Box art featuring minimalist Japanese text
With very little else, if anything, that might clue you in as to what the game actually is.
With very little else, if anything, that might clue you in as to what the game actually is.
There sure are a lot of shoot-'em-ups on this list.
Mahjong and shogi games could probably fill a whole list on their own. Most of them all seem to do this, but most mahjong games usually have fat mahjong tiles exploding out of the box art at you, too.