Tuesday, January 10, 2012

#1: Clowns (Commodore 64)

WARNING: DO NOT VIEW THIS POST IF YOU HAVE A PHOBIA OF CLOWNS
Welcome to Bad Video Game Box Art. This is a blog where it reviews some pretty darn hilarious box art for video games. Yes, we will do Megaman's box art where he's in a mid-life crisis. Just you wait. Now, our first box art is a game for the Commodore 64. The name is "Clowns". Just the title is bad enough. The gameplay is that you're two clowns on a moving seesaw reinacting Space Invaders. With those two out of the way, let's look at the box art. Imagine if you were a kid in 1982. You were walking into a store where you would buy Commodore 64 games and seeing THIS:

You know how most (by most I mean 50%) video games can be described by their box art? I can't even solve what's on it. First, notice the clown that looks like Pennywise (the clown from IT) on the lower left. His paint looks less like a clown and more like the Joker. There's even more; amongst the Pennywise/Joker hybrid, there's two more demented clowns. Now, let's look at the seesaw part. It looks innocent, but doesn't the clown up in the air look like he's hanging himself? I wouldn't blame him.

I know this review isn't good, but trust me; I've just got started.

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