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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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You can tell its the xmas / new year break as 'news' becomes 'reporters top ten ...'
There must be *something* going on somewhere?
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.
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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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.
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You're absolutely right! Rating these first games IS beating a dead horse; however, it's a horse I'd like to beat BECAUSE I've got lots of fond memories of playing the original videogames. Lots of us do. Lots of us remember watching our older brother, and his jerk friend Lance, play new games for their Atari, and their NES, waiting eagerly for our turn which never came. I was the little brother who was sent to my older brother's friend's house against my will because it was convenient for both sets of parental units. (Okay, now I'm venting.) My first fascination about video games came from waiting, and waiting, to play Atari or NES. Asking through burning tears, "When's my turn?" My brother's friend Lance replies, "Never. Why are you here anyway?" And then I cry, "I DIDN'T WANNA COME HERE!!!" And then the closest I get to playing a video game is getting hit in the nose by a football... Hmm... Maybe this has something to do with why I hoard classic video games now, and maybe this has something to do with why I love beating the dead horse of those old games by reading articles about them. And maybe those old games aren't so old to people like me who enjoy reading those lists of the worst ones. They're not so old to me because I didn't get to play them when they originally were released because my brother's friend kept me away from them! So now I ramble on and on about how I hoard these games, and cherish info about them now, because I didn't get to play them back then! Okay, sorry for the venting rant, but maybe someone'll sympathise and give me a score of 5 in the mod, eh?
And you're ranting about this on Slashdot?
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.