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    Default games with absolutely terrible sound fx/music

    i was playing dirt trax fx last night and oh my god what a nightmare to listen to....im sure there has to be some really bad ones that are worth playin just for a good laugh

    sorry if this has been discused before i searched but couldnt find anything
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    Spider-Man on the Genesis (the one that's just called 'Spider-Man', not 'Spider-Man vs. the Kingpin') has some of the worst sound in the world. Another one would be Super Baseball 2020, also on the Genesis.. they really butchered the sound on that one (still plays fine, though).

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    Street Fighter 2 on Genesis... Was terrible compared to the SNES.

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    Quote Originally Posted by it290
    Spider-Man on the Genesis ....
    Yeah, but the music is awesome. Very moody and cool.

    My vote would have to go towards one very specific Atari 2600 game. Sound familiar?...


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    1942 on the NES. The song is one note. I realize that this was similar to the arcade version, which also has crappy sound. But the NES version is even worse.

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    Ridge Racer 1 for PSX. Horrible, annoying as hell announcer, lousy in-game music. At least you could swap for one of your own CD's...
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    Quote Originally Posted by tony_good
    Ridge Racer 1 for PSX. Horrible, annoying as hell announcer, lousy in-game music. At least you could swap for one of your own CD's...
    Are you kidding me? Ridge Racer had great music and SFX! Now Ridge Racer 5 on the PS2 is terrible in that respect. But for me, Rotterdam Nation and Rhythm Shift are some of the major reasons I still play that disc!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Mitchell
    1942 on the NES. The song is one note. I realize that this was similar to the arcade version, which also has crappy sound. But the NES version is even worse.

    SWEET GOD I AGREE!!! 1942 on the NES has to have the worst/most annoying music in video game history. I couldn't imagine anything being any worse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by imanerd0011
    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Mitchell
    1942 on the NES. The song is one note. I realize that this was similar to the arcade version, which also has crappy sound. But the NES version is even worse.

    SWEET GOD I AGREE!!! 1942 on the NES has to have the worst/most annoying music in video game history. I couldn't imagine anything being any worse.
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    >Volguard II (Famicom) First level music will make your ears bleed. It just repeats 2 single bars over and over and over and over.

    >Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy) I don't know why, don't ask, but for some godawful reason the music on the Bubbly Clouds stage (stage 4) makes me choke up.

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    Ridge Racer 1 for PSX. Horrible, annoying as hell announcer, lousy in-game music. At least you could swap for one of your own CD's...
    Are you kidding me? Ridge Racer had great music and SFX! Now Ridge Racer 5 on the PS2 is terrible in that respect. But for me, Rotterdam Nation and Rhythm Shift are some of the major reasons I still play that disc!
    I swear. The intro music and Ridge Racer are my favorites. I bring my Ridge Racer CD for long distance road trips for when I hit the 65 and up zones or when I'm in heavy but steady moving traffic where everybody's going over 70 and the cops get discouraged over which car to pick to pull over.

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    Friday the 13th for NES.
    Only one loop over and over and over and over.... get realy annoying.

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    Everyone will change their opinions if they play Bokosuka Wars for the NES. WORST. FREAKING. SOUND. EVER. That has GOT to be the most freaking grating music ever. I wonder if the original MSX version is worse... I shudder to think. I actually want the WOW! YOU LOSE! screen to come up as it has different music. It's hardly an improvement, but at least the volume is low. x_x
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    X-men 2 the clone wars (Genesis)

    I like it but my wife has a seizure everytime I play it, especially this boss on the 2nd level

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    On the topic of 1942, it was one of the first games I ever got. I had asked my dad to get me Mario Bros. (the original) as it was pretty much the first video game in the arcade that I got really attached to. In typical Dad fashion, he came home with a game HE wanted to play, which in this case was 1942. He's your typical war buff dad, so he thought this would be some complex flight simulator (you can't blame him; the screen shot on the back of the box just shows the plane on the carrier--I even think it's a shot from the arcade version...my god, Capcom were some slippery bastards). Anyway, we heard that fucking music for the first time, and the first thing he said was "let's take this game back". I sort of liked the shooting action, even though I thought the game must have been broken because it was just playing the same note over and over, and suggested we keep it.

    But I have a special hate for 1942 because I never did get the damn Mario Bros. cartridge because it went out of print right after that incident. I'll always blame 1942 for that.

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    Kunio no Oden on the Super Famicom jumped in my mind. Absolutely awful music. Choose from 3 different absolutely awful BGMs!

    Like everything else about the game, the music in Bebe's Kids is terrible, repetitive, and maddening.

    To this day, the choice of genre for the music in Marvel vs. Capcom 2 boggles my mind.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Mitchell
    1942 on the NES. The song is one note. I realize that this was similar to the arcade version, which also has crappy sound. But the NES version is even worse.
    I always thought they just screwed up the song with that one obnoxious note that plays every few seconds. Wasn't it Pony Canyon who handled this port for Capcom? That might explain it.

    I'll say Spiritual Warfare. One horrible little ditty plays throughout the entire game from start to finish, whether you're prancing through the grass or in a life and death struggle with the hell-spawn of Satan. Absolutely unbearable.
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    Smugglers Run, GBA, nothing else needs to be said on the topic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Morbis
    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Mitchell
    1942 on the NES. The song is one note. I realize that this was similar to the arcade version, which also has crappy sound. But the NES version is even worse.
    I always thought they just screwed up the song with that one obnoxious note that plays every few seconds. Wasn't it Pony Canyon who handled this port for Capcom? That might explain it.
    Pony Canyon doesn't appear anywhere in the title screen or documentation, but I guess it's possible. I hate to say it, but 1942 actually looks too GOOD to be a typical ponycanyon release.

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    Crazy Taxi - the Bad Religion song was tolerable for a short time, but The Offspring never allowed me to enjoy the game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shoes23
    Crazy Taxi - the Bad Religion song was tolerable for a short time, but The Offspring never allowed me to enjoy the game.
    Ooh, good choice. I just played this last night. Great game, and I can tolerate the music, but I can't tolerate the fact that there's maybe five minutes of music total that just loops infinitely the entire time you play the game.


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