10 Ridiculous DOS Game Covers with Celebrities on Them

Back in the Wild West days of early PC gaming, there were no guidelines how to sell your game. Especially your shitty made-in-your-basement game, which is why so much game art from the time was completely insane — sometimes in a totally badass way, and sometimes in a hilariously, ridiculously insane way. So how could a poor programmer without any sensible marketing skills set his game apart in the increasingly crowded shelves of Babbage’s? Get a celebrity endorsement, of course!

This was a fallacy, because there are very few celebrity names that can sell games (e.g., Tony Hawk, Tom Clancy) and those big celebrities weren’t really endorsing the best videogame products in the ’80s and ’90s (besides, most gaming companies couldn’t afford real celebrities anyways). Bad games with mid- to nth-tier celebrities on the covers… well, that’s a recipe for failure. And here are ten of ’em!  

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