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Saabmeister
06-07-2005, 09:24 PM
Captain Novolin. I feel like I pissed away three dollars when I bought this.

§ Gideon §
06-17-2005, 04:58 PM
I second Shaq Fu, Revolution X, and The Rocketeer, but I defend Secret of Mana, Battletoads/Double Dragon, Buster Busts Loose, and Ranma 1/2. C'mon, people. The topic says "the worst," not "the mediocre." If the game does not inflict actual pain, it does not belong on the list.

And whoever mentioned Super Mario Kart, I charge with having bad taste. Veridct: guilty by reason of insanity.

DigitalSpace
06-29-2005, 02:09 AM
Two more to stay away from:

-Radical Psycho Machine (RPM) Racing - Imagine if Rock N Roll Racing was very slow, with gameplay that was abysmal at best. That's what we have here.

-ABC Monday Night Football - Lost in a sea of SNES football titles, and for good reason.

Snapple
06-30-2005, 12:14 AM
No offense, but if people found Secret of Mana cheaply difficult, they didn't put nearly enough effort into it, or you just stink. But don't blame the game for being bad if you stink at it.

The game really isn't all that hard, and if you die a few times, so what. All games should be that way. RPGs where you can go all the way through without dieing once are the real abortions.

SoM is a fantastic game. One of the greatest action-RPGs of all time to me. But we're all welcome to our opinions. That's okay.

I also can understand why some people would prefer the N64 version of Mario Kart to the SNES version, but to call it the worst game on the system is a gross exaggeration. I know a lot of people who STILL play that game.


I'm a real SNES fan, and there are very few games for it that I haven't been able to find *some* good in. Of course, I also haven't played a lot of the games that people here have mentioned.

Two that I do remember and that I never was able to find an ounce of enjoyment in were Street Combat and Drakkhen. Sorry Drakkhen fans. It probably just wasn't a style that clicked with me.

ZeetherKID77
07-01-2005, 09:04 PM
Bebe's Kids, and any game by Raya Systems. Never played them, never even will.

dieourumov
07-08-2005, 06:09 AM
Adventures of Mighty Max

Snapple
07-08-2005, 09:49 AM
Bebe's Kids, and any game by Raya Systems. Never played them, never even will.

How do you know they're the worst games on the system if you've never played them?

Raketemensch!
07-14-2005, 09:22 PM
Someone up above said that the worst game was Captain America and the Avengers. Am I the only person that actually likes that game!?

The worst SNES game for me is the hilariously awful Shaq-Fu. Any game where Shaq travels to another dimension to save a kingdom from a mummy is bad. controls, attacks, it all reaks. When Shaq is about to fight this guy named Lavos, Lavos says something like:

"I will destroy you!"

and Shaq says:

"Ha Ha your name is Lavos!"
:hmm:
...well said.[/quote]

mills
07-24-2005, 03:34 PM
Mortal kombat, Mortal kombat 2, mortal kombat 3, ultimate mortal kombat 3, I hate mortal kombat!

vgc
07-25-2005, 01:38 AM
Heres a couple Chode SNES Games :

Bill LAME Beers Combat Basketball
Drakkhen
& many of the early shooters that suffered badly from slowdown and flicker until Nintendo figured out what they were doing. Sega Genesis Sports Games & Shooters kicked Super Nintendo's ass badly early on. Mike : )

VG_Maniac
07-27-2005, 02:32 AM
Shaq Fu
Bebe's Kids
Rise of the Robots
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (the sidescroller, not the arcade game)
Pit Fighter

And many more that I can't think of right now.

game_nut
07-28-2005, 01:32 AM
I hate Super Double Dragon. Slow and boring gameplay.

MetroidFan1164
08-07-2005, 06:27 AM
Space Ace and RPM Racing are the worst of what I've played. Awful, awful, awful.

emumuumuucowgomoo
08-08-2005, 09:34 PM
If you're too stupid to figure out how to work with the AI in Secret of Mana, then you shouldn't be playing videogames, white trash. Take some Ritalin and learn that sometimes you need to devote an eye to objects other than the player character on the screen.

I played it for about half the quest (which is saying a lot - RPGs generally lose my interest quickly) and never once had a problem with the NPCs. If worst comes to worst, hit the select button a couple of times and everything's fine. I'm not THAT bright, people - I think there's just a bunch of dumb speedmonkeys in the world.



Anyway, that said... ignoring the instances where people didn't like a game and called it the worst ever - hey, not to cause anyone to shit themselves, but learn to think, kthx - this is a pretty good list. I'll step in to defend RPM Racing - it had the best create-a-track option of any racing game I can think of, and was a precessor to the all out aural assault of Rock n' Roll Racing. I still prefer the SNES "remix" of Born to be Wild to the original Steppenwolf. Anyway.


Of course, it needs to have Power Piggs of the Dark Crusade - or whatever the name of that game is - added. Never in my life have I been so depressed by a muddy looking side scroller. Ever. Except perhaps the soulless awfulness of the NES's "Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt".

Drakken as well - depressing depressing depressing. Just depressing. Oh so depressing.

The FX-chip games were a trio of bad, though I tried to like Star Fox so I'd fit in with the invisible people in Nintendo Power - yeah, I was pathetic. Stunt Race FX was hyped to hell and ended up playing like a slow, clunky clone of Race Drivin'. Vortex was just confusing. Star Fox... haven't played it in years. I do remember the NPC's said things, and that was pretty cool for its time.

The NHL games - specifically 95 and 96 - were pretty awful. 95 wasn't THAT bad until my brother and I got to the point where we could fake the hell out of the goalies and score 20 goals in a game. I remember a lot of messed up bugs in that one - like pucks that would shoot off in the crowd and never be whistled dead. NHL 96, on the other hand, just sucked.

NHL Stanley Cup wasn't great. That's sorta like saying that Atari 2600 graphics aren't new, or that Battlecruiser 3000: AD had some bugs. About the only cool thing about it - NHL Stanley Cup - was that the ice deformed over time, and it wasn't done all halfassed like the EA games I've played (every minute, the bitmap of the ice gets a little bit more scratched, even if nobody's been on the far side of the rink since the last "update").

Kyle Petty's No Fear Racing was abominable.

The second Ken Griffey game was all hype, no gameplay.

Bill Lambideer's Combat Basketball was OUTSTANDING. Oh hey look it's Bruce LEE. He says that the Power Glove was BAD.

punkoffgirl
08-08-2005, 09:47 PM
If you're too stupid to figure out how to work with the AI in Secret of Mana, then you shouldn't be playing videogames, white trash. Take some Ritalin and learn that sometimes you need to devote an eye to objects other than the player character on the screen.

What the hell?!

Why do we have ANYONE around that is CONTINUALLY and repeatedly spouting shit like this to our other members?!?

Arcade Antics
08-08-2005, 10:21 PM
If you're too stupid to figure out how to work with the AI in Secret of Mana, then you shouldn't be playing videogames, white trash. Take some Ritalin and learn that sometimes you need to devote an eye to objects other than the player character on the screen.

What the hell?!

Why do we have ANYONE around that is CONTINUALLY and repeatedly spouting shit like this to our other members?!?
'Cause we need to know how worthless and stupid we are for attempting to waste our sad, pathetic lives playing videogames.

Duh. :roll:

emumuumuu, if you wanna take that tone with everyone here, pretty much all the time, take it elsewhere okay? We know we're stupid. We don't need your exceptionally brilliant mind constantly pointing it out in every other thread. It's boring already. And it's quite enough.

Untamed
09-03-2005, 05:21 PM
Tecmo: Secret of the Stars

Howie6925
09-03-2005, 05:31 PM
Pit Fighter

nuff said

I second that

ubersaurus
09-03-2005, 06:46 PM
SWAT Kats was pretty terrible.

Mario Kart has not aged well. In fact having always had enough people to do 4 man MK64, the original's flat tracks and 2 player only mode makes it pale in comparison to what came later.

skaar
10-30-2005, 09:31 AM
[quote]Drakhen
Lagoon
Vilgust

*shudders*

I should have known somebody would slam poor Drakkhen. I think Drakkhen is a great game...it was the reason I bought a Super Nintendo, considering that at the time its only competition was the 3 launch titles and Bill Lambeer's Combat Basketball.

Drakkhen is really creepy, and that's its greatest feature. The gameplay is decent, especially for the time. The atmospheres it creates using lighting and music/sounds is quite convincing. One would appreciate this game more if they treated it like watching a movie or listening to a record.

^^ I wouldn't say it's AWESOME but I did like Drakkhen too. Too bad we were the only two people who did ;)

Xizer
10-30-2005, 02:36 PM
Super Mario Kart - really, really crappy compared to Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Double Dash. It just hasn't aged well over time, unlike other SNES classics like Super Mario World, Mortal Kombat (it was always best on the SNES), Donkey Kong Country, et cetera.

Any sports game, or wrestling game - they all are complete garbage. I hate buying SNES lots and ending up with these turds, they just waste space.

Cliffhanger - the shittyness of this game makes me FURIOUS.

Dr. Morbis
10-30-2005, 09:24 PM
Super Mario Kart - really, really crappy compared to Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Double Dash.
You, sir, have lost your mind. SMK was a Top 10 on any SNES list then, and it's a Top 10 on any SNES list now. Oh, and it's much better than it's two rehashes.

FurinkanianFrood
10-30-2005, 10:02 PM
Personally I like all of the SMK games, though I liked Fzero much better back in the day. SNES SMK It does look kind of strange if you haven't played it for many years and suddenly see it again.....
but it's not that big a deal IMO.

Secret of Mana is much better with two people, but in general it is quite a nice game.

Star Fox? It's OK. Not great, but what's so horrible about it?

Drakkhen wasn't completely horrible, though I'm not a fan either.

It seems like people are trying more to attack games that they feel are overrated than to actually think of games that were truly horrible.

It may have taken me a while to stop making (semi-)wild statements to start goofy arguments, but I'm better now.

For instance, I personally am not huge on Axelay, but it isn't bad. I just wasn't impressed is all.

There sometimes seems to be a kind of peculiar thing (someone touched on this earlier) where a person will either really like the SNES version of something almost to the exclusion of the N64 version, or vice versa.

I don't get quite that extreme with it, but I'll admit I tend to a relatively strong preference for one game or another in NIntendo series (as well as many other developers series).

For instance, I always preferred SNES Pilotwings and N64 SMK, and even though it's more similar in style to my favorite Zelda (the first one) I didn't like LTTP as much as OOT.

It ends up extending to other series as well. It seems kind of silly though to argue about the better revs of a decent series in a thread supposedly about unplayable junk games.

I may not be a huge fan of FF3/6JP, but why start an argument about it, especially about something that is popular and isn't a remotely bad game in the the first place.

As far as awful games on SNES, it may be technically playable, but the SNES version of Mortal Kombat was really damn sad.

It's kind of hard because I have typically been able to avoid most of the crap games......

Hmmmmm, Clayfighter was pretty damn sad, and the godawful butchered port of FInal Fight really ticked me off back then, though ti wan't unplayable.

Don't want to get started on overrated SNES games, now that would be a a crazy thread...... and it seems to be what many folks were doing in this one. Should be a separate thread though.

Famidrive-16
10-30-2005, 11:04 PM
Mario's Time Machine was pretty bad. Maybe I just wasn't good at history when I played it (I was 8?) but I kept going to that damn surfing level. Mario is Missing was entertaining though.

Dream TV, while not the worst, is just a blurry of confusion without the booklet. I have the game loose and I have no idea what the hell to do at certain points.

SeiruKoji
10-31-2005, 10:37 AM
Street Combat. According to DP's guide, this was originally supposed to be a Ranma 1/2 game. I do not see any resemblance, plus this game sucks.

chuckwalla
10-31-2005, 05:20 PM
Mostly slow games, small controllers and buttons, and basically an overall kiddie-geared game system. I still keep my SNES (for my annual 15 minutes of Super Mario World until my fingers cramp up @_@ ).

Xizer
11-01-2005, 12:19 AM
Super Mario Kart - really, really crappy compared to Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Double Dash.
You, sir, have lost your mind. SMK was a Top 10 on any SNES list then, and it's a Top 10 on any SNES list now. Oh, and it's much better than it's two rehashes.

Well, you can keep your Super Mario Kart, with its pixely graphics, slow framerate, D-PAD CONTROL for a racing game...in the meantime, I'll be enjoying my shiny Mario Kart: Double Dash, with a smooth 60 frames per second, pleasant feel, and analong control. Oh, and enjoy having only half the screen viewable because the other half is a map...

Ruudos
11-09-2005, 03:12 PM
SMK's gameplay is better due to its higher, but strangely enough also fairer challenge.

Snapple
11-09-2005, 09:36 PM
Super Mario Kart - really, really crappy compared to Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Double Dash.
You, sir, have lost your mind. SMK was a Top 10 on any SNES list then, and it's a Top 10 on any SNES list now. Oh, and it's much better than it's two rehashes.

Well, you can keep your Super Mario Kart, with its pixely graphics, slow framerate, D-PAD CONTROL for a racing game...in the meantime, I'll be enjoying my shiny Mario Kart: Double Dash, with a smooth 60 frames per second, pleasant feel, and analong control. Oh, and enjoy having only half the screen viewable because the other half is a map...

You could make that same argument to say all newer games are better than old games.

kentuckyfried
11-11-2005, 04:52 PM
The worst SNES game I ever played was Timecop.
Rented it, cried.

Play it, you'll see what I mean.

SlayerX
11-16-2005, 05:30 AM
Definitly The Mask. The controls feel tight, and it's all around crappy. I played about five minutes, never to touch it again LOL

Smithy
11-16-2005, 01:54 PM
Revolution-X anyone?

clawx
12-03-2005, 05:24 PM
Pink Goes to Hollywood and SWAT Kats.


other then those two, I honestly can not remember any terrible SNES games.

googlefest1
12-05-2005, 01:38 PM
i havent played every SNES game but i have played many

my vote curently goes for Pit fighter
this game is worse than be bee's kids or rise of the robots combined

if slapstick was real, vomit would be continuosly poured on you as you played pit fighter

i have never played capitain novolin - i have to get it now and try it

Ulticron
01-04-2006, 09:43 AM
I'm going to say Donkey Kong Country. While it was a pretty game it was just to easy. I got ahold of DKC2 and DKC3, I didn't finish playin 2 because I was blazing through it faster than I was the first and as for the third one I never even picked it up.

Poofta!
01-12-2006, 05:36 AM
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.


nah, i agree with with le geek, mario kart was baaaaaad. i too played the n64 version first, and after that, watching/playing the snes game is like trying to pick up shard of glass with your anus.

Steven
03-04-2006, 08:40 PM
Such a discussion cannot be complete without someone mentioning Bram Stoker's DRACULA. While not the worst of the worst, oh man talk about a BAD game. Horrible slippery feel, dumb looking enemies, horrible sound effects, enemies that respawn if EVEN SLIGHTLY "move out move back in picture" -- I mean, Megaman was tolerable, Dracula's enemy respawning is a JOKE.

And I might be the only DP member who enjoys Brandish. I'm having a good time with it.

Fryeguy
03-06-2006, 04:38 PM
I'm going to defend Micro Machines. That was a fun game that I feel was very creative.

On that note, I nominate Super Off Road. I bought this game just based on how much I liked Super Off Road for the NES. This game was truly bad.

Steven
03-10-2006, 05:22 PM
Add:

Battle Blaze (OMG totally craptastic)
Captain America & The Avengers (and I wanted so badly to like this one...)

Realm is pretty disappointing and pretty damn close to walking the line, but I think it's got enough decent points to avoid tossing it in the rubbish pile, where true garbage like Pit Fighter and Battle Blaze resides.

B - Mark
05-17-2006, 11:12 PM
My list of worst games for Super NES.

- Fatal Fury: Poor conversion of this Neo Geo game.
The problems of this game:
*No 2-plan system and no cut scences presented in the original Neo Geo and Mega Drive / Genesis versions.
*Enemiesīs control is exclusive for 2nd player. He can plays with Geese Howard, for exemple and the 1st player controls Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi only.
*Horrible soundtrack. It isnīt admited in the Super NES. His sound system is better than Mega Drive / Genesis.

- Pit Fighter: Poor conversion of this Arcade game.
The abstence of any fighters of the original game and use limited for special attacks.
Iīd preffer the Arcade and Mega Drive / Genesis versions.

- Mortal Kombat: Graphics similar to the Arcade, but it isnīt have blood or violent fatalities, for exemple the Sub Zeroīs Chiropractor Nightmare, ausence of Arcade endings and playability inferior to the Arcade version.

- Captain Commando: Other poor conversion of the Arcade game.
This game had the abstence of blood, slaughtering and toasting enemies and the robots.

- The Peace Keppers ( Rushing Beat Syura in Japan ): Iīd like the Rival Turf ( Rushing Beat in Japan ) and Brawl Brothers ( Rushing Beat Ran in Japan ).
But this game is the worst of this serie.
The enemies are little and more weak for Beat em up fans likes me.

- Hurricanes: The worst soccer players in the world.
This cartoon is showed in my country: Brazil in 1997 and 1998. The soccerīs country and birthplace of soccer players likes Pelé, Zico, Romário, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Ronaldinho Gaúcho for exemple.
But i didnīt like the Hurricanes and it isnīt made sucess in my country.
In subject of soccer animation iīd prefer Captain Tsubasa.
My opinion of Super NES game: I havenīt play this game, but is based in the horrible cartoon, this game is automatically indeed in my Super NES worst games list.

Steven
05-19-2006, 02:09 AM
- Captain Commando: Other poor conversion of the Arcade game.
This game had the abstence of blood, slaughtering and toasting enemies and the robots.

you certainly are entitled to your opinion but in my book NO WAY IN HELL CC comes anywhere near the worst of the SNES discussion heap.

CC, while maybe disappointing in more than a few years, is still a pretty adequate beat em up. In fact, I rate it anywhere from a 6 to 7 out of 10... certainly playable and enjoyable. Coulda been better, yes.

Among the worst the SNES has to offer? No way.

And Hurricanes... you admit never playing it, but you think just because the cartoon sucks the game sucks. That is ridiculous, sorry.

77punk
05-26-2006, 08:51 AM
I personally feel that Bill Lambeers combat basketball is the worst game for that system. I love the good games for SNES but they did make alot of crappy games too (and i mean alot).
They wernt terrible but the replay value stunk!

DigitalSpace
04-03-2008, 05:12 AM
I recently discovered how awful Ballz is. Worst (and corniest) fighting game I've ever played.

thetoxicone
04-03-2008, 05:35 AM
I recently discovered how awful Ballz is. Worst (and corniest) fighting game I've ever played.

I actually enjoy that game but it don't think it would've been worth the $50 when it came out.

vintagegamecrazy
04-03-2008, 12:00 PM
There are too many people nominating games that aren't bad, Come On Donkey Kong Country? Battletoads? and many others especially SOM and SMK, if you don't like them personally don't say they are the worst on the system. I'm guessing that people who nominated those games haven't played too much of the SNES library before if that's all you can come up with. IMO the only people who should voice their opinion are ones that've played many games maybe hundreds for the console and get a good idea of the good and bad.

That said, I actually have two more games that surprisingly haven't been mentioned at all yet.

Musya - I picked this up from a video rental boxed and all hearing that it was supposed to be a great and scary game and a top game in Japan. When I played it, I was treated to an aweful Castlevania clone with horrendous sound and the most boring game play I've ever seen on the SNES.

Super 3D Noah's Ark - Ripped from the Wolfenstein engine, Wisdom Tree gave us one of the most cheesy and bad/grainy/pixelly looking FPS's ever to grace a console. Every level looked the same, the framerate was about the lowest I've seen on the console and your weapons were slingshots that were upgradable. As bad as the game is though, its still great to play just to laugh at.

jb143
04-03-2008, 12:50 PM
When asking for the worst games on a system is it fair to compare the games against other systems, original arcade versions, or updated versions?

Seems to me that the question implies that your only allowed to compare the games to other SNES games.

Famidrive-16
04-03-2008, 06:44 PM
Dream TV was pretty messed up.

This is one I was thinking of. I don't think it's possible to get very far in single player... hell, I'm sure the co-op's just as bad.

Bebe's Kids is pretty damn bad too, I don't know what they were thinking when they did that haunted house level with the random rooms.

Smashed Brother
04-03-2008, 07:51 PM
Musya - I picked this up from a video rental boxed and all hearing that it was supposed to be a great and scary game and a top game in Japan. When I played it, I was treated to an aweful Castlevania clone with horrendous sound and the most boring game play I've ever seen on the SNES.

I paid $4.95 for a complete copy from a rental store, lured in by similar promises. From the look of the pictures on the back, I kind of expected a decent Ninja Gaiden-styled game. What I ended up with was more like Ninja Gaiden's slower, less accomplished, ugly younger brother. I played it less than once and randomly gave it away to an unsuspecting 'friend' of mine :D

Was The Incredible Hulk mentioned earlier? I picked this up from the same rental store for $2.50; captivated by the pictures on the back showing a beat-em-up with a detailed Hulk sprite delivering massive uppercuts and whatnot.

Well, you get a detailed sprite of the Hulk, and you can uppercut alright (after ducking down and mashing the attack button 2 or 3 times before it registers). What it didn't show on the back was me walking Hulk through a nonsensical maze of a city, endlessly pummeling idiots in grey Spaceballs costumes who then inexplicably explode, and having to push 'select' to morph back into Bruce Banner just to crawl on your hands and knees through tunnels and aquaducts that are too small for the Hulk (just like in the comics).

Oh, and the best part? Aside from picking up a random hand gun that carries only a few shots, human Bruce has........ no way to defend himself!! :O Yes, you WILL die, many times.... Absolutely terrible

Steven
04-03-2008, 11:14 PM
Seems to me that the question implies that your only allowed to compare the games to other SNES games.


That's how it oughta be IMO. It's only fair you compare SNES games to other SNES games of that genre of that era. And yes, Mushya was pretty damn bad. Played it for 10 minutes at a friend's house and was quite appalled by the lack of quality.

vintagegamecrazy
04-08-2008, 01:24 PM
I have to give a tip of my hat to Bebe's Kids as well, just played it for the first time and it's pretty easy but cheap, i got to the 4th stage and was too appalled to go further. Go figure it is the only game by some obscure company, it's no wonder that it's so rare but that's a good thing.

Krook
04-11-2008, 05:38 PM
Super Soccer... "what a shitload of fuck"

Flippy8490
02-27-2009, 10:30 PM
Theres a bunch of amazing SNES games, but also, there is a large portion of really really bad ones. My personal least favorite is Batman Forever...just really really bad.

Joe West
02-27-2009, 10:38 PM
I dont like Axelay

calgon
02-27-2009, 10:41 PM
the only one that sticks out to me is Spider-Man (the animated series). I know Spider-man's track record for quality videogames isn't that great, but this game seems unfinished in about every single area. I believe some levels don't contain music.

sebastiankirchoff
02-27-2009, 10:45 PM
Theres a bunch of amazing SNES games, but also, there is a large portion of really really bad ones. My personal least favorite is Batman Forever...just really really bad.

Oh god that game is awful. I paid only 25 cents for it and I still feel ripped off.

Chemdawg
02-27-2009, 10:58 PM
foreman for real....

now i normally love boxing games (big fan of the fight night series) but this games just makes me sad when i watch it.

suppafly
02-27-2009, 11:13 PM
Pit fighter on SNEs is really terrible.

On the flipside, the genesis version is really good :D

mobiusclimber
02-28-2009, 01:45 AM
Only because I actually spent a good amount of time trying to play it even though I knew from the beginning it was unplayable and absolutely horrendous:

Drakkhan.

The 1 2 P
02-28-2009, 02:22 AM
Speed Racer. The racing parts blow and the side scrolling parts are just as bad. It's the worst Speed Racer video game ever.

makaar
02-28-2009, 03:30 AM
George Foreman KO Boxing I would have to say...even though its not the worst game on the console, it was the only game I had for a short period of my life during a moving process and that's all I had to play with my brother. So, suffice to say, it brings up bad memories...haha

DDCecil
02-28-2009, 03:47 AM
My choice would be The Rocketeer. Or Gunforce. No, I'll stick with The Rocketeer.


Only because I actually spent a good amount of time trying to play it even though I knew from the beginning it was unplayable and absolutely horrendous:

Drakkhan.

It's Drakkhen and far from unplayable. One of my favorites.

Haoie
02-28-2009, 03:57 AM
There are surely worse, but Secret of the Stars is the worst RPG I've seen on it.

CelticJobber
02-28-2009, 06:03 AM
Last Action Hero, that fucking game pissed the hell out of my when I rented it as a kid. I also hated Spider-Man and X-Men: Arcade's Revenge.

bangtango
02-28-2009, 09:23 AM
Pit fighter on SNEs is really terrible.

On the flipside, the genesis version is really good :D

Got a story here. I played Genesis Pit Fighter over to a friend's house and loved it. A couple weeks later I see the SNES version in a store for about $30-40 brand new and proceed to pay full price for it.

Boy, didn't I feel like an asshole. That version IS terrible.

The most awful SNES game that I actually enjoyed playing was Beethoven, but mostly because I enjoyed the first 2 movies.

The next worse game was Monday Night Football (Data East), in which your forward progress during a play doesn't count.

So what?

Well each time you get tackled, your man goes flying back 5 yards. Meaning you can actually earn a first down, only to have it taken away because Monday Night Football on SNES gives you credit for yardage based on where you end up after the play is over instead of how far you actually progress beforehand.

j1e
02-28-2009, 05:30 PM
There are surely worse, but Secret of the Stars is the worst RPG I've seen on it.

I don't know. I'd probably say the worst RPG is Brandish.

Game Freak
03-02-2009, 12:12 AM
Hmm, from my collection, i probably have only three or four complaints:
1. Stunt Race FX - last time i played this, it was so laggy and had such shitty control response that it was not playable
2: The Jungle Book - ugly sprites, horrible controls
3. NBA Live 97 - eh, not a big basketball fan, and its EA

Compute
03-02-2009, 10:05 AM
So many games I had fond memories growing up but now realize how terrible they are..

Home Alone, although the voice samples can't be beat
Stunt Race FX .. Yeah I was sucked in by the hype, too
Batman Forever always sucked, though. The genesis version had awesome gfx and samples but the game just sucked.

I was never a fan of Mortal Kombat, though, specifically because there is no blood code for the SNES version, wtf you pansies.

vintagegamecrazy
03-02-2009, 05:36 PM
Lately I've picked up a few clunkers. They're not the worst either but definitely pretty hard to play.

Hyperzone - a pretty bad shooter with no variety.
Hal's Hole in One Golf - a very clunky golf game that is pretty hard to play due to so may limitations in options.

obesolete
03-09-2009, 06:01 PM
There are surely worse, but Secret of the Stars is the worst RPG I've seen on it.

Jesus Christ you'd better watch out for Badbad. He's hardcore. @_@

Rickstilwell1
03-09-2009, 09:44 PM
Mario's Time Macine, Mario Is Missing, Mario Preeschool Fun, Mario Fun With Numbers, and Mario Fun With Letters. I don't know, when I was a kid I would have still rather played Super Mario World. I am glad I did not have to sit through those boring games as some of my friends did.

mnbren05
03-09-2009, 10:02 PM
Bart's Nightmare - rented it once and I could not figure out wtf to do ruined my weekend
Batman Forever- Another game that confused me when I was younger and was a poor rental choice
Barbie Super Model- My sister got this and it was just a chaotic mess to watch with god awful infectious be-bop for a soundtrack
American Gladiators- Yuck just yuck
Dragon's Lair- Never liked this one as it was just boring

Steven
04-07-2009, 06:32 AM
I don't know. I'd probably say the worst RPG is Brandish.


It's an Action RPG, actually. But anyway, this game you either hate or love, it seems. I enjoyed playing through it tremendously. Read my Brandish review on my website if you wanna know more about that.

"Best worst game ever"... lol

Moi-Męme
05-17-2009, 04:52 PM
Another of those "hate or love it" games would probably be love quest. Did anybody ever play love quest? It's a SFC exclusive RPG. Instead of fighting the normal standard villains you battle women. Once their HP drop to zero you've won their hearts, gain exp, level up etc.... ^__^; It's so crappy, I adore it until today... quiet a rare game, if I'm not mistaken...

PACHUKA
05-17-2009, 10:22 PM
Final Fantasy 2 and 3, Chrono Trigger, any Donkey Kong Country or street fighter port.

Baloo
05-17-2009, 11:28 PM
Chrono Trigger is just really overrated IMO.

As for the worst, hands down gotta go with Ultraman, Shaq-Fu, and Mario: Fun with Numbers.

I actually got suckered into buying the last one for $12 because I thought it was rare. Turns out the guy I bought it off of was one of those overpriced game sellers who's there every week with like two tons of SNES games selling them at eBay prices. Super Mario RPG $60? GTFO of the flea market.