History SoBadItsGood / VideoGames

** Actual good gameplay could be one thing that we would need...

* ''Trio the Punch''. Made by Data East, it's regarded as the first kuso-ge (shitty) game, AND HOW. The three characters are the most stereotyped heroes ever (a ninja, a brawler and a barbarian that looks like Rastan), each has his own theme WHICH LOOPS ENDLESSLY DURING THE WHOLE GAME, Karnov is inexplicably a common enemy, clearing a stage nets a "WIN WIN" and a roulette where you can power-up or down with an old sensei declaring "LUCKY! CHA CHA CHA!", a sheep boss TURNS YOU INTO A SHEEP FOR THE WHOLE NEXT STAGE... since it would take too much to list everything, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Z3Nb4KXwA here's a 3-parts commentary]] on this (clearly voluntary) crappy game.

* ''Bad Street Brawler'' is designed to use the Power Glove, and is just as campy as a [[MemeticMutation notorious]] [[TheWizard scene]] promoting that peripheral. The game also was originally part of a plan by Mattell to produce a new Barbie-like plastic figure line; only for boys, featuring "Duke Davis, former punk-rocker and the world's coolest martial arts vigilante!" The result is not only one of the worst, but also one of the strangest BeatEmUp games ever concieved. Despite intending to reach a male demographic, the protagonist was given an arguably metrosexual appearance with matching yellow hair and short-sleeve shirt. (Did Mattell ever research what actual punk rockers or vigilantes wear?) The game then gives him a repertoire of moves that often bear only a cursory resemblence to martial arts, a plot that apparently is about fighting circus performers, and one level centers entirely around [[PetTheDog giving tummy-rubs to dogs]].
** A RunningGag about this game among certain circles: "At least its title is honest: It ''is'' a bad [[BeatEmUp street-brawler!]]"

* ''Kasumi Ninja'' is a hilariously-terrible ''MortalKombat'' ripoff made for the Atari Jaguar, with many an EthnicScrappy in its character roster and incredibly backfired attempts at using photo-capture graphics. The general consensus as to its CrowningMomentOfFunny is the character Angus, a steretypical Scottsman with the ability to shoot fireballs from his groin.

** A RunningGag about this game among certain circles: "At least its title is honest: It ''is'' a bad [[BeatEmUp street-brawler!"

* ''Bad Street Brawler'' is designed to use the Power Glove, and is just as campy as a [[MemeticMutation notorious]] [[TheWizard scene]] promoting that peripheral. The game also was originally part of a plan by Mattell to produce a new Barbie-like plastic figure line; only for boys, featuring "Duke Davis, former punk-rocker and the world's coolest martial arts vigilante!" The result is not only one of the worst, but also one of the strangest BeatEmUp games ever concieved. Despite intending to reach a male demographic, the protagonist was given an arguably metrosexual appearance with matching yellow hair and short-sleeve shirt. (Did Mattell ever research what actual punk rockers or vigilantes wear?) The game then gives him a repertoire of moves that often bear only a cursory resemblence to martial arts, a plot that apparently centers around fighting circus performers, and one level centers entirely around [[PetTheDog giving tummy-rubs to dogs]]. SoYeah.

* ''Kasumi Ninja'' is a hilariously-terrible ''MortalKombat'' ripoff made for the Atari Jaguar, with many an EthnicScrappy in its character roster and incredibly backfired attempts at using photo-capture graphics. The general consensus as to its CrowningMomentOfFunny is the character Angus, a steretypical Scottsman with the ability to shoot fireballs from his groin. IAmNotMakingThisUp.

** However it has a very memorable soundtrack, detailed in-battle graphics and animations, a certain "charm" so to speak. In the mind of this Troper, and [[NeedsMoreLove maybe some other people]], it's still an enjoyable game.

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* The Half-Life Fanfiction-made-[[GarrysMod Garry's-Mod]]-Video "[[Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences Full Life Consequences]]". So bad it has to be [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs seen to be believed.]]
** The [[http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=110471 Flash version]] of the same story is pretty good, though.
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** You can get access to a "horse" (some of them are undead, or scaly, or whatever) But the controls are impossible, turning is very awkward, especially when in a full gallop. So if you push the gallop button, you'll find yourself saying "Okay turn. Turn. TURN! Gah! What are you doing?!?!? Get back on the road you stupid horse! How do you stop this thing?!?!?" By the time you figure out how to stop the horse from running, you're probably on the other side of wherever you where aiming to go.

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* The Half-Life Fanfiction-made-[[GarrysMod Garry's-Mod]]-Video "[[Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences Full Life Consequences]]". So bad it has to be [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs seen to be believed.]]
** The [[http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=110471 Flash version]] of the same story is pretty good, though.
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!! Games

* ''Snake's Revenge'' was a rejected chapter from the ''MetalGear'' canon made for the overseas NES market. Its gameplay isn't bad, although unreasonably difficult, rather short, and strikingly experimental in places (with side-scrolling stealth sections that make ''{{Contra}}'' look like ''{{Tetris}} DS''), and it has some legitimately good moments (like the boss battle against the tank and the container ship infiltration). However, the plot is incoherent, even for a ''MetalGear'' game, thanks in part to the game's {{Blind Idiot Translation}} (one part of the game involves getting in touch with a captured ally who is actually an enemy spy in disguise, a plot twist you can see coming thanks to his {{suspiciously specific denial}}s); the graphics are so bad that the heaving back of a dying man looks like some kind of [[http://i33.tinypic.com/v8fsbo.gif vibrating phallic tentacle]] (and Snake [[HighlyVisibleNinja wears a luminous orange shell-suit to a stealth mission]]); the American manual was famously bizarre ([[http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/manuals/snakerev.txt 'Higharolla Cockamamie'?]]); and yet nothing even comes close to the final battle. It involves Big Boss coming back from the dead, transforming into a giant purple cyborg that breathes fire, and chasing Snake through a maze because he 'WANTS REVENGE'. This was stupid at the time, but ''MetalGearSolid 3'' and ''4'' have made it extremely HilariousInHindsight.

!!Not full games, but portions thereof:

!!Game-related FanWorks:

* [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36747.html This]] "trailer" for the DS and PSP ports of the ''DukeNukem'' trilogy. The sheer reliance on WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome is amazing.
* Of course the voice acting of the Duke Nukem games also count. With lines like "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum", and "I've got balls of steel!"

* The first ''ResidentEvil'' game, despite being a pretty scary game, has horrid voice acting to make the game seem like more of a B-movie. Most of it comes from a clumsy ally named Barry Burton. Examples include, after a ceiling nearly crushes your character Jill, saying you were almost a "Jill Sandwich." Another infamous one is how Jill is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XyghKl72R0 Master of Unlocking.]]
** Allegedly the reason why the acting in the first game was laughably bad was because the actors were directed by a Japanese director.
** In ''ResidentEvil4'', the President's daughter gets kidnapped, so they send in [[OneManArmy the only]] [[BadAss dude who's bad enough]] to save the President's daughter: a pretty boy named Leon Kennedy whose only experience prior to joining the secret service was surviving his first day as a rookie cop during a ZombieApocalypse.
*** That said, Resident Evil 4 is considered one of the best games ever, let alone the best Resident Evil game...which doesn't prevent the script from being drop-dead hilarious, with some of Leon's best gems being "Well, I don't really give a damn! Rain or shine, you're going down!" and "DON'T WORRY, ASHLEY! I'M COMIN' FOR YA!"
**** Two of Leon's best lines: "Saddler, you're small-time" and "No thanks, BRO."
***** I think you guys are forgetting a few good ones, like "Where's everyone going? Bingo?", "Your right hand comes off?", and "A senior moment perhaps?"
* You should have stayed away from [[SoBadItsGood So Bad It's Hilarious]] voice acting in ''HouseOfTheDead''... [[Narm/VideoGames Suffer like G did?]]
** "G's bloodstains?!"
** "No... why..."
** This is taken to [[BeyondTheImpossible its intentional extreme]] in ''House of the Dead: Overkill'', putting everything into a {{Grindhouse}} style and taking the Narm to its [[NarmCharm extreme]] to make it So Bad It's CrazyAwesome. Perhaps most notably: ''the game achieved a Guinness World Record for [[ClusterFBomb the most usages of the F-word in a video game]]!''
*** And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUD2sLE5rM the trailer]]. Oh God, the trailer. ''It's so frightening'' (* cue a snake).
* SamuraiZombieNation
* The boss battle theme, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHGIBfdi-pM Eternity]], of BlueDragon. There are just no words for how ''bad'' this song is, but somehow it works in a twisted sort of way.

* The first ''MegaMan'' game had [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore North American box art]] that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MegamanBox.jpg must be seen to be believed]]. Fans have come to love its [[DidNotDoTheResearch ridiculous inaccuracies]]. As the page quote indicates, ''Mega Man 9'' paid tribute with [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Megaman9cover.jpg silly box art of its own]]. This wasn't even the first time -- Inticreates' previous game, ''Mega Man ZX Advent'', included an in-game ShoutOut.
** Capcom USA has also brought us ''MegaManBattleNetwork 4''[='s=] BlindIdiotTranslation, which was a much, MUCH worse translation job than anything else in the entire series, both before and after it. Examples include "What a polite young man she was!" and "Megaman, is the jack out now!" Even the manual had its share of silly mistakes.
** And then there's the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LISmPmdUhYA bad voice acting]] in ''Mega Man [=X4=]''.

** And let's not forget, ''it didn't even come with an instruction manual,'' merely saying, before the title, "Real men don't need instructions."

* ''TwoWorlds''. It would be an otherwise generic [[TheElderScrolls Elder Scrolls]] [[FollowTheLeader clone]], were it not for the fact that it apparently goes out of its way to suck (It's only just playable enough to avoid SoBadItsHorrible status). From the character creation screen (sliders that do next to nothing, manipulating an image too small to make out at standard definition), to the fantasy ClicheStorm, to the [[LargeHam hammiest voice acting ever]] with YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe and [[http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/twoworlds/index.html no respect for natural diction or pronunciation]] (wonderfully {{MST}}ed by [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/541-Two-Worlds Escapist Magazine]]). You'll realize something is amiss about five minutes in when the onscreen text tells you to "arm yourselve." If that doesn't raise warning flags, just wait until the townsfolk start mispronouncing words.

** The evil threatening the land is called ''The Taint''. The number of accidental innuendos this causes is quite simply MoreThanInfinite.

** While we're dealing with Sonic, SonicR was a MarioKart FollowTheLeader attempt. Sonic barely ran faster than Amy's [[TheAllegedCar "car"]], The songs on all of the courses were sung by a woman who was ''probably'' high, Tails Doll was so horrible he was [[NightmareFuel horrifying]], and ''it was amazing''.

* Not sure if it can be classified as a game ([[AngryVideoGameNerd The Nerd himself]] didn't think so), but Plumbers Don't Wear Ties definitely counts. Supposedly a softcore porn game, but the contents are anything but arousing. The game contains obscure placed pandas in go-karts ([[BigLippedAlligatorMoment who are never seen again after the opening credits]]), a guy wearing a chicken mask, a plot so confusing and weird that you can almost shoot yourself, and {{narm}} lines all over the place ("Take yer damn clothes off!"). It really can't be anything but this.

* ''50 Cent: Blood on the Sand''. What other game has a plot that can be summed up in the phrase "Bitch stole my skull!"
** On its own, the game is a [[RealIsBrown browntastic]], competent ''GearsOfWar'' style shooter. But the fact that it stars an ImmuneToBullets [=~50 Cent~=], [[ClusterFBomb with a swear button]] (and you can ''upgrade your swearing''), collecting [[strike: Bling]] Shine and making random comments about the scenery while gunning down people by the dozen. It's basically full of {{Narm}}.

* DeusEx is an amazing game by most anyone's standards, but its voice acting is {{Narm}} inducing in many scenes.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qKzIsisU "Oh my God JC, a bomb!" "A bomb!"]]
** "Ah, Mistah JC Dentawn. In da fresh."
** "BITCH, I ain't goin' back to jail."
* ''UnrealTournament'' is about a ''sport'', agreed? Yet for ''Unreal Tournament 3'', someone had the job of writing six cutscenes that turn it into a revenge story in the midst of an interplanetary war. These cutscenes are hilarious.

* Though ''StarFox 64'' is an amazing game, its voice acting is hilariously cheesy.
-->'''Peppy:''' [[MemeticMutation Do a barrel roll!]]

* The live action cutscenes in ''{{Shinobi}} X''/''Shinobi Legion''. They honestly do look a bit awesome when it comes to fighting though.

** HouseOfTheDead and VirtuaCop looks next-gen in comparison.
* The infamous English voice acting in Shenmue and Shenmue II. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQa3yGXzGls Do you know where I can find some sailors?]]

* Tournament Of Legends, according to [[http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=18527 this Official Nintendo Magazine review]]. They even basically reference the trope with the positive "So bad it's almost good".

* Mario Teaches Typing 2. The first game was just bad all around, but the second game for it's credit had some of the most narm filled, uintentionally hilarious cut scenes known to man, like this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0QKiLE0xko ending]] and the somewhat silly mafia like scene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWF9oFFE3nI here]].

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEq2orcvckI Kreed]] is an obscure Russian first-person shooter. Though the actual game isn't very good, it is immensively entertaining thanks to the bad animation, horrible character design,, unfitting buttrock music played at random moments and hilarious voice acting by Russians who clearly don't know English. "''Quit winning!''".
* DarkenedSkye has terrible gameplay, and two categories of dialog: Hilariously overdone, intentionally bad dialog, and intentionally lampshading and mocking category one.
* The 1981 B-17 Bomber for the intellivision. One of the first games with voice capabilities. What did it sound like? [[{{Synthesizeritis}} Microsoft Sam's]] [[LargeHam Hammy]] [[DeepSouth southern cousin]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcaEdnFLb1U It must be heard to be beleved.]]

* The American voice acting in the original PSX version of ''[=~Star Ocean: The Second Story~=]'', particularly Claude's VA, straddles the line between SoBadItsGood and SoBadItsHorrible. Claude's best/worst victory line is "Crawd has advanced forward!". (Yes, he actually says [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Crawd]], not Claude. This game had a rather... [[BlindIdiotTranslation spotty]] localization.)
* The Half-Life Fanfiction-made-Gary's-Mod-Video "[[Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences Full Life Consequences]]". So bad it has to be [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs seen to be believed.]]
** The [[http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=110471 Flash version]] of the same story is pretty good, though.

* While ''DevilMayCry'' has top-notch gameplay, the lines Dante gets caught pulling off are often considered more cheesy than a Pizza Hut joint.
** [[strike:Virgil]]Vergil is a worthy successor in this regard. He's got a jacked-up notion of [[PreAssKickingOneLiner awesome lines]], and it's starting to piss me off.

* "AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs". A horrible translation from a Japanese game (''ZeroWing'') into English that was so bad [[MemeticMutation it became a massive internet meme]]. Especially amazing since [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVy7Ve6y6A that was the only cutscene]] in the ''entire game'', and those practically set records for bad translation ''anyway''.
** The game itself is actually quite good, though.
* The makers of the Philips CD-I licensed characters from ''SuperMarioBros'' and ''LegendOfZelda'' for a number of games: ''Hotel Mario'', ''Link: The Faces Of Evil'', ''Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon'', and ''Zelda's Adventure''. They were produced without input from the original creators, and are unanimously considered [[DisContinuity non-canonical]]. The gameplay is generally considered [[http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/zeldacdi/zeldacdi.htm to be okay]], but the infamy comes from the laughably bad cutscenes. They are, depending on opinion, {{Narm}}ishly hilarious with every line a meme ("Mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for?", "I wonder what's for dinner..." and "Nice of the princess to invite us over for a picnic, [[{{Mondegreen}} Gay Luigi!]]" spring to mind), or horrifying (the animation was [[NightmareFuel nightmarishly]] [[OffModel poor]]).

* ''MarioIsMissing'', the MS-DOS version in particular. It's so bad it unleashed [[http://pooparchive.com/wiki/index.php/Weegee Weegee]] upon the world. What makes it even [[strike:worse]] better is that it was supposed to be Luigis CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfV2OzEHwg The Zoo Race]], a completely mediocre racing game with a less-than-subtle Christian message. Yet there's so much about it that makes it unintentionally hilarious, such as the NightmareFuel that is Rueban, horses being shot out of cannons and the fact that the race announcer is ''{{God}}, while seemingly stoned out of his mind''.

* ''Castle Shikigami II'', whilst having fun gameplay - it's a bullet hell game - received terrible yet hilarious translation and voice acting. For example, "I like girls. But now, it's about justice." "Too chatty the bar E, since you're the fifth" "Still want to live? Why? MIGHT!" "Slaves for fashion dislike bulges." "You, get on top! I'll teach you." "I'm Dundeon. Let's fight, Mr Beam!" "Happy to shoot you!" "Dance your heart out! With friendship." "Strong and dumb!" "don't come yet! Don't soil your hands!" "lil' bro! Dead but still bros!" "Villians gather, heroes [[TropersDoItWithoutNotability do it alone]]" "Keeping it a fool free zone" "I'm kim of two homes and seven moms" "Hold me if I'm dying, and visa versa okay?" There are so many more examples, it's difficult to list them all...[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLE7cM2ZI7w Here's one of the more imfamous cutscenes.]]

* ''Symphony of the Night'' from the {{Castlevania}} series is a very good game, but its dialogue is somewhere between [[SoBadItsGood this]] and {{Narm}}. The PSP version changes the previous [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome great lines]] to less over-the-top dramatic ones. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Not everyone welcomed the change]].
** '''What is a man?''' A miserable little pile of secrets? But enough talk, ''have at you!''
** The XBLA version lacked the awesomely cheesy "I Am The Wind" that played over the credits in the original Playstation version.

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* The 1981 B-17 Bomber for the intellivision. One of the first games with voice capabilities. What did it sound like? [[{{Synthesizeritis}} Microsoft Sam's]] [[LargeHam Hammy]] [[DeepSouth southern cousin]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcaEdnFLb1U It must be heard to be beleved.]]

* The game itself certainly isn't bad, but this troper put [[Borderlands Borderlands]] on his average computer without a graphics card (or at least one good for gaming). It lagged so bad that I had to put everything on the lowest setting. It soon turned into a slightly updated version of [[Doom Doom]] because of its horrible graphics, which are so blocky and thick-lined that it's practically a whole new game. And it's still fun to play - once you get past the fact that you can barely read the text boxes and the [[BuxomIsBetter Siren]] looks like an anorexic.

* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRht1kBYFNc Legion]]'' on the PC-Engine CD has plain bad gameplay, but the inept, [[BadBadActing deadpan]], out-of-place narration at the beginning of each levels is nothing short of hilarious.

** Because that totally wasn't cheesy enough right there.
*** Dante does love eating pizzas constantly. Fortunately, his fixation on strawberry sundaes has not made him sweet.
** This entry's gettin' crazy!
*** [[BigNo Goddamnit!]]
*** WOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOO! (STYLISH!)
*** I wanted to fill this entry... ''[[{{Narm}} WITH LIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!]]''

*** And Nero isn't half bad himself.
**** You'll think I will blush a pretty pink when I kick your ass!

* ''Home Alone 2'' for the SNES counts as SoBadItsGood, despite it's a [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames video game based on a movie]]. With an absurd cast of enemies, decent graphics and weird sound effects, it definitely sets the boundary between SoBadItsGood and SoBadItsHorrible.

Yeah, okay, we know these games aren't very good (in fact, they may be [[Horrible/VideoGames downright awful]]), but at least you can derive some entertainment from the unintentional comedy they bring.

* ''Castle Shikigami II'', whilst having fun gameplay - it's a bullet hell game - received terrible yet hilarious translation and voice acting. For example, "I like girls. But now, it's about justice." "Too chatty the bar E, since you're the fifth" "Still want to live? Why? MIGHT!" "Slaves for fashion dislike bulges." "You, get on top! I'll teach you." "I'm Dundeon. Let's fight, Mr Beam!" "Happy to shoot you!" "Dance your heart out! With friendship." "Strong and dumb!" "don't come yet! Don't soil your hands!" "lil' bro! Dead but still bros!" "Villians gather, heroes do it alone" "Keeping it a fool free zone" "I'm kim of two homes and seven moms" "Hold me if I'm dying, and visa versa okay?" There are so many more examples, it's difficult to list them all...[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLE7cM2ZI7w Here's one of the more imfamous cutscenes.]]