Cover art that over sold the experience

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The box looked awesome, didn't it? Oh dear...

Sword of Aragon (PC, 1990)

Box art suggests: Ferocious battle in a beautiful world, with hundreds of enemies on screen, like Ninety-Nine Nights.

The reality: A rather basic isometric strategy game. We would feel robbed if those horse sprites weren't so damn cute. But look - 'quit' is an in-game option!

Above: Imagination is a great thing. So this sort of thing looked like the boxart. In our minds

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Justin Towell
Justin Towell

Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.

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