The Worst of Super Nintendo (SNES)

[Daria]

Jeremy Parish of 1UP.com showed me a Super Nintendo title called Brandish back when he was living in Michigan. He had told me about the game in the past, but I wasn't expecting it to be so frighteningly bad. When he first described it to me, I thought that the levels rotated smoothly whenever you turned, like in the overhead scenes in Contra III. That would have been disorienting enough, but the playfields actually shift 45 degrees every time you turn. There's no smooth transition from North to West... it just switches from one viewpoint to the next. The rest of the game was already very unimpressive, but the shifting viewpoints shifted its quality from first gear to reverse.

JR

I actually have a Brandish poser on my door. Not the world's best game, but it is a nice looking poster. :P

[Saabmeister]

How come no-one has said Captain Novolin.
THe worst SNES game. Ever.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Lets make this topic easier, any RAYA System games are craptacular.
Batman Returns was great.
Some on my list
Lester the Unlikely
Brandish
Skuljagger's Revenge
Drakkhen
Vortex
Wayne's World
Buster Busts Loose

More but I don't have my collection or a book with me.

[badinsults]

How come no-one has said Captain Novolin.
THe worst SNES game. Ever.

I would have to agree with you on that one.

[TRM]

Super Mario Kart - Having played the N64 version first, the graphics are dated and confusing...

Ben

Im going to have to say BAH? here.
Of course the graphics are going to be dated compared to a NEWER SYSTEM.

Yeah, Super Mario Kart is EXCELLENT still to this day. "Dated" graphics or not, it's still one of the best examples of pure all out fun you have have with a friend.

I never had much fun with Mario Kart on the SNES, with or without a friend.

[SoulBlazer]

I'm going to defend Lagoon here. I played that game when it first came out, and really liked it. Yes, it's kinda dated now, but the gameplay was fun, the graphics were good for the time, and the music is GREAT. I still listen to it to this day.

Drakken was a fun game as well, but I can see how you can get confused on what to do without a walkthrough. I think the PC version was better -- the game was a port.

And Batman Returns by Konami was a fun game as well -- good action and very nice music.

I'm going to say Populus was a bad game. Bleh! LOUSY port when compared to the original PC game.

Actraiser 2 was a huge disapoinment after the classic that the first one was.

I thought Y's 3 was pretty average as well.

[DigitalSpace]

I thought Super Mario Kart was an okay game. I wouldn't put it in my personal top 10 or even top 20 games of all time, but it would be somewhere in the top 50 (though it would be in my top 20 SNES games). I think it was an innovative game but imo it's gotten a bit dated. Mario Kart 64 was a lot better to me; in fact, it's my favorite racing game of all time.

Back on the main topic, another horrible SNES game is Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Eye Of The Beholder. It's a point and click game that's very slow and boring.

Drakken is pretty bad too. I had it back in the day, and after giving it an hour, I didn't get that far, and the game never gave me any interest towards trying.

[Jorpho]

Hmm. Nary a mention of Bebe's Kids?

(Oh, no, there it is. Never mind.)

[Mayhem]

There's ALWAYS going to be arguments of SMK vs MK64... very few people seem to like both, you seem to be either one or the other :P

Most people I know prefer SMK, mainly because of complaints the weapons system was too unbalanced in MK64 and didn't rely more on actual driving skill (until you try doing the shortcuts!).

[vintagegamecrazy]

Skuljagger's Revenge is horrid. I played it in the past and it sucked, but yesterday I was bored and gave it a second try I made it to level 2 and was so tired of it and quit the game is so cheesy and the scrolling is so choppy. This game is just aweful. Any one agree?

[ShinobiMan]

I used to love Rival Turf! I had the import Super Famicom version of it. It was called Rush N' Beat and it included 8 megs instead of the 4 that was in the american one.

And the Sega Genesis version of Captain American and The Avengers is light years better than the Super Nintendo one and much more true to the arcade. After all, thats what sega was known for.

[NeoVenom]

I can't believe that some people say that Mario Kart is bad. Batman Returns rocks for SNES, so idk what some of you are talking about.

Games that really sucked on SNES:

Toys
Rocketeer
Hook

These games are so hard that it caused me to hate them.

Battletoads and Double Dragon suckz..AND they messed up on Billy and Jimmy. I thought Billy had brown hair and Jimmy had blonde.

[Doonzmore]

Top Gear and Battletoads/ Double Dragon are classics and stand the test of time. As for crap titles, tack these to the list:


Batman Forever
Krusty's Super Funhouse
Warlock
Lawnmower Man

[QBert]

Faceball 2000 (smiley faces you have to shoot)
Micro Machines (point?)
Hyperzone (3d F-Zero type game)
The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare

Someone put Top Gear 3000. I liked that game.

Has anyone finished Barts nightmare without any cheats or anything?
Man this game is tough.

Any Top Gear game is good.

[DigitalSpace]

Has anyone finished Barts nightmare without any cheats or anything?
Man this game is tough.

Any Top Gear game is good.

One of my friends beat Bart's Nightmare back in the day. I don't know whether he used cheats or not, though.

And imo, the first Top Gear and Top Gear 3000 are good games, 3000 being my favorite of the series, but I couldn't get into Top Gear 2, since it has awful control options.

[badinsults]

Has anyone finished Barts nightmare without any cheats or anything?
Man this game is tough.

Any Top Gear game is good.

One of my friends beat Bart's Nightmare back in the day. I don't know whether he used cheats or not, though.

And imo, the first Top Gear and Top Gear 3000 are good games, 3000 being my favorite of the series, but I couldn't get into Top Gear 2, since it has awful control options.

You didn't like the groove that appeared on your thumb after pressing the X button for so long?

[suppafly]

Street combat was a huge letdown...what a boring game

Pit fighter for SNES was pretty hedious too!

[DigitalSpace]

You didn't like the groove that appeared on your thumb after pressing the X button for so long?

Well, I'm used to using the B button for acceleration on SNES racing games, and X is too awkward. There is a control option that allows you to use the B button, but you have to use L and R to turn instead of left and right on the d-pad! What were they smoking when they thought that up?

[Ruudos]

I'm going to defend Micro Machines and Buster Busts Loose! (TTA) here.

I admit that I haven't played MM on SNES, but if it's anything like the NES version it should be fun. And Buster Busts Loose is a great and fun underrated platform game.

[SkiDragon]

The Stargate game is one of the worst I have played for the SNES.