10 Excruciatingly Lame DOS Game Covers

I’m going to start off with a huge thesis statement: Videogame covers are supposed to sell videogames. It gets forgotten in this world of preorders, atmospheric art direction, and internet previews that make the outside of the game the least important part of the experience. But step back to a world prior to mass social communication, E3, and industry blogs. Step back to the world… of DOS.

If your box didn’t leap out and assault the gamers walking along the shelves of Electronics Boutique, it would gather dust. Your box was your movie poster — and if you didn’t have a big name star? Go back to bed, old man. Here’s 10 of the games from that era that had no hook whatsoever. No hook? You got no game, son.

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