Worst Games you've ever played?

[Collector_Gaming]

I knew this was eventually going to get mentioned. *sigh*



Then you haven't played many Atari 2600 games, or games for many systems at all, past or present.



Probably the smartest part of your post.

i guess my signature picture doesn't show here displaying what i own..

i own about 60 atari 2600 games (which i don't own ET but played it via of a cousin of mine back when i was younger.). Played a majority of them.
I own over 100 NES games. played alot before i did this whole collecting so some of my child hood games i don't own.. just more so played through relatives and friends and such. Which most of the games (except for the stupidly rare ones) that AVGN reviews for the NES i own (what happens when you buy stuff in bulk i guess. you get alot of bad apples with your golden eggs haha)
which thats not saying i got a bigger E-Penis then the next person... its just stating its not like i own 1 of each and then base my opinion from that

Yea i guess i haven't played any classic games to compare to.
And my review i state about the game is from memory of me from when i was about 7 or 8 years old. I didn't read video game publications and G4 didn't exist. So outside from what i had for games at the time i didn't know what was good what was bad or anything. But yet that game.. That one game stood out as clear as filtered water.

[Rob2600]

Some of the worst games *I've* played are:

2600:
Raiders of the Lost Ark

NES:
Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
Days of Thunder
Deadly Towers
Karate Champ
Paperboy
Remote Control
Super Pitfall
Taboo: The Sixth Sense (does this even count?)

Genesis:
Dark Castle
The Last Battle

SNES:
Batman Forever
Pit-Fighter
Street Combat

N64:
ClayFighter 63 1/3
Dark Rift

[Collector_Gaming]

NES:

Taboo: The Sixth Sense (does this even count?)

not saying it shouldn't be here but i personally wouldn't count it.
Its a simulator.
Its as much a game as stock market app on my Iphone lol

But it does fall into that "what were they thinking" category of things of video game past

[Pr3tty F1y]

Some of the worst games *I've* played are:

NES:
Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum

I had Dash Galaxy back in the day. So much potential. It was a really cool game, but the jumping mechanics just sucked and the oxygen limit on the map screen was a bunch of crap.

[Sunnyvale]

Buster Douglas KO Boxing, SMS. I haven't pulled a cart of out my system so quickly (and gingerly!) in a long, long time.

[Rob2600]

I just remembered another one:

Wall Street Kid (NES)

[Collector_Gaming]

another good mention i have played i just remembered that no ones played would be

Rocky for the Sega Master System
before you fight is just why...... wtf..... are you serious?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvWuy7p5mZE
Thanks angry video game nerd for telling us how you feel.

[substantial_snake]

This is actually kinda hard, I can't really think of too many just outright bad games that I've played. I guess I just don't dwell on them much.

My vote has to go for Dark Castle on the Sega Genesis.

The AVGN brought this memory back up and it probably is the worst game I've ever played that I can recal.

[jammajup]

Some of the worst games *I've* played are:

2600:
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Dark Rift

NoooooOOOOOOOOO! lol its one of my favourite Atari 2600 games,i think 3D Tic-Tac-Toe and some of the Atari 2600 sport and board game titles like Atari Soccer,Bowling,etc are trash even back in the day.After playing these you realise there is little wrong with E.T and Pacman they were just rushed productions.
Geof Capes Strongman on Zx Spectrum springs to mind,Zool is poor too on any format and i never liked Punch Out on Nes even though i hear endless praise for it.

[Collector_Gaming]

Geof Capes Strongman on Zx Spectrum springs to mind,Zool is poor too on any format and i never liked Punch Out on Nes even though i hear endless praise for it.

i know this is based on personal opinions.
But can i ask why you never liked Punch Out and Zool? Just wondering cause i always loved those 2 titles
like if there was something i overlooked or something i missed just to force myself to like them haha.

Some people i have heard actually hate Zombies Ate My Neighbors (IRategamer hates this game) but thats 1 of my all time favorite games. *shrug*

[Sadler]

Ballistix on the TG16 might get my vote.

[c0ldb33r]

Ballistix on the TG16 might get my vote.

Damnit really? I just bought that boxed. I was hoping that its good.

[Sadler]

Damnit really? I just bought that boxed. I was hoping that its good.

I mean, you might like it. It's kinda air hockey with the stupid twist that you have to shoot balls at the puck. I guess I should admit I didn't play it for more than maybe 20 minutes before getting so frustrated I had to give it up. It might get better!

[Hawksmoor]

Smashing Drive for the GCN and Fighting Masters for the Genesis are the first ones that came to mind for me.

[old_skoolin_jim]

This is a pretty recent discovery, but I'd have to vote for Castelian/Tower Toppler on the NES/C64 respectively. Inaccurate "Rotating graphics" be damned, this game is a turd.
What were the devs thinking?
"Let's give zero indication of when a floor tile will give way!"
"Let's make the NES version only use 1 button, even though there are two on the controller!"
"Let's give the game an unreasonably short time limit!"
HULK SMASH.

[The 1 2 P]

another good mention i have played i just remembered that no ones played would be

Rocky for the Sega Master System
before you fight is just why...... wtf..... are you serious?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvWuy7p5mZE
Thanks angry video game nerd for telling us how you feel.

I played that games at my cousins when I was younger because his friend was the only one that didn't have an Nes like the other 99% of American kids. From what I remember I actually liked it but that was a long ass time ago. I definitely don't remember it being so bad that it would have emotionally scarred me me like ET did.

[j_factor]

I'm trying to remember the name of a first-person shooter for Saturn that was only released in Japan. I bought it back in 1998 because it was pretty cheap at a local store, and I'd never heard of it at all. I don't know if it was the worst game I've ever played, but it was close.

edit: Found it. Tokusou Kidoutai J SWAT. Awful, awful game.

[jonebone]

It's hard to answer this thread, because if a game is truly that horrible, I probably take it out after 5 minutes of playing and totally forget that I ever played it.

I'll put a spin on this thread and ask, "What's the worst game you've ever finished?" For me, probably Zelda Phantom Hourglass on DS. It was so repetitive and quite annoying, yet I felt compelled to finish it since I was a Zelda fan.

Otherwise, nothing really comes to mind.

[Nightowljrm]

Pretty much all of the typical staples of crappy video games:
Color Dreams games,
Superman 64,
Bubsy 3D,
X-Men: Next Dimension,
Hunted: The Demon's Forge,
and a few others...

[starsoldier1]

I have two games that I think are equally terrible:
Color A Dinosaur (NES), a pointless colouring game that barely even works. I even did a video review where I got pretty upset at a small kid.
http://youtu.be/xp8UujAP9IU
Gunboat (TG-16), a Godawful 3D boating simulation with a terrible frame-rate and even worse controls.