How did I never hear of this game before
Socks the Cat, the game about Bill Clinton's cat, that someone seriously thought was a great idea.
The game got made and even reviewed in some magazines, but just before it hit selves someone had a moment of clarity and pulled it entirely. With 0 sales its a pretty good fit for biggest failure, I'd say.
The game has Socks fighting Nixon through, so maybe it was alright...
This was one of the best games on Amiga. Hardly a failure by any measure
I remember playing this on A500 and I have to be honest, it was rather good game.
It's odd how Amiga games often managed to have terrible art but in-game art was most time very good. Something like Super Frog and Zool didn't really have appealing box art but the games themselves were good looking... Well, Zool was never for me, but at technical level it was good.
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Yeah Robocod was on everything. From Gameboy to Genesis.
Very good looking game on Amiga.
Soccer Kid was lovely
Marko's magic football came out at around the same time and was...like the same game from a different developer? Always wondered how that happened.
edit. also RoboCod was also great, I don't think it was Amiga exclusive (I kinda remember playing it on SEGA) but the game itself looked very good imo.
Soccer Kid was lovely
Marko's magic football came out at around the same time and was...like the same game from a different developer? Always wondered how that happened.
How has no one pointed out yet that Mario is an 80's character?
bug, from bug:
i'm not even sure where to start with this.
he was the stand-in sega mascot to placate sega saturn fans until sonic games finally started coming out on that system.
i'd also nominate his fellow sega saturn mascot brethren that released around the same time for the same purpose. they helped sega survive until it threw em in the bin to be forgotten forever.
sega literally set them all up to fail no matter what
rest in pizza
Yeah, it rhymes. It was also kind of an expression in the 90's, albeit a cheesy and not very popular one.
That was my initial answer too. I know some Amiga fans off in Europaland will yell about how great it actually is, but they tried really hard to make the games a thing on other consoles in the rest of the world and it was just a flop. I still remember the endless months of Zool ads in magazines.Zool. Was supposed to be the bit mascot of the Amiga era. And while it was recognized at the time it got forgotten really quickly.
Gotta admire Mohawk's workout routine
Just... just look at this atrocity.
well, it's not the passable drink mascot threadIt's a good thing none of you mentioned my guy Cool Spot.
It definitely does not rhyme how they're pronounced here lol.
how can this be successful when it looks like some sort of possesed demonic doll
Absolutely! In hindsight it was really cringeworthy how desperately they tried to make Zool a thing. They really tried so so hard but the failure was enormous.
Many of the examples people posted I can actually remember the names of, mainly because they keep being brought up in bad mascot threads everywhere. I then had to think very fucking hard at remembering a really bad mascot that is so bad I don't ever recall it being brought up anywhere else. I actually had to type the description of the character to find traces of it. Then I finally did and I was like "Oh GOD IT'S LIKE OPENING A COFFIN"
Behold:
