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Top Ten Shameful Games
Ant writes "Not necessarily the worst, but the most wrong -- here are 10 of the most seriously flawed titles of all time according to GameSpy."
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I know it's new years, so people are apt to make lists and such. But why all the "worst games" lists? I know I've seen 3 or 4 in the past week.
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I've played this game more than and other I can think of.. and I'm pretty gamn ashamed of this.. :)
This has already been done here.
The two lists seem to be very similar...
I still haven't found the "any" key.
They didn't mention the "Lunar Lander" game on a HP-65 pocket calculator??? There was a lame game if there ever was one...
...i've only played one or two from the list, this sense of the past is anything but nostalgic
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... otherwise they'd be the number one most shameful game. Taking bets at which community they will buy out and kill next.
Hate me!
You need to be logged in to troll. Oh, and the "Columbine/Quake" thing has been done to death. But hey, thanks for playing!
Daikatana
Quintus malus puer est.
Why? Because Diakatana isn't #1.
You can tell its the xmas / new year break as 'news' becomes 'reporters top ten ...'
There must be *something* going on somewhere?
Wow, you just listed my top shelf. Cool!
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50% of the games which have been created for PC
Something Awful has:
Game reviews
and
The ROM Pit
Don't say I didn't warn you.
It was Donkey Kong for the Intellivision. Yeah, I'm sure it was worse than the other versions, but hey, I didn't know any better. I played the hell out of that thing. Play control was fine enough for me.
As for Action 52, as the story hints at, there is a pretty funny and interesting story that goes along with the game. Here's a link to the Something Awful Rompit Review of Action 52, and go here
for the Gamefaqs.com reviews page for Action 52. I've rarely laughed as hard as I did reading this stuff.
On a side-note, if you are at all into video games, browsing Gamefaqs for the reviews of really bad games can be a laugh riot sometimes. There are a few people who seem to make it their mission to completely eviscerate the worst offenders of the old cartridge console games. Some of the crappy PSX games get some hilarious reviews, too. For when you've got some surfing time, at least.
Damn ACs
Here's my list, borrowed from Something Awful: http://www.somethingawful.com/hentai/.
Hey! is that a picture of your girlfriend?
They should have called this article "Top Ten Shameful Games on Consoles No One Under 20 Has Ever Heard Of".
Any shameful game list just HAS to include the disaster called Outpost that was released for the PC in the early 90's. It had a great guide (sold separately) that made the game look great. Too bad most of those features didn't actually make it into the game. What a stinker.
One of the alltime worst.
...The Game Of Life.
Shoutouts to Dirty Frenchie (ka*e) and Music Pirate (ol***o)
Atari 2600? NES? Coleco? Seems like most of these games are ancient by industry standards. I think that it's kind of beating a dead horse. The industry was in it's infancy, people really were still defining what a video game was - of course there would be some spectacular duds. Goes with the territory.
What about recent titles that were 'shameful'? Would someone from Jerry Falwell's congregation like to chime in?
This list is simply hillarious. For the worst of the worst games (i.e. Custer's Revenge) I was thinking that the screenshot shows a cowboy shooting to the left an Indian to the right. But... the explanation is about pr0n. LOL....
Go straight to this game's explanation.
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Tutankhamun for ZX Spectrum
This post should be made into a game. Then we can *all* complain about how crappy it is.
If I submit my geek snowboarding game with Tux and Ellen Feiss to one of these "shame" lists, will it get /.ed?
/." level will it get even more traffic!?
If I replace the ENIAC boss with a "beat the living hell out of whoever submits top 10 lists to
If I make my own top 10 list, will it get on slashdot? Will anyone bother to RTFA?
Too bad that TRS-80 dungeon game that tried to be realtime but couldn't keep up with my typing as a 10 year old isn't on the list. These lists are made to "suck up" to the average reader, not the average supergeek.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
9. Mutant League Hockey: following the glorious Mutant League Football.
8. DreamWeb (the first R18 game?). Birds eye view shooting, sex, and gameplay.
7. Second Samarai. Boringly competant.
6. Snaparazzi (game sponsored by a newspaper)
5. Microcosm by Psygnosis.
4. Humans (lemmings ripoff)
3. Epic by Ocean
2. James Pond/Robocod's Aquatic Games
1. Dangerous Streets CD32 edition.
In modern games, I would class Tribes 2 as one of the most shamefull game. Its my favorite game and I play it often, but it is shamefull because it crashes so often (Unexecpected Exception occur too often). Sierra released many patches, but did not seam to have been able to correct the problem...
Great game, great design, bad implementation. Any other games out which crash often?
Remember the year 2000? They promised us flying cars. They delivered the PT Cruiser...
Does anyone remember this digital trainwreck? Your character is 2 pixels worth of ghostbusting hero and the climax of the game involves you repeatedly pressing a "climb" button to go up 30+ floors to the top of a building to fight StayPuff Marshellow Man. I actually beat the game once, and the win screen was a simple typed message thanking you for playing "this truly awesome game!!!"
After playing this piece of shit I no longer wanted my eyes.
This article skirted entirely over the world of PCs.. so post your 'worst PC game' nomination below, and make the subject the name of the game. I'd just love to see what people think sucks. I can imagine that Daikatana will be a popular choice.
My nomination is Street Fighter 2 from the early 90s. SF2 was excellent on the arcades and good on the SNES, but the PC port was dire. It was unresponsive, the graphics blew, and it was riddled with bugs. I also nominate any of those 'ultra realistic graphics, but extremely crappy physics/gameplay/sound/handling' driving games of the mid 90s too.
(P.S. That Custer's Revenge game is hilarious.)
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Does anyone really care what Gamespy thinks? I can't help but laugh when I see these articles. Their website has become nothing more than a playground for hive-minded children looking to find this weeks new "cool" words and get fed advertisement driven "content" on the game industry. Their webmasters have a collective gaming experience on par with what you could find at and local Wal-Mart's nintendo kiosks. Check the insightful gameplay guides/tips of any planet site. PlanetQuake and PlanetWarcraft are prime examples; they're both full of laughable advice.
Furthermore, their bullying and underhanded tactics towards the entire industry is damaging everyone (try to use a game finding tool other than Gamespy -- the alternatives don't support as many games, thanks to "exclusive content"). Their entire site, as defined by virtually every hardcore gamer I know, is a complete joke. There are many interesting websites out there dealing with games. Please quit linking to the worst one.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
Many of their lists, while nostalgic, is always the "Top 10 Games Released Before the Invention of the Light Bulb".
There's plenty of miserable games in recent years - Daikatana, anyone?
In related news. A new Duke Nukem game has been announced: Duke Nukem: Screw Fest. Because of the violence of first person shooters, Duke is now using his pecker to screw beautiful women instead of blowing off alien heads with some major kick @$$ weaponry. But Duke better watch out for the life sapping homo aliens that want to butt fsck Duke. Rating pending as no main stream video game has every been rated XXX. This game is intended for adults only but the only people who will buy it are 12-14 year olds and Trekkies who need to get laid.
How about Code Name Viper? This game was absolutely unplayable, due to difficulty. Imagine Contra, except every time you get shot, you have to start the level over. And you can't do the trick with 30 lives.
I could never even get past the first few screens, and i'm pretty good at stuff. Even after i used the Game Genie to become invincible, it was still an extremely difficult game.
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Are we going to have a new story every time Gamespy comes out with a new top 10 list? They have one every week. Let's give it a rest.
I thought this article was going to be about shameful "names" of video games. That's what the description led me to believe. I immediately thought of "Pucman". "Pucman" was "Pacman"s original title. Some clever American exec's figured out that it would be too easy for vandal's to scribble out part of the "P" for hilarious results. That would'a been the most shameful video game title of all time.
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Every kid I knew in the 7th and 8th grade was excited about the prospect of playing Pac Man at home. No more trips to the arcade. No more standing in line. No more scrounging for quarters. Everything was going to be right with the world.
On the day of the game's release, there were lines at the electronics stores, lines at Sears, lines at K-Mart, lines everywhere that sold 2600 stuff. Some places had given out lottery bracelets (like they do at ticketmasters). But there were lines anyway. All these people were waiting to bring the magic of Pac Man home with them.
Then the game came home. What a horrible, horrible dissapointment it was. Ugh. I think that was the beginning of the end for Atari. They pissed off a lot of kids (and parents) with that piece of crap.
This was also about the time that the TRaSh 80 was out, along with the Commodore and Vic machines (I think). Anyway, some of us started getting interested in computer based games after the Pac man debacle. Shortly after that, a number of us left our 2600's behind for the promise of real computers.
Personally, I haven't had a new game console since the 2600. Not because of the Pac Man mess though. I don't see the point of having a dedicated, fixed hardware game platform. A PC does so much more, and the games are generally better than those available on a console.
Huh?
This guy is obviously a troll... GTA 3? Warcraft 3? Quake 3? geeze! Somebody mod him down.
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
It was this Robotech type FPS for PSX, where you play the role of Ivan. All I remember are barren hills with occasional enemies. What makes Ivan so crazy, you ask? Well, every now and then, he (you) goes "crazy," and all the controls are reversed!
If you enjoy reading the opinions of a(n) homophobic teenager with tourette's, then the link you posted is worthy of consideration.
Also, just going over the list I only noticed 3 games that are the same. I'm not sure how that makes them very similar?
I am not trying to flame here, but I used to work for a video game publisher, European produced games were the buggiest POS's ever. This is not because the programmers sucked, but rather the will put any game on to the shelf without the most cursory QA.
I asked the QA lead for one such title how long it would be for release, because the game looked pretty cool and I wanted to play it. He told me 4 months, it took 6 months before the game was bug free enough to release. This is after it had been on the shelf in the UK.
Of course Sony Europe is not much better. Sony USA will not let you release any PS2 title unless you are a Squaresoft, EA, or your new game is better than the previous best game out there. We had a great racing title finnished (4 months after Sony Europe had approved it with it's myriad of bugs) and Sony USA wold not let us publish it because it was not as good as GT3. All was not lost however Microsoft will let anything out for XBox.
Actually, the same could be said about you.
Quake. In 1996, very few people could afford the pentium required to play this game. Yet ID software insisted on releasing a game with what was then ABSURDLY high requirements. I remember I bought a 486 in 1995 and was dumbfounded when a year later games were being released that couldn't run on it.
Duke Nukem 3d, on the other hand, ran great on my 486, and I played it instead of that badly programmed mess called quake (don't get me started on the music either!)
Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater! God bless the USA!
Oh yeah.
And he even threw in a microsoft program.
You know. slashdot. crap. microsoft. get it?
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if you want to troll, at least put some effort in it.
I have my doubts that Custer's Revenge was the "worst" game by the standards of the time. There have been a LOT of bad games out there. But it is certainly not PC, I'll grant you that.
The list was interesting.
Though I am wondering why they could not have a special mention slot for "Extreme PaintBrawl". The damn thing just didn't work, the printed cover was pretty though.
I had a Apple II version of that Pitfall game, it was called "Montazuma's Revenge" but the graphics were the same. We loved the levels and my dad thought the title was just hilarious. (Slang term for having "the runs".)
I would much rather have played an impossible to win Impossible Mission than the hours I suffered trying to make sense of ET.
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I gotta nominate Frank Herbert's Dune the most shameful modern PC "game". Looking at the packaging, it seemed to have cool features, and the system requirements made it seem like it was gonna have all the eye candy I could ask for, but it really sucked. It sucked so bad I uninstalled it faster than you could click the "Do not run MSN Messenger on startup" checkbox.
And this game continues to suck even today as it collects dust on the shelf (takes valuable space). I can't return it for a refund, which sucks, and even if I throw it away, the CD-Rom probably won't be recycled, which sucks, too.
I guess I could sel it on ebay...
The problem is, some of the most shameful and horrible games ever made were never released widely, much less heard of by the unwashed masses. In the days when shareware was common and copying was the best available method of distribution, and when programming was a hobby and not strictly a profession for most gamemakers, countless horrors and abominations were spawned which have since been deleted and/or forgotten completely, save for in that special, wonderful, (actually is) floppy disk which they no longer have a drive to read it with underneath the creator's paper stack somewhere near his computer, which he stares at nostalgically when he's depressed. That is where the real shameful games come in.
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game ever thought up.
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Quake.
I shudder to even think about it. . .
If the game's called Impossible Mission, it better damn well be impossible! It's like the gag game of pong I made a few years ago and sent to my relitives. The computer ALWAYS can move faster than the ball, and it accelerates, so it seems like you can beat it, but it's rigged so you can't. I thought it was funny.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
Enough said.
That is all.
Really, just because a game sucked or was a bad idea didn't make it flawed. Now, the Elder Scrolls games (not the most recent one, it was only slightly buggy, and then only in the "usual" ways) were *seriously* flawed. I decided not to buy ES2 when I fired up the Elder Scrolls II demo, and immediately fell through the floor into a dark place where I could not move.
Custer's Revenge might have been a very bad idea, but it played exactly how its creators intended.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Did DoD let the computer keep swinging at your over and over while the letters you typed 30 seconds ago appear one by one on the screen?
k
(several animations of you getting hit)
ki
(several animations of you getting hit)
kil
(several animations of you getting hit)
kill
(several animations of you getting hit)
you swing (several animations of you getting hit)
you miss
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
They forgot Water Closet.
I'm sorry but, E.T. for the Atari 2600 was the bomb!
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein
What about Dune Nukem Fo.... Er... Nevermind.
Maybe I'm blind or not able to read simple English, but why are they just old cartridge games? There should have been at least one or two console games. Some C64 games. Definatly Daknakati [sp?] for the PC in there. Hell, you could fill a whole room with the crappy PC titles that have been put together. James Bond Nightfire for recent example...
gameplay consisted mainly of E.T. falling into an endless series of pits, and the game was much too frustrating for the young kids for whom it was intended
Really, this game wasn't so bad! Honestly, this isn't sarcasm here. I actually enjoyed this game. With Difficulty setting B it was bastardly hard to grab all 3 pieces, find the call zone and get the hell outta there before the FBI showed up.
So exactly what's so hard about looking inside every hole for a piece of the puzzle?
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
Quake 2
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UnrealTournament 2003
*Ducks*
...list without those 6 famous words...
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My god, what a piece of shit that game was...
Should have been named Outhouse. twas pure shite.
The Donkey Kong and Pacman games weren't flawed in any meaningful sense of the word, they just weren't precise clones of the arcade originals. What in God's name was the reviewer expecting? Does he think that the 2600 and Intellivision had some secret chip that the developers could invoke when the world was in peril from dodgy arcade conversions? Considering the disparity between arcade and console hardware, I thought both titles were "good enough".
Seanbaby.com - EGM's Crapstravaganza: The 20 Worst Games of All Time He has a few of the same titles (ET, Superman 64, and Custer's revenge), and, in my opinion, has much funnier reviews. I really enjoyed it, this is just for if anybody else cares for a second list like this.
What's he on?!?!??!
Pacman was a good game on the 2600!!!
I used to spend hours playing it...
Okay, maybe this isn't the worst, but it's certainly one of the worst: Sim Box Stacker, also known as Trespasser.
Trespasser involved hours of tedius box stacking, where the boxes were coated with some sort of virtual slimy substance that caused them to slide off of each other and drop to the ground at the slightest nudging. One had to be extremely careful to avoid getting too close to a box, or it would slide down next to you and become embedded in your own body. You would then be forced to trudge around dragging a huge heavy box that had somehow become molded into your hip, or if you turned around to face it and looked down, blended into your giant breasts.
The protagonist of Sim Box Stacker was Giant Breast Girl. Giant Breast Girl had only one arm, a robotic contraption with weak rubber bands controlling the motion and the inability to hang on to things like guns when walking through doors. A typical combat scenario would go something like this:
After two hours of stacking boxes to form yet another set of steps needed to get over the three-foot-high fence, Giant Breast Girl sees a dinosaur. She selects a rifle and grasps it with her flimsy gripping tool, but the end of the rifle catches on the edge of a box and is knocked out of her grasp. The dinosaur edges closer. Giant Breast Girl picks up the rifle and it waves about like a bowling ball on the end of a bamboo pole, eventually comimg to rest aimed in the general direction of the dinosaur. The dinosaur is four feet away by this time. Giant Breast Girl attempts to fire the weapon, and Trespasser's innovative physics engine applies three pounds of trigger force to the weapon, causing it to push backward out of Giant Breast Girl's grip and lodging in her body. Giant Breast Girl now has a rifle butt sticking out of her back and so on and so forth...
The game was the subject of much hearty and satisfying derision on my part, so I kinda liked it. On a truly positive note however, it raised the bar on rendering outdoor landscapes. One of its levels that involved climbing a mountain did a better job of conveying a sense of dizzying height and certain doom if one slipped than any game I've seen since.
I noticed that the NES version of Super Pitfall is on the list way up at number two. Yet a worse version exists, sadly....
And that would be the version that was released for the Tandy Color Computer 3. I never played the NES version but I do own still the CoCo version. I imagine it has all the bad gameplay of the NES version. But I can't imagine the NES version playing as sluggishly as the CoCo version. I mean this game runs slooooooooooow.
(I liked 2600 PacMan)
Games produced in Europe have about the same violence as American games. One example: Serious Sam - it has *MORE* violence than the average shooter.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
What no Zero Wing?
Take off
Ahh. so that's why I couldn't find it online. This review of PacLand has some screenshots. Thanks!
Level 1
Tux roams around collecting mp3 tokens...
If he finds 100 he gets to fight the Uber beast...
Hillary Rosenburger!!!!!!111!!!
Level 2
Tux roams around around collecting Red Hats...
Eventually, when he gets uh... I dunno... 100 ?
He gets to RPG Bill Gates... and then collect 50 more cos it's not over yet... and kills that fat monkey bloke.
Level 3
Tux collects leftover Windows licenses... say 200 ? and then gets to nuke the crap out of the Israelis "occupying" the Palestinians.
Level 4
Tux collects "secure tokens"... say 100... and gets to kill the uber-beast Dubya
*applause* Thanks folks *applause*
My dad brought me back Pac-man for the 2600 when he went on a business trip back in the 80's.
I admit I was a bit disappointed because it didn't look exactly like the arcade game, but you know what? I still liked that game a lot. I was like 10, but even then I knew that the 2600 wasn't supposed to be exactly like the arcade, and it was good enough for me. I mean, come on... I played games like Combat and Starship, and that was fun enough back then. There are plenty of other games that were much worse than that.
ET (as was mentioned) and Raiders of the Lost Ark was much much worse.
The worse game of all time: Swordquest Earthworld. From the advertisements in the comic books, it looked awesome! The graphics looked great. Only, once I got it, I had no friggin' idea of how to play the game. The original cartridge came with a comic book that was more interesting than the game.
I never figured out what the point of the game was, and it was so annoying. Being a kid, I kept trying to figure it out, burning hours and hours on that thing. Once, only once did I ever get to level 2, and I had no idea what I did to get to level 2. It sure as hell wasn't from completing all those "tasks" in those rooms.
Plus, how can anyone leave Trespasser off the list of worst gaming travesties? Not only was the game monumentally awful, but it was also accompanied by such stomach churningly over-the-top hype from Seamus "Media Whore" Blackley, that the resulting derision meant that he later felt compelled to 'redeem' himself by attempting to take credit for the Xbox.
But to answer your question, yes.
My friends and I used to joke around that it was a Bonker (remember Bonkers candy? "Bonker's Bonks you Out!" was kind of like that, two concentric candy flavors).
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I can't believe they didn't include any slot machine "simulators." In a real casino, the only joy you get from slot machines is the chance to actually win money. Yet the computerized version gets rid of that, so you are stuck hitting the "spin reels" button over and over again, while occassionally "winning" credits. What a pointless waste of time!
I found this article the dumbest thing ever written to create web content. The people who came up with the article should be beaten with canes. Sure the games they complained about were bad, but damn their arguments for the thing sounded like they came from a 13 year old. By placing a controller into the list of worst games made any merit to the article null and void. I believe that I am now a dumber human being by reading this.
As a proud Canadian, hockey fan and resident of Wayne Gretzky's hometown Brantford (no, I'm not missing my front teeth and I don't have a mullet hairstyle ), I'd like to suggest Wayne Gretzky Hockey as the most shoddy and shameful excuse of a game my eyes have ever laid witness to. To think "The Great One" would knowingly endorse such a piece of crap boggles the mind.
Try it for yourself if you dare. It's utterly pathetic.
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There were too many unknown weirdness factors with this game that luckily I didn't spend TOO much time with it...
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It was alright. Not the best game ever, but decent. The biggest flaw of the game for me was that after your colony got big and stable turns took forever to process.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
SA also has reviews of some hentai games, and they are truly awful. This (part 2 here - if you dare) is a low point in "erotic" gaming, I think. I dare not think what perverted minds created this piece of crap.
If anybody wants it, somebody on Ebay has it...e gory=21180&item=1948364576
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They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
A thinly veiled rape fantasy, funded by a porn company? What a great idea! Why aren't there more porn games out there, anyway. If there are, can someone link to a demo, or something? I think I'm going to write an update of custer's revenge, called... Custer's Revenge 3D! THERE SHOULD BE MORE PORN GAMES!
If you're going to pick failures, pick interesting failures from some time in the last 10 years, please.
Well, anyone remember some of Microsoft's first games for the PC, and how much they actually did suck? I can only remember Microsoft Basketball as one example...can anyone else remember any more?
mmmmmmm.......poop!
Thes rest, as they say, is history...
Want to own Custar's Revenge?
It's a parody.....
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
It was an action/puzzle game. The premise was that it would come in 4 installments and *real* prizes would be awarded to those who finished it first--I only recall playing two but I distinctly remember earth, fire, and water...hmmmm...I enjoyed them, anyway.
Hey, does anyone have a walkthrough for Swordquest: Earthworld? Basically you had to experiment by carrying different items into different coloured rooms and hope you stumbled onto the right combination (there were about 100,000 possible combinations IIRC). Thinking back to that game, it would be cool to finally finish it almost 20 years later - the most clues I ever found was 2 out of (I believe) 12.
Yes this was a brutal game, but I kind of liked the challenege that was like Frogger where you had to jump on logs to get to the top of the screen
From hell's heart I fstab at /dev/hdc
I never managed to install this game (not cracked, the original CD) on any of my PCs (3 so far), and I have heard of people running it who told me it was the buggiest thing ever done, though the game was (supposed to be) really nice.
Ultima IX really ought to figure on the list.
theefer
The seanbaby.com list is absolutely hilarious! This guy has a pretty good talent for writing and it's definitely a good read!
Is it just me or do others hear old Defender (arcade) and Pacman(VCS/2600) sounds in many TV shows and movies these days? I remember Superman III (or was it II?) there was a scene with a computer 'simulation' of Superman flying around and they were playing the damn Pacman (2600) sounds as sound effects! A multimillion $$$ movie! I notice these all the time, most recently on Coronation Street earlier this year - David Platt playing some NES-style console (I think that's what the controllers were) with arcade Defender sound effects. Maybe these sounds are 'public domain' now?
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Actually, they've started making Bonkers again. It's not nearly as good as I remember, though. ;)
I think called Jungle Lad where he gets captured by 8 bit block jungle natives who are, to give no offence to anyone, GREEN.
I remember thinking 'He's been captured by the Booger Tribe..."
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
I swear I've seen this same freakin' recycled article 10 times on Gamespy before. God, I hate Gamespy.
Populous 1 and 2 were great, especially in multiplayer (it was still in the null-modem time), but then Populous 3 was released. It was in 3D, but some games just don't work that way. Nowadays, game companies seem to be ashamed to release a 2D game!
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Star Control 3 was so awful, and such a let-down from the highly-rated, universally-loved Star Control 2, that it's been reverse engineered and ported to Linux, and a similar open source project exists in Highlander-like fashion to forget that 3 ever existed, by making Star Control: TimeWarp http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/timewarp/
A dumb side scroller I got when I was like 15. You can see it here. I played all the way to level 47 and then spent 4 hours and finally a pad of paper and notes to verify that the level just continually looped you around. Remember this is before the internet and cheat codes..
;P Doing a search now it seems there was a secret exit somewhere! This would of made some sort of sense if at any other part of the game there had been any sort of tricks or hidden areas
For some reason at the time I was fixated on 'finishing' this game since there was no save and I had been 'in the zone' to get that far and was unkillable.
Finally I just gave up and decided the programmers didn't want to finish it
It's not just offensive, it's unplayably bad.
The entire gameplay is on that one screen, moving toward the woman while dodging arrows. The arrows fall in a random, unpredictable, unlearnable pattern. They often appear in volleys that cover too much area for it to be possible to avoid them.
All in all, the perfect choice for the worst game ever.
Atari 2600 was soooooo cooooool way back when...
My first computer games were "snafu" and "dungeons and dragons" on the Aquarius. (sold at Sears... that's where my parents bought it anyway)
Ahhhh Yeahhh... nothing like a z80 running your favorite games!
Atari 2600 took me from 4 colors to like 8 or something.... woooohoooo
LOL!
You're all rookies!!!
Rook Rook Roooookiieeeee!!!
Breakthru. Seriously sucks. Play it and see.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
...to put out an article like this.
Save the World! Use a Quote!
This might be off topic, but man, spyhunter was the coolest game ever. It had sucky graphics, but damn was it so much fun.
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Anybody remember F-15 Strike Eagle for the Atari 800 series? Not only did it have an embarrasingly slow frame-rate, but you could land your plane upside-down!
I swear I've played this game. If I remember correctly you'd just walk around with stuff, and several rooms had different tasts. Like frogger. I can still hear the sound of the room with the trippy growing wall. You had to get through a moving hole in a wall, only to have a faster wall to get through next. That wooshing sound drove me nuts
Some 2600 Roms have been hacked by people who I suppose wanted to expunge some bad memories. Ms. Pacman for the 2600 wasn't at all bad and somebody hacked it into a fairly arcade-faithful Pacman. Since Ms. Pacman was decent to start with, the hacker limited it to one maze that is a good approximation of arcade Pacman's maze. The prizes were fixed in place below the ghosthouse and edited to match arcade Pacman's prizes. Go to Atari Age and check it out.
Several credible jobs were done on reforming space invaders. There is no reason why 2600 Space Invaders couldn't have been more accurate as this proves.
Oh well, anyone who played games in the early eighties knew that crap was rushed out the door. Most of us bought it anyway. Me too. Suckers....
I had played a little bit of Section Z at a friend's house and enjoyed it. So I got a game that looked similar to it called Abadox.
Now I have both the games and honestly Abadox is so much better. I'm not sure which came out first but it seems like Section Z was a bad copy of Abadox and they just left out the story and fun bosses.
"This still stands as probably the grossest misuse of the word "Super" in the history of the English language."
Hello?
Haven't you tried the wonderful flipper that was bundled with Windows 95? Space Cadet, a game devoid of all similarities compared to a regular pinball game.
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That tank game was great. The variation in levels, the obstacles... I particularly dug bouncing tank shells off the walls.
However, I have to say the funniest thing was when you could occasionally take advantage of a game bug, and teleport yourself to the opposite side of the screen. This was accomplished by running your tank into a wall or corner enough that the game got confused, and "wrapped" you to the opposite corner or wall.
My brother never mastered that trick, which I often used to great effect against him. Yeah, it was a cheat/hack... but when you're a kid in my house, winning was way more important than playing fair.
And honestly, it's not that winning was so freaking important... it's that losing was so incredibly painful. Really... having to hear your brother brag about it and rub your nose in it for days and days... Yeah, OK... so I'm a cheating rat... At least I didn't stuff it in his face when I won.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
Not a PC game on there but surely there have been some real foul ones released on the PC. Outpost sucked up almost a week of my time in a search for something that resembled fun. I finally gave up and suckered someone into buying it from me. Diakatana - I borrowed this from the sucker that bought Outpost. It should have been renamed 'Slap your head as your computer allies go get killed again'
Is that what it was??? I had no idea. I WISH THEY EXPLAINED THAT IN THE MANUAL 20 YEARS AGO!!!!
All I know is that when you first started the game, if you went down two rooms, you would gain a level. The rest was just stupid walking around and doing all those stupid challenges, the frogger one, the walls, the "horns of taurus" or something like that. I remember something about if you had a cloak or something you could walk through those horns, and you needed to get a light or lantern otherwise you couldn't see anything.
What a horrible, horrible game!
I agree that most of them are old, but I can't figure out for the life of me why he picked one random Nintendo 64 game. Granted I didn't play it, but it seemed a little odd in terms of balance.
I like the All-Seeing Eye too, and use it quite frequently. But it doesn't support all the games Gamespy does. And it takes time to support newer games, where Gamespy and their "parteners" get a jump on it. Electronic Arts is now going to use Gamespy for their games. Press release here: http://www.gamespyindustries.com/press/releases/20 02-november-eamla.shtml.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Gamespy end up being the only way to play EA games in the near future. The All-Seeing Eye developers have managed to keep up this far with most of the big-name titles, but with their program growing in popularity I think this is a recognition of a threat.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
I know no one will probably believe this, but I actually finished this game not once, but many times. I found all puzzle pieces and put them together, made the secret word which was usually a vegetable like "apricot", and went and opened the big door. Then the games ends with the crazy dude looking at you saying "No, No, No!!" So the game is not Impossible. Not only did I finish the game when I was a kid, but I finished it about a year ago again when I downloaded an emulator for my PC.
FWIW, I think the worst game I ever played was Stroker.
Original Battlezone, nothing but green lines of polygons. Great game.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
One of the worst travesties of the Atari 2600 Pac-Man is that it turned the monsters into ghosts!
;-)
The enemies in the original Pac-Man are monsters... but they flickered so much in the Atari 2600 version that Atari decided to call them 'ghosts' instead. And then the Pac-Man cartoon TV show decided to call them ghost-monsters, and so the pathetic 2600 cartridge caused an entire generation to be confused about exactly what's chasing poor Pac.
They didn't mention Frogger and Flight Simulator for the Timex/Sinclair 1000 / Sinclair ZX81! Unngh! Man oh man did I hate loading in those games from cassette, hoping the input level wasn't too low or too high, otherwise I wasted 15 minutes attempting to load the programs. Then there was that aweful monocolor BLACK and WHITE ONLY graphics, the membrane keyboard that was SMALLER than my hand, the 4 Megehurts Zilog Z80A. And you couldn't pound on the keyboard too hard during game play, you'd dislodge the 16K RAM Pack from the back expansion port, killing your game, and wasting another 15 minutes loading it back in from cassette. Ah...the good'ol glory days of computing I will tell to my grandchildren.
I don't know, I guess I buy in to the hype and buy the known winner (GTA3, VC, MGS2, FFX, etc) instead of taking the shot on that Mosquito game or some of the other lesser known titles. I know there are really crappy games being made right now. List those so I can avoid them.
Why isn't there more sex in video games? You would think that by now you might have some sex in the games, get through all of the levels and you get to fuck the beautiful maiden, lose and you get dragged into a corner and sodomized by the sore-encrusted, leprous penises of zombie orcs. But as far as I can tell the only game with a hint of sex is GTA III. Come on, we have violence, all we need now is sex.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
It was particularly sad that the game was so awful since they had "promised" that there would be more Swordquest "action" to be had. By the time I put that game away for the last time, I was praying they wouldn't release another...mainly because I would probably have still gotten it and tried to enjoy it. I was such a sucker.
In Soviet Russia, Pac Man thinks YOU suck.
Huh?
"I scoured the Internet to see which title most frequently appeared next to the phrase "worst game ever."
So these aren't actually Gamespy's top ten worst games, they're everybody elses based on a search engine hit. A lot of thought went into this one, yep uh-huh.
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Street Fighter: The Movie.
A game based on a movie based on a game. It blows my mind. It is funnier because it was a good game they made into a BAD movie, which was then made into a BAD game. No controls, crappy character animation. By god.....
But why all the "worst games" lists?
The usual hype. But I was surprised by the lack of one hugely important game:
Hunt the Wumpus.
Hunt the Wumpus was apparently an old Unix text-based RPG, which Texas Instruments brought to life on their under-rated but massively overbuilt TI-99/4A home computer in 1980 or so.
The TI-99/4A (and its rare older brother, the TI-99/4) had a 16 bit TMS9900 processor chip (in 1979 and 1981, boys and girls!), a kick-butt video chip (the TMS9918) which had 32 sprites and a video overlay feature. But Texas Instruments, a company which is/was making more chips than Frito-Lay, hobbled the machine by using the video chip's RAM as the console's main memory, bottlenecking the expanded memory down to 8 bits, and creating the single slowest BASIC interpreter ever designed by having it interpreted TWICE (from BASIC to GPL - "Graphics Programming Language" - then to machine language).
With this nasty kludge, they released a graphical version of Hunt The Wumpus. Horrible sound effects, and game play which made you feel like you were drunk and on LSD. Oh, and attempting to add graphics to an old text-only game is doomed to fail, don't even attempt it.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
Sure, the graphics and sound sucked. But who cares? It was a fun game to play. I still play it on my computer.
Gameplay is just as important -- more so -- than sound or graphics.
I have yet to see anything in the same genre come out that is anywhere near as good as Descent 1-3, and the graphics on those games are dated now. I'd rather play D1 (with its blocky graphics) than anything that exists today.
I have yet to see an "explore the ancient world" type game that even comes anywhere close to Tomb Raider 1, and that's the oldest of the TRs.
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How can any list of most shameful games not include Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the Genesis? Having Michael save little boys by performing dance moves was a bad idea at the time and just seems horrid now with all the pedophilia lawsuits and bad jokes. Definitely in my top 5...
LOL....the worst sports game of all time
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"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
I was an owner of the Atari 5200 when it came out and loved it, mainly for the reason that most of the arcade titles were so much more accurately represented (Pac-Man, etc.)
However, the joysticks kept breaking on me. It wasn't so much that they weren't self-centering, but that the primary red buttons on the sides failed to always respond when pressed.
My fondest memory was of the baseball game that came out for it. It had a 3D physics model that seemed pretty realistic. Long drives bounced off the outfield walls, curve balls dipped down which affected the grounder/flyball outcomes. Playing the game on hard difficultly often yielded 2-1 games where runs had to be manufactured by bunting/stealing. It was great, but I couldn't play it do to the joysticks always breaking. Much sadness ensued.
Praying for the end of your wide-awake nightmare.
Another thing I remember is that it was packaged in a sandwich bag since back then it was too expensive for companies to print boxes) The first REAL package I can remember was either Castle Wolfenstien or Hard Hat Mack. I remember having to HAVE the Hard Hat Mack game just cuz of the packaging.
It has all the enjoyment of a computer football game, but without having to play defense. I view that as a strength, because sometimes you just want to pass, rush, and try to score, and to hell with playing D. (Don't get me wrong, I was also hopelessly addicted to NES Tecmo Super Bowl for a while.)
I never played 10 Yard Fight it when it was in the arcades-- I never knew it existed. I only discovered it when I discovered MAME and was looking for games I wasn't familiar with. Now I play it all the time when I'm bored. I'll probably keep playing it until I manage to run back a kickoff for a touchdown-- I haven't done that yet, but I've come pretty close.
~Philly
All your base are belong to us... What about zero wing? It was exactly like all those space shooters games. As for ET, I played it. It sucked horribley. If you ever get a chance to play it, don't. Your mind is better spent on trying to help solve the lastest problem presented to steven hawking.
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All these crap games make me feel so un-clean... having urge... to.... read........ books........ or play.... sports...... Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
Does this make my brain look big?
I actually finished Swordquest Earthworld, through painstakingly walking around and charting every item I carried anywhere. What an incredible waste of time. I gave it to my sister as a birthday present (so I could play it -- smart, right?). Oh, but karma works in mysterious and horrifically tortuous ways.
everybody knows that the worst game of all time has to be Battlecruiser 3000AD.
It was SO hyped up as the greatest thing ever, almost endlessly delayed, and when it finally came out it didn't even work.
To paraphrase a review of it at the time:
When i installed it... it crashed, when i started it... it crashed, when i tried to do something... it crashed, when i sat and looked at the screen... it crashed.
My, how even cartoon Link changes from game to game.
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As bad as it is, it entered top 10 in sales and rental before despite the awful reviews and the recommendations against buying this game. The makers even commented how they are "dedicated to making top quality games.". I wasn't sure if it was "opposite day" or something, but it really made me laugh.
It seemed to have promise (an intelligent sword! Woohoo!), but once you started playing it, it was *awful*.
The English translation was *awful*. It's like they used Bablefish to translate from German to Spanish, then back to German, then to English.
Bad translations in games are certainly nothing new -- but this was exceptionally bad.
Oh, god, the number of hours wasted on that drek. And if you can believe it, they actualy released the second (of a planned series of four), Fireworld. It made even less sense than Earthworld, and I could never get it to do anything at all. Not even any weird psychedelic frogger or invisable bull horns.
so the pathetic 2600 cartridge caused an entire generation to be confused about exactly what's chasing poor Pac.
Pac-Attack for Sega Genesis (and also Super NES, but I owned the Sega cart) was a puzzle game that had a Pac-Man eating what the instruction manual called "ghosts" but what the game's high score table called "MONS.", short for monsters.
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1. Gamespy, for having 4+ Flash ads and 2+ pop-ups per page, and for splitting 10k articles into 4 pages to artificially inflate hit counts.
Everyone else that wants to comment on it but not make it any better, get on board...
I'm glad this post was followed by some actual site suggestions.
But what's this?
A premonition?
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
Ok, so it looked far worse than the original, but personally I was amazed they managed it at all, given the miserable hardware the 2600 had! The machine was designed to display 2 player sprites, 2 missile sprites, a ball and a playfield which was basically a vertical line, unless the video chip was preloaded each X scanlines. Remember, the machine had 128 BYTES of work RAM and NO graphics RAM, so the entire background and sprites had to be redrawn by the program every frame.
It's no wonder the ghosts flickered, it must have been impossible for the little 8 bit CPU to manage to keep everything on screen all the time at 25pfs...
There's an old article about programming the 2600 here which may open a few eyes!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
or Baku-Baku, depending on how you want to transliterate it. So, I guess Pac-Man was its third name.
You actualy keep your fire kindling on your top shelf? Maybe you should go out into the world for a change...and buy some games to put on your top shelf.
...ontop of a cactus...
The most shameful game that I think most gamers can think of right now would have to be Acclaim's paean to adolescent stupidity, BMX XXX.
Presumably Gamespy have stuck with prehistoric titles to avoid offending any of their advertisers.
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I have heard rumors, but I don't know for sure.
I have heard that Atari management only wanted Pac Man to be a 2KB game, and that's why it sucked so bad. According to this story, the guy writing the code pleaded for more room and was denied.
The problem with this theory is that, with Google, I found an emulator site with a ROM image, and that ROM image is exactly 4096 bytes. A hex dump reveals that the second half isn't all zeroes, either.
On the other hand, the Ms. Pac Man game (much better than the original Pac Man) is an 8K image. Maybe the story was true, but it was 4K he was stuck with.
I've searched the web for an interview with the guy who wrote the original Pac Man, but didn't find it. (There are so many sites that mention Pac Man, it's hard to find wheat in all the chaff.)
But I'll bet someone on Slashdot knows the answer. Heck, the guy who wrote Pac Man might read Slashdot for all I know.
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I know several of the games I enjoyed on my C64 were completely impossible. Try "Dynamite dan", I barely survived on the last life when using an emulator saving every damn step of the way. Or "Ikari warriors", with it's endless supply of opponents. Or "Thing on a spring (2?)" where we never got close to solving the puzzle.
Of course the best are the almost impossible games - like "Bubble Bobble". When we first came to the boss on lvl 100, didn't figure him out and lost... We just had to play it all over again,
and that RIGHT THEN AND THERE.
And never-mind all the open-ended games where there was no way to "win", only bigger, better, faster, stronger opponents all the way. That goes for any new games as well, but as this seems to focus on games from the Good Old Days(tm), I thought I should focus on those.
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What was the name of this fine display of Engrish? If you can include games that have bugs and crappy joysticks on these lists, then a game that was translated by Eddy the Dyslexic Chimp has to weigh in somewhere.
I found this one pretty interesting. How many people were up until 1:00am playing through addiction just trying to get to the end of this game?
Better yet, can anyone else mention any games that were unbeatable due to programmer error, etc. Seems to me that some arcade machines were made to be close enough, just to keep poor fools pounding in the quarters. For example, fighting games where the computer suddenly starts getting away with things that are not really supposed to be possible... or when it conveniently ignores input or hits, etc.
In 1988, US GOLD converted SEGA's Outrun (one of the best arcade driving games ever which revived the arcades in the US) for the home computers of the time. One of the worst conversions of all times for the Amiga and the Atari ST, the game was actually half-finished!!! they rushed it to the market for the Chrismas buying season, resulting in releasing graphics that were used for testing purposes by the development team!!!
By the way, I think it's a little unfair to poke at the Atari 2600 which was so primitive in hardware terms.
Sega's 32X.
3DO's game console(with an ungrounded headphone jack built into the control that would trash the system if you came into contact with it), much of 3DO's games in general.
AND last but not least, Colecovision Adam, and it's tendacy to commit "data suicide" thanks to the power supply releasing a small EMP that would erase data tapes while powering off.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
..should have made the list
(Amstrad CPC, Sinclair Spectrum & probably C64 too)
Otherwise I agree, but I don't think the survival and development of OpenGL has depended on games (or even the PC platform in general) at any time. After all, it still goes on in the Unix workstation world where it spread from (whether SGI is a doomed company or not). I admit I don't know how to factor in Microsoft's membership in the OGL Architecture Review Board... Regardless, of course Carmack has done a major contribution to evangelising OGL for PC games!
As an aside, what's going on with Mesa GL? Anything?
I can't wait to metamoderate the jackass who moderated this as a troll. Hope you enjoyed playing, stupid.
they completely left out ..what was it called? battlecruiser 30000 AD? the game was decades in development and the final release was possibly the biggest dissapointment in gaming history.
You have split personalities now? You are one hurting individual...trying to fool me that someone else posted that SIMhqGoatseRedirectTroll. Saying that someone else, and claiming a 13 year/old is posing in that picture, shows that you are in need of help. I think you've always been under the influence of heroine. You are a troll...you ruined slashdot for many of us. I read and comprehended each word of your post and you mis-spelled and doubled/stuttered some words. You know, when you start stuttering as you take drugs, that is when the blood starts clotting in your brain. Heroine does that to you. Stop posing for pictures on goatse.cx...and we know you are 46 years/old instead of 13. Stop trying to fool us...the stretch marks on your asshole give away your age. Get help, AC.
That game sucked royal.
Or would you rather have a Stick of Poop?
uhmm, Solitaire?
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I bought a helicopter gunship "simulator" game back around maybe '92-3, going by the name of Thunder Hawk.
I had an i486DX-33 then, which I bought in 1991 so I think the games performance was inexcusable...
It would basically run ridiculously fast on my 33MHz 486DX, even with turbo switched off. So fast that the heli was impossible to fly and firing hellfire missles at distant targets would reach them within fractions of a second. Assuming of course, that you could survive long enough to actually fire something before a Russian Hind came in at Mach 80 to blow you away.
Thats the point where I stopped buying games and basically started just copying and swapping with friends. Boy was I glad I did that! Try any game at random and you'll usually find that it isn't worth the asking price, delete it and be glad you didn't pay for it!
Now I copy and then buy if the game is good, which I've done for many good games.
Back in '92 I bought Falcon3 which was an excellent game. Even MODEM play at 2400 was fun. Anyone remember loading Falcon3 with loadhi (?) to get the extra details? With that game I think I got lucky.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
I personally feel that there aren't enough games out there that deal with rape. I think *every* game should involve some raping of the indigenous people in order to win it.
I am quite certain that the series of Indiana Jones games on the PC could have been amazing had there been more rape.
And the current Spider Man series would really take well to a nice rape scene or two towards the end making full use of his web slinging prowess and that tight fitting costume.
The only game that I can think of that wouldn't be made 200% better with some nice rape scenes would be Grand Theft Auto - that wholesome game would just be ruined if rape were entered into that equation of love and affection.
Unless it was prison rape and really graphic. In that case, sign me up for two please.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Anyway, that is probably wrong but if someone cares enough to check then there is some bait to throw about the sea of search engines.
Odd. I really liked Super Pitfall yet it's on the list.
But when I need an example of a bad game (I'm a nerd, things like that come up), I always use Superman 64 or Lemmings Paintball. I've never actually played either one, but Superman is known for its craptitude and I always remember the story of the friend who bought Lemmings Paintball without the manual and when checking the ingame help files, it gave him the message "Put the Help Files here Mr. Helpfile Man".
Not only did it show how unfinished the game was, but I know I'd be embarassed if I ever wrote a message like that and someone got to read it.
Anywho.
"If the good lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates." -Willy Wonka
I thought it was the coolest until the controllers went out on me. I couldnt even start the games after a while. Gladly, the NES saved gaming for me.
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Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
wow, they have other hacks too!
check out the Battlezone hack- it's such a vast improvement!!
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
I remember something about the terrorists using that to plan the 9/11 attack.
More damaging than any other "violent" game.
gamefaqs has one
All I can say is "Postal". The only game I've ever returned because it was too violent. You shoot little children and hear them cry "Mommy I cant breath". Truely a disgusting game
obviously you're lying since apricot is not a vegetable.
I played enough other games on the 2600 to judge Pac-man as being well below par.
Ok, ok, its not all that shameful. But I'm still waiting for a version of Duck Hunt where you can shoot that goddamn dog. "Not laughing now, are you Fido?"
"There is no reason why 2600 Space Invaders couldn't have been more accurate..."
There was a reason, and I knew it at the time:
Arcades were making more money than home games. Even though "they" could have made the home games as good as the arcade version, they weren't inclined to do so. They were making large fortunes, a quarter (or two) at a time.
So today every mall has an arcade and every pizza shop has a few games, but in the early 80's the arcades were like pubs during prohibition, or dance halls in the first days of disco, something like that. They were a big deal, but the phenomenon just kind-of ended.
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that morons who refuse to avoid the mistakes of the past... are hired as upper management and other decision makers.
But the games didn't really have anything to do with those troubles did they? Flight Simulator was great at the time, and T-Rex was amazing. :-)
As for the system itself, it was one hell of a bargain for the price. I learned a lot on a ZX81. The computers that followed were great, and made it look like shit, but in its time, it was a great machine. Oh, and I had a stand-alone ram pack with a flexible connector that wouldn't come loose
In my opinion, Scientology is a cult you should avoid.
Hellbender and Fury were the MS rip-offs of Descent. Or at least they were in my opinion; alot of people will call them rip-offs of Tie Fighter. In any case, they really sucked bad.
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Wow, how long were you playing the game for, or was it just using a lot of NES CPU power? Nowadays there are probably a lot of solutions to overheating... but I guess nobody was using "liquid cooled" NES's. :-)
Of course, nowadays I wouldn't be surprised to hear of some vidiot trying to overclock a console like a PS2 or X-box either
Six of the games on the list were released before 1985.
Of the remaining four, three were Super Nintendo games (one of which was also released for the Genesis).
The one remaining game was for the Nintendo 64.
Nothing for the PC or a console released in the last five years? Or even the PlayStation? It's one thing to make fun of an old Atari 2600 game written by one person in three months, but projects with multi-million dollar budgets and teams of 10-30 tend to be much more spectacular when they crash and burn. I'm sure everyone is thinking "Daikatana," but that's just a popular scapegoat. There have been some huge failures and truly awful games made in the last ten years.
How about "Loadstar," for example? It had a large budget, endless hype behind the company (Rocket Science), and was designed by one of the most well-respected game designers out there, Brian Moriarty. The game ended up being little more than an FMV rail shooter. On that note, there are at least a dozen FMV games from the mid-1990s that are worse than Atari 2600 Pac-Man (which sure looked lame, but it was kinda fun).
Who reads the @#$#@$ing manual!?
It was only 6 years ago, but the manual had been long seperated from the rest of the unit. "Attack Right" is coming back to my nightmares.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
any game that involves deer or turkey hunting...
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In this game you kill minorities.
Here's their selling point,
"ETHNIC CLEANSING
The Race War has begun. Your skin is your uniform in this battle for the survival of your kind. The White Race depends on you to secure its existence. Your peoples enemies surround you in a sea of decay and filth that they have brought to your once clean and White nation.
Not one of their numbers shall be spared........"
They peddle this trash at www.resistance.com
I just can't believe what I'm seeing...
Here's another worst game: Chiller, by Exidy, 1986.
It's a "horror shooter", which consists of you shooting people (mostly naked) in torture devices (and other stuff, but mostly torturing people).
The programmers are sick: they invested a lot of effort into programming how you can torture and mutilate people - and they're not "faceless drones" - they are a few stationary, helpless people.
It's the most vile and tasteless game I've ever seen. I've seen thousands, and this is by far the worst; I feel dirty for even looking at it.
You can check it out in MAME if you must; here's a screenshot (scream-shot?) or two.
Which is why Gamespy ranks at #1 in the Top Ten Most Shameful Game Sites.
Had do dl "moslo" and fiddle quite a bit, but got SF2 to work. Yonder slashdotter talks about the batch file solution. I've never run across the fail-to-save problem, but many times had problems loading old games, so I'd end up keeping multiple copies just in case (when you save you alter the base file, so you need seperate copies of everything, and if you crash, the file becomes ruined). Anyway, can be done.
Now, before I discovered SF2 I was still trying to get the original SF to work on anything. It wasn't even IBM compatible. Totally different format. I think it's too bad, because I really liked it, but then, now that I'm used to SF2, I'd probably think the original sucks a little. Much better trading in the second. I just miss blowing up weak Spemin.
If you haven't run across it, there's a sizable SF web presence, including a project to build SF3 that may or may not happen, and an intermittent lobby to get a third one made by EA Games, which will likely never work. It's too bad. I never got onto Star Control -- I can't fathom that comparison, actually. Seriously, does anyone know a good space exploration game that doesn't tie you down to one (or, ok, half a dozen) linear plot?
haha, I just M2'd him :) There is justice on slashdot!
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what the hell, and drove it around the block a few times. I thought I
should go park it in the middle of the freeway and yell at everyone to
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