10 Insane Lies Told On Video Game Box Art
4. This Isn't What Mega Man Looks Like - Mega Man
In any discussion about the worst video game cover art of all time, the North American release of the original Mega Man inevitably comes up.
Though the gorgeous Japanese art reflected the title hero perfectly, the American cover was drawn in just six hours at the very last minute without a direct visual reference, and hoo boy, it shows.
Above all else, it just doesn't even begin to represent Mega Man correctly: here he's clearly an adult man rather than a boy, his costume is yellow-blue rather than his signature all-blue, and he's holding a pistol rather than having a canon fused to his arm.
Ultimately one of the game's artists, the legendary Keiji Inafune, blamed the terrible cover art on the game's shambolic commercial performance in the U.S.
Mega Man eventually became an icon in the west as in Japan, though, and the janky "Bad Box Art Mega Man" was later immortalised as a playable character in Capcom's 2012 beat 'em up Street Fighter X Tekken.