Thursday, March 5, 2009

terrible box art of 2008

Normally I don't just lift all my post ideas from other sites but I can't help but make mention of another Games Radar article that is cracking me up today. Check out the Worst Box Art of 2008. Along with many "girl game" titles, multiple Pet/Petz franchise covers, a neglected watermark and a game about chaotic air traffic control released on 9/11/08, the author takes time to highlight the horror that is the cover of Imagine: Party Babyz:
If you could somehow draw a picture of the sound made when a game journalist’s mind rips in half, it would look like this. If you could distill everything wrong with the casual-gaming movement into a single image – every horrible minigame, every half-assed “girl” game, every misguided purchase by a well-intentioned grandmother, every cynical piece of shovelware ever shat onto a store shelf by some fly-by-night cabal of predatory monsters - this would be that image.

Also? “Babies” is misspelled.

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