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Worst. Box. Art. Evar.
Cowzilla3 | 10:10 AM on 02.04.2008 40 comments


So while making my post for the VC releases for other sites I was looking for an image that perfrectly encapsulated the quality of this weeks releases and I'm pretty sure the box art for Columns III: Revenge of Columns does it.



Who the hell is that guy and why is he so happy? Shouldn't he be more concerned about teh columns taking their revenge and also feeling a bit uncomfortable since he has a bunch of jewels shoved up his ass? Who would pick up this game and say "Oh, finally a game that let's me be a poorly dressed, balding, middle aged man. Glory be above!" Those jewels don't look very vengeful to me either, they just look like they enjoy falling slowly. This makes less sense the the Mega Man box art, and that makes no sense at all. Really, were gaming advertising agencies just full of people who had no clue what they were doing or did they just not know what to do with games?



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Butmac's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:19
Butmac
Hahahaha I actually remember this! Hahahha oh it's...so bad.
Guagloves's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:21
Guagloves
Oh dear... that is pretty bad, but so is the old mega man box art.
VWGTI's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:21
VWGTI
No wonder I never liked Columns when I was a kid.
BaBaBaBaBirdman's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:22
BaBaBaBaBirdman
What are you trying to say? That guy is awesome. Don't have the Box Art Man, hate the game.
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:23
BlindsideDork
He lays gems, right?
Snaileb 's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:23
Snaileb
The balding fat guy should be on all box art.

CONFIRMED FOR SMASH!
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:27
BluDesign
That man's legs are disproportionate to the rest of his body.

Reminds me of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XludBoj_VM
Samson's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:30
Samson
Wow....I didn't think it could get worse than this....
Butmac's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:36
Butmac
I feel like Samson is trying to tell us something...but I can't quite see it. Mobygames does not like hotlinking pictures.
Excremento's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:45
Excremento
Check out the box art for Phalanx...an old man playing banjo...the game was a shooter.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:48
Excel-2011
In before Mega Man 1.
method47's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:52
method47
Samson posted Mega Man 1. Albeit hotlinked.
Teta's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:53
Teta
God that´s awfull.
CaffeinePowered's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 10:56
CaffeinePowered
Nothing is worse than megaman

GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 11:01
GuitarAtomik
I think he should be more concerned with his receding hair line
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 11:15
Excel-2011
In after Mega Man 1 x3.
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 11:16
Brian Szabelski
Man, that is some baaaaaaad box art, but Megaman is still worse. Far, far worse.
imbeta's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 11:18
imbeta
LOL - WTF?!

Seriously... if you remove the layer with him in photoshop, your cover might NOT suck so much. Who decided this looked awesome?!
GoldBond's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 11:23
GoldBond
Mega Man's is better because there isn't a fat bald man on the cover.
MaxVest's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 11:25
MaxVest
Did that guy wet himself? If so, NOW I want to play Columns!
Dr Milkdad's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 11:38
Dr Milkdad
That's actually the best box art ever. Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you
Anus Mcphanus's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 11:43
Anus Mcphanus
Oh dear....at least he's a team player...apparenly
galagabug 's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 11:54
galagabug
any box art depicting mr belding is full of win!
happyorangeman's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 12:30
happyorangeman
To me it looks like he is shitting those out. He was probably naked in the original picture and they super imposed a clothed body on him. Look at his face...he is happy to shit out those things.

Free Gems out of ass = Happy?
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 12:48
Sharpless
Good grief... Is that real? Should've been the cover for Halo 3.
Hitogoroshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 12:55
Hitogoroshi
Who the fuck is that dude?
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 14:35
MechaMonkey
I hope that isn't a pile of kidney stones.
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 14:44
Knivy
@Screaming red face

I think it's Wart from SMB2, just IRL.
flynsk's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 14:47
flynsk
There's more shimmer in this than UR MR GAY
Spartacus's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 15:52
Spartacus
Oh, God. Oh God, oh God, oh God.

That's just awful.
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 15:57
Bob Muir
Wow. I hate bad game art with a passion.
Eschatos's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 16:28
Eschatos
I was about to retaliate with the Mega Man box art, but this is truly worse.
Gameboi's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 16:37
Gameboi
Mega Man wins, but yeah, that's pretty bad.
JRisJunior's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 18:05
JRisJunior
mega man wins hands down. always
Samit Sarkar's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 18:25
Samit Sarkar
Yeesh. I’m glad that the ’90s are over.
DrNutt's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2008 01:07
DrNutt
I don't know, Mega Man 2 was pretty terrible as well.
Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2008 08:48
Maurice Tan
I can see that man's jewels :(
Samson's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2008 09:12
Samson
Yeah, jeesh I guess Megaman's box art is so bad that they refuse to hotlink it.
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