Worst game boxart

[8BitWonder]

Our game good plz buy

 

[Deleted User]

They kind of look similar.

 

[Taleweaver]

wicked 18:

if you don't read what it says, it's almost misleading. when I first saw this, I thought it was an adventure game.

LOL... It's a golfing game?

Honestly : when I read your 'it's not an adventure game' I assumed it must have been some corny xxx-rated game (wicked 18...what where they smoking when they came up with that name? ... And box art, obviously).


Edit: oh, man... If I hadn't played this game through illegal means, I'd never have known this is a pretty great game :

 

[The Real Jdbye]

with the bad mega man box art, it makes you wonder if the artist only got a description of the character rather than seeing the real thing in the game. lol

Probably got a heavily compressed JPEG of a screenshot of the game and had to go by that.

Eh, that's not that bad. It's just the title screen of the show. Which was pretty mediocre, so it's only fitting that a mediocre game based on a mediocre show gets a mediocre boxart.

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

This one doesn't seem THAT bad until you compare it with pal boxart...

bonus:

AAAAHHHHH! DRUIDS! HEEEEEELLP MEEEEEEE!

 

[ThoD]

Noticed his face first and actually read it as "The Mystery of the Drugs" for some reason the first time

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

gotta keep this thread alive

"Whoa dude this drug is good but how is it called?"
"its called "Snood" dude"

"Whoa dude this drug is even better than the one from before but what's the name of this thing?"
"its called "Snood 2" dude"

 

[CosmoCortney]

 

[Taleweaver]

This one doesn't seem THAT bad until you compare it with pal boxart...

AAAAHHHHH! DRUIDS! HEEEEEELLP MEEEEEEE!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Ahem...how do I explain this one? Okay...when you posted it, it shows in full size. But for some reason, I was browsing from newest to oldest. As such, I saw Thod's quote first. Which had the box art auto-cropped (same as with this post, I presume).

Then I clicked on that box-art. I knew it was supposed to enlargened, but I anticipated it to happen immediately. Instead, the image popped out of @ThoD's post.
...and for a second it startled me, because that gave the impression that that guy on the cover was coming straight for me. I immediately envisioned a "RRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAARRRRRR" scream as he came for me.

(TL;DR: just click the cropped image in this post for some mild after-Halloween fun )

 

[gamesquest1]

bonus:

AAAAHHHHH! DRUIDS! HEEEEEELLP MEEEEEEE!

looks like the face you would pull if you walk out your house and find someone halfway through shitting on your door step

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

Everyone loves ugly CG cover art!

Don't play this at home!

...

"Hmmm my hand looks weird..."

yeaaaah more expolsions!

More electricity!

Am i the only person that hates ntsc boxart?

 

[mightymuffy]

I always thought that one was horrible. In most cases, I would think bad boxart is the result of no budget left for that.

Sony obviously disagrees with you on this one...

 

[Hardline]

this

 

[Shadicluigi]

God Hand if it hasn't been said already. Not the godly Japanese cover though

 

[Hardline]

God Hand if it hasn't been said already. Not the godly Japanese cover though

hehehe

 

[Bimmel]

Spoiler: I win

 

[Dust2dust]

I win

I gotta admit that's a very strong contender.

 

[James_]

Can't forget about this masterpiece

 

[ThoD]

Can't forget about this masterpiece

How did they give this 3+ when it's clearly a horror game?

 

[FAST6191]

Spoiler: I win

I watched a playthrough of the game in question, didn't look like a great game (ambitious flash game really, and themed minigame collections are tricky at the best of times) but art style seems to match the boxart (which in turn is a bit of a send up of some known art styles from those sorts of circles -- you see some of it in Li'l Abner but if you do a search for hillbilly comic or hillbilly clip art then you will see better examples, even more so if you chuck in caricature as a search term), and said boxart sets up the general theme of the game (you are probably not expecting an RTS having seen that, granted it does have text telling you what it is).
Dude by the outhouse seems like a bit of an afterthought (or at least a step down from an already suspect composition job) but compared to some of the other things on this list... it has perspective and everything. The black splotches on the trailer also scream "no effort with the spray tool in [insert image editor of choice]" but forgivable as well.