Saturday, September 12, 2009

The WORST boxarts of all time!

Throughout the weekend, we're going to be updating this post to bring you the WORST boxart of all time. There are some great contenders, so many that picking one just isn't in the cards. (If you have suggestions, send them to OneLifeGamer! So let's start it off:

John Madden wants you to play his game so much, EA had him break through a wall. Can you feel the football excitement?

I'm not really sure what to say, other than a boxart with Michael Jordan holding his balls is no way to sell a game.

Mega Man is one of the coolest video game characters of all time. His shiny blue armor and arm blaster really make him a legend in the hall of coolness. Too bad Capcom had the ingenious idea of hiring an artist to make him look like an American Gladiator in the Tron universe. The boxart was so bad, that Capcom used the same shitacious art style for the 2008 release of Mega Man 9 as part of a sad inside joke.

More like, "A Boy and his green bowel movement." Mr. Hankey's cucumber clone and Dennis the Menace don't really work well together. Although not laughably bad, the drawing pales in comparison to the newly revamped animation style of next month's A Boy and His Blob. And why is Grimace hiding in the games's logo?

- Oh my god... distressed leather! Clearly this girl is afraid of something. Of what isn't really clear. Maybe more of a focus should have been on the game, Ju-On: The Grudge, and not the reaction of a gamer playing it? Based on this model, the DVD cover of Bruno would feature an angry conservative redneck holding a rifle. Fail.

- The first Ten Pin Alley game was one of the most fun sports titles on the PlayStation One. I played it for hours because bowling simulators were few and far between at the time. Unfortunately, for the sequel Ten Pin Alley 2, they apparently hired a third grade art student to create the cheesiest boxart I've ever had the privileged of ripping apart.

First of all, why the hell is the pale ogre waving at me? If I was cursed enough to have an ugly friend with man boobs like him, I'd blatantly ignore him in any social setting, a bowling alley no less. And be careful because it looks like Janette from the Chipettes is about to hit your fat ass with a bowling ball. I don't have to be a rocket scientist to tell you the game failed in being a Wii Sports bowling competitor.

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