moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 1 - Posted on 12/23/2016 13:12:45

Welcome to the Steam Winter Sale 2016 Giveaways! Each giveaway has a simple challenge for you to complete by posting in the corresponding thread. Upon doing so, you're automatically entered for the giveaway. Once the giveaway ends, I'll randomly select a winner from those who posted!

As the gaming industry marches towards a digital marketplace, physical games aren't quite as prominent as they once were. But we always have the classics, right? And in those classics, you can find a plethora of....weird box art. I touched on this topic a while back in this stack.

For this challenge, you'll need to post a weird box art image! You have until 11:59PM EST on 1/1/17 to post!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/6090/

Post Edited on 12/23/2016 13:13:44
Drymonema Curator Backer Posts: 395 Registered: 5/31/2016
drymonema
# 2 - Posted on 12/23/2016 15:30:17

Weird art, weird title. Never played it so no idea about the game.

dhobo Curator Backer Posts: 1965 Registered: 1/5/2015
darwinsocialism
# 3 - Posted on 12/23/2016 18:42:28

This game had the uncanny ability to annoy me every time I saw it. Nothing wrong with the gameplay, that was fine. It was that this game was always sitting on the shelf at my local movie rental place, never rented. This ridiculous banjo-playing geezer cover art masterfully concealing what was a competent although not stellar r-type/gradius clone that deserved at least some attention. I rented it once and that was enough for me.

Post Edited on 12/23/2016 18:42:36
moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 4 - Posted on 12/27/2016 15:36:04

Haha I actually own Baldies on PS1...but I've never played it. I think it's an RTS-kinda game. I should play it.

Although I've never played Phalanx, I always thought the cover art was odd. I don't know how many times I had seen it before I realized it had nothing to do with the actual gameplay.

Tenefer Posts: 26 Registered: 3/5/2016
tenefer
# 5 - Posted on 12/28/2016 9:42:24

X-Man for Atari 2600

Post Edited on 12/28/2016 9:45:28
moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 6 - Posted on 12/29/2016 15:43:50

So I played Baldies this morning and it's....interesting. I had NO idea what I was doing, but somehow fumbled my way into victory on the first level. It's sort of like the wave of Dwarf Fortress style survival games, but not really. It's definitely not an RTS though.

jwcooley Curator Posts: 983 Registered: 2/28/2014
jwcooley
# 7 - Posted on 12/29/2016 15:51:10

Hang on....getting image

Post Edited on 12/29/2016 15:52:06
boffo97 Posts: 767 Registered: 1/25/2015
boffo97
# 8 - Posted on 12/30/2016 3:02:39

No discussion of weird box art is complete without Tongue of the Fatman... also a weird game.

Post Edited on 12/30/2016 3:10:30
moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 9 - Posted on 12/30/2016 13:50:44

@boffo97 - I...I have no words :P

drakkenxof Posts: 9 Registered: 12/5/2016
drakkenxof
# 10 - Posted on 12/31/2016 7:27:07

Thinking back, I would say Zombies ate my neighbor for the Super Nintendo takes it for the weirdest one I know of.

moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 11 - Posted on 12/31/2016 11:44:40

Whoa, I've never seen that cover art for Zombies Ate My Neighbors! This is the one I had as a kid:

dhobo Curator Backer Posts: 1965 Registered: 1/5/2015
darwinsocialism
# 12 - Posted on 12/31/2016 16:11:26

Yeah, that alternate box art is something of a collector's item, apparently. I haven't found too many sources confirming it's origin, but most people seem to think it was a Mexican variant.

moho_00 Curator Backer Posts: 6846 Registered: 6/10/2011
moho_00
# 13 - Posted on 1/2/2017 12:07:56

Interesting side-note: This was the only "critical hit" dice roll that I saw during all of these rolls :P

And the winner is....

@boffo97

You're already on my Steam friend list, so I will just send it to you directly.

Thanks for the participation everyone and let's have a great 2017 here on Completionator!

boffo97 Posts: 767 Registered: 1/25/2015
boffo97
# 14 - Posted on 1/2/2017 17:28:20

How could Tongue of the Fatman NOT crit? ;)

Thanks, Moho!