Back in the day, teens and men literally went out and tried new games if they had a hot girl on the cover. My entire friend group bought NOLF1 in the first month because of the boxart alone. I remember it was early in the school year, like October/November of 2000.
Pretty sure nowadays the troon zoomers would find a way to complain about this game after watching their favorite bum streamer posture as some intellectual while stoking a fake culture war.