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| Posted on 2012-04-12 02:54:37 AM |
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A lot of gamers have considered that the E.T for the Atari 2800 is *the*
worst game ever made. But don't think so. The game had an impressive title
screen due to its accurate E.T head (For a 4-bit console). And the music
was well done. The purpose of this thread is simple. List game WORSE than E.T.
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| Posted on 2012-04-12 06:36:50 AM |
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How about the Drive the Desert Bus mini game? Takes 8 hours to score 1 point, making it more tedious than ET could ever dream of being. If you play that by yourself, you pretty much need a catheter and someone to put food in your mouth for you.
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| Posted on 2012-04-12 07:46:16 AM |
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Big Rigs. At least E.T. worked.
I think E.T. isn't HORRIBLE...It was confusing and tedious, and certainly was a bad game, but not horrible.
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| Posted on 2012-04-12 07:53:23 AM |
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Big Rigs is hilarious, though.
The "worst" game ever would probably be something that simply fails to start. You'll have to quantify it further than that. You could ask for a game that fails at a particular objective the worst; this would discount things like Desert Bus since it accomplished exactly what it set out to do.
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| Posted on 2012-04-12 08:02:13 AM |
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I think E.T. gets way more abuse than what it deserves, there isn't really an issue about it. It was simply too ambitious for the console it was intended for, out of all my Atari games, E.T. gets played fairly often.
My nomination for worst game would have to be "Baseball" for the Emerson Arcadia 2001, it's so sluggish and the control scheme is horrifying.
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| Posted on 2012-04-12 01:39:27 PM |
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Well, "Action 52", "Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout" and almost any game that LJN has made.
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| Posted on 2012-04-12 07:07:18 PM |
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Originally posted by DiscoManWell, "Action 52", "Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout" and almost any game that LJN has made.
Action 52 consisted of vomit from multiple stomach flu patients spread gently and gingerly across a small NES circuit board and also helped solder the otherwise crap digital chops onto the board. That's how the graphics were shit, the controls were shit because of shorts all over the place thanks to said vomit, and why people were repulsed so bad by the game they threw up after playing it because of the smell of vomit wafting from the heating up cartridge.
In conclusion, the game is vomit. Worse than shit.
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| Posted on 2012-04-12 08:30:43 PM |
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Well...there is Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600. That's pretty bad.
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| Last edited on 2012-04-12 08:33:08 PM by Jonny. |
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| Posted on 2012-04-14 09:58:34 AM |
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Sonic R (can you feel your brain cells just dieing every sec?)
Shadow the Hedgehog
Sonic and the Black-Knight
Sonic 2006
sonic 3d blast.
More sonic games.
Bubsy
Bubsy 2
Bubsy 3d
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Hotel mario
Zelda CDI games
Dark castle NES
Dark Castle CDI
Action 52
Cheetamen 2
Superman 64
and the list goes on.......................
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| Posted on 2012-04-14 10:34:05 AM |
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Panic! for Sega CD, why? Randomly guessing which buttons to push and the animations are stupid.
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| Posted on 2012-04-14 04:32:07 PM |
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Well, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial is a bad game. I would not submit that it is the worst of all time, even with the sloppy, confusing, and repetitive gameplay and 5-6 week development time, but it's not this game that singlehandedly took the industry down in 1983. This was more to do with extremely risky business decisions and practices in the industry, loose regulations on games being released at the time, and a distrust of games as being poor influences on children academically.
Now, I don't own any games that are worse than being fairly mediocre, but out of any game I've ever seen (in retail, so Crazy Bus doesn't count), the worst would probably be the likes of Bubsy 3D, or Superman. Honestly, I would imagine the transition from 2D to 3D in the industry as creating some really slipshod and frustrating games, moreso than any other time in the industry.
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| Posted on 2012-04-14 07:41:59 PM |
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For the last time, Sonic '06 and Shadow the Hedgehog are the only bad Sonic games (Though I wouldn't call R, 3d or X-Treme any more than average) and Shadow is only bad because of plotholes and a collision error in Space Gadget
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| Posted on 2012-04-14 10:03:34 PM |
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I actually thought Sonic 3D Blast was decent. Eh, whatever.
I tend to avoid bad games in my collection so I don't really have much to add other than an obligatory "ET isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is". But based on what I've seen from countless AVGN episodes, Action 52 and Superman 64 would probably cut it.
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| Posted on 2012-04-14 11:39:24 PM |
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Ugh, Superman 64...
I'd rather have a buffalo diarrhea in my ear for eight days straight than put my hands on an N64 controller and playing THAT abomination of solidified vomit in a cartridge!
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| Posted on 2012-04-15 10:38:38 AM |
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Here we go, guys. Everyone has been talking about the game that commonly referred to as *DUN-DUN-DUUUUN* "Superman 64" (Even though the numbers don't actually appear in the title) It was widely considered the worst games of all time, with good reason, it's really, really bad. The problems about this game are revolting graphics, never ending bugs, and confusing controls that send the Man of Steel veering into unpredictable areas getting him stuck. Nevermind the fact that the greatest superhero of all time spends more time flying through rings other than duking out with bad guys. Truly, this game is Kryptonite.
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| Posted on 2012-04-15 04:10:08 PM |
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Don't forget Batman Forever for the SNES and the Sega Genesis. The game's controls are so bad, people go crazy, and I am right.
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| Posted on 2012-04-15 04:49:14 PM |
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Batman has been a great star of videogames, but that's until Batman Forever (SNES) released, it looks awful. The controls look like they are taken from Mortal Kombat. What works in a fighting game doesn't really work in the action game.
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| Posted on 2012-04-15 10:35:31 PM |
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I never understood why E.T. gets so much flack. I never thought it seemed THAT bad. It was just as bad as pretty much any game was back then.
As for games that are worst than that? My god... where do I begin? I honestly cannot list them... there are just too many. An obvious one would have to be Sonic 06, of course... as for the others... I cannot name them off the top of my head.
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| Posted on 2012-04-16 02:05:24 AM |
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E.T. may be called the worst game ever, but Atari's insane decisions is one of the reasons what crashed the industry in '83. They thought that making a poorly assembled game in a few weeks with a popular movie's name slapped on it would sell millions. AFAIK they made 12 million cartridges, hoping the game would be a system-seller for the Atari 2600.
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E.T. was actually a pretty decent game for Atari standards. Pac-Man (for the Atari 2600) on the other hand...
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| Last edited on 2012-04-16 02:22:24 AM by mchabez. |
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| Posted on 2012-04-16 10:41:03 AM |
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Originally posted by mchabez
E.T. was actually a pretty decent game for Atari standards.
This is why I made this thread...
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