[Rant] Box Art Gone Bad

Browsing the shelves at Best Buy tonight, I came across the re-released versions of Clubhouse Games and Hotel Dusk. "Great," I thought, "Now more people will get a chance to play these wonderful games." Then I noticed what horrors Nintendo had wrought upon the box art:



A MYSTERY NOVEL. Yeah, thanks Nintendo, I never would have figured out what the game was about if you hadn't put a giant orange banner across the top. Why do game companies feel the need to ruin perfectly good covers when they reprint games? We already had Konami's genius picture of a box as box art:



Is there some unwritten rule that reprints must intentionally have bad box art, so the early adopters can feel better about their purchases? Sure, some folks don't care what their game case looks like, as long as they get what's inside, but why purposefully make a product less appealing? And that doesn't even address all the times companies have changed perfectly good box art when releasing games in other territories.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Whose fist is that aiming at and missing Mega Man's crotch?

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