Is this the worst video game cover ever? Let’s discuss!

I’ve played a metric buttload of games with super sweet covers for the games, as well as a great number of car-crash covers that you can’t help but stare at how hideous they are. However, I came across an NES cart in my closet yesterday so dreadful, it made me want to say what the fudge? I was eating fudge at the time and was also uncertain if it was a mocha flavor, or possibly a cherry-infused little number, but I was also wondering what the deal was with Kid Niki: Radical Ninja. Niki looks so weaksauce that radical is likely the furthest adjective I’d use to describe him. Perhaps Kid Niki: Fancy Ninja. Or even Kid Niki: Designer Shoe Fashionista.

The cover boasts our hero in a yellow costume so pathetic, it’d make Dick Tracy look like Gaylord Perry, which I’d have to assume is a good thing. Second off, his hair is spiked like a hedgehog, but he has a rat tail. Is our hero really a radical ninja or a Spanish National Team soccer player? Beyond that Data East has him holding a sword covered in blood, but the only thing Niki would be capable of slashing would be prices at Ulta, where he is acquiring more MAC makeup.

Along with Niki’s obvious manpower, he seems to be saving a damsel in distress from a pig-faced villian and an evil executioner. Never going to happen. Niki is not a man’s man. I’ll tell you who are a couple of man’s men: The Bad Dudes. Data East at least got one cover right, as these guys are able bodied and ready for action. Hot, hot man action. No wait! I mean karate action. Yeah, karate action…

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