http://www.old-wizard.com/top20worst.htm
Agree or Disagree with this list?
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Omg I agree with PaperBoy, I hated that game. I had it on my Sega Mega Drive when I was little, and I thought it was the biggest load ofrubbish i'd ever been bought as a present. Very tedious gameplay involving the control of a bike that only goes left or right, while constantly trying (and failing) to avoid an endless army of cats, moving tires, cars, roadworks andmad people running out of houses.
God what a FUN game :|
A good read that game developers should take a look at since they don't seem to learn... But as always with this kind of lists, they're still missing tons of equally terrible games and they seem to focus 90% on old games.
My vote would go to "Illegal street racing", the crappiest game I can remember ever seeing.
There are some things I think the guy clearly throws in some hate for. Fatal Fury does NOT deserve to be in that list..nor is it in anyway a bad Street Fighter ripoff and ..Paper Boy? Again Paper Boy is a solid oldschool game, he may think that grows tedious real fast (I think so too) but in no ways does it deserve it to be in the "worst video games of all time".
Whatever just my 2 cents.
Well, I knew about two sentences in that this guy's opinion was not to be taken seriously:
"I can safely say that I'd rather play Virtua Tennis for Dreamcast than ever play this game again."
That makes no sense what-so-ever. VT on DC was outstanding. It reviewed well, looked fantastic for the time, was univerally pick up and play-able, and attracted a whole slew of people to a sports game that normally would have no interest. Girls especially; I know several girls who like VT that hate all sports and most games in general.
When I saw you guys discussing Fatal Fury, I thought for sure it would be in regards to the sub-par SNES port, not the original NeoGeo title. While I agree that it is not nearly on par with SF2, it is certainly not one of the worst games of all time. At that point it was one of the only other fighters available and consequently got a lot of play in arcades near me. It also features "multi-level" fighting which was pretty impressive back then.
Then we move on to the old-school games he is panning... He is absolutely out of his mind if he thinks Elevator Action is one of the worst games of all time. (It's actually one of my all-time favorites) As far as Ghosts and Goblins, Joust and Paperboy go, I'll conceid that those were much better in the arcade then in thier watered down ports, but they still hardly fall into the "worst games ever". The fact that he thinks G&G is too difficult speaks volumes.
I'd agree on Street Combat, but this guy is a bit uninformed. SC was not a SF2 clone, it was a poorly translated version of a Ranma 1/2 game that they for some reason swapped the graphics on when they brought it to the US. The true Ranma game it was built from did eventually come here and it was actually pretty good.
No argument on Superman, that was god-awful, and while ET surely takes a lot of heat over it killing the industry (which is only partly true), it was hardly even the worst liscened game much less worst game of all time. Besides that, it is also most gamers my age's first real console title so it will always hold a special place in our hearts.
I could name at least 20 games worse then anything on this list apart from Superman, this guys a chump.
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