I always thought that the cover image for Terrorpods was stupid – it’s obvious that the image was made as an illustration of one of the final scenes of The War of the Worlds, and that someone just saw the image and made a game based on the image in order to have a cool image on the packaging; i.e. blatant shovelware tactics. (The game bears no similarity to The War of the Worlds.)
I totally get what you’re saying. That whole 8-but era leaned on such fantastical and detailed box art to kind of fill in the mental blanks between the world you were in and the handful of boxy pixels that actually represented the characters and sprites.
