What's the WORST video game of all time?

[Kid_A]

The worst game I've ever played, hands down, is "Superman" for Nintendo 64. This game gives new definition to the word "suck". One review said "it exists for no other reason than to firmly establish the bottom of the barrel". It's absolute shit.

Another horrible, horrible game I played recently is "Driv3r" (or Driver 3 for the uninitiated). That game copies Grand Theft Auto to the letter, but leaves out all the things that make GTA fun to play. Great graphics, accurately replicated cities, and realistic car physics can't disguise a game that insists you play it THEIR WAY or you lost. It sucks.

[bowens43]

1. pong

[hunter]

14. Pong was wonderful...

But I guess you had to be there. When Tempest and Centipede came out, oh my goodness...

That dates me.

And I helped write one or two of the crappiest video games of all time. There is a box in my garage full of old machines and codes that I am afraid to open or throw away for fear that all the crappiness will leak out and destroy the world.

[tridim]

41. Heh, I understand your old code dilemma

I too wrote a few crappy games back in the Commodore 64 days. One was called "Goober", which was completely pointless. The only cool thing about it was that it used speech samples back when it was very rare, it also looked very slick. I probably spent 40 hours drawing all the sprites on graph paper and translating them into numbers, ugh.. Unfortunately it played like a brick. I think there were 5 or so others that never got past the design stage. All horribly conceived. :)

Edit: You're right about Tempest.. That game was (and still is) amazing. It gets really fun in the later "pulsar" levels. I owned an upright about 12 years ago, but it was stolen. :(

[7th_Sephiroth]

48. ET

for the atari

[Worst Username Ever]

22. What?? That's the best game ever created!

Made even greater because it was the first.

[Khephra]

2. Doesn't E.T. hold that title?

It's rumored that there are whole buildings filled with unsold E.T. games.

:evilgrin:

[lazarus]

11. nope

landfills are filled with unsold ET cartridges.

[cheezus]

29. The fall in a hole and use your neck to get out of it game

worst game ever.

[cspiguy]

3. RIPOFF

none even close

[Guy Fawkes]

4. Big Rig Racing for PC...

They didn't even bother to finish the game. Here's how I know: No sound, no "awesome CB radio!" as advertised, and your racing opponent never starts. Also, you go through *everything*. Bridges, lights, houses, mountains, you name it.

Worse. Then. Aquaman.

[Goldom]

5. Of those I have personally played-

"Irritating Stick" for PS1. It's based on a Japanese game show in which people get electrocuted. It goes downhill from there.

[tridim]

6. Journey: Escape

http://www.journey-tribute.com/journey/resources/multimedia/atari.rm

[Cush]

8. LOL!

[gollygee]

31. Please tell me this is a joke.

ROFL

[tridim]

34. Not a joke.

Get "Stella" and the rom image and play it for yourself. :)

http://www.journey-tribute.com/journey/resources/atari2600/

It was also an upright arcade game. I used to have it in my M.A.M.E library, but I deleted it very quickly because it was obviously the worst game ever made.

[Deja Q]

55. More proof that somebody involved with the game is a dickhead...

[derby378]

43. You only WISH it were a joke

The sad thing is - I think I used to be fairly good at it!

[Deja Q]

54. The Atari 2600 version is utter crap, but the original coin-op

was just as gaudy and crass.

[Cush]

7. Soldner: Secret Wars (PC)

it had potential, but it was a major letdown

http://game-revolution.com/games/pc/action/soldner.htm

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi

Stupid, STUPID fighting game, and not even the least bit challenging. A Tusken Raider named "Hoar"???? :wtf:

[Tempest]

10. "Dead or Alive" for Xbox

What a waste of programming this turned out to be.

[HughBeaumont]

12. Custer's Revenge

For the Atari 2600.

[Guy Fawkes]

13. I remember that game... very pornographic.

[hunter]

23. I opened my box of horrors and found this...

It's a scan of a thermal printout from a game I was working on in the 'seventies, but the company went bust, and my last paycheck from them bounced.

I feel sick now. Please don't ever mention this again...

[derby378]

44. Oy!

Let's see - who got offended by Custer's Revenge? Feminists, Native Americans, Civil War re-enacters, rape victims...

It was a pretty sad game.

[Blue_Tires]

15. another vote for driv3r

the funny part was i really enjoyed the first two...but i took this one back after a single day...they've had THREE years to come out with a part 3, and they already know the bar GTA has set, but sadly, the come out with total crap..

I did enjoy the larger city sizes, but it's kind of useless without street names or at LEAST names for certain sections of town (GTA). Driving physics were a little improved, BUT just like my biggest gripe about previous Drivers, all the cars (even the 'sporty' ones) drive approx. the same speed...there's no world-beaters to outrun the cops in the game (and i unlocked the secret cars)

And what year is this supposed to be, anyways??? There isn't ONE car that seems to be built after 1980...the soundtrack sucked too...

whoever developed this game needs to be ashamed of themselves...very little improvement from driver 2, no replay value, and an overall presentation that doesn't come CLOSE to their two-year-old competition, vice city (which I still play almost daily)...

GTA just has things much better thought out, and remembered little details, like the radio stations, and humor (which adds a lot)...My favorite little touch is they were smart enough to add rundown and gentrified areas of the city, which driv3r left out (how? miami is filled with slums!) GTA also paid attention to HOW buildings were made, so you can literally look and see one made in the 50s, 60s, and 70s...anyways..end of rant

[BigMcLargehuge]

25. and another

I think the phrase i used most often in my review was "virtually unplayable"

read my scathing review here:

http://www.horrorview.com/Driv3r.htm

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. The Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man. (nt)

[JohnKleeb]

17. the worst game hmmm

I dunno really.

[Huckebein the Raven]

18. Superman was bad very bad...but this makes the top 5

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/440/440031p1.html

read the entire review...I originally saw this game on X-play on G4Techtv last year so I thought I'd bring it up.

[Kid_A]

21. What game is that?

For some reason my office firewall blocks IGN so I can't read that article.

[Guy Fawkes]

28. Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror (it IS very bad....)

[Huckebein the Raven]

30. Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror

or a freeper's wet dream.

The last level of the game you fight Osama mortal kombat style I kid you not. The game also shows footage from 9/11 if I'm not mistaken

[JVS]

19. Sim Tower. A game that seemed cool, where you run your own skyscraper

2 major problems

1) The game just let you stack floor on top of floor as you could afford it, showing a blatant disregard for how buildings actually work.

2)After playing it for awhile you realized that this game was merely maxis' attempt to cash in on its popular games like Sim Earth and Sim City by adding a few features to an ELEVATOR AND ESCALATOR TRAFFIC FLOW MODEL! How exciting boys and girls!

[Guy Fawkes]

26. I liked that game...

I got all the little easter eggs in it, too.

[jpgray]

20. Deadly Towers

I refuse to even speak of it.

[battleknight24]

24. "Dragon Power" for the original NES...

... the horror...

[Dukkha]

27. Adventure for Atari 2600

a square being chased by ducks to find a flashing chalice

[gollygee]

32. That was silly but my brother and I loved it when we were kids.

[tridim]

37. Naw.. Adventure was a classic

I spent hours playing that game trying to find the easter egg.

[Mojambo]

33. Recently, Postal 2 was pretty damn awful

I found this site listing the 20 worst video games of all-time (obviously not all that official)

http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm.htm

Extreme Sports with the Berenstein Bears!
Now, THAT is funny.

[Guy Fawkes]

36. It was a good game... but it was sick. sick. sick. sick. Oh, and sick.

[Mojambo]

38. It was an awful game

and not because of the subject matter.

Terribly made. It's like Grand Theft Auto 3 without the fun.

The load times are brutal, the interior graphics are choppy and unfinished, the enemy AI is worse than similar games from 5 years ago, and it stars Gary Coleman.

It was truly one of the worst games released that year.

[TheSuaveOne]

35. Ultima Online

But then again, I only say that because it has got me wrapped up in it's claws, well, only the last 4 years or so...la

[Supply Side Jesus]

39. contra

hated that game.

[Mojambo]

42. Played it constantly as a kid

Tried to play it on an emulator a few months back.

Terrible.

[DS1]

40. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Atari 2600 - hands down

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[derby378]

45. Dont forget "Cool World" for Super Nintendo

Absolutely wretched and unplayable.

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. Defender

Always hated that game, beginning with the arcade version.

YUCK.

[tridim]

49. You're nuts, Defender rawked!

It was a tough game, maybe you just sucked. :P

[Rabrrrrrr]

53. I never understood why people loved it so much

And I was a total arcade freak guy. Played 'em all, mostly loved 'em all.

But Defender - I couldn't take it.

:shrug:

But I afirrm other people's love for it. I know that the people who loved it REALLY loved it, and it was fantastically popular.

As for me and my house, give us Qix, Asteroids, Scramble, Wizard of Wor, and pretty much everything else.

[Chovexani]

47. I have to break this up by era.

Newish = those 3D Castlevanias on N64. Blasphemous.

Old School = Yo Noid! for the NES. It was a low-budget by-the-numbers platformer based on Domino Pizza's 80s mascot. :crazy:

[Cush]

50. Avoid the Noid!

Lol

[Chovexani]

52. That game was awful

Hehe

[Downtown Hound]

51. Crossbow

Early light gun game. Terrible. Never seemed to work right.

[SmileyBoy]

56. Here's a hilarious top-20 list of worst video games of all time.

http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm.htm

[Deja Q]

57. Kool-Aid Man, oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareID=1111

http://www.ataritimes.com/2600/reviews/koolaidman.html




http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/atari2.shtml (scroll down)

[maveric]

58. My son told me that "Enter the Matrix" is the all-time worst.

I dont play video games so I'm trusting his expertise.

[Chovexani]

59. That kid must be young or new to the hobby

Enter the Matrix is mediocre but I can think of at least 20 games off the top of my head that are ten times worse.

[FranzFerdinand]

60. Swordquest: Earthworld

that game took way too much effort for me...