treismac, did you censor that pic yourself? 0_0
treismac, did you censor that pic yourself? 0_0
There are a lot of bad ones, but it's pretty much a given that Skeet Shoot is one of the all time worst VCS games.
E.T. is not all that fun a game period, but it's definitely one of the better quality VCS games with a lot going on. Heck, Howard Scott Warshaw made it. Anyone who complains about the pits just obviously hasn't played the game much as it's easy to figure out how to get in/out of them once you play with any sort of effort. But again, it just didn't end up as fun.
But heck, this dude loves it.http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2...mories-et.html
Naw. That is the way I found it, isufje. There might be an uncensored version, though.Originally Posted by isufje
My vote goes for the 3 Mythicon titles. Star Fox, Fire Fly and Sorcerer. Sorcerer and Fire Fly are the same game with different sprites. Pretty much the games are as follows: Shoot a set of 3 enemies, collect treasure, repeat until you are killed, or die of utter boredom. No scoring of any kind. Horrid controls and terrible "music" compliment the boring gameplay as well. As for Star Fox, its slightly better than the other two, however, you repeatedly kill the same enemy over and over. I'd have to say it's probably a good thing no one has really heard of these three.
Nah, it's just the one chick in X-Man that sucks.
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the reason I had started this thread, was because I was confident that there are genuinely worse games on the 2600 than E.T. and Pac-Man… and I clearly have never really scratched the surface of the 2600 library!
I didn't even know there was angst towards 2600 Pac-Man until the turn of the century when I arrived on the internet scene! Everyone I had known enjoyed the game as a serviceable 'clone' of the arcade Pac-Man… but in the age of the internet and YouTube, a group think mentality develops and when a game is bashed, the lemmings then pass it forward and it becomes the 'standard'
The Mythicon games are truly the worst, mostly for lack of ambition. But my personal #1 hated 2600 game is Skin Diver/Scuba Diver/Sea Hunt. I can't say it enough, that game sucks, and unlike Mythicon, they appear to have been trying.
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I agree. I didn't love it as a kid, but I played Pac Man at the arcade frequently enough to recognize this weren't it. But... I liked it still. I had fun. It is a shitty port. Not a shitty game.
Of all the ones I've actually played, my vote goes with Sneak N Peek from US Games.
The music alone will drive you nuts after awhile.
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While they are not the very worst I would argue that Pacman and ET are the worst blockbuster selling titles of all time and thus the most disapointing to the most number of people. Some would also say that these 2 games led to the crash and I tend to agree.
Many of the worst games are R7s R8s R9s etc but no one expected them to be good.
The Mythicon games were released at a $9.99 price point.
Really was there any hope at all for some of these other games listed here? Did anyone buy Hide and Seek or Skeet Shoot from unknown 3rd party publishers with anything but the very lowest of expectations?
While I've never been in a situation with another player where I could truely enjoy it in the way that was intended (The game is at its best with two players that are fairly equally skilled at the game, no doubt), I can't imagine Dragster appearing in anyone's worst game list.
Several other curious games have been mentioned as well. I've played many dozens of 2600 games worse than River Patrol, for instance. I think there's actually even a bit of fun to be had there.
OK, after a solid hour plus beating my drunk ass against my newly purchased Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I have to say (as I expected, it is rare), IT SUCKS! I mean bad! After the lego-esque blood novelty wears off, you're left with nothing of a game. So to the OP: If you want to experience the answer to your question first hand, pony up some bucks and buy the Texas Chainsaw Massacre's and the River Patrol's and their ilk.
You know something? I absolutely loved E.T and Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 back when I was a kid, an I still enjoy revisiting them to this day, I can see why the games hold so much hatred within the gaming community but I for one loved them. When I re-purchased my Atari in the 90's I made sure that these two games were some of the first games I got, call me a sucker for nostagia but they were/are special to me.
Anyhow, I could describe about 30-50 Atari games worse than E.T or Pac-Man but most of them I don't even know the names of, I've played so many just once that some of them were a blur and I can't put a face with a name type thing.
I'm sad it took 22 posts before Skeet Shoot ever came up. And nobody has mentioned Sssnake! yet. That one's just awful on so many levels.
ET and Pac-Man aren't that bad, in my opinion.
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Technically, I had a link to it in post#3...Joe's 10 Atari games worse than ET video from a few years ago.
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To me, Pac-Man for the 2600 was just an Atari adaptation of a vastly superior arcade game. I didn't think it was that much worse than any other arcade ports at the time. I enjoyed it enough, I reckon. It wasn't until I played it on the Commodore 64 that I realized that a home version could do so, so much more with Pac-Man. After tasting the sweetness of the Commodore 64 version, the 2600 interpretation soured a bit in my mouth. I never hated it, though.
Hahaha!! I kinda liked that one as a kid. I just popped it in to revisit it and my four year old son actually said he liked the music. Go figure with its nursery rhyme music, eh?
The only way pacman would not have been horrible would be if you had never played anyother pacman clone or port for any other system at time of release.
Space Invaders was a fairly loyal port and so was Asteroids. Pacman was not even close to either one. Some of the Pacman handhelds at the time were better.
Et wasn't just bad ET was the pits?
Seriously what is with these pits? Once you master getting out of the pits one still has ask what are they there for anyway? Did ET land on the moon? This game was nothing like the movie or the main character.
I imagine most people were the same way at the time. I suspect the excellent conversion of Ms. Pac-Man started to make people realize just how weak of an effort Pac-Man really had been.
But if we could go back to the opening few months of release, I bet 90% of the buyers were satisfied.
As i have said before on other threads at DP and on other forums Pacman and E.T are only poor because they were rushed projects and i have even heard it said that what was achieved with Pacman in the short space of time was an amazing technological feat,i was not disappointed with it back in the 80`s because it was the Atari 2600 i did not expect it to look like the Pacman arcade game and to be honest i never heard a bad thing about it. What you need to ask is how many people hated it back in the day and how many people are just riding the tide of hate for it now and are probably not even from the Atari VCS generation.
There are much worse games like Tic-Tac-Toe,Soccer,Bowling,Boxing in fact most sport and board games were trash,sure E.T was not perfect but talking to people i have discovered that falling down the pits is the main issue well boo-hoo! people who want easy games with help on what to do during play with advising arrows and helpful on screen text have been spoilt with games like Call Of Duty MW lol
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