I Want My Mommy (1983)

IGN, in their infinite wisdom, awarded this game the dubious honor of ninth place in their worst-ever box art of all time. While the teddy bear illustration is maybe a little messed up in terms of perspective (and check out that drop shadow— where the hell is the light source supposed to be?), and the game’s name is funny at best/miserable at worst, you can’t knock the classic typography and design displayed here.

I miss the days where box art had this kind of classic, Swiss-inspired typesetting. In an age where absolutely everything is emblazeoned with the same, uninspired, committee-made console banner (I bet just removing those “Xbox 360” or “Playstation 3” banners would make them look better), and every game title is either some dark-fantasy or hard-boiled sci-fi a-bore-mination, and every piece of cover art is just splotches of blue and orange to create the same old boring contrast (an oxymoron if ever I’ve heard one), I yearn for something that looks a little different— even if the illustrator skipped art class on the day where they studied light sources.