LGR - Worst Classic PC Game Cover Art

So cool!

Vincent Jackson

The Jill B&N box art seems to match the overall arc of the series- each one seemed to be worse than the previous one (I could be bitter about the crap endings after the first awesome one).

Steven Zakulec

I know, right? I bet it's dill. Makes me wanna just take a bite.

LGR

That dragon on the Relentless game looks like a pickle. A pickle dragon!

Sabrina

I wish I had more examples of misleading art, but I don't own them and can't think of many others regardless. Would be an awesome video though, am open to suggestions for more!

LGR

That last one was hilarious, would be interesting to see a video on completely misleading box art, as we all know misleading box art is the primary source of broken dreams.

Leigh Beattie

For Little Big Adventure, Twinsen's not even holding his sword. If you look at his hand and how his fingers are, that sword should be falling out of his grip by now! I guess that makes sense considering the vacant expressions on him and his mount. Maybe it's showing how they look when they're getting killed?

Yeah. Not against people who play those games but I personally consider it trash...

Alyxx the Rat

If I get back to practicing drawing again, I will be sure that this will NOT be what I do as a result - though I feel like that isn't as hard as I think to make something look that bad. Anyways, I liked that you had a sense of humor about it all, laughing the whole way through. :) "K-mart-worthy romance novel" pretty much nailed it for describing the last one, haha.

Lindsay Michelle

Yup, I actually thought BNE was the name of the game as well back when I bought it!

LGR

Totally an intern.

LGR

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LGR

Now that you mention it, I've seen a similar style on certain things recently as well. Mobile/app store games and such. Ugh.

LGR

Yeah, I've always liked Another World better. Had a way better logo, too.

LGR

Not at the moment I don't!

LGR

Haha, I try! I knew that one was so special I had to.

LGR

Wow, I think you really nailed it in this video. Those were some pretty bad work, especially the last one. Always one to save the best for last, eh? lol

ReeseRiverson

Not gonna lie, I thought "BNE" was the name of the game instead of "Welcome to the Future". And that Spear of Destiny cover. Can somebody say, $0 budget? Or maybe somebody was triply ignorant about what the game is actually about. Oh, and Mystery of the Druids will always be a classic because of that box art.

Sutekh94

Oh wow... seeing "Tongue of the Fatman" close up like that I suddenly noticed something... Technically, those eyes are real... They're the exact shape, size and colour of the plastic eyes which came with Zaks construction toys... That's very likely a real photo... someone's face really looked like that when it was taken... o_o; ...I wonder how much they paid that guy to do it? ...actually, it's probably one of the programmers or something. XD

Kris Asick

Nothing like waking up on a Saturday morning to this. Laughed a lot, thanks! That Druids cover....oh my god. Someone needs to caption that guy. It's amazing how some companies went all out on the box art, and for some it was just a throwaway. In particular, when the game itself is great and the art is terrible (or vice versa). I would be really interested to know how that happens. Perhaps a video with a certain game's development story and how the box art came to be? Just a thought. Keep up the great work.

Therek

That Spear of Destiny artwork took the cake for me. I just about died... And for some reason the Shark box art reminds me of some 3DS games I've seen recently in a similar style just... big bulgy eyes with eyebrows hanging in the air above them plastered onto a round face someone lazily made in Photoshop... it just looks cheap and ugly... and I'm sure it appeals to SOMEONE but not me.

Alyxx the Rat

Build it and they will come! Great episode... Spear of Destiny..? Just.. What.. The.. F*ck?! Further to the cross Atlantic box art changes, why did they change the names? Another World makes much more sense than "Out of this World". As for the games like Deep Sea - love that artwork - it's just so 90's!

Nostalgia Nerd

Hey Clint, you have a Wii U, right? Have you been playing copious amounts of Smash Bros?

Jonathon Jones

Some not very good pieces in there. It's one thing I never got - when box art would be replaced in the transition from US <-> Europe & whatnot. Did chuckle a bit when you pulled out Mystery of the Druids, but it might have been more seeing the old OFLC rating here (and our lovely Australia tax in action). As for the worst I've seen? I think the biggest offenders I can remember were the output of ECP, an Australian distributor/publisher - most of the games they published (rather than distributed) tended to have really cheap art (and a little close to copyright infringing in one case ;)) Though, there's a special place in my heart for the art to the original UK release of C64 Paradroid - for what is a fairly tense title, the cartoonish cover art really took away from the game IMHO. Thankfully, the later "Heavy Metal Paradroid" rerelease fixed that up with some rather moody art :)

Rob Caporetto