Bad Video Games!!!

[Gene Worm]

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.).


Action 52


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?

[dean]

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...

[ulthar]

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.

[Gene Worm]

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...

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....

[akiratubo]

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[Gene Worm]

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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....

[dean]

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.

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! 

[Gene Worm]

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

Evil

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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.

[WingedSerpent]

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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.

[retrorussell]

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!
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[messedup]

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.

[Leah]

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/R8X7Vj6JXPk
Yep, they forgot to cap the reverse top speed, so it is infinite

[retrorussell]

All the Zelda games for the Phillips CD-I were awful, but the ones with cartoon story scenes were PUTRID.
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[Gene Worm]

All the Zelda games for the Phillips CD-I were awful, but the ones with cartoon story scenes were PUTRID.
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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.

[retrorussell]

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.
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