Embarrassing game magazine covers

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A horrifyingly preserved look back at gaming's most regrettable hype! This could get ugly...

Without a doubt, Street Fighter has been featured on more magazine covers than any game. Period. Yes, even more than Sonic and Mario. For one, Capcom dropped more quality SF titles, more frequently, so that helped. But more importantly, the very business of the game magazines took off at around the same time as the Street Fighter craze. Want proof?


Above: “Ooooo… Someday I’ll get that Guile and his Street Fighters!”


Above: Maybe if Gamefan didn’t use up all the blue paint on its stupid mascot, the SF gang wouldn’t have to fight in their alt costumes


Above: Here we see T-Hawk posing for Playgirl – I mean, the family friendly Nintendo Power!


Above: Ryu better take that haircut back to Tekken where it belongs


Above: Once again, Gamefan puts its dumbass mascot above its cover story


Above: Bison, seen here fresh from a couple hits off the crack pipe and wielding Wonder Woman’s lasso


Above: Mortal Kombat so wishes it could still share a cover with Street Fighter


Above: Every character here looks like they’re charging up a power dump


Above: With no SF character assets left to go around, Hyper settles on a Cammy seemingly made of origami


Above: Guile’s Sonic Kick charges a boring call out for Nintendo passwords


Above: Easy, Chun-Li! It looks like Dhalsim is surrendering


Above: Okay, this has officially gone too far!

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GamesRadarChrisAntista
GamesRadarChrisAntista
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