Worst Games of All Time (All Systems)

[Tempest]

Dunno if this has been done before, but yesterday I was thinking about what the worst games of all time were. Not just worst game for a certain system, but of all time over all systems (and arcade games). If you start considering all the systems and arcade games made there are alot to choose from, but some games are just so bad they still stand out in a crowd of 10,000+.

So lets hear some suggestions. I'd start with an old and a new game:

Ssssnake (2600)
Superman 64 (N64)

Tempest

[ehall]

I always hated Low-G man on the NES. There are probably worse games but I hate this one sooooo much.

[chadtower]

Sorcerer by Mythicon for the 2600
Cyberia for the Saturn

[digitalpress]

Years ago we dedicated an entire issue to this very subject. It's a topic that's near and dear to me.

http://www.digitpress.com/dpsightz/covers/dpcov_26.gif

In that issue:

Sea Hunt review:
http://www.digitpress.com/reviews/seahunt.htm

Gorf (5200) review:
http://www.digitpress.com/reviews/gorf.htm

Super Pitfall review:
http://www.digitpress.com/reviews/suprpitf.htm

Lots more. Also I still love this feature that Sean "Seanbaby" Reily did for us a few years ago about the worst NES games:
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/seanbaby/w20-1.htm

[Ascending Wordsmith]

Super Play Action Football for the SNES was an absolute crapper of a game. How in the hell can you get the NFL license for team representation and not get the NFLPA license? Touchdown by #34 of the Buffalo Bills is all the excitment you'll get from scoring... if you manage to score. Let's not forget how Nintendo forgot to list the options in the play book. At your disposal is over two dozen plays, none of which you know the name to. That 45 degree angle view of the playing field doesn't help matters either.

[Tempest]

Years ago we dedicated an entire issue to this very subject. It's a topic that's near and dear to me.


Yep I have that issue, but as I recall it tended to concentrate on classic (and neo-classic) systems. I'm looking for a list that includes everything from the Channel F to the X-Box.

Speaking of Channel F, most of those games could fill a list on their own. Not to meantion the Studio II... :/

Tempest

[Sylentwulf]

My problem is, I ALWAYS check reviews and ratings before I get a game, and if it sucks, I don't buy it :) I NEVER take risks unless the game is under $15. So I REALLY can't think of any bad games that I've played.

From what I HAVE played:
Crash Wrath of Cortex (PS2)
Alundra (PS1)
ANY game that I can't play because of red/green colorblindness (DAMN YOU PS Version of puzzle fighter 2, DAMN YOU! And Mad Maestro, why red and green?!? Is there something wrong with the entire OTHER half of the color spectrum?!)

Games that look bad: Zelda for the CD-i

Well, there's my 2 cent's.

[Goblin]

I vote for Star Voyager - NES. Just horrible.

[digitalpress]

Years ago we dedicated an entire issue to this very subject. It's a topic that's near and dear to me.


Yep I have that issue, but as I recall it tended to concentrate on classic (and neo-classic) systems. I'm looking for a list that includes everything from the Channel F to the X-Box.

Oh I agree with you, Matt. Just pointing out a few items to give people a head start. Believe me, there are loads of shitty games that have come out even since that issue.

[Scoots]

Urban Champion for NES. Godawful.

[brandver3]

.....I liked Urban Champion....... :(


The new Batman game. Dark Vengence or whatever, man is that crap.

And almost all of the Superman games. DC seems to have really bad luck with gaming licenses.

[Charlie]

Superman for the N64 by Titus.
E.T. for the 2600... I don't care what anyone says, it is crap.
Pac-Man for the 2600, with flicker so bad it could cause a seizure.
Barbie for the NES... good god, how terrible.
Rex Ronan for the SNES... so bad it woujld make kids take up smoking out of spite.
MK Advance for the GBA Advance... I got it super-cheap from K Mart and I can confirm it's just about the worst fighting game every produced.
Quiz Wiz for the Game.Com... not only is it bad but a LOT of the questions don't even have the correct answers.
Batman & Robin for the Game.Com... blur, thy name be Game.com
Transformers for the Famicom, so fucking hard you'll die two seconds into the first level.

There is a lot more, and more on the way no doubt.

[Six Switch]

Hooters Road Trip-PS1 not even worth the $10. >)

[Eternal Champion]

Let us not forget TOTAL RECALL for NES. But that's pretty infamous.
I've always hated Altered Beast on Genesis. Sure, a good way to demonstrate the graphics and sound when it came out in 1989, but GOOD GOD what a dull game. I've long sinced purged my collection of it.

The Star Wars games for SNES--great idea, looked great, I HATED playing them. Like Rush n' Attack all over again. Endless dumb "enemies" coming at you. Cheap-ass. That's just my gaming taste.

[Dahne]

Hey, I liked Aludra. :( Had some great puzzles.

Hmm, let's see...The games I tend to dislike the most are the once that are hugely dissapointing (*coughchronocrosscough*), but as far as out-and-out bad goes, I'd have to say Beyond the Beyond. Sweet Cthulhu that game was terrible.

[josekortez]

No surprise here, but Spongebob Squarepants for the GameCube. I still have nightmares about the blurry graphics and sluggish controls. Most kid's games are bad, but this is the worst one ever. Thus, I have made it my mission to travel the earth to stop unsuspecting consumers from the purchasing the game...

Oh, and before I forget, Eve of Extinction for PS2. It's like a long tutorial minus the fun.

[MyNameIsBoB]

Any game made from a movie. They just slap something together and people will buy it because they thought the movie was good.

[Tempest]

These aren't bad suggestions, but are they really the worst games of all time? Yeah they all suck pretty hard, but I wouldn't call many of them "The Worst". Well maybe Total Recall... ugh!

Tempest

[DDCecil]

Rocketeer for SNES is the absolute worst game ever, in my opinion. Others:

Total Recall (NES)
Ninja (PSX)
Perfect Weapon (PSX)

I know there are many more that I think royally suck, but I just can't think of them at the moment...

[CrazyImpmon]

No one mentioned the unmentionable... hmmm... I know it's bad but it can't be THAT bad. ;)

[jaydubnb]

Athena (NES) hands down! Ironically, i love her in the KOF series :)

[Charlie]

These aren't bad suggestions, but are they really the worst games of all time? Yeah they all suck pretty hard, but I wouldn't call many of them "The Worst". Well maybe Total Recall... ugh!

Tempest

No, I'm going to have to insist that MK Advance is the worst game ever made actually. It's the most unplayable, unlogical game ever made. Everything about MK that could possibly go wrong does. You punch straight through people, your weapons go staright through, the sound skips, the amount of damage done is inconsistant, the game freezes at the drop of a hat... some of this shit there is just no excuse for. It's truly pathetic.

[Atariguy]

My pick is either Preditor for the NES or Journey Escape for the 2600. IMO these manage to be worse than even Super Pitfall.

[hamburgler]

From reading old & new Video game magizines and from my point of view, I've come up with a list of bad games that suck beyond anything else.

E.T for atari 2600
Friday the 13th for nes
Jaws for nes
Cyberia for psx
Setinal returns for psx
Silverload for psx
Kabuki warriors for xbox
Total recall for nes
Mortal kombat advance for GBA
Berenstein bear's extreme sport's for GBC
Soul fighter for DC
Deadly art's for N64
Oylmpic hockey for N64
Hexan 64 for N64
Spice world for psx
Reel fishing wild for DC
Batman beyond for both psx and N64
Zelda series for CD-I
Antz extreme racing for xbox and PS2
Beybladz for psx
Street racquetball for psx
Oni for PS2
Gubble for psx
WWE: crush hour for PS2 & GC
Rageball for psx
Super bubble pop for psx
Rc helicopter for psx
Pinobee for psx
Bmx XXX for PS2,GC, and xbox
Fighter maker 2 for PS2
Cart fury for PS2
Artic thunder for PS2
Driven for PS2
Commando's 2: men of courage for PS2 and Xbox
Downforce for PS2
Endgame for PS2
Gravity games: Bike,street,vert dirt for PS2 and Xbox
The mummy returns for PS2
Portal runner for PS2
King's field: The Ancient City for PS2
Mike tyson hevyweight boxing for PS2 and Xbox
Gallop racer for PS2

More to come soon..............

[portnoyd]

Hey, I liked, and have beaten Super Pitfall several times. :)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the NES - Have you every played this? Did you ever figure out what was going on, or why the townspeople wanted to beat the shit out of you?! Worst game ever.

I can't believe no one has said Shaq Fu. Trash!

dave

[sniperCCJVQ]

Where are NES Action 52, Master Chu and the Drunken Hu and Cheetahman 2 ???

Those smells worst than my garbage.

[WiseSalesman]

The Rise of the Robots games.

Heroes of the Lance for PC.

[Charlie]

Oh, Action 52 is a classic... 52 games and not one of them is worth * in value. This DUDs for you.

@Port: I think Dr. Jeckel & Mr. Hyde is based on some Japanese anime and not the famous book/movie/play. But yeah, it's pretty terrible.

Total Recall is awful... totally on par with the unplayable shit that Acclaim churned out for the NES. The only good games they released they licensed from other companies (Wizards & Warriors for example).

Super Pitfall isn't so bad... I've certainly played worse.

Journey Escape is my favorite Atari 2600 game, so I am greatly offended at it's mention in this post.

WWE Crush Hour isn't a bad game, it's just dull. At least the play control is good.

The Zelda games for CD-i are hardly bad. People just think they're bad because they aren't true Zelda games. I think Adventures of Link is worse then them (especially Zelda's Adventure, which was awesome).

[RJ]

Flip-Out (Jaguar)
Syndicate (Jaguar)
Congo Bongo (SEGA cart for 8-bit Atari)
Crusaders of Might & Magic (PSX)

...& nearly everything 3DO makes!

[Tempest]

Congo Bongo (SEGA cart for 8-bit Atari)


Now see i liked Congo Bongo (I had it growing up). I never knew it had more levels until I played it on mame a few years ago. I also liked Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for whatever reason (but its definetly not a great game).

Tempest

[RJ]

Well IIRC there are 2 different Congo Bongo games floating around out there...the cart version has very poor graphics, music & control & only 2 levels! I thought I'd bought a beta version by mistake!

[brandver3]

Super bubble pop for psx

That is a very fun puzzle game. It no way falls near the likes of Pac-Man (2600) or Total Recall

[hamburgler]

Yeah, but if you look closely at the review for Super bubble pop in the official Playstation magazine, you could see why they said it wasn't a great game in the first place.

[lionforce]

Rastan Saga II blah! >:(

[jose.yoshitake]

There is tons of bad games out there, but some of them that would justify the GAMES INDEX OF PROHIBITED AWFUL REJECTED WASTE.
The first 6 winners I remembered:

Total Recall (NES)
ET (2600)
Rise of The Robots (all) - Maybe the 'Eternal Champion'
Dr. Chaos (NES)
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hide (NES)
Death and Return of Superman (SNES)
Helicopter Rescue! (Odyssey)
The Power of He-Man (Intellivision)

[Aswald]

Toilet Kids for the NES. This is an extremely disturbing game.

[TurboDuoRox]

Shadow: War Of Succession 3DO
Created by Tribeca Digital

Was far and away the worst thing I have ever seen or played (use that term loosely because it implies there was "playing")

[AB Positive]

Pyramid for NES: Promising idea, but when you make a Tetris with triangle-based pieces it's all too easy to force players to get breaks in the would-be lines that are literally impossible to fill. No wonder it's an unlicensed game.

that's all I can think of right now

-AG

[RetroYoungen]

I LOVED Friday the 13th for the NES, it's one of my fav games for my little toaster :D I loved Altered Beast too, just for the pure cheese factor, and it cool sounds and music in it.

As for the worst games ever, I have to agree with Superman for the N64, but I'd like to also add Street Fighter 2015 or whatever the number was. I never even got past the first screen, it sucked THAT horribly.

[calthaer]

Heroes of the Lance is the only PC game to make this list so far? Egads, people...

I mean, if it's over all systems and all times, then the PC has got to take the cake in terms of awfulness. Some games made for it are so buggy that they crash every few minutes (un-patched Ultima IX, anyone?). What about that absolutely horrendous Survivor game that got released a year or two ago? I'm sure I've barely scratched the surface and there's no way I can even begin to remember all the asinine games I've seen over the years, only to forget about them...

I have a very distinct feeling that the most horrible games of all time on all platforms are so obscure...although there are some obscure ones here now - Toilet Kids for NES? Hahahahahaa

[FrankLee]

Bubsy 3d I got it when i bought my playstation then i traded it in for new playstation games and i thought it was okay...then i bought it again and then i was like "what the hell was i thinking".... so yea Bubsy 3d

[Ed Oscuro]

Worst game...

Sega Master System

Well, I'll say that The Cyber Shinobi is by far the worst Sega Master System I've managed to play so far. That's not saying much since I've only played a few, and generally excellent titles at that; my second and third worst games played on the system so far have been Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, in all its unmet potential, and Kenseiden comes in a distant third. Neither even touches the awfulness of The Cyber Shinobi. With that, I hope this is the last time I'll feel pressed to mention that title.

GameBoy Advance

Nothing I've decided to play for this system really falls in this category, but the worst I've seen would be the port of Contra III. Recycling the train level from Contra the Hard Corps isn't good. I'm still not sure, but at the time it seemed to me that Konami was claiming this stage was "designed specifically for the GBA." That, if it's what they were talking about, was a bald faced lie. Oh, and the fact you can sit and bounce weapon capsules into the air without end (they go straight up and come right back down) adds to the mockery of Treasure's last Contra. A shame, really. When you get right down to it, though, this isn't deserving of a place on this list (but I appreciate the opportunity to vent!)

[Ruudos]

I like Low G Man!

Worst game? It hasn't been mentioned yet, but it will be now:

Captain Planet and the Planeteers for NES!!!!!!!

(and I've heard the Mega Drive evrsion sucks too)

[Daltone]

Supreme Warrior on the Mega CD. More Digital Pictures FMV wank, and unlike Night Trap its not even playable/amusing wank.

[dreamcaster]

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (2600): Admittedly, I get enthralled for a few minutes because I actually think I comprehend the gameplay - then I mysteriously fall into a hole, despite taking precautions to avoid it - as such, the cart exits the 2600 very quickly.

Hi-Octane (Saturn): A hate it even more so than normal, because it angers me to see such a potentially good game so very badly executed.

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (GBC): Boring, difficult, frustrating and unappealing. My hatred for this is intensified since I actually wasted so much time and effort trying to finish it! >:(

[Atari7800]

No one has mentioned CARMAGADON 64 for the Nintendo 64... I've played almost every N64 game there is, and Carmagadon is WORSE than Superman... seriously!

I just got SIMPSON's WRESTING for the PSone, and it's just as bad as I heard.

MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP for the 32x is simply dreadful... truly terrible music and sound effects couple

COSMIC CARNAGE for the 32x is one of the worst fighting games I have ever played

AUTOBAHM TOKIO is a Japanese racing game for the 3DO that rates as the worst racer I have ever played.

HARD DRIVIN' for the Genny is a big mess... the Genny doesn't do polygons very well!

The Jaguar has too many real duds to list... how about CHECKERED FLAG, FIGHT FOR LIFE, AIR CARS, I-War, and last but certainly not least TREVOR MCFUR IN THE CRESCENT GALAXY (great launch title, Jack)

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM is a truly bad Nintendo (NES) port of a good arcade game

Another bad PSX game is JUPITER STRIKE. It's an early release shooter with no weapons upgrades and really awful sound effects

The PSX and saturn both got STREET FIGHTER: THE MOVIE, certainly the biggest stain ever on the Street Fighter name.

How about THE CROW, also for PSX and Saturn? This one is unplayable.

Don't get me started on the Sega CD... full motion video plus video game equals stomach flu.

ALF and MORTAL KOMBAT 3 for the Sega Master System are toal shit, and the 20-IN-1 "multicart" packed in with the Sega Master System 3 in Brazil is like a dumbed-down Action 52 (if that's possible.) One endlessly repeating simple song for all 20 games. Great.

These are some of my favorites!

[Aswald]

NES Toilet Kids. Wrong. So utterly, completely, wrong...

[Ed Oscuro]

Worst NES game...

Any Sachen game is a contender. EVERY Sachen game, actually, is a contender.

Hmm, what else now. Oh yes, Escape from Atlantis (thankfully never passed prototype form) was really awful. The designer didn't get paid for it, either ;)

[Oberfuhrer Hamm]

NES Toilet Kids. Wrong. So utterly, completely, wrong...

@_@ Man, it couldn't be that wrong, could it? I have never heard of that game...

[grayejectbutton]

Worst games of all time...Pac-man for the 2600 was a contender but misses out because there WERE worst games released for the Atari (*cough*E.T.*cough*).

A few people have mentioned Rise of the Robots, which I wholeheartedly agree with. I made the mistake of buying it for the PC back in the mid-90's. Terrible game, completely unplayable. Even though I found it in the bargain bin I still felt ripped off.

Almost all of the THQ games for the SNES are contenders. Back in the early 90's, THQ's reputation was so bad that they had to divide the company into separate divisions (like Black Pearl and Malibu Games) just so people wouldn't realize they were buying a THQ game. Race Drivin' is a particular travesty, with both Home Alone games being other noteable mentions for their sheer waste of plastic and silicon.

But, for me, the worst game I've ever, EVER played is...*drum roll*...

Pit Fighter for the SNES

An unbelievably funny game for all the wrong reasons. Appalling graphics, non-existant sound and gameplay so bad you wondered if you'd forgotten to switch the console on. Each fighter had, erm, two moves (punch and kick) and the sprites, although digitized, were tiny pixellized blobs in the middle of the screen. As far I can remember, there was only one background, meaning that each fight (and I use the term loosely) was identical to the last.

Any time you bitch about how bad games are nowadays, how there is just no innovation anymore, spend two minutes revisiting Pit Fighter and you'll realize that even oldies aren't always goldies.

[Oberfuhrer Hamm]

I usually don't play that many console games anymore, however the worst out of what I played is .... Where's Waldo for the NES.

First off, wtf? A game based on books that only a 3 year old could enjoy?
Second, virtually no variation. Once you have played the game more than three times, you will know exactly where he is every time. -_-
Third, graphics? Gotta like looking at pixellated stick people. >)
Fourth, too easy. Who couldn't beat this game in 2 tries or less?
Fifth, the ending. Waldo goes to the moon. What the hell? :? Not worth playing for.

Need I go on?

One reedeming point about it is that the gameplay is so rediculously simple that it was impossible for it to be flubbed.

Despite that, this game is a waste of time, money, effort, plastoc and silicon. Dont ever play it.

[Oberfuhrer Hamm]

(Damn no edit feature :( )

BTW Where's Waldo is made by, you guessed it, T'HQ. Blech.

[Aswald]

NES Toilet Kids. Wrong. So utterly, completely, wrong...

@_@ Man, it couldn't be that wrong, could it? I have never heard of that game...

You've never seen it? Good. Keep it that way, and consider yourself lucky.

[grayejectbutton]

I've never played NES Toilet Kids either but it's title does rather suggest it should be shoved down the crapper. If it really is THAT bad, I'm sure many copies of it were.

A couple more games have sprung to my mind since yesterday. Amazing Tennis for the N64 is a baaaaad sports game. The graphics are shocking, especially since the N64 was capable of producing top notch 3D. The tennis players each contain about 5 polygons each, the crowd and umpire are obviously sprites (since if you see them from the side they look like cardboard cutouts) and the player rosta is just bizarre. No Agassi, Sampras, Rafter, etc. The female rosta is even more embarassing. I hadn't even heard of most of the players (I suspect some of them were fictional...). Finally, the sound is also a disaster zone, with irritating music and terrible synth speech from the umpire, whose repetoire consists of about 4 different phrases which he repeats over...and over...and over...and over...(you get the idea)...again. Oh, and somebody's cell phone ALWAYS rings during EVERY match and the umpire ALWAYS shouts out "Quiet please!". Some cartridges are just begging to be melted down, aren't they?

Family Dog for the SNES...now there's a bad game. Another delight from the creative genius that was THQ back in the early 90's, Family Dog is a jaw-dropping appalling excuse for a "game". The only reason I wouldn't consider it among the worst games of all time is because it was pretty good by THQ's standards. Crap by everyone else's, of course, but when your back catalogue consists of wonders such as Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Race Drivin', Pit Fighter, and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends (no joke, that really is a game title)...when your back catalogue looks like that, you have to have one game that might graze the 40% mark (and then only in the official Nintendo Magazine).

I always hated Ultraman for the SNES too, but some people like it and at least it's sort of playable...sort of. It has a couple of nice moments in it... not like Pit Fighter, whose only nice moment comes when you take the cartridge to the local pawn shop or, preferably, when you take a hammer and a blowtorch to it. Now THAT'S satisfying.

[intro9]

Ok I havent read the whole thread yet.. But the worst worst worst worst worst game I've ever played of all time is... Deadly Towers - NES.. Comeon... TERRIBLE.

[grayejectbutton]

Oops, I said "Amazing Tennis" earlier when I meant "All Star Tennis" for the N64. Apparently, the game was so bad I couldn't even bring myself to remember its name.

[RetroYoungen]

The PSX and saturn both got STREET FIGHTER: THE MOVIE, certainly the biggest stain ever on the Street Fighter name.

I have to disagree. I'd say the worst stain on the Street Fighter name was Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight for the NES. Such a horrible, horrible game on such a beautiful, beautiful license name...

Oh, and I'd like to second Deadly Towers, I couldn't STAND that game.

[RetroYoungen]

Oh, BTW, I'm one of the few people that actually LIKED Street Fighter: The Movie for my Saturn. But that extra character, that short little Japanese fighter dude... :puke:

[The Unknown Gamer]

To what is worse than Bugs for the 2600 is Busby 3-D for PSX
There is nothing good about that game

[bb_hood]

I cant believe no one else has posted 'Dragon's Lair' for NES.

All of the other games people posted are at least playable, but Dragon's Lair for the NES is like, utterly impossible. It took me over 30 minutes to get past the 1st level, which is way too long cosidering its only one screen long. This game is soo poorly designed that it is just a total piece of crap. As far as Im concerned, its not even a game.

Dragons Lair has to be in the top 10 worst of all time. I cant think of anything worse.

[BHvrd]

[quote] INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM is a truly bad Nintendo (NES) port of a good arcade game [quote]

Wow really? I loved that game, and thought it was a great port considering the platform.

My pile o'turd to add to the heap:

Shaq-Fu, Genesis

[The Manimal]

Do games like Cheetahmen 2 and Action 52 even count? These are unlicensed carts and obviously could be of SUPER INFERIOR quality! Shouldn't expect much.


I remember liking 'Urban Champion'.


Also, I remember THQ being AWFUL for the NES moreso than the SNES. Black Pearl was working on the EA Sports games in the mid-90s, I think.


THQ duds like Wayne's World LOL



Okay...here's some CRAPPERS.



The Manimal's Top 5 worst game experiences EVER:


COMMANDO - NES
INFILTRATOR - NES
ALTERED BEAST - GENESIS
IRON TANK - NES
ULTRAMAN - SNES

[Balloon Fight]

Street Fighter the movie for arcade. It was so slow it wasnt even funny.

ET-2600
Action 52 all- not even one good damn game.

[Ruudos]

T*HQ is a publisher, I don't think they actually developed one game0. They only published 1 decent NES game: Jmaes Bond Jr. The only T*HQ game developed by Eurocom.

[RoboticParanoia]

I second Action 52. Horrible. I swear to this day, that when I started playing it, I had a seizure on it's stupidness.

Also, ET for 2600 is another thing. Very dull when I played it on an emu.

In my physical collection, it's probably Hexen for N64 or Anticipation for NES.

[ROBOTRON]

ET 2600

I vomited profusely after playing this game. :o

[o2william]

At great risk to my person and reputation, I'm going to stick up for 2600 E.T. *dons Varia armor to guard against flames*

Just WHY do people have such a hard time figuring out this game??? There is a definite, attainable goal to it. Yes, accidentally falling into the pits can be annoying but it's really easy to avoid with a little practice. Surely, I can't be the ONLY one skilled enough to do it! If you really can't avoid the pits, try playing the game with a Genesis pad instead of the regular joystick; E.T. is easier to control that way. I actually like E.T... it's not the best game by any means, but it's not the worst either.

Of course, I like Journey Escape, NES Jaws and even Deadly Towers, so take my opinion for what it's worth. LOL

As for worst game, my vote goes to Super Pitfall. Part of me died the day I first played this game, and I'll never forgive it. Sssnake on the 2600, Operation Secret Storm on the NES and Helicopter Rescue on the O2 aren't much better.

[careerbellman]

SWORDQUEST series for the 2600!!!
Im not the brightest star in the galaxy, but come on, who the hell could figure that game out? Just a god awful game, the programmer should have been shot.
But worse than that was Cybermorph for the Jaguar. Game Fan said this game was great and put it on the cover of their magazine. I was excited so when I played it I was pissed. Game Fan HAD to be paid off from Atari to say that piece of junk was not just a good game but one of the best of all time.
Also Trever McFur in the Crescent Galaxy. Good graphics for the time, but after 5 minutes you would rather be playing Airlock instead.

[Neil Koch]

Slam City for Sega CD, a totally annoying and unplayable game (and I actually liked most of the other FMV for the Sega CD)

Noah's Ark on SNES (a hack of Wolf 3D where you went around with a slingshot "feeding" tranquilers to animals)

[rxd]

I've gotta vote for the Atari 5200 version of Gorf.

My favorite system of all time + My favorite game = CRAP

What a disappointment... :(

[Dr. Morbis]

Shaq-Fu for SNES, and Days of Thunder for NES. Why has nobody mentioned this game? Days of Thunder absolutely sucks.

[Ruudos]

Hmm..I kinda liked Days of Thunder. It's a real challenge to get past the first car. I haven't played Shaq Fu, but in my old game magazines it got good reviews, that always amazes me.

[sabre2922]

OK here goes:
Ive been playing vid games since the atari 2600 days, and the Worst game I have ever had the misfortune of experiencing is...
CYPERSPEED on the PSX , not many ppl even know about this coaster.
let me explain.
first off GAMEPLAY: hold One button down on the PS pad ( if forget wich) and your "ship" flies around a "track" on a rope! I swear its the truth. you dont have to touch the diagonal pad at all, thats it. there are supposed to be power-ups but nothing works, if u do use them you sure as hell wont hit anything but the wall.
Second GRAPHICS: A verrry poor mans wannabe Wipeout, absolutely horrid!
and lastly SOUND/MUSIC: ummm there is none! when u are racing there are a few effects but they sound like they are from a bad Genesis emulator.
most ppl dont know about this game , those are the lucky ones! let me put it this way , my friend couldnt give the game away and ended up using it as a coaster!

[sabre2922]

oops thats, CYBERSPEED, anyway the game sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[username]

I have to agree with E.T. for Atari 2600 being absolutely wretched


As for NES? King's Knight and Knight Rider

[TheSmirk]

Hey, I liked, and have beaten Super Pitfall several times. :)
{snip}
I can't believe no one has said Shaq Fu. Trash!

dave

My sympathies on the Super Pitfall to completion :D

Shaq-Fu! Why did you have to bring that mess up!?!? :shameful:

Some of my "worsts" include:

Transformers for NES/Famicom, near-insta-death
Yet again , Athena, one of the few times SNK has disappointed.
Legend of Kage, pretty pointless and mundane
Moon Cresta (I know that those who love it, LOVE IT, but I can't stand it)
Time Killers . . . sucks

[TheSmirk]

Hey, I liked, and have beaten Super Pitfall several times. :)
{snip}
I can't believe no one has said Shaq Fu. Trash!

dave

My sympathies on the Super Pitfall to completion :D

Shaq-Fu! Why did you have to bring that mess up!?!? :shameful:

Some of my "worsts" include:

Transformers for NES/Famicom, near-insta-death
Yet again , Athena, one of the few times SNK has disappointed.
Legend of Kage, pretty pointless and mundane
Moon Cresta (I know that those who love it, LOVE IT, but I can't stand it)
Time Killers . . . sucks

[suppafly]

Worst games ever:

XMEN for NES
Zoom for Genesis
Hunt for red october for SNES
Dragons Lair for NES
Waynes Workd for SNES
Pit fighter for SNES
Bubsy 3d for PSX

And one more vote for E.T. on 2600..that was really awful

[DarkSol]

Two letters: E.T.

Oh, and one word: Landfill.

[whoisKeel]

I vote for Star Voyager - NES. Just horrible.

i second that...i still cannot figure out this game. what's worse is that it was only the second or third game i ever oned so you know i played the hell out of it as a kid.

[Mark III]

-MUSCLE (NES)
-Captain Planet (NES) has anyone been able to get past the first level?
-Battle Monsters(Genesis)
-Pit Fighter(Game boy)
-Fist of the North Star(game boy, NES)
-Time Killers(Genesis) Arcade one sucked too
-Double Dragon 3(Arcade,Genesis,Game boy)
-Dungeon Master II(Sega CD)
-Power Moves(SNES)
-Bayou Billy(NES) why do people like this game?!!
-Punisher(Genesis) Arcade game was cool though
-Alien vs predator(SNES)

-Street combat (SNES) My vote for worst game ever hands down. You have to see this beast in action to truly appreciate how bad it is, good god.

[suppafly]

I think punisher for genesis wasnt as good as the arcade version, but i would never put it in a "WORST GAMES EVER" list....

[Neil Koch]

I like the Genesis Punisher... now, the Genesis version of Captain America and the Avengers IS a big stinky pile of dung.

[suppafly]

HEhe i hate to disagree too, but Captain America for Genesis was a good arcade translation! I loved the voices, the undersea levels and flyign levels!! It was cooL!!!!

[Mark III]

I still think Punisher for the Genesis was pretty damn bad. Someone took an awesome arcade game and beat it with a big sack of ugly.

[suppafly]

They DID down-size the graphics of the arcade game, but the game is by no means one of the worst games ever...

[death1024]

Godzilla on SNES gets my vote for worst game ever.

[suppafly]

What type of game was godzilla?

[death1024]

It was horid. You ploted out your course on a map then Godzilla would move. You did not actually control Godzilla in any other way. There would be some cut seens of the monster destroying buildings and getting attacked.
There was no actual interation other than the map.


IT SUCKED !!!!!!

[suppafly]

It sounds similar to the NEs version.....maybe the snes version was the same with updated graphics :o

[death1024]

I never saw the NES version. I think the terrible game play would be acceptable on NES. Maybe they just ported the NES version to SNES.

[Saturn Sensei]

Pulse Racer - Xbox - oh the horror. PSX-level graphics that still stutter like mad between 5 and 30fps. Worth the $9.99 though, just to see how bad games can get.

Gravity Games Bike has already been mentioned. How anyone could release this unplayable, unfinished piece of................ is beyond me.

Rise of the Robots: Truly awful. Basically a fighting game with 2 moves. I beat it first try, no continues, no lost rounds, on default difficulty(3DO). The Edge-reviewer apparently beat the Amiga version by jamming the joystick up-right with a rubber-band, and then activating auto-fire!!! X_x They described it as a "non-game".

Kabuki Warriors is another turd that I beat on the first try. No continues, no lost rounds. Truly awful.

[hu6800]

oh man,

Way of the warrior for the 3DO

most of the Atari Jag games

Battle Ace for the supergrafx

[slip81]

I already mentioned it in the "most frustraiting games" message boad, but it's so bad it bears mentioning twice, Rambo for NES has got to be by far the worst videogame i have ever encountered, and i used to play empire strikes back for atari 2600

[slip81]

I already mentioned it in the "most frustraiting games" message boad, but it's so bad it bears mentioning twice, Rambo for NES has got to be by far the worst videogame i have ever encountered, and i used to play empire strikes back for atari 2600

[Slipdeath]

the only game i absolutely hate is myst, o how i hate that game

[Slipdeath]

the only game i absolutely hate is myst, o how i hate that game

[Xskaterjake]

Beyblade:V-Force-Gamecubr

[dmhawkmoon]

This thread wouldn't be complete without mention of Shadow: War of Succession for the 3DO. The game is so horribly bad that it brought me to tears with laughter. In fact, it's so bad that it's amazingly good. It couldn't possibly be worse as far as making a competent game. It couldn't possibly be funnier, though. I highly recommend it to anyone. You won't believe your eyes. It's as if the people who made it were trying to sabotage the company. In fact, people even suggested that this was the case.

I made some videos of it for anyone who is curious.

[stayrunner]

kangaroo - arcade
3/4 of the atari 2600 games
98% of the Odyssey2 games

If I ever compiled a list it would be VERY long!!

[Stamp Mcfury]

My vote on it would be

ET: Atari 2600
Bart vs The Space Mutants: NES
Bayou Billy: NES
Home Improvement: Snes
Corpse Killer: Sega/32x/CD
Sewer Shark: Sega CD
Superman 64: N64

[ApolloBoy]

My vote on it would be

ET: Atari 2600
Bart vs The Space Mutants: NES
Bayou Billy: NES
Home Improvement: Snes
Corpse Killer: Sega/32x/CD
Sewer Shark: Sega CD
Superman 64: N64

Hey! I actually like the 1st 3 games on that list!

[NintendoMan]

For the SNES:
Ultraman
Bill Lambeer's Basketball

Someone put Jaws and Friday the 13th for the NES. Their not great games, but good ones!! TO me anyways :D

[ReaXan]

1.Tag Team Wrestling{NES}-Says on the Cover "Based on the Arcade hit",but this game sports 2600 type graphics and some of the worst controls ever and I cant see how this game was fun whatsoever"

2.Krusty Fun House{Nes}My aunt must have seen this on the bargain bin lot because it is in an embarrsement to a great show

3.Eternal Darkness{GameCube}-Some people love this game but I took my gamecube back to Walmart because this game let me with such a sour taste in my mouth

[Zubiac666]

3.Eternal Darkness{GameCube}-Some people love this game but I took my gamecube back to Walmart because this game let me with such a sour taste in my mouth

urgh!!
this one hurts really

back to topic:
Last week i got the "honor" to play "Back to the future 3" for genesis!
OMG...this must be the greatest piece of software crap ever done.
hell,even the nes-versions are better.
there's just NOTHING good. Not a single bit of it is worth to name it "game".

*runs to toilet"
:puke:

[Cmosfm]

Yeah, just read the entire thread. I have some agreements and disagreements.

1 - Eternal Darkness (GNC) - how the hell can anyone say this is a bad game! THis game ROCKS! What BUGS OH NO THERE COMING TO GET ME!!!! oh...only an illusion.

2. Cosmic Carnage (32X) - Not THAT bad of a game, I remember having some fun with it. So while not the worst...not the best either

3. Crash Bandicoot (PS2) - One of my favorite PS2 games! And I have about 150! This game was just simple, straightforward fun. I loved every minute of it.

4. Eve Of Extinction (PS2) - Also had fun with this...The weapons rocked and while semi repetive and short...it rocked all the way through. If you dont care that it's a mindless beat em up

5. Bubsy 3D (PS1) - Im sorry, everyone hates on this game, for an early PS1 game it's not that bad...well, it wasnt back when I played it. I remember having mad fun with this one.

6. Spongebob (GCN/PS2) - OMG! Someone KILL ME! THis game was HIGH on my want list back then...then I got it, and after trying so hard to like it I eventually realized that this game based on a cartoon that both kids and adults loved was only aimed at the kids. The retarded kids at that.

7. Pit Fighter (SNES) - Wheres the gameplay...theres nothing here, its worse than some of those old Tiger Handheld games. Id much rather be playing my old BOWLING handheld I got at Super 10 back when I was 5 than this crap.

8. Where's Waldo (NES) - I still have nightmares about this...The only game that ever made me cry. I got this game when I was about 8, and I played it for about 10 mins...burst into tears, and told mom that the game was terrible and I didnt want it. We then took it back to the rental store to get another....told em it was broken. It makes me sad to think that they made these games, and how many other kids cried once they played this horrendous piece of poop.

9. Wayne's World (SNES) - What the hell...this game is fucked up. Just play it and hold back the suicidal tendancies.

10. Back To The Future 3 (Genesis) - I'm a HUGE B.T.T.F. fan...and when I got this game I was thrilled. I cut it on, and layed back knowing Id be playing for hours. Then I got on the horse, and died, and died, and died, and died, and died, and died, and died, and died, and died, and died, and died, and died, and died....I eventually realized this must be a alternate future reality death simulator and then layed there for a while wallowing in self pity.

And we have my submission for the Worst Game....

Barney's Hide and Seek for Genesis

Now I know everyone is going to say...ITS A KIDS GAME, ITS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD!...hear me out. Your job is to find the kids, which means you will have to look all over for them...making it a relative challenge for the kiddies to play. But when you're looking for them...and there hidind behind a tree....HALF OF THERE BODY IS STICKING OUT! Only a kid with serious mental problems will have trouble finding the kid...but wait, theres more, while your brightly colored kid is standing there on screen "hiding" halfway behind the tree...digitized voice also calls out to you saying "HERE I AM!" or something else corny. Now...whens the last time you played hide and seek and the kid beind the tree TOLD you he was there? So next time you want to play Hide and Seek for ADD kids...put in Barney's Hide and Seed for Genesis

[Sand_monkey]

1. Low G Man (NES): This game is beyond crap, the graphics (even for the time) where VERY bad and the whole thing was unplayable because oh it's horrible controle system.

2. R-Type (C64): Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the R-Type games, it was one of the first shooter games I ever played next to 1945 on the NES. But it is the C64 tape version I hate just becuse when you loose all your lives you have to re-load the whole game! even if you're on the first level!

3. ODT (PSX): It's just another one of those god damn annoying 3rd person platformer games that the PSX seems to have so many of... bad story, graphics and controles make for a very bad game.

[esquire]

Any FMV game on either the Sega CD or Phillip's CD-i.

See: Sewer Shark, Who Shot Johnny Rock?, Inca, Laser Lords, etc.

[Sand_monkey]

Any FMV game on either the Sega CD or Phillip's CD-i.

See: Sewer Shark, Who Shot Johnny Rock?, Inca, Laser Lords, etc.


Ah come on dude you can't mean games like "Time Gal" Sure there annoying but you don't get them on anyother systems! There Unique... (Becuse some may argue there crap but that's not the point) :P

[link1110]

Xenosaga. I do NOT want to wander around a spaceship aimlessly for an hour because someone wants his dinner. Even worse, this was brought here instead of the incredible Tales of Destiny 2. Inexcusable.

[HaggarCodyGuy123]

The absolute worst game of all time is Kasumi Ninja for Atari Jaguar. What the hell were they thinking making that big pile of poop? Stupid voice with a fake Oriental accent, stupid characters, bland graphics, and zero playability.

[HaggarCodyGuy123]

The absolute worst game of all time is Kasumi Ninja for Atari Jaguar. What the hell were they thinking making that big pile of poop? Stupid voice with a fake Oriental accent, stupid characters, bland graphics, and zero playability.

[mojofltr]

(This is my first post on DP. Hiya! :P )

I don't think any of these have been mentioned:

Sneak 'n' Peak - Atari VCS
How lazy does one have to be to require a Hide 'n' Seek video game.

Sherlock Holmes - Sega CD
Possibly the most boring game to have possibly chosen to pack with a console. Oh the joy to have spent $250, only to come home to this pile along with a rehashed 'classic' compilation CD and some really poor music videos.

Tazmania - Genesis
Sure, the graphics are okay, but this is lacking everywhere else.

Dinowarz - NES
((yawn)) Oh the monotony. -_-

Contraforce - NES
What a letdown from the first 2 in the series. Interestingly enough, none of the games in the series have been all that great since.

Battletoads - SNES
Another major letdown from the original on the NES.

Platoon - NES
I've heard it mentioned that nearly every movie licensed video game is a pile of junk, and here is a good example to back that theory.

Any Home Alone, Bubsy, Boogerman or Simpsons game (excluding the arcade version). Any MTV or Nickelodeon licensed games.

95% of all GBC releases. and about 90% of all GBA releases. There are a few gems in the library, but I've found so many more in the monochrome gameboy library.

..

Before reading this thread, I didn't even realize that Home Improvement existed on the SNES!?! :hmm: Well, I suppose if they can make a game about dogfood, surely they can make a game about a sitcom. I can only imagine it playing like a Home Alone... bouncing through large houses with countless living room spaces and bouncing beds. Just for kicks, I'll look for the ROM later. LOL

..

Here are a few of the games that I am surprised to see mentioned:

Puzzle Fighter 2 - It's not my favorite, but it's certainly not that bad.

Congo Bongo - Maybe it's not as popular as Donkey Kong, but it's everywhere as fun. Actually, I find that Congo Bongo provides a slightly better challenge than Donkey Kong, which for me bumps it up a notch higher in replay value.

Kangaroo - This game is classic... how can you not like Kangaroo?!

[DDCecil]

Here are few more I remember now...

Castlevania Adventure (GB) - A HUGE embarrasment to the Castlevania series. So slow, its as slow as Sonic the Edgehog (A little inside family joke, don't ask)

Star Voyager and Destination: Earthstar (NES)

Prehistorik Man (GB) - I love the SNES one (It's the Citizen Kane of Caveman platformers who aren't named Bonk), but the GB is really shoddy.

Ironsword: W&W2 (NES) - I'm going to get slack for this one, but it isn't that good (W&W is still a better game), though the designs for the Animal Kings are great!

Oh yeah, I'm one of the only people on earth who likes Kasumi Ninja :D

I forgot to mention in my earlier post, but Ninja (PSX) is the only game I ever died with tears of laughter. It was just that bad...

[DigitalSpace]

Space Ace (SNES) What a piece of crap! At the beginning of this game, you have run around some cliff dodging this guy's shots. I couldn't last longer than 3 shots without getting hit. I tried this for 20 minutes. After that, I wound up going back to Gamestop, the exact same day I bought it, and exchanging it for Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (also SNES).

Where's Waldo (NES) Awful, awful, awful.

Alien Vs. Predator (SNES) Whoo hoo, another Final Fight rip off. It gets repetitive and easy halfway through the first level. The bosses have some difficulty, but everyone else you can kick into a corner and beat the living daylights out of them. I almost fell asleep playing this.

Simpsons Wrestling (PS1) Terrible. If not for Simpsons Skateboarding...

Simpsons Skateboarding (PS2) The worst Simpsons game ever. I'll spare you the Comic Book Guy's way of saying that.

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (SNES) Crappy fighting game.

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Eye Of The Beholder (SNES) Boring!

[8-Bit Master]

Dragon's Lair for the NES is a horrid piece of unplayable crap. The controls are some of the most sluggish I've ever seen.

Tag Team Wrestling and M.U.S.C.L.E. for the NES both suck butt too. Actually, almost all wrestling games on the NES suck.

Sonic Jam on the Tiger Game.com just might be the worst game of all time. The Game.com can't seem to handle any vertical or horizontal scrolling, so naturally a Sonic game was the worst possible choice for the system. Complete and utter trash.

[Gamereviewgod]

Contraforce - NES
What a letdown from the first 2 in the series. Interestingly enough, none of the games in the series have been all that great since.


Contra 3??? Hard Corps? Must've forgotten those. ;)

Anyway, I gotta throw in Total Recall and Rise o' the Robots. How in the hell ROTR actually got ported to like 9 consoles I'll never know.

[Gabriel]

Xenosaga. I do NOT want to wander around a spaceship aimlessly for an hour because someone wants his dinner. Even worse, this was brought here instead of the incredible Tales of Destiny 2. Inexcusable.

Uhm? Tales of Destiny II? Unless ToD has a messed up numbering scheme like Final Fantasy used to, I have a copy of Tales of Destiny II sitting right in front of me.

It's a Playstation 1 game, right? It was released in the U.S. sometime in late 2000. It's not even really rare or anything.

Now, if you're talking about the PS1 remake of Tales of Phantasia, then that's a different story.

[Gabriel]

The absolute worst turds of games I can think of are:

(2600) Swordquest = all of them
(NES) Taboo: The Sixth Sense

I honestly can't think of any that are worse than those. Most games have some kind of merit to them. Most games actually at least have some kind of gameplay to them. The ones I list don't.

You can at least play many of the games listed in this thread and enjoy them in some way. For example, (NES) Star Voyager is insanely bad, but at least some level of amusement can be gained from playing it. Not so with the Swordquest games or Taboo.

When you go to have your eyes examined, the optometrists now have you sit and look into something and press a button for when a light appears. Even that is more fun of a game than any of the Swordquest games or Taboo.

[Famidrive-16]

Where are NES Action 52, Master Chu and the Drunken Hu and Cheetahman 2 ???

Those smells worst than my garbage.

I include Wait and See! onto this.

[Balloon Fight]

Rolo to the Rescue (Genesis)
Bible Buffet (NES)
Jackpot (NES)

Those all have a rightful place in the dumpster.

[Famidrive-16]

Is that Rolo game with an elephant who rescues animals? Heh, thanks, I've been wondering that game's name for a while. But yes it sucked. I could NEVER find a way to get past that weight lifting guy as a kid.

[TNTPLUST]

Bop N Wrestle - C64

Just terrible

[drwily008]

I hated Solar Jet man, I just remember playing it for like 20 minutes when I rented it and shutting it off.

[Crush Crawfish]

Spyro: enter the Dragonfly (PS2)
Gunforce (SNES)
Silent Service (NES)
Deathbots (NES)
X-Men (NES)
Barbie (NES)

All these games are trash, and probably gave me cancer from playing them....

[ECWSandmanECW]

WCW Nitro (PSX)

[AB Positive]

the only game i absolutely hate is myst, o how i hate that game


Myst is CIVILIZATION!!!

*beats Slipdeath with a cardboard tube*

-AG

[Milk]

Hatris. Freakin' Hatris. How I loathe that game...thank goodness no one else remembers it, for truly the memories of Hatris are a heavy burden to bear.

It's Tetris. With hats. And without any of the play mechanics or fun. And with bad graphics. Oh, wait, I'm being unfair...it *does* have that whole "falling stuff must be arranged" thing in common with Tetris. Also, same creator. You know, alledgedly.

I was trying to get a screenshot of Hatris last night. I was not entirely surprised to find that I had deleted what was likely a mere 50 kb ROM.

[tom]

The Game Cube has some real duffers, but the worst has to be Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure.

Hugo on PSX is pretty bad.

Airlock, Forest, Strawberry Shortcake, Dragster, Jedi Arena, Reactor, Cosmic Commuter, Tormac the Babarian, plus many more on VCS

Any Football game on any system, any Baseball game on any system, any Basketball game on any system.


All those awful 80s C-64 UK made games from companies like Ocean, Elite, Domark, Hewson, UPTG, Grandslam, Martech.......

[charitycasegreg]

Ironsword for nes. Its disgusting. The control is terrible. Pus I played for 5 minutes and couldnt get past the beginning bridge.

[pookninja]

what about dark castle for sega genesis?that game was the worst!!i would rather play total recall for nes and china warrior for the turbo all day long before i would play dark castle again!!!!!!

[swlovinist]

Mythicon Games for the Atari 2600.........all were poop

Captain Novilin for the Snes......because a health food game is fun to play... LOL .

Fight for Life for the Jaguar......I love the into that isnt complete!!!

The worst game I can think of.......Extreme Sports with the Berstein Bears for the Game Boy Color...this is why

1.its supposed to be a kids game? Its crappy hard
2. Its got crappy controls....and the tracks are extra long.....
3. The graphics look like they could have been done on the Vic 20
4. Ok, you are the Berstein Bears, and you get to go.......try to control a bike with no control with the same background over and over and over....no thanks

I would rather as a child play with a bag of rocks then cry playing this pile of poop.

[chrisbid]

I saw only one mention of Taboo: The Sixth Sense. I had a friend that got that game as a gift from his mom, and needless to say, who the hell would spend 40 dollars on this?

i have not seen Mortal Kombat on the Sega CD mentioned yet. This game was highly anticipated, but when it came out there were NO improvements on the Genny version, and the load times were a joke. In the endurance matches, there was nearly a 20 second wait between opponents in the middle of the match. Same thing happened during the match with Goro.

another letdown was Strider Returns on the Genesis. The first one was a classic, and in the sequel, everything that was fun about the original was killed. The action was slooooooow, and the graphics and sound were dull. and the master kidnapped your girlfriend.... x_x

Donkey Kong on Intellivision - painful to play, literally

[PentiumMMX]

I can't beleve nobody said "Barney's Hide & Seek Game"! O_O

[13u1313a]

Any Football/Soccer Game Ever I Hate Them!!!! (All)
Britney Spears Dance Beat (??)
Wiz n' Liz (MD)
Universal Studios (NGC)
The Terminator (Various)
Jeapordy (N64)
Carmaggeddon (Various)

[Gapporin]

Space Harrier for Sega Master System. Don't get me wrong, I *loved* the arcade version, and I played the Game Boy Advance version, and it was pretty cool. But the SMS version was utter crap. The framerate was really slow, the graphics were blocky and chunky, and voice sampling using the SMS' hardware? Blech. You cannot pay me to play this game again.

Well, you can, but I won't like it.

[Darkness X]

Castlevania Adventure(Gameboy) What a pile of crap! This was the first Castlevania game I ever played, so it almost ended up making me avoid playing the whole series! But really, this game is just awful. Sluggish controls/player movement, Boring bosses, Only 3 stages! The only thing I liked about this game was the music for the first level.

OffWorld Interceptor Extreme(Saturn) Take Twisted Metal 2, then remove the free roaming gameplay, cool vehicles/weapons/levels, challenge, music and good controls. Then you have a pretty good idea of what this is like. All you do in the game is race straight forward(turning ever so slightly), fighting a tight timer and crappy enemy AI. Then you fight a huge boss, who just sits there and lets you blow him away... And I won't even mention the cut-scenes!

Cyberia(Saturn) I got it off Ebay for $1.80(shipping included) so I guess I shouldn't complain. It's just this game is a complete waste of time to play, the last few levels are fun, but by then I had already had enough of the crappy controls/stupid puzzles.

SuperMan 64(Nintendo 64) Do I really need to say anything about it?

[Neonsolid]

Gone.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Now now now why are we not just rippin the crap out of Action Max games.? Anyone who plays one of those will be guaranteed to cry for hours after words, and who said pot was the only way to get stoned. And Nes Action 52, and Cheetahmen II, A E programmed the corrupted rom into their carts with c II and the game is literally unfinishable, and they are just painful to look at. Those are undoubtedly the worst games of all time.

[Rogmeister]

tom wrote:


Any Football game on any system, any Baseball game on any system, any Basketball game on any system.

Wow, someone's not a sports fan! I don't care for basketball myself but I'm not about to say no basketball game has risen above mediocrity. Madden has always gotten great scores and I love MVP Baseball so I must totally disagree with this obviously biased opinion.

With that said, a few games I've always thought were quite poor:

Batman Forever (SNES)
Triple Play 2002 (XBox) which I got for $2...and wasn't worth it.
Bubsy 3D (PS1)
E.T. (2600)--Not the worst by any means but not good, either.
World Series Baseball 2K1 (Dreamcast)--Whose bright idea was it to not let players have control of the players during defense?

[max 330 mega]

squeeze box- atari 2600

god that was a horrible game!

[mediamachine]

688 attack sub (megadrive), i very nearly lost the will to live after playing that....

[Howie6925]

DESTRUCTION DERBY 2 - playstation

The physics in this game are horrible.

[Gamemaster_ca_2003]

I can't beleve nobody said "Barney's Hide & Seek Game"! O_O

Aggred one of the 3 worst Games of all time.

the other 2 are

Barney Magical Music Playset
Barney: On Location All Around Town

Other Crap Games
Big Rigs for the PC
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/bigrigsotrr/index.html
NES Dragon's Lair
The Mythcon 2600 Games
The Froggo 2600 Games
NES BTTF 2/3
PS1 MTV's Celiberty Deathmatch

Games I dissagree with
NES Pyramid (Good Fun Actually)
NES BTTF
Gennsis Hard Drivin
PS2 Xenosaga (A Very Popular Game)

[SlayerOfFurbies]

here is my personal hate list:

KAO the Kangaroo for Dreamcast
ALF for the SMS
Sports pad Football for the SMS
E.T. For Atari 2600
Buck Rogers for Colecovision
Yu-Gi-Oh for Gamecube
Diablo for PSX
DragonHeart: Fire and Steel PSX


That's about all the games i really hate... well the ones in my collection i guess 8 out of 545 isn't to bad. Funny thing, even though i hate them i'll never part with them because i'm a big believer that if some one doesn't hold on to the shitty title, people will forget what it takes to really make a asshat of a game! :D

[GamerNerd]

Worst games of all-time? Here's my list.

Donkey Konga (Gamecube)
Britney's Dance Beat (PS2)
DDR series (PS2)
Shaq Fu (Super NES)
American Idol (PS2, XBox, Game Boy Advanced)
Casino Mogul (PC)
Daytrader (PC)

The 4 I mentioned are NOT videogames. Young kids think that they are videogames, but they're not.

[GamerNerd]

Worst games of all-time? Here's my list.

Donkey Konga (Gamecube)
Britney's Dance Beat (PS2)
DDR series (PS2)
Shaq Fu (Super NES)
American Idol (PS2, XBox, Game Boy Advanced)
Casino Mogul (PC)
Daytrader (PC)

The 4 I mentioned are NOT videogames. Young kids think that they are videogames, but they're not.

[SSJ3]

My veiw on bad games are games that are shows/movies to games and games that have a bad title and no plot. That pretty much summarizes an essay I would've wrote. 8-)