Games You're Embarrassed To Tell People You Own

[slapdash]

I know this DS game says "Bratz: Super Babyz" on the cover, but why are people looking at me like it says "Imagine: Pedophile"?

(Okay, I don't own this one yet, but I DO own a couple of Bratz games... And I'm debating the Hannah Montana Plug N Play, God help me.)

[Rathiain]

I've gotten flak about Hey You Pikachu. It's a decent game though, diffrent. And Pokemon Snap.

[DKTheArcadeRat]

I am not embarrassed to own any games really. Sure I have Barneys Hide and Seek, Barbie, and Crystals Pony Tale for Genesis, but I'm not embarassed to own them at all.

[otoko]

Nope no embarrassment here. Who wants to play Mcdonald's Treasureland Adventure?

[Deadpixels]

Richard Scary's Busytown on the Genesis. I have no shame.

[SegaAges]

Embarrased? no

Not wanting to tell the story about why I have it later? yes

Uh, I have the Polly Pocket LCD Handheld game and Barney's Hide and Seek.

[Astrosmash]

I'm not really too embarrassed of them; I admit to owning them and everything. But off the top of my head,

Taboo: The Sixth Sense (NES)
Sesame Street: 1 2 3 (NES) (not too bad for what it is)
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II (NES) (not a commentary on the game itself, but it does have that picture of Fabio on the label)
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Genesis) (actually not a bad game IMO)
Shaq-Fu (SNES)
Kris Kross: Make My Video (Sega CD)

[SpaceHarrier]

Dead or Alive: Xtreme Volleyball
Nintendogs (just a lil)

[Malon_Forever]

Well, I have the Little Mermaid (NES), and M.C. Kids (NES), but both games were pretty fun when I was younger.

[murdoc rose]

any game is good for the pile

[xolik]

Deadly Towers. Yeah, I bought it when it first came out. Yikes.

[bust3dstr8]

Just a little embarassed about Steam Hearts' and Strip Fighter.

[jupitersj]

I don't have many questionable titles....but I do get weird looks when people see the Rez Trance Vibrator box :lovin:

[garagesaleking!!]

playboy the mansion for xbox, i sold it though and dont own anymore.

[lazyhoboguy]

superman 64, not my fault though I didnt buy it, was a present as a kid.

Although I bought soldier of fortune payback on ps3. I read all the reviews and knew it would be bad, but wanted to see for myself. I only paid 20 bucks for it, and it wasnt as bad as I thought. It is like a really cheesy action movie , so bad its hilarious.

[RASK1904]

OK don't tell nobody but I have Sega Club Crystals' Pony Tale for the Genesis. Yes! You can choose her colors and use your Pony sense to solve puzzles and make a rainbow bridge home to Cytstals' castle. It rocks!ROFL

[The 1 2 P]

Does owning Barbie's Horse and Ride make me less of a man?

[MrSparkle]

any pokemon, or dragonball z game lol. also have a bunch of genesis kids games like a barenstein bears game and a barney hide and seek game but they were TOO cheap not to buy lol.

[MrSparkle]

superman 64, not my fault though I didnt buy it, was a present as a kid.

Although I bought soldier of fortune payback on ps3. I read all the reviews and knew it would be bad, but wanted to see for myself. I only paid 20 bucks for it, and it wasnt as bad as I thought. It is like a really cheesy action movie , so bad its hilarious.

thats too bad soldier of fortune 2 was an awesome game when i came out.

[The 1 2 P]

dragonball z game

Whats wrong with Dragon Ball Z games?

[thom_m]

I have The Little Mermaid for the NES, and, embarassingly as it is, I really like it. It's a fun, easy, short little game. I actually kept it from a girl I used to kiss/argue with (mostly arguing. Oh, what a dumb kid I was) in 7th grade, so it's got some sentimental value as well. :)

I also own and like Power Rangers - The Movie for the SNES. But there's really no excuse for THAT...

[Draven]

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (NES). Only collectors here at DP understand!!!!

[Xander]

Pokemon Gold :(

[Gamebrain]

I'm embarrassed to say I own some of the Digital Pictures FMV games, Double Switch and Quaterback Attack for the Saturn

[TheGam3r]

I have no game that i am embaressed to own

[Steve W]

Does owning Barbie's Horse and Ride make me less of a man?

Nah, it makes you a collector. I finally found one to buy, and I had to explain to the salesguy that it was really rare and I was only buying it for collecting purposes, not to really play. Just to alleviate my embarrassment.

[lazyhoboguy]

yea even with the newer graphics sof2 is still way gorier. Like the gore on sof payback is crap. One shot to the head blows off their entire head every time. It is comical at first but then gets annoying.

[RASK1904]

Got Barbie for Nes a few weeks ago? Some side scoller. She has some dream, tried it out. Thats about it. Put it with the rest.

[psychopat]

Fairy Odd Parents on Xbox and that's it for now! but i'll sure get more of these since i buy a lot of games that sellers don't want to sell individually...

[makaar]

Probably my original copies of Sexy Beach 1-3 and Artificial Girl 1-3. I know I'm married but they're still fun...Hentai games in general aren't my liking but the 3D ones aren't bad.

[Rickstilwell1]

Yeah the guys at Game Crazy already noticed I was grabbing every single game I didn't have yet when they were going for $2.50 a piece and later $1. So they didn't say a word when they saw Barney's Hide & Seek and Barbie for Genesis, NSync Get to the Show for Game Boy Color, or even Mary Kate & Ashley Crush Course and Spiceworld for Playstation 1. Haha, one employee said his cousin tried to play Spiceworld and beat it after a while.

But nothing embarasses me because I have no shame. I know what I'm doing and I care not what others think. Everybody knows I'm a collector.

But you should know where these games go: in the closet in cardboard boxes with all the sports games and games that the Angry Video Game Nerd hates.

[Sonicwolf]

Lego Racers 64. That game still brings vomit to the tip of my tongue.

[Game Freak]

Hmmm...let's see

Big Bird's Hide and Speak
Where's Waldo
Sesame Street's ABCs and 123s
Beethoven
just about every iteration of Monopoly ever
Timon and Puumba's Jungle Games
The Jungle Book
Jeopardy: Sports Edition
Goofy's Fun House
M&Ms Shell Shocked
Bob the Builder
Elmos Letter Adventure
Elmos Number Journey
Finding Nemo
Ratatouille
Polar Express
Charlottes Web
Herbie Fully Loaded

i neednt go on...

Also, on the level of actual retrogamers/AVGN watchers:
Haunted House
Back to the Future
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fester's Quest
Home Alone
Rambo
Top Gun
Top Gun 2: Second Mission
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

And in other NES titles:
Silent Service
Jurassic Park

[c0ldb33r]

I'm not embaressed that I OWN Kingdom Hearts, but I'm embaressed that I absolutely love it. I can't stand Disney, I hate everything it stands for, but my god I love Kingdom Hearts!

I just kills me that I'm a Kingdom Hearts fanboy :mad:

[dwarme]

i... don't really know...
i can't seem to remember any games from my childhood that i've played that'd be kinda "wow"...:frustrated:
and your childhood is the only time when you'll experiment with really crappy games and perhaps develop a liking D:
OH quest 64, that was really awesome back in the day and i got wicked far into it, but i recently bought it and i cannot see how i did good in this game.. also it looks really terrible and the score isn't as great as remembered. ^^;

[obesolete]

Mr. Nutz for snes.

... I even paid over $20 for it.

AND i havn't even played it!

Ha!

[Chemdawg]

pokemon... ill pretty much never telling anyone i own pokemon on my ds. pokemon was hella cool back in grade school, but not so much in college lol. i dont really even playmuch, but im just embarrassed as shit it own it lol. i guess i just had to see how much it had changed since blue red and gold and silver... not much to my supprise

[mnbren05]

Barbie for SNES
Festers Quest NES
Mrs. Pac Man Genesis
Pugsy Genesis
Kar. Revolution Country version PS2

[Sonicwolf]

Hmmm...let's see

--on the level of actual retrogamers/AVGN watchers:
Haunted House
Back to the Future
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fester's Quest
Home Alone
Rambo
Top Gun
Top Gun 2: Second Mission
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


I have almost all of those ;_;. Embarassing. I have made it a quest of mine to collect all of the games he reviews. I really actually like Nightmare on Elm Street on NES. He bashed it so bad but I think it is extraordinarily hard but fun.

[RASK1904]

Shove it!
The Warehouse Game.

This is actually the title. The cover looks so generic and plain bad. It's about a gut that moves boxes in a warehouse for a living.? All day he thinks about hot chicks, fast cars and cold hard cash. It says if you can beat the game you get this stuff. I have to beat this game. In between levels it has a really bad animation of him sliding a box across the warehouse floor. The game isn't really that bad. It's kinda a good puzzle game? But who had the idea to make a game about a guy in a warehouse? Then call the game Shove it! The Warehouse Game! Really? That's the best there imagination could do? All they had to do was change the sprites of the guy, change the sprites of the boxes, keep all the workings and definitely change the name of the game!!! Aliens, gross stuff, Cartoon things IDK!? Anything but Shove it! The Warehouse Game!!! I love how f'n stupid this game is!

[p_b]

Shove it!
The Warehouse Game.

This is actually the title. The cover looks so generic and plain bad. It's about a gut that moves boxes in a warehouse for a living.? All day he thinks about hot chicks, fast cars and cold hard cash. It says if you can beat the game you get this stuff. I have to beat this game. In between levels it has a really bad animation of him sliding a box across the warehouse floor. The game isn't really that bad. It's kinda a good puzzle game? But who had the idea to make a game about a guy in a warehouse? Then call the game Shove it! The Warehouse Game! Really? That's the best there imagination could do? All they had to do was change the sprites of the guy, change the sprites of the boxes, keep all the workings and definitely change the name of the game!!! Aliens, gross stuff, Cartoon things IDK!? Anything but Shove it! The Warehouse Game!!! I love how f'n stupid this game is!

Sounds like Sokoban!

[Famidrive-16]

I still shudder whenever I look at Shadow the Hedgehog on my shelf. Even though it wasn't that bad in general.

[retrogamer96]

Any "kiddy" games I have

[boogiecat]

Those old kiddie Genesis games.

[otoko]

pokemon was hella cool back in grade school, but not so much in college lol.

What are you talking about? I know several people in my college that play pokemon. In my Anime club it's a rather long running joke.

[c0ldb33r]

What are you talking about? I know several people in my college that play pokemon. In my Anime club it's a rather long running joke.
same thing in my Battlestar Galactica club.

[Diosoth]

For me it'd be Sonic Riders. Not a very good game at all but I own it for completism.

[makaar]

As with chemdawg (and many here) I used to play Pokemon Blue/Red when I was younger, and never bought another after Yellow, but have been going back and re-collecting the ones I skipped over the years because my oldest kid has taken a liking to them. He also likes pogs so its fun to see someone enjoying something you did at a younger age...

[Sonicwolf]

What are you talking about? I know several people in my college that play pokemon. In my Anime club it's a rather long running joke.

Personally, every once and a while I pick up my Pokemon Blue and play it and Im 18. Its just a well made, simple, engaging RPG. The new ones blow, from what I heard, but the originals are always classics.

[otoko]

Personally, every once and a while I pick up my Pokemon Blue and play it and Im 18. Its just a well made, simple, engaging RPG. The new ones blow, from what I heard, but the originals are always classics.

The new ones are not bad... but they lack the charm of the originals in my opinion.

[boogiecat]

Some generic PS One European games..

[Dr. Gonzo]

I own all the console versions of Shaq Fu. 2 of the Super Nintendo version.

Also, ET for the Atari 2600, and the Pokemon Trading Card Game for the Game boy.

[Moi-Même]

I was in a struggle about posting this but I finally decided to do it >____>;

I got ... Sailor Moon S Jougairantou Shuyaku Soudatsuhen for the SFC. Not only is it the worst fighting game next to Clayfighter 63 3/4, but it is also ...well, simply Sailor Moon - which I consider a no-go for any boy.. ~____~;
Where did I get that game anyway?

Second thing I'm not particularly proud of is another SFC game named Love Quest. Basically a standard RPG with the difference that instead of monsters, you battle women... You defeat them, you win their hearts. Crappy game and I honestly don't know what I'm trying to compensate with that <____<;

[garagesaleking!!]

pokemon stadium

[Sonicwolf]

Back to The Future NES

[Moi-Même]

Whats so bad about Pokémon!? I like Pokémon a lot >___>; Though I'm quite grown-up today I still enjoy any Pokémon game there is ~___~;

I think it's okay, unless your a fan of the TV episodes.....

..though I even watch them <__<; Well, this is a confession thread I suppose....

[hellfire]

feel the magic
chicken shoot (wii)
rock revolution
wing island
far cry vengence

[jahvybe]

Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Vollyball

[Mia-Mo]

I'm embrassed about all the games I have that I'm never going to finish. Ugh, I have too many licenced games that I lost interest in. Other than Kingdom Hearts and Katamari, there's nothing in my PS2 library to proud of. And why did I buy Nights: Journey of Dreams for Wii despite the mediocre reviews? The flying parts are nice, but those dumb platformer stages are just boring.

Embrassing games I actually do play: Bolt and Disney Sing It for 360. I played the demo of Bolt and loved it...you're a cute little dog that can toss lots of enemies and can break all sorts of stuff, including big SUVs! That is just cool. And Sing It is basically Disney Channel Lips. I am a girl, so I'm allowed to like Disney Channel, right?

There is one game I never play that I'm NOT embrassed of: Pokemon Box for GameCube. A clerk at the Pokemon Center in NYC convinced me into getting it. It's not complete, but it's kinda cool to have something all the collectors want :P.

[koshichka]

Hello Kity Waku Waku on Dreamcast, Your the cat on a level and jump oncake to complete them :embarrassed:

Heheheh... I don't let people look through my DS rom folder anymore cause I grabbed Hello Kitty Big City Dreams for my gf and kept the rom around for some reason :x I even played it for a few minutes cause there's some weird bug with the save file that usually makes it crash on flash carts and I wanted to make sure the workaround I found would work on the ones we use...I gotta say, if I had any patience whatsoever for Animal Crossing and similar games, I probably would have kept playing :P


As for girly-looking games I actually liked, anyone heard of My World My Way? I know it sounds like a crap non-game from the title, but it's a kind of RPG-lite with a self-and-genre parodising sense of humor, and a 'Pout' menu to change the scenery, monsters, call 'Ladies First!' before a battle to get the first attack, etc...great fun, reviewed well, but at least one or two reviews ended with some kind of joking about "Two options if the Gamestop clerk looks at you funny when you buy this, either say it's for your little sister, or punch him in the face"

http://i40.tinypic.com/244a4c6.jpg
If you like console RPG's at all, even a little, even if you think most are overcomplicated, drawn out, boring, or cliche....give this a spin, I don't think you can possibly hate it!

[The 1 2 P]

Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Vollyball

I just won this in a lot on ebay a month ago. Haven't played it yet though.

[c0ldb33r]

I bought my copy of DOAX a few weeks ago. The sales clerk at the store was a chick. She teased me relentlessly about it.

[BetaWolf47]

WTH is wrong with Pokemon TCG and Pokemon Stadium?

For me though, probably some of the old crappy NES and SNES games I can't bring myself to part with, such as:
-Home Alone 2 (SNES)
-Scooby Doo Mystery! (SNES)
-Road Runner's Death Valley Rally (SNES, though not that bad)
-Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout (NES)
-Captain Skyhawk (NES, I ****ing hate this game)
-Tom and Jerry: The Ultimate Game of Cat and Mouse (NES)

If not for the nostalgia, I wouldn't own a single one of these.

[FamicomFreak]

Well for me it's the Barbie game for the NES and the mary kate games for the gbc so I keep them in a hidden area har har har now no one knows they are part of my collectiong except well you guys lol! I do agree with your pick Scooby Doo Mystery!(SNES)...it's amazing though because back in the day I actually finished this game!

[BetaWolf47]

Well for me it's the Barbie game for the NES and the mary kate games for the gbc so I keep them in a hidden area har har har now no one knows they are part of my collectiong except well you guys lol! I do agree with your pick Scooby Doo Mystery!(SNES)...it's amazing though because back in the day I actually finished this game!

Yeah, I got it as a gift. Back in the day I was a huge Scooby Doo fan... well, I still like Scooby but none of the new stuff is really worthwhile. That new live action film that's premiering on Cartoon Network in September looks downright horrible. Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins.

Back on topic, I'm surprised very few people are mentioning the Capcom or Sega Disney games. They're great games, but if you tell someone, "Hey, I have a game called The Great Circus Mystery Starring Mickey and Minnie!" they would probably give you a funny look.

[placebo]

Dude, koshichka, I was totally going to post My World, My Way. I just picked it up - mostly because it seemed like it was going to be hard to get in the future, but also 'cause I want to play it.

[j1e]

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom for the NES. I can just hear some of my friends sayin, "what in the fuck is this gay ass shit?" if they say saw the cart and read the title.

But not embarrassed to say I own it. What a fuck load of "awesome" this game is. Get it if ya ain't got it. :)

[NoobSaibot]

No barbies or barney games here.

I do own an old PS one RPG called Guardian's Crusade. One of the first games I used my money to buy. At first I thought it was so cool just by the cover and back of the game case. Then realized it was a toned RPG with a kiddy story and game play. You threw out 'toys' and fought alongside them. Not too embarrassing. The game is pretty good, but its just a bit childish.

Oh yea and the disc is pink.

Also own some dumb bugs bunny game for the Gameboy. Game blows hard.

[sebastiankirchoff]

I own Wizard of Oz on SNES, which is a pretty shitty game, but is a R5 so I am not complaining.

[Sonicwolf]

Alien 3 on the GameBoy... Oh man, I think its one hell of a trashpile.

[BetaWolf47]

Oh yea and the disc is pink.

Heh, game disk color doesn't bother me that much... then again, my first disk-based system was a Gamecube, and a lot of the games were purple or pink, so you kind of adjust...

[HappehLemons]

I don't tell anyone I collect games. :/ Only my close friends know about it.

[garagesaleking!!]

i think owning ddr can be somewhat embarassing for a guy.

[NoobSaibot]

DDR is badass. not embarrassing for a guy. especially if your azn ;)

[p_b]

azn? Should that mean asian?