10 Hilariously Inept DOS Game Covers

Before the widespread use of the internet as a place to review, preview, and hype new videogames, and back when the best print media was Nintendo Power and that was, ah, short-sighted, getting word out about your new game was an uphill slope. All too often, a catchy game box and its cover design could be the ultimate factor that really brought in sales.

In the days of big cardboard boxes holding two floppy disks, that box was the primary bait to get kids to take your game off the shelf and give it a whirl. Unfortunately, not everyone computer game company’s art department seemed to receive that memo. Here’s 10 old DOS games that really needed to hire an art director who wasn’t “my nephew, who’s like the best artist in his junior high” or, more simply, “terrible.”

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