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The 20 Worst Games Ever

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the for-real dept.

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."

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  1. yay for old news by floatingtrem · · Score: 5, Informative

    this might have been interesting if i hadn't read this, oh i dunno, 6 or 7 years ago when this article was published.

  2. Old/10 by Kyokugenryu · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think I still have this issue of EGM, from, oh, 2003 or so? How is this on the front page?

  3. Big Rigs: YOU'RE WINNER! by Poro · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Plumbers don't wear ties? by Pluvius · · Score: 4, Informative

    Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors game package (it never made it big, surprisingly).

    That's probably because it was never released commercially.

    Rob

  5. Extreme PaintBrawl by ESqVIP · · Score: 4, Informative

    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...).

    1. Re:Extreme PaintBrawl by Quietude · · Score: 4, Informative

      PC Gamer gave it a single-digit rating, which led to the lead programmer writing them a letter and begging them to re-review it after the patch that added AI to the game was released.

  6. Re:The list by lisaparratt · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Sir"? The word you're looking for is "Mistress"!