Worst platformers games in the history of VG

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Hi, i´m writing an article about the worst platformers in the history of the VG and i need your opinion and also the name of the game with a little description, and, if you want...a pic. You can send the info via DP or you can send it to my e-mail.
Obviously, i´ll put in the credits all the people that helped me

Thanks and best regards

Matías

[Ascending Wordsmith]

Keith Courage in the Alpha Zones was a weak platformer... to an extent. Those overworld stages were the pits; I mean why in the hell am I collected coins from little blobs of whipped cream that I killed? The music is annoying and the graphics give no respect to the TG-16's capabilities. Now, during the underworld scenes, the game picks up pace. Keith gets to wear a mech suit with a kick ass sword.

Overall, KCAZ is a HUGE disappointment. Luckily, Bonk came in and assumed the NEC mascot duties.

[Raccoon Lad]

ANYTHING by THQ on the NES (especially Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates)

How their games got the Nintendo Seal of Quality is a total mystery.

[The Unknown Gamer]

Where do I start there are so many BAD ones, Bubsy 3-D for the PSX
To me still ranks as almost the worst game of all time. Then there is
Ikari Warriors for the 7800 nearly everything about that game is bad

[BenT]

It's hard to get worse than Cheetahmen II on the NES.

[Jorpho]

It seems so easy to make a bad platform game... Master Hu and the Drunkard Chu is the one that springs to mind, but I never played that myself.

No, I had the misfortune of playing Takahashi Meijin no Bug Honey, a ROM that was dumped relatively recently. You might remember that Takahashi Meijin no Daibouken Jinna is the Japanese name of Adventure Island (which wasn't such a bad series of platformers). After playing this game, you'll wish you hadn't.
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[digitalpress]

The first one that came to mind was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for NES. Barrels. BLARSTED KILLER BARRELS! Very dull and very frustrating.

[adaml]

It seems so easy to make a bad platform game... Master Hu and the Drunkard Chu is the one that springs to mind, but I never played that myself.

No, I had the misfortune of playing Takahashi Meijin no Bug Honey, a ROM that was dumped relatively recently. You might remember that Takahashi Meijin no Daibouken Jinna is the Japanese name of Adventure Island (which wasn't such a bad series of platformers). After playing this game, you'll wish you hadn't.

Heh, everyone always gets that title wrong...I think it is wrong even on Etler's rarity list...Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu..

That Bug Honey game...I played that for a bit. There are portions of the game that are similar to Breakout/Arkanoid, but I got stumped around the 3rd or 4th level and had no idea what to do.

[The Manimal]

Ikari Warriors for NES sucked pretty bad also. That's one of the few NES games I got rid of!

[zektor]

NES Athena was just an annoying platformer for me. No matter how hard I tried, I just could not get into that game.

[adaml]

I actually beat Athena almost exactly 10 years after I first played it. That lobster boss always did me in.

[stargate]

what is the definition of "platformer"?

[omnedon]

Tempo for the 32X.

The music and feel alone set my teeth on edge.

Wonder Dog for the SEGA CD went a long way towards me selling off all my console stuff in 1994, and going strictly computer games... I expected so much from the SEGA CD and it delivered so little...

[GaijinPunch]

Hey - Tempo's a good game... at least the 32x version.

Shubibinman (Shockman) on the PC-Engine is flat out AWFUL. The 3rd one is pretty good though.

[stargate]

what is the definition of "platformer"?

OK, someone knows this. I have always wondered what a "platformer" game means.

[1bigmig]

Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde for the NES. Nuff said!

[Ikari Warrior]

"Platformer" is the term for a character-based action game where the hero runs, defeats enemies, and jumps from platform to platform (hence the name), usually with a side-scrolling screen. Super Mario Bros. or Sonic would be the prime examples of a platformer.

[Jorpho]

That Bug Honey game...I played that for a bit. There are portions of the game that are similar to Breakout/Arkanoid, but I got stumped around the 3rd or 4th level and had no idea what to do.

You mean it's actually possible to get past the first level?

Amagon is another one that looks pretty bad. There's also an awful Japanese Transformers NES game.
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[adaml]

Yeah, that Transformers game has one level where you have to go through the level a certain way, like in one of the castle levels in Super Mario Brothers. You have to take a certain route through the level or you will never make it through. I used to have the Japanese site bookmarked, but I seem to have lost it.

[ManekiNeko]

Don't forget Super Pitfall!
Not that anyone could... x_x

JR

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Wow!!!, i didn´t have idea that the worst platformers are 90% of NES...

[BenT]

Hrm, I'm not very impressed by the list we've generated so far. Ikari Warriors ain't a platformer, and even if you're not a fan of it (I'm certainly not), stuff like Tempo has no place sharing space on a list with the worst of the NES.

Anyway, for some real badness, try these NES games.

Cliffhanger
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Total Recall
Wayne's World
+ most unlicensed ones (Cheetahmen II, Master Hu, etc.)

Btw, I beat Super Pitfall when I was a kid. Kinda enjoyed it, obvious badness aside. :embarrassed:

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Hrm, I'm not very impressed by the list we've generated so far. Ikari Warriors ain't a platformer, and even if you're not a fan of it (I'm certainly not), stuff like Tempo has no place sharing space on a list with the worst of the NES.

Anyway, for some real badness, try these NES games.

Cliffhanger
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Total Recall
Wayne's World
+ most unlicensed ones (Cheetahmen II, Master Hu, etc.)

Btw, I beat Super Pitfall when I was a kid. Kinda enjoyed it, obvious badness aside. :embarrassed:
I´m not very impressed too (and Ikari warriors it´s not a platformer), but i´m impressed that all worst platformers are from NES, it´s not other console with bad platformers???, maybe i should change the name of the article to: "Worst NES platformers games" :/

[stargate]

"Platformer" is the term for a character-based action game where the hero runs, defeats enemies, and jumps from platform to platform (hence the name), usually with a side-scrolling screen. Super Mario Bros. or Sonic would be the prime examples of a platformer.

thanks.........

[Drexel923]

Wisdom Tree's King of King's is excepitionally bad. I'm not sure what other platformers they made, but they probably suck just as much. There are so many bad platformers out there, but for some reason, thats the only one I could think of.

[adaml]

Wow!!!, i didn´t have idea that the worst platformers are 90% of NES...

Perhaps because of the sheer quantity of NES games released combined with the fact that platformers were the most popular games during the NES' run in the late 80's, early 90's. The Genesis has some pretty crappy platformers, though Kid Chameleon is one of the best.

There weren't that many platformers before the NES came out.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there just weren't a lot of platformers for, say, the Atari 2600? I'm not that familiar with all the 2600 games though, so I could be mistaken.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Wow!!!, i didn´t have idea that the worst platformers are 90% of NES...

Perhaps because of the sheer quantity of NES games released combined with the fact that platformers were the most popular games during the NES' run in the late 80's, early 90's. The Genesis has some pretty crappy platformers, though Kid Chameleon is one of the best.

There weren't that many platformers before the NES came out.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there just weren't a lot of platformers for, say, the Atari 2600? I'm not that familiar with all the 2600 games though, so I could be mistaken.
No, i think the 2600, 5200, 7800 etc. don´t have any platform games...and what´s your opinion, which ones are the worst platformers???

[adaml]

No, i think the 2600, 5200, 7800 etc. don´t have any platform games...and what´s your opinion, which ones are the worst platformers???

adaml's worst NES platformers:

Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
-utter THQ crap

Barbie
-this game actually has a HARD stage in it towards the end

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
-goes without saying

Captain Planet and the Planeteers
-another Mindscape stinker...an abomination

Conan
-Mindscape again...they stole an old computer title for their Conan game

Dirty Harry
-er, Mindscape again (I think Alfred Chicken was their only decent platformer). The only redeeming quality of this game are the wacky ending scenes.

Puss N Boots
-This is the sequel to the Famicom game Around the World in 80 Days (or something like that). Around the toilet in 2 minutes.

Mystery Quest
-The fact that you have to beat the game 4 times for the actual ending makes it a snoozer.

Predator
-heh. I recently played through this game and it is chock full of Platforms. Sometimes you actually get stuck in areas you simply cannot get out of, which means you have to use the built in self-destruct.

Time Lord
-I'd almost consider this game as more of a puzzler than a platformer, since there are a lot of things you have to discover in the levels to make it through. Milton Bradley should have stuck to board games.

Tom and Jerry
-Am I the only one who found this game extremely boring?

Treasure Master
-The game built around the exhorbitant contest. Gotta feel bad for the overambitious, underachieving fellas at American Softworks.

Wayne's World
-a sack of shit

Wolverine
-This game could have rocked. LJN sunk it into the same grave as X-Men.

Yo! Noid
-I know some people really like this game, but since it was aimed towards kids, it should have been easier than it was.


I made this list going through my list of games beaten and there are a ton of really good platformers as opposed to the bad ones.

I remembered a similarity between several games when seeing Kid Kool. The game is very similar to Psycho Fox for the SMS and Decapattack for the Genesis...does anyone know if the games were programmed by the same programmer/team.

[YoshiM]

The NES is so the king of the platform genre it should be labeled the kyang of platformers. Many of the titles were average, with varying degrees above and below that mark. From what I played, these are the stinkers I can think of IMO:

Most any Color Dreams game: Menace Beach, Pesterminator, ugh...

Quatro Adventure-Adventures of Robin Hood: yuck

Mickey Mousecapades

Samurai Pizza Cats (Japanese)

Onslaught (Genesis): It had mostly platform elements so I think it is safe to call it a platformer. It stank. Bad. Again third party unlicensed (I smell a trend).

Devil Hunter Yohko (Mega Drive): I had the displeasure of playing it at a local game store.

I know the SMS has a few rotten ones, but I can't think of them at the moment.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

The NES is so the king of the platform genre it should be labeled the kyang of platformers.
You´re right about that, so i decide to change the name of my article to "Top 10 of the worst Nes´platform games"

I know the SMS has a few rotten ones, but I can't think of them at the moment.
Maybe Rastan...very, very slow..., also i don´t like Captain Silver

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Well, i finally decide what games i´ll include in the article, for my experience playing...these are the worst (in no order of preference :roll: )

Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Athena
Cheetahman 2
Cliffhanger
Master chu and the drunkhard Hu
Barbie
Peter Pan
Super Pitfall
Total recall
Wayne´s world

discuss...

[Daniel Thomas]

Pretty much everything Wisdom Tree made sucked eggs, except the Exodus/Joshua puzzlers. But even then, those games were just ripoffs of Boulderdash and the earlier Color Dreams' Crystal Mines.

Yeah, it seems most of the worst games are from the NES era. Their ugly games are just U-G-L-Y. Horrible games today at least look pretty good.

How about this for a change: NHL All-Star Hockey for the Saturn. Easily the worst hockey game ever made, with a visual look -- flat 2D sprites over a 3D rink -- that more closely resembles Parappa the Rapper than anything. And who could forget the video coach segments with Coach Labeau, offering advice that was completely useless? "To control the puck, you want to use your skate to kick the puck..." Thanks, dumbass.

That game's only value was to scare me away from Marv Albert before his, um, problems.

[1bigmig]

The NES is so the king of the platform genre it should be labeled the kyang of platformers. Many of the titles were average, with varying degrees above and below that mark. From what I played, these are the stinkers I can think of IMO:

Mickey Mousecapades



Mickey Mousecapades?!? :o :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
My brother had this game so I ended up playing it a fair bit. This is a pretty good platformer. Look past the fact that it's Mickey and "for kids" (it's not the easiest game) and you have solid game.

[TheSmirk]

I'll throw in my votes for Athena , my buddy got it when it came out since it was a SNK game, good god, we were dazed for weeks after playing that one.

Super Pitfall is an abomination, nuff' said

What was it called on SMS, Monster House? The SD type monsters, that one always rubbed me the wrong way.

[grayejectbutton]

ANYTHING by THQ on the NES (especially Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates)

How their games got the Nintendo Seal of Quality is a total mystery.

Actually, anything by THQ on the SNES too. Including their subsidary companies like Malibu and Black Pearl. Home Alone and Home Alone 2 were both appalling platformers, with Family Dog a particular travesty.

[adaml]

I beg to differ on Super Pitfall.

I thought the game was a pile of crap when I first played it. I can also see why anyone who enjoyed the first Pitfall games detest it. Going out on a limb, I can say if the game was released on the NES without the "Pitfall" name attached to it (call it "Adventure in the Andes" or something) it would not have gotten the brow-beating that it got from fans of the Pitfall series. It still would not be a classic, but the animosity toward the game with a "Mario-like Pitfall Harry" would not have been so severe.

Once you know where you are going and what you are doing the game has more meaning and actually becomes enjoyable. Sort of like Deadly Towers.

[ManekiNeko]

Here's a Genesis platformer for the list. It's called Awesome Possum, and in case you were wondering, it's not even remotely awesome. Ex-Mutants is also pretty lame, although it's not exactly a platformer in the Sonic/Mario vein.

JR

[adaml]

Heh, I remember playing Ex-Mutants on the Sega Channel. The only good thing that came from that one month of Sega Channel was Mega Man: Wily Wars :) I did beat Crystal's Pony Tale and a couple other cheesy games that month.

[YoshiM]

The NES is so the king of the platform genre it should be labeled the kyang of platformers. Many of the titles were average, with varying degrees above and below that mark. From what I played, these are the stinkers I can think of IMO:

Mickey Mousecapades



Mickey Mousecapades?!? :o :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
My brother had this game so I ended up playing it a fair bit. This is a pretty good platformer. Look past the fact that it's Mickey and "for kids" (it's not the easiest game) and you have solid game.

I'm sorry, but in my experience with it, it was ass. I read about it in Nintendo Power, thought it looked cool and I rented it. Back then I wasn't nearly as jaded as I am now. I had the first Game Player's Nintendo Buyer's Guides that I used to mark which game I played, which I bought, and what I wanted to get. I played over 130 in a 6 to 10 month period back then. I think I rented 5 games in the last year. I played almost anything, including sports titles (which I typically dislike) on my NES so the fact that its Mickey Mouse had nothing to do with it.

I played the game, hated its guts, and took it back that day. I haven't thought of the game since until now.

[1bigmig]

The NES is so the king of the platform genre it should be labeled the kyang of platformers. Many of the titles were average, with varying degrees above and below that mark. From what I played, these are the stinkers I can think of IMO:

Mickey Mousecapades



Mickey Mousecapades?!? :o :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
My brother had this game so I ended up playing it a fair bit. This is a pretty good platformer. Look past the fact that it's Mickey and "for kids" (it's not the easiest game) and you have solid game.

I'm sorry, but in my experience with it, it was ass. I read about it in Nintendo Power, thought it looked cool and I rented it. Back then I wasn't nearly as jaded as I am now. I had the first Game Player's Nintendo Buyer's Guides that I used to mark which game I played, which I bought, and what I wanted to get. I played over 130 in a 6 to 10 month period back then. I think I rented 5 games in the last year. I played almost anything, including sports titles (which I typically dislike) on my NES so the fact that its Mickey Mouse had nothing to do with it.

I played the game, hated its guts, and took it back that day. I haven't thought of the game since until now.

Ok, well maybe only two burning with anger smilies will do:
:angry: :angry:

5 may have been a little severe.
Well, one more for my childhood nostalgia being stomped on:
:angry:

;)