I'm seeing a lot of games with awesome cover art but pretty standard gameplay for its era. You gotta pick something with truly dogshit gameplay to counter the cover. I present the NES game Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
I was the kid who liked to stand in the horror section of the video rental store, look at the covers, and read the descriptions of scary movies I was way too meek to ever actually watch. This comes along, and I think it looks pretty cool! My mom paid good money to rent this and so help me I spent a good chunk of my evening trying to figure out how to do... literally anything. I wandered back and forth as Dr. Jekyll for a while before I bumped into too many pedestrians and turned into Mr. Hyde. Then I wandered back and forth as Mr. Hyde until I believe a bird killed me. Never made it past the first level.
That is a truly horrendous game with badass-looking cover art.
Unless the local is me. I am terrible at giving directions. "Go that way for like, three... maybe four intersections. Turn left when there's like a store or something on the side of the road. When it seems like the right time, turn left again, and then like... uh... there's a tree... You know what, let me just give you the address and hope that GPS works out for you."