10 Worst Game Boy Box Art

A shirtless fighter holds a kung fu pose in the desert, while a man on a camel rides past the pyramids and a few oil derricks. The title says martial arts. The background, however, says travel brochure.

A red, horned monster shreds a flying-V guitar on a red background. So it is no surprise that one player wondered if "the terrible box art was a factor" in the game never catching on.

Donkey Kong carries off a woman in a red dress, and Mario gives chase. Unfortunately, that made it look like the old arcade game, and players keep saying the same thing: they skipped it, or nearly did.

Chun-Li kicks a Blanka whose head is nearly the size of her torso, in front of a brick wall. Clearly, the proportions left early and did not say goodbye.

The cover makes Dana look like a Link clone, elven ears and all, and the green tunic and the pointy hat do not help. Don't be swayed by it, though.

A villain in a red turban grabs a startled princess in a low-cut top, and the prince is nowhere to be seen. Few games, if any, had their covers sexed up for the Nintendo versions. This one did.

A grinning shark and a crowd of elfish kids pack a beach. Worse still, every European release shares this terrifying cover, so there was no escaping it.

This box reuses the cover art of Double Dragon III on the NES. The game inside, however, is neither of the two. In Japan, it was actually a Kunio-kun game.

A stiff, heavily shaded Mega Man stands on a tiled floor under an orange sky. Capcom had form here, since the American cover of the first NES Mega Man is highly infamous. Europe and Japan, on the other hand, both got a Mega Man who looks like he is having a good day.

A man in a fedora fires a tommy gun in front of a brick wall. Naturally, you picture a classic gangster game, which makes the box amusingly unrepresentative. Meanwhile, the Japanese box, where the game is called Phantasm, and the PAL box both show a cute ghost instead.