So, here I present to you my top 10 worst video game box arts of all time:
Yeah, we've all seen this one before. This is quite possibly the worst video game box art of all time. Everyone knows Mega Man, he's only been on almost every game system ever made since the NES. The box art for the first Mega Man is very confusing. I see an old man wearing blue and yellow, holding a futuristic-looking pistol, standing in a very awkward angle, and surrounded by giant yellow jellyfish. Okay, so what does it have to do with Mega Man? This doesn't represent Mega Man in the slightest, but despite this bad art, enough people bought the game to merit nearly 2,000 sequels and spin-offs for Mega Man.
Everyone knows and loves Pac-Man! This Pac-Man scares me, though. First of all, why is he eating chocolate chip cookies? You can't blame them, though. Imagine how hard it would be to draw a box art for a game whose main character is a yellow pizza. I guess they just thought “Hey, let's give him a tooth, a skinny body, and some cookies and nobody will notice a thing!”
Before there was Photoshop, artists were brought in to add re-touches to photos. On this particular photo, an artist removed all Dodgers logos from Lasorda's clothes. Then a very poorly aligned Sega logo was thrown on the hat. Then they went ahead and changed the face around a bit. They added supermodel lips, and then they highlighted the bags under Lasorda's eyes simple because they hate him.
A chubby baby blowing blood-red bubbles and wearing sunglasses. Intimidating, I know.
This one is similar to Black Belt, but this time there's a disembodied head. I haven't got a single thought as to what this has to do with wrestling, but I'm sure customers were disappointed to find out that they couldn't decapitate their opponents in the game.
Just to let everyone know, Phalanx is a space shoot-em-up for the SNES. Some say that the publishers of Phalanx wanted their game to stand out among other shoot-em-up games. I think those guys deserve a big applause.
Some of you may know already that the box art for Sega Master System games were all just a boring line grid and a little piece of crappy art, but the Sega Card games were worse, believe it or not. This one, in particular, shows a hand holding the actual game. Why? I would assume that Sega wanted to make it known to everyone that the box contained a game.
Okay, so we have a disembodied foot on what seems to be a piece of graph paper. I don't see the point, why just a foot? The game is called “Black Belt” and they don't even show a black belt on the cover art. Just a foot. That's genius.
Come on now, you knew E.T. would end up on this list! This particular box art, however, always had me puzzled. It's like the developers gave up and decided not to finish coloring it in. I guess they wanted it to double as a coloring book.
All I can say about this box art is, yes, that is supposed to be Mario.
