Mike
Back in the 80s, video game covers were a wild art form all their own. You’d pick up a cartridge with an absolutely unhinged, hyper-detailed painting of a barbarian fighting off a laser-eyed cyborg dragon in space… only to get home and discover the game was just 8-bit blocks blooping around the screen while your character vaguely resembled a melted marshmallow.
But we didn’t care—we thought it was cutting-edge. These nostalgic video game covers were the bait, and we were happy to bite. Here are some of the most hilariously misleading, over-the-top, and gloriously insane video game covers from that era.
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