10 Worst PS1 Box Art

A green dragon in a jester's outfit poses in front of a stone wall, under a logo on a scroll. Oddly, that jester is Trivet, who is featured on the cover despite not being the main character of the game at all.

Beavis wears a pair of goggles while Butt-head yells at him in front of a swirling green spiral. The cover implies virtual reality. In truth, there is nothing about virtual reality in the game, and the title is just a clever way of saying it is a Beavis and Butt-head computer game.

Five tiny Spice Girls stand inside the giant letters of the word SPICE, on a box that is otherwise completely white. From across a shop, it reads as a blank box with a word on it, which is a strange choice for the biggest pop group of the moment.

A grey robot walks down a murky grey corridor, rendered in early 3D, under a big red logo. Europe's box, where the game was called Kileak The Blood, at least shows the robot standing in a wall of fire, which is a lot more exciting.

A row of waitresses in orange shorts lines up behind a blue muscle car, all drawn in stiff cartoon style. There is no pretence here. As one write-up put it, if you are buying a game like this, it is more than likely because it had ladies on the cover.

The European box is a cheap CG logo and nothing else but a mess of murky reds and blacks. Japan, where the game is called Dark Messiah, got a pale girl standing alone in the dark, which is actually frightening.

Bubsy grins with far too many teeth while running across a grid of flat, untextured polygons. The box shows exactly what you get, which is the problem: this is possibly one of the worst video games ever made.

Two kids with huge eyes stare out of the box in stiff 3D, with a wonky logo on top. The cover also borrowed a quote from a review, "Move over Mario...", which is odd on a game that ended up as a PlayStation exclusive.

The American box shows a grey 3D fighter, muscles shining, with his fist in the air. What it hides is the best thing about the game: Square brought in Akira Toriyama to design the characters. Japan's box, on the other hand, shows them off in his bright, cartoon style.

Bruce Willis glares out of a wall of fire under his own name, which sits above the title. That is the whole cover. The game stars him, as the packaging makes extremely evident, but it tells you nothing else about it, not even that it is an action game.