Welcome to the premier edition of Box-art mysteries! Each week I’ll dig up nine game cover art from all consoles and focus on small details and background characters. Your task is simple: name the game. Bonus points if you know the year they were released.

To kick off the series I’ve been kind and only included faces.

1. Must have a hard time wiping his ass.
2. Would look good on an Aerosmith album cover.
3. My sources say that's a ninja.
4. Is an angry three-eyed merman, from space!
5. Suffered a neck injury.
6. Quite possibly the worst box art of all time (or the best).
7. My, what big nostrils you have.
8. Appears to have lost his head.
9. Has a metallic banana in its mouth. What else could it be?

You can find the answers on page two. How many did you get right?