was pretty awful. Stock image of a character on stock image of land. Not a Children fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Feb 20, 2016 |
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Feb 20, 2016 10:59
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It's not bad in the technical sense (it's actually pretty nice to look at!) but the cover for Splatterhouse 2 nosells the actual content of the game hard That adorable octopus is particularly egregious  There are also purple enemies but they're nowhere near the Alien ripoffs the cover makes them out to be 
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Feb 20, 2016 11:03
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Bad flyer time: Blondie on the left is Kenshiro, apparently.
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Feb 20, 2016 11:06
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Bad flyer time:
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Feb 20, 2016 11:46
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Hmmmm 
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Feb 20, 2016 11:56
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 I remember selling this game once to a customer who was exceptionally excited that she had found a copy for only £2.50.
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Feb 20, 2016 12:16
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That game is actually weirdly ambitious and well-made. Not like it's a hidden classic or anything, but it's a step above mindless shovelware.
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Lady Naga posted:
This is a weird one because it's a such a hodgepodge. I like the character art in that mid-late 90's comic style but they're placed weird, the background is stupid and doesn't match, and the three iconic monster villains joined at the head monstrosity in the middle is just stupid in every way. Edit: and to contribute my own, it's not box art but I spent a huge chunk of my childhood at the same pizzeria arcade and every time I saw this cabinet, it made me laugh 
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Hakkesshu posted:That game is actually weirdly ambitious and well-made. Not like it's a hidden classic or anything, but it's a step above mindless shovelware.
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Feb 20, 2016 19:33
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Looks like the thread for the BEST BOX ART, to me.
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Feb 20, 2016 19:34
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Lurdiak posted:Hmmmm 
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 Anybody know the one where its guy shooting a machine gun on the right side and a random gorilla on the left side? I've the machine gun guy frequently used for avatars and I think it might have been traced from a Rambo poster. tap my mountain fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Feb 20, 2016 |
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Feb 20, 2016 20:37
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 Wow. "Oh, this is cute..." and then 5 minutes roll by and a dog pretty much kills the bad guy with farts. I'm very surprised I never heard about this game before now, given all of its strangeness.
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Broseph Brostar posted:Anybody know the one where its guy shooting a machine gun on the right side and a random gorilla on the left side? I've the machine gun guy frequently used for avatars and I think it might have been traced from a Rambo poster. CRACK DOWN 
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Feb 20, 2016 21:50
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   All of the other Bubble Bobble series art I've seen is ok at worst.
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Feb 20, 2016 22:42
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This thread owns and so does all the box art posted. Please do not judge me for my beliefs. 
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Feb 20, 2016 22:49
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Wamdoodle posted:This thread owns and so does all the box art posted. Please do not judge me for my beliefs. What the hell.
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Feb 20, 2016 23:23
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The Twitter account Box Art Screw Up is a pretty good repository of bad box art.
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You know how indie games and direct-to-drive PC poo poo will show up on shelves at Target if it's popular enough, like Terraria and Goat Simulator
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Feb 20, 2016 23:36
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 i went looking for bad intellivision boxes but it turns out that almost all of them are really good
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This one's not terrible but I've never seen the full spread before. You rustled the wrong jimmies, motherfucker:
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Feb 21, 2016 01:13
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drat i go looking for bad box art and all i find is insanely cool box art instead except for this one 
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Feb 21, 2016 01:18
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 My coworkers knew how much this case creeped me out. So I would be doing things round the shop and it would pop up in random places.
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Feb 21, 2016 01:32
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   last one deeply upsets me
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Feb 21, 2016 01:37
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Can't have a bad box art thread and not have all the Druid themed boxes not repped.
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Feb 21, 2016 01:53
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The game comes out tomorrow! Make a box for it!  Ok. Not bad, so much as lazy?
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This is the port of the anime as gently caress arcade game right?
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The three-skull ghost in the bottom right is a minor random encounter. That's the only part of this cover that is actually in the game. The main base is a rocky spire in the water, but the design is entirely different. At least that's sort of right, unlike shirtless Bruce Campbell Archer there.
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