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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Defender was nice, but the cover made me expect too much

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Dude defender was great

That woman takes up a ton of cover tho

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For good reason

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Title is fucking metal. Box is wild. Panned as one of the worst games ever made

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Kinda funny seeing that “Bleeding Cowboys” font on the back, on a commercial product out in the wild. Maybe it just looks similar haha.

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Have you ever watched gameplay? It is so fucking bad, but kinda funny to watch someone play

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Yeah it’s horrible, but I think it’s made even worse because the premise and concept sounds like it’d make for a really great game. An open world sandbox of ass kicking, like Hell’s Angels meets Fallout with a destructable/interactable environment. It’s such a good idea but unfortunately Rockstar didn’t pick up on it and we got this instead :-/

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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.

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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

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Why in the fuck does bad box art Mega Man exist if this cover is a thing?

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Is this the game where the main character gets hit by a bird while on a roller coaster?

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I haven’t played this since it was new, so my memory is a little foggy…

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They were joking about that happening to Fabio, the model on the cover.

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Can’t speak for the second game, but Wizards & Warriors 3 was fucking awesome.

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It took me years to start the Monkey Island Series because the cover for Monkey Island 2 was too scary for me.

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There’s nothing disappointing about monkey island

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Escape is.

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Never spend more than twenty bucks on a computer game.

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