Worst Video Games of All Time

[The Dork Knight]

Here's my list...

5. Star Wars Masters of Terras Kasai (PSX)
4. The Simpsons Wrestling (PSX)
3. South Park Chef's Luv Shack (PSX, N64, DC)
2. South Park Rally (PSX, N64, DC)

and the king of crappy gaming....

1. Superman (N64)

- Foley Is Good

[bfmusashi]

E.T., Atari 2600.

To be truthful, most of those early Atari games were less than spectacular.

[Dark Spider]

Originally posted by bfmusashi
E.T., Atari 2600.

To be truthful, most of those early Atari games were less than spectacular.

I have visited many website reviews of bad video games, and there is this one Atari game that is on everyone's list of worst video games.

It was called "Custer's Revenge" (I think) and it featured Col. Custer in lewd acts with female indians...or something like that.

[Wilco911]

I still can't figure out what the hell you were suppose to do in that E.T. game. Then again, I guess it would've helped if the flea market or whereever my parents found it at had a manual to go with it.

[Zyzzybalubah]

For right now I only have a top 3:

3.) Superman 64 (N64)
Terrible game. It was delayed so long for nothing. The screenshots looked alright, but the end product was so undetailed and crappy looking it was even funny. The music was some of the most annoying around, I would always set it on mute. Also what's the point of playing as superman when all you do is fly in circles with sluggish controls. I returned it the day after day 1 (and it was a 5-day rental!).

2.) Bram Stalker's Dracula (Sega CD)
Want to hear something really annoying? Play the first level of this game and listen to these ear screeching sound effects of attempted "eery wind blowing". Extremely sluggy control, the graphics even at the time of Sega CD were putrid. No detail, pixelated, and very limited amount of colors (again, even for the Sega CD). I only bought this game because it came with Cliff Hanger for $9.99 (an okay game to start out with, but when you arrive at the snowboarding level, well you're going to be stuck there pretty much forever).

.... and now for my worst of the worst video game!

1.) Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures for NES
I haven't played Atrari's E.T. nor some of the other horrid games I heard about from the early 80s Atari systems, but hear me out. You start the game, see some digitized images of Bill and Ted, then you go to a Payphone. Pound some numbers in, nothing happens! I even saw a phonebook, tried those numbers, nothing worked. All that happened was that I remained at a payphone where you just pound freak'n numbers in. I want to give it a second chance, but haven't found a way to do so yet. Anyway until i give it a 2nd chance or something worse comes along, this remains the worst!

[Sandro]

I hated Donkey Kong 64. So much backtracking that I couldn't stand it.

[guinaevere]

I still can't figure out what the hell you were suppose to do in that E.T. game.

::giggles:: No joke. I had the same problem for that and the Indiana Jones atari games. A friend of my brother worked at a plant where he got his hands on hundreds of cart-less atari chips which he'd share with his friends; we had about eight copies of indiana jones, and not one flippin' clue as to what we were supposed to do!

Back on track, Strawberry Shortcake for the atari 2800 (i'm pretty sure it was a 2800 title) gets my vote. I also didn't like the Predator game for the Atari Jaguar... but then, I didn't care much for any of the Jaguar games, that controller was murder!


So much backtracking that I couldn't stand it.
For some reason, that reminds me of the Save-&-Try-and-Load-and-Take a Step-and-Save-&-Load-and-try-&-Load-Again feature of Tomb Raider. That game also gets a vote.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by Dark Spider
I have visited many website reviews of bad video games, and there is this one Atari game that is on everyone's list of worst video games.

It was called "Custer's Revenge" (I think) and it featured Col. Custer in lewd acts with female indians...or something like that.

Yeah...I think it was about raping female indians or something...really offensive...if not for the fact that the graphics barely resembled anything.

[RZetlin]

If you want to know the 20 worst video games in history then take a look at this list (http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm20.htm).

The worst game of all time is ET, The Extra Terrestrial (2600).

The Atari E.T. game is so bad that five million E.T. cartridges were buried in the middle of the Mexico dessert.

[JDuncan]

They're buried in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Unfortuntely, they steamrolled over all the copies of E.T., Pac Man, prototypes and unsold 2600's, so an archealogical dig would be pointless. By the way, that article was the funniest thing ever in an EGM.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by RZetlin
If you want to know the 20 worst video games in history then take a look at this list (http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm20.htm).

The worst game of all time is ET, The Extra Terrestrial (2600).

The Atari E.T. game is so bad that five million E.T. cartridges were buried in the middle of the Mexico dessert.

That must be some big Mexican dessert! :p

[ohmrbill]

Just about anything that starts with the word, "Xtreme" should be avoided at all costs. Especially if it happens to be one on the PC.

[kiddiesunshine]

ACTION 52!
that game is so bad, you have to shower after playing it. that's a stink that sticks to ya.

[Dark Spider]

Originally posted by jdoggg
They're buried in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Unfortuntely, they steamrolled over all the copies of E.T., Pac Man, prototypes and unsold 2600's, so an archealogical dig would be pointless. By the way, that article was the funniest thing ever in an EGM.

Are you serious? They actually steamrolled over the spot? Man, I would've loved to go to Alamogordo, NM and just dig there to see what I could find.

Oh and yes, that "20 Worst Video Games of All Time" article in EGM was probably one of their best articles if not the best. Seanbaby, the guy who wrote the article, was extremely funny.

[EinBebop]

I actually liked ET.

::ducks::

I remember a really terrible Justice League fighting game for Super Nintendo.

[ClarkKent]

Originally posted by jdoggg
They're buried in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Unfortuntely, they steamrolled over all the copies of E.T., Pac Man, prototypes and unsold 2600's, so an archealogical dig would be pointless. By the way, that article was the funniest thing ever in an EGM.

Freaky....I was born in Alamogordo.

[Zyzzybalubah]

Originally posted by ohmrbill
Just about anything that starts with the word, "Xtreme" should be avoided at all costs. Especially if it happens to be one on the PC.

Uh oh, I plan to buy Grandia Xtreme tomorow. :(


I remember a really terrible Justice League fighting game for Super Nintendo.

Justice League Task Force? That was a terrible game, I played the Genesis version. Well it's by Acclaim, I think that says enough (well they have a few good games I guess). Midway has the right to today's Justice Leagues, considering they don't make the best of games, I personally don't like the sound of it.


I hated Donkey Kong 64. So much backtracking that I couldn't stand it.

I agree, that game was dissapointing and very repetitive. Also, it didn't feel much like a 3D update to Donkey Kong Country (minus Donkey's tumble, can't remember Diddy too well, Tiny had Dixie's cool hair thing though), it felt too much like another Mario 64. Rare was/is a good company, but some of their 3D Platformers weren't too great.

[EinBebop]

Just finished that site... it was great!


and the entire world is covered in a dull green fog. The game calls this "Kryptonite fog," but it looks suspiciously like something they put there so they didn't have to draw more than a couple buildings.

:D :D HAHAA.. I remember when this game came out. Putting Superman in a "virtual world" with "kryptonite fog" to justify the weakest graphics in the history of N64 was hilarious! In fact... let me go dig up IGN's review...

"Imagine if all developers explained their game's visual limitations in storyline. "No, no -- those are not jumpy framerates you are seeing. Superman is merely drunk, which also blurs his vision considerably. Or maybe, "You've got it all wrong, that is not clipping. Superman is simply using his X-Ray vision to look through the walls."

I'd never seen Zelda: Wand of Gamelon before. I wish I'd never had! :o

[ohmrbill]

Originally posted by Rad Recker
Uh oh, I plan to buy Grandia Xtreme tomorow. :(

No, no. I said, STARTS with the word "Xtreme." That one ends with it. ;)

See: Xtreme Paintbrawl, Xtreme Rodeo, Xtreme Tennis, etc.

I could be "Extreme" rather than "Xtreme;" they're all too bad to remember.

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

Back to the Future 2 & 3 for NES. Utter nonsense.

[xoriel]

I hope I'm not the only one in saying that 'Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker' for the PSOne sucked ass!! Especially this day and age!! :mad:

[mbaker]

Extreme Sports With the Berenstein Bears
(I'd rather watch Laffalympics!)

Street Fighter: The Movie
(Nuff said.)

Bible Adventures
(The thought of losing Baby Mosess to giant spiders should be A sin.)

Kriss Kross: Make My Video
(Where are they now? Wouldn't that be A laugh, and A half!)

Bubsy 3D
(That's when Bubsy jumped the shark.)

Rolling Thunder for the NES
(Not A good port. I wish Namco would include this in their Museum series.)

Any movie, or comic licence from Acclaim
(Especially in the 16 bit years.)

Rapjam Volume One
(Sorry, but A volume 2 with an AO rating featuring today's rap artists wouldn't do it for me.)

Any Simpson home consol game
(Why the arcade game isn't on the home consoles is beyond me.)

Night Trap
(It's bad enough that Dana Plato had A tough time after "Different Strokes")

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES
(Your better off playing the arcade game)

Revolution X
(The coin op was fun, but the PS1 port left much to be desired. Would've been great with the GunCom, or the Justifier.)

Custer's Revenge
(What's amazing is that nobody complained about Custer's lude act.)

Superman 64
("Fly through 75 hoops in one minute, or die?" Please.)

House Of The Dead for Saturn
(Please bring it to PS2, Sega!)

Captain Novolin
(I'd rather play "Food Fight", or "Splat")

Fight For Life
(Virtua Fighter looked better than this!)

E.T. The Extraterrestrial
(Nuff said.)

[cartoonboy]

There is still the occassional bad game for the next gen systems.

I enjoyed the list from Seanbaby. I had to keep the laughs in as I recall some of those titles from back in the day. I would love to see an updated one for 2002. Does EGM do these yearly?

[Nin-Nin69]

Street Fighter: The Movie
Rapjam Volume One
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker <its the game that predicted the futre>
Extreme Sports With the Berenstein Bears
All the Simpson's games besided the Arcade ver, Bart's Nightmare, and Virtual Bart
Superman 64 (Its on PSX too ya dummies) :rolleyes:
Halloween Atari 2800 (over 1/2 of the game is missing)
Inidana Jones Atari 2800 (The Y2K Bug got to it)
Revolution X
Halo <ducks from flying objects>
Final Fight (all edited U.S. versions)
Earthworm Jim 3D
Tatical Ops: Assault on Terror
Sewer Shark
All Barbie games
Bad Street Brawler
Driven
Alone in the Dark 4
MTV Remote Control
XXX
Total Anilation
Godzilla 2 (Famicom)
Bubsy 3D (L0L GamePro said it was "revolutionary graphics") :D
Total Carnage
Any old school WWF game besides Wrestlemania and Royal Rumble arcade ver

[Christopher N. Denner]

And not a one mention for Where's Waldo on NES?



Anyway... ET for Atari had 1 big flaw... they produced more games than there were systems in existence. One of the main reasons they buried so many of them. Even if every Atari owner bought it, they would still have an abundance leftover.

[mbaker]

I agree that the SNES version of Final Fight leaves Much to be desired. only THe Sega CD, and Gameboy Advance versions are near perfect. I just wish Capcom would bring Final Fight One to the Playstation.

[Stu]

Batman Beyond Return of the Joker. Talk about pointless, no movie clips, crap art, stupid charcter designs, 2 villians from ROTJ and the fact that you had a shield that no one could hurt you with you when you were it.

X-men Children of the Atom on the PS1 sucked too. Moves were impossible and Magneto was just too hard.

[Viper]

Here are a few of others:

X-Men vs. Street Fighter (PS1)--graphics were choppy and Apocalypse was impossible to beat
Pong and Q-Bert: the 3-D versions (PS1)--classic games should be left as is
WCW Thunder(PS1)--everything about it is awful!
Smurfs (Atari 2600)
Flinstones Bowling (PS1)--Animaniacs TPA was a lot better

[Opaque]

Bible Adventures... 'nought said

[mbaker]

Capcom should've brought the Saturn versions of their Vs. games to the states. They were still fun, but The Playstation just wasn't powerful enough to do the games justice. Marvel Vs Capcom 2 on the PS2 should make up for this.

[Novdeloth]

Back to the Future 2: Controlling the Delorean was *HARD* and impossible. If it had been going just a bit slower, I might have made it to the next level.

Final Fantasy 8: Heavy on the love story, which I didn't find appealing. (This is just my opinion!)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES): At certain points in the game--considerably crucial ones, like fighting the mini-bosses--the game would slow down and pixels would jump everywhere. And sometimes when you jumped you couldn't control yourself, which made it easier for flying badguys to plow you over.

Star Fox (Super NES): Eh, I just didn't like the graphics. Too many polygons for my taste.

Wheel of Fortune (Game Gear): What could be more thrilling than spinning a digitized version of the big wheel while staring at homely pixelated images of what appear to be humans?

[The Dork Knight]

Originally posted by Viper
WCW Thunder(PS1)--everything about it is awful!


That's funny... I liked it...

*Runs for the hills*

- Foley Is Good

[meatwad945]

driver

[Jade_GL]

I really hated Snoopy's Sports Spectacular, mainly because it was too dang hard to do half of the mini games. I tried for years and still couldn't do much.

Also, Circus Caper was hard and pretty lame.


X-Men vs. Street Fighter (PS1)--graphics were choppy and Apocalypse was impossible to beat

I really liked this game. Sure it's nothing compared to Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, but I thought it was ok. Also, it took me forever to beat Apocolypse, but after I did it once, I was on a role and did it multiple times with different characters.

Oh well, one person's game is another's trash... I bet someone in here loved Circus Caper... :D

[Dark Spider]

Originally posted by Viper
[B]
WCW Thunder(PS1)--everything about it is awful!


If you thought this was bad, try its predessecor(sp?) WCW Nitro. Game sucks 100x more than Thunder...

[KingKoopa]

DBZ: Legacy of Goku: Oh, my son's about to die! Let's get this kitten down from a tree!

Superman 64: 46 namrepuS

Zelda: CDI games: You play as Zelda. Makes sense based on the name, but that's just not how Zelda works.

ET: Jumping on the wagon here.

Anything: Collectible Card Game: These are just stupid attempts to cash in on card games. I hate all these games.

[Trigger]

Sesame Street and Barney

[Elven Moon]

This Winter Olympics game for NES. I bought it at a garage sale and couldn't figure out what the heck I was supposed to do! I couldn't skate (didn't know how to do the tricks), couldn't ski, couldn't anything!

[Zyzzybalubah]

This Winter Olympics game for NES. I bought it at a garage sale and couldn't figure out what the heck I was supposed to do! I couldn't skate (didn't know how to do the tricks), couldn't ski, couldn't anything!

Wow sounds like Nagano Winter Olympics for N64. That game was terrible. I know there is a PS1 version as well but I only played the 64 version. Horrible graphics, almost all unplayable games (the skiing game, press one button and you lose the event), and terrible control for the games that were playable. Looks like Konami shouldn't handle Winter Olympics games (unless there are some good ones out there). By the way, if you all forgot Midway made a Nagano Hockey game which was the exact same thing as the previous Wayne Gretzky games only with different logos. Geez, the laziness of some developers!

[keds1017]

I can't believe no one mention the crappiest n64 game ever :
HYBRID HEAVEN : This game is pure garbage :p

MY List of Worst:

GBA: Almost the entire library expect for a good few :p

Nes: Transformers{ugh},TMNT 1, JAWS 1,2,3.

Snes: The Justice league, Batman Forever, All sport games for this system

GBC: Arthur's happy special...um whatever day { Just suck :p }

PSX: Need for Speed, X-men vs Streetfighter, Arthur's big race.

N64: Superman, Batman Beyond, oh Hell the whole system was crap!!
OK I'M finish :D

[Ajax]

Superman for the N64, Forsaken for the N64 and E.T. I would go on But I'm just too lazy to remember all of history's crappy games.

[ToonamiFanatic]

well that list by EGM
which listed Total Recall. I had that game for the nes it was a somewhat ok game but the Instructions were crap didnt explain much what to do. and it wasnt even like the movie!! didnt even beat it I think I traded to a old friend for a ninja game of some sort for the NES long ago and never got it back

[Tintin]

My worst are Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters for PS1, (very crappy) Daffy Duck' Fowl Day for GBC (i played in my computer and the colors are very bad) and South Park (PS1), very very difficult and very worst which i am believed!!! :o

[Novdeloth]

Just thought of two more games: Robocop for the NES (or was it Super NES?), and Ren & Stimpy for the Game Gear. The music for both games was great, imo, but the controls were hard for Robocop, and there weren't a lot of badguys in R&S. Just a lot of jumping, walking... look, an enemy! *jump* Well, that took care of him. Hopefully I'll see another one before I reach the end of the level.

[Behonkiss]

Anyone ever played Batman Forever for SNES and Genesis? That was pretty bad.

I also hated Buck Bumble for N64.

[SpotLane]

Here's some bad games I own.

NES: Super Bible Adventures

Sega: Clayfighter

PSX: Tomb Raider

DC: Sonic Shuffle

Atari: ET

[mbaker]

You think "Batman Forever" for The Genesis, and SNES was bad, you should try the arcade game. Not only was that bad, but it also destroyed the "side scrolling beat 'em up" gerne. It also deestroyed Acclaim's future as an arcade developer.

[Jade_GL]

Clayfighter was on SNES too.... And it also sucked for that system... :D

[Rabbiterose]

:dot:

Out of all the games I've played in my life(and I'm pretty lucky that I haven't played E.T. and those CD-I Zelda games) the worst ones I've played were...

~~Brandish(SNES)

~~King Arthur and the Knights of Justice(SNES)

~~Basically, any THQ made video game based on a cartoon or TV show franchise--especially that gawd awful Space Ace game for the SNES

~~Any game that was made by Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree(i.e. Baby Boomer, The Exterminator, Bible Adventures, Menace Beach/Sunday Funday)

~~90% of those FMV games that were on the Sega CD

~~Bubsy 3D--it hurts!

[James]

You should try some of the early spectrum games - Chilller, Brainache, Centipede... they were bad..

I thought the X-Men/Spiderman team up on the snes was pretty dreadful.

[meatwad945]

clayfighter ruled man youz guyz must be craz

[mbaker]

I agree, SJJ. "Arcade's Revenge" was one of the worst comic book games ever produced. (Then again, what did you expect from Acclaim.) Thank God Capcom (As well as Konami, and Sega) changed all that. Activision also deserves some credit as well.

http://www.gsarchives.com/arcade/sprites/MarvelSuperheroes/Spiderman_breath.gifhttp://www.gsarchives.com/arcade/sprites/X-MENvsStreetFighter/Rogue_breath.gifhttp://www.gsarchives.com/arcade/sprites/X-MENcoa/Wolverine_breath.gifhttp://www.gsarchives.com/psx/sprites/X-MENcoa/Psylocke_breath.gif

[guinaevere]

Thought of another, and this one I rate all time worst.

Any of the Bam! games for Cartoon Network.

My brother picked up PPG Chemical Xtraction for me; game play was no more than 10 minutes, I exaggerate not. Plus it had one, maybe two MIDI songs that just kept repeating.. ugh. HORRIBLE.

Nothing more than an opportunity to cash in on Licensing of PPG & Dexters Lab without a thought to actually putting a legitimate game together. For shame.

[Lucky Bob]

Rocketeer for SNES.

Good concept for a game, but just like 5 REEEEAAAAALLLLLLY LOOOOOOONG levels.

[mbaker]

Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (What was Namco thinking?)

[meatwad945]

Originally posted by mbaker
I agree, SJJ. "Arcade's Revenge" was one of the worst comic book games ever produced. (Then again, what did you expect from Acclaim.) Thank God Capcom (As well as Konami, and Sega) changed all that. Activision also deserves some credit as well.

http://www.gsarchives.com/arcade/sprites/MarvelSuperheroes/Spiderman_breath.gifhttp://www.gsarchives.com/arcade/sprites/X-MENvsStreetFighter/Rogue_breath.gifhttp://www.gsarchives.com/arcade/sprites/X-MENcoa/Wolverine_breath.gifhttp://www.gsarchives.com/psx/sprites/X-MENcoa/Psylocke_breath.gif

hehe thas awesome

[SpotLane]

Originally posted by guinaevere
Thought of another, and this one I rate all time worst.

Any of the Bam! games for Cartoon Network.

My brother picked up PPG Chemical Xtraction for me; game play was no more than 10 minutes, I exaggerate not. Plus it had one, maybe two MIDI songs that just kept repeating.. ugh. HORRIBLE.



That's the game that rips off Capcom's 3D Power Stone in a 2d environment right?

[mbaker]

I read somewhere that Konami made A "Powerpuff Girls" arcade game last year. I can't seem to find pictures of the game, or it's cabinet. If such A game dose exist, then it needs to be brought to the PS2! pronto!

[Conekiller]

Hmmm, all the ones in the EGM articel plus these

Rugrats treasure hunt-N64, just gawd awefull

X-men-something-or-another of Apocalypse- SNES horrible game, Psylocke had a pea head and Cyclops looked like a caveman

and the worst of all

Castillian-NES this game defies crap-tiude, it is so bad THERE IS NO MUSIC just one sound effect that sounds like it was a magic wand effect from some other game, slowed down and backwards (my dreams still are haunted by the noise) the whole game was this little green q-bert ripoff walking up the side of a tower of a castle (think the Mushroom stages from MMX4, but crappier) the character had 2 frames of animation and couldn't jump, there were enemies on the staircase but they would a ttack you and you would die, just like that, there was no way to avoid them, no jumping, no firing anything, and if you were able to make it past their projectiles (by some act from the almighty) the enemy would just stand there on the step you had to be on to continue to reach the top of the tower, then you would walk into it and DIE (there was no energy bar or extra lifes, that was it, you started all over) this game is so bad it hurts me just to talk about it

go find a rom for it and see what I mean

[James]

Airwolf on the Spectrum and C64, again, that was bad...!

[mbaker]

If your refering to "X-Men: Mutant Apocalypes" for the Super NES, then I must inform you that Capcom developed that title. It may not be the best, but it was better that what Acclaim put out earlier. It was only A matter of time before Capcom showed us what the can really do with the Marvel licence. See below.

http://www.gsarchives.com/arcade/sprites/MarvelSuperheroes/Spiderman_breath.gifhttp://www.gsarchives.com/arcade/sprites/X-MENvsStreetFighter/Rogue_breath.gifhttp://www.gsarchives.com/arcade/sprites/X-MENcoa/Wolverine_breath.gifhttp://www.gsarchives.com/psx/sprites/X-MENcoa/Psylocke_breath.gif

[moldorm]

The worst of all time is Action52, an unlicensed collection of 52 really awful original games for the NES.

[SpotLane]

Cosmic Carnage for Sega 32x is a really horrible fighting game.

[James]

Personally, I found the PSX version of Mechwarrior stank compared to the original - that was a classic on the PC. The PSX version was very disappointing, missing out the entire strategy element.

[Orange Star]

- Superman 64: Too much stuff they made you do. On the easy setting, before I gave up, this was on the first level:

* Go through hula hoops
* Grab a cop car and throw it through a hoop
* Same as first
* Punch out thugs
* Same as above
* Gave up

[Bluntman]

I've got a game that is not only bad, but also horrible taste. It's called "Ethnic Cleansing". Need I say more? Do a web search for it. I have seen it for myself, and it sucks. Not only is it a lousy game, it's horrible in concept.

[Frank White]

Originally posted by Rad Recker
Uh oh, I plan to buy Grandia Xtreme tomorow. :(



Justice League Task Force? That was a terrible game, I played the Genesis version. Well it's by Acclaim, I think that says enough (well they have a few good games I guess). Midway has the right to today's Justice Leagues, considering they don't make the best of games, I personally don't like the sound of it.




I didn't think JL:TF was that bad. Even though the character powers were a little off balance.