Games They'd Like Us To Forget

Games Radar has a short piece up talking about some games that otherwise very accomplished developers would probably like us to forget. They call them "Secret Shame" games, and run the gamut from cheesy cash grabs (Shaq Fu and Justice League: Task Force) to notable flops (the Miyamoto-produced Stunt Race FX). From their discussion of Justice League: "Originally, this game was to be published by Sunsoft, but was picked up by Acclaim after Sunsoft went under bankruptcy reorganization. We'd almost say they should have known better than to put this out, but this is notorious sh**-peddler Acclaim we're talking about. Thankfully, the game was rightfully ignored, and due to its relative obscurity, Blizzard is almost never subject to mockery for it. Up until now, at least."

Comments

Re:Strange..

[AKAImBatman]

I know it's the game that everyone loves to hate, but E.T. wasn't *that* bad. If it had had more playtesting (primarily to expose the issues with constantly falling in holes you didn't want to fall into), we wouldn't be having this conversation today. But in Atari's infinite wisdom, they only gave HSW five weeks of development time in order to meet the Christmas holiday.

What's even more amazing is that some exec in Atari changed the order size for the game to an incredible 4 million units! They were so sure that it was going to be an instant hit that they effectively bet the farm on a game done in only 5 weeks.

Brilliant, wasn't it?

The coup de grace came from Intellivision with these commercials starring Henry Thomas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsmIma0ZQtQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3xqu4VrwsU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mPERZhkboc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOOvMi7Wzqo

Of course, Intellivision didn't realize that assisting in Atari's demise was assisting in their own demise. Whoops.

"WE'RE CLOSED NOW!"

Re:Big Mutha Truckers

[sirnuke]

I think you are referring to Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.