The Worst Video Games of All Time

[Deck Rickard]

What are the worst games you’ve ever played? Ones that you could never get past the first level, or just plain sucked? Here are some games I always HATED:

Back to the Future (8-bit Nintendo): Anyone else remember this trainwreck? It was kinda like Skate or Die, only awful. And it had the most annoying music I’ve ever heard.

Captain America & The Avengers (Arcade, early 1990s): This game was so pathetic, especially compared to the vastly superior X-Men and TMNT games that hit arcades around the same time. I remember the game starts out with the Red Skull appearing and saying, “YOU CANNOT BEAT ME. HA HA HA HA HA.”

Fist of the North Star (NES): I remember playing this game and just laughing at how terrible it looked and how WTF it all was, punching guys and making their heads explode in this really stupid way.

Mario Bros (NES): Not to be confused with Super Mario Bros, this is the really boring one where you’re in a room with Luigi and it’s just the same thing over and over again. Terrible game.

Legend of Zelda: Windwaker (Game Cube): I love most Zelda games but this one felt like a terrible cartoon on Nickelodeon for kids 6 and younger.

 

[thangaran]

Budokan and sword of sodan for the genesis. Karate Kid for Nintendo.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Skyward Sword is substantially worse than the Wind Waker with its Wii gimmick bull**** and complete lack of respect for the player's time with the Silent Realm nonsense that made the triforce shard hunting in WW seem almost pleasant. Skyward Sword also features the worst dungeon design of any 3D Zelda game.

Gumshoe on NES is really bad. It's a platformer you play with the Zapper. You could populate this thread with two thirds of the NES library if we're really being honest here.

Bubsy 3d is the worst platformer of it's era and possibly of all time

Aliens: Colonial Marines is up there as far as bad licensed games go. Makes Duke Nukem Forever seem polished

 

[Lily Adler]

Ah someone already said Bubsy.

Road to Hell: Retribution
Sonic 06
Alone in the Dark Reboot
ET

 

[Travesty]

*goes into "worst videogames of all time" thread

Legend of Zelda: Windwaker (Game Cube): I love most Zelda games but this one felt like a terrible cartoon on Nickelodeon for kids 6 and younger.

Worst of all time?

 

[Deck Rickard]

*goes into "worst videogames of all time" thread

Worst of all time?

Dude, you act like Nolan’s Batman films were on par with Manos the Hands of Fate. We’re all entitled to dislike what we dislike.

 

[Travesty]

That’s weird, cause I happen to like 2/3 of his Batman movies. But if you see me putting Nolan’s movies in the “worst movies ever made” list, you would have a semblance of a point. Also, my post was pretty lighthearted.

Great thread. Just knocked it right out of the park, bud.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Batman Forever for SNES and Batman Dark Victory for the GameCube.

WWF war zone and Attitude sucked too in comparison to the N64 wrestling games.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

*goes into "worst videogames of all time" thread

Worst of all time?

I know some some things are subjective, but putting Wind Waker in a "worst games of all time" list is not only objectively wrong, it's outright laughable.

 

[thangaran]

I challenge anyone who has played Budokan for the genesis/megadrive and argue that it’s not amongst the worst games ever made. It is a piece of **** with cancer cells buried in it

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Dark Castle on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. I played that crap a couple of years before knowing Angry Video Game Nerd is a thing.

Any game that gives you a jump distance you need to perform that is farther than the distance you leap with stiff and janky controls and hardly any other means of reaching that platform should be a contender as one of the worst games ever made.

Darkman on the Gameboy makes me glad I have not watched that movie as a kid (cause I like it enough), or heard of the game's existence. Controls are stiff, enemies attack faster than you do and you often have to face two of them early in your run, and to jump you need to simultaneously press both attack buttons. Yeah, you got that right, the controls of two activity buttons have two attack buttons, one to attack to the right of the screen and the other is to attack on the left side of the screen, and the game still fails at combat so badly you die on the first screen.

 

[Deck Rickard]

That’s weird, cause I happen to like 2/3 of his Batman movies. But if you see me putting Nolan’s movies in the “worst movies ever made” list, you would have a semblance of a point. Also, my post was pretty lighthearted.

Great thread. Just knocked it right out of the park, bud.

Sorry, that was a bit dickish on my part. I suppose I should have titled the thread “Video Games I (or You) Hate,” since it’s pretty hard to be objective here; I think it’s harder to discern what games are truly bad than it is to determine whether a movie is bad. Anyway, is Windwaker really beloved? Maybe it is; I just remember playing it for a while and really, really hating it but maybe I’m in the minority.

I do think that, objectively, that Back to the Future NES game is terrible though and I hope that is a common opinion. I don’t know how many people have played it but anyone I’ve ever met who has agrees that it’s god-awful.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Dark Castle on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. I played that crap a couple of years before knowing Angry Video Game Nerd is a thing.

Any game that gives you a jump distance you need to perform that is farther than the distance you leap with stiff and janky controls and hardly any other means of reaching that platform should be a contender as one of the worst games ever made.

Darkman on the Gameboy makes me glad I have not watched that movie as a kid (cause I like it enough), or heard of the game's existence. Controls are stiff, enemies attack faster than you do and you often have to face two of them early in your run, and to jump you need to simultaneously press both attack buttons. Yeah, you got that right, the controls of two activity buttons have two attack buttons, one to attack to the right of the screen and the other is to attack on the left side of the screen, and the game still fails at combat so badly you die on the first screen.

I never knew they made a Darkman game. I do remember the old Batman and Batman: Return of the Joker games for NES though. They weren’t bad, they were just... weird. The first one tries to (kinda) follow the story of the first Burton movie but they threw in a bunch of extra stuff to make it longer. I used to play it a lot but never got very far in it. ROTJ was a bit easier, but I remember the boss fights being really insane, where each of you had like 1,000 hit points and you just shot lasers at each other or something. It was fun but didn’t really feel like Batman, if that makes sense.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I never knew they made a Darkman game. I do remember the old Batman and Batman: Return of the Joker games for NES though. They weren’t bad, they were just... weird. The first one tries to (kinda) follow the story of the first Burton movie but they threw in a bunch of extra stuff to make it longer. I used to play it a lot but never got very far in it. ROTJ was a bit easier, but I remember the boss fights being really insane, where each of you had like 1,000 hit points and you just shot lasers at each other or something. It was fun but didn’t really feel like Batman, if that makes sense.

I could never bring myself to try and finish Batman 1989 on the NES, that game is way too difficult for me. I love the Mega Drive/Genesis game, it's fun to jump on weak thugs heads like Super Mario and winning that way.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I could never bring myself to try and finish Batman 1989 on the NES, that game is way too difficult for me. I love the Mega Drive/Genesis game, it's fun to jump on weak thugs heads like Super Mario and winning that way.

Yeah the NES one was impossible to beat. I think I made it past the Axis Chemicals level like twice. What was so funny was how Batman was supposedly fighting other, non-superpowered enemies and yet all the bosses were like twice the size of him, lol. Never played the Genesis one.

 

[psylockolussus]

X-Men Destiny, a X-Men videogame in which none of the X-Men are playable.

'Nuff said.

 

[Travesty]

NES Batman is still my favorite Batman game, by far.

 

[Deck Rickard]

X-Men Destiny, a X-Men videogame in which none of the X-Men are playable.

'Nuff said.

Ugh yeah I always hated that trope that a lot of games fall into. I remember playing Enter the Matrix and while it’s a fun enough game, it annoyed me that you can’t play as any of the characters I actually cared about. I think that Ghost guy had like one line in the movies and Jada Pinckett’s character wasn’t in them much either.

 

[WereCoyote]

E.T. and its not even close.

 

[Sundancer]

Captain America & The Avengers (Arcade, early 1990s): This game was so pathetic, especially compared to the vastly superior X-Men and TMNT games that hit arcades around the same time. I remember the game starts out with the Red Skull appearing and saying, “YOU CANNOT BEAT ME. HA HA HA HA HA.”

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I like that game. Hardly my favorite, but fun cheese and some good 'bad' English translations.

You cannot escape us!
YOU will be the one escaping!

Dragon's Lair for NES and Simpsons Wrestling are pretty horrible.

 

[Deck Rickard]

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I like that game. Hardly my favorite, but fun cheese and some good 'bad' English translations.

You cannot escape us!
YOU will be the one escaping!

Dragon's Lair for NES and Simpsons Wrestling are pretty horrible.

Yeah, Avengers is great in a “so bad it’s good kinda way.”

I remember this NES game called City Connection that used to make me want to rip my hair out back in the day.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

All this time and no one mentioned Superman 64 yet. I’m so proud lol.

There was also a Xena Warrior Princess fighting game for N64 that wanted to be Power Stone so bad but it flopped.

 

[Boom]

Superman 64 was unplayable.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Never played Superman 64 but I just looked it up. Holy rusted metal. Those are some horrid graphics.

 

[Boom]

Never played Superman 64 but I just looked it up. Holy rusted metal. Those are some horrid graphics.

The flying controls were next to impossible. The first level was basically a tutorial on how to fly. It was similar to the Arkham games where you had to fly through a series of rings.

I never got past the first level. It was honestly so frustrating that you just give up on the game completely right then and there.