The bad boxart gallery

[Ben.Isaacs]

"the Japanese version is so much better"

Thanks for pointing that one out ? I wasn't sure at first!

[Tom Salter]

I can't seem to find a picture, but the box art for Punchout on the NES was hilarious. They tried to paint a real person for the referee (who of course was Mario) and it just looked really really funny!

[Robin]

Nice ^_^

[Vaipon]

First of all... I think the "Bad Boxart Gallery" website is a terrific idea. I can see it becoming very popular. Some of those artworks are absolutely horrific. Camp Bored Bomberman is incredible.

ICO - US. Far too generic for such an amazing game.


Japanese/Euro was a BIG improvement imo.

[olly]

I for one would visit the site a good few times if it were made. It could even have a hotornot style rating feature!

[wager]

Vaipon - Agree with you about the ICO boxart. The US one is absolute rubbish.

Disaster Report (US) is another poor one.

[olly]

While the first ones shown were genuinely funny, that last picture just sickens me. It's just so bad..

[Max M]

What would be a good name for the website?

I was thinking "Boxart Horror" but I think it has to have something about videogames in the title. I'm thinking it will be split into the different machines.

Once it's all designed I might buy a domain name too, if I can get one cheap. I guess we should check there's not already a site like it first though.

[Burai]

Two of my most hated:

[olly]

I have PAL Mega Man 2, it's not half as bad as that atrocity

[Vaipon]

OMFG!!!! How funny is that?

[Concept]

Some of the pics in this thread have a 'they're so bad they're good' kind of charm.

[Tom Salter]

Nice ^_^

Thanks man, that's a really terrible cover...Mario shouldn't look like that!

[Ady]

Max, I've looked and I can't find another site dedicated to bad box art so I say go ahead and make it. Just don't forget it was my idea...

If I think of a snappy name, I'll let you know.

I found this gem on a retro site somewhere:-



Nasty, eh?

[Jay]

WARNING: self-promotion

My old site has a load of scans of old adverts, and believe me folks, things used to be much worse.

http://www.mameworld.net/retroview