{"id":8453,"date":"2017-12-21T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/random_these_n64_box_art_covers_have_not_aged_well"},"modified":"2017-12-21T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:15:00","slug":"random-these-n64-box-art-covers-have-not-aged-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/21\/random-these-n64-box-art-covers-have-not-aged-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: These N64 Box Art Covers Have Not Aged Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news5.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/random_these_n64_box_art_covers_have_not_aged_well\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/random_these_n64_box_art_covers_have_not_aged_well\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news5.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all got plenty of fond memories of Nintendo 64 &#8211; which is why we&#8217;re excited for the inevitable N64 Mini <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/hyperkin_has_created_a_prototype_portable_nintendo_64_mini\">and its third-party friends<\/a> &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t mean we look back on every game with a smile. In fact, just thinking about some those box art covers makes us a little queasy.<\/p>\n<p>Over on N64 Today, erstwhile Nintendo Life contributor <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/n64today.com\/2017\/12\/17\/worst-n64-game-box-art-covers\/\">Martin Watts has put together a new feature<\/a> on some of the worst box art covers to ever grace Nintendo&#8217;s 64-bit beast. And no, time hasn&#8217;t been kind to them, either. We get to look back on the sexed up NSTC cover for the forgettable shooter <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/forsaken\">Forsaken<\/a><\/strong> (we just got the letter &#8216;F&#8217; burned on the surface on a planet, which in retrospect, probably has more to do with the actual game than a wet model with a tattoo on her face).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/random_these_n64_box_art_covers_have_not_aged_well\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/random_these_n64_box_art_covers_have_not_aged_well\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news 4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Anyone remember the middling <strong>Holy Magic Century<\/strong> (as it was known here in the UK and Europe)? Well, the game might have been a little shallow for an RPG, but at least it had decent box art. Not only did our US chums get a name change (<strong>Quest 64<\/strong>? Really?) they got some really terrible artwork as well, too. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>What do you guys make of these old covers? Tell us about some your favourite terrible covers on Nintendo consoles in the comments below.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all got plenty of fond memories of Nintendo 64 &#8211; which is why we&#8217;re excited for the inevitable N64 Mini and its third-party friends &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t mean we look back on every game with a smile. In fact, just thinking about some those box art covers makes us a little queasy. Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}