the single ,most Overated game or game series

[Lady Jaye]

You're right, I've played Lost Stars.

Maybe this is akin to first play Pac-Land and decide that all Pac-Man games suck, based on this one game?

Still, I'd try out Miracle World via emulation before actually buying a copy for my SMS.

[davidbrit2]

Maybe this is akin to first play Pac-Land and decide that all Pac-Man games suck, based on this one game?

What you say?? I love Pac Land. It's just so very different. Given the choice, I would take a Pac Land cabinet over a Ms. Pac Man any day.

[Ed Oscuro]

Wha? Surely you're not referring to Alex Kidd in Miracle World, or Shinobi World are you?
Lost Stars and High tech world are mediocre at BEST, but the first and last SMS Alex Kidd's are quite good.

Now, now...High Tech World is what I was referring to. Between that and some of the horrible, HORRIBLE box art on the US/European releases, you'll understand my being scared away from this series. He's one of the worst system mascots (if you can even grant him that; it seems Sega intended him to be, if only in a sort of glorified Gex the Gecko style) ever.

Shinobi World, unfortunately, seemed as if Sega was finally trying to make a Shinobi style game for the system from the ground up...plain old Shinobi's shrunken characters scare me at some deep level, perhaps thinking "What if a giant, normal-human sized FOOT comes and crushes these tiny ants?"

[Raccoon Lad]

Actually, the Japanese box art isn't much better.

[Ed Oscuro]

Screwed either way, then

[Lady Jaye]

@DavidBrit: You're serious about Pac-Land?!? You're sure you don't mean Pac-Mania? Now, Pac-Mania I like!

[Raccoon Lad]

Pac-Land would have been better IMHO if those damn springboards were easier to jump off of. F%$@&$-ing springboards, I ALWAYS die from not being able to hit the jump button the exact millisecond you're supposed to.

[davidbrit2]

@DavidBrit: You're serious about Pac-Land?!? You're sure you don't mean Pac-Mania? Now, Pac-Mania I like!

Nope. I mean Pac Land. I own a copy for TG-16, PSX (Namco Museum,) and I've played it to death on my MAME cabinet. Once you get the hang of the spring boards, the game is a blast, and a hell of a white-knuckler at times. It's a little like a platformer from the era when the genre was almost totally undefined.

Now we have Donkey Kong Country. Ugh.

[1bigmig]

Alex Kidd needs to die.

Metroid.

I only played the NES version, and while I tried to like it, I just found it boring and repetative.

Same here, every once in a while I pop it in and say that this is going to be the day I find out why this game is awesome. I have yet to play through it.

[Sofa King Gud]

Megaman... Several Mario games, and Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3! Any of the million Sims games, Earthbound, and the Tekken series. And several sports games.