Subscribe to Listverse15 Lousy Video Games That Should Never Have Been Made
- Published April 7, 2008 - 138 Comments
Almost everyone loves video games. From sports to fantasy adventure RPG, to about anything you can imagine, there are all sorts of games for any type of taste. Some games never get old: look at Mario, Final Fantasy, and the Legend of Zelda. Other games, however, should never have made their way out of the idea room. As a note: it’s amazing how many terrible games are out there. If you look at item 15, it’s hard to believe there are 14 games worse, and yet…
On the shame level, this one is up there with “Custer’s Revenge.” This game is based on the Virginia Tech massacre, and the creator of the game said he did so “because it was funny.”
A terrible game based on a terrible movie, with one of the most boring games ever. Characters look like they were made by a 10 year old using Microsoft Paint program.
This is one of the worst games ever, getting only a 6% out of 100 from PC World, and is best known as the game that was knowingly shipped without any AI programming at all. This remains the second lowest rated game by PC Gamer US of all time.
There were three bastard legend of Zelda games developed by a different company when one branch of Nintendo tried to go to CD technology and failed. The game is considered one of the worst ever.
This is the game that almost killed Microsoft’s video game dreams. Early on the system was strong, but the games were terrible. This video game was so bad that it received some of the lowest scores in the entire history of several video game reviewers. “Edge” only gave it a 1/10 (it is still the only game ever to score that badly) while “Game Informer” gave it 0.5 out of 10. That’s beyond bad.
This game was named the worst game cube game ever, and inspired G-4’s golden mullet award, based on the hair style of one of the evil bosses in this game. The “golden mullet award” is given to the worst game of the year, and it all started with Aquaman.
How bad is this game? It is widely considered by many experts to be the worst fighting game of all time, and it needed Shaq’s image to make sure it didn’t completely bomb. The story is idiotic (Shaq is in Japan and learns kung fu to save the world… really?) The controls suck, game play sucks, and this is on almost every top ten list of worst video games ever made.
This game was so terrible, that there is an actual website of people whose mission is to buy every copy and destroy it. They will pay you for your copy of the game and then destroy it. That’s dedication, and worthy of a place on the all time bad game list.
The introduction starts out promisingly enough with a full brief, decent looking opening graphics, and the promise of good missions. And that’s it. This game is the epitome of terrible programming and AI. the professional video game players from GameStop said they NEVER got past level one. Hostages were stupid, would disappear into walls and thin air, and a ridiculous time limit would count down as you tried to do an impossible mission.
So the graphics are terrible, controls far more complicated than they should be, the AI is junk, and the game is literally impossible…from as early as level one.
Early on, Xbox just could not get it right! Winner of the Golden Mullet award, an award given out for the worst video game every year, this game was generally declared an even worse video game than the Aquaman video game that was so bad it gave them an idea for the Golden Mullet awards.
There is nothing about this game that works. Not fighting, not graphics, not story line. With how many early Xbox games were terrible, it’s amazing the system survived long enough to hit its groove. Drake is one game that most likely, will not be on the top of anyone’s list to make Xbox 360 compatible.
This is on the majority of top ten horrible lists. The graphics and controls are terrible, and this is a blatant rip off of Mario 64, with the stupid furry whatever it is yelling a “cool, hip” line every 3 seconds.
The 3DO is considered perhaps the worst video game platform ever, and many of the 3DO forums online brag about “as owners of the 3DO, we gamers know about truly bad games.” This game was the bar for bad, by which all the terrible 3DO games were measured. Most people have never even heard of “plumbers.” They’re much luckier than the ones who actually played this game, a sad attempt at a sim game about plumbers trying to woo women.
There hasn’t been a good Superman game yet, but this one takes the cake. Terrible cube like graphics that were even worse than pixel games, a weird green haze over everything, and shoddy game play are just a few of the things wrong. One example: you’re supposed to be able to throw cars. Only problem is the game won’t let you ever pick one up. This game was on Nintendo Power’s list of “5 Worst Games Ever,” and this game even has an award named after it: the “Superman 64″ award for most disappointing game of the year.
Okay this is kind of a cheap one since it was never technically released, as this was going to be part of a mini-game from an unreleased Penn and Teller video game that would have been released for Sega CD back in 1994. This game is now available as a download to PC. But the idea behind this game (even if it was meant as a joke, and it isn’t clear if it was or not) is so bad that it belonged on the top ten.
This game is very straightforward. You have to drive a bus through the desert from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada. And in an homage to accuracy, the entire trip is in real time, so it is a minimum of 8 hours. Even better:
There is no scenery or traffic or anything on the road. Only one plain desert scene that never changes for eight hours. At five hours of driving, one bug hits the windshield and becomes a green splatter. And the alignment is off just enough that the bus veers to the right just slightly, so it’s impossible to just tape down a button and go do something else. If you make it through eight of the most boring and painful hours of your life, then you score one point.
Especially notable: Burning desire and Custer’s Revenge. As far as not only being bad, but being “shameful,” these are the worst games ever made. Either they’re trying to peddle violent sexual fantasies to kids, with those great Atari graphics, or the sheer stupidity of not catching what those games implied is just stunning. These are the types of games that give video gaming a bad name, and are by far and away the most shameful examples of games ever made.
Not only do these games make almost every list of worst games ever, but when Game Spy Magazine put together a list of the most shameful games ever, Custer’s Revenge came in #1. There is nothing redeeming in any way about these games, and quite frankly I’m amazed they were ever allowed to be produced.
This game was so terrible that even after over 30 years of video gaming, there is still consensus that this is the worst game ever. So many returned cartridges came back that they literally buried thousands upon thousands of them in the desert, piling concrete on top of it. This isn’t even a myth. You can look up online where the dump site is in the Nevada desert.
Ouch. This game was so bad it single handedly destroyed the Atari corporation, and almost destroyed video games, being the biggest single contributor to the “Video Game Crash of 1983.” Wow. I mean, wow.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:30 am
I’ve never played any of these…but now I know what to look out for and not play!
But maybe it would be funny LOL
April 7th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Now I want to go out and try them for myslef lol.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:50 am
What made ET so horribly bad? I’d like to give this game a shot…
April 7th, 2008 at 6:52 am
No Ethnic Cleansing? It was a FPS where you played a nazi skinhead or a klansman and killed blacks, jews and latinos. They even used monkey soundclips for the black people.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:59 am
bleh
April 7th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Go here for hilarious reveiws and examples of some of these games and more of the worst of the worst.
http://cinemassacre.com/AVGN/Nes_Nerd_videos.html
He is so funny that I peed myself a little during several of his videos.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Wow, just wow, I actually played the Aquaman game, after three days I took it outside, got some lighter fluid and firecrackers, the watched it get destroyed. It didn’t deserve returning, it was too horrible and no kid should ever have to play it.
and on #8, shouldn’t it be “The”, not “the” when talking about the Gamestop guys?
April 7th, 2008 at 7:10 am
I remember playing Shaq fu, lol. And why didnt I hear about Bebes kids? Im so all over it!! : )
April 7th, 2008 at 7:15 am
halo 3 should be number 1. lol COD4 rocks!
April 7th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Big Rigs? Clayfighter on the 64?
Also there’s a joke that us PS1 users used to say. “What’s the most honestly named game ever? Iznogoud…”
April 7th, 2008 at 7:20 am
My parents baught me E.T. Yes, it is that horrible. All you did was run around tring to get away from a guy with a gun and avoid holes in the ground. If you fell in a hole then you had to strech E.T.’s neck and levitate out of the hole but you would levitate out of the hole and then fall right back in the hole. I played it for less than an hour and went right back the Astroids and Pit Fall.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:21 am
I’m glad to say Shaq Fu is the only from this list I have ever been subjected to. And yes, it was definitely a travesty…
April 7th, 2008 at 7:32 am
I’m surprised Big Rigs isn’t on the list!
April 7th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Great list, it’s always fun to laugh at bad games!
Nickt: Big Rigs was the first game I thought of when I saw this list, I laughed so much when I saw a video review of it on youtube.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:40 am
dangor: I actually played it, truly truly horrible, I expected it to be on here.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:14 am
V-Tech Rampage is on flash. That’s the only one I played on this list. I thought it was funny, simply because of Cho’s video.If he hadn’t done it, he would be an even bigger internet laughingstock than Numa Numa!
April 7th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I knew what would be number one as soon as I saw the name of the list. I have no clue about gaming, and honestly never been interested at all in anything beyond tetris, but even I’ve heard of the travesty of the ET game.
Very interesting list.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:43 am
I thank my lucky stars i’ve never been subjected to any of these.
And hey, i thought Jamie wasn’t into gaming..
April 7th, 2008 at 8:44 am
I played superman 64, and I thought it was garbage. I had no idea you were supposed to pick up cars.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Well, let’s get things straight.
There is a difference between should never been made and should be made and did a bad job.
There are some games on the list, like ET and Superman 64, that there isn’t a problem making, but the games themselves are just terrible. The concept isn’t the problem, but the game themselves are.
But then there are some games, like the adult games for Atari and Shaq Fu, that should not have been made, because the game have no reason to be around. There, the concept is the problem, as well as the game.
IMHO.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Every time i hear about the ET game, I think of the Code Monkeys episode about it, F***ING hilarious.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Mandie: Thanks for that list, some of those are really funny, kinda reminds me of Yahtzee from zero punctuation from http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation
Check some of those reviews out too if you have the time
April 7th, 2008 at 9:38 am
edit – I meant link not list…
April 7th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Wow, I was about to say: “There are thousands of lousy video games. How can you pick just 15? Blah Blah” Actually though, this is a pretty good list. The closest I came to any of these was an old Bubsy game I played on the Sega Genesis.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:05 am
for anyone considering playing ET:
It is that bad, not only is it that bad, it is worse, not only is it worse than that, it is abysmal. I would rather have my eyes plucked out with a screwdriver, while having my tongue cut with razor blades, while having my man-bits squeezed in a vise, while have the nails ripped off my toes, while having someone brush my teeth and then making me drink orange juice, while listening to Vogon poetry, while Zamfir’s pan flute music is playing.
No wait, I take that all back. ET is worse than that.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I’m scared to look it up so could someone just tell me… In that picture for the “adult” atari game… Are they naked? And is one guy kind of happy about it? Or is it just really really bad design choices?
April 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am
D for the PS1 was pretty bad. The thing was you had to beat it in less than three hours. So, guess what? There were only three hours of gameplay! Ugh, you’d think the developers would have considered that angle.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am
G3:
Game Spy Article:
Custer’s Revenge remains one of the most controversial and bizarre games ever released. The object of the game is to guide a naked, horny, General Custer across the screen while avoiding incoming arrow fire. Waiting at the other side is a naked Indian maiden, and you earn points by… scoring. The slogan of the game was something like “When you score, you score!”
I wonder what pervert thought General Custard equaled sexy?
April 7th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I love video games, and I can only shake my head, sadly but knowingly, agreeing with everything on this list. A notable missing entry would be Columbine Massacre RPG, or whatever the hell it was called. Video games shouldn’t be based off of real-life, horrible events.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a World War II game to play.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Good list idea, boring commentary. You said some variation of “worst game ever” about 10 times! That’s just lazy and repetitive.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Great list. Thankfully, it seems, I have played none of the above games.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am
When my brother and I were younger, we used to go to GameStop and look at their selection of used video games because they were cheap and gave us a few minutes of fun playing a new game. There were so many Superman 64 games, we almost bought one! Perhaps I’m glad we saved our $3!
Funny that video gaming has been out for a few decades now and yet many of these games were released within the last ten years or so. You’d think they would learn!
I personally think #15 should be higher on the list, simply because it was done in very bad taste… very bad.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Custer’s Revenge proves that most video game designers are horny nerds.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:30 am
copperdragon: Was there any doubt in your mind?
April 7th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Only one game has the honor of being so horrible that thousands of copies of it were buried in the Nevada desert:
E.T. The Extraterrestrial. Nuff said.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:55 am
dude, i love shaq fu! ahahah
seriously, when i was a kid i fricken loved that game for some reason. some of the coolest characters to fight with, minus shaq.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Big Rigs should be added I think. And the infamous three black sheep of the Zelda franchise were not developed or published by Nintendo at all, it was actually Phillips who got the rights to make some games out of Nintendo’s franchises like Mario and Zelda because of a broken contract between them.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I work at a Gamestop… and I have for a while. As most of you well know, we used to take backdated games from old worn out systems. I used to see a good majority of those games come into my store and I actually have almost all of them in my collection… among others. I even have one of the only remaining copies of Shaq Fu for it’s mere collectors value when the rest get burned. I will say, some of those titles did surprise me… I haven’t even heard of a few of them like Desert Bus. Madness. Either way… your list is very well written and very accurate. I just would have made it a list of 20. I have 5 you might want to add.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I liked Shaq-Fu.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
RPGuru: feel free to tell us your other five! I had a whole bunch extra so this will be the first of many lists on the topic!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I can’t believe there are games like these. Who gave the o.k. for releasing them in the public? I hope he is fired!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I still have the ET game sitting among the old Atari cartridges, but somehow I don’t think I’ll be playing it. What a boring, stupid and unbelievably aggravating game.
I agree with a previous poster about the comments though. I would have liked to have read more about WHY the games sucked rather that they are considered one of the worst and have won XXX award for sucking.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
i grew up so game system poor, that when nintendo came out in the states i got the redesigned atari 2600. i beat e.t. twice and liked it. the indiana jones game i couldn’t beat tho.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
this game dominates all those games
http://www.break.com/index/review-of-worst-video-game-ever.html
April 7th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
to be fair, Custer’s Revenge (or any of the other pornogames for the 2600) was not made by Atari, just like how Superman 64 was not made by Nintendo. They are third-party games (Custer is by Mystique, Superman is by Titus). E.T., however, is by Atari, so ridicule Atari for that one all you want. the 2600 version of Pac-Man really should be on this list (also done by Atari)!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
The reason games like custers revenge were released, is because at the time, anyone could make a game, and market for the atari, they essentially had no control over it.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
JT: Clayfighter rocked! Maybe you needed to be stoned to play it.
The worst game I’ve ever played was Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter. One of my Friends told me to try it, more as a challenge to my abilities. He wasn’t wrong for once. games of that small caliber don’t even show up on my radar. What Crap!
April 7th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
good idea, but the descriptions should have included more ABOUT each game, rather than just ‘this game is lame & got this rating!’
April 7th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
“Indiana Jones” for the 2600 needed to be here. THat game was unbeatable.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Rob:The game sucked, but I can’t wait for the new movie, Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford is too old for this shit. Looks good.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Csimmons: Given George Lucas’s keen eye for sparkling dialogue (*rolls eyes*), what do you think the odds that ol’ Indy will actually say, “I’m getting too old for this shit,” are? I’d say you be a fool to put your money against it.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
and ET didn’t cause the video game crash. The crash was cause by the supply of games and consoles far exceeding the demand for games and consoles. When supply is high and demand is low, prices plummit, and many find it difficult to make a profit. Thus, a crash. E.T. certainly didn’t help matters, but it didn’t cause the crash.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
“getting only a 6% out of 100″
That’s a bit repetitive isn’t it?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
My gosh, I remember that stupid ET game. Every time you’d get him moving, he’d fall in a darn hole.
And I am very disappointed that Michael Jackson Moonwalker game didn’t make it. I’d give anything to see him saving little girls with his dance moves again.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
what about that game where you had to find mario by solving a bunch of clues about geography. I thought it was the shit but i look back and remember what a douche i was.
What was that game called? Wheres mario? Luigi’s Geographical Adventure? i cant remember…
April 7th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
‘“getting only a 6% out of 100″
That’s a bit repetitive isn’t it?’
Not as repetitive as “A terrible game based on a terrible movie, with one of the most boring games ever.”
April 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Thank you that ET is #1. I wasted 11 mins of my life on the sucker in the 80’s.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Brianne…
2 n’s, huh?
Dont you think thats lazy and repetitive?
I mean, come on, who has 2 n’s?
April 7th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
it is interesting that, at least to my knowledge, there have been so few “adult” themed games. you would think that with the stereotype of gamers being sex starved nerds that naked ladies that you could make do whatever you wanted would be a hot item.
April 7th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I admit to having liked Clayfighter…but I do agree it belongs on this list. The only one I played on here was Shaq-Fu (like so many others who commented on here it seems). Iam almost tempted to hund down a 3DO and a copy of Plumbers Dont Wear Ties…it sounds so bad it would probably be good for a laugh
April 7th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
E.T. was easy.
April 7th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I have a 3DO and it is NOT the worst system ever. However, Plumbers Don’t Wear ties should be number one here. It sucks so bad it hurts. Like, really really hurts.
The only thing that makes it barely tolerable is the nude code that showed a nipple or two that was handy for a kid that didn’t have any access to Playboys or the internet back in the day.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
“Brianne…
2 n’s, huh?
Dont you think thats lazy and repetitive?
I mean, come on, who has 2 n’s?”
Uh…Brianne is a female name, not an alternate spelling of Brian.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
ET was a nasty game.
Honorable mention should go to Rygar and Contra for the NES. On the surface they look good but don’t be fooled.
The only way to play Contra was to use a cheat code for a ton of free guys. If you in essence can’t die with the code what was the point.
Rygar was lesser known but even worse. You could get hit three times then game over and no saving.
Dischunter: you may be right that geeky gamers may be sex starved but they ain’t gonna need a video game. They can find it elseware. (hint: the internet)!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
what about daikatana?
April 7th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
OMG! The picture for #2 is hilarious! I’ve never even played any of these or heard of some of then.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Hey, do you award scholarships?
April 7th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
What about Hotel Mario???
April 7th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Shaq Fu!!
That’s the only one I’ve heard of/played.
I played that a TON in kindergarten!
Then I grew up and was like…. “What was that weird game, again? I mean….what??”
April 7th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Yikes- I’ve played none of these games, except the worst one. I remember making E.T.’s head move and having to run away, then another scene of something else. Last time I played it, I got extremely frustrated and said how stupid the game was. Which, looking back, was impressive because I’m usually easy to please with video games and I was 7.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
58. NeoLudd
Uh, why the countless Jennifers that roam the landscape, such as myself. Who has two D’s, anyway? Puddle of Mudd? Great model, there, Chief.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Oh, and I think you are referring to “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”, the single best game to come from the Commodore 64*. Has nothing to do with Mario.
*Yes, even over King’s Quest or Space Quest.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Cedestra: I remember Carmen Sandiego – they also made a TV show based on it (or was it the other way around?)
April 7th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
“Desert Bus” should, (and, it’s a big SHOULD), definitely be item no 1. It’s so freakin’ boring and I, for one, hate such monotony.
62. Paul- I agree, too, that “Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties” must be on a higher place in the list. Porn stuff isn’t good for kids.
BUT, (another big BUT to your statement on nipples exposed) Even if I’m a teenager, I can easily resist such temptation and simply feel such…
“abhorrence, abomination, acrimony, alienation, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, coldness, contempt, detestation, disapproval, disfavor, disgust, displeasure, distaste, enmity, execration, grudge, hate, horror, hostility, ignominy, ill will, invidiousness, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignance, militancy, odium, pique, prejudice, rancor, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, scorn, spite, spleen, venom” (http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/hatred)
…towards the nude, distasteful, and utterly repulsive display of nude women. Women don’t act that way. Really. They deserve respect.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
ET is actually quite underrated. First of all, the graphics suck, yes, but ALL Atari games suck in the graphics department. That shouldn’t even bee an issue. What’s left? All I can tell, people hate stuff like where ET has to go down a pit to collect a piece of candy, and you have to hit up to clim out of the hole, but when you reach the top, you appear in a position near the hole that results in ET falling back into the hole, forcing you to make him climb back out. Here’s a hint: try not sucking at the game? Have patients, take your time, and do it friggen RIGHT.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
I was going to hurt you if ET wasn’t #1.
Good work, finally a list about games that is done properly.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:32 am
“Video games shouldn’t be based off of real-life, horrible events.”
Hence all the war games we love so much.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:39 am
To pick a nit: the copies of E.T. that were entombed in concrete in the desert were not all “returned cartridges,” but rather unsold inventory that had to be completely destroyed in this way to justify an asset writedown. It’s possible there were a few returns in the lot, but the vast majority buried were never purchased in the first place.
Howard Scott Warshaw, E.T.’s programmer, is also responsible for what is considered by some one of the best Atari 2600 video games: Yar’s Revenge. He was very talented, but was given very little time to develop E.T., as management wanted it released in time for Christmas. There are many that bear more responsibility for its monumental failure than he.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:40 am
what makes ET so bad, ive never played it. Is it game play, graphics or what?
April 8th, 2008 at 9:17 am
It seems not only was Atari sorely mistaken in it’s decision to create the ET game, the writer of this list was mistaken when it was noted the games were supposedly dumped in Nevada when they were dumped in New Mexico – of course the desert is the desert.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:11 am
@79: It was an Atari 2600 game so the graphics were bound to suck. My guess is most people are complaining about the game play which, admittedly, takes a bit to master. Once you know what you’re doing the game is actually quite easy. Beatable in 20 minutes or less.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Cedestra-
I know Carmen Sandiego. Me and that broad go way back.
I swear to God there was a geography based NES game where you played as Luigi and had to rescue Mario.
No one will help me out with this cause I lack social skills and etiquette, but still…
April 8th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
My first post!!
I felt it necessary to let you know that I read this list at 10 a.m. while at work. Since then I have been on a wonderful journey through Wikipedia learing about the worst games ever! I just wanted to thank you for contributing to 7 1/2 hours of a complete lack of productivity!! Thanks Listverse!!
April 8th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I agree completely with Superman 64 being up there. It was given to me and soon after was thrown into the garbage out of anger.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Mario is Missing!
Look it up all you slack jawed fagets who told me i was wrong.
I’m a goddamned sexual tyrannosaur.
Strap this on your sore ass!
April 8th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Don’t feed the trolls.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Neo “The Body” Ludd: No one argues that Luigi running around with a vacuum cleaner isn’t a crappy idea, But these are by far much much worse.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I refer to the Ghost hunting Luigi crap for the 64. If there was any confusion. Mistaken video game.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
@DiskHuker: The stereotype of gamers being nerds is quite new, though. Back in the 70s and 80s, the stereotype was of children playing video games (which, to be fair, was mostly true). That’s why pornogames like Custer and Leisure Suit Larry were so controversial. Among less “in the know” people, this stereotype still exists (and is still quite justified), part of the reason why the GTA: San Andreas thing was such a political ordeal. Of course, no child should have been playing that game in the first place, but ol’ Hil Rodham won’t admit that.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:41 am
73. JFrater- the game came out first, if I remember correctly. Rockapella did vocals for the show and later did a coffee jingle; good stuff, if you like acapella groups.
85. Neoludd- who told you you were wrong? I thought you may have been mistaken, but I couldn’t find anyone saying you were flat out wrong.
April 9th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Here’s the link to watch the video on the E.T. game. It made me cry, LoL.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
GTA: AHHHHHHHHHHH! MY EYES ARE ON FIRE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
April 9th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
If you can beat this game, you are a video-game GOD!
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/games/play/277055/#
April 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Csimmons: I really don’t know what to say to that video, Except for laughing at it…I don’t know why it was made
April 11th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
did you say that almost everybody loves video games. I know a lot of people and almost none of them like video games including myself. you have little to gain but entertainment mixed with time wasting, and there is nothing to gain from them!
April 11th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
@Thepennymachine: TV is useless, and millions watch it.
One could argue for the dextrious, stimulating, or cathartic benefits of video gaming. It may not be as useful as curing AIDS, but it’s not at all useless. Besides, the NES game “Sesame Street: 1-2-3″ helped me learn how to count!
April 11th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
What do you mean T.V is useless? Instant information sent to the masses. can you think of a more effecient way? a lowcost T.V. that you can use for so may different things? come on.. brilliant invention
April 16th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Why am I not surprised that Wand of Gamelon is on here?
April 16th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I played and beat Superman 64 as a kid. In the early N64 days, which seems to be before anyone else’s time in these responses, Superman 64 was a decent game. It wasn’t the most fun had playing as Superman or anything like that, but it is comparable to Superman Returns for PS2 and other consoles today. As a little kid with a Nintendo 64 and not much else to do, you probably would have found some enjoyment in Superman 64 too…it was actually fun to try and fly through the rings. Lifting cars did work and you could even take cars way up into the air and throw them down onto buildings. Superman’s powers were also pretty cool to see for the first time in 3D.
The lamest part of the whole game had to be the fact that the city you’re defending, Metropolis, was uninhabited. Though the good thing about seeing an uninhabited city like in Superman 64 was that I immediately got the idea to make a game like Grand Theft Auto in 3D. I really liked the 2D Grand Theft Auto games and Superman 64 so Grand Theft Auto in 3D wasn’t a huge jump from that, but I did have the idea.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
FBI Hostage Rescue (2004) I played it. I got headache from level one, but I passed it. Level 2 was simple, but at level 4 I started to womit.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
the all time worst game would have to be a game by the name of: the legend of link! this is a rpg game and it sucked!!! the world is a crappy piece of work. the enemys look like dog crap with feet!!! And the never ending side mission!!!! enemies flying towards you and just killing you!!! what the hell is that about!!
not only that it just ruined alot of the essence of the legend of zelda! so i say this game was the worst honestly.
May 18th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I… Would… SO… play… Desert Bus.
=D
June 18th, 2008 at 11:58 am
You should add the Sims 2. this game requires that you play for at least ten hours in order to see any progress. You become a zombie if you consent to play the game for any length of time. When you play a sim life it corresponds to at least a week of your, human life so that you actually rot your life away as you play it. The game bombards your computer like a dos attack until everything slows down. It’s major device is annoyance and irritation and repetition. It can actually destroy your windows installation or worse. Also, the game makers are obsessed with urine, defecation, and vomit. The game open up with a mother who vomits in a toilet and her baby is programmed by the game to then go and play in the toilet. All toddlers in the game play in the dirty toilets, you can not stop them unless you install a hack. All babies are mistreated and abused – it’s a game for sadists. The game provides nannies, who are these decrepit,old hags who abuse all the babies and toddlers by leaving them in isolated areas, leaving them on the floor in their own refuse, starving them, leaving them alone, urinating on them or worse. Old people are depicted as human refuse incarnated – they are worthless whereas in real lie our elders are often quite healthy and fit. The game revolves around human waste- the nannies who care for the babies are programmed to abuse by putting the babies on the floor and then urinating on themselves so that the babies are laying in the nanny’s urine. The game attracts a lot of homosexual men and has been endorsed by an important gay and lesbian organization because of its very lenient attitude towards homosexual love and sex. It presents a distorted depiction of sexuality. I am not attacking homosexuality, but the Sims presents it as though sexual preference is just matter of random chance. The game is programmed so that two teenagers of same sex who are playing together will spontaneously fall in love which each other. From then on, they will be homosexuals or bisexuals for the remainder of the game. The game is so sick, but it’s still very popular…
June 18th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
That was the most entertaining piece of drivel I’ve read all month.
And I’m referring to the comment above.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:30 am
There’s a Sega Saturn game called Ghen War that should be on a list of terrible games! It apparently sucks so badly that the only time it has sold on eBay (in the completed listings search results) was for 1 CENT (USD). I’m meant to be selling it but can’t be bothered writing up the advertisement…
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 am
from where do i download desert bus (#3)
June 28th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Where’s barbie Horse racing World adventures?
June 28th, 2008 at 10:05 am
lol
July 10th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Y’know, Vani; since you are the “god” of your own personal Sims universe, that universe is a direct reflection of yourself. The game itself is not the problem on this one…
Regarding Desert Bus; “Penn Jillette commented in his radio show that the overly realistic nature of the game was in response to Janet Reno and the controversy surrounding violent video games at the time.” (from Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors Wiki entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Bus#Desert_Bus)
I missed out on all these games, too busy playing the RPGs of the day, I guess. Lucky me.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
HAHAHAHAHA longball I soooo agree with you! COD4>Halo 3
August 15th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Any list of bad game that doesn’t include Big Rigs:Over the Road Racing especially one called, “15 Lousy Video Games That Should Never Have Been Made,” Has no credibility as far as I’m concerned. It is consider the worst game ever made by most of the major game reviewing sites.
September 7th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
google “angry video game nerd”… he reviews some of these games and others…he’s hilarious!
October 8th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
This is a great list. Like most, the only game I’ve had the misfortune of playing was shaq fu. Being a dumb little kid at the time I thought the game was kinda fun. But looking back now I was a fool….
For some strange reason I have an uncontrollable urge to play Desert Bus. Am I dead inside???
(My first post)
October 10th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
dear lord…i own E.T. and Superman 64…
November 8th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Like the V-Tech game but on a much larger scale.
Muslim Massacre. http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24335375-5014117,00.html
November 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I will have to agree, superman 64 does suck. But you can pick up cars. Fly into em.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
crappy list. its missing the two worst games of all time. anyone care to guess what they are? big rigs and action 52.
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 pm
funny i’ve never played or heard of any of these :p
December 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Haha I’ve played Bubsy 3d and Superman 64.
I actually thought both games were quite enjoyable, although i was confused a bit with Superman 64 and I actually completed Bubsy 3d
January 8th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I laughed so hard at Desert Bus that I almost woke the neighbours up!
January 19th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Desert Bus shouldn’t be here; it was supposed to be painfully boring. Due to the people complaining about violent video games they made sure to create a game that could not be seen as violent at all. There’s no question that it was meant as a joke, that fact has been stated in many interviews and the idea was actually created by one of the people who works on the sitcom Two and a Half Men. I’d also suggest looking into LoadingReadyRun and their annual charity marathon session (over 4 days in ‘07 and over 5 in’08.)
As for ET, the band Wintergreen has a great music video where they track down where the cartridges are buried and start to dig.
January 24th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
surprised bill & ted wasnt on here. haha. great movie, but for a video game?
January 31st, 2009 at 11:58 am
Love the list! Though most movie based games quite often get bad reviews. And the game Big Rigs should not be forgotten, due to it’s crappiness. As for the V-Tech Rampage game,”the creator of the game said he did so ‘because it was funny.’”
Try telling that to the victims families. Do you think they’ll get a good laugh?
February 8th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
What about JFK reloaded?
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Vani, your comment has made me want to go out and buy Sims 2 immediately. I must go pee on a baby now.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
125. NatashaLynn
I saw the comment feed from the corner of my eye… and saw “I must go pee on a baby now.” before I saw anything else. I think it was bizarre enough to make me whaaaaaaa??? out loud.
My sister likes Sims as well…I don’t know which version she used to play but when people died, Death would come out doing different skits – one time he came out with a lei and hula danced. One time, I set one of the people on fire when they tried to bbq (happens all too often) and while the guy was flailing around like the human torch, Death came out just to laugh at him.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
the wand of Gamelon, never heard of that.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:56 am
Wand of Gamelon, along with the other CD-i Zelda games and Hotel Mario, was at least good for one thing: Youtube Poop.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Desert Bus was never made and doesn’t count. What about Total Recall, Wizard of Oz, White Men Can’t Jump, Bible Adventures, Universal Combat, BIG RIGS:OVER THE ROAD RACING? Big Rigs should be #2.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Forgot 2 mention Barbie Horse Adventures and Charlie’s Angels.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I read that as Bible Adventures: Universal Combat.
That woulda been AWESOME!
April 26th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
This might be really obvious, but where is Action 52, specifically the NES version? Now that is a horrible pos, deprived of any real sense of fun. Almost all of the games have glitches or bugs that can cause the game to crash. Some games don’t even work, not even on most emulators.
May 29th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
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May 30th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
rofl, “halo 3 should be number 1″, nice try, id see it one but there are some ppl who will play it 25 hrs a day, so ya cant slate a game for that much dedication
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June 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
I have a 3DO, it isn’t that bad….come on, a system that made strip rock paper scissors can’t be all bad, IMO. I’ve also got a copy of the Penn & Teller game for Sega CD…now that is bad!