Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Wii)

The Chase: Felix Meets Felicity (Nintendo DS) Despite the entire game being about two teens in love, the ESRB clearly had an issue with this and forced the heart imagery to be replaced with a more wholesome display of crusty green eye boogers

Richard Petty's Talladega (Commodore 64) "Do you know anything about perspective?" "Is that like, when I have 14 beers and lay down in the grass?" "Yeah, sure"

I think the whole Okami IGN watermark *crisis* of '08 is well known at this point, but did you know BradyGames' revised strategy guide for the Wii version ALSO had an IGN watermark in a slightly different spot? It was a different time, where IGN was clearly the only website to upload Okami images

Originally announced as 'Hardcore Pool', publisher UFO quickly discovered the ESRB wasn't a fan of almost everything going on, so they needed to change the final game to 'Underground Pool' for an E rating As a result we got a lonely dude with a very impressive jaw just having the time of his life

Tony Hawk's Motion (Nintendo DS)

Pet Pals: Animal Doctor (Nintendo DS)

Silver (Dreamcast)

Sprite Man (Commodore 64)

Unga Bunga (PC)

Snake Roy (Cougar Boy)

Mijn Dierenpension 2 (Nintendo DS)

Impossible Mission (Master System)

Cuddly Cubert (Commodore 64)

Dracula's Legacy (PlayStation 4)

I know anything Phoenix Games is basically cheating, but hey It's still kind of amazing they just completely got away with stealing concept art of Kingdom Hearts' Destiny Island for their Peter Pan mess on PS2

L.A. Drugs Bust (ZX Spectrum)

"Alright lads, we need to release a DS version of Space Camp too. Can you replace the Wii Remote on the cover with something else?" "Huh?" "I said, can you replace the Wii Remo- "Wuh?"

Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure (Nintendo DS)

Sega Japan: haha, Tempo's a cute little guy hey Sega America: nah that's pretty gay bro, we've made him cool and radical now Sega Japan: oh no, Tempo... Tectoy: GROSS Sega Japan: I know, righ- Tectoy: SUNGLASSES?! Sega Japan: 😔

Alien Terminator (PC)

Iron Angel of the Apocalypse: The Return (3DO)

Mini Golf 2003 (PC)

My Ballet Studio (Nintendo DS)

FootMan (Amiga)

Sex Vixens From Space (PC / Amiga - print ad)

Slater Man (Commodore 64)

Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition (PlayStation - US)

Soleil (Mega Drive) Also known as Shin Souseiki Ragnacenty (Japan) and Crusader of Centy (North America). Just gonna uh, include their covers alongside this one, because... what :( SEGA Europe: Yes hello, I want the very pixelated SCREAMIN' 'N' SQUINTIN' AGONY FACE repeated multiple times. Good

Animated Strip Poker (ZX Spectrum)

Pinball Fantasies (Game Boy)

Wall Street Wizard (Atari ST)

Killer Gorilla (BBC Micro)

PDC World Championship Darts 2009 (Wii)

Tracksuit Manager (Atari ST)

Pulse Racer (XBOX)

Batman: Arkham Asylum - Game of the Year Edition (PlayStation 3) Out of this absolute mess, it's the '3D glasses NOT included' being proudly displayed like a major selling point that gets me every single time, holy shit

United (ZX Spectrum)

The glorious Australian ratings strike again

I guess you could say they didn't know when... ...to give it Agarest.

In 2009, Ghostlight announced their plans to release Agarest: Generations of War in Europe and revealed this incredible *thing* as the box art, which was just a tiiiiiny bit different from the original Japanese version

Beverly Hills Cop (PlayStation 2)

Tom and Jerry (Super Nintendo)

Purr Pals (Wii)

Paws & Claws: Pet Vet (Wii) From the barn being slapped together with stretched textures, a fence that goes nowhere and a dog being almost the same size as a horse, this is a masterpiece But where exactly did THQ source the photo of that girl where they needed to Photoshop scrubs over her? THQ?!

Summer Sports Games: 4K Edition (PlayStation 5)

Essential Sudoku DS (Nintendo DS) When this was announced, D3 Publisher kept trying to spell Sudoku as 'Soduku', even sending out early box art to retailers with the mistake While they managed to fix the cover in time for release, it was seemingly too late to do anything about the title screen

Checkers (Intellivision)

A B C (ZX Spectrum)

Lady Cruncher (PC)