I had the Genesis but never beat it as a kid. I should go back now And beat it.
The cover art for the game was awesome
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What’s the worst game you loved as a kid?
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I had the Genesis but never beat it as a kid. I should go back now And beat it.
The cover art for the game was awesome
This is almost my exact experience.
I died constantly. Especially the "jetpack" level which was basically a glorified playformer. You couldn't explore much - just jump then double jump forward and hope your has lasted and that you aimed the jump properly.
And the shooting bits - if you weren't shooting the enemy just tilt to the left or right and hope you started hitting the droid or trooper.
That said - I have a lot of fond memories of the music and atmosphere.
Wait, the game was NOT good? In my mind it's an absolute cinematic masterpiece.
If I played it now for the first time, I would see it very differently. It really is just so damn tedious looking back on it, and isn't fitting at all for how DK should be in 3d. DKC is all about crisp fun platforming and great pacing in every level. Not Giant, mostly barren worlds where you have to collect trillions of things.
I loved Ehrgeiz as a kid. I loved the fighting portion, and I loved the RPG portion. I have no idea how either is regarded in modernity, but I have a feeling that maybe it wasn't as great as I thought it was. My gaming buddy never wanted to play it with me, but that could have been because I always beat him. I just loved the fact that I could play as Cloud and Sephiroth. That blew my mind. I also loved that yo-yo girl.
Cod 4 on the Nintendo DS, and its successors. I had access to the Wii versions, but I liked playing these in bed even though I was aware they were very limited. (Or, let's say it, downright crippled)
Had lots of fun with MW2 wireless multiplayer with my cousin too.
I LOVED it as a kid. My introduction to the JRPG genre.
Shots fired.
And doubling down too! Ouch!
My answers: Flying Dragon and Mace the Dark Age! N64 had the best fighting games EVAR1!!1!!
I still think that Flying Dragon's RPG style, anime mode was underrated.
I have never heard anyone else speak about this game and i cant remember if it was janky or just amazing ...but I LOVVVVVEED this game as a kid. It had a really cool cover system (or so i thought) that made every shoot out like a gam of chicken
I too loved Winback. IIRC, it had scores around 8.0 or 7.5 from most outlets, so not a bad game, but I probably liked it more than most reviewers.
I agree! Loved it too, the music was so memorable.
I realized later that the game itself is just plain mediocre.
That would probably be asterix for the NES. I finally had enough money to buy a game and was torn between Dragons Lair and Asterix. I wad able to try DL at the store and could not get past the drawbridge, so that was a no. Went with Asterix.
Finished that game that weekend on hard and it was pretty lame. But I had to defend my purchase by telling myself and friends it was awesome.
As I recall they also had Super Mario 3 but that was 149 guilders and I thought that was way too expensive.
Finished that game that weekend on hard and it was pretty lame. But I had to defend my purchase by telling myself and friends it was awesome.
As I recall they also had Super Mario 3 but that was 149 guilders and I thought that was way too expensive.
As a kid? I loved, and still do love, Friday the 13th for NES. So many people hate it, but I love it. I can still hum/whistle/mouth sound the overworld song
I remember enjoying the super wrestlemania game by LJN for the snes. In my defense though we didn't get a good wrestling game until The AKI engine on the N64. Best part was leaving the select wrestler cursor on a wrestler long enough to hear their theme song in 16-bit.
Rampage on the NES. It was the only game that I've physically fought someone over. It was with my best friend at the time and over a health power up. I played the game again a few years ago and immediately got bored after a few screens.
First thing that came to mind is Body Harvest on the N64. At the time I felt like I was playing some amazing hidden gem.
I was a sucker for everything Atlus put out when I was younger. Cubivore was... well... I liked the aesthetic and the fact that it was "rare." Playing it now.... It's pretty painful.
Probably Sonic Adventure 1 or Sonic Heroes. By no means are they 'the worst' video games but not really good either.
Back to the Future. I got it as one of several games for Christmas 1989. For a long time I just thought I was bad at the game. I didn't believe that games could actually just be bad.
Oh boy I was so confused by them. Everything about playing then screamed for me they were bad. But I kept telling myself they couldn't be bad, they were Simpsons after all, I was sure they'd get better eventually, and I just want understanding them lol
Loved this one, this was during my "Tony Hawk-like games" phase
Everytime you booted up the game you had to destroy some things as Spiderman to unlock the rest of the X-Men. If you happened to get a game over you had to redo-it all from the beginning
I played the hell out of Dinosaurs for Hire on the Genesis - just an uninspired run n' gun deal. I liked it because dinosaurs.
I remember finishing the story mode in a really short button mashing session.
It was bad dude, haha. But i can understand watching it as a kid was awesome.
To answer the topic: i've played some really horrible games on the commodore 64.. I don't remember the games, but i loved playing them. Even the baseball game.
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Probably Star Wars Episode I For PlayStation.
I still remember my friend and I obsessing and playing it all night until dawn the next day. We were shocked that we stayed up the entire night just playing this game.
I still remember my friend and I obsessing and playing it all night until dawn the next day. We were shocked that we stayed up the entire night just playing this game.
E.T. The extraterrestrial for 2600. Thought it was a great adventure game. After watching that documentary about it it really was ahead of its time. Was just really rushed. If it was given proper time to be made it would have been the defining game of that system. Still think it was fun, flaws and all.
I enjoyed this game quite a bit too. It had a cool replay feature where with different film grain filters and you could put whatever music you wanted over it that you had saved to your Xbox Hard Drive.
Was jank but had a lot of fun just going against my cousins in it.
I liked this game as well to an extent, but I always looked at it as inferior to the DKC games and not as good as Mario 64 which is an obvious statement now but was even apparent as a young kid. The weirder part is that my younger brothers and sisters really enjoyed the multiplayer vs deathmatch mode in the game. We'd play that for hours on end.If I played it now for the first time, I would see it very differently. It really is just so damn tedious looking back on it, and isn't fitting at all for how DK should be in 3d. DKC is all about crisp fun platforming and great pacing in every level. Not Giant, mostly barren worlds where you have to collect trillions of things.
Omikron: The Nomad Soul on PC. I had just turned 13 and was enamored with this game. I still actually love it, but it's one of the buggiest and most user-unfriendly games ever made. Love the storyline and vision though—it was way ahead of its time.
I thought four player Trash It on the Sega Saturn was great fun with friends.
It looks like I am very much in the minority with that opinion though.
It looks like I am very much in the minority with that opinion though.
Already posted briefly, but:
Bubsy 3D. When my grandma died, my siblings and I got inheritance, and we were allowed to spend a portion of it on whatever. I bought a PlayStation and two games -- one of which was, yes, Bubsy 3D.
I was always into platformers on the Genesis, and really enjoyed the initial two levels or so of the first Bubsy whenever I rented it. I was a kid, I didn't have spectacularly nuanced tastes or anything. That, and Busby 3D had a gigantic gold fake trophy on the cover for a review of it, basically promising my 12 year old self that this game was going to be FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC.
I remember struggling to play for weeks, barely finding any of it fun. It made me nauseous. Eventually, one "sick" day off from school, something clicked, or I just got used to it, but it wasn't that bad. I got used to the terrible camera, the single color textures that stretched over entire levels. I liked shooting enemies with the atoms, and I loved finding the rockets. Granted, other games came out around this time that completely shit on it (hi, Crash), but it was basically the first video game I bought for myself, so I always in some perverse way treasured it.
YEARS LATER, like, 10 to 15 years later, I find out that Bubsy 3D is continuously derided as one of the worst video games ever made. It stung at the time. I always knew it was basically a giant ball of jank, but it was a part of my life for a brief moment and was a weird introduction into three dimensional gaming. I know it's terrible to this day, but I still look back at it fondly.
Bubsy 3D. When my grandma died, my siblings and I got inheritance, and we were allowed to spend a portion of it on whatever. I bought a PlayStation and two games -- one of which was, yes, Bubsy 3D.
I was always into platformers on the Genesis, and really enjoyed the initial two levels or so of the first Bubsy whenever I rented it. I was a kid, I didn't have spectacularly nuanced tastes or anything. That, and Busby 3D had a gigantic gold fake trophy on the cover for a review of it, basically promising my 12 year old self that this game was going to be FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC.
I remember struggling to play for weeks, barely finding any of it fun. It made me nauseous. Eventually, one "sick" day off from school, something clicked, or I just got used to it, but it wasn't that bad. I got used to the terrible camera, the single color textures that stretched over entire levels. I liked shooting enemies with the atoms, and I loved finding the rockets. Granted, other games came out around this time that completely shit on it (hi, Crash), but it was basically the first video game I bought for myself, so I always in some perverse way treasured it.
YEARS LATER, like, 10 to 15 years later, I find out that Bubsy 3D is continuously derided as one of the worst video games ever made. It stung at the time. I always knew it was basically a giant ball of jank, but it was a part of my life for a brief moment and was a weird introduction into three dimensional gaming. I know it's terrible to this day, but I still look back at it fondly.
Great topic. I had a lot more to say but deleted it because it might come off as...rude.
My contribution is kid chameleon and Bubsy. I agree with suggestions such as sewer shark and Bart vs the space mutants. Man that Simpsons game was ridiculous but I stuck with it out of sheer stubbornness.
Disagree with TMNT. It was a good game for its era, even if it was inappropriately difficult for its target audience.
My contribution is kid chameleon and Bubsy. I agree with suggestions such as sewer shark and Bart vs the space mutants. Man that Simpsons game was ridiculous but I stuck with it out of sheer stubbornness.
Disagree with TMNT. It was a good game for its era, even if it was inappropriately difficult for its target audience.
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Bloody Roar is pretty rad, especially 2.
Battletoads is top 10 NES easily. Great game!
The original World Heroes was my first fighting game in the arcade that hooked me for some reason... No idea why I wasn't playing the far superior Street Fighter 2 instead.