7. Bust-A-Move (Sega Saturn and Playstation 2)

You can count on Bust-A-Move games to provide enjoyable, familiar, cutesy puzzle fun. You can also almost always count on scary, poorly done cover work.
The Sega Saturn Bust-A-Move 2 cover looks like a photograph of a whacked-out hippie’s worst nightmare. Seriously, do you think anyone would look at this and say, "Gee, I love shoving matchsticks into my eyelids to keep myself from blinking while groaning in painful agony. If this video game can emulate such an experience, I shall surely purchase it!"

And things haven’t improved much with time. Super Bust-A-Move for the PS2 features an intimidating chubby baby gurgling blood-red bubbles.

Acclaim apparently thinks the best way to market video games to kids is to make packaging so scary that kids will be too afraid to look at it, let alone pick it up. And to think they almost went bankrupt.