Ever Buy a Bad Game... On Purpose?

[Ascending Wordsmith]

You knew it was a bad game; you hated it with a passion. The very existence of the game gnaws at your moral fibers. How such a creation, could even be labeled as a 'game' baffles your mind. It sucks... sucks ASS!

Yet, you bought it anyway!

I've done this before just to try and complete a series I was collecting. Ever heard of Tecmo Super Basketball? No, its not like it's football counterpart, Tecmo Super Bowl. The basketball version is a horrible game. Everytime I look upon that game, I wish the NBA would financially collapse and the players would suffer from a mental breakdown that would later kill them. It's just that bad.

Have you ever bought a bad game on purpose? What was it, and why did you buy it?

[Vroomfunkel]

i am sure nearly everyone here has deliberately bought a bad game for one reason or another.

Me, I bought Night Trap CD 32X (PAL) deliberately because it was £3, and I knew I could sell it for £50 and buy some good games with the proceeds :D

That's the main one that I can remember, but I am sure there have been others.

Vroomdunkel

[norkusa]

I bought Patriotic Pinball (PSX) a couple of weeks ago knowing the physics would be shit (I own Austin Powers Pinball, designed by the same company. Pretty much the same.). It was only $10 though and I was expecting it to become a future rarity.

I also felt like i HAD to pick it up. In this day and age, if you don't buy a game with a title like Patriotic Pinball, people will think you are a terrorist.

[digitalpress]

Well first of all the three posters above are all on crack.

I LIKE Tecmo Super NBA Basketball, at least for SNES (don't think I ever tried the Genny version). I played a full season with it years ago. What's so awful abou it?

I LIKE Night Trap for 32X. I didn't really hate the Sega CD version. The fact that the graphics were cleaned up made gawking at the girls even better. What's so bad about that!?

I LIKE Patriotic Pinball. What am I missing... bad physics? I've played a ton of pinball "sims" over the years, I don't see the problem.

That aside - especially when you consider that I bought all of the above - I've bought bad games many many many times. More often than not it's because I'm filling in a collection gap. To finish Dreamcast I had to buy Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionairre and QB Club 2001. to finish the Fairchild Channel F I had to buy... well, just about every game that system has to offer. And let's not even start with the Genesis. I'm just a few dozen away from completing it and I'm at the point now where everything I pick up is terrible - it's just a matter of getting them as cheaply as possible!

[hamburgler]

I bought Olympic hockey for N64 Which was the biggest mistake for buying it the first day it came out.Lucky I traded it and went on enjoying a different game that I used credit on form trading this game in.To this day, I regret buying that crappy,worthless use of cartridge,game.

[hezeuschrist]

I've got my eye on a SaGa Frontier for Playstation. I owned it once and sold it for a reason, but now I'm trying to complete my PSX Square collection. In that same vein there are other games I really don't want to own.

[Rogmeister]

I bought Bubsy 3D (PSX) even though most magazines hated it though one magazine liked it (the late PS Extreme) and that fact is boldly emblazoned on the manual cover, extolling the fact it got PS Extreme's gold award. I did like the very first Bubsy game on SNES and figured, hey, if one magazine liked it that much, how bad can it be? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I soon found out.

Hey, my local K-Mart has Patriotic Pinball...

[norkusa]

Well first of all the three posters above are all on crack...I LIKE Patriotic Pinball. What am I missing... bad physics? I've played a ton of pinball "sims" over the years, I don't see the problem.

Physics have EVERYTHING to do with video pinball games. They either make or break the game. When you have a ball that darts around the playfield at 3-4 times the speed of a real pinball machine, it makes the game totally frusterating and unenjoyable (well for me at least, but I'm a pinball snob).

Patriotic Pinball and Austin Powers had same problem: the ball moves WAY too fast. Seems like there is no weight to it. Patriotic Pinball is a slight improvement since you can see the entire playfiled and have more time to react, but it still doesn't make up for it.

[zmeston]

I bought Bubsy 3D (PSX) even though most magazines hated it though one magazine liked it (the late PS Extreme) and that fact is boldly emblazoned on the manual cover, extolling the fact it got PS Extreme's gold award. I did like the very first Bubsy game on SNES and figured, hey, if one magazine liked it that much, how bad can it be? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I soon found out.

Hey, my local K-Mart has Patriotic Pinball...

To cut my employers at Dimension Publishing a wee bit o' slack, just about every magazine preview hyped Bubsy 3D as the next big thing in platforming. Then again, virtually EVERY game is hyped in magazine previews as the next big thing. (Wouldn't it be great to see a magazine with multi-page reviews and capsule previews, instead of the other way around?)

All reviewers have their crosses to bear, of course; I don't know that I've gone against public opinion to a Bubsy 3D degree, although I've come close a few times.

-- Z.

[RetroYoungen]

When I first started collecting NES games, I purposefully bought Superman, not just because it was a bad game but because it reminded me of my earlier days of playing it and hating it as much as I did...

[jaybird]

I'm another fan of Tecmo Super Basketball. Tecmo stuff usually holds up pretty well over time.

Regardless, I just bought Iridion 3D for the Gameboy Advance from Amazon.com because it was $5.49. I read the reviews & it was universally panned, but I bought it anyway because it was so cheap.

Even worse, I bought State of Emergency for the Xbox after buying the PS2 version a year prior. I played the PS2 version for maybe 30 minutes & haven't touched it since.

I didn't let that stand in my way as a $19.99 price tag & promises of cool multi-player action sucked me in. The game still blows, so I've basically bought the same shitty game twice.

Seems a good deal will make me buy anything.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I buy bad games all the time..If I find a bad game for a real cheap price I'll buy it....if they are sealed I leave them that way..

I like playing games...and.. owning lots of games..
You never know what game is going to become rare and you wished you picked up.
I gotta say I do pick up some real crappy games sometimes just to have them.
One game that comes to mind is..
I bought a sealed Barbie Super Model Genesis game for $5.00..to keep it unopened in my collection..
I figure this game must be horrible..lol.. :D

[Ed Oscuro]

Worst game I've deliberately bought was Zero Wing...the PAL Mega Drive version, of course. It was only 18 british pounds, anyways.

[Vroomfunkel]

£18 for the PAL Zero Wing? You got ripped off!!! If you exclude that brief period about a year ago when everyone went crazy over it, that game is worth about £5... I never bothered to pick it up myself.

Vroomfunkel

[FrankLee]

Shau Fu yea i bought it :(

[ehall]

When I first started collecting NES games, I purposefully bought Superman, not just because it was a bad game but because it reminded me of my earlier days of playing it and hating it as much as I did...

Low G Man. Same damn reason.....

[bargora]

I bought a Jaws in Cleveland just to watch it suck.

[FrankLee]

I bought a Jaws in Cleveland just to watch it suck.

Are you talking about Jaws for the NES? If you are I acutally liked that game...but everyone has different taste so oh well

[FABombjoy]

I traded some stuff to a friend for Kasumi Ninja. It's so bad, it's good!

[bargora]

I bought a Jaws in Cleveland just to watch it suck.

Are you talking about Jaws for the NES? If you are I acutally liked that game...but everyone has different taste so oh well
I'm afraid so. But you're right about different tastes! :)

[Atari7800]

I've got loads of notoriously bad games... games I bought either knowing full well they were bad or even BECAUSE they were bad. This is just a mere sampling...

PSX

Bubsy 3D (was this really play tested?)
Simpsons Wrestling (how do you win a match?)
Beyblade (great graphics, fellas)
Creatures (PC to PSX generally isn't the best idea...)
Dragonball GT Final Bout (it was cheap)
Hooters Road Trip (unplayable!)
V.I.P (why, Pam, why?)


Saturn

Death Crimson (worst gun game EVER)
FIST (VF1 graphics in 1997...)
Final Fight Revenge (VF1 graphics in 1998, on the LAST Saturn game?)
Gale Racer (bad, bad port)
Planet Joker (the Saturn does SNES FX emulation...)
Time Commando (worst characters models I've ever seen)
Batman: The Arcade Game (all Batman games suck.)
Resurrection: Rise 2 (just as bad as the first)
Street Fighter The Movie (a launch title? Impressive...)
Virtual Hydlide (why is the main character 50 lbs overweight?)


N64

Battlezone (awful)
Batman (remember what I said about all Batman games sucking?)
Blues Brothers 2000 (who bought this license?)
Carmageddon 64 (the worst game on N64, bar none, ever Superman)
Daikatana (nice hi-res mode there, Romero)
Monster Truck Madness 64 (nice crapfest, Gates)
Powerpuff Girls (bad, bad, bad!)
Quest 64 (RPG you say?)
Superman (of course)
Transformers Beast Wars (you have GOT to be kidding!)


32x

Spiderman: Web of Fire (one of the rarest AND shittiest games ever)
BC Racers (come on...)
Cosmic Carnage (reason #4 the 32x bombed)
Motocross Championship (hey hey hey!)
Toughman Contest (I hurt)
Zaxxon's Motherbase (wipe shit on the sacred name of Zaxxon, won't you?)
ALL Cd games (universal crapfest)



I could go on and on...

[Arcade Antics]

Zaxxon's Motherbase (wipe shit on the sacred name of Zaxxon, won't you?)

Yeah - it's really Viewpoint 2 with the Zaxxon franchise slapped on it.

[ManekiNeko]

Oh yeah. I picked up Robodemons for the NES just so my friends and I could ridicule it endlessly at a party. After being exposed to the game for about a day, I ran a contest where the LOSER would receive it. He was encouraged to destroy the game with a sledgehammer, and he eagerly agreed to the request.
I want to find a copy of Super Pitfall for the same reason, but I've never been able to track one down. Perhaps someday, I will have my revenge on that game as well.

JR

[Kim Possible]

I've bought tons of crap for "collecting" purposes (ugh). The two biggest messes I've intentionally bought were Spider-man: Sinister Six and Wolverine for the NES. Both are LJN hunks of poo, and there is actual pain if you try to insert them into the NES. Ick.

Once again, my love for comic books bites me in the ass. >:( :(

[ubersaurus]

I've bought alot of crap in my days of collecting for old systems (where its pretty much worth the price of admission), but as far as getting stuff new...

I got the Evil Dead game for Dreamcast. Oh, I knew it sucked, and hard. But I couldn't bring myself to NOT buy it.

Another level of hell of a game I've bought could be summed up as, and I'll probably get some flak for this, Lunar SSSC. It was everything fun of the sega cd version, replaced with cruddy voice acted cut scenes and more random battles for the sake of building levels so I can beat a boss then any game should have. I hated it so much that partway through the first disc I just put it back in the box and haven't even opened it since.

You can't be hating on the channel f games! They did a good version of pong! :puppydogeyes:

[bargora]

I got the Evil Dead game for Dreamcast. Oh, I knew it sucked, and hard. But I couldn't bring myself to NOT buy it.
Same here. I swear I heard it jeer as I put it on the shelf: "Who's laughing now?!?"