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My personal one, 6-year-old brain thought I’d be basically in the UK TV show Knightmare I got some vertical frogger
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I’m seeing a lot of games with awesome cover art but pretty standard gameplay for its era. You gotta pick something with truly dogshit gameplay to counter the cover. I present the NES game Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
I was the kid who liked to stand in the horror section of the video rental store, look at the covers, and read the descriptions of scary movies I was way too meek to ever actually watch. This comes along, and I think it looks pretty cool! My mom paid good money to rent this and so help me I spent a good chunk of my evening trying to figure out how to do… literally anything. I wandered back and forth as Dr. Jekyll for a while before I bumped into too many pedestrians and turned into Mr. Hyde. Then I wandered back and forth as Mr. Hyde until I believe a bird killed me. Never made it past the first level.
That is a truly horrendous game with badass-looking cover art.
Cover for Obliterator on Atari ST looked so cool. Game was a weird, slow, springy platform with odd controls.
Hah, pretty sure I still have that game on 3.5” disk for DOS.
Ahh CGA…
Phalanx comes to mind
I feel like that’s the opposite. The cover is weird AF and has nothing to do with the fact it’s a pretty good sci-fi SHMUP lol
Unless you got hyped up for hillbilly banjo slappin’ action and were disappointed it was a shoot 'em up… 🤔
Some banjo action was expected!
Jk it was a fine game and had an awesome cover in a weird way.
Oddly enough, I ended up buying Shadow Dancer specifically because the cover was so bizarre.
An old man with a bat protects a young woman from a plate armored man attacking both of them with a longsword, as a scared dog flees into a burning city in the distance.
Love it!
Can’t speak for the second game, but Wizards & Warriors 3 was fucking awesome.
Is this the game where the main character gets hit by a bird while on a roller coaster?
I haven’t played this since it was new, so my memory is a little foggy…
They were joking about that happening to Fabio, the model on the cover.
Unofficial model. They did the same thing with contra when they had Arnold and Sly on the cover.
Oh really? That’s interesting.
Damn I forgot all about this, that was a serious birdstrike
just about any game from the 80’s 8bit era was sold by the tape insert’s artwork… but that artwork was so fine I do miss it today.
Having the equivalent of movie posters as games’ cover art was awesome, if terrible for showing what the game was.
It always amazes me that the European version of Mega Man has a fucking fantastic cover
It took me years to start the Monkey Island Series because the cover for Monkey Island 2 was too scary for me.
There’s nothing disappointing about monkey island
Escape is.
Defender was nice, but the cover made me expect too much
Dude defender was great
That woman takes up a ton of cover tho
Title is fucking metal. Box is wild. Panned as one of the worst games ever made
