24 Video Game Covers That Will Double Your Testosterone

Nothing catches a consumer's attention like wanton violence. It's why JC Penny employees are encouraged to get in one screwdriver fight with a customer every 30 minutes. It's also why the video game industry is constantly boxing its products in stupidly awesome pictures of mayhem. In fact, over the years there have been so many super tough video game boxes that I had to design an artificial intelligence just to sort through them all. Its name is the T.oughness R.ating C.omputer, and while I cheered it used its advanced toughness evaluation systems to select the 24 toughest of all time. Pussies may want to look at these with their eyes closed.


Men, if your woman is lucky, you just saved this to your desktop as future_sextape_cover.jpg.

Oh, damn. They mean really bad cat. They don't even make vests, headbands, and sunglasses for cats-- Bad Cat had to murder the world's coolest baby in order to get that outfit.

Sometimes I see the things Japan does and I'm like, "Why does everyone talk about how weird these people are?" Those two in the back simply got nude and are using dance to express how they can't deal with how awesome this situation is.



The four guys from the Contra Force seems pretty tough, but there's no way any of them lived through this. SMITH is inches from a falling bomb, BEANS is literally standing in an explosion with a tank of napalm on his back, IRON is picking a gunfight with a helicopter, and BURNS is about to fall onto a kitchen knife. And speaking of, who the hell is kitchen knife guy? He's amazing! He's watching an entire air force drop bombs on four idiots and he's charging into it with a kitchen knife! For what? Is his restaurant serving blackened dumbass chunks today? Is he trying to impress a hot coroner? I really wish this game was about him.



It's all totally rad right now, but as soon as that dinosaur catches a glimpse of himself in a mirror, he is going to bite that little son of a bitch in half. To be honest, I'm not sure how this fruitloopery got on a toughest cover list. Those two are probably listening to the book on tape version of Jane Eyre. What I think happened was some kind of logic error in the T.oughness R.ating C.omputer that put the scoring system into an infinite loop when it detected a kid technically skateboarding on a dinosaur. That's the problem with robots-- any human would have taken one look at Dino City and said, "Is that Tyrannosaurus wearing blowjob safety dentures?"

This might make me sound like a clumsy lover, but this is the first time I've ever seen a ninja cop ejaculate.









I'm crying from all the laughter. I lost my s**t at "Hephaestus sharing a keg of beer with what is so obviously five gorilla vampires that merged to form one big one."
Reply"from grim determination to demonic rage to Caribbean rapist" XD
ReplyI'm laughing so hard I can't control the tears...
80's video games had EPIC covers..too bad some of the games were nothing that epic..* cough BAD STREET BRAWLER cough* we need more manly covers now an days..skyrim should have a dead dragon with a guy's sword on top of the dragon..(instead of a stupid boring logo)
ReplyIK+ on the C64 was a pretty sweet game.
drug wars looks like a hobo on crack with a machine gun, burst out laughing when i saw it
ReplyThis list doesn't have the cover from DOOM for the PS1... This list is hereby false.
ReplyThe humanoid goat from #5 was my childhood nightmare. The 'Groat', was invented by my dad to keep me out of the dangerous fields next to our house which contained...sheep. I would have nightmares that he would lean on the fence dressed in tweed, smoking a pipe. Smiling.
ReplyThanks Seanbaby.
The next time you want a good jolt, type "Baphomet" into a search engine.
Your father's buddy has been roaming those fields for quite some time now.
Seanbaby... marry me, pink mohawk and all. I registered just because of how awesome your articles are.
Replyseanbaby should do improv. :)
ReplyI wtf'ed at #22
ReplyWow, I remember Werewolf/Warwolf. It was a really fun game and I'm surprised it was never more popular.
ReplyI remember the Power Blades games too but with less fondness.
Hilarious article. Made me crack up so many times.
ReplyNothing more manly that Cho Aniki... perhaps the gayest game to ever come out of Japan. And that's saying a lot.
Reply"Is that Tyrannosaurus wearing b*****b safety dentures?"
Reply...
Do they make b*****b safety dentures? Cause if they do, I'll take a dozen.
Get TALENT!
ReplyI guess some people didn't see Broken Pixels, what a shame. I'll give you a thumb for that though.
That article made me grow a mustache.
ReplyThey should use modern technology to actually make games that look like these boxes, and only based on the cover art.
ReplyYou sir, have a great idea for a new game studio.
I was wondering when Jean-Claude Van Damme was going to pop up. Never change, Seanbaby.
ReplyDear Sir,
ReplyWhat you do is art. The inherent cynic in me expects your approach to get tired. Years later, I still stand back and say, "WTF?? Why didn't I think of that??? Oh, right, because I'm not Seanbaby."
This was beyond brilliant, thank you: "When there's an ape, a storm trooper, and Satan exploding right next to you, then whatever made you turn the other way has got to be utterly indescribable."
That quote was so funny that reading it out of context STILL made me explode with laughter.
I think I just shat on my cat.
ReplyI laughed my cat right off my stomach.
Well shit.
ReplyThanks for the extra testicle, jackass.
You want to borrow my corkscrew?