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The 20 Worst Games Ever
EGM's Seanbaby has a 'director's cut' of a list of the top 20 worst videogames, a list published in the 150th issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly earlier this year. While some top lists may claim authority, this one is the real deal: these games are utter crap. From the article: "#10: Revolution X (SNES) This game is biblically horrific. You're overthrowing an oppressive world order. With Aerosmith. And music is your weapon. That scream of terror you just heard was probably you. Using your weapon, music, you'll fight a massive army of soldiers sent by the government to keep you from rocking. And since the artists were lazy, the army is made up entirely of a man in a yellow jacket and his several thousand identical twins."
What about the infamous 'Plumbers don't wear ties?'. I remeber this scoring 4% in PC Format (UK) about 10 years ago and holding the title of 'Worst Rating' for many a year, it may even still do so. ..
I am deeply disappointed that Elite's landmark "911TS" did not make this list. For a review, see the last piece on this page, with accompanying glorious screenshot. I'd be interested to learn of a less innovative game.
Burns: We're building a casino!
McAllister: Arrr. Give me 5 minutes.
#1 has to be Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.
Also, check out #9, Custer's Revenge, for some hot pr0n. Wow, were they ahead of their time or what?
this might have been interesting if i hadn't read this, oh i dunno, 6 or 7 years ago when this article was published.
I think I still have this issue of EGM, from, oh, 2003 or so? How is this on the front page?
Bypass the link:
20: Extreme Sports With the Berenstein Bears
19: Bible Adventures
18: Kriss Kross: Make My Video
17: Bubsy 3D
16: Bad Street Brawler
15: Total Recall
14: Rapjam Volume One
13: AIRCARS
12: Night Trap
11: Heroes of the Lance
10: Revolution X
9: Custer's Revenge
8: White Men Can't Jump
7: Superman 64
6: Legend of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon
5: Virtuoso
4: Captain Novolin
3: Fight For Life
2: Club Drive
1: E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Why the hell is this being posted - OLD NEWS! Next please...
Finally, an article on /. about a list of worst games, instead of the usual rehash of the "Top 5/10/20 best games of all time, etc ad nauseum" lists.
Hmmm. Nobody seemed to mention Ultima IX, a terribly bug-ridden game. From the README file alone: "Be certain you empty your Recycle Bin before installing the game." Or : "We recommend that you not save the game while you're poisoned; this has been somewhat problematic in the current version."
Wow, why didn't anyone mention that?
(Another game worth mentioning: Conquest Earth. Its not buggy but... hey, might as well have been.)
How about Battlecruiser 3000AD? As to ET, there are actually worse 2600 games than this. Maybe not with the same historical significance, okay...
It's "The 20 Worst Games Ever."
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I propose we give Sunday on Slashdot a new name. Something like "We've run out of things to post, so here's some old stuff" day.
Jesus christ, if you don't have anything remotely new or interesting to post, don't post anything.
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Your suggestion here has nothing on "driv3r", which is like the worst game anybody or their mother will ever play.
I cannot begin to describe to you the state of crappiness in graphic design, gameplay and even sound that fill face the unlucky gamer in the first 5 minutes. It was so bad I turned off my PC after around 10 min, then switched it back on again out of my disbelief that anything could be this bad - I had to try it again to make sure.
Driver 3 is the king of shitty games, and developers will have to try very hard indeed to make something crap enough to come close on the list.
What Akira from the Amiga isn't on that list? It got horrible reviews. One of my personal hated games is Red Faction 2. The first was a great game but 2 was a total let down. What were they thinking by leaving out network play?
*It's not what you can do for the Dark Side but what the Dark Side can do for you!*
Here are a few highlights from Gamespot.
I'm surprised Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing didn't make it to the list... :)
At least according to a race sim maniac like me, "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing" would be a good candidate for a more up to date version of the worst games ever list. Wikipedia has some nice words about this quite extraordinary game.
While I definitely played worse games (and better ones), I found it kind of pointless that he chooses to just rant about the Bible and his religious views instead of discussing the game.
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
Bypass the karma whore....
This list is one the worst I've read. The author just lists games out of his ass, and he is not even coherent with his previous list about "Worst 20 NES videogames", so you find that some NES videogames that scored less on that list scored more on this, and the supposedly worst (Deadly Towers) is missing on this list. What the...?
Suggestion: Avoid reading. Leave game trashing to professionals.
It might also have been more readable if Seanbaby wasn't a complete cretin. Look at me complain using all the grown up swear words I know! Look at the completely unfunny and desperately strained metaphors I conjure up! Look how I write with scathing, biting cynicism! No you don't, you're an unfunny twat who sounds like a twelve year old completely failing to emulate the Filthy Critic.
The funniset thing in that article was the sentence "So if you ever lose your mind and want a copy of E.T., or maybe five million, grab a shovel and drive out to the desert. They're free."
It's funny because you can't actually do it - Wikipedia: "Starting on September 27, 1983, a layer of concrete was poured on top of the crushed materials".
Crushed, buried, sealed in concrete. Now that is one bad video game.
Frog blast the vent core.
This list has been rather arbitrary, however the "official" list can be found and edited on Wikipedia.
I agree on #1 though. I cannot forget how much ET sucked (and I was a little tyke around this time). I had JUST gotten exposed to the 2600 and the crappy Pac-Mac clone released for it when the console abruptly was shoved into the closet never to see the light of day again.
I did enjoy the Atari 400 my mother had bought for my older sibling. We would both play Zaxxon for hours on it, which required starting a rather chunky and heavy cassette tape machine which you connected to the 400. There was some cheesy elevator music with some marketing propoganda (you had to turn the volumn down to ignore it). After going to get a soda and cigarettes at the store for my brother, the game would be completely loaded into RAM and we'd spend a good part of the afternoon trying to top scores.
ET however managed to suck the life out of Atari and it destroyed the company. Had it not done that, NES would have had no void to fill.
In fact, the Atari caused so much damage to the video game market (and all the other cheap video game systems), that Nintendo had to market the first 8-bit consoles by showing only the Nintendo R.O.B. (remember that thing?) The ROB had a major suck factor, but it was such a cool gimmick that the "seperate console" it needed to play the game managed to suck in enough kids that eventually the ROB was discarded (within about 6 months after it released).
The ROB gimmick was quickly removed from the marketplace and the only boxes you could find where the standard console and the one with the Duck Hunt gun. The original issue had everything--the NES, the ROB and the gun with all those games! What a steal!
I always thought me and my brothers just sucked at E.T. because we never got anywhere in the game. Come to find out it was the game and not us. I'm glad that took the number one position.
Can I bum a sig?
How the fuck is Death Crimson not on that list?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L33wcSqjS0
My bro and I played that game back in the day. It wasn't that bad. Sure, there were a few bugs here and there, but it was definitely playable. Noah's Ark was the best, imo. I've seen far worse games. This one is probably on the list for religious reasons.
Does that mean "The Matrix" was lazy as well, with Agent Smith and his legion of clones?
Given the level of Jaguar bashing, I think there may have been a traumatic Jaguar-related incident in his childhood...
Count Duckula II should be in there. Amstrad Action gave it 3%
http://www.cpcgamereviews.com/c/index8.html
In defense (sortof) of BattleCruiser 3000, it seemed to be developped by a lone maniac with a fairly strong following and appeared to be fairly innovative since it covered all the aspects of futuristic combat, from space to ground.
OTOH, it did too much, didn't do it very well and I have to admit I never really managed to play it. However I would give it some points for the sheer magnitude of the effort. It was an impressive piece of work. Kind of unuseable but still impressive. Which is why I wouldn't put it in the worst. In the "most impressive attempts" maybe.
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Bad Street Brawler was published on at least the C64 under another name (that I can't think of now to save my life), and I thought that it was a pretty funny game if not a particularly good one. However it seems that besides the name change the game was also sanitized for the NES - the midget strongmen were handbag-wielding grannies in the (original?) computer version. I've never played the NES version and it's been ages since I played the C64 version, but does anyone know if there were other differences as well?
Is it just me or does Revolution X sound like it could have been a good idea for a game if you replaced aerosmith with spinal tap?
I nominate this for a pretty high ranking in the Worst Websites Outside Of Myspace list. Seriously, I had to turn off the CSS to avoid eyebleed and my system is already blocking GIFs and Flash, I don't even want to know what this would look like to some poor IE user.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Nothing more to say.
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The worst game I ever purchased was "Airport Tycoon". Talk about abysmal. The concept had so much promise, but the result was so buggy and unfinsihed and ugly and unplayable, that it's the only game I ever uninstalled completely after less than one day, and then shredded and destroyed rather than taking it back for a refund. The only pleasure I got was destroying that piece of crap game.
Examples of what was wrong: all the graphical colors were muddy earth tones, just ugly. Placing buildings was buggy as hell (many times a building, road, or runway would refuse to be placed, for no apparent reason). Placing things inside the terminal (like ticket counters and security) was pointless... you could pile everything up on top of each other so people couldn't possible reach them, and it didn't matter. All that mattered is that you placed them somewhere. Also, what happened on the screen showed ZERO relationship with what was going on in the game. The game would say that the runway was too crowded, but the display would show an empty runway.
Just horrible all around. There wasn't a single redeeming value.
- Spryguy
There are three kinds of people in this world: those that can count and those that can't
la la Derek Smart fhtagn! Derek Smart fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Derek Smart internets wgah'nagl fhtagn!
The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."
I was enjoying this article until I got to the review of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon. At first, I thought he was committing the sin of just being a jackass and using "gay" as a term to mean lame, but not actually connecting it with homosexuality, then I read "Now do the math on this: experts in ass ramming estimate that about 10% of the world is homosexual, and if you consider that only 5 people actually wanted a CDI machine, that means that this game was made specifically for a target audience of one half a person."
"Experts in ass ramming" eh?
Sounds like this guy has got a problem, oh I figured it out, he's a fucking idiot.
This list is like 6 years old. I don't think Seanbaby's even touched his website in 4 years or so. It predates Battlecruiser 3000. (From what I understand, the game wasn't THAT bad, it just had terrible controls that couldn't be configured.)
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Don't know if this would rate as the worse game, but it's good for a laugh anyways:
http://www.holdthebutton.com/
You're in luck. Derek Smart (the lone maniac developer) has released the old versions of the game for free on the game's Web page. A while back I downloaded BattleCruiser Millenium, the 2nd generation of the title. [BattleCruiser 3000 was the 1st.] I have to admit, it is impressive. The scope of the idea of the game: space cruiser combat, space fighter combat, and (FPS) ground combat is very ambitious. Unfortunately the gameplay is not very good and the game itself is unstable. It doesn't help that Derek denies that his games have any stability problems.
I recommend you try it out.
Shaq-fu
I especially like this gem from Club Drive (Jaguar):
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Well, when I say I never really managed to play it, it's because I actually bought the thing in a store but never got around to learn the 4 329 656 230 commands, deal with the numerous crashes, with the rather odd developper and his cultists on the support forums. So while I did get a glimpse of the game, I never got around to actually play it (in other words, I chickened out).
I had more or less the same problems with a super realistic tank simulator (can't remember the name) a few years ago. I couldn't figure how to get it to display above VGA (as in 640x480) which didn't look all that great blown up on a 21" so I went to the support forum where I quickly found out that the (single) developer and his minions were waiting there with a number of arguments why VGA was fine, the game didn't crash for them, and that I was welcome to go back to playing Quake or whatever if I wasn't happy. It didn't take me long to decide that this was some fine advice...
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Another possible missing game is Extreme PaintBrawl; as far as I know, it got the lowest rating ever on IGN in 1998 (0.7 out of 10) and since then has never been topped (uhm, "topped" doesn't seem the right word for such games...).
And man, are these levels bug ridden. Like areas where your characters go invisible for no apparent reason and you have to guess where they are in relation to the platforms you're jumping over. Or rooms with corners that characters can't back out from. Or the large chunks of levels that simply vanish until you walk right up to them. Or the way characters are automatically resurrected on death so that if you arrange things just right they'll be resurrected exactly where they died and you'll end up with Obi-Wan in an infinite cycle of endless repeating death with barely enough time to scream between cycles.
And even if you don't want to kill characters you can have lots of fun watching them smash their heads repeatedly as they attempt to walk through walls because even the simplest shortest-route-from-A-to-B algorithm seems to have defeated the best minds among the game's developers.
Yup, if you want a sure fire way to make sure your kids hate you forever, by them Lego Star Wars II DS this Xmas.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
but the most amazing thing of all that it was a commercial success and there were actually 200,000 people stupid enough to buy it
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Sure, the games this guy listed were pretty bad, but they've got nothing on Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde for the NES. This game was so terrible, that it exceeds all known synonyms for terrible.
This is the most pathetic article I have ever read. Other than being horribly offended by the language of the article, it read mostly like it was written by some teenage kid on his blog. While I must agree with his game picks, I feel that he was overly harsh in many areas, especially graphics. The Kriss Kross game and the Zelda game made early use of video compression capabilities, and especially with the Kriss Kross game, the idea that you are mixing videos, real-time, on the fly, on hardware the likes of the Sega CD, limited to 64 colors being able to be displayed at one time, was quite a technological marvel. Several of the games he mentioned had sucky graphics not because of poor design, but because of limitations of the NES and the Gameboy color. Actually, from the screenshots he posted of stuff like Bubsy, Kriss Kross, Barensteen Bears, Total Recal, and so forth, the graphics were on par with other games of the same genera on the same platform. Shoot, even ET, with as AWFUL as that game was, had graphics that were on par with other Atari 2600 titles.
While I must admit that all of these games sucked, the reasons given in the article were not good. It looks like games were picked at random, I mean, with the exception of ET, I can think of many other games that should be on this list instead. I would much rather be forced to play Bubsy than that horrible Home Alone game for the SNES, Galaga 13 and Michael Jackson's Moonwalker could be put in the same category as Total Recal, and I cannot believe that not a single Barbie game made the list. And what about those games that were released that were so buggy that they could not be played? Three Dirty Drarfs for the Sega Saturn actually CRASHED on me every time I get to a certain point of the game, which, I have not played it in years, so cannot remember if its the first or second level, but made the game practically worthless. I have played racing games where physics seemed to be a concept the game designers left out, making it perfectly alright to drive through solid objects. How in the world did Aquaman not get on this list?
Once again, I must admit that all these games suck, but if you are going to work for EGM, stop acting like a 14 year old who is having a tempertantherum because he just got grounded.
Can't believe nobody's brought up this classic.
The game itself is, meh, average, but the fact that the introduction was so hilariously bad as to spark an Internet phaenomenon....well, all your bad game are belong to us.
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don't forget about the angry nintendo nerd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M_4Yqk65f8. this particular link is for the game 'dr. jekyl and mr. hyde'
what's the point in listing some games that noone ever heared of? an interesting list would be "the 20 worst big-budget games" or "the 20 worst games that sold well"
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
that Duke Nukem Forever didn't make this list! Else we might never see it!
Isn't this list old? I remember seeing it a few months ago, maybe even a year ago.
Clever and witty sig.
That Big Rigs game with no collision detection and such? And where is Daikatana?!
Every title ever made for NES. This platform seems to be where game designers finally decided to rely more on graphics than game design. Only problem is that the graphics sucked.
There is a review at gamefaqs http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/review/R6
From that review:
WOW the author of that article is seriously homophobic ... it's impressively disgusting!!
Did anyone else ever play Bastard!! for the SNES? I ended up with a ROM of it somehow, and I must say, it's one of the worst games I've ever played. Google turned up this review.
I don't know how they missed Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.
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Wikipedia has a pretty good list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_
From the linked article:
#18: Kris Kross: Make My Video (Sega CD)
Fun: 0/10
I didn't think you could make something worse that was already
two hopping kids with their clothes on backwards. These people
could have made a game about ass cancer worse than the original.
Long about the time of the video game crash, not only was the home market being flooded with trash, but the arcades were being treated to their own brand of refuse.
One I particularly remember was Tutankham, a maze game where you guide a little dude through a blocky pyramid maze where you would grab treasures and make it to the end, while shooting various critters. What made this game suck was the fact that most of the levels had tons of "vertical" corridors, but your guy could only shoot left and right.
And the laser-disc games... sheesh. Dragon's Lair was entertaining, but I'd hardly call it a video game, but there was another space-themed one I can't remember the name of which had a standard graphics ship shooting filmed ships. The really crappy thing was that hitting anything was a guess, getting hit by something was questionable, and the angles the scenes were shot at made no sense with regard to the orientation of yours.
Does anyone remember Targ? God help you if you do.
Then in the late '80's when Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat first exploded the fighter genre, there was Time Killers (a gory, nearly unplayable fighter), and Primal Rage (a gory, nearly unplayable dinosaur/beast fighter).
I must have been 6? But I remember playing ET and having fun doing it.
This list is one of the most flawed lists of its kind. Even the showcase example of "Revolution X", an extremely popular and successful arcade game that when ported to the console (both SNES and GENSIS) was a horrific disaster; although I heard the PlayStation port wasn't as bad. Thus like many other arcade-to-console games, this game deserves the top 20 of "worst video game ports ever" but certainly not this list.
No one seems to remember this game, but maybe that's for the better.
let's take 20 games everybody says sucks, bag on them, throw in homophobic references twice a game and say fuckity shit shit poopy fuck to buy a few laughs since i lack enough talent to be funny without them.
u are sucks
how about a list of the top twenty games every gaming dork beats off to despite knowing deep down it's boring garbage?
1- myst, totally gay
2- shenmue, jap fag, if i pooped i could have made a better game
3- final fantasy, 60 hours of homosexual gameplay, homos.
4- GTA, that guy is hardcore and bones babes, but im jerking it 50% for the guy and 50% for the woman, GAY.
5- Pikmin - i could imagine one of those flowers going up my butt, and pulling out a daisy that smelled better than this gayness...
6- Call of Duty - greek warriors were gay, so are american warriors and the gay artists that drew them...
i'm done, feel free to continue the list...
Heroes of the Lance was bad enough to be on the list? It wasn't great, but it wasn't that bad either. Oh, I just read the article, and he's talking about the NES version. The PC version was decent at least. The NES version looks like crap compared to the PC version (EGA baby!).
Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
Defcon 5. Unplayable, even by 1987 standards.
Except it's not even actually funny. There are funny reviews, there are good no-holds-barred "look at all that's bad with these games" reviews (e.g., on Something Awful), and both are good and refreshing in a world of bending over to EA's marketting money. But this is neither. This is one guy ranting incoherently, while trying to sound like a hip wisecracking smartass, but failing miserably.
It's just trying to construct some convoluted mixed-metaphor insults that go on for a paragraph. And more often than not are of the kind of "if you dare disaggree with me, then here's in how many ways you're a retard huffing spray can and probably also have fun banging your had against the inside of a discarded refrigerator." I've read
Basically what I'm saying is, insult the game if you must, but if you can't make a point without ad-hominems then you probably don't have a point to start with.
They say that if you try too hard to make an impression, that's the impression you'll make. And this is proof of it, if anything. The guy is trying too hard. I'd rather have had him do a professional review of why a game is bad, and keep the wisecracks short and to the point. A one-liner to make the point is good. A two-paragraph convoluted argument about why the reader is gay and a retard to boot, out of a maybe 8 paragraph "review", is just a piss-poor substitute for actual review content.
And whatever content it had, it's mostly picking on some 10 to 15 year old games and whining that they don't have the graphics/content/controls of a 2003 game.
Some of the screenshots there are from games from the 80's and, frankly, don't look any worse than any other game released in the 80's. Sure, they look bad by today's 3D pixel-shaded bump-mapped ragdoll-animated standards, but back then pixelated midgets and 4-colour backgrounds were pretty much the norm. Ditto for the animations: you had maybe 1 or 2 attacks for yourself, and maybe 1 or 2 for the enemies, and that was that. Cloned enemies repeatedly kicking or throwing purses at you were the norm. You just didn't have the memory to store detailed life-like backgrounds and a gazillion life-like animations.
And yes, occasionally punches and kicks went right through a character's chest, because you didn't have 3d ragdolls to stop a kick exactly where it touches the enemy. If your sprite of a character had his leg kicking at a full 3 ft distance and the enemy was 2 ft away, yeah, your foot would go right through them.
Some seem to be from the age when everyone discovered they have just enough RAM to use scanned photos for the characters. In many ways it was a worse age than the aforementioned pixelated-midgets age. At any rate, it still had the problems of the previous age, with an uncanny valley factor thrown in. Now you had realistically scanned enemies acting like stiff cardboard cutouts. Or in some cases you just had blurry contrast-less scanned midgets instead of the previous pixelated ones with good contrast.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they were the great games of their era or anything. But it seems kind of silly to pick on the graphics of an 80's game just because they're 80's kind of graphics.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Conspiracy: Weapons of Mass Destruction on the PS2 (2005). If this was an exercise in how not to produce a video game then it suceeded...
...ex government secret service agent...recruited by 'the agency' for one final assignment, CHECK
Cliched plot:
Bad characters: "You are Cole Justice"... for crying out loud...., CHECK
Bad animation: by the bucketload, including weird distended arms when punching, CHECK
Instant death: spiky trap - ah-hah! CHECK
Restricted scenary: with a graphics engine this "powerful" we have to cut down on the draw distance, CHECK
Stupid AI: "You ran that way last time....", CHECK
Unfair difficulty: "But I shot him point blank seven times!!", CHECK
Annoyance factor: The unskippable 'emotional' piano playing 'We'll miss you Cole" death sequence..., CHECK
Search for the trailer, search for the reviews... rent the CD (yes, a 2005 release on CD)... bask in the heat of games hades
It may be just a Wikipedia article, but I'm running out of excuses for why I keep laughing and spraying coffee everywhere after each line. It may be the deadpan style in which the article presents the awful, awful facts, but I can't read any more or I'll be fired.
Meta will eat itself
Defcon 5 = peace time.
Whoops.
Sorry for the subject title. Anyway, I was reading through this list... and I was utterly shocked at the number of /.ers who seem to have not heard of Seanbaby... first of all, as has been mentioned, yes, this article is very, very old. And 5 to 10 years ago, before web "communities" were as vogue as they are now, Seanbaby was a staple of the videogame community, his satire a delight to those of us seeking some form of entertainment from the still maturing intranet. Yes, he's vulgar. Extremely vulgar. In fact, this article isnt even the TIP of his vulgarity. But I cant believe people on /. are BELLYACHING about vulgarity from something approaching 10 years ago on the internet. Also, this is the DIRECTOR'S CUT, you should have noticed. EGM in no way published this article as is. So the "this guy works for EGM?" comment was completely unmerited. Seanbaby is oldschool comedy for hardcore gamers, and when he made it big, and started appearing on things like TechTV and Spike, he had a large fan-base who was glad to see his rise (even if he did abandon his website). He was a disciple/friend of Old Man Murray, and if you dont know who that is either... All I have to say is, when did the content of the internet become run/criticized by people who have had nothing to do with it for the past 10 years? I guess it was inevitable, but Im sad to see it has happened SO damn quickly.
My friends and I played it quite a bit. Granted, it was actually easy and short, but enjoyable. It took us about a weekend to beat it, but back then it was pretty good for a platformer. It was no Shadow of the Beast, but certainly not a bad game.
Damn, that's funny...
"Murphy was an optimist" - O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law
is there anyone else around here that we are missing the point here. shouldn't the main focus be on the "best" games ever instead of the worst games. I mean after seeing the list, im not gonna be like "man! i should play that game."
Let's face it, Seanbaby is our generations P.J. O'Rourke. Less articulate, less educated perhaps, but then aren't we all? He's the logical outcome of gonzo journalism mixed with MTV and the Internet.
What would Richard Feynman do, if he were here right now? He'd do some math and he'd follow through!
What about Street Fighter: The Movie ( video game ) aka Street Fighter: Real Battle on Film?
As Soon as I saw that list, I knew that game would be #1. Ah the memories and the Pain...oh the pain...so tedious...so many times to fall in the pit...over and over and over
The top ones in my mind beyond All Your Base are:
1. Difference between Gary Brolsma and Ghyslain Raza:
Gary Brolsma is kewl with himself now, and found a sponsor. Selling out means perks along the way. Raza disappeared in despair.
2. Rob Manuel
Genius Meme factory. Name That Beard is safe enough for old ladies. I need to find the song used for Rasputin though.
3. George W. Bush
Moron Meme factory. Trouble is, we elected him instead of Rob Manuel.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
OMG, Derek Smart! I had completely forgotten about Battlecruiser 3000AD until I saw this post. For entertainment I used to follow a newsgroup back then where the flames went higher than anywhere else I've seen. It didn't take more than a flametroll the size of a match to set off an entire forest of replies, and they never seemed to die. Some acid remark was dropped, immediately attacked by loyal fans, who in return was attacked by more angry customers and in the middle Derek Smart in person trying to defend himself by throwing more fuel to fire. He's a Don Quixote legend in my eyes, never mind his programming. If anything, the whole circus around BC3000 taught me to temper my postings, thus making the world an infititesmally better place.
Wah wah, I fell down the pit again. Pussies.
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I remember Space Ace, but it too was along the line of Dragon's lair. No, the one I'm thinking of had a fighter stick control and a sprite ship you'd maneuver.
It's called Astron Belt