Game that looked cool but was dumb

[houstonlibrarian]

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.

[Cers]

Rise of the Robots

[ryborg]

"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.

[Kid Ice]

PN03 for GameCube

[Robocop2]

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?

[portnoyd]

Weaponlord. What a honking piece of shit that was.

[Cloud121]

PN03 for GameCube

Only my all-time favorite game....

[mobiusclimber]

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.

[Baloo]

"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.

[houstonlibrarian]

"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.