Most, if not all, of the early SMS game boxes were blessed with the type of half-arsed imagery that made you want to pull out a felt tip pen and finish the job yourself, but Sega would take laziness to all sorts of new levels with the box designs for their Sega Card series.   Take this box art for Ghost House for instance; basically just an image of somebody with clean hands holding up a copy of the game. The bemusing thing is that someone actually went to the trouble of designing a half decent (in SMS terms) sticker for the cartridge (which admittedly has zero to do with ghosts or houses). Now how many games do you know boast a more imaginative looking cartridge than box art? All of the Sega Card games that’s how many.   

Now imagine how drab the world of packaging would be if everything was packaged in this way. Tins of beans with images of hands holding tins of beans, teabags plastered with pictures of hands holding teabags, yoghurt boxes with….well, you get the idea.

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