ugly covers for video games

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let's let IGN do some of the legwork here to get us started...
top 25 worst game covers

― Will M., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

they shoulda dated them

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/776/776279/top-25-tuesday-most-awesome-covers-20070327025738370.jpg

i like this one!

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

also, a lot of these seem to be chosen on the basis of "bad or goofy game with representative cover," like

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/776/776279/top-25-tuesday-most-awesome-covers-20070327025741870.jpg

how is that the worst cover ever? it's actually kinda great!

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

They are very vague about how they feel about these covers. The page title says "25 most awesome covers" or something.

for ugliness, this is up there:
http://www.mysidia.com/n64/quest/quest.jpg
despite the sexy n64 packaging (possibly my favourite game packaging, although I never had one). I heard the game's equally shite.

― Will M., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/games/drg000/g003/g00324eno1e.jpg

― Will M., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

this recent one is pretty hideous

http://wii.gaming-universe.de/screens/boxart_wii_us_tony-hawks-downhill-jam.jpg

― zappi, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, this one's kind of endearing (save for the rhinitis):

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/776/776279/top-25-tuesday-most-awesome-covers-20070327025741386.jpg

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I like the one for Wonder Boy, too.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Third and fourth the (not ironic) greatness of the Wonder Boy cover (my gf liked it too).

― Z S, Thursday, 29 March 2007 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

I swear I've posted this game in every thread on this damn board.

http://www.consolemad.co.uk/shop/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/36ba4835a44996481a2a2aaed91e37ab.jpg

― melton mowbray, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.retrotrader.com/catalog/images/zzz22l%20013.jpg

― melton mowbray, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.porkrind.org/reviews/ico.jpg

Unfortunately the little picture can't quite do justice to the nasty teeth in this one:

http://www.toysnjoys.com/usps2/nflstreet3.jpg

― melton mowbray, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

World Of Stuart did this a while ago, and I think it was concluded this one was pretty much unbeatable:
http://www.developscranton.com/images/ST/1MetrocrossA.jpg

This one's my favourite, though:
http://www.vortex-one.net/dow.jpg

― Jeff Leopard, Saturday, 31 March 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, that Metro Cross one is horrendous!

― melton mowbray, Saturday, 31 March 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess you don't have to pay the mentally challenged cover models as much as normal.
That one's hard to beat.

― Z S, Saturday, 31 March 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

not a video game but i gotta post this
http://www.zompist.com/illo/rail-box.jpg
http://www.zompist.com/rants06.html#23

― abanana, Saturday, 31 March 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

it's the "steve bak's" part of the dog's of war cover that keeps cracking me up

― rio natsume, Sunday, 1 April 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

elite had a beautiful logo though.

― rio natsume, Sunday, 1 April 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's brilliant how the lettering covers his face, but the gun quite happily sits in front.

― melton mowbray, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=67&threadid=276

― kingfish, Saturday, 7 April 2007 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I totally beat that site to Art Alive!

― melton mowbray, Saturday, 7 April 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

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