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What’s the worst game you loved as a kid?
- Thread starter SENPAIatLARGE
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I actually quite liked it as well, I remember it had some pretty extreme product placement though.
One of the first CD-ROM games and man was I impressed by the graphics. Only after watching GameInformer's Super Replay some years back I realised what a shitshow this game was. And I have no idea how I got passed some of the puzzles as a kid...
I always thought of Wayne Gretzky as a guilty pleasure, actually. Specially since I'm Brazilian and we have absolutely no tradition in hockey. I remember it grabbed my attention because of the way players reacted to the shoves and all and the way shots sometimes lit the nets on fire. It seemed pretty sub-par to me back then but I could not put the game down for some reason.
G.A.S.P.!! has always been irredeemable, however.
Holy shit the memories. I hadn't though of this for years but there we go, one of the first games I ever played. And people in here are mentioning Mario Sunshine. I'm so old.
Aero the Acrobat 1 & 2. Loved both of these games when I was a kid. I wasn't aware that they're considered average at best on the Internet.
Deadly Arts (N64).
It had a character creator which was honestly pretty cool for its time, and I liked the roster and stages (and music!). But the controls were so unbelievably terrible... And I owned a PS1, with a lot of actually great and genre-defining fighting games!
It had a character creator which was honestly pretty cool for its time, and I liked the roster and stages (and music!). But the controls were so unbelievably terrible... And I owned a PS1, with a lot of actually great and genre-defining fighting games!
I Really liked some stupid Scooter game on the PS1.
i think it was this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ChFFeXsGyw
i think it was this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ChFFeXsGyw
It's nothing spectacular (not even in the day), but it's functional and good fun for an evening with some friends. I'd say it's pretty okay, even now. Nothing more, nothing less.
Gotta be this one for me. Terrible game, but I picked it up for about £5 because I wanted something new to play. Strangely, despite the poor quality, I still like the game to this day. A bad game which I enjoy.
Gotta be this one for me. Terrible game, but I picked it up for about £5 because I wanted something new to play. Strangely, despite the poor quality, I still like the game to this day. A bad game which I enjoy.
You've final come out and told the world, and no you can't tell the world my gaming guilty pleasure ;)
I'm pretty sure the designer of that level's wife must have left him or his kid ODed.
Not regarded as terrible, just not on any must play list
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Which version do you mean? I personally prefer the Mega Drive/Genesis version more. Great game with a great soundtrack imo.
Any crappy licensed game based on some sort of kids movie. Particularly, Shrek 2, or Nicktoons Unite.
Oh no, is Bloody Roar bad? I remember loving it but I never went back to it. I'll avoid it and keep memories of what I thought was a good game.
The first TMNT game on NES was the coolest game I'd ever played for a while. It still holds a special place in my heart.
I still have a soft spot for this game. But the n64 controller scheme not allowing for my lack of a third hand made this a frustrating title to revisit.
But the music is still amazing!
https://youtu.be/F6Y0HFyq9CY
"I may be half human, but I'm all woman", is probably one of the best character quotes of all time... Man, this game needs a revival.
I don't think it's that bad, really. Sure, it's flawed and has some frustratingly bad design choices, but at least there are some redeeming qualities. It controls well, the music rocks and it's pretty fun outside of some famously bad moments.
Don't get me wrong, it's far from a timeless classic, but there is some fun to be had.
I really wanted this game as a kid. My parents gave me the Game Boy game, and I was a bit disappointed at first. Turned out that version was made by Capcom and was actually a pretty decent topdown adventure. I had a lot of fun with that.
I played the NES game much later, and let's just say I was retroactively very thankful my parents got me the Game Boy game.
Mine was Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire for the Nintendo 64.
The best way I can describe this game is as being utterly nonsensical. It was part of a massive (and largely forgotten) multimedia initiative where LucasFilm wanted to tell a Star Wars story in as many different avenues as possible without making an actual film. There were trading cards, comic books, novelizations, and eventually this video game. I think the game must have assumed you were familiar with the story because it's basically lacking any connective tissue whatsoever.
It also didn't help that, as a kid, I struggled with 3D video games.
I never understood what my objectives or missions were. I never knew how to use the controls. A level would begin and I would just start walking, or driving, or flying, or whatever the engine for that particular level asked me to do. The game was a third person shooter, but you could also play it in first person. Sometimes it was a platformer. Sometimes is was a racer. I remember playing the game for hours at a time being stuck in one single level because I had no idea what to do. I would just open doors and press the action button and look for anything to interact with. I would pick up a new weapon and it would be awful and I'd have to kill myself on purpose because the new weapon replaced my default one.
I fully admit that part of my problem was not understanding how to play, but I did revisit the game when I was older and couldn't believe how flippant it was with its story and instruction. All that's really clear is that you are a Star Wars Guy and you are in a Star Wars Place. Figure out the rest yourself! Apparently the game can be completed quite easily in two hours. Maybe I just sucked.
The best way I can describe this game is as being utterly nonsensical. It was part of a massive (and largely forgotten) multimedia initiative where LucasFilm wanted to tell a Star Wars story in as many different avenues as possible without making an actual film. There were trading cards, comic books, novelizations, and eventually this video game. I think the game must have assumed you were familiar with the story because it's basically lacking any connective tissue whatsoever.
It also didn't help that, as a kid, I struggled with 3D video games.
I never understood what my objectives or missions were. I never knew how to use the controls. A level would begin and I would just start walking, or driving, or flying, or whatever the engine for that particular level asked me to do. The game was a third person shooter, but you could also play it in first person. Sometimes it was a platformer. Sometimes is was a racer. I remember playing the game for hours at a time being stuck in one single level because I had no idea what to do. I would just open doors and press the action button and look for anything to interact with. I would pick up a new weapon and it would be awful and I'd have to kill myself on purpose because the new weapon replaced my default one.
I fully admit that part of my problem was not understanding how to play, but I did revisit the game when I was older and couldn't believe how flippant it was with its story and instruction. All that's really clear is that you are a Star Wars Guy and you are in a Star Wars Place. Figure out the rest yourself! Apparently the game can be completed quite easily in two hours. Maybe I just sucked.
Gotta be this one for me. Terrible game, but I picked it up for about £5 because I wanted something new to play. Strangely, despite the poor quality, I still like the game to this day. A bad game which I enjoy.
Another throwing my hat in this ring, I think just the 3D recreation of the intro and the ability to simply explore the Pickles household was enough to keep me entertained!
I remember loving Buster Busts Loose for SNES, but looking back at it, it looks kind of annoying to play. I also played Leisure Suit Larry on floppy disk on my dad's PC but I was too young to understand what anything meant and couldn't really figure anything out, so I just walked around died a lot, really.
The original TMNT on the NES. That was not a good game. All I ever got from that game was PTSD.