Title: Comically Bad Games
Description: For anyone who needs a laugh.
The Vidit of Light - October 4, 2007 03:14 AM (GMT)
This is the topic where we point out horrifically, comically bad video games.
Games like Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing:
http://www.gamespot.com/video/919220/60865...ng-video-reviewOr Navy SEALs:Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.gamespot.com/video/915505/60732...on-video-review
Avenger29 - October 4, 2007 08:38 AM (GMT)
Oh jeez. I rented Big Rigs once just to say I had played the worst game in history. Oh. My. God. I often say that FFXII is the worst in history, but compared to Big Rigs, its amazing.
I've actually made better games than Big Rigs. Its called "Spending a romantic night in an alleyway with my privates in a cheese grater".
Ouch.
Oh, and "Disney Princess Jewelry Box Collection" = Horrid on every level.
Clown Prince of Crime - October 4, 2007 09:39 AM (GMT)

Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor has just received the most prestigious honor that any handyman could imagine--his own line of power tools. That's right, Binford Tools has just introduced the Taylor-Turbo Power Tools. But before Tim can take them for a test run, they're stolen from the TOOL TIME set by industrial spies! Now it's up to you, as Tim, to scour the studio lot, find the thieves, and exact a little revenge. You'll have eight ultra-powerful tools at your disposal as you work your way through four weird TV studios and battle 22 types of special effects. Luckily, Al and the Taylor boys are also on hand to help Tim rescue his tools and bring the crooks to justice.
Avenger29 - October 4, 2007 10:02 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Clown Prince of Crime @ Oct 4 2007, 05:39 AM) |

Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor has just received the most prestigious honor that any handyman could imagine--his own line of power tools. That's right, Binford Tools has just introduced the Taylor-Turbo Power Tools. But before Tim can take them for a test run, they're stolen from the TOOL TIME set by industrial spies! Now it's up to you, as Tim, to scour the studio lot, find the thieves, and exact a little revenge. You'll have eight ultra-powerful tools at your disposal as you work your way through four weird TV studios and battle 22 types of special effects. Luckily, Al and the Taylor boys are also on hand to help Tim rescue his tools and bring the crooks to justice. |
Holy jeez. I forgot that one even existed. The words "Tim Allen" and"Platform Game" just don't go together at all.
AGodofIrony - October 4, 2007 08:24 PM (GMT)
I'll have to find it when I get home, so I can have the right title, but their was this Animorphs game.
Now, I love Animorphs, and when I found out there was a game for the PS1, I asked for it fro my birthday, and got it (This was a while ago, like, five or so years ago.)
It was...horrible! No fun at all, just...Ugh! It was made even worse by the fact I love the book series.
And don't get me started on the TV series...
Also, Metriod Prime Hunters, for the DS.
Horrible! I thought it would be fun...Far from it. A, B, X, and Y all do the same thing, it's nearly impossible to aim correctly, and you have to hold the DS awkwardly to play right.
Yah...
The Vidit of Light - October 5, 2007 01:38 AM (GMT)
That Home Improvement game just SOUNDS boring...I mean, COME ON. And as for Big Rigs...I urge anyone who reads this (and those who don't) not to touch it (unless it is, perhaps, to dispose of it), let alone play it. And Irony, I'm not a big fan of Animorphs, but please accept my condolences about how they made such a mockery about a series you like anyway.
BlueRush - October 5, 2007 04:21 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (AGodofIrony @ Oct 4 2007, 04:24 PM) |
Also, Metriod Prime Hunters, for the DS.
Horrible! I thought it would be fun...Far from it. A, B, X, and Y all do the same thing, it's nearly impossible to aim correctly, and you have to hold the DS awkwardly to play right.
Yah... |
I never thought of it as a bad game, but it really was, wasn't it? It wasn't very much fun.
Avenger29 - October 5, 2007 04:39 AM (GMT)
Isn't that the one that came with the DS? I played it once... AWFUL.
I guess thats what happens when you get a free game, though. Unless of course, its in the following bundle pack.

GT3 ROCKED. But I digress. This topic is for games that sucked such as...
BlueRush - October 5, 2007 09:04 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Avenger29 @ Oct 5 2007, 12:39 AM) |
Isn't that the one that came with the DS? I played it once... AWFUL.
I guess thats what happens when you get a free game, though. Unless of course, its in the following bundle pack. |
Well, that, and the actual one wasn't that good either.
Clown Prince of Crime - October 5, 2007 10:45 PM (GMT)
This is just my personal opinion, but the 3-D Metroids got nuttin' on the 2-D Metroids.
Anywho, this next game isn't comically bad, but it is frustratingly bad. Well, that is if you can survive the utter boredom enough to get to the parts that are frustrating, anyway:

Ghostbusters for the NES, Atari 2600, and Sega Master System. They're all the same game with a few minor differences. Regardless of which version you play, though, this game totally sucks.
Dark Phazon - October 5, 2007 11:34 PM (GMT)

I used to have an edutainment game known as "Mario is Missing" a long time ago. I don't think I learned anything from it other than that edutainment games normally aren't that good. It was cool, though, because you did play as Luigi as the main character, and I always liked Luigi a little more than Mario back in my SNES days. But, that's about it.
Clown Prince of Crime - October 6, 2007 12:19 AM (GMT)
Weirdly enough, I sorta like that game, yet at the same time I also hate it, if that makes any sense. XD
I guess I kinda liked the idea of having the characters "in the real world", but the game itself does suck. :p
Avenger29 - October 6, 2007 12:34 AM (GMT)
Speaking of edutainment, has anyone here ever played Sonic's Schoolhouse?
I'm just curious as to how bad THAT sucked.
GoldenSama - October 6, 2007 08:21 PM (GMT)
Dark Phazon - October 6, 2007 08:40 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (GoldenSama @ Oct 6 2007, 04:21 PM) |



'Nuff said. |
One of my old high school friends had that game, and was inspired to try playing it after he saw it mentioned in one of EGM's articles about the 20 crappiest games of all time (of which, ET for Atari was #1).
GoldenSama - October 6, 2007 10:16 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Dark Phazon @ Oct 6 2007, 03:40 PM) |
One of my old high school friends had that game, and was inspired to try playing it after he saw it mentioned in one of EGM's articles about the 20 crappiest games of all time (of which, ET for Atari was #1). |
It IS the crappiest game of all time.
I once owned an Atari and this very game... and, well, it's horrible. Just pure, sheer horrible. I hope to now repress the memory that I ever played it. XD
DBOZGT - December 22, 2007 01:38 AM (GMT)
Here crappy Game
Chuck Rock I used to play this game man this game just crappy........
ShadowtheSpoon - May 13, 2008 05:49 AM (GMT)
A million copys of ET the game got buried in the nevada desert! As for comically bad games...The Legend of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon for the, *shudders*, CD-I.
Theloveyoumakeistheloveyoutake - May 27, 2008 01:57 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Avenger29 @ Oct 5 2007, 04:34 PM) |
Speaking of edutainment, has anyone here ever played Sonic's Schoolhouse?
I'm just curious as to how bad THAT sucked. |

This game was boring as hell and I did not learn anything from it and thus sega fails at teaching, you could see sonic at every corner and it got boring clicking around and they only had a couple mini games to keep you playing. Don't ever get someone this unless you want to tell them that you REALLY hate them, they also took the old graphics from Sonic X-Treme and put them in this game so I don't see a lot of work put in to here. <_<
tinmanti - May 27, 2008 10:58 AM (GMT)
The Vidit of Light - May 27, 2008 10:43 PM (GMT)
I think that game is fair enough (the Xbox version, at least), and I would like to dispute that claim with a counterexample (that isn't Big Rigs):
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/disneyfa...ag=tabs;summary
tinmanti - May 27, 2008 11:09 PM (GMT)
Okay, that game looks pretty bad as well o_o ... but I felt like that StarWars game was the worst game I'd ever played...
Let me put it like this, I played educational games at school which I enjoyed more.
nova - June 8, 2008 10:28 PM (GMT)
that game,mario is missing,I had that and I HATED it with a passion :mellow:
I never got the point of the koopas since they didn't harm you ...or pose any sort of threat whats so ever.I stopped playing it after about....5 seconds
Clown Prince of Crime - June 9, 2008 01:12 AM (GMT)
Funnily enough, as bad as Mario is Missing was, I kinda liked it a little. :heh: I mean, it was the first time that Luigi starred in his own game (even if his name isn't in the title), but Luigi's Mansion always seems to credited as such (probably because Nintendo's pretending that Mario is Missing never existed). Ya, I know it was so horrible and the questions are so ridiculously easy (and I imagine they'd only be easier nowadays due to the wonders of Google and Wikipedia... not to mention GameFAQs), but for some stupid reason, I liked it. I think it's probably all the Super Mario World remixes the game had. XD I'm a sucker for catchy music.
Even then, though, I was never able to get into Mario's Time Machine... as bad as Mario is Missing was, Mario's Time Machine had to be about a billion times worse. Even the catchy tune when you're surfing couldn't save it for me.
Dark Phazon - June 9, 2008 02:07 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Clown Prince of Crime @ Jun 8 2008, 09:12 PM) |
| Funnily enough, as bad as Mario is Missing was, I kinda liked it a little. :heh: I mean, it was the first time that Luigi starred in his own game (even if his name isn't in the title), but Luigi's Mansion always seems to credited as such (probably because Nintendo's pretending that Mario is Missing never existed). Ya, I know it was so horrible and the questions are so ridiculously easy (and I imagine they'd only be easier nowadays due to the wonders of Google and Wikipedia... not to mention GameFAQs), but for some stupid reason, I liked it. I think it's probably all the Super Mario World remixes the game had. XD I'm a sucker for catchy music. |
I never was able to get anywhere in that game (I think I only ever was able to get a boss character "battle", or something, in the first castle area once) and because I did like Luigi a lot as a kid, I did end up playing MiM a lot way back when...
This theme is the only really redeemable component of that game for myself, though.
Clown Prince of Crime - June 9, 2008 06:05 AM (GMT)
That was actually my favorite tune in the whole game! Even though it's not a remix of anything, that has to be my most favorite tune in the entire game. It sucks that it was only used in two levels.
And to be honest, I originally didn't understand what I was supposed to do in the game, when I first played it. But once I figured out that answering those questions from that Peach lookalike was the main point of every level, it became much easier.
And I beat the game before. There's only three floors and three bosses. I originally thought there'd be seven, since there's seven Koopalings, but they only use three. And Bowser isn't even a boss. He gets defeated in the ending, but you don't actually fight him... not that any of the enemies in the game are actually a fight, since you can't get hurt.
Crystal Rose - June 9, 2008 06:12 AM (GMT)

The only reason I played through the entire game was to unlock to movie in Japanese....It wasn't even an actual game....
Clown Prince of Crime - June 9, 2008 06:14 AM (GMT)
I never bothered to pick that game up at all and it was partly because of what you mentioned: it's not even an actual game. :p
So, what do you do, anyway? Just sit around and watch clips from the show or something? I never really understood the premise of that "game", but from what I've heard, it doesn't seem to be very interesting.
Crystal Rose - June 9, 2008 06:31 AM (GMT)
All you really did in the game was wonder around talking to other pokemon who eventually give you channels for the game's tv that you and Pikachu would watch if I remember right. That and you always had to earn bus passes for some reason....
I suddenly remember wanting to strangle Pikachu for blowing up my television on the game...... XD
This game should have just been a DVD because the only interesting thing about it was the fact that this was the first time most of the American audience could watch a feature in Japanese; the Pichu movie and "Hosted by Kasumi", the same thing except with Kasumi as the narrator.
tinmanti - June 9, 2008 05:20 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Crystal Rose @ Jun 9 2008, 06:12 AM) |

The only reason I played through the entire game was to unlock to movie in Japanese....It wasn't even an actual game.... |
I liked that game :mellow:
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*hides*
Sammy-Star - June 9, 2008 07:07 PM (GMT)
"sonic riders- zero gravity".
major suckage. i've played through it once, and it was still boring as hell. i hardly liked the original sonic riders, but it was damn better than freaking s.r.z.g. *shakes head in disaprovement* sega, you have failed us all... including the litte kids you failed to teach with "sonic school house". *shakes head again and walks to emo corner seeing as though sega now officially sucks*
nova - June 9, 2008 08:03 PM (GMT)
agreed,they've gone down hill since the merged with nintendo >:( ... :( .... ;_; *runs away screaming:* WHYYYYYYY!!!!!?????
Sammy-Star - June 9, 2008 08:09 PM (GMT)
WHAT?! WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?! NINTENDO'S TRYING TO RUIN SEGA 'CUZ THEY'RE JELOUS!!! >:C <--- not exactly happy
nova - June 9, 2008 08:15 PM (GMT)
from what I heard sega and nintendo became one company sometime after the dreamcast was getting obsolete o.o
Theloveyoumakeistheloveyoutake - June 9, 2008 08:25 PM (GMT)
He is right ya know, sega and nintendo are one and the same plus uji naka is gone so now sonic will get worse and worse as time goes on.
Sammy-Star - June 9, 2008 08:28 PM (GMT)
oh no.... nintendo is gonna rape sonic of his fame and popularity and make him suck even worse now that naka-sama is gone!!! why'd he leave in the first place!? and when!?
Dark Phazon - June 9, 2008 08:56 PM (GMT)
Umm, what the heck are you guys talking about?
Nintendo has never ever merged with or bought out Sega...
Theloveyoumakeistheloveyoutake - June 9, 2008 08:58 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Dark Phazon @ Jun 9 2008, 12:56 PM) |
Umm, what the heck are you guys talking about?
Nintendo has never ever merged with or bought out Sega... |
They have not merged but they have worked together to make one of the WORST sonic games.
Sammy-Star - June 9, 2008 09:01 PM (GMT)
well... even though they didn't merge, why did Yuji naka leave!? he was doing so well! did he just get tired of it or did he retire?
Dark Phazon - June 9, 2008 09:12 PM (GMT)
Nintendo has never worked with Sega to make a Sonic game.
They did partner to make an olympics-based game featuring characters from both the Mario and Sonic series (though this also wasn't really working with each other, as far as I know, as Sega basically made the game itself, with Nintendo just basically allowing them to include Mario-series characters in it as well). And even though it hasn't been credited as being the greatest thing since sliced bread, it hasn't been absolutely railed, either. And I could not imagine it being anywhere close to being worse than Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Jam on Game.com, or Sonic Spinball on Game Gear, which of all the Sonic games I've played, are what I'd rate as being the ones I like the least...
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Yuji Naka hasn't always had that great of a relationship with Sega. Also, many game developers like to create their own companies to develop games themselves.
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This is going well off-topic... Lets try getting it back on-topic, please... ^_^;