Bad Game Art

Hello! I’m Kate, sharing the joys of shockingly bad video game art from days past.

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@juneybee03 Nah I’m happy with my Switch 1, hope it gets Mario Wonder 2 😩

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@lao_tsetung @Apogee_Ent Yes!! Can hear it now 😆

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Nothing beats a good old fashioned arcade! @arcadeclubuk #Blackpool

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As Judy wiped the oil paint from the TV screen, she realised that her Mum was right, she really should have read the game instructions.

And maybe ‘you should paint the dog’ was not as literal a request as she’d thought.

Commodore Artist (Vic-20, 1983)

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@karljobstgaming Wow what a lovely photo! Wishing you a happy & prosperous 2024 👍

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@16bitnostalgia Hello! I’m Kate, North of England, started loving tech when I was given a hand me down Vic-20 as a kid. Loved my Master System, Amiga, NES and every console before and after! Hoping to start a YT channel in 24. 👋

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Santa’s time saving delivery method didn’t go down too well. The larger presents simply rolled off the roof, the smaller ones set alight spectacularly. On the plus side, he was home in record time!

(Hope you all had a great Christmas!)

Spectrum, 1984

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@RMCRetro Remembering my lessons in the computer lab at school with it’s full suite of BBC Masters, a mainframe and a b&w dot matrix printer. Loved it!

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@ashens Hope it’s as scary as this!

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Efficiency: When the art department’s dial-up is down and they can’t agree on what a football looks like, so they simply add four possibilities to the box art, hoping that one of them was right.

(TIF - PlayStation 2, 2001)

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Grant’s resume was looking a bit thin after his 18 months in the Youth Detention Centre but at least his ‘excellent time management skills’ weren’t a lie after racking up 572 hours on his only switch game in isolation. He decided to remove ‘sword skills’ though.

(Switch, 2021)

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@theWellRedMage @syncoplay @Quest64Official @Nintendork9 @LoveRetroBTW @RetroBlastUS @TheRetroRoomRoo @16bitnostalgia @SNES_is_Life For 10 year old me; and the new 8 bit gamers who loved SMB1, yes it was too hard. The version we got was so strange and awesome and the characters have stayed in the Mario universe since.

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@Lord_Arse Love it! A perfect match 😁

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@retrohackshack Bet it smells of hot dust though 😂

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@HollowLeif It’s pretty phoned in to be fair, but not the worst Mario box art (or worst on the Switch by a long chalk!) I just don’t like the distant look in his eyes. WHAT DO YOU KNOW

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@RetroDan16 The one on the left is the one I had with my Vic-20 many moons ago. Played many a game of Blitz off it.

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@gamesyouloved Dancing Stage Euromix. Show the kids who’s really got skills. In a very niche retro area. Big still.

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@16bitnostalgia I sucked so bad at it that I convinced myself it was a bad game even though it was a great game and I was just rubbish at it.

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@AdventurersCap Fun but not the best. But always fantastic to see Guybrush Threepwood on any console, right? He’s a legend 👍

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@16bitnostalgia I still do, we all do, right?!