10 Utterly Bizarre Video Game Covers You Probably Missed

8. Phalanx

Phalanx A bearded man with a banjo... seems like we might have taken a wrong turn somewhere in Mississippi and ended up in You Got a Purty Mouth-ington. Once you're done gawking at Jedidiah over there, it's likely the second place you're gonna look is the title, "Phalanx". Now the history buffs here will note that that's a military formation used in Ancient Greece, but noone will be able to fathom quite what it has to do with banjos. While you scratch your head on that issue, you might then notice the "The Hyper-Speed Shootout in Space" quote right there, and the spaceship, throwing a whole new world of questions into proceedings. So what, this is an intergalactic shoot-em-up? So presumably the banjo-wielding man is a character, or some reference to the game? No? What the hell, man?! phalnax
 
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