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Post and talk about bad video games here! We all know that this is the bad movie site, but there are many bad video games out there. Here's the first bad video game that comes to my mind (no, it isn't E.T. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game))).


Action 52
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Action_52_(NES)_box_art.jpg)

Now this one is bad, and it isn't that old either (only released in 1993!). Not only does it have 52 different games (in one), but they are either broken, awfully made, or just bizarre. It even had one of the 52 games turned into actual games (Cheetahmen, to be specific). There was a first one and a truly awful (and rare) second one that didn't even get its cartridge finished.

What bad games come to your mind? Or do you want to talk about this bad game some more?

Pretty much every one of those multi packs are god awful but that's kinda why I love em. I still have old discs that probably won't run on any modern OS...

What OS do they run on?  There are emulators out there for just about everything.  For example, I have an emulator of the Apollo Guidance Computer that I like to play with from time to time.

If they are DOS or Commodore 64 or any other popular platform, that should be no problem at all.  Might be kinda fun to dust 'em off and give 'em a whirl.

Hehe, I agree! I love bad video games just as I love bad movies (personally, I like bad movies more). In fact, most of the games I own are for the Atari, Playstation 1, and Sega Genesis. I remember wanting to have a video game collection a long time ago, but I lost interest and continued with movies.

Anywho, lots of those games were pretty bad. And some (like Berserk, where you shoot robots and then have to run away from a bouncing smiley face) were just weird. One particular one I remember was called "CrazyBus". That was one that hurt my ears....

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYAdirckB_M#)

Looks like a bizarre little-girl version of the purposefully bad (but amazingly good) Goat Simulator. Pretty much has the exact same mechanic of headbutting objects.

Definitely counts as a bad game....

Thats actually a great idea. I have emulators for old Nintendo games and the like but didn't even think about doing something similar for Windows. Now to see if I still have all those shareware demo discs still lying around somewhere!  :thumbup:

Here's another bad game I found a long(ish) time ago.

Evil

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWH1kBIFQgM#)

It is an indie horror game, which you wouldn't expect to be the best anyways, but even for an indie game, this was terrible. Most of the game is just walking through hallways with cheap jumpscares. The only monsters are a skeleton, a shadow creature with a baby face, and some sort of flying octopus-bug man. But... they do nothing except for the shadow baby that screams at you and appears in a couple bad cut-scenes. The only actual obstacle is a spinning cube that you can sometimes walk through, but sometimes it will push you off a road/bridge. I know, real scary.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tbZCEGX7mc#)

Although, its the first in universe appearance of Quan Chi, Shinnok, and Sareena, Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero was really disappointing to me.  The biggest problem was the control.  You needed to hit a button to turn around to face something.  This really became a problem when you had two enemies or either side of you.

There was some shoddy hit detection as well.  One little hit could send you back way too far and into an instant death trap.

Thankfully, the cheesy FMV cut scenes where a real treat to watch.

This is my vote for worst Sega Genesis game, by far, and is one of the first I think of for worst console game all time!
DARK CASTLE
This was previously seen on the Amiga and other PCs, and the controls for this game, the clunky mechanics, weird sound effects, and more just make it irritating, unfair and stupid.  Bad bad bad!
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpJrvAhTiOw#)

For one there were all those early simulator-games. Nowadays many of them are really good actually and done with love for the subject (Farming Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator etc.), but at the beginning they were almost unplayable...cheaply done, ugly as hell and just not worth playing unless you were the hardcorest of hardcore-fans.

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. it's more of a tech demo than an actual game, because it is one unpolished turd.
https://youtu.be/h6DtVHqyYts (http://youtu.be/h6DtVHqyYts)
http://youtu.be/R8X7Vj6JXPk (http://youtu.be/R8X7Vj6JXPk)
Yep, they forgot to cap the reverse top speed, so it is infinite

All the Zelda games for the Phillips CD-I were awful, but the ones with cartoon story scenes were PUTRID.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_MMLvehM0#)

Mah boi! This piece is what all true warriors strive for!

Ugh, yeah. I remember those. And the controls were god-awful. Could hardly get through one level.

BAD STREET BRAWLER is easily one of the 5 worst games for the NES.  Crappy graphics, controls and gameplay, and worst of all.. It looks like instead of subduing your enemies, you're jerking them off!  This abomination was created for use with the failed POWER GLOVE.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAgu7GwbFdM#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTvEQU5Z4Qk#)

A game where you "do" your enemies is pretty bad....

Check out this anomaly,

CRAZYBUS

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCNKq7A5i4#)

It has an immersive theme song, great sprites, a huge plot, endless adventure, and a great and very clever objective!

Ouch, that's horrible.. it's like what you might hear after you receive a substantial amount of head trauma.  But it's just a demo, thankfully.  I guess unfinished games count?

Then of course there was Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer's_Revenge

Gah.  That game makes ET look like a freaking masterpiece.

The Adventures of Gilligan's Island

(http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/83181-the-adventures-of-gilligan-s-island-nes-screenshot-approaching.png)

Imo great show - BAD video game.

On yeah - and Gilligan did NOT ware black and white stripes...

Nooooo! They ruined Gilligan!

Well, ! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xrw0gbnNuU#) is what I have to say to those who developed that game.

I love the show, though. Used to watch it on a daily basis.

That game... just why? Why must it exist? It can make any game look like a masterpiece.... Ick, ick, ick.

There was a small number of adult video games for the Atari 2600 (probably shouldn't show pics, even with the naughty bits being too blocky to be terribly offensive):
BEAT 'EM AND EAT 'EM (Just like the classic KABOOM, except you control women who catch falling release in their mouth, ejected by a man stroking a giant wang at the top)
BACHELOR PARTY (Like Breakout, only the blocks are replaced with nude women and the projectile is a nude man)
X-MAN (in which you must locate among several bordellos the one where a nude woman awaits your pleasure while dogs and cops chase you-- when you succeed an intimate act is explicitly shown)
KNIGHT ON THE TOWN (The best of the games, in which you build a bridge over a castle moat while enemies try to knock you into the moat where an alligator gnaws off your appendage.. when you succeed the maiden in the castle has doggy-style sex with you)
BURNING DESIRE (In which a nude man is lowered via chopper towards a platform where a woman is surrounded by flames-- you put out the flames with your spunk)

There were "flipped" versions of these too, usually where the gender roles were reversed.  In respective order to the above: PHILLY FLASHER, BACHELORETTE PARTY, CATHOUSE BLUES, LADY IN WAITING, and JUNGLE FEVER.

What were these programmers thinking?  PORN on the Atari 2600?  Wow..

To bring something newer to the list. I recently got Rambo - The Game (no...not the NES one) for almost nothing and what can I say...it's bad. You might expect something like Call of Duty or the later Doom-Games maybe, but instead you get a really s**tty Rail-Shooter.

DASH GALAXY IN THE ALIEN ASYLUM

Another crapfest or the NES, this also should be considered on the short list of the worst for the system.  It's totally unclear as to what you're supposed to do.  Your character has absolutely crappy movement and jump mechanics and the music is unbelievably painful.  There should be group therapy sessions for gamers who ever came across this travesty.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQUX7kBUjYU#)

WOW... that looks REALLY BAD. ^

^

Looks like something out of my nightmares, it's so bad!

Ever heard of a game so bad that its cartridge (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/lostmedia/images/7/7b/Cheetahmen-2-cart.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141223123105) wasn't even complete? Well, here's one!

It's basically an embarrassing failure to copy Mario and Legend of Zelda, where you are a Cheetah Man (as the title would imply) shooting arrows at splotches of color made to look like an enemy.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2oZJ_0YkQw#)

^Ugh..
And not far better in terms of graphics/music/hit detection/etc...
The immortal SUPER PITFALL (NES)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jENm86ndbk#)

^ Didn't watch the whole thing, but it looked like a horrible knockoff of Mario.

tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. How p**sed off I am with that? I am not buying another Activision game again.
https://youtu.be/oRGoN9uSL6E
This s**t is unacceptable.

A classic abomination:
SUPERMAN 64 (1999)
Poor controls, technical flaws, poor graphics and weak gameplay doom this stinker.  Widely considered one of the worst video games of all time.  The mighty Kryptonian spends the first level.. FLYING THROUGH RINGS??  ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNpBwU3PTX8#)

^ Yikes, that's a really bad one....

But here's one that just makes me want to punch a pillow several times.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viCUneosjw4#)

BIBLE ADVENTURES
Three games were in this series for the NES: Noah's Ark, David & Goliath and Baby Moses.  Bad controls and repetitive gameplay may be the largest detriments (though there is unintentional humor in seeing Noah leave a cow in a tree).
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQnB5QrQWA8#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_E-3hbYIto#)

^ Wow, just... wow.

This ones a newer indie game. Yes, I know it's unfair to criticize an indie game, but seriously? This game is literally just walking through a hallway multiple times with a monotone voice blabbering the same thing constantly. Oh, and the big plot twist at the end? Eventually, a brick wall spawns on the hallway and crashes the game on being touched.

THE THEATER

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEY1CMldFF8#)

GUARDIANS OF THE HOOD (Atari Games, 1992)
Absolutely awful mechanics and gameplay doom this monstrous arcade turd where you pick up to 3 street fighters and take down thugs and their bosses.  The same horribly clunky movements of the digitized sprites from Pit Fighter that you hated are here too!  Just.. steaming garbage.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVUj52KMS4U#)

Afro Samurai 2
http://youtu.be/BFFCzMtYWSE (http://youtu.be/BFFCzMtYWSE)

Raven's Cry
http://youtu.be/Er1qEPAA7ok (http://youtu.be/Er1qEPAA7ok)

PLUMBERS DON'T WEAR TIES (1994, Kirin Entertainment for the 3DO)
Incredibly bad adult-oriented FMV, and at times a slideshow (?!), in which you play matchmaker to two people to make them a couple.  What a great idea for a video game! (facepalm)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_duMCv90LIo#)

CHARLIE'S ANGELS (2003) Playstation 2

HORRIBLY clunky movements by the characters offends me most about this legendary disaster, based on the movie remake of the 70s series.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdDBgJ1bAV0#)

Don't know much about this one, a friend shared it to me. Despite the name, it does have a... very poorly drawn clown, but nothing too scary. It appears to be mostly made with MS Paint, and the objective is to simply walk across the screen and collect drawn people and each level transition has some sort of inspirational quote or something.

MURDER CLOWN
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfzSIKBQEss#)

KARATE (1982, Ultravision/Froggo) for the Atari 2600 system.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zFIAAOSw9NxTxcQr/s-l300.jpg)
Legendarily awful game where you just try to outscore your opponent in a tournament with you vs. a fellow martial artist trying to land more punches and kicks.  Controls are awful and the game is deadly dull.  One of the worst games for the system.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKA59dzz8do#)

The Avengers game I have on my Nokia phone: I finished it in under 5 minutes. Not much of a challenge, even Loki is a real wuss.  :tongueout: