The Worst Game Ever

[Joeman]

I didn't have to think long on this one. I am a big fan of Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force, so I rushed out and bought Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro Am for PS2 as soon as it came out. That game has to be the biggest clusterfuck of a video game I've ever seen. For awhile I just assumed they made it bad on purpose. They had put what they called the "worst video game ever" on one the ATHF DVD's a few years before, so there was precedent for thinking that that might be the case. In the end though, I think they just got screwed over by the developer they hired.

Anyway, I never got more than a few minutes into the game. Trying to go any further just seemed 100% pointless. The subsequent reviews that came out all confirmed it's horridness.

 

[Aike]

^No FIFA game comes close to the ineptitude of Gazza II.

The game had a top-down view of the "action", only problem was that the view was so close that you could only really see the player on the ball so basic passing was virtually impossible and the game was completely unplayable.

That game was awful. It was renamed Anders Limpar´s proffsfotboll in Sweden, but still sucked. (Limpar is a famous former Swedish soccer player who played for Arsenal at the time.)

 

[Aike]

Worse than Peter Beardsley's International Football? Where the perspective changed whenever you crossed the halfway line?!

I loved that game when it came out. Obviously, soccer games sucked in the 80s. Well, maybe, except Kick Off.

 

[Hermiod]

^No FIFA game comes close to the ineptitude of Gazza II.

The game had a top-down view of the "action", only problem was that the view was so close that you could only really see the player on the ball so basic passing was virtually impossible and the game was completely unplayable.

That game was awful. It was renamed Anders Limpar´s proffsfotboll in Sweden, but still sucked. (Limpar is a famous former Swedish soccer player who played for Arsenal at the time.)

I'm an Arsenal fan so I'm aware of Mr. Limpar.

 

[Aragorn]

NES Play Action Football for the NES. When I got it I thought it was gonna be really awesome because of four-player play. The field was at an angle (lower left corner to upper right corner) and your fastest player would still take like a minute to go endzone to endzone.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Oh, and anything Derek Smart has ever released

I'll cut him some slack. He may be an asshole but he's an ambitious asshole, and his games don't suffer for lack of effort. His ambition just exceeds his capabilities, that much is obvious.

I cannot believe how awful that Big Rigs game looks, though. Good God.

I'll rank the original SuperPower as one of the worst games I actually paid for. It sounded like an interesting strategy game but it's a steaming pile of shit with no sensible game mechanics at all.

 

[DBR]

Worst games I've played on the original Nintendo... 3-D WorldRunner, Deadly Towers, Back to the Future, Jaws.

I remember Jaws--remember being stuck in a level for what seemed like forever, where you just stared out at the ocean, once in a while spotting a shark fin. No idea how to proceed.

 

[byron lomax]

I've often heard this said about the Dracula movie tie-in game released for the Mega CD, though I've never had the pleasure of playing it.

 

[Squiggy]

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. It's as bad as it looks.

Yeah, people will come in with pithy shit like "Fallout 3 raped the series, God, it was the worst game I ever played

," but if you're looking for the worst game to ever hit retail shelves, there can be no argument with this one.

 

[Teelie]

There are a few that come to mind. The only one I bought though is the Ghost In The Shell PS2 game. It was cheap and that should've been a give-away how bad it would be. Fortunately I only spent like $10 on it.

Rented though, I've got a few on the list. All of these being NES/SNES: The Predator game, something that had cavemen as well. It was so bad I can't remember it's name. Then there's the Avoid the 'Noid game from back when they had that guy as a mascot for Dominoe's.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Perhaps too long ago. But I bought a football game for the old SEGA GENESIS. It was Walter Peyton football. And I hated it so much because the QB, at best, could throw a 10 yard pass..huh???

I took the game out, put it back in its box, and then went out to my car. Put the game on the street outside my house, and ran over the game like ten times....

Rob

 

[Showdown]

Another vote for Big Rigs.

 

[Angel4576]

Worse than Peter Beardsley's International Football? Where the perspective changed whenever you crossed the halfway line?!

I loved that game when it came out. Obviously, soccer games sucked in the 80s. Well, maybe, except Kick Off.

Kickoff and Emlyn Hughes' International Soccer, that was fcuking brilliant!

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Oh, I forgot to mention that we had ET for the Atari 2600 way back when.

So how does it feel being one of the five people to own that game I hope you kept it, it's probably a collectors item

It's worth about two bucks. I sold a big box of atari cartridges to Vintage Stock not too long ago. I think they probably gave me fifty cents for ET.

 

[Reverend]

Worst I have ever played? It's a toss up between the Dune game that came out for the PC around 2000 and that Starship Troopers FPS that was so buggy it was damn near unplayable. I mean how can you possibly screw up a Starship Troopers game? See bugs => nuke bugs. Should be simple enough, no?

Speaking of which, somebody ought to make a 'troopers mod for Left 4 Dead. The combination of swarms of infected and AI direction should work well with the bug hordes.

 

[Sparky]

I've often heard this said about the Dracula movie tie-in game released for the Mega CD, though I've never had the pleasure of playing it.

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The actual gameplay was pretty poor. But considering that it was on a 16 bit system in 1993, the actual effort itself is quite impressive. It was a classic case of trying to do something that the hardware of the time was just not capable of pulling off.

The worst retail game of all time easily goes to Big Rigs on the PC. I wish I had a sealed copy of that game just for the LOL's

I've been gaming since the Atari 2600 and I have played some pretty shitty games in my time. I have played Big Rigs but that was only after I had seen footage and reviews of the game that gave links to download it.

The worst game that I have legitimately played is hands down without a shred of a doubt Superman 64.

I don't have the words for this so i give you this video.

(Skip to the 3:18 mark to get past the intro and setup.)
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dJXgJ1c4vY[/yt]

 

[23skidoo]

Hands down, the worst game I've ever purchased is the PC version of True Crime New York City.

It has the distinction of being the first and only game I have actually, literally thrown in the garbage.

Graphically, the game is fine. But the controls were absolutely impossible to use. I remember one command - one that I needed to master in order to survive - required me to have six fingers on one hand, or something.

I got so frustrated, I threw the box across the room and it sat there under a chair for about a year before I was cleaning house and I went to take it in for trade. And the store refused to buy it - not because it was in bad shape (it wasn't) but because no one wanted to buy it. So I chucked it in the garbage. Luckily I'd only paid $5 in a remainder bin (which probably said something right there).

Initially I thought maybe it was just me, but then I read reviews and saw others were just as frustrated as I was.

I'm not a huge fan of abandoning PC gaming in favor of consoles - I've always been of the opinion that desktop games just seem to have more depth and complexity, for some reason. But my experience with Streets of NY certainly made me consider the console option. Fortunately the next game I purchased was Half-Life 2, which made up for things in spades.

Alex

 

[Rett Mikhal]

What, no love for the Super Nintendo atrocities that are Shaq Fu and Bebe's Kids?

Angry Video Game Nerd and Nostalgia Critic have reviewed these to great hilarity, but they were already QUITE infamous before that. To the point there used to be a website devoted to finding and destroying all copies of Shaq Fu.

For worst sequel that is 'alright' on its own but completely and utterly destroys the original, one things comes to mind: Deus Ex: Invisible War.

The... horror...

 

[GabeHimself]

For me it would have to be Master Of Orion 3. I loved the first one which left me very dissapointed when I tried #3.

Oh my GOD! YES!

I thought I was the only one who watched as . . . the game didn't need me at all. As all the amazing things of Battle of Antares was missing.

 

[FordSVT]

Not sure what the worst game I have purchased is. But as for the worst game I have heard of, I would like to nominate...
Cosmic Race:



When I was a kid I had a subscription to Game Players magazine, and they rated their games on a scale of Cosmic Race to 10.

That was the first game I thought of. Zero collision detection, the vehicle would often travel right through obstacles or even through the ground at random. Totally buggy shit, it's amazing it made it to store shelves.