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    Pit Fighter for Super Nintendo.
    Man that game was lame. I was expecting some Street Fighter type action, but oh no. This game was light years behind Street Fighter. The attack moves were lame and unrealistic looking, there was no variety, the music was montonous, you only got one life....
    I could go on for days. A waste of a few bucks for me when I rented in back in 11th grade.

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    "was dumb?" And you call yourself a librarian?

    I really wanted Ultraman for the SNES to be awesome. Graphics looked good, I was really into fighters, and I was excited.... until I bought and played it.

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    PN03 for GameCube

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryborg View Post
    "was dumb?" And you call yourself a librarian?

    I really wanted Ultraman for the SNES to be awesome. Graphics looked good, I was really into fighters, and I was excited.... until I bought and played it.
    Yeah, I was at a flea market and when I saw Ultraman for $5 I bought it, just to come home to probably one of the WORST games I've ever played. I expected some Ultraman action and got some real crap.

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    Mondu's Fight Palace or whatever name you want to call it. I remember the scans in GamePro and thinking about how awesome it looked and then....
    Is it interesting to anyone else how the majority of what's listed already are fighting games?
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    Weaponlord. What a honking piece of shit that was.

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    Frogger for the SNES. I love Frogger and I just can't believe how poorly ported this game was, especially considering it was released in 1998. It doesn't even have any music!! Without a doubt it is one of the WORST arcade ports ever released.

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    Quote Originally Posted by portnoyd View Post
    Weaponlord. What a honking piece of shit that was.
    Great choice. The artwork RULED! I remember reading an old Gamepro preview, and thinking I had to have this game.

    Boy was I wrong.

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    Fatal Labyrinth. Was the first game I actually owned. My dad bought it for me for Christmas when he bought my sister and I a Genesis (she got Ecco the Dolphin and he got Abrams Battle Tank). I pointed the game out having only seen the cover in the display case because it looked like the kind of in-depth RPG I was looking for. I'd watched a buddy play Final Fantasy, and had played Crystalis at a friend's house. Thought this game would at least have a story of some sort, but no. It turned out to be one of the most rudimentary games I've ever played (and I've played old text adventures, those games had more interaction!), and only later did I learn this was a style of game called a Roguelike. I'm not a fan.
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    Apocalypse with Bruce Willis on the Playstation.

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    Resistance: Fall of Man

    The cover art looked awesome, and the screen shots were awesome, but I was not impressed with the game itself. It doesn't suck or anything, but it was dissapointing compared to other first person shooters I have played.
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    Heavy Nova. Although I DO like the game, I'm aware that it sucks. But I find the graphics to be awesome.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ryborg View Post
    "was dumb?" And you call yourself a librarian?

    I really wanted Ultraman for the SNES to be awesome. Graphics looked good, I was really into fighters, and I was excited.... until I bought and played it.
    Cut me some slack man, it's my off day today.

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    Devil Summoner Raidou Kuzunoha vs the Soulless Army

    I love RPGs and SMT, so picked up Devil Summoner. I mean the game had amazing prerenders and 3d character models, great music, and it was based off SMT so how could you really go wrong? The storyline was boring as hell, gameplay was terrible, and it's got the highest enemy encounter rate in any RPG I've played. Even Beyond the Beyond has a lower encounter rate(you don't get in battles literally everywhere you go either.)

    I forced myself to play through this game to give it a chance. I should have gave the money to some homeless guy on the street to buy beer or crack. Atleast someone would have got somewhat of an enjoyment of the money even if having nothing to show for it.

    Back to the Future for the NES

    I loved the movie Back to the Future. When I was younger I had enough money for one game at the Flea Market. There were a few games I wanted to pick up, one was Destiny of an Emperor(which is what I should have got because the only two RPG games I had at the time were Dragon Warrior and FF.)

    But I was like. Nah. It's Back to the Future. It's got to be good.

    I think I played it for a day before I quit playing it for good. I never got past the restuarant part yet could repeatedly get up there without dying. I hated the game though. Went back to it the first time last year, got past the restuarant and was hoping to beat the game, but got way too bored of it and quit.

    Everyone knows that Back to the Future sucks, but back then I didn't.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thom_m View Post
    Heavy Nova. Although I DO like the game, I'm aware that it sucks. But I find the graphics to be awesome.
    I bought that one used from a game rental place because it was cheap (maybe $8 or so). Wow, did that game blow. Absolutely stunning in it's sub-par mediocrity. And I believe that the company also put out a version on the Sega CD in Japan, which was the exact same lousy game but with redbook audio. Blah.

    I had high hopes for Wild Metal on the Dreamcast. I remember reading a few good things about it in the Official Dreamcast Magazine. I bought it the first week it came out. Damn, that game was lousy. It's like an old computer 'artillery' game, where you have to change your declination and fire over and over to hit your target. But, make it mobile (with enemy tanks that aren't so hindered with your aiming scheme) and give it seriously bad graphics. Total suck-bomb.

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    Wild 9 for Playstation. I was so excited for this game, as it was Shiny's next game after MDK which is still among my all time favorites. The screenshots looked cool, and the whole "rig" idea sounded fairly interesting, but the game ended up being pretty repetitive and boring. Plus, I hated the lame voiceovers of the main character.
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    I'll third Weaponlord and second Wild 9. Those are both games I rushed to the video store to rent. Both came with huge hype, both disappointing.

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    Shaq-Fu. I remember read EGM and they were showing their blue screen props and actor doing some frame to frame shot. I thought it would be as great or better than Mortal Kombat. Boy I was wrong.

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