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Big Rigs Makes Play For Worst Game Of All Time
Thanks to GameSpot for its review of Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing for the PC, which it awards its worst score ever, 1.0/10, rhapsodizing: "Big Rigs is a game so astoundingly bad that it manages to transcend nearly every boundary put forth by some of gaming's absolute worst of the worst and easily makes it into that dubiously extraordinary category of being one of the most atrocious games ever published." The review goes on to explain some of that atrociousness, noting: "You can clip your truck right through every object on a race course in Big Rigs, from the biggest of houses and walls, right down to the smallest of lampposts. Furthermore, bridges evidently don't actually exist, despite the fact that you can see them - driving over any of them results in you sinking right through them." Although Big Rigs makes a valiant attempt, what videogame would you rate as the worst of all time?
"The Great Waldo Search" for the Sega Genesis.
You know those books? (a.k.a "Where's Wally" in the UK)
They made a game of it. There were five levels. FIVE. The location of waldo was NOT randomised.
It took about 5 minutes to play through the thing, and that was it.
ZERO replay value, and a wad of wasted cash. Even the books had more "levels" than this, and cost about a tenth of the price.
Snailus.
A lightcycles clone.
For the Apple II.
In basic.
By my dad.
Framerate (and general game speed) was about one frame per minute. Graphics: monochrome ASCII.
We took one look then went straight back to playing "Don't press the letter Q" on the Oric.
Game Players Magazine already rated Cosmic Race as the worst game of all time.
It was so bad, in fact, that I seem to remember their review scales changing to rate games on a scale of 10 down to Cosmic Race. =)
It's a good thing for this game that it is bad enough to be called 'worst' only scoring a 1/10, because if it had been only sort of bad, say 3/10 then nobody would have ever heard of it. Hell, I even almost feel like playing it.
"Although Big Rigs makes a valiant attempt, what videogame would you rate as the worst of all time?"
Well, to be worst, there has to be an expectation that the game will be good. Big Rigs, obviously, did not have great expectations. Games that were supposed to be great, but ended up being mediocre or bad are much more interesting.
Black and White was supposed to change gaming as we knew it and instead was just a crappy game. Gamespot ranking: 9.3. Looks like the reviewer bought into the hype.
Dungeon Siege was also supposed to be a great game! And it was, for the 20 minutes it took to exhaust 100% of the gameplay. Gamespot Ranking: 8.4. At least it was more interesting than B&W.
It is easy to complain about the Aquamans and Big Rigs of the world, but did anyone really expect them to be great games?
Vincent J. Murphy
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E.T. (1982) - The game that sank Atari? 5,000,000 unsold copies?
How many other games have been so bad that 14 trucks worth of it were buried in a landfill?
Even when I was 10, playing it for 30 seconds at a dept store, I knew it sucked ass.
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