History Horrible / VideoGames

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]],[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], anyone at Website/ChannelAwesome or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than complaints about the game's DRM system.[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as reputable, professional reviews, to list it. Though once it is listed, the Caustic Critics can provide the detailed review(s).

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], WebVideo/JonTron, WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}, [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], anyone at Website/ChannelAwesome or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than complaints about the game's DRM system.[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as reputable, professional reviews, to list it. Though once it is listed, the Caustic Critics can provide the detailed review(s).

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, WebVideo/JonTron, WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}, [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], anyone at Website/ChannelAwesome or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than complaints about the game's DRM system.[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as reputable, professional reviews, to list it. Though once it is listed, the Caustic Critics can provide the detailed review(s).

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, WebVideo/JonTron, WebVideo/Caddicarus, [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], anyone at Website/ChannelAwesome or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than complaints about the game's DRM system.[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as reputable, professional reviews, to list it. Though once it is listed, the Caustic Critics can provide the detailed review(s).

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], the WebVideo/IrateGamer, WebVideo/JonTron, or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than complaints about the game's DRM system.[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual, professional reviews, to list it. Though once it is listed, the Caustic Critics can provide the detailed review(s).

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], the WebVideo/IrateGamer, or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than complaints about the game's DRM system.[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual, professional reviews, to list it. Though once it is listed, the Caustic Critics can provide the detailed review(s).

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], the WebVideo/IrateGamer, or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than [[InternetCounterattack complaints about the game's DRM system]].[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual, professional reviews, to list it. Though once it is listed, the Caustic Critics can provide the detailed review(s).

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], the WebVideo/IrateGamer, or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than [[InternetCounterattack complaints about the game's DRM system]].[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual, bribed professional "reviews" made by cuckholds, to list it. (Though once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review(s).)

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], the WebVideo/IrateGamer, or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than [[InternetCounterattack complaints about the game's DRM system]].[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual, professional reviews, to list it. (Though once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review(s).)

->''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgAx_pFn48Y "This is like human misery in video game form."]]''
-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}}''', ''Let's Play VideoGame/CaptainNovolin (Part 6)''

* Horrible/VideoGameGenerations

* [[Horrible/VideoGameGenerations Games released on a CD/Cartridge/Disk or on digital distribution services hosted by mainstream companies]]

* [[Horrible/VideoGameGenerations Games released on a CD/Cartridge/Disk or on Steam]]

* [[Horrible/VideoGameGenerations Games released on a CD/Cartridge/Disk]]

* [[Horrible/VideoGameGenerations "Main" Console Games]]
* [[Horrible/VideoGamesOther Other Games]]

For good games that are best played with frequent use of the Mute Button, see the Video Games section of {{Horrible.Voice Acting}}. See PortingDisaster for good games that embrace the crappiness as they change platform, though one can be in here if it's a horrible game on its own.

'''''Second Important Note:''''' A game isn't horrible just because WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], the WebVideo/IrateGamer, or any other CausticCritic [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviewed it]]. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com. [[note]]''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a prime example of a genuinely good game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than [[InternetCounterattack complaints about the game's DRM system]].[[/note]] There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual, professional reviews, to list it. (Though once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review(s).)

* '''[[Horrible/VideoGameGenerations "Main" Console Games]]'''
* '''[[Horrible/VideoGamesOther Other Games]]'''

!!Examples (more-or-less in order by console generation, then name):
%% Please note that the "generation" labels are for the year that the ''console'' was released.
%% (NES games go under 3rd generation, SNES/Genesis games go under 4th generation, etc.)
%% PC and other computer games, on the other hand, can be placed under the folder for the year the game was released.

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%%[[folder:First Generation (1972-76)]]
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[[folder:Second Generation (1977-84)]]
* Cascade's ''Cassette 50'' - allegedly "50 fantastic games on one cassette" - remains notorious for its [[http://www.tigsource.com/2006/08/10/somewhere-beyond-cassette-50/ craptastic]] quality almost 30 years after its release - virtually all those "fantastic" games were very poor sub-type-in-quality affairs written in BASIC. In their defense, the games were solicited via newspaper ads and often written by teenagers paid ludicrously small amounts (e.g. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_50 £10 for a game that took 12 hours to write]] or [[http://retrocomputers.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/cascade-cassette-50-advert/ £65 for 10]]). The tape itself sold for £10, around the cost of two regular games at the time, so it's likely the blame can be placed on [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysretrocomputers/4103959960/sizes/o/in/photostream/ overselling adverts]] meeting the unfairly raised expectations of penniless schoolkids for its unhappy reputation. Still, it's generally considered so bad that it has inspired present-day "crap game" competitions.
* ''Karate'' for the {{Atari 2600}} was a near-unplayable FightingGame with extremely unresponsive controls and with almost no chance to win. There's only so much you can do with a digital joystick and one button. (Let us note that Atari's first-party joysticks were fragile, so unresponsive controls will lead to shredded controllers.) Some even consider ''it'' the worst Atari 2600 game. The AVGN [[http://youtu.be/0Oem60yvtUY?t=9m7s ended up taking a quick look into this game in his Atari Sports review]].
* ''VoyageIntoTheUnknown'' on the ZXSpectrum. Released by Mastertronic in 1984, its failure is exacerbated by the many milestones in gaming history on [[{{Rare}} that]] [[SaberWulf year]] [[JetSetWilly alone]]. Programmed in ''BASIC'' of all things, with risible graphics, worse sound, nonsensical references to "time warp chuck out"s and "buke"s and ludicrously hard space combat sequences that took place on about 10% of the screen. To add insult to injury, the game gave no clue as to how to even start playing; unless you guessed the correct sequence of keys ('E'ngine, 'P'ower, 'I'gnition) to take off you couldn't even start the game proper (such as it was). Contemporary magazines slammed the game, ''Crash'' giving it an overall score of 9% with ''2%'' for playability.
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[[folder:Third Generation (1985-89)]]
* ''The Adventures of RockyAndBullwinkle and Friends'' for the {{NES}}. It has annoying music and the graphics are primitively designed, especially for a late 1992 release. Most enemies are {{Demonic Spider}}s and are capable of depleting your ''entire'' energy bar thanks to a lack of MercyInvincibility. You'll spend more time fighting the unresponsive controls and navigating the terribly-designed levels (a good example of this is Level 4, where you have to cross a pond with the game's awful jump precision). Beat the game, and "[[AWinnerIsYou YOU WIN!]]" is your only reward.
* ''Series/{{Alf}}'' for the SegaMasterSystem takes TheProblemWithLicensedGames beyond [[SturgeonsLaw the norm]], and into levels only games like ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' and ''{{VideoGame/Superman 64}}'' would know about. What would otherwise be a short adventure game (twenty minutes at most) can take well over an hour, due to FakeDifficulty by means of convoluted controls, bad programming, and GoddamnedBats which become DemonicSpiders due to Alf [[OneHitPointWonder being able to take only one hit]]. The game consists near entirely of TrialAndErrorGameplay, both by mistake and by by design--the game features a lot of unfair traps, including shop items that exist solely to make you too poor to buy the items you actually need and one, Alf Book, which restarts the game after triggering an InfoDump that ends by [[TrollingCreator informing the player of such,]] the ''only'' time that it is so much as hinted at. The writing is simply atrocious, loaded with [[MrExposition exposition]] [[YouShouldntKnowThisAlready whose existence]] tears [[PlotHole gaping holes]] in [[ExcusePlot what little of a plot there is]], and terrible jokes that aren't even SoUnfunnyItsFunny. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3xcxq04hMY Here's a review]] by a former Alf fan who lists even more faults with this game and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciVEKYZ2tF0 here's]] a complete playthrough by someone who despite having received tips from ''the game's lead programmer'' was still forced to use save states due to how utterly broken the game is.
* ''Castle Assault'', an early AmstradCPC game, is one of the most pathetically simpleminded {{Platform Game}}s ever, with horrible jumping controls. The obstacles are limited to monsters that jump up and down from pits and platforms that move forward and backward, in a sequence that starts repeating midway through the first single-screen level, which repeats endlessly for anyone who cares to beat it.
* ''Color a Dinosaur'' is an example of a "game" unlikely to have much appeal for its stated target audience of 3-to-6-year-olds. All it has is 16 static pictures of dinosaurs which can be colored with up to three colors. There's not even a save feature. Though the NES is not really a good platform for a virtual coloring book, comparing ''Color a Dinosaur'' to ''Kid Pix'' shows how little effort was put into the former.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdjSyCQX_8 Dian Shi Ma Li]]'' (aka ''Mario Lottery'') is a Chinese bootleg game for the NES starring a Mario ripoff (nicknamed [[FanNickname Fortran]] because of the "F" on his cap) with vague slot machine-ish gameplay. The aim of the game is to get as many credits as possible, but credits are a currency that can only be used for gambling, and the only way to ''end'' the game naturally is to run out of them. The minigames don't make any sense, which is unsurprising because the main game doesn't make much sense. [[WatchItForTheMeme The only reason to play it]] is to [[MemeticMutation PUSH START TO RICH]]. The gameplay seems to be based on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43gDEKgjhJQ these]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAlBlvPJPjM gambling]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAKndNFJ80c machines]] and they're no less confusing. Oddly, they're only referred to as "Mario Slot Machines" or just [[http://www.taiwan-yuanmei.com/en/products_list.asp?SCID=4 "Mario"]], even if they aren't Mario-themed.
* ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' for the NES has slow, plodding gameplay and controls; EverythingTryingToKillYou to a ludicrous extent; a completely ineffective weapon as Jekyll and useful-if-you-could-hit-anything weapons as Hyde; and a gimmick whereby you can lose within seconds of turning into Hyde without a chance to save yourself[[note]]Hyde only gets overkilled instantly if he appears in the same tile/area/spot that Jekyll appears in prior to becoming Hyde (NeverTheSelvesShallMeet). More or less, Hyde gets killed by a TemporalParadox... ''Good luck finding anyone who knows that kind of detail to warn you, GuideDangIt!''[[/note]] — these all make for a game that no person can play without feeling like less of a person thereafter. WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd considers it probably the worst game he's ever played (except for maybe ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies''), and the seriousness of his videos on the matter confirms it.
* The only thing good about the NES version (not so much a straight port as [[ReformulatedGame a completely different game]]) of the Laserdisc classic ''DragonsLair'' is the impressive fluidity of the graphics. The play control is unresponsive — there's a delay between the button press and Dirk's action ([[DamnYouMuscleMemory B jumps in this game]]). Dirk is rather large, which makes simple jumps difficult. There's also an elevator shaft that's intended to make winding through the castle seem like one, but it merely makes the game even harder than it needs to be. Adding to the [[FakeDifficulty already insane artificial difficulty]] are {{Death Trap}}s everywhere, so extra precautions are necessary for basically the whole game. Add to that an insane final boss fight and [[AWinnerIsYou a meager "Congratulations" ending]], and you have the NES equivalent of a [[RageQuit game rage-fueled nightmare]]. It was also reviewed by the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00xIvTOLrYA AVGN]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AsWF21VOzQ Aqualung]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYdiMe4eiIM game reviews]], the latter of whom also called it the worst NES game of all time.
* ''Heavy Shreddin[='=]'' is a terrible snowboarding game for the NES, with slow controls, bland graphics, music and sound effects that cause your ears to bleed, frustrating difficulty and your "reward" for completing a level (a full-screen [[UncannyValley photo-realistic]] image of some lady) is more NightmareFuel than a reward. Watch Aqualung's review of it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtJCUVEM0BQ here]].
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zUkK14bHDk Human Killing Machine]]'' for the AtariST was a rip-off of the first ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'' game made by Tiertex, the same company who did the Atari ST version of the original ''Street Fighter'' (itself a PortingDisaster), and the 8-bit {{porting disaster}}s of ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}''. The game lacks special moves, two-player mode (bad in a FightingGame, a genre that thrives on one-on-one competition), and scrolling. There are miscellaneous god-awful ethnic stereotypes all around and occasional cruelty to animals. Also, if you start off badly, the game makes it '''harder''' for you to win the next fight. Furthermore, the developers made it so all of a given character's frames of animation could be shoehorned into a single screen's worth of space, which has the unfortunate consequence of the FinalBoss having only ''six'' frames of animation (two walking, two falling, one punching, one kicking).
* The adventure game ''VideoGame/{{Hydlide}}'' was a huge hit in Japan. It debuted on a microcomputer in 1984, was released on multiple systems there, and eventually landed on the Famicom/NES in 1989. Unfortunately, regardless of whether the game was any good on the earlier systems, it was borderline unplayable on the NES, complete with hints of PortingDisaster. The graphics were bland, and the music was an annoying loop that [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong sounded like]] a dumbed-down ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' theme. The battle mechanics were practically non-existent -- they amounted to just running into monsters while holding the "Attack" button. There were no clues anywhere of what to do or where to go. Choosing the Save option only saves the player's most recent password; since the cartridge had no battery, the password is wiped from its memory when the game is turned off. WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd ripped apart ''Hydlide'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFOf70RyERU here]].
* ''[[IkariWarriors Ikari III: The Rescue]]'' was a nigh-unplayable mess in its original arcade form, as SNK de-emphasized the run-and-gun nature of the first two ''IkariWarriors'' games (essentially turning the third game into a beat-em-up) but kept the rotary controls, making it extremely hard for attacks to connect. Oddly enough, the NES version of ''Ikari III'' was better than the NES {{Porting Disaster}}s of the first two games, as it was a somewhat-decent game on its own. It helps that the NES port didn't bother to simulate the arcade games' rotary controls.
* ''Scramble Eggs'' for the {{MSX}} is a cheap knockoff of ''VideoGame/{{Scramble}}'' where you can't move horizontally or drop bombs and the enemies and terrain are boringly designed. The graphics look primitive, but the sound and music are worse.
* While Hummer Team usually averts this, ''{{Somari}}'' falls squarely in it. This game could have been SoBadItsGood given that it's an unofficial Famicom port of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' starring {{Mario}} for no discernible reason, but the poor controls and physics, coupled with FakeDifficulty make it a barely playable mess and the soundtrack makes ''Sonic Genesis'' (See Sixth Generation for that game) sound good in comparison.
* ''Super Monkey Daibouken'' is an {{RPG}} based on ''JourneyToTheWest'' in which Son Goku[[note]](not the Manga/DragonBall one)[[/note]] and his party make an agonizingly slow journey from China to India through a confusingly designed overworld with blotchy graphics and invisible exits. It has side-scrolling combat sequences like ''ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', but worse in practically every way.
* ''Super Pitfall'' was an attempt to update {{Activision}}'s classic hit ''VideoGame/{{Pitfall}}'' for the NES... but they didn't update the right things. The gameplay was sluggish and not enjoyable because of unforgiving amounts of FakeDifficulty stemming from terrible stage design, TrialAndErrorGameplay that gives [[GuideDangIt zero clue]] as to what to do, and [[MoonLogicPuzzle logic-defying]] ways of getting to a different place (for example, at one point you must jump into a bird enemy that looks no different than any other bird {{mook}} in the game). Your character (who looks a bit ''too'' much like Luigi) remains a OneHitPointWonder and, while he does have a gun, it's near useless until the final level because most of the enemies are waist-high in height and you can't shoot while you duck! The graphics were awful, full of sickening strobing, slowdown, flickering, and bland sprites (waterfalls look like avalanches of blue garbage). The music is the same annoying loop played over and over again until the final level (where it got replaced by another annoying loop). The company that anonymously developed the game, Micronics, was also responsible for the NES {{Porting Disaster}}s of ''VideoGame/{{Athena}}'' and ''IkariWarriors''. The game was a failure when it was released and is considered among the worst games available for the NES. (The obscure PC88 version of ''Super Pitfall'' was not so bad; it included a life bar, the ability to shoot while ducking, and {{Dungeon Shop}}s that made gold useful besides for ScoringPoints.) If you're still not convinced, check out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juYxGcTq9HQ Aqualung's full walkthrough]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy5NsQJr5Bs of the game]] or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEXpsDB2XQ The Angry Video Game Nerd's review]].
* ''VideoGame/TransformersConvoyNoNazo'' has Ultra Magnus as a OneHitPointWonder, palette-swapped bosses (including three instances of the Decepticon logo), Trypticon as a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere, and an ending that is [[AWinnerIsYou nothing but text]]. You had to [[SpellingBonus collect letters that spelled out Rodimus]] and then beat the game to play as Rodimus Prime (also a OHPW); if you beat the game with him, then you got [[AWinnerIsYou "Congratulation!"]] and your high score. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking On top of that, the logo of the company who made the game has some guy in blackface.]][[note]]This belonged to Takara (presently [=TakaraTomy=]), who distributed the toyline and its predecessors ''Diaclone'' and ''Microman'' in Japan.[[/note]] It is yet another horrible video game that WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd reviewed on his show.
* ''A Week of ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', a piss-poor platformer developed by Mars and released by Towa Chiki. The graphics are ugly, with backgrounds often consisting of simple rectangles barely representing what they're supposed to and sprites that look like a failed attempt to capture the comic strip's style. The enemies are uninspired, consisting of things like mice, birds, baseballs, spiders, and worms. The sound effects are primitive. It's packed to the brim with GoddamnedBats and DemonicSpiders. There's no MercyInvincibility, so the aformentioned goddamned bats and demonic spiders can take out all your health in less than a second, made even worse by the game only giving you one life and no continues. Topping all that, in a completely boneheaded move of game design all the items are ''invisible'' until you walk past them. This especially becomes a pain at several points when the gameplay grinds to a halt and you're left jumping around the screen like an idiot looking for a key to open the giant door in front of you. This happens multiple times throughout all the stages. It was [[NoExportForYou only released in Japan]], and it's a good thing it stayed there. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm1dVwB4XsE See NecroVMX take a look at it here.]] The only positive thing about this game is the graphics' use in the ''Garfield'' parody comic ''Webcomic/{{Square Root of Minus Garfield}}''.
* ''Where's Waldo?'' for the NES. The appalling graphics are inexcusable because ''the point of the game is to see where Waldo is''. To add insult to injury, the real Waldo is sometimes wearing ''different colors''. The levels that don't consist of finding Waldo are just as terrible, especially the subway level. In it, you had to reach Waldo by entering through tunnels. The board is randomly generated, meaning that sometimes, the whole level becomes UnwinnableByMistake.
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[[folder:Fourth Generation (1990-94)]]
* ''3D VideoGame/{{Ballz}}'' for the {{SNES}} and SegaGenesis. The setting of the game is pure gibberish with nonsensical phrases and weird photos, but what clinches this game is the controls — [[ButtonMasher it's so unplayable that you'll have no idea how to control your fighter]]. The AI, however, has no problem controlling its fighters and will wipe the floor with you. The music and sounds are strange, [[OrgasmicCombat almost erotic, with girls moaning and guys grunting]].
* The NES version of ''AmericanGladiators'' may have been SoBadItsGood (amusing StockScream when Gladiators fall), but the SNES and Genesis versions were utterly-broken, nearly-unplayable abominations. Thanks, [=GameTek=] (now defunct), for [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames pissing all over this franchise]].
* ''VideoGame/AwesomePossum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt'' by Tengen, a flaccid attempt at [[FollowTheLeader cashing in on]] ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', and one of the worst SegaGenesis platformers. The presentation and design is awful; lousy controls, levels that are either bland or just sloppily designed, enemies and bosses with primitive AI and bad hit detection, combined with grainy sprites and garish color schemes, choppy animation and slowdown, bland music, and a trite [[GreenAesop environmental theme]] throughout the game, going as far as giving you pointless trivia questions in-between levels--and on top of all that is a completely unlikable, ugly attempt at a MascotWithAttitude who often spouts grating digitized catchphrases such as [[TotallyRadical "I'm Awesome!"]].
* ''VideoGame/BatmanForever'', a tie-in to the film of that name, for the SNES from Creator/{{Acclaim}} Entertainment. The game has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading frequent loading screens]] despite being on a 16-bit ''cartridge.'' The graphics are so-so, and the music is terribly bland. Worst of all, this game was made with the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' engine even though it isn't a fighting game, and so the controls are [[SomeDexterityRequired completely counter-intuitive]] [[note]](for instance, using Batman's GrapplingHookPistol requires you to tap Select quickly before pressing Up on the D-Pad, and jumping down between floors entails tapping R just before pressing Down)[[/note]]. WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd reviews it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvtk5toGJg here]], along with other ''Batman'' games both good and bad.
* ''Bebe's Kids'', a tie-in to an already subpar film, is notorious amongst the SNES crowd for terrible music, bland gameplay, and a confusing haunted house that acts like a maze. Hard to believe this was made by [[Creator/RadicalEntertainment the same studio]] that went on to create ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}''. Watch WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic tear it apart [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/nostalgia-critic/34-nostalgia-critic/994-video-game-review here]], as well as LordKat's [[http://www.lordkat.com/until-we-win-bebes-kids.html guide to beat it]].
* ''Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball'' is an early SNES title with an interesting concept, but is undermined by sub-par AI, slow characters, and god-awful controls. You're more likely to spend time trying to figure out how to shoot rather than actually trying to win.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjaWl-VdOtc Dshban here]] manages to do pretty good at it though.
* ''Bishoujo Senshi Manga/SailorMoon R'' was slapped together after the game based on the first season sold well enough to let them keep the license in order to make ''Sailor Moon Another Story'', and it shows: it's a SNES BeatEmUp, but ran straight into FakeDifficulty due to awkward hit detection, enemy AI that seems to be programmed to thwart your every move, and SNKBossSyndrome taken to an extreme (the FinalBoss can one hit K.O. you on ''normal difficulty''), as well as boring music, dull graphics and a general lack of fun. Add to this the lack of the actual BigBad of the ''R'' season, and a cavalier approach to the material in general, and you have a stinker for the ages.
* ''VideoGame/CrazyBus'', a South American homebrew game for the SegaGenesis/Mega Drive made in 2004 in which you drive a bus across the screen. Impossible to lose or win, barely even a game, extremely boring, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC0cvwnG0Ik music]] so bad it sounds like someone trying to eat a GameBoy while it's still on. The sound effects sound like they were taken from an Atari 2600 game, and the graphics look no better than an Atari 7800 game.
* ''VideoGame/DarkCastle'' was a groundbreaking game for AppleMacintosh computers (being one of the first games to use fully recorded sound effect samples), but it got a pair of [[PortingDisaster terrible ports]] on the SegaGenesis and {{Philips CD-i}} by ElectronicArts and Three-Sixty Games--with the CD-i port being the worse of the two despite being on a more powerful console. The lack of mouse or keypad control in these ports make it difficult for your hero to properly aim his projectiles, and the bad controls are worsened by the hero's habit of stumbling and falling over what should be easily surmountable obstacles (such as, say, [[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence a foot-high bridge]]). It's possible to defeat the final boss [[SequenceBreaking without even exploring some of the rooms in the castle]][[note]]really confident players can simply opt to go through the middle doors to tackle the boss' sanctuary[[/note]], making almost half of the game superfluous. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZmXbtvGG4E You can see how much of a failure the game is in this UrinatingTree review,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4-7mWeY_Cs as well as an AVGN review for the Genesis and CD-i versions right here.]]
* ''Divine Sealing'' is an unlicensed {{hentai}} shmup for the Genesis that's notable for being extremely ugly, generic, and easy. Heck, even its main gimmick (anime chicks stripping themselves for no reason after you beat each level) is too limited (and too badly drawn) to be actually arousing. If you're not prone to motion sickness, check out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttl-yJNeM48 this Longplay]] (NSFW).
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxuIKgEVmCY Dragon Bowl]]'', a sprite hack of the arcade ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' allegedly based on ''Manga/DragonBall''. It is notable for atrocious music, sound effects stolen from various sources (most notably ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''), graphics that look like they were drawn by retarded children, [[GameBreakingBug game breaking]] bugs that weren't in the original game and broken hit detection. It is pathetic when put up against the game it rips off, never mind other brawlers released the same year.
* ''Fight Fever'' (aka ''Wang Jung Wang'') is a Korean-made ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' ripoff for the NeoGeo with ugly graphics, special moves that are impossible to pull off, and several assets stolen from the first ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' and ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'' games. (The sounds were mostly stolen from ''Art of Fighting'', and the continue counter noise and end-of-round score screen graphics were stolen from ''Fatal Fury''.)
* ''Fighting Masters'' promised "65 Devastating Attacks" on its back cover, but the game reserved one of the SegaGenesis controller's three buttons for jumping, so each character ended up with three attacks, two of which would likely be nearly identical. In addition, the collision detection was pathetic, and basic punches and kicks were nearly useless, leaving grapple attacks as the only viable method of dealing damage. The character sprites had too few frames of animation, and the generic stage backgrounds made it impossible to appreciate their supposedly gigantic size.
* ''Fuck Quest'' for DOS, designed by one Richard Eter, is one of the saddest cases of {{self insert|Fic}}ion this side of ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'', sadder still for being one of the most blatant {{Parody Retcon}}s. [[YouNeedToGetLaid Your goal is to get your character, also named Richard, laid, and that's pretty much it]]. Where do we start... It was made in 1998, but resembles the text-and-graphic based games of the 1980s--and it fails at being one of those, too. The plagiarized, monophonic score is the least of its issues; It's unbelievably crass in its execution--more than half of the 11(!) overworld maps feature references to sex and/or [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus naughty bits]], all of them FetishRetardant due to either the tremendously outdated graphics or Eter's horrid drawing skills. The text is crude at best and obscene at worst. The art? Well... What few things weren't taken directly from ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' would barely (if ever) pass in middle-school art class--many things were clearly done with whatever Paint function Eter had on hand, and what isn't a simple shape or executed using the "fill" function is very sloppily drawn and/or scribbled in an even sloppier fashion.
* While the original arcade game of ''Hard Drivin'' was a popular, technically impressive and fun racing sim, the SegaGenesis port simply could not do it justice in [[PortingDisaster either factor.]] While the real-time polygon graphics were for their time impressive, especially for an early Genesis game (and no extra chips or processors used) the single-digit frame rate, combined with very delayed controls, make it clear that the Genesis was in way over its head trying to accomplish such a game. Combine that with lousy physics (i.e. the giant loop-de-loop which is very hard to clear), handling akin to sliding on ice, which enhances the game's FakeDifficulty; it is very easy to crash into other scenery or cars heading in your direction, and your car is so fragile that [[OneHitPointWonder one hit]] will total it and send you back to the start or a checkpoint (the strict time limit is of no help to this), and when the car is sent flying in the air via ramp, it can crash just from not being in the ''precise'' position you are supposed to land the car on, and the game is nearly unplayable.
* ''HeavyNova'', a futuristic mecha action game for the SegaGenesis. The single-player campaign is [[BossGame mostly based around boss fights]]; the levels preceding them use the same game engine and controls as the fighting sections, and their brevity is perhaps for the better because they have some of the worst platforming ever committed to a 2D console. All of the on-screen enemies are a fraction the size of your character and are nearly impossible to hit because your moves are designed to strike enemies your own height. This means that you have ''one'' move that can strike anything in the single-player campaign - an awkward kick that requires you to be within pixels of whatever you're trying to strike as they rain BeamSpam down on you from all sides.\\
The game's one-on-one fighting sections were no better - when you jump, all attacks pass through you, meaning you can [[GameBreaker make yourself completely invincible at will]]. This has implications for the multiplayer mode and some of the boss battles, with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbUTj6CR15g matches consisting of players...jumping]]. A lot. Even without this [[ScrappyMechanic stupid oversight]], the different characters you can choose to fight with are ''completely'' imbalanced. Some have so few moves that they have ''unmapped buttons'' (on a '''Sega Genesis controller'''), while others can [[BeamSpam spam distance attacks]] and have full suites of super moves. To top it all off, the game is hideous; the graphics would have been a disappointment on the SegaMasterSystem.
* ''Isle of the Dead'' is a strong contender for the worst FPS of all time. Coming out the same year as ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', its engine is more on the level of ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''. Right from the start, the game offers enemies which can tear you to pieces in seconds and respawn right after you leave the room. The graphics and sound are horrible--with nothing to tell parts of the map apart, navigation becomes far too difficult. There are some static screens where you interact (similar to adventure games), but in these you are often clueless about what you are supposed to do, and can easily miss crucial items. To top it all off, quitting the game is referred to as "the coward's way out," and is greeted with a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3nh27bRXYQ#t=6m41s graphic depiction]] of a [[AteHisGun shotgun suicide]].
** The sad part is that the game is supposed to have point-and-click adventure elements as well, which sounds like a great idea in theory. But the game could not decide which genre to pick thus making a complete mess of a game. For all your troubles to actually play through the game, all you get is a ''TheEndOrIsIt''-style ending. A SequelHook that will never come to life...no pun intended...
* While ''VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert'' is generally considered a CultClassic on other systems, the version released for the {{TurboGrafx|16}} CD is infamously bad, no thanks to the addition of [[FullMotionVideo FMVs]] that have little to do with the actual plot, changes to the story, and the system's own graphical limitations forcing a change in certain gameplay aspects and making it more repetitive and boring. There are frequent moments where the gameplay segments don't match up with the story at all [[note]] (in one cutscene, the doctor tells you to collect three transponders to break through the ant queen's force field. You never have to do this, and the game almost instantly forgets about it)[[/note]]. The cutscenes feel like they're out of order, as there are points where ''back-to-back'' cutscenes will contradict each other. Not even traveling in the game works right; you'll sometimes pick a location to go to and end up in a completely different area. Watch WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} riff it to pieces [[http://youtu.be/5LVTS9ft4MU here.]]
* ''VideoGame/LegendOfSuccessJoe'', a horrible excuse of a boxing game [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames based on]] the manga/anime ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe''. The gameplay alternates between ''very'' primitive BeatEmUp segments in which Joe fights a few [[{{Mooks}} wimpy enemies that die in one punch]] before fighting a very long boss, and boxing matches based on famous battles of the series. The controls are clunky and unresponsive, and the music sounds like something out of an early NES game even though this game was produced for one of the most powerful systems of the early 1990s. The graphics are not much better — an ugly, overly-bright color palette, non-existent animation, and hunchbacked character sprites. It was one of the few early NeoGeo titles that [[NoExportForYou stayed in Japan]], for good reason.
* ''Lord of the Rings: Book 1,'' Interplay's attempt at ''[[LordOfTheRings Fellowship of the Ring]]'' on the SNES, quickly and flagrantly broke all [[UniverseBible the rules established in the books]]. YouShallNotPass? Well, not if the player decides to beat the BigBad [[SequenceBreaking elsewhere first]]...if the player managed to make it that far, since [[GameBreakingBug glitches]] would often cause the mere act of walking to the next area to be fatal. You could finish the game as two unnamed Hobbit children and Bill the pony. Before the advent of GameFAQs, if you lost [[GuideDangIt the manual]], then you were boned - it had all the layouts of the dungeons (which were [[MarathonLevel at least fifty screens long]]) printed within.
** It doesn't end there. Cutscenes, even ones that are supposed to take place in castles, are composed of WallsOfText between people standing in some field. Sprites are poorly made — only cloak color differentiates the hobbits from each other, and no one but Gimli and Gandalf looks any different from the generic [=NPCs=]. The cities look like any other part of the world, except they have lazily-designed houses in them. And at the end? You fight the Balrog, using the horrendous control scheme which causes you to either control every member of your party at once or let them wander around and die — not that it matters, as the fight is more or less {{Unwinnable}} anyway. There are noticeable loading times between areas despite this game being on the SNES. The game's sole redeeming point is its beautiful music...but it only has three tracks, and one of them is reserved for the title screen.
* The ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_My_Video_(series) Make My Video]]'' series on the SegaCD. All three games involved "editing" three videos with filters and silly stock clips. That's the entire game. Even for the time, it was ridiculously limited. Since the Sega CD had limited video capabilities, the resulting videos were grainy, had a limited color palette, and were displayed on a very small portion of the screen (especially bad since all three videos are played at the same time). The "Kris Kross" release is often cited as the single worst Sega CD game which, considering the amount of crap in the U.S. library for the Sega CD, is saying something.
* The Mario franchise was unfortunately prey to a bevy of educational games, many of which were mediocre at best. The absolute nadir, however, would be ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMGDXM7OV8 Mario's Early Years: Preschool Fun.]]'' It's ridiculously simplistic, beyond the point of enjoyability, with all the gameplay built around preschool-level teachings...It's clear every word of the voice acting is an individual clip, as each word is emphasized and separated by a brief pause, to unsettling effect. Framerate issues occasionally cause the music to randomly change tempo, and the graphics make everyone look ...[[UncannyValley off.]][[note]]Yoshi, for one, seems to have the width of a two-by-four.[[/note]] LetsPlay/ProtonJon and Kelekin play through the entirety of the game [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VJaLVR94YI&feature=plcp here]], as well as its other incarnation (''Mario's Early Years: Fun With Letters'') [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa81s4mw3a0&feature=plcp here]].
* The DOS ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' and ''Mega Man 3'' ([[UnInstallment there was never a]] ''Mega Man 2'' for DOS for some reason) had horrible controls and graphics (just look at the [[http://meanderingentertainer.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/mmdos2.jpg Robot Master/stage-select screen]] from the first game), non-existent music (to go with the frequently non-existent sound cards), and terrible level design (the introduction level in the first game is a flat line where you fight the same [[DemonicSpider Goddamned Wolf]] ''over and over''). In ''Mega Man 3,'' the Robot Masters are obvious edits of the bosses of the NES ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' and ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan3 3]]''. It makes you wonder why Capcom outsourced their mascot to an unknown {{Shovelware}} studio.
** If you played it on a fast-''for-the-time'' PC, then the first DOS ''Mega Man'' would run at uncontrollably-fast speeds. Yes, many DOS games were programmed to use the PC's processor clock cycles as an internal timer ''without an upper limit''; the faster the processor ran, the faster the game ran. Games like this that were programmed for an 80286 processor are unplayably-fast on modern computers (which are 500 times faster than a baseline 286). But still, that's really not supposed to happen while the game is still on the shelves.
** The reason there is no DOS MegaMan2 is because the developers were [[{{Mockbuster}} trying to cash in on the then-released]] MegaMan3, to the point of making their own version of the robot master on [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/Megaman3_box.jpg/200px-Megaman3_box.jpg the original NES cover]] (who's supposed to be Spark Man) to justify using the exact same cover.
* Whereas the first ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man|DrWilysRevenge}}'' GameBoy game was well received, Capcom outsourced ''VideoGame/MegaManII'' to a different company than the one that made the previous game (according to series creator Keiji Inafune). This resulted in sloppy stage design, pathetically low difficulty (save for the insanely hard final boss), and Horrible/{{music}} that includes notes that will ''make your ears bleed''. Capcom wisely decided to not hire that company again for the next Game Boy installments of ''Mega Man''.
** The problem with the game's music actually seems to be more along the lines of obnoxious instrumentation than legitimately bad composition; the songs demonstrate fairly complex melodies and a decent understanding of both musical theory and the general style used in the ''Mega Man'' series. Unfortunately, whoever actually programmed the songs into the game appears to have been highly incompetent at doing so.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' for the original GameBoy was a cheap bastardization of its console game counterparts, rendered nearly unplayable due to the limitations of the GameBoy, and had poor graphics even by that system's standards (especially when compared to the GB version of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat2''). Also, the developers screwed up some of the fatalities - notable offenders are Sindel, whose scream somehow sets the opponent on fire, and Smoke, whose Fatality made absolutely no sense.
* ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheRobots'' promised a soundtrack by Brian May of Music/{{Queen}}... which consisted of a short title tune; the rest of the music was written in-house at Mirage because May didn't get his music in by the deadline. (To be fair, it ''was'' an impressive techno soundtrack by Richard Joseph — [[BaitAndSwitch it just wasn't what was advertised]].) The graphics looked utterly astounding, but because the animations were so detailed that they were practically FullMotionVideo there was little wiggle room for ''gameplay'' and only a few moves possible per character. Worse, you could plow through literally the entire game by [[SpamAttack spamming the same attack over and over again]], completely eliminating the need for any strategy or even learning much beyond the basic controls. One of the first games, and one of the few from the 2D era, that got excellent reviews on its graphics but poor ratings on everything else.
* ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'', released for SNES, Genesis, GameGear, GameBoy, and (in Europe) {{Amiga}}. With Godawful controls and eccentric hit detection, on top of a nonsensical plot, it is likely one of the worst {{Fighting Game}}s of all time. [[http://www.shaqfu.com Shaqfu.com]] is a site dedicated to the pursuit of finding copies of the game and ''destroying them''. (There's also [[http://www.saveshaqfu.com/ a site dedicated to preserving as many copies as possible]]. Oh you, internet.) Even the ending is basically the game giving you the finger. You can watch it played [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL81322430E49FDB59&feature=plcp here]].
* The SNES [[ReformulatedGame version]] of ''SpaceAce'' meant to translate every single level from the Laserdisc original into a platformer. The controls are sluggish and unresponsive; combined with poorly-placed hit boxes and fast-scrolling screens, that makes for a frustrating time. It is almost impossible to land your jumps, and missing jumps kills you in most levels. If you want to shoot someone, good luck — there are ''two'' buttons to draw your gun, one for each direction. Then there's the Space Maze, painful {{padding}} sandwiched between every level; in these sections, you have to steer your impossibly-fast ship through a bunch of narrow alleys while shooting obstacles. The graphics are ugly at times - the developers did include a few of the [[FullMotionVideo FMVs]], but they're so grainy and disjointed that you have to wonder why they bothered. The result is a long, frustrating, poorly-designed game.
* While the Genesis and Master System versions of ''TazMania'' are considered good, or at least passable, the Game Gear version is an atrocious wreck. The graphics are hideous and the controls sluggish and awkward, which only adds to the FakeDifficulty that's already present (the first level involves outrunning a boulder and requires absolute perfection and ends with a LeapOfFaith, while the second requires you to know the exact route through a runaway mine cart level or else you'll hit a dead-end and die.) The only boss in the game is a serious case of GuideDangIt (you have to jump up and hit hanging icicles with your spin attack, which for some reason causes fire to shoot out from the floor) and the sound and music...well, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BISQ1A4VFxg just have a listen for yourself.]]
* ''VideoGame/TattooAssassins'' is what happened when some employees of Creator/DataEast got the mistaken idea that their pinball division could program an arcade FightingGame. The result was nearly unplayable, with poor moves, ArtificialStupidity, and an [[MostAnnoyingSound annoying parrot]]. The pointlessly hyped story (what with its loose connection to [[Film/BackToTheFuture Bob Gale]]) fell flat. The game was also hyped to feature more {{Finishing Move}}s than in any other fighting game, but it seems the inexperienced developers very quickly ran out of good ideas for fatalities. It never went past the beta phase ''because they couldn't find testers who could bear to play it''. [[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/tattoo-assassins/ If you really want to, you can find more information about this game right here]] or watch WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} riff it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_AiLdU5O1c here]].
* The SegaGenesis [[ReformulatedGame version]] of ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters''. The SNES version was a great game, but its Genesis counterpart had glaringly inferior graphics and half as many playable characters; the ones they did have include Sisyphus, a weird mutant cicada who [[OriginalGeneration never appeared anywhere else in the franchise]], and an InNameOnly version of April O'Neil that looked like some random fighting game chick (she wore a headband, sports bra, miniskirt, and boots). It was not very playable: the damage of various moves was severely unbalanced, and the AI was too good even on easy difficulty unless you were playing as Ray Fillet and [[AIBreaker did his strong ducking kick over and over again]]. If you did that, then the AI would walk into you and die (even boss characters Triceraton, Krang, and Karai would fall for this trick repeatedly).
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* ''Batman and Robin'', released in 1998 by Creator/{{Acclaim}} as a tie-in to [[Film/BatmanAndRobin the movie]], is admittedly a neat concept for its time: a [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox-style game]] where you could drive around a large recreation of Gotham City, choose between three characters and develop those characters skills independently, and be on a time limit to complete various tasks and missions. What could be bad about it? ''THE CONTROLS.'' Driving in this game is horrendous because your car is too big and the road is too narrow, meaning you'll either crash into traffic or just hit a wall because the car handles for crap. The fighting mechanics are sluggish and monotonous, consisting of repetitive combos or unintuitively deploying gadgets like batarangs (which take forever to aim). You have the ability to switch from a fighting mode to a detective mode, but unlike the later ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham City]]'', you can't fight in detective mode, meaning trying to gather clues while there are enemies around is beyond annoying. This game had potential, it followed the story of the movie closely and had pretty good graphics for the time, but the controls just utterly killed it.
* ''Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge''. The graphics are heavily pixellated despite being FullMotionVideo. The steps to move forward in the game seem completely random, and the game doesn't give you any clues on how to progress. Even the directions do no more than explain a few basics. Then there's the ending — some outtakes from filming the monster Pumpkinhead and footage of the guy in the suit dancing around in sneakers. The game was never meant to be "won"; if it ''is'' won, then it thumbs its nose at you. If you get the ''good'' ending, that is; if you don't beat the game the way you're "supposed" to, the ending video is Pumpkinhead ''literally'' [[FlippingTheBird giving you the finger]].
** The game is so bad that Spoony had to do '''two''' reviews — [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/spoonyone/reviews/13100-holl01 One explaining how he couldn't figure out how to play it]], and [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/spoonyone/reviews/22072-spoony-lordkat-pumpkinheads-revenge one after LordKat finally showed him how.]] And [=LordKat=] himself couldn't figure out the puzzles either despite going as far as ''hacking into the game with a HEX editor''. The guys ended up just borrowing from a Let's Play [[http://www.youtube.com/user/mmntw26#p/c/A94BA51581E1C4CC created by a fan]] who somehow beat the whole thing, with him giving the okay because it would be the same whether or not they actually beat it themselves.
* An attempt at reinvigorating the ill-fated ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}}'' franchise, ''[[http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm17.htm Bubsy 3D]]'' for the Sony PlayStation is considered one of the worst games ever made. The primitive graphics, ranging from jittery models to patchwork surroundings (most of which were made of flat polygonal surfaces with a single shade), were pathetic even by the standards of the day. The gameplay was abominable: it was difficult to move Bubsy in any direction other than straight forward, and jumping on platforms was a chore because of the bad camera angles. To add insult to injury, Bubsy was given one of the most grating voices known to man and shrieked dialogue every five seconds to [[StopHelpingMe explain every nook and cranny of the game]]. ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}}'''s 2D games are often considered a LoveItOrHateIt affair and have their fans, but ''Bubsy 3D'' effectively [[FranchiseKiller put the bobcat out of his misery]]. Its failure was compounded by the release of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996'' mere months before.
* ''{{Carmageddon}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4wlk1HR4w 64]]'' by TitusSoftware had horrible graphics and was unfairly NintendoHard.
* ''VideoGame/{{Catfight}}''[='=]s sole redeeming quality was featuring an all-female cast in a FightingGame (although, contrary to what its developers claimed on the game box, it wasn't the first - a year prior, there was [[NoExportForYou Japan only]] SegaSaturn game called "Pretty Fighter X" that also featured an all-female cast). Never mind that the controls didn't work, the game (for the PC only) ran at a framerate measurable in the single digits, and [[ArtificialStupidity the AI didn't know how to do anything but block]].
* ''ChroniclesOfTheSword'' was a two-disc PlayStation game that wasn't worth the $5 you probably paid for it. It had a horrible to [[ExcusePlot non-existent plot]] about a nameless [[KingArthur Arthurian]] knight who's trying to earn his armor (or something like that). It's a standard {{Pixel Hunt}}ing AdventureGame that was mostly "[[HiddenObjectGame find a large number of useless items]] and [[FetchQuest trade them]] [[ChainOfDeals repeatedly]]", but it was impossible to know their purpose, as your inventory only showed a large 3D-rendered video of the object with no description. (A particularly bad example: the character at one point obtains a broken clay pot which has to be given to a perfume-making monk. Why? Because the pot has ambergris in it. But there's [[GuideDangIt no way to know that]] without randomly attempting to give the thing to the monk.) Then there was the battle system, which consisted of ''FullMotionVideo battles.'' Unfortunately, whoever programmed it made the timing of the battle independent of the load time on the disc. By the time you could tell you were being attacked, you were dead. (Thankfully, there was an "Easy" option which turned the videos into cutscenes, making it the game's single redeeming feature.) Oh, and inspecting certain items in your inventory would ''[[GameBreakingBug crash the Playstation]]''.
* ''[[http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm02.htm Club Drive]]'' for the AtariJaguar. For most of your missions in this game, you have to go in an RC car and pick up glowing balls of string - something which has nothing to do with clubs and little to do with driving. The graphics are shoddy and the physics are so eccentric to the point where it borders on ArtificialStupidity. In some instances, your car can levitate into the air and fly briefly. There's even an instance of FakeDifficulty to be found. In his review, where he names it the second worst game of all time (behind only the ''E.T.'' game), {{Seanbaby}} speculates that the programmers of ''Club Drive'' "might have stole their programming code from ''Dolphin Adventures in Tuna Nets''".
* ''Cosmic Race'', an early PlayStation title from a Japanese company called Neorex that has been heard of neither before nor since, is an awful "racing" "[[ObviousBeta game]]" with ugly graphics (some were ripped straight from ''devkits''), stupid characters (a caveman who pilots a flying bus/pineapple hybrid?!), forgettable music, random collision detection, an unnecessarily-convoluted control scheme (R1 is to accelerate, and you need to push the D-Pad and the corresponding face button just to turn), and long, boring levels. It's no wonder ''GamePlayersMagazine'' gave it a 0% and named that rating after this game; to put this into perspective, 1-9% is known as "Shoot Me".
* Yet another poorly done [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed title]] from Acclaim is ''Videogame/TheCrowCityOfAngels''. What's wrong with this game? What, other than the horrific [[HitboxDissonance collision detection]] or the brainfart in using ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' style tank controls for a beat-em-up? It's just so boring and unfun that it doesn't even deserve further embellishment. It was just another movie game that Acclaim churned out by the truckload which had you do nothing but go around and beat people up. The company lasted through 4 generations of systems and yet they were so creatively bankrupt that they couldn't innovate in anyway beyond going around and beating people up.
* The original ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'' for the PC is known in Spanish as "Daikagadatana" ("Daicraptana"), and for good reason. Your sidekicks are [[ArtificialStupidity so stupid]] they not only can't find their way through an open door but also often got ''killed'' by collision damage on the sides of doors. And [[WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou when they died, you died]]. The titular sword filled a diagonal third of the screen and, when you killed things with it, "[[EvolvingWeapon leveled up]]" and gained [[PowerGlows sparkling and lightning effects]] that filled even '''more''' of the screen. Since the game is an {{FPS}}, this is a bad thing... the Daikatana swung wildly, missing whatever you were swinging at (which included ''walls'') as often as hitting; and it would always [[AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe stop when the beastie had one hit's worth of life left to allow it to hit you one more time]]. When you acquire the sword, you are "treated" to a view of the BigBad in horribly-rendered mustard yellow and ketchup red "Samurai" armor and told that you can't attack him because the sword he has is the same one from a different time, and so it would [[RealityBreakingParadox destroy the universe]]...even though you're carrying around tons of other weapons and have two similarly-armed (if woefully-inaccurate) sidekicks who are likely to kill you and themselves more than anything else.
** The version of ''Daikatana'' for the Nintendo 64 is no better. It does not let you use the Daikatana, which is a mixed curse.
** However, the GameBoyColor version of this game, unlike the ones mentioned here, is [[PolishedPort actually pretty good]], and available on JohnRomero's website [[FreewareGames for free]] if you're interested (though you need an emulator to play it, but at least he's kind enough to say that).
* ''Anime/DragonBallGT: Final Bout'' for the PlayStation is one of a group of infamous ''[=DragonBall=]''-themed games. The characters look and move like glaciers, attacks come slowly, and the one effective melee attack is easily spammable. The US version of this game was once available for over $200 on [=eBay=] because only a few thousand were made. The funniest part? You'd think it would've been a rushed effort to cash in on the series, but nope — the [[ExecutiveMeddling powers that be]] dragged out ''GT'' to keep interest in ''Manga/DragonBall'' high enough to justify purchasing the game!
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsskkT3HJwU&list=LLQKRUo_G5ifxoMjMEyFipww&index=1 The opening]] (Possibly the only good thing about this shlock-fest) just magnifies this, you think you're going to play a badass fighting game. But upon playing the damn thing, [[BaitAndSwitch it becomes hell]].
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ: Ultimate Battle 22'' was released as a PlayStation 1 game in '''2003'''(?!) after spending ''eight years'' [[NoExportForYou stuck in Japan]] (though for once, it should've ''stayed'' there). This "game" featured [[SpritePolygonMix an atrocious blend of SNES sprites with ugly, rudimentary 3D backgrounds]], no storyline, and [[ArtificialStupidity shoddy AI]]. Honestly, that wasn't a good way to exploit the ''DBZ'' hype that hit the American shores 15 years too late.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoUfRRrwPyA This was the actual US commercial for the game.]] A rather fitting analogy, indeed.
** It must be said that despite the fact that ''Ultimate Battle 22'' was simply a bad game and shamefully resurrected to maintain Western interest in the franchise with minimal effort, it ''did'' have a great (if somewhat repetitive) soundtrack. The music heard in the above-mentioned ad is the EarWorm [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOrjMhVLouQ character select screen music]].
* ''Dual Heroes'' was a terrible {{Nintendo 64}} FightingGame which featured characters who were all PowerRangers ripoffs. The story was bizarrely convoluted and made little sense — [[LetsYouAndHimFight why are they fighting each other when they're all after the same guy]]? The endings for all the characters contained [[AWinnerIsYou bland text exclaiming "The Battle Is Not Yet Over!"]] The entire game could be won, from start to finish, by ButtonMashing the B button. Even on the hardest difficulty, it was a joke, and you ran out of stuff to do fast, as there is little to do but fight the samey characters over and over, which gets old faster than you'd think. This was a rushed, terrible cash-in to satisfy the need for fighting games on the N64. (Read the scathing but hilarious review on IGN [[http://au.ign64.ign.com/articles/151/151964p1.html here.]])
* ''Extreme Paintbrawl'' for the PC. Among ''many'' other mistakes, it has one of the worst examples of TheComputerIsACheatingBastard that one could ever find. What's funny about this is that it was originally shipped ''[[ArtificialStupidity without any AI at all!]]'' If you wanted to play against any bots that would do anything more than run into a wall, then you had to download the patch when it came out a month later.
** According to a letter to the editors of PC Gamer (which gave it 6%, the worst score up to that time), the ''game itself'' was produced in two weeks on a rushed schedule.
** As for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li5mXnHyg9w the music]], one Website/YouTube commenter described it roughly as power metal for people with Attention Deficit Disorder.
* Creator/{{Atari}} tried to [[FollowTheLeader ride the 3D Fighting wave]] by hiring a programmer who worked with Creator/{{Sega}} [=AM2=] on ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' to produce ''Fight For Life'' for the [[AtariJaguar Jaguar]]. He programmed the game ''alone'' (which says a lot about the company's available budget); it took him 19 months, and the result was inferior to its inspirations in every possible way. It was the final nail on the Jaguar's coffin, literally — it's the last game released for the system, and a [[{{Irony}} fitting title]] to go out on. There is a persistent rumor that the programmer deliberately gave Atari an [[ObviousBeta inferior early version]] once finished just to personally spite them.
* ''Fighting Force 2'' shows what happens when you hand a sequel to a focus test group, and it may be the game that marked Creator/CoreDesign's [[DarthWiki/FallenCreator decline]]. Hawk Mason, the only returning character from the original game, moves and controls like a tank. While watching Hawk punch the often [[ArtificialStupidity brain-dead enemies into submission]] and making inanimate objects [[MadeOfExplodium explode]] with just his fists can be amusing at times, it quickly becomes tedious due to [[CameraScrew camera-clipping problems]], extremely-long levels, lack of save points ([[SaveGameLimits you can only save after completing a level]]), repetitive CopyAndPasteEnvironments, and a GameBreakingBug during the last boss fight that can lock him in a room with no way to open the door, rendering the game {{unwinnable|ByMistake}}.
* ''Juggernaut: The New Story For VideoGame/QuakeII'', an unofficial expansion pack for ''Quake II'', adds little more than a few monsters, most of them lazy reskins of enemies from the real ''Quake II,'' and [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/juggernaut-the-new-story-for-quake-ii/screenshots/gameShotId,104454/ eye-searing]] reskins of some weapons. What little new content there was turned out to be ''terrible''. The level-design is half-assed; the challenge came mainly from there being tons of enemies thrown in each room without any thoughtful design. Despite reusing many enemies and environments from ''Quake II'', the story has nothing to do with it.
* ''VideoGame/KasumiNinja'' for the Jaguar was a shameless ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' clone with horrible gameplay (and that bad controller didn't help), some frankly ridiculous characters (including the infamous [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Angus]] and his fireball-spouting crotch), and a 3D selection screen that was cool in concept but clunky and annoying in practice.
* ''VideoGame/LegoRacers'' for the GameBoyColor. The PC and console versions are very well-liked, but the GBC version suffers from extremely monotonous and repetitive gameplay. You play on an over-the-shoulder view, with you on a rather straight track being unable to see anything except for things two feet in front of you. Because you build up so much speed, this makes it impossible to tell if a power-up is coming up, and it's pretty much a chance if you're going to get one or not. The problems don't end there; the turbo boost is incredibly overpowered and will send you leaps and bounds ahead of everyone, and the cannonball is overpowered too. You never know if one is on your tail, and if it hits you, you stop dead in your tracks and have to build up speed again, which takes ''forever''. As if that weren't enough, the music is ''ear-bleeding''. It seems that whoever did the music conversions had no clue how the GBC's sound chip worked, which can make the already sometimes annoying soundtrack downright unbearable. The monotony will probably prevent you from being interested enough in playing anything beyond the first circuit.
* ''Lego Stunt Rally'' for the GameBoyColor is a good companion for the above. The original game wasn't that well regarded to begin with, but the GBC version took the already EasierThanEasy difficulty and toned it down even more -- ''entire courses'' can be won by doing nothing but holding the A button down the entire time. The only time this ever changes is when there are obstacles that require a lane switch, like a road block. The sound is also extremely lacking, as are the graphics.
* ''Film/MenInBlack'' was by all accounts a well received, intelligently written, and outright funny, enjoyable movie. The PC game, titled ''[[TitleTheAdaptation Men In Black: The Game]]'', was developed by Gigawatt Studios and published by South Peak Games in 1997 and is a laundry list of [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames problems in licensed games.]] It had FakeDifficulty in the form of horrible controls, bad camera angles, very few health or ammo pickups, and aliens who moved and fought faster than the lumbering controls would allow the player to compensate for. Add in tricky jumps on FloatingPlatforms over BottomlessPits, a distinct lack of music, anemic voiceover work, boring puzzles, and slow, arduous pacing, and it's easy to see why [[http://www.gamespot.com/men-in-black-the-game/reviews/men-in-black-the-game-review-2542531/ the most charitable online review available]] simply calls it "Bad."
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' for the GameBoyColor was a disastrous attempt at a stripped-down port of [=MK4=]. Even with the transition to color, the graphics still manage to be worse than the GameBoy version of ''[=MK3=]'' in some ways, with some characters looking downright unrecognizable. Worse were the Fatalities, which were a laughably bad attempt to emulate the arcade game(!), and they all basically amounted to either "loser explodes into a pile of blood" or "all the loser's blood goes out of a wound at once."
* ''Perfect Weapon'', a BeatEmUp title released early in the {{Playstation}}'s life. It has a terrible, unfitting control scheme -- imagine ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''-style TankControls for a BeatEmUp; camera angles that [[CameraScrew change completely if you move as much as two steps]]; a main character who [[MostAnnoyingSound constantly shouts "No way"]] every three seconds; and constant slowdown despite unimpressive graphics. It somehow managed to sneak onto the U.S. [[PlaystationNetwork Playstation Store]] where it is among the worst-rated "PS One Classics" games.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZZPC6eBQUc Planet Joker]]'', a ShootEmUp for the SegaSaturn, features an into-the-screen perspective like ''VideoGame/{{Silpheed}}'' except with polygonal graphics, which in this case are ''spectacularly'' ugly even after taking the Saturn's handicap with 3D graphics into account. The aforementioned perspective makes dodging bullets harder than it should be. The collision detection is bad. The controls are unresponsive. The game is ridiculously easy at even the harder difficulties, and is interrupted by several unskippable cutscenes involving babbling heads.
* ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'' on the [[ThreeDO 3DO]] was a rare Western example of a VisualNovel, but it had nothing but still images run through bad [[PhotoshopFilterOfEvil Photoshop filters]] with annoying narration. The only way the player could affect the game's outcome was by selecting an option in a menu screen; thus, the game was no more interactive than a standard DVD menu. The game [[{{Railroading}} railroads]] the player through a single specific sequence of choices. [[DarthWiki/WallBanger Most of those choices in the sequence cause the narrator to scold the player, even though they're the right ones.]] All other branches are [[CuttingOffTheBranches cut off]] immediately with [[NonStandardGameOver Game Over clips]]; thus, it's a failure even as an interactive story. Despite this, the game had control issues — you couldn't select another menu option until the narration had stopped. More puzzling is why the game used badly-edited images when its intro used FullMotionVideo. The founder of GameFAQs [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080215000026/http://www.gamefaqsinfo.net/gamefaqs/media/cjaycinterview.txt called it the worst game he's ever played]], and WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyaF_gCKWsI had a similar opinion.]] The whole "interaction" can be, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjMAG5IDnek has been]], easily replicated with video annotations on Website/YouTube, and was also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqO6X9FRIlc riffed]] by WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}!
** The sad thing about this game is that it could have been SoBadItsGood. It has many genuinely funny BreakingTheFourthWall moments, and it [[WhatTheHellPlayer gleefully tells you what a perverse gamer you are]]. If it had been in a non-interactive medium, then it would've been SoBadItsGood. But it was a full-priced game on the 3DO that didn't include any gameplay; thus, it's Horrible.
* ''Pyst'' is a parody "game" (calling it a game would imply that there's actual gameplay) of the highly-acclaimed game ''{{Myst}}'', and a prime example of TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot. On paper, the premise sounds entertaining enough: since apparently just anyone could stumble onto the book to transport you to Myst, what if the player got there after tons of other people already did, leaving the island full of graffiti and vandalism as people made notes on the various puzzles in the game and [[NintendoHard vented their frustration]]? Unfortunately, developer [[PunnyName Parroty Interactive]]'s idea of a Myst parody is to just fill it with ToiletHumor and pop-culture references, all of which are painfully unfunny and often have little to do with the actual game it's parodying. It also ruins the quiet atmosphere of the original game. While ''Myst'' had only a few sections with dialogue, this version is constantly talking to you whenever you examine things, and spouting more painfully unfunny jokes. As mentioned above, there's no actual gameplay, either. There's no puzzles to solve; you just wander around until you encounter "King Mattruss" and win the game.
* ''Ronde'' is infamous for [[FranchiseKiller killing off]] the ''MajinTensei'' branch of the ''MegamiTensei'' franchise. Its VideoGame3DLeap resulted in some of the ugliest graphics of the 32-bit era, and its preview demo ''alone'' caused such a negative reaction that thousands of Japanese gamers cancelled their preorders for the game -- a scale of preorder cancellation that was virtually unprecedented for the Japanese game industry at the time. It would take another ''12 years'' for ''MegaTen'' fans to see a StrategyRPG in the franchise with the release of ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor''. A video of the first mission can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yT6avnWhio here]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}: Time Travelers'' for the GameBoyColor is a good demonstration of why knowing your audience is mandatory. Despite having a surprisingly good presentation (the graphics and mood stays true to the actual cartoon, while many little details ensure it stays above the level of shovelware), the NintendoHard aestheic scares away its target crowd (younger players) while frustraing even older players, [[http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/162/162092p1.html including this IGN reviewer.]] First of all, the babies can't attack, leaving them defenseless against enemies such as mice, birds, and LittleRedRidingHood. Many of these enemies are too big to jump over. The game [[GuideDangIt gives no indication of how to progress]], leaving players to go through TrialAndErrorGameplay before they get the idea (having to collect a certain number of bottles along with a golden token). Even then, the sprawling labyrinths of levels require more memorization and patience than a younger player can stand...and there's a time limit ticking away. Even fans of the cartoon aren't likely going to enjoy this experience, and it definitely isn't able to get past the NostalgiaFilter.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowWarOfSuccession'' (aka ''Shadow Warriors''[[note]]Not to be confused with the FPS ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior''[[/note]]) on the [[ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]] at first glance looks like just one of the many {{Fighting Game}}s that tried to [[FollowTheLeader piggy-ride in the success]] of ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. [[CoversAlwaysLie But once you look beyond the cover]], and actually get to play the "game", everything changes. ''Shadow: War of Succession'' might be one of the most poorly programmed games ever released commercially, up to the point of making it virtually unplayable. Just to give something to compare with, the infamous ''[[PortingDisaster Mortal Kombat Advance]]'' actually plays better. Horribly drab backgrounds, horrendous DigitizedSprites (one of the characters is supposed to be a woman but looks like a man) with animation frames in the single digits, the screen shaking every time a fighter lands after jumping, awful opening FullMotionVideo, laughable voice clips, controls based on just two buttons, and nonexistent collision detection are just a sampling of the long list of ''Shadow Warriors''' flaws. Watch it in all its glory [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUOeGz7vOo here.]]
* The ''Spice World'' video game (not to be confused with the SoBadItsGood [[Film/SpiceWorld movie of the same name]]) is exactly what you'd imagine a game starring the Music/SpiceGirls to be like — thoughtless rushed-out-of-the-door tripe padded with archive footage from interviews with the group. The ultimate goal is to set up a Spice Girls concert (or something), and you guide your hideous SuperDeformed polygonal Spice Girl of choice (despite having left the group by the time the game came out, Geri Halliwell is playable) through mixing your own version of a Spice Girls song from a pathetically small library of samples which don't even cover the entire song, learning your dance moves through an asinine [[RhythmGame rhythm-based]] minigame with [[UnfortunateImplications a blatantly-racist black stereotype for a dance instructor]] and awkward timing for the button presses, and planning your choreography -- which is exactly as exciting as copy-pasting the same moveset four times sounds. In the end, you will get to see the girls dance for you...and that's it. The whole game can be finished in ten minutes. The only gaming media outlet to have given this game [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvptv7_C-bY a positive review]] was ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears'' — and they couldn't even pass Stage 2.
** [[http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/9147 If you actually want to see the game there is this video of Seanbaby and others playing the game]].
* ''Sniper: Path of Vengeance'' is a cheap, shoddy game made by City Interactive - the same company who later released the much better, but still underwhelming ''Sniper: Ghost Warrior''. Its engine (Lithtech Jupiter, cutting-edge for the time) is horribly optimized, causing the game to stutter in medium details on a computer that could run ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever 2'' (a better-looking game on the same engine) on high details without any problems, the graphics look monstrously outdated, despite the title there aren't many opportunities to actually use a sniper rifle, the gameplay is atrocious, the acting and script [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBDfu4L9YIU#t=1m11s are downright horrible]], and BoozeBasedBuff seems to be inserted only in a juvenile attempt at making the game "[[RatedMForMoney cool and mature]]".
* ''Spirit of Speed 1937'', or at least its SegaDreamcast version. Meant to simulate 30's roadsters race, the game was routinely trashed for its atrocious loading times, bad controls, lack of multiplayer mode (bad in a racing game), mediocre production values and boring, drawn out tracks. Quite fittingly, Creator/{{Acclaim}} briefly resurrected the much-reviled [[LJNToys LJN]] label for this game only.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek: New Worlds'', an RTS game for the PC (a Dreamcast port was planned but cancelled). The game's tutorial is very unhelpful, and does little to explain how to utilize the confusing resources system. Mission objectives themselves are generic and basic, and you're not allowed to pause or save and pick them up later. This, coupled with bad AI, little differentiation between units, and battlefields so large that they take forever to traverse, makes for a very boring ''Trek'' game. Arguably the only exciting aspect was setting all your buildings to self destruct, which would [[StuffBlowingUp blow up and collapse]] in an over-the-top and drawn out manner.
* ''{{Superman}}'' (aka "that [[SupermanTheAnimatedSeries cartoon]] [[VideoGame/{{Superman 64}} tie-in game for the Nintendo 64]]") is considered a trainwreck in every conceivable way. It had such poor graphics that the game had to [[HandWave "excuse" the huge amount of fog as "Kryptonite Fog" in a simulation]], made half the missions [[PassThroughTheRings flying through rings]] with awkward controls, and failed to be entertaining. Described by {{Seanbaby}} [[http://seanbaby.com/nes/egm07.htm here]]:
-->"It would have been more fun if they made a game about Superman window shopping with Aquaman."
** The rings, in which Lex Luthor tasks you to "Solve My Maze" (of ''linear'' ring formations, mind you), became a RunningGag in N64 Magazine and got [[AscendedMeme promoted]] to a ''regular feature'' when it became NGC magazine.
* ''VideoGame/{{Virtuoso}}'' was a ''hilariously'' bad shooter... or something. It's hard to figure out what kind of game it was, mainly since the combination of shitty graphics and the terrifyingly-bad camera made seeing the game something of a BraggingRightsReward. Maybe that was a good thing, since the game was ''terrible'' on its face. Apparently, you play a "famous rock and roll music star" in the future who "escapes from the rigors of stardom" by logging onto the future version of a VR {{MMORPG}}, which is one meta level too many. The enemies were also terrifyingly generic. You fight spiders, bats, giant spiders, more bats, and the boss (are you sitting down?) is ''another spider''. But [[GiantSpider bigger]] this time! Yay.
* Released in 1998 and 1999, ''WCW Nitro'' and ''WCW/nWo Thunder'' for the PS1 are probably the worst wrestling games ever made. The presentation's decent — the intro's kick-ass, and the taunt option (where a FMV of the wrestler plays to urge you to pick him) is a neat idea...but everything else sucks:
** The point of the game is to whittle your opponent's life bar down until you can pin them. Each wrestler only has about 3-4 moves; most are easy to spam. This was pre-''SmackdownVsRaw'', so pressing X-X-X [[GameBreaker pretty much won you the match]]. Wrestlers with top rope moves are useless because you can't pin them when you're off the ground (no small cradles, no roll ups), and wrestlers with submission moves instantly win the match. There aren't any match options beside toggling weapons on and off, and the game is basically a cake walk if you use weapons. The controls are horribly stiff and don't let you attack while running -- you can't pull off any clotheslines or dropkicks. Striking and grappling are slow and pointless processes that simply don't work. Multiplayer is a joke.
** The music sounds like a lame garage band, all the wrestlers sound the same (even the women sound like men), and the crowd noise sounds like a slaughterhouse. To top it all off, the game is ''ugly''. The character models are blocky with a low-polygon count, the crowd is a three-looping-frames-per-second cardboard cutout, and there is little detail in general. The framerate slows to a crawl any time more than two wrestlers are present.
** To make it even worse, the ''very same company'' released the mind-blowingly good ''World Tour'' series on the {{Nintendo 64}}, which later switched licenses and became the nexus for all post-1999 WWE games. These games were just boring, simplistic, and unenjoyable.
* ''Zusar Vasar'' is a racing game with a [[SoBadItsGood stupidly awesome]] premise — a racing competition where floating chariots are carried by giant animal-shaped HumongousMecha. Unfortunately, the game itself is terrible. The graphics are horrendously pixelated and full of clipping, looking worse than many comparable 32-bit games...even though this thing ran on the SegaDreamcast. The controls are bad because of ridiculous inertia and a complete inability to stop (your vehicle is always moving) or slow down. The single-player mode features one of the most blatant and ridiculous cases of FakeDifficulty ever devised: the racetracks have laser turrets which are expressly designed to fire on you ''[[GangUpOnTheHuman and only you]]'' for no adequately-explained reason. It's not hard to see why it [[NoExportForYou didn't leave Japan]].
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* ''Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}: Battle for Atlantis'', for the GameCube and {{Xbox}}, is generally considered to be one of the worst games of all time, inspiring the "Golden Mullet Awards", ''{{X-Play}}'s'' ranking of the worst games of each year. The graphics are very reminiscent to the {{Nintendo 64}} as the city of Atlantis has mostly bland grey buildings and everyone looks somewhat lifeless. Only Aquaman's hair has any graphical effort. The missions have little variation, as you either beat up enemies (easily done by ButtonMashing) or pilot an underwater ship to blow up other ships. As JonTron put it, the game is basically a spiritual successor to Superman64. A boring experience from beginning to end.
* ''BadBoys: Miami Takedown'', which was released to coincide with ''Bad Boys II'' for the GameCube, PS2, Xbox, and PC. It has two untalented [[{{Expy}} expies]] of Martin Lawrence and WillSmith that manage to be worse, spouting horrible dialogue. The controls on this game are broken, and when you shoot, you are expected to have humiliating aiming. [=GameTrailers=] named this #4 in its "Worst Movie Games of All Time".
* American [=McGee=]'s ''Bad Day L.A.'' manages to combine everything people dislike about video games with inappropriate ToiletHumor disguised as "social commentary". It's hard to believe that it came from the same mind that made the creepy-but-cool ''[[AmericanMcGeesAlice Alice]]'' a decade earlier, but it somehow did and some game company decided to release it.
* ''Bhagat Singh'', a 2003 first person shooter released on the PC by Mitashi Entertainment. Some have gone so far as to call it the worst FPS ever. Why? The game boasted laughable 3D models for 2002 that would barely pass on the PS1 and downright hideous texturing. There are only 2 weapons, one of which has infinite ammo but can't actually kill anything. 3 levels, the second one having the exact same layout as the first, and many, many bugs. The decent original soundtrack isn't enough to save this mess of a game. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazsMtBnHaQ See it for yourself here]]
* ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'', a third-person racing game produced by Game Mill Publishing for the PC, is considered one of the worst games of all time. Considering its lack of collision detection, frequent bugs, poor visuals, no obstacles to negotiate, and severe lack of functionality, combined with the fact the computer-controlled opponents don't move due to lack of AI, it's easy to see why.
* ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}'' games have had many very poor adaptations. The most notorious is ''BIONICLE Heroes'', a first-person shooter for the sixth-gen consoles (and later the Wii) with a repetitious story mode and barely any Lego building included. The only redeeming quality is its AwesomeMusic. ''BIONICLE: The Game'' is also noteworthy; the graphics are ugly, especially in the GBA version; the controls are very awkward; and it suffers from a finicky camera in the console ports.
* ''Cartoon Network Speedway'' for the GameBoyAdvance. The game has horrible graphics even for the GBA. The race tracks are very generic (they don't even look like they are from the Cartoon Network shows themselves). The AI cars are all very close together (the game was made in 2003, when racing games were diverging from this trend), which means you can go from first to last in almost no time by just getting stuck in a puddle, and since the handling of all the cars are poor (no matter what the stats say), this is very common. The game is also incredibly glitchy; when you are far ahead in 1st place, many times the screen will change to say you are in 6th (last) place instead, and often there will be a "Wrong Way" banner even when you are going in the right direction. Finally, the game has no cartridge memory and instead uses a password system (which most people don't use anyway because the game is short).
* The ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' game, based on an already atrocious movie, released for the GameCube, PS2, and Xbox, was a CreatorKiller for its developer, the company formerly known as Creator/ArgonautSoftware. A shaky camera angle and confusing controls do not make this a good game where you have to look for ''bling fragments''. The only apparently good thing about this game is a visual animation that shows every detail of Halle Berry's character as seen in the poster.
* ''CharliesAngels'', released to tie in with ''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle'', for the GameCube and PS2. The camera angles and controls are busted on this game, and players must spend ''minutes'' moving their characters up ladders. Not to mention the graphics are terrible, with the women looking more like [[FetishRetardant living blow-up dolls]] than the characters they represent. Surprisingly, it beat ''the [[VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]] game'' to be #1 on [=GameTrailers=]' list of the "Top 10 Worst Movie Games". [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/21160.html Really]]. They describe ''Charlie's Angels'' as being "degrading, not to women, not even to video games, but to humanity itself". It was named a "horrific display of ineptitude" by [[http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/action/charliesangels/review.html GameSpot]] and is the lowest rated video game reviewed on [[http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/542019.asp GameRankings]] with more than 20 featured reviews, having a score of 24.57%. To make matters worse, the Gamecube version even features a GameBreakingBug, where playing the game without a memory card causes one of the game's missions to repeat endlessly every time you complete it!
* ''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/game-reviews/dangerous-vaults.php Dangerous Vaults]]'' was a pornographic rip-off of the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' games. It somehow had worse graphics than the original ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' despite being released around the time ''[[VideoGame/TombRaiderAngelOfDarkness Angel of Darkness]]'' hit the stores. Its play mechanics were beyond broken, and the sexual content tended to be [[FetishRetardant laughable]] rather than erotic.
* ''Dark Angel Vampire Apocalypse'' ([[SimilarlyNamedWorks not to be confused with]] the TV series ''Series/DarkAngel'') was a crappy PS2 dungeon crawler. The game boasted a boring combat system, laughably poorly considered stat and equipment system (the worst example possibly being armor - all armor of the same level is exactly the same except in price, meaning that level 1 full plate armor is exactly equal to level 1 leather armor, despite costing several hundred times more), and a completely unfitting "soundtrack" that cut in and out randomly and mostly consisted of someone wailing psychotically on an electric guitar with no thought for rhythm or basic musical structure.
* ''Dragon Ball Z Sagas'' for the Gamecube tried to recapture the beat-em-up charm of the GBA's ''Legacy of Goku'' titles and added a co-op mode. Didn't work, thanks to depressingly-linear levels, ridiculously-high difficulty, and no checkpoints. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZnFoLcYBW0 You can watch ProJared's review of it here]].
* ''DrakeOfThe99Dragons'' for the Xbox. Its attempt at creating a comic book-style action shooter is undermined rather quickly by horrid collision detection, an auto-targeting system that forces Drake to flail his arms about like a drowning swimmer, and controls that showed nothing but scorn and contempt at the player's desire to move in a given direction. The game supposedly adapts a "comic book" feel complete with SFX bubbles whenever a gun is fired or a character jumps, but this has the unintended effect of making the graphics look even worse — it highlights the similarities the graphics have to a RobLiefeld comic. Jumping is useless, as are any platforming elements, unless one could will collision detection into being from thin air, assuming one gets past the enemies by way of precognition first. There's no hints of what to do at any point, and only by pure chance can one figure out how to clear the levels. To simply call the game "bad" would be a gross understatement (although [[http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/drake/review.html Gamespot]], [[http://www.g4tv.com/videos/21086/drake-of-the-99-dragons-review/ X-Play]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHOhaqmrEKI Pro Jared]] have tried).
* ''Endgame'' is perhaps the worst ''TimeCrisis'' [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct knockoff]] ever conceived. No double gun mode despite what it says on the box, ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy accuracy even from the EliteMooks, [[MeaninglessLives easily-replenished lives]] ''and'' a LifeMeter, dull and predictable gameplay, terrible voice acting (everyone has AmericanAccents, but the game is set in ''Europe''), and a wretched hive of bugs.
* ''Godai Elemental Force'', a 3D BeatEmUp made by 3DO for the PlayStation2, is a [[DarthWiki/IdiotProgramming complete technical disaster]]. Despite featuring muddy textures, small environements and few models displayed at any given time, the game [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=810Gj8t9JII chugs at a pathetically low framerate]] that can't even stay consistent. The game design isn't much better - while the main character has an handful of projectile attacks and moves, his main form of offense is a short ButtonMashing combo that can't be changed or mixed up in any way, and while weapons can be collected throughout the levels, most of them simply [[BiggerStick hit harder]] and do not change his fighting style. The fixed camera angles are [[CameraScrew screwed up]], enemy variety is low and the main character's gliding ability allows one to [[SequenceBreaking skip large chunks of the game]] with impunity. The game was [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/godai-elemental-force eviscerated]] by players and critics alike and 3DO went bankrupt within one year of releasing it. With games like this, it's not hard to see why.
* ''InspectorGadget: Mad Robots Invasion'' for the [[PlayStation2 PS2]] is a simple side-scrolling platformer, but executed terribly. The graphics probably wouldn't pass muster on the {{Nintendo 64}} - the opening cutscene is horrible, with extremely limited animation, and capped off with a voice actor for Dr. Claw who sounds nothing like him (there is one funny thing about the graphics, though - the bizarrely disturbing faces Gadget makes whenever he dies). The music is just the same annoying loop repeating over and over again, and the sound effects are weird (Gadget makes an extremely annoying "boing" sound when he jumps, they sometimes use the wrong sound effects for the scene, and Gadget says "By my gadgets!" whenever he picks up a health powerup). But what really kills it is the gameplay. The game is both extremely easy and extremely hard - easy because extra lives and health powerups respawn when you die, the enemies are very easy to kill (despite occasionally spawning out of nowhere), and there are almost no tricky jumps. However, it's still difficult, because of the awkward jumping and slippery control. On top of all this, the plot makes no sense. OK, so Dr. Claw makes a bomb that neutralizes all of Gadget's gadgets... but he still has two (a hammer used for attacking, and a tennis racket which reflects projectiles), and can get more for a limited time through "gadget batteries" conveniently found throughout the levels. This game was obviously intended for small children, but there's no excuse for giving them a shoddy product like this.
* The Xbox 3D fighting game ''Kabuki Warriors'' was described by [[http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/kabukiwarriors/review.html Gamespot]] as "... one of the worst games to be released this year or any year, on the Xbox or any other platform." Characters that are only differentiated by palette swaps of identical graphics, stages that differ only by backgrounds, terrible character animation, and a "fighting" system that is just as effective as closing one's eyes and mashing buttons make it one of the worst 3D fighters ever. It holds the dubious honor of being the first game ''Edge'' magazine — infamous for its refusal to adhere to the FourPointScale and stinginess with giving a 10/10 rating — has given a 1/10 to, and remained the only game with that rating until ''{{Flatout}} 3'' (see below) 10 years later.
** In Game Informer's review of the game the reviewer states "[[SincerityMode I literally won a match just by bashing the controller against my ass. I wish I was joking, but the score is seriously Kabuki Warriors zero, my ass one.]]" This was confirmed by other editors.
* The GameBoyAdvance adaptation of ''LordOfTheRings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' came out after the movies but (to keep ElectronicArts off the developer's back) was touted as being based on the books. If a player wasn't careful, then by the midpoint of the game items essential to progress would simply vanish. There were [[UnwinnableByMistake glitches that rendered the game impossible]] unless one knew how to get around them. There's even a spot where you need to save during a transition between scenes to keep the game from becoming {{Unwinnable}}.
* ''VideoGame/LunarDragonSong'', touted as being the first ''Lunar'' game in many years that wasn't a remake of ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', recycled many characters and plot elements from that game, and wrapped them up in a ridiculously awful battle system, where running on the world map hurts you and you can't select your targets. The beginning enemies are ''way'' overpowered, or seem so because you only have 20 hit points and weak attacks to start with. You can choose to receive experience ''or'' VendorTrash for the battles you win, but not both. Enemies attacking you can randomly break your equipment, and God help you if you don't have a spare. Your main healer's lost early on, and in her place comes the ''Level 1'' replacement healer in a location that makes it near impossible to train her without a ridiculous amount of luck. The ''only'' redeeming features about the game are the music and the R button, which lets you speed up battle animations. It's not a stretch to say that it almost killed the franchise for good. Thank the good lord for ''Lunar: Silver Star Harmony''.
* ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion 3'' is probably one of the worst strategy sequels of all time, and reviews of the game have compared it to doing one's taxes. At release, the AI would only build troop ships, yet still fails to put up any kind of a fight even when fully patched. It doesn't help that Infogrames (the current {{Atari}}) fired the developers of the previous two games and hired some neophytes on the cheap. This game fails in every way — horrible music, ugly UI, dated graphics, and incomplete gameplay. The previous game is better in every way than this one, despite being released ''five years and one console generation earlier''.
* ''[=McFarlane=]'s Evil Prophecy'', a game based on a toy line by ''Spawn'' creator Todd [=McFarlane=], seems to have very little actual work put into it aside from getting Todd's name on the cover. The audio barely exists, the AI and controls seem to conspire against you despite the mindlessness of combat, and the muddy and bloody environments make for an experience just as horrifying as the monsters themselves.
* ''Mortal Kombat Advance'' is quite possibly the worst adaptation of a ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' game on a handheld system known to man — it's a cheap bastardization of ''Ultimate VideoGame/MortalKombat3''. As the two ports of ''Deadly Alliance'' proved, ''Mortal Kombat'' can work on the GameboyAdvance. But ''Mortal Kombat Advance'' fails — tinny music, primitive-looking sprites, AI that's either [[SchizophrenicDifficulty too easy or too diabolical depending on the opponent]] (which sometimes resulted in getting ThatOneBoss as your '''first opponent'''), collision detection that can't tell if you're next to the opponent or on the other side of the arena...you get the drill. Infamously, it was the first game that EGM gave the dishonor of earning a 0 out of 10. Watch [=AllieRX87=]'s hilarious review of it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xddb9zoRMfQ here.]]
** Here's just one example of how poor this game's programming is: if you play as Shang Tsung and do a Fatality while shapeshifted, the game not only announces "(your altered form) wins" instead of "Shang Tsung wins", but ''your shapeshifted form's portrait is shown on the ladder''. They couldn't even get something THAT simple right!
** Midway outsourced the ''MK'' port to a third-party with no input or communication with Ed Boon's team, and gave the team three months to turn something out; Midway was only looking to turn a quick profit off the ''MK'' name while spending very little in development. With practices like that, it's no surprise that Midway wound up bankrupt and defunct.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoZSmDgGEQE Operation: Matriarchy]]'' may very well be one of the worst FPS ever made. Nevermind the nonsensical and vaguely misogynistic premise (dealing with a virus that turns all women on some space colony into an hive mind of men-enslaving monsters), the game is atrocious: enemies are [[ArtificialStupidity dumb as bricks]], [[DamageSponge ridiculously resistant]] and gang up on the player mercilessly - all that made much worse by the extremely cramped level design and the puny armament given to the player early in the game. The sound effects are unfitting and annoying, and there's no music. The graphic engine is actually surprisingly good for such a small release, but its relative competence in turn highlights the horrible art direction and poor animation.
* ''Pulse Racer'', a kart racing game by Jaleco for the {{Xbox}} which takes place in a generic futuristic setting with an overabundance of nondescript tunnels, especially in the early game. The main distinctive feature that sets it apart from other racing games is making drivers {{flatline}} if they go too fast, which serves mostly to frustrate players.
* ''Franchise/RoboCop'' by Titus Interactive is a trainwreck of an FPS. Franchise/RoboCop moves extremely slowly and only gets a few weapons, most of which aren't worth using at all. The repetitive hordes of enemies you have to mow down barely pose a threat, unless they end up causing an explosion near you which can easily bring you from full health and shields to death. The graphics are ugly, the sound effects are atrocious, and the voice acting is full of lame one-liners which don't remotely fit Franchise/RoboCop's character. You can read [[http://www.gamespot.com/robocop/reviews/robocop-review-6073169/ Alex Navarro's review on Gamespot here]].
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Genesis'' for GBA is one of the most infamous {{Porting Disaster}}s in modern gaming history. The screen was cropped to the point where you could only see ten feet per direction, bits of terrain would flash on and off-screen at random, the soundtrack consisted of cheap [=MIDI=] versions of the ''synthesized'' original game songs, the sounds are all off, and the physics engine was replaced with one that posed many problems.[[note]]The big two? Sonic didn't stop when he hit things and bounced with under half his usual force, making boss rounds quite easy and the already badly-coded special stages a near-impossible feat.[[/note]] The game was bugged [[GameBreakingBug to failure]], with an [[NintendoHard extreme case]] of FakeDifficulty, and sparse, pointless bonus features: "Anniversary Mode," which gave Sonic his Spin Dash ability from ''Sonic 2'', but couldn't be charged; a save function that was either a must or made the game impossible; a level select screen that was rendered pointless since the game could only be won by starting from Green Hill Zone; and a sound test mode you had to clear the game to unlock. All of this was made worse by the game's jerking, dragging framerate and the celebration - Sonic's [[MilestoneCelebration 15th anniversary]] - it was clearly rushed to commemorate. The game would eventually be outdone by a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFwxF-7vSrQ bootleg]] with a one-man staff who would later [[PromotedFanboy help with a smartphone port of the game]].
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNgkpEyoiMI The Sniper 2]]'', widely considered the worst [=PS2=] game ever developed. Originally a Japanese budget title, this game features the usual suspects: bad voice acting, worse gameplay, an idiotic storyline, and graphics that somehow [[ArtShift go from PS2 quality to PS1 quality after the first cutscene!]] It's so bad, that ''the offical description of the game on PSN'' points out how horrible it is.
* ''StrikeFighters: Project One'' was a lesson on why releasing [[ObviousBeta unfinished games]] is a bad idea. Clicking on the briefing screen caused the game to freeze. Not that there was much to do — enemy planes would fly into the ground when they weren't shooting each other down. Adding insult to injury were the featureless barren landscapes. The magazine ''Computer Games'' (formerly known as Computer Games Strategy Plus) gave it a rare zero star out of five review; in contrast, it gave ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'' (see above) 1.5 stars.
** Even worse, you can't play this game ''on an LCD or high-res monitor''. You're forced to play the game with a CRT monitor, and good luck trying to find one nowadays.
* ''VideoGame/WinBack 2: Project Poseidon''. [[FranchiseKiller Nice job killing this franchise]], {{Koei}}, with this shovelware sequel. None of the original survivors are present, the general gameplay is uninspired and unfun, and they added that half-assed character-switching system where you play the same mission from two different characters' points of view, like a poor man's version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''[='s=] swapping system.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub: Quest For The Codex'' for GameBoyAdvance is mostly a ShootEmUp which follows the Season 2 plot ''very'' loosely, with some minigames thrown in. The ShootEmUp sections are boring, repetitive (there are only a small sample of enemies and no boss battles), and hard to control. Of the five minigames, only ''one'' is worth playing at all; the other four are either too easy or too annoying. The icing on the cake? The game ''forces'' you to play all the minigames multiple times during the story mode, regardless of relevance to the plot. Yes, helping Stella to choose a skirt that matches her shirt is going to be helpful in a fight against Darkar...and we don't even know why. Fortunately, the creators did learn from this train wreck, because its sequel ''Mission Enchantix'' for NintendoDS is pretty good.
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* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Tunnel_Rats 1968 Tunnel Rats]]''. In a bizarre reversal, a Uwe Boll movie was given a tie-in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukcoitqzkr8 video game.]] The film is one of Uwe's best to date, but the game "makes up for it" by [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames being simply bad]]. Not only is it [[ObviousBeta infested with bugs]], the story is also ruined by the protagonist's erratic characterization.[[note]]It tries to portray SanitySlippage by having him make angrier and more sadistic comments as the game goes on, but since the game is unfinished, the comments often play at inappropriate times, so, for example, he'll [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone show remorse]] after one kill and then mock his slain enemy after the next.[[/note]] [[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/tunnelrats/review.html Gamespot]], whose reviewers usually have at least one good thing to say about some of the worst games, couldn't even find a good point to fill in the summary.
* ''Alien Disco Safari'' is a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE_IqhOO0k0 shooter]] where you shoot aliens for... coming to Earth because they like disco. There's ''no disco-related content in the game at all'' [[AllThereInTheManual aside from the backstory]], so you're just [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman shooting aliens for existing]] on their own ship. You have unlimited ammo in your main weapon, and that weapon [[BoringYetPractical kills most enemies in one hit and is perfectly accurate]]. The levels are the same six bland levels played again and again in order without getting harder.
* SurvivalHorror game ''VideoGame/{{AMY}}'', released very early in 2012 as a downloadable title for the PS3 and Xbox 360. It boasts a novel premise (an EscortMission game in which [[InvertedTrope the player needs the NPC to survive]]), but has too much wrong with it to even bother. Controls are difficult (if even possible) to correctly use, the AI is very stupid, clipping and HitboxDissonance are far too common, and the [[CheckpointStarvation checkpoint system is unfairly sparse]]. This results in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3K25x6kh4 repetitive]] TrialAndErrorGameplay with a ''very'' high degree of FakeDifficulty. On top of that, the writing's clichéd, the voice-acting's terrible, and the puzzles and [[JumpScare scares]] seem shoehorned in. [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/5346-Amy Come, kick back and watch Yahtzee tear it a new one.]]
* The ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' games released from 2006 until 2009. With their blocky graphics, stoic voice acting ([[ReplacementScrappy except in some cases]]), and awful controls, these games were hated by pretty much everyone when they came out (including Creator/RonGilbert, creative director of the original ''Backyard Baseball''). X-Play gave ''Baseball 2007'' a one out of five (their lowest possible ranking), and IGN gave ''Baseball 2009'' a 1.0 out of 10 (only three games in the history of the site have gotten worse scores). These games wiped out what was left of the franchise's already declining fanbase and sales eventually got so low that Creator/{{Atari}} tried to relaunch the series with ''Sandlot Sluggers'' and ''Rookie Rush'' (which were reasonably well-received) before dumping it for good.
** Averted by the Game Boy Advance ports of ''Baseball 2007'' and ''Basketball 2007'', which were actually decent games because the developers ([=GameBrains=] and Mistic Software respectively) had ported previous titles in the series to the platform to much acclaim.
* ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' is considered one of the dumbest series reboots in recent memory. [[InNameOnly Title]] and a threadbare resemblance to gameplay are all that ties this game to the franchise; all else was ditched in lieu of an uninspired, unsolicited [[DarkerAndEdgier grimdark]] post-apocalyptic tone. Its graphics are barely on par with the original {{Xbox}}. There's no offline multiplayer, one of the series' biggest selling points. The only challenge comes from FakeDifficulty, the result of making the game a {{Roguelike}} (the first in the series) with 99 sluggish, repetitive, identical levels. Add to this a fistful of bugs and some downright audience-insulting moments, and you've got a game that all parties involved still crack jokes about to this day.
* ''VideoGame/{{Damnation}}'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1mhUjl3IQ shows]] that basing a commercial release on a popular [[GameMod mod]][[note]]''Damnation'' started out as a total conversion mod for ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament 2004''[[/note]] is not always a good idea. Though everyone agreed the premise (involving a AlternateHistory where steampunk weaponry severely extended the length of the AmericanCivilWar) and the concept of an "acrobatic" third person shooter could have been cool in a better game, it was bashed for its insanely idiotic friendly and enemy AI, inconsistent game design (for example, being killed by gunfire boots you back to a checkpoint but falling to your death respawns you immediately on the spot for some reason), laggy aiming, boring weapons and an insane number of bugs. Developer Blue Omega Entertainment [[CreatorKiller went bust]] immediately after releasing the game.
* ''Dimension Witches'', a free game that at one point was apparently for sale at a price, plays off the Touhou Project style of playing but fails horribly. The gameplay's botched and the designs of ''all'' the characters are even worse, not to mention cliched. It was taken down from the IndieCity site and would have been forgotten if it weren't for [=MikeNnemonic=] posting a somewhat NSFW video of him playing it on a live stream on his Website/{{Youtube}} channel, which can be watched [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxAeC-H0TqQ here]].
* ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII: Wander of the Dragons'' is a laughably inept attempt at remaking the arcade version of ''Double Dragon II'' for XboxLiveArcade. The four stages from the arcade are stretched out over the course of 15 boring and ugly levels, with the action occasionally broken up by set pieces that do nothing to make the game exciting. Controls are needlessly complicated, the graphics are quality- and personality-free, the background music plays on an annoying short loop, the voiced narration is terrible and often doesn't even match up with the subtitles, and the few special moves added to add variety to combat are worthless (as actually ''using'' them at any point in the game automatically gives you the bad ending). ''Wander'' does a disservice to its inspiration in every way imaginable, and is a sharp contrast to the quality of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'' (Creator/WayForwardTechnologies' '80s-flavored remake of the original game), or even the NES home version of ''Double Dragon II'', released more than two decades ago.
* ''Elf Bowling 1 & 2'' for the NintendoDS. To begin with, you're spending $20 on two games you can already get as freeware on your PC, and the DS version has even been slightly ''downgraded'' from the PC versions by removing some animations and sounds and the coin toss from the beginning of ''Elf Bowling 2'', which is unacceptable since the games were so minimalist in the first place, so the game has already commited the crime of shamelessly ripping you off! But even then, everything about it is awful--the graphics are pathetic and don't remotely take advantage of the DS's capabilities, the music is all but non-existent, the occasional quips from the elves are embarrassingly juvenile ("Those all the balls you got, Santa?") and the gameplay is as bare-bones as you can get with a bowling game.
* ''European Street Racing'', one in a series of budget racing titles by Dutch developer Team 6, fails in many ways - blocky-looking cars that neither drive nor sound like high-powered vehicles, laughably stupid computer driver AI, and a physics engine that causes cars and other objects to bounce off walls like pinballs. Someone went so far as to explain the "ESR" acronym as '''E'''xtremely '''S'''hitty '''R'''acing.
* ''Fighters Uncaged'' was released as a showcase title for the {{Xbox 360}}'s new-at-the-time Kinect motion controller. It was a mess from start to finish, with an overly long tutorial that treated the player like an idiot (forcing the player to attack several times with each limb individually before proceeding to the next lesson), a laughable story accompanied by dreadful writing and voice acting, the inability to register basic moves correctly most of the time, and sluggish fighting on the rare occasions that the Kinect ''did'' register the player's moves.
** Ubisoft and AMA tried again for the launch of XboxOne's Kinect with a sequel ''Fighter Within''. Despite the improved capabilities of Kinect 2.0, many of the same problems present in ''Uncaged'' remain - the story's still terrible, pulling off moves is still a chore, and the fighting is still no fun. The only advantage ''Within'' has over ''Uncaged'' is the inclusion of multiplayer (local only), but even that has its problems, and does nothing to make the game worth it in any way.
* ''Fireplacing'' isn't so much a terrible {{WiiWare}} game as much as it is a not particularly interactive screensaver. It's a virtual fireplace. You can choose about three themes (graphics for the fireplace/room) and whether to manually kindle the thing, but it doesn't provide anything of interest at all. Heck, even the sound effect for the crackling logs is glitched and sometimes goes silent, and there's no music. [[http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/2010/12/fireplacing Nintendo Life]] gave it one out of ten, while N Gamer gave it about 0.1 out of 10 due to the complete lack of entertainment value.
* ''VideoGame/FlatOut 3: Chaos and Destruction''. Not helmed by series creator Bugbear Entertainement (it was instead made by Team 6, a developer of Wii and PC shovelware, including the aforementioned ''European Street Racing'') and stealthily released during the 2011 holidays season, the few that played it were treated to a mess of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIzGfIRK8IU broken physics]], missing features, overdone bloom effects (later toned down in a patch) and other inept oversights, such as an online mode that wouldn't end a game if one of the players got disconnected (which happens often) or a reset function which would make the car face the wrong way. {{Yogscast}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3kjrDFXY9Q video on the game]] should give you an idea.
* ''GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' was rushed to come out with the new film to make a fast buck. Its controls are awful, the graphics (if you can call them that) look like they were programmed 15 years ago, and the sound and music are annoying. (German computer games magazine CBS said it was "[...]the first game which is better WITHOUT sound.") If you try to aim at anything, the weapon will most probably fire at the enemy...then the bullet rethinks this and flies straight to any random object but the enemy. Oh, and if you die (which happens easily), then you land right at the beginning because no save points exist. This is an unwelcome throwback.
** By the way, you get to play as Cobra in it for one mission...fighting other Cobra troops as they say "GI Joe is HERE!" (''[[DarthWiki.WallBanger thud]]'')
* ''Guitar Superstar'', a horrid [[{{Plagiarism}} ripoff]] of [[GuitarHero a certain popular rhythm game franchise]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4DhMtGW54 You have to see it to believe it.]]
** Looks an awful lot like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHOaMXYXU4 the thing Dr. Ashens reviewed.]]
* ''Hour of Victory'' was a bizarre and terrible mishmash of the ''CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' games, starting out as another historical WorldWarII shooting game, but then taking a jump off the deep end and turning into a game about the Nazis developing nuclear weaponry. As if that weren't bad enough, the graphics were barely even of PlayStation2 standard (despite the game proudly boasting on the box that it was the first World War II shooter to use the [[GameEngine Unreal Engine 3]]), the gameplay mechanics were screwed up beyond belief, the heavily-promoted destructible scenery and vehicular combat barely even featured, and the multiplayer mode somehow managed to have fewer options than games released ten years previously. It was the worst-reviewed {{Xbox 360}} game to have been released until that point, and arguably even a GenreKiller for the World War II shooter, with only ''Call of Duty: World at War'' having met with any real success since ''Hour of Victory's'' release.
* ''[[HulkHogan Hulk Hogan's]] Main Event'' for the Xbox Kinect was an absolute joke. Meant to showcase the Kinect's capabilities, it was horribly unresponsive, with the menus nearly impossible to navigate through due to its poor motion capture. The wrestlers were just plain ugly, as was the gameplay. Cutscenes were done in a semi-animated comic book style with speech balloons that didn't quite line up with the characters. While it had the creative concept of having Hype gain you points, it wound up being something of a GoldenSnitch (though not unlike actual wrestling, little fun to do). Ultimately, it failed to even show off Kinect, as matches boiled down to flailing one's arms to do nothing but punches. Game Informer gave it the "prestigious" honor of a 1/10, the first of its kind in years.
* ''Film/{{Jumper}}: Griffin's Story'' is an ObviousBeta if there ever was one, with too many {{Game Breaking Bug}}s to count. It hurts all the more because of how promising it was—Jamie Bell voiced the cutscenes quite well, and the teleporting mechanic came within hairs-breadth of being ''fun''. Being rushed to market to meet the movie's opening date ruined it.
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry: Box Office Bust'' has a terrible, offensive sense of humor. The gameplay mostly consists of fetch quests and awkward jumping puzzles, and it has multiple {{Game Breaking Bug}}s. Following the franchise tradition and having some eye-candy shots of attractive girls in it would maybe at least make it a GuiltyPleasure, but it even fails at this, as many of the female characters [[FetishRetardant look butt-ugly]]. The game currently holds one of the lowest composite scores of any game on Metacritic, with [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/leisure-suit-larry-box-office-bust 17 whole points to its name]], and reviews of it can be found from [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage/sage-review/5931-lslbob Bennett the Sage,]] [[http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/adventure/leisuresuitlarryboxofficebust/review.html Gamespot,]] and even [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/BOB.htm Al Lowe]], the series' original creator (who had [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld no input on BOB or its prequel]], and is [[CreatorBacklash all the happier for it]]).
* ''LimboOfTheLost'' was an irredeemably-bad AdventureGame thrown together in thirteen years by a group of three middle-aged Brits with no experience in coding, graphic design, or writing. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj0S_IMKrZs The results show all too well]] - the game is chock-full of {{Combinatorial Explosion}}s, {{Pixel Hunt}}s, GuideDangIt moments, [[MoonLogicPuzzle nonsensical puzzles]], and [[{{Plagiarism}} resources stolen from more famous games]], piled together using a freeware adventure game engine with code almost entirely written by wide-eyed forumgoers who [[UngratefulBastard have yet to receive a single mention of gratitude for their effort]] and aren't listed in the game credits. Tying it all together is a dreadful generic fantasy story played out through [[UncannyValley terribly-modeled pre-rendered characters]] whose dialogue was practically phoned-in from across the globe (almost all voiced by the same guy). Fortunately, the game was pulled off the shelves by its distributors after they learned that the devs used stolen assets, for the greater good of mankind and the survival of the distributors. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcvdDtnM_0 To top it all off, check out the ending]]...or experience it in all its traumatizing "glory" in [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=400406 Wields-Rulebook-Heavily's]] screenshot-and-comment LetsPlay.
** How bad is the writing? Half the characters are an offensive stereotype of some sort, and the rest are just vilely disgusting and superfluous to the so-called plot. The plot is barely even a generic fantasy story, but mostly consists of [[PinballProtagonist the main character wandering from one scene to the next]] and generally either [[DesignatedHero acting like a dick for no reason]], or getting forced to do something. One chapter has you collect 50 items, but you only use about four of them before a troll comes up and removes your items (no lie; a random troll barges in at the end of the chapter and shakes the guy down).
** Polish video game magazine CD-Action gave ''Limbo of the Lost'' [[BrokeTheRatingScale -1 out of ten possible points]] (giving the game a ''negative'' score for plagiarism alone) for the first time in their history.
* ''M&Ms Kart Racing'' is a textbook example of how even a concept as simple as "Make a MarioKart [[FollowTheLeader knockoff]] [[ProductPlacement with mascot stars]]" can be completely botched, and examplifies just about everything that can go wrong with a [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed video game]]. Everything about it is rushed and uninspired: the core racing has no substance, challenge or strategy--there are no weapons, no shortcuts, and no techniques to exploit. They don't even try to instill a sense of speed beyond having a voice periodically shout "Approaching sound barrier!" The race tracks are so poorly designed that they often [[FakeDifficulty trap or bottleneck players]]--the fact that the vehicles have little to no grip just makes it worse. The unlockables that do exist are nowhere near worth it. The graphics are bland, owe more to older consoles, and have a very obvious draw distance. The sounds are obnoxious, and the soundtrack, levels, and bonus characters are all completely generic. On top of that, it still takes as many as ten seconds to load a single screen. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbN7zdA_w0c See it here]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SAHwWlJgiM here,]] the latter to give a sample of how awful the tracks are.
** [[http://www.gamespot.com/m-and-ms-kart-racing/reviews/mandms-kart-racing-review-6189077/ This]] Gamespot review says it best in a screenshot caption: "If you think this looks bad, just wait until you see the game moving."
* ''Motorbike'' is a $15 downloadable PS3 title that plays almost identically to ''{{Trials}}'', except it does every single possible thing wrong. The presentation is horrendously dated, with PS1-grade textures and audio that makes motorcycle engines sound like wet farts. The levels are all thrown together in such a way that it feels like they were randomly-generated. In addition, each level is almost impossible to win without sheer luck thanks to [[CheckpointStarvation a major lack of checkpoints]] and wacky physics that sometimes send your rider sky-high just from hitting a bump in the road. Multiplayer is even worse, with a jittery splitscreen camera that frequently loses track of both players. To top it all off, the game is a buggy mess. The frame-rate drops all the time, and the game crashes just as much as your biker does. Gamespot [[http://www.gamespot.com/motorbike/reviews/motorbike-review-6410885/ gave the game a 1.5]], rating it only slightly better than ''Big Rigs'' and ''Ride to Hell: Retribution'' (listed below)
* The latter half of the ''{{Painkiller}}'' series was already notorious for basing ''Overdose'' on a [[RunningTheAsylum fan-made game mod]]. ''Painkiller: Resurrection'' does the same thing, but not as well. Everything but a single monster (which looks like an orc made of raw hamburger and has [[YourSizeMayVary three different sizes]]) and a single weapon (a re-skinned "Battle Out Of Hell" weapon) are taken pixel-for-pixel from earlier installments. The levels are the largest the franchise has ever seen, but are usually either too cramped to comfortably accomodate the sort of monsters found in them or so huge that the player must backtrack constantly to find a new monster spawn point. The clumsy storyline is shoehorned into the game with comic-style cutscenes ''à la'' ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' and mood-killing voice acting ''à la'' ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfWFImtwLnQ case in point]]). It's [[ObviousBeta loaded with bugs]] that no patch effort has successfully deterred — it crashes to desktop frequently, the weather effects slow the dated engine to a crawl, [[ArtificialStupidity enemy AI tends to get hung up on the scenery]], online co-op (a major selling point) was inaccessible at launch, the game crashed if a certain weapon was fired in multiplayer, and glitching out the final checkpoint was common and made hour-long levels UnwinnableByMistake. If that won't make you quit playing ''Painkiller'', put on "[[Music/JudasPriest Painkiller]]", and down some painkillers, then nothing will.
* ''Ping Pals'' was a completely pointless (and paid!) clone of [=PictoChat=], a close-range peer-to-peer chat function that already came bundled in every version of the NintendoDS by default. The few advantages it had over [=PictoChat=] (a customizable avatar, single-player and multiplayer minigames, and other such things) are either pedestrian or difficult to manage, and thus fail to make the experience any more compelling. Plus, the game actually ''omits'' certain features present in [=PictoChat.=] Allegedly, {{Creator/WayForward|Technologies}} only agreed to produce this game so they could obtain devkits for the DS.
* ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} III'', released several years after ''Postal II'', was released by a Russian team with little input from original developers Running with Scissors, taking several giant steps backward from its predecessor. Gone is the free-roaming mayhem of ''Postal II'', replaced with a linear mission structure that plays like a "me-too" version of many first- and third-person shooters of its generation. On top of that, the game sports terrible AI for enemies and NPC escorts alike, it glitches up and crashes constantly, the actual shooting is a mess (though you still get to play around with a lot of "unconventional" weapons), and a lot of the series' typical off-color humor is hampered by bad writing and flat, uninspired voicework. RWS has no kind words to say about the project, and [[DisownedAdaptation refuses to recognize it as a "true sequel"]] to ''Postal II'' (derisively referring to it as "Russian Postal" on its message board).
* ''VideoGame/PowerGigRiseOfTheSixString'' is considered not only one of the worst ''GuitarHero'' clones ever made, but also one of the worst rhythm games in recent memory. Its mission statement was ambitious: get players to "rock for real" by replacing the standard guitar controllers, with their coloured buttons and strum bars, with a proper six-string guitar that works both in and out of the game. They went so far as to make {{Take That}}s for this reason. Now, one of their competitors did this -- ''RockBand 3'' can be played with a real six-string -- but the real guitar for ''this'' game barely works in the game and sounds like you'd expect a $150 guitar to sound in RealLife. Worse, this game barely encourages players to learn to play real guitar. Aside from the "power chords," which can be turned off, the gameplay is ''identical'' to the game's chief competitors, only there are ''only'' six-string guitar charts -- no bass guitars. The notes you play in the game aren't even close to how you would play the song in real life, eliminating the reason to have a real six-string as a controller. The track list does have some decent songs in it (including artists who have never appeared in any previous music game, such as Music/EricClapton and Dave Matthews), but very few songs are available from the get-go. Players will have to slog through the game's story mode, which has an idiotic plotline centered around collecting "mojo" from different bands to defeat the evil Headliner who has [[CulturePolice outlawed playing music in public]].
** Speaking of outlawing playing in public, this game's drum controller seems designed for it. It is four pads sitting on the floor, and you have to air drum ''over'' them. It is quieter, but it misses the point of playing drums. You also have to be absurdly precise to know which pad you're "hitting"; you get no touch feedback from air drumming, and keeping an eye on the screen and another on the ground won't let you watch your hands to be sure where they are.
* ''Prisoner Of Power'' (not to be confused with the 4X strategy game) is a Russian FPS released in 2008. It's notable for having horrible modelling and textures work for its time, complete with eye-searing orange textures. It is [[ObviousBeta obviously unfinished]]: the human enemies had '''no AI''' at launch, the physics are broken (hitting single empty wood crate can somehow makes a buggy fall over) and it featured a plethora of other bugs, mostly involving clipping through physical objects. The level design is atrocious, with the maps being littered with one-hit kill mines that are impossible to see until it's too late. Its promotional material also had the balls to call it "The Genesis to VideoGame/{{Stalker}}" despite having absolutely nothing to do with it beyond being a FPS based on a novel by the same authors as ''Roadside Picnic''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP4Bou3RbM0 This video]] (or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZugdQb6vZo this review]], if you understand French) should give you an idea.
* ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution: 1%''. What ought to be a SoBadItsGood romp through a late [=1960s=] era biker gang adventure is instead a frustrating mess that gets nothing right. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading Loading screens are everywhere]]. The graphics and animation are ugly as sin, very outdated, and prone to bugging out. Characters' hair and fur often clips within the models themselves, with obvious MouthFlaps whenever they speak ([[Horrible/VoiceActing with some truly abysmal voice acting]]). The extremely repetitive combat either relies heavily on [[PressXToNotDie QTEs]] or is a brainless {{button mashing}} brawl, which often degenerates into HeadsIWinTailsYouLose scenarios. Not helping is that [[HitboxDissonance "connecting" blows often appear to go nowhere near the target.]] The game puts on a pretense of being a WideOpenSandbox, but respawns you if you even remotely deviate from the path to the next objective ([[RealIsBrown not like the landscape's imaginative enough to make it worthwhile]]). The driving mechanics are overly long, poorly scripted, and have terrible physics, while the tracks are monotonous and derivative. The story is a confusing, disjointed ClicheStorm big on sleaze and devoid of charm, to say nothing of the obnoxious one-dimensional characters, many of whom exist solely to facilitate ill-contrived RescueSex in which [[RightThroughHisPants no clothes are shed]]. And this is before we get into the sheer scope of how ludicrous the missions can be, or the developer's refusal to issue advance press copies, or its reception of [[http://www.gamespot.com/ride-to-hell-retribution/reviews/ride-to-hell-retribution-review-6411189/ GameSpot's second-ever 1/10 score]] (and the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HTKWX15oo ire]][=/=][[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7785-Ride-to-Hell-Retribution morbid fascination]] of many an online critic), or the [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/01/12/ride-to-hell-impressions infuriatingly high level of potential]] [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the game had]].
* ''RogueWarrior'' is a FPS/stealth action hybrid title based on the exploits and autobiography of real-life Navy SEAL Dick Marcinko (voiced by Mickey Rourke), with a multiplayer mode that was supposed to revolutionize online play with its randomized maps. This was ''supposed'' to be Bethesda's big game for the 2009 holiday season. Instead, it was roundly trashed for its completely broken enemy AI, hit detection, and [[UselessUsefulStealth stealth mechanics]]; a single-player campaign runtime of under two hours; and a script [[ClusterFBomb so foul-mouthed]] that it was more annoying than hardcore. The only redeeming factor was the SoBadItsGood [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVoyGUcXepc rapping]] that Mickey Rourke does over the credits. [[http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-rogue-warrior/17-1719/ Here's]] GiantBomb having their fun with it.
* ''RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' for the Nintendo Wii, based on the RankinBass special of the same name. It was sold as a full Wii title but wouldn't even be passable as WiiWare. The game is just four minigames, none of which require much effort, and the entire game can be beaten in less than 15 minutes. The voice acting is extremely annoying (for example, every few seconds Hermey the elf will shout "I'm a dentist!" if you play as him) and the music is just generic muzak that has nothing to do with Rudolph or Christmas. If you're curious, you can see [=NintendoFanFTW=]'s review of the game [[http://youtu.be/UyUou1wbaiY here.]]
* ''VideoGame/StalinVsMartians'' aimed for the SoBadItsGood camp...[[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/stalinvsmartians/review.html and missed by a country mile.]] It's ''supposed'' to be a real-time strategy game, but instead is a buggy, unplayable mess of bad design decisions — bad AI, bad enemy placement, bad mission structure, and bad attempts at humor. Fortunately, a series of music videos were produced for the game, and they remain firmly in the SoBadItsGood category. The best part? They're all available online, meaning you don't have to play the game!
* What happens when you try to replicate the complexity of piloting a HumongousMecha with a control experience that contains none of that? The result is a game like Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''VideoGame/SteelBattalion: Heavy Armor'', developed by FromSoftware (of ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' fame). The most damning strike against ''Heavy Armor'' is that instead of the bulky and expensive-yet-nominally-reliable controller built especially for the first two games, it uses a hybrid setup of traditional controller and Kinect device. For a game that requires precise movements all throughout every battle, cheap deaths are far too commonplace as you try to execute one maneuver and Kinect thinks you're trying to do another. To its credit, ''Heavy Armor'' tried to make a game that was more demanding than your standard MiniGameGame {{Waggle}}-fest to prove that Kinect can work for the so-called "hardcore gamer" set, but the nearly-broken motion controls kill the experience. [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] [[http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/07/steel-battalion-ha-review/ has this to say about the game.]]
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eo8W3VsBrE Terrawars: NY Invasion]]'', a PC game released in 2006 by Tri Synergy and developed by Philippines-based Ladyluck Digital Media. The game purports to be a budget-priced quality shooter inspired by ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds.'' Instead, the game is just about as shoddy if not much worse than its price tag. Level designs are either incredibly bland or painful to the eyes. Most enemies are generic aliens with different colors. The story doesn't make much sense apart from "aliens invade New York," with phoned-in voice acting done by people who barely even ''pretend'' [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent to give an American accent]]. Graphics-wise, it uses the dated Lithtech Jupiter engine (the same one used in ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'') but manages to look ''even worse.'' While gameplay itself is repetitive, dragging and plain un-engagingly boring. Gamespot described the game as [[http://asia.gamespot.com/terrawars-new-york-invasion/reviews/terrawars-new-york-invasion-review-6154704/ a rip-off that has to be avoided]]. And the sad part of all this: not only did the developers [[ShownTheirWork go through the trouble of making a scale recreation of NYC]], but the game was also intended to be a ''showcase'' of a burgeoning Filipino gaming industry.
* ''Film/{{Thor}}: God of Thunder'' is a towering symbol of [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames every problem with licensed games]]. The last-gen graphics and phoned-in voice acting should be warning signs, but if you soldier on, you will find yourself confronted by a combat system that can't even get button-mashing right due to laggy controls and broken hit detection. Throw on tedious, mind-numbingly repetitive combat and more FakeDifficulty than you can shake an {{LJN|Toys}} cartridge at, and you've got Exhibit A for why not every game should cost $60. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-M6z0Kfekc Now prepare to be convinced to buy it anyway...]]
* Following a drop in sales and review scores, not to mention competitor [[ElectronicArts EA's]] ''{{Skate}}'' series, {{Activision}} attempted to bring back the ''TonyHawkProSkater'' {{franchise|Zombie}} with ''Tony Hawk: Ride'' — a game built around a board peripheral that, in theory, would accurately simulate skateboarding. Said peripheral barely worked as it was overly sensitive [[note]]lowering your arm, tilting too far, or objects moving near the board would register an attempted grab[[/note]], lagged, couldn't distinguish between movements, and its curved bottom (perhaps intended to help simulate turns) made it damn near impossible to stay atop. The gameplay proper was far too linear (even ''steering'' for you on Easy difficulty), and it was built around the same combo-score system [[ScrappyMechanic most fans had grown tired of seeing from previous installments]]. Worst of all, the skateboard was [[ButThouMust the only way to play]] as it had no controller support. All of this ran for more than the price of an average skateboard.
** Despite ''Ride'' being a commercial failure, Activision pressed on with ''Tony Hawk: Shred'', including a sturdier peripheral and a snowboarding mode. Despite this, most of the same problems that plagued the original peripheral are still there. The gameplay itself hasn't changed for the better, as jumping over gaps and doing correct tricks are still difficult to perform. ''Shred'' managed to sell even less than ''Ride'' and almost killed off the franchise.
* ''Vampire Rain'' is a piss-poor stealth-action survival horror game that features among other things: a thinly-written plot with wooden voice acting, dreadful dialogue, lousy gameplay that shamelessly rips off both ''SplinterCell'' and ''Franchise/MetalGear'' (and doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as either), laughable enemy A.I. and [[SchizophrenicDifficulty wildly inconsistent difficulty]]. You know a game is terrible when the most innovative thing about it is that your knife (a ''melee'' weapon) actually requires ''ammo'' to use! (The game [[HandWave attempts to justify it]] by making the knife ''[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot explode inside the victim]]'', but this doesn't make things less frustrating).
** It got an UpdatedRerelease on the Playstation 3 called ''Vampire Rain: Altered Species''. [[TheyJustDidntCare It fixed precisely nothing, and some people even think the graphics got WORSE.]]
* ''VideoGame/WindyXWindam'' has been derided by fighting game enthusiasts for its choppy animation, bland music and repetitive sound effects, a small roster of characters (half of whom are ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' knockoffs), and a bug-riddled fighting engine coupled with extreme ArtificialStupidity that discourages any strategy beyond ButtonMashing. The threadbare plot is done no favors by U.S. publisher Creator/GraffitiEntertainment's weak translation (misspellings and [[NoPunctuationPeriod dropped commas and periods]] are commonplace), and even the game's [[JustHereForGodzilla main draw]] - the chance to play as Izuna and Shino from ''IzunaLegendOfTheUnemployedNinja'' - is short-lived, as they can only be unlocked for play by finishing the game on the higher difficulty levels.
* ''Yaris'', an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoSHY5n74_4 advergame on XBLA]] which, despite being free, somehow managed to make the customers feel ripped off. It received a score of 17 from Metacritic, citing bad gameplay, painful audio and no replay value. It was pulled from the service after a while due to bad reception, and thank God for that.
* ''You Are Empty'', a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWPeXq7VkA Russian game]] released by 1C Games in 2006. The plot reads like a mishmash of ''TheButterflyEffect'', ''TheRedStar'' and ''CommandAndConquer: Red Alert'', the game is bugged to death, and it uses flat textures. That's right, folks — in 2006, someone released a game with no lighting effects whatsoever. Gamespot's reviewer '''apologized''' for wasting the reader's time with the review. One of the game's greatest moments is when a monster jumps out at you from a higher level...and [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou dies on impact with the floor]].
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* Whilst app stores on smartphones do offer plenty of good titles, unfortunately SturgeonsLaw very much applies.
** One example that certainly sticks out is ''3D Cartoon Land: Safari'', released in 2012. Taking out of the account that this game is [[TheMockbuster blatantly trying to capitalize on another]] [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand popular and successful game that features a character in a red hat and blue overalls who jumps across platforms and stomps on brown monstrous mushrooms]], the game just doesn't hold up. The graphics are elementary-school-level cardboard collages at best with serious draw distance/pop-up problems, there are no sound effects save for a warbling out-of-place music loop, and the play control is utterly crippled. The game has now been rmoved from the App Store.
** Creator/SquareEnix has proven that it can publish good smartphone games, as shown by the excellent ''VideoGame/ChaosRings'' and the respectable ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyDimensions''...which makes it incredibly baffling that they'd release a game as terrible and shallow as ''Final Fantasy: All the Bravest'' to the Apple App Store. It was hit with a barrage of negative reviews from the moment of its release, as the player is given no control over any of the battle proceedings, and it's impossible to make any real progress in the game without resorting to using the game's [[{{Microtransactions}} cash shop]] (for completionists, this would mean spending the equivalent of a brand new copy of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'', -- or, perhaps more damningly, more than the ''combined'' cost of the [=iOS=] versions of the first five ''Final Fantasy'' games).
** ''Super Monster Bros'' from Adventure Time Pocket (Also known as Mario Games Casas Team. No connection with ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''.) is an obvious rip-off of ''VideoGame/{{Super Mario Bros}}'' with graphics heavily designed after ''Pokémon''. It suffered from plagiarized game play and designs and sound, occasional inconsistent physics, a limited projectile button, and micro-transactions in which are rather expensive for its quality, with few costing at least '''$99.99 each''', making this game a monstrous cash grabber. It is even almost identical to the related game ''Super Squirrel Bros.'' Even though it is now removed from the App Store, its notoriety remains a warning to parents who didn't supervise their children browsing the App Store, indicated in this [[http://www.cnet.com.au/super-monster-bros-is-the-worst-mobile-game-cash-grab-weve-seen-339344090.htm article]].
** ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', probably the lowest of attempts at sapping money off of unaware parents. Don't be fooled by the title of this bootleg product; it's not even a [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]], just some poorly-coded ''{{Cabal}}'' clone that happens to bear the ''Ninja Turtles'' name. The background is ripped off from ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'', with two spots very badly filtered over to mask the source material. The screen is filled to the brim with numbers with indecipherable meaning, and the score fails to reset when you die. Hardcore Gaming 101 takes a look at it [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge07.htm here]].
** ''TIGG'', short for ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames Game]]''. Even the Irate Gamer's fans won't defend this piece of crap. The controls are atrocious (you can't jump and shoot at the same time, there's ladders and ropes that can't be climbed everywhere), the gameplay is unintuitive (at one point you have to walk off a ledge to activate a hang glider, but you're never told that anywhere, and it doesn't activate if you jump), there's only a couple of enemies ({{Palette Swap}}ped robots and land mines), there's [[CheckpointStarvation no checkpoints anywhere]], and the game is way too generous with health power-ups. What little story here is told through cutscenes that constantly make unfunny references to better games, and while the art style is genuinely good, it can't salvage the experience. Spend that $4 on something else.
*** [[http://irategamersucks.blogspot.com/2013/10/ig-game-update-commander-reskin.html It gets worse]]. ''TIGG'' is a blatant reskin of another iOS game, ''Commander Cool''. It's been theorized that Mad Media Labs took Chris Bores' check, sat on it for three years, and then, when Chris got suspicious, bought the source assets from ''Commander Cool'' (available for $130) and put ''TIGG'' together in a week or so.

* ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified]]'', a PSVita GaidenGame for the PC[=/=]console game ''Black Ops 2''. The game is packed with game-breaking bugs ''on the first mission'', poor and ludicrously obligatory touch controls, ArtificialStupidity, and poorly rendered graphics. As if those problems weren't bad enough, the single-player campaign only lasts 45 minutes and the multi-player is next to impossible to get working properly. And to pound the nail in further, it completely omits one of ''Black Ops 2''[='=]s [[JustHereForGodzilla largest selling points,]] [[NaziZombies Zombie mode.]] Gamespot employees [[http://www.giantbomb.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-declassified/61-38542/reviews/ past]] and [[http://www.gamespot.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-declassified/ present]] concur.
** Doesn't help that the multiplayer maps are extremely tiny. You know Nuketown, that extremely popular ''Black Ops 1'' map that eventually got remade in ''Black Ops 2'' and was known for being extremely tiny? Well, it also got remade in ''Declassified'', except it's been cut in half and renamed to Nukehouse. They took a map known for being small and somehow [[UpToEleven made it even]] ''[[UpToEleven smaller]]''.
* ''VideoGame/DayOneGarrysIncident'', at least in its initial release form, is a classic case of trying to do too much with too little. It's an open-world, first-person survival game in the vein of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' and ''VideoGame/DayZ'', only with one key difference: it was made by people without a tenth of the talent needed to put such an ambitious title together. Combat is a mess of ButtonMashing, [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous cheap deaths, and random enemy attack damage]], the frame rate is incredibly choppy, gratuitous {{Invisible Wall}}s restrict the main character's movement and make the open world feel like a joke, actions as simple as using a bandage require a cumbersome [[PressXToNotDie quick-time event]], enemy AI [[ArtificialStupidity works seemingly at random]], and while the game looks decent enough when it's not moving, the animations are hideous. As the icing on the cake, the game's developers attempted to have [[WebVideo/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]]'s extremely negative video of the game (which compared it to the below-mentioned ''Revelations 2012'') taken down from Website/YouTube; they wisely backed down after an InternetBackdraft, and you can see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjTa_x3rbJE here.]]
* ''Hell's House'', a downloadable game on the Microsoft Indie Game Channel. It's an FMV SurvivalHorror game, with gameplay stolen from ''VideoGame/GuitarHero''. Yes, you read that right; there's no attempt to add anything else to the gameplay, just press the buttons and win. The plot doesn't get brought up after the opening text crawl; instead, the entire game consists of the actress wandering room to room in the house, attempting to act. There's no replay value, or any real reason to play the game in the first place. The death scenes ''might'' fall under SoBadItsGood, but they're not worth the rest of the game. The incomparable ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' duo give it the proper treatment [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGkDoYQdzxc here]] - and even with their commentary, it's a chore to sit through!
* ''Infestation: Survivor Stories'' (formerly titled ''The War Z'') is a blatant knockoff of ''VideoGame/{{DayZ}}'' theorized to have been made to trick people into [[TheMockbuster mistaking it for the official standalone version]] of ''[=DayZ=]'' (despite the developer's dubious claim that it was in development for two years). It is an awful game that barely deserves being called a [[InsistentTerminology "foundation release"]], let alone an early beta, being riddled with ugly textures and animations, extremely poor performance, boringly simplistic combat, and bugs galore, and with no real mechanism to punish bad behavior on the part of players.
** What made it truly horrible, however, was the blatant disregard for the customers shown by the publishing company, with a [[{{Microtransactions}} real money store]] where you can purchase in-game weapons and items that ''remove themselves from your inventory upon death'', a {{Steam}} page that featured [[BlatantLies outright lies about the features present]], and people getting banned at random to counteract hacking (the [[InsaneTrollLogic logic]] being that people won't bother hacking a game where you can get randomly banned without any given justification). The game's official forums are intensely moderated and censored, with criticizing the game being a bannable offense and the developers lashing out at critics by claiming that they have no idea what they're talking about and don't understand the game. The complaints got so venomous that Valve not only removed it from {{Steam}} (albeit temporarily), but also offered refunds, one of the very few times this has happened. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtKAm3nzg6I Here's]] [[TheCynicalBrit TB]] giving a breakdown. It's only the icing on the cake that one of the people behind ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' was one of the game's developers.
* ''Revelations 2012'', a blatant ripoff of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', only instead of zombies, the player characters must fight Mayan demons of some sort (one can guess [[MayanDoomsday the theme of the game]] by looking at the game's title). The game mechanic isn't the only thing to be ripped off; the menu, the game engine, and a bit of coding is pretty much stolen from ''Left 4 Dead 2''. The game itself costs $10 on Steam, even though publishing such content with lack of quality is questionable (likely due to the fact that this game runs on the Source Engine, and that's it). One look at the developers' [[http://www.darkartzentertainment.com/ website]] ([[XtremeKoolLetterz Dark Artz]] Entertainment) can suggest how unprofessional and pretentious this group is. Here's a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ9TCmzAim0 video]] of some of the quirks this game has to provide. TotalBiscuit also tears this game to shreds, which you can watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzTo6XUiIA4 here.]]
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* '''Active Enterprises''' is mostly infamous for creating ''{{Action 52}}'', a compilation of 52 different "games" — but only if you use a loose definition of the word. These games have ''a lot'' of [[GameBreakingBug bugs]], sloppy controls, bad level designs, etc. You couldn't tell that to the guys at Active; not only did they expect to make $200 a pop off of this garbage, but they also had plans to make one of the games (''Cheetahmen'', perhaps the most mind-wrenchingly terrible side-scrolling BeatEmUp ever burned to an EEPROM) into a [[CashCowFranchise merchandising empire]] rivaling the likes of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', including a line of action figures and a Saturday-morning cartoon. Well, they weren't "plans" so much as "pie-in-the-sky dreaming with absolutely no grounding in what we call ''reality''" but, much like the legless boy who dreams of being an Olympic sprinter, it's somewhat endearing in a way to see somebody hoping to make so much out of such a crappy game. (Note that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius the former]] has almost been accomplished.)
** In the game's defense, it '''did''' bring us [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot hillbilly ninjas]] in ''Ninja Assault'', and the [[MindScrew so-weird-it's-hilarious]] ''Non Human''. The ''Cheetahmen'' background music has been well received, achieving a cult status amongst gamers and the Japanese. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRGWdqLUlME It's played in clubs.]] Seriously. Unfortunately, ''Action 52'' is the worst possible place to try to listen to that background music because the game can't play the music and the sound effects at the same time.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ3fVEA8lNE Can you believe they actually made an advert for the package?]] WebVideo/{{Guru Larry|AndWez}} uploaded it to his Website/YouTube channel. It has poor voice acting with stereotypical English and Hispanic accents, hints that the "games" might not be that good, but the animation was decent, and the sad thing is, they still clearly put more effort into the advert than the actual "games".
** ''Cheetahmen 2'', the planned-but-unreleased sequel, was programmed into cartridges while [[ObviousBeta still unfinished]] (presumably they were prototypes). It had the same clunky ''Action 52'' jumping, waves of nigh-undodgeable GoddamnedBats and DemonicSpiders, the inability to crouch or shoot while jumping, and a [[GameBreakingBug game-breaking glitch]] which makes Level 4 unbeatable. Even if you use a GameGenie or hacked ROM (or you do what the AVGN did and slightly tilt the Cheetahmen 2 cartridge a little bit) to skip to the last two levels, there's NoEnding programmed.
** The Genesis version of ''Action 52'' was only ''published'' by Active, as actual development was done by Farsight Technologies (developers of the ''Game Party'' [[MinigameGame mini-game compilation]] series and various pinball collections). Their version of ''Action 52'' is still an overall failure, [[PolishedPort but still not as bad as the trainwreck the NES version turned out to be]].
* '''Color Dreams'''. Many of their beat-em-up games share the same gameplay, with unresponsive controls, near-zero attack range, etc. They eventually changed their name to Bunch Games ''because'' of the poor reputation of their video games, and later on became a Christian company known as Wisdom Tree. However, it should be noted that while they had some of their best-selling games as Wisdom Tree (mostly because they took advantage of the loophole involving Nintendo refusing to supply officially lisenced games to stores that sold pirated or unlisenced versions of their games by mainly selling their games in bookstores where most other forms of Christian media was sold at the time) and was the ''only'' company to have an unlicensed SNES game that works (but in a weird manner involving plugging a secondary, official cartridge into it), they no longer sell video games in their current market and are no longer associated with Color Dreams. [[DrAshens A FITTING PUNISHMENT!!]]
** Wisdom Tree put some of their NES games up on the site as playable Java games. If you want to take a dive in their infamy, [[http://www.wisdomtreegames.com/arcade.html help yourself]]. (The Zelda-clone ''SpiritualWarfare'' is actually not half bad, if you don't want to waste time clicking.)
* '''Data Design Interactive''' is an infamous shovelware developer whose games were released on the {{Wii}} in North America, with very few differences between them. Most of their games started as [[PlayStation2 PS2]] games from low-budget European companies that SonyComputerEntertainment America [[NoExportForYou prevented from crossing overseas]]. Due to the Wii's nature, Nintendo decided to be more lax with third-parties... which backfired, as the gate was now open for shovelers to dump their crap upon America, much like the pirated NES multi-game cartridges and the flood of cloned Atari games that sparked [[TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the video game crash]] in the U.S. Some examples of DDI's "handiwork" include:
** ''Action [[XtremeKoolLetterz Girlz]] Racing'', one of DDI's countless made-in-five-seconds [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8auuVFT1S0 racing games]], became only the third game in IGN's history to get a rating of less than 1.0 (it got a 0.8) and was called the worst game of 2008.
** Three of the most infamous examples (listed together because they're the exact same game minus a main character model swap) are ''VideoGame/NinjabreadMan'', ''Trixie in Toyland'', and ''Anubis II''. Horrible controls, a bad camera that you can't control, and a near-useless (and difficult to activate) melee attack. The games also contain only four levels, one of which is a "training" stage.
** The spine of ''Rock n' Roll Adventure'' calls it ''[[TyopOnTheCover Rock n' Roll Advneture]]''.
* '''Delta 4 Interactive''' ([=D4i=]) and '''On-Line Entertainment''' made some particularly terrible games that were only available for the short-lived Commodore {{Amiga}} CDTV.
** The first one we'll be looking at is ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName'', which has been gaining some attention due to a WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8QzQp57oI involving]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_f9r3Rcyo this game]]. You could actually go ahead and get back on the train without doing anything, and you'll still "win" with the odd ending that it gives you. Of course, if you ''do'' want to "play" this game fairly, just prepared to be weirded out by some things that could be considered SoBadItsGood [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WeV18bZGMqc#t=1430s and this sort of odd ending that happens if you do manage to find Evil Eb, the last boss.]] Even then, those weird scenes won't be worth your time spent playing this.
*** The "bonus" materials give the impression that the people responsible for this abomination were actively {{troll}}ing the players: the "Making Of" feature is really just a bunch of goofy photos of the crew with terrible jokes and the "hidden features" are a bunch of trailers for other On-Line titles (some of which were thankfully never made, like the sequel to the game below) in which [[ThrowItIn two]] ''[[LeaveTheCameraRunning outtakes]]'' of the announcer are ''left in'' (one has the announcer coughing and then repeating his line, and in another, you can hear him ''turn the pages of the script''). You can watch how messed up it is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8hubG7IUbM&feature=player_detailpage#t=153s right here.]]
** Our second game from these two is considered ''worse'' than the game above. ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr6NbliIaK8 Psycho Killer]]'' is a point-and-click horror adventure game where you "move" by clicking on three arrow keys on the bottom left side of the screen. While ''The Town With No Name'' had comedy to lessen the horrible effect, this takes itself seriously with a boring and annoying British monologuer, terrible sounds, and filtered pictures and scenes (which, admittedly, isn't ''as'' insane as ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'') that don't even take up the ''entire disk memory''! Sure, there might not have been enough memory needed in 1992 for some companies to truly take advantage of CD technology, but other companies at least ''knew'' that they had to ''try'' to fill it up by ''at least'' 100 MB. Like VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName, Psycho Killer has also be Retsupuraed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4XZXJE20-k here.]]
* '''Dragon Co.''' were a Chinese developer who mostly developed games for the Famicom and Mega Drive, and most of their games fit this trope quite well.
** Starting with their Famicom titles, their ''FelixTheCat'' game was essentially a PortingDisaster of the Hudson Soft game of the same name, which was released on the same console 6 years before. The physics are shoddily programmed, the controls are poor and choppy, the story makes no sense and the music is a beepy mess. It's also worth noting that all of their Famicom games use the same engine.
** One of their games is based off the Russian cartoon Nu, Pogodi! but features Bugs Bunny on the title screen for no discernible reason. The levels are badly designed (the second one is nearly impossible without save states) and the game over screen features [[NightmareFuel the main character getting eaten by the wolf]].
** Continuing with their licensed games which aren't actually licensed, ''[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Tom & Jerry 3]]'' is yet another awful platformer based off a cartoon. The only notable feature about this one is that it features Tom smoking weed on the title screen.
*** That said, the first level's theme is SoCoolItsAwesome.
** They made two games based off Disney/TheLionKing; marketed as the third and fifth instalments in the series. While the former is standard Dragon Co. rubbish, the latter is notable for having a soundtrack that qualifies for SoCoolItsAwesome, while at the same time having [[NightmareFuel the main character commit suicide on the game over screen]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuSgevd1EwY]]
** As stated above, they also made games for the Mega Drive. One of them is ''Iraq War 2003'', which is a really boring lightgun shooter without the lightgun. One of the sound effects is stolen from Microsoft Powerpoint, and there's no way to avoid enemy fire.
* In the late-90's, {{Activision}} had a subsidiary called '''Head Games''', who was responsible for the aforementioned ''ExtremePaintbrawl''. They released several other games under the "Extreme" label (including two sequels to Extreme Paintbrawl) that were equally horrible.
** Although they ''did'' get some pretty funny reviews at IGN: http://www.ign.com/articles/1999/01/27/extreme-tennis, http://pc.ign.com/articles/161/161608p1.html, etc.
* '''Ludia''' is a Canadian company whose goal is to make video games on the {{Wii}} based on every popular American game show (except ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' and ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', both which have their games made by parent company {{Sony}}). They distribute through Ubisoft, which also ports the games to other consoles and [[IOSGames iOS devices]]. One problem: they don't know anything about the game shows they're trying to emulate. Also, these games use their own proprietary avatar system, not Miis; had they taken advantage of the existing infrastructure, maybe the rest of the games would've been better. They also have a serious case of bad timing, releasing their ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' game the week before the actual game changed formats. Partially owned by FremantleMedia.
** ''The $1,000,000 Series/{{Pyramid}}'' uses the classic (1982-91) logo, but the game itself is based directly on the Donny Osmond-hosted 2002-04 series (which is derided by game show fans). The opponent AI is almost nonexistent, ''maybe'' scoring more than one point per subject. Gameplay is slow, which is bad since on-air ''Pyramid'' is traditionally very fast-paced. The Winner's Circle has no shots of the big pyramid while you're playing, and gives you $1,000,000 '''every time you clear it'''. [[http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-the-1000000-pyramid/17-4041/ Riffed on by Giant Bomb]]; however, since most of the video is spent playing the tacked-on two-player mode, it's not reliable in the single-player department.
** ''Series/FamilyFeud 2012''. The fictional host, "Sparky Whitmore", makes '''Louie Anderson''' look good; the on-screen keyboard practically gives you the correct answers with its predictive text (if it doesn't show up in the choices after two letters, it's not going to be correct); there's long gaps between every action; the avatar animations look wooden; and the parser is stupider than [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5tyMXXDPX4 the broken one in the SNES version]] (it somehow interprets "Bike" as "Horseback")! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya24jxwLQV8 Giant Bomb riffs on it.]]
** ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'' was another victim. There are only four actual celebrities in the grid (Martin Mull, Kathy Griffin, Brad Garrett, and Jeffrey Tambor), and they all take center square which means you only play with one at a time. This leaves the rest of the squares filled with generic people, which removes half the point of the original game show. But most of the magic of the original show was in the celebrities giving joke answers, aka "zingers", and then responding with their actual answer. In the video game, you're only given straight answers — no zingers at all. With neither celebs nor zingers, you're simply crossing trivia with TabletopGame/TicTacToe and might as well play ''Series/TicTacDough'' at this rate. [[http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-hollywood-squares/17-3357/ Here's a Quick Look by Giant Bomb.]]
** ''Series/PressYourLuck 2010''. The avatars all look like they have some form of mental retardation; the Big Board cycles between three static formats, one of which has no Whammies; there's no prizes but a generic "trip" that Big Bucks will direct to in Round 1 and massively breaks Move One Space; the AI routinely answers questions ''wrong'', which is FakeBalance; and both the music and sound effects are inaccurate. What makes this game ''truly'' belong here is that a Ludia representative asked the fans for input and "[[FremantleMedia Dismantle]]" (as some call it) forced C&D orders on superior fan games. GiantBomb [[http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-press-your-luck-2010/17-1691/ took a look at it.]]
*** The DS version was ''worse'', with unskippable Whammy animations and a Big Board that was horrendous in layout (all over the place) and appearance (the cash values are plain white text on ever-changing colors).
*** The [=PS3=] version fixed the music and sounds, plus added a bunch of actual prizes.
** ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' (2008 and 2010, for every console) has a simple GameBreaker — a limited prize pool, about fifty Showcases, and a bad randomizer, along with a rather poor Showcase Showdown wheel. It turns the game show game into "Memory"; just play the game for three hours, write down every prize's price, and memorize the list (or Google for said list) and remember when that prize or Showcase comes up in any game. Other ''TPIR'' games at least randomize prizes so they don't appear in one sole game every time with some digit randomization to throw off memorizers. The games can't even be arsed to use the then-current set, with the first game giving the overwhelming impression of having been delayed for two years. Giant Bomb has [[http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-the-price-is-right-2010/17-1462/ a Quick Look at the 2010 version.]]
*** One major problem with the 2010 version is that Three Strikes Mode no longer gives a strike for losing the Showcase Showdown (a big criticism with the first game), which means that you can literally go on forever by having a price list.
* '''Media Service 2000'''. Among its transgressions are ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlGAKllK0fI The Moscow Apocalypse]]'', a ClicheStorm with corny visuals, cornier artwork, even cornier gameplay, no jumping, and various other issues.
* '''Micro Genius'''. They have three known games under their belts:
** ''Aladdin II'', which is worse than [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik9XyRG3w6U the official NES port of]] ''Aladdin'', which was already bad to begin with. (Thankfully, there was a half decent, if cut down, port by Super Game) The Game Over screen makes this game look even worse.
** ''Super Contra X'', an abysmal bootleg of ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}''.
** ''Thunder Warrior''. Repetitive level design, low enemy variety, clunky controls, and a difficult-to-aim projectile attack doesn't help with the large amount of GoddamnedBats and DemonicSpiders you face. It seems to pirate some of its content from other games, such as the map screen from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'' and the HUD from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''. Catchy music, though.
* '''Mystique''', a company specializing in pornographic video games for the {{Atari 2600}}. Only three games were made by the company, which were all horribly exploitative, and have all been hugely controversial. Mystique went bankrupt following TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983.
** ''Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em'', a game where you control two nude women who move back and forth across the bottom of a building on screen, catching semen from a masturbating man who is hiding on top for points. Every time you get [[{{Pun}} 69 points]], you will get an extra life.
*** Mystique also released ''Philly Flasher'', which is ''Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em'' [-[[RecycledINSPACE WITH GENDERS REVERSED!]]-] The only thing different about it is that besides playing two nude men moving across the building, instead of catching semen, the player will catch breast milk from ''a witch''. Once the breast milk is caught, the two men will then engage in masturbation.
** The plot of ''Custer's Revenge'' is as follows — General George Armstrong Custer, depicted as a man wearing nothing but a cavalry hat, boots, and a bandanna while sporting [[BiggerIsBetterInBed a visible erection]], must dodge falling arrows and randomly appearing cacti in order to reach the other side of the screen, where he intends to rape a naked, well-endowed Native American woman named "Revenge", who is bound to a post. The only "noteworthy" part of the game (its early use of nudity) is [[FetishRetardant done in by its extremely-low resolution and color depth]], and the publishers picked ''this'' game to use the real graphics on the packaging. Arguably, the poor graphics are the only thing that keep it palatable — high-def would reveal it as the SnuffFilm foreplay scene it is.
*** Ignoring the UnfortunateImplications of General Custer raping a Native American woman, or that you shouldn't bother with graphics this blocky for this purpose, for a second...note that she's tied to a cactus. Her ass is rubbing against a ''cactus''! As {{Seanbaby}} put it:
---->'''Custer''': Gentlemen, you are the bravest squadron of men it has ever been this [[ArtisticLicenseHistory Southerner's]] privilege to serve with. And you will need that bravery today, as your orders are to remove my pants and underpants. I will then attempt to force sex on an Indian girl under heavy enemy fire. Are there any questions?\\\\
'''Custer's Military Adviser''': Yes, general. ''[[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels Several.]]''
* '''Mythicon''', an English company that dealt in budget-priced {{Atari 2600}} games. While most other publishers set price points of $40-50 per cart, Mythicon's games only sold for $10...and the results show all too well. Their catalog consists of only three games, all of them horrible — ''Star Fox'' ([[SimilarlyNamedWorks not]] [[VideoGame/StarFox the famous one]]), ''Sorcerer'', and ''Fire Fly''. All three share the same problems — sparse and ugly graphics, jerky animation, monotonous music, and repetitive gameplay. ''Star Fox'' is generally seen as the worst of the lot.
** What's particularly sad about ''Star Fox'' is that Mythicon's copyright hold on that title lasted long enough to force Nintendo's UK branch to change their titles to ''[[VideoGame/StarFox Starwing]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/StarFox64 Lylat Wars]]'' (for the SNES and N64 titles, respectively). Which means that in Britain, for a time, the title ''Star Fox'' was associated more with the crappy 2600 game than the better Nintendo games!
* Taiwanese company '''NTDEC''', short for the '''N'''in'''T'''en'''D'''o '''E'''lectronic '''C'''ompany. ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTDEC No, seriously. The lawsuit came quite fast.]])
** One of their works was ''Fighting Hero'', a [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct horrible knockoff]] of the already dubious ''VideoGame/StreetFighter''. The game has some of the worst controls in any fighting game, as they're incredibly unresponsive and button mashing is rendered useless because the player will constantly interrupt his attacks while doing so. The computer opponents are also ridiculously hard as they'll block most of your attacks.
** They also ended up making the games on the [[http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Caltron_6-in-1 Caltron 6 in 1]] (Caltron being an alias for NTDEC) and while the games on it aren't awful, they're mostly just mediocre clones of other games.
* '''Phenomedia Publishing GMBH''' was a German company, specialising in (often rather bizzare) low-budget games. In addition to countless "Crazy Chicken" sequels (more than 30, according to The Other Wiki), they produced such obscure titles as [[http://www.chip.de/ii/184846268_edb446684d.jpg Lederzwerge XXL]] ([[{{Manly Gay}} Leather Dwarfs]]), a game about homosexual dwarfs engaging in all sorts of nasty practices. Even though the cover promises an uncensored version, the actual sex acts always take place behind mattes.
** Germany's biggest video gaming magazine, GameStar, gave Lederzwerge 3/100, the lowest rating in the 15 years of the magazine's existence. The fact, that the game's third and final level was shrouded in complete darkness and therefore basically unplayable was cited as a plus point.
* '''[[http://www.giantbomb.com/phoenix-games-bv/3010-2110/ Phoenix Games]]'''. Go look them up on Website/YouTube and witness the... well, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukwhK9hcWA "horror" is far too light a term.]] You gotta love that they aren't even ''pretending'' they aren't copying the Creator/{{Disney}} character designs...and since when is Thumper the size of a horse?
** Case in point, ''The '''[[Disney/TheLionKing Lion]]''' [-[[AC:and the]]-] '''[[Disney/TheLionKing King]]''' 2'' [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/5/8/8/918588_26108_front.jpg here.]]
** Their most infamous "games" are ''English dubs'' of Creator/{{Disney}} ripoffs from Creator/DingoPictures (who are also covered on {{Horrible.Western Animation}})... but many of their ''actual'' games are worse.
* [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment While we wish to remain neutral concerning its beliefs and musical output]], there's no denying that white supremacist/neo-Nazi record label '''Resistance Records''' ''cannot make a game to save its life.'' Its entire output (all FPS games) has been compared '''unfavorably''' to ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}''. None of its games seem to have [[ObviousBeta ever passed the beta phase]]:
** ''EthnicCleansing''. All politics aside, the game's untextured graphics look worse than ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' (the game was released in 2002), its setup was discredited when ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life|1}}'' came out, and its draw distance is ridiculously short. The collision detection is very off, and the AI is only slightly above shooting-gallery level. The one weapon in the game has no recoil, and there's only one non-boss enemy type, which is reskinned three times. There's only two levels, one of which works more or less at the game's mercy. The game crashes often, several functions (including the save system and the control options) do ''nothing'', and the sound is very poorly coded.
** They then made a couple of {{spiritual successor}}s: ''White Law'' and the two-part ''ZOG's Nightmare''. They're not much better than the original -- some basic touch-ups (more weapons, graphics that take less squinting to deem passable) in exchange for [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading a load time of nearly two minutes (sometimes more) between levels]], unbelievably pitiful framerates, and various {{game break|ing bug}}ers.
* The Taiwanese company '''Thin Chen Enterprises''' (aka [[IHaveManyNames Sachen, Joy Van, and Commin]], but mostly known as '''Sachen''' nevertheless) was one of the biggest unlicensed {{shovelware}} developers of the time. They also made many bootleg {{Porting Disaster}}s of arcade and 16-bit console games, and even created [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct their own NES hardware clone]], the [[http://www.nesplayer.com/pirates/q-boy.htm Q-Boy]] (considered by some to be much better than their games). Several of their games were published in America by Color Dreams, Bunch Games, or occasionally American Video Entertainment. Their works include:
** ''Challenge of the Dragon'' (not to be confused with the just-as-bad Color Dreams game), a nearly-unplayable and possibly-{{Unwinnable}} ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' clone.
** ''Jurassic Boy 2''. The only good point of this game is the funny intro. [[PortingDisaster It got an even more brain-evaporating Game Boy port]].
** ''Little Red Hood'', an unlicensed NES game whose only notable contribution was its inspiration for an [[http://cinemassacre.com/2009/12/03/little-red-hood/ AVGN episode.]] Right from the get-go, this game takes GuideDangIt and LuckBasedMission to ridiculous levels. In order to complete most levels, you have to roam around kicking trees and collecting fruit until a staircase appears, then go down into the secret room and collect a randomly-appearing key, ''then'' go back out and find a different staircase which also appears at random. The requirements to get the staircases and keys to appear vary from level to level with no attempt on the game's part to explain them. For instance, level 8 requires the player to first purchase a specific set of items before the staircase will even appear! All the while, you have to deal with finicky jumping controls, a bland and repetitive presentation, [[FakeDifficulty enemies who respawn immediately after being defeated,]] and eventually an ending barely more interesting than a [[AWinnerIsYou generic "congratulations!" ending.]] The one review for this game on GameFAQs [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/567299-little-red-hood/reviews/review-63157 gave it a 1.0/10]], and it's not hard to see why.
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sayp5lieKuU Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu]]'', a side-scrolling action platformer which rivals ''Cheetahmen'' in glitchy awfulness. The game received a [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/rom-pit/master-chu-drunkard.php -50 score]] from SomethingAwful, with the reviewer bitterly regretting that the rating system didn't allow anything lower.
** ''Q-Boy'' (as opposed to the console) is a ShoddyKnockoff of ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}''.
** ''Rocman X'' was a ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' engine hack complete with [[{{Plagiarism}} stolen title-screen art]]. It featured a superhero with a boomerang who could also fly for short distances by charging the fire button (which is used to charge the Mega Buster in real ''MM'' games). It's nearly unplayable because of clunky controls, a lack of special weapons, and shoddy programming. You can ''sometimes'' walk on the BottomlessPits in Stage 3. ''Rocman X'' was ported to the GameBoyColor as ''Thunder Blast Man'', where the first boss fight was {{Unwinnable}} due to a GameBreakingBug. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_o3W7iRYM Here's some footage, courtesy of]] [[LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} some poor, unfortunate Canadian.]]
** ''Silent Assault'' was a poor-man's ''{{Contra}}'' / ''RushNAttack'' clone where you could shoot vertically and horizontally, but [[DenialOfDiagonalAttack not diagonally]]. It had near-useless weapon upgrades. It was also buggy and included a bug that prevented you from precision-jumping in the otherwise [[AnticlimaxBoss piss-easy boss fights]], making some of them nearly impossible.
** ''Street Heroes'', a horrible [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct knockoff]] of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''.
* The Chinese company '''Waixing''', who mainly developed Famicom games.
** ''Super Contra 7''. It's likely a hack of either ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' or ''Super C'', as the engine and sound effects seem to be directly taken from the latter, but features ear bleedingly bad music. It also features stolen graphics from other games, such as taking the background for the first stage from ''[[VideoGame/FinalFight Mighty Final Fight]]'', as well as a later stage featuring an enemy taken from ''VideoGame/{{Shatterhand}}''. The game is very short, being 5 stages long and can be beaten within 15 minutes. The boss [[HitboxDissonance hitboxes are messed up]] [[note]]For example, the first boss can only be damaged in a specific spot ''while he's moving horizontally'', except when he moves along the ground level[[/note]], and there are other glitches throughout. The score counter is broken for both players and stays at zero, and some powerups are inconsistent from the other ''Contra'' games [[note]]For example, the R powerup gives the player an extra life instead of increasing the firing rate of the player's weapon while the SmartBomb powerup is a P instead of an Eagle[[/note]]. [[http://tasvideos.org/2094M.html Watch this 2 player TAS destroy the game here.]]
* Speaking of pirate game companies, '''Yong Yong''' (AKA '''Makon Soft''') is probably the least competent of the lot. Their games library consists entirely of horribly made adaptations of popular franchises for the Game Boy/Game Boy Color, including ''{{Mario}}'', ''{{Sonic}}'' and ''{{Pokemon}}''. All of their games suffer from poor controls, frequent glitches and music that borders on SensoryAbuse.
** ''Sonic 3D Blast 5'' somehow manages to be worse than the ''{{Somari}}'' hack of the same name, with poor level design and having almost nothing to do with the official Sonic games.
*** A year or two later, Yong Yong rereleased it as ''Sonic Adventure 7'' on the Game Boy Color. The soundtrack and intro stills were changed, the levels were switched around to look original and an [[SensoryAbuse eye-bleedingly bad color palette]] was added.
** ''Rockman 8'' is a PortingDisaster of the [[VideoGame/MegaMan8 game it's named after]]. The bosses are completely screwed up, (i.e. [[EpicFail selecting Grenade Man on the menu actually picks "Tengv Man" with Spark Man's sprite, and the boss itself is actually a car]]) [[ObviousBeta Rockman/Megaman often falls through moving platforms, one of the bosses constantly resets the game and shooting too many enemies in a level causes all of the enemies and moving platforms to disappear]]. The last point alone makes the game almost unplayable without save states, so combining all of that with NoEnding makes one of the most infuriating games ever made.
** ''Super Mario 3 Special'', Yong Yong's paltry attempt to port ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' to the Game Boy Color. The result was similar to their other games; [[PortingDisaster an almost unplayable mess that made the original game look like a complete joke]]. Only 5 levels were ported from the original game, the powerups did nothing other than give you extra hit points and [[TheyJustDidntCare the fourth level is impossible to complete]]. To counter this, the map screen can be used to skip straight to level 5.
*** To add insult to injury, this particular game was rereleased as [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks Pokémon Diamond]], which added completely pointless intro stills from the anime, removed the map screen and started the game on level 4. In other words, you get about 3 minutes worth of terrible platforming, if that. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPZQEI-jk4 Yes, they really were this incompetent.]]
** Speaking of Pokémon, they also made ''Pokémon Adventure'', a supposedly original platformer starring Pikachu just like so many other pirate games based off the franchise. It has an intro which features seemingly random Pokédex entries for no discernible reason. Several of the enemies were reused from their other games despite being from completely different franchises, some of the graphics were stolen from ''Bonk's Adventure'' and most of level 4 could be skipped by running across the top of the level.
** Their ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' games are an improvement, but barely. The graphics are no longer eye-bleedingly bad and the games themselves were actually playable to a certain extent. That said, they still fit this trope because they still have all of the other problems that the rest of their games have.
** Surprisingly, their fighting games are considerably better. (Example: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9fF5t3vWW4 Street Fighter Zero 4]]) The music is still poor and doesn't fit very well (although still an improvement), but the games are at least playable and the graphics are passable. Maybe platformers just weren't their forte.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Games]]
[[AC:Touhou]]
* ''Periphery of Power'' - The firing patterns, a major selling point of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' games, go from mediocre to absurd. The final boss' attacks consist entirely of blue bullets and lasers. The bonus spellcard turns the entire screen white; you die without knowing why. The bosses consist of SelfInsert versions of the makers. While the official website says the game hasn't actually been released yet, somebody still [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWiw0tpciK0 made a Let's Play of it.]]
* ''Resurrection of Heaven's Liquor'' - The character artwork is even worse than in the originals (at least, pre-''Undefined Fantastic Object'') the music is painful, (especially the half-composed first-stage theme, which gets ''repeated'' play) and enemy fire is an afterthought at best; note that ''Touhou'' in general is famous for its [[AwesomeMusic kickass score]] and its shooters are known for their [[BulletHell very elaborate firing patterns]]. The characters are broken, and [[spoiler:Aya]] is the final boss. Its lone saving grace is the inclusion of the Extra Bosses from the original games as player characters and [[spoiler:Mima]] as the Extra Boss. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC3VS9ec4rI Watch a member of Maidens of the Kaleidoscope get VERY close to killing himself.]]
* Did you think ''Periphery of Power'' and ''Resurrection of Heaven's Liquor'' were bad? Check out the videos of the same Touhou fan playing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSfeS--BHeM this disaster.]] The stage 2 boss has two attacks that do nothing at all, stage 5 is the same "pattern" (random spam) over and over again with different colours, all but one of the final boss's attacks have the same name, and all of her attacks use the same gimmick. Most of the bullet "patterns" in the game don't even count as patterns. They're just spam of really fast and/or really dense bullets (many attacks are impossible to dodge because of this). The game also has enemies that come from behind without warning, bullets that randomly change direction while you're trying to dodge them, murky bullets (hard to see/read) in stage 3, and attacks that are impossible because of the enemy's movements.

[[AC:Metroid]]
* WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} found three ''awful'' Franchise/{{Metroid}} fangames on Newgrounds, all of which definitely belong here.
** ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/265126 Metroid Genesis]]'', an on-rails FirstPersonShooter where Samus lands on the planet Newgren 5 and has to shoot metroids in the Fulpian Research Institute. It looks like it was made in MS Paint, has virtually no challenge, and can be beaten in five minutes. The final boss fight is against Ridley, who is so hideously drawn it looks like he's dying of cancer. Amazingly, of the three Metroid fangames to be Retsupuraed, ''it's the most playable of the three''.
** ''Metroid Elements'', the "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin sequal]]" to ''Metroid Genesis''. It manages to be both too easy and too hard: easy because most of the bosses pose zero challenge and there's barely any enemies, but hard because the controls are atrocious, there's no MercyInvincibility, Samus handles like she's on ice, there are BottomlessPits ''everywhere'' (even in places where it doesn't make sense), and Ridley, the final boss, is almost impossible to beat thanks to an unfeasibly tiny hitbox. The music is nothing but dull, droning remixes of other Metroid songs. The graphics are bland, with no backgrounds other than gradients and plain platforms everywhere. Every sprite is hideously resized; Samus's ship is gigantic while Samus herself is smaller than most enemies. The bosses are almost comically atrocious; one is a crudely drawn worm (described as 'Amorbis drawn by a kindergartener') and the other is an eye-door from ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' resized, put on the ceiling, and given a ludicrously easy-to-dodge beam attack.
** ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/284725 Metroid; Beginings]]'' [sic] is a very ObviousBeta that makes ''Elements'' look like ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' in comparison. If you play it, you'll find that most of the time, the game ends when Samus glitches out and falls through the floor. The game has no save feature, and if the player dies they [[CheckPointStarvation have to replay the entire game]]. There's no semblance of exploration or nonlinearity, and in fact very little to connect the game with the ''Metroid'' series. The plot is somehow both nonexistent and all over the place, the art style is ''ugly'', the bosses are all insanely hard in the worst possible way[[note]]The first one, Biodronider, is entirely luck-based; the second one, a Space Pirate, is fought underwater and is almost impossible to avoid thanks to floaty controls; the third one, Dark Samus, has an impossible-to-dodge shockwave attack and tends to fall out of the level[[/note]], and there's literally NoEnding.[[note]]As in, hacking it with a flash decompiler reveals that nothing was programmed to happen after the end of the 'final' boss fight.[[/note]]

[[AC:Super Mario Bros]]
* On Mario Fan Games Galaxy, [[SturgeonsLaw there are quite a lot of absolutely godawful fan games based on the series]], so here are a few that are seen as bad by the standards of everyone, both within the community and outside of it...
** [[http://mfgg.net/index.php?act=resdb&param=02&c=2&id=28092 Super Mario Bros Super Quest]] is one good example. Why so bad? Because for every single action Mario does, he shouts out a catchphrase from Super Mario Advance. As in, he screams WOOHOO at the top of his voice every single time he jumps, and shouts 'Just what I needed!' the second he collects a single coin. So if you jump through a bunch of coins, he basically shouts machine gun style at the player with his voice clips overlapping each other and cutting everything off, which is the very epitome of MostAnnoyingSound. The physics are even worse, Mario goes straight to full speed the moment he moves, his momentum completely dies when he jumps and generally, it handles in a way that's outright unplayable. Add graphical cut off, use of Microsoft Paint for the menus and the Super Mario Bros Super Show rap on the title screen, and you've got something which just needs to be seen to be believed. Just watch LSF Games tear it down [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwNAJGtJfM8 here]]
** Another bad one is [[http://mfgg.net/index.php?act=resdb&param=02&c=2&id=27960 Boo Mansion]]. How bad? It doesn't even have a title screen. Or music. Or a foreground, it's just a Boo aimlessly floating around a maze of cut off doors and floating Piranha Plants with very little that can be considered a game even present.
** [[http://mfgg.net/index.php?act=resdb&param=02&c=2&id=28164 Mario's Toad Hunt]] (by the same person as Super Mario Bros Super Quest) is absolutely awful too. Not only does it have awful graphics that look stretched as hell and a foreground that's blatantly cut off in many places, but there's also a bad physics engine and a general lack of 'game' here, there are no enemies or obstacles bar bottomless pits, the goal is simply to eat all the Toads (made worse by the actual munching sound used when Mario 'collects' one) and there's no real point to even playing it, since there's a 'AWinnerIsYou' ending and a grand total of just two levels.
* Super Mario Fusion MF is another example here. It's not a bad concept (Mario crosses over into different worlds like that of Mickey Mouse), and if it was done well it could have been a good MushroomKingdomFusion clone, but the problem is that the gameplay is just irredeemably broken. The physics don't work well, with Mario handling in a jerky and uncontrollable way. Bugs are everywhere, with it being very easy to get stuck in sold walls/ceilings like they were made of quicksand and places where you can get stuck forever and forced to reset because Ice Mario's abilities don't work properly. Enemies handle only barely like they should do, with Thwomps moving too fast, cannons firing when you're on or next to them and other such minor issues. Other issues are levels being way too long (every level bar the first is a MarathonLevel, which makes the game's stingy powerups and shoddy physics unbearable), levels being way too hard (the game uses precision jumps and enemy spam in a game where the engine is completely unusable to begin with) and one level being completely UnwinnableByMistake (the pipe to the next area doesn't work at all). Oh, and if you hit the edge of the level, there's no invisible wall. So Mario can literally fly off the screen past the camera and fall into nothingness, dying immediately. As you can [[http://nintendo3dscommunity.com/blog/240/entry-887-super-mario-mf-fan-edition-review-decent-idea-marred-by-horrible-physics read in this review]], it's a game with a lot of potential, but made absolutely horrendous by a broken game engine.

[[AC:Other]]
* RPGMaker game AoOni has a lot of fangames. Listing specific fangames would be a tremendous task so instead let's go over the many faux pas AoOni fangames have made: 1) Buggy or poorly implemented AI. 2) Improper setting of the tilesets which causes problems such as the player phasing in and out of bookshelves. 3) An outright absurd and obnoxious reliance on injokes and memes. 4) Nonexistent gameplay due to linearity or features that don't even work.
* ''Cheetahmen 2: The Lost Levels'' was touted as a remake of another horrible game (listed above), claiming to be "broken, but now complete", allegedly ironing out the bugs and making it playable. Despite having a massive budget for an indie game (funded by fans on {{Website/Kickstarter}}), it somehow ended up ''worse'' than Cheetahmen. Not only did [[TheyJustDidntCare none of the bugs from the first version get fixed]][[note]]you still die by jumping, bottomless pits fail to kill you, etc.[[/note]], but there are now [[GameBreakingBug bugs that render the game completely unplayable]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Games]]
* The ''Arise'' series is known for consisting of not particularly well-made {{Point And Click Game}}s, what with the bland aesthetics, abrupt and random {{Jump Scare}}s, and {{Moon Logic Puzzle}}s, but ''Arise 4'' can't even be considered SoBadItsGood. The game forces you to navigate around a confusing hedge maze with [[CopyAndPasteEnvironments screens that look very similar]] that is made even more confusing because you may not be facing the direction you might be led to believe upon clicking to move in a particular direction. The game has such aggravating design idiosyncrasies such as drawers embedded right in the middle of a hedge. And the [[ScrappyMechanic most frustrating feature of the gameplay]] is one where various monster faces fade in and have to be shot at before they reach the player and trigger a game over that forces you to start from the very beginning of the game. Not only is switching between normal clicking and the gun designed in such a way that you might accidentally click out of the game, the game also includes the previous {{Jump Scare}}s so that you have a hard time distinguishing between those and the faces that you actually have to shoot. Come, watch [[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} Slowbeef and Diabetus]] suffer through it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFPCEY_gURs here]].
** The intro to the game has text reading, "I see you are surviving quite well. My next installment will make you want to DIE." As slowbeef puts it, "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck It's about as accurate as it can get]]."
** The puzzles either pose zero challenge (finding a key code requires solving first grade math problems) or are infuriatingly cheap, such as requiring you to click on a specific book in a bookshelf to find a key. The book lights up when you put your mouse on it, but it's hard to notice, and there's nothing to draw your eye to the book, and to add insult to injury, there's no hint that the bookcase contains a second item (since you already found one item on the bookcase).
** And then there's the ''final boss'' (yes, there's actually a final boss) of ''Arise 4'', which is essentially just a JumpScare .jpeg that takes about fifty shots to kill and functions almost identically to the normal enemies.
* GameMaker's [[http://www.yoyogames.com/ official website]] [[SturgeonsLaw has a buttload of crappy games.]]
** "[[http://www.yoyogames.com/games/108956 Dodge the Viruses]]". The game only consists of the main character jumping around while dodging the viruses bouncing around. The creator believes that all criticism is "horrible comments".
** "[[http://www.yoyogames.com/games/110044 Smiley 2__Save the World]]". The game has absolutely no challenge whatsoever. It has a smiley face going back and forth, and another one controlled by the player. If the player hits the space, the game displays "[[TitleDrop Smiley save the world]]".
** Sturgeon's Law is taken [[UpToEleven over the top]] on the [=YoYo=] Games archive. Going by the length of the "featured games" list, less than 1% of games are considered SoCoolItsAwesome by the ''Game Maker'' staff — or at least awesome enough that drawing attention to them is a good thing. Anything considered So Bad It's Horrible against this backdrop is...well, you get the idea.
*** Just to give you an idea of the scale involved, [=YoYo=] Games has ~400 featured games, taken from a library of '''116,000''' games.
** Lowtax's [[http://www.youtube.com/user/lowtaxico?feature=watch Youtube channel]] features Let's Plays showcasing many poor Game Maker games, which show a general pattern: ripping off actual games or licenses, poor texture usage, bad graphics, bad sound design, and simplistic gameplay, if the gameplay works at all.
* ''Death Trap'' is a point-and-click horror game. or at least, it tries to be. You see, there are two coding commands in Actionscript 2 known as "gotoAndPlay(frame number)" and "gotoAndStop(frame number)." One of the uses for these two lines of code is for putting them on buttons when combined with the "on(release)" command, so that when you press a button in the .swf file, the button will lead to a certain frame in the .swf. They're not meant to be used for everything (or at least, not in their bare form), but they can be used for some stuff, such as simple buttons in menus. However, they're not supposed to be used for, say... movement buttons in point and click games. [[DarthWiki/IdiotProgramming You can guess what the author of ''Death Trap'' used these commands for.]] Because of how these work, you can't just throw around some basic buttons and expect things to work without making the game really linear. And that's exactly what the author did. He made the game really linear.
** There is no exploration whatsoever. Sometimes there are arrows that show on the screen and are unclickable until you're forced to return. There are less then 4 alternate routes in the game, and all of them lead to instant death. Because of how it's coded, the author couldn't just link back to certain frames of the game, which increased the filesize exponentially because he had to copy the same image multiple times.
** The voice acting is terrible. The main character is emotionless, and the villain sounds like he was done by a 12-year old who watched his first slasher flick. There is one thing that he did well; the creator is Australian, and was [[FakeNationality faking an American accent]].
** Oh, and also? All of the backgrounds were stock renders from "Gallery of 3D." He made nothing himself.
*** The real kicker though? In the Newgrounds review section, he replies to negative reviews saying that "he worked his ass off for this game." ''Sure buddy, sure...''
*** However, in the comment section of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIJZpgn-Jp0 this]] video, the author of the game does express regret over making this game.
* ''Nocturnal Letters'' is a Newgrounds point-and-click whose main draw is that the backgrounds are real pictures taken of the author's family's home. They are...except not only were the pictures taken with a webcam, they're so hideously compressed that it's nigh-impossible to make anything out. Navigating around the areas is unnecessarily difficult as well, thanks to a confusing navigation system and the aforementioned terrible compression. The puzzles are barely there, and the story can't decide if it's a horror story or a BrotherSisterIncest love story.
* Rule for Creepypastas: if Jeff the Killer is in it, it's terrifying. Rule for games: if the Jeff the Killer is in it, it's crap. ''Illusion'' is a Slender-clone where it's easier to die and harder to win, and ''Illusion: Ghost Killer'' has pretty much the same mechanics and goals as ''Slender'', only Jeff appears to attack you whenever you try to place one of the cameras (you need to place six), on top of some {{Engrish}} and cartoon graphics. However, the absolute worst of all the games is the one simply titled ''Jeff the Killer''. It's a series of jumpscares of Jeff's face, along with a spider for some reason. There is absolutely nothing else that's scary in the game. There's a couple of keys to use on doors, as well as a gun which is used once (on the spider), has terrible aiming, and has no place being in a Creepypasta-inspired game. Since you get a weapon, you have to have a health meter, which goes down whenever you look at the monsters, and losing all of your health causes the entire building to take off into space, leaving you behind with Jeff's face. Winning is pretty much AWinnerIsYou, and finding the real ending is hard due to the confusing level design and awful lighting (which is constantly flashing). Oh yeah, and all the music is HellIsThatNoise, just for maximum irritation. Admittedly, Jeff's face is pretty scary, but that's all the game has going for it, and seems to believe that star power is all it really needs.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Game Mods]]
[[AC:VideoGame/{{Doom}}]]

With over 15,000 ''Doom'' mods on the /idgames archives, there are many horrible ones to go around:

* The infamous Giulio "Glassyman" Galassi created a series of infamously-bad maps that were widely reviled, leading him to lash out at his critics by creating childish, mean-spirited, homophobic, and incredibly-unfunny "joke wads" mocking his critics. Galassi has been banned from every notable ''Doom'' community on the internet, and the mention of his name creates InternetBackdraft. [[http://www.doomworld.com/14years/others.php Here's a review of one of them.]]
* "Doom: Rampage Edition". Eagerly anticipated, but ultimately failed to live up to its promise. ''60 megs'' of stolen music that did nothing other than bloat the filesize to ''80 Megs'' (which, aside from potential legal complications, strained the net connections of it's time), bad graphics, boring and repetitive gameplay... It won the award for Worst Wad in the [[http://www.doomworld.com/11years/others.php 2004 Cacowards.]] The author's [[SmallNameBigEgo hostile reaction]] to it's adverse criticism didn't help matters.
** The mod's plot is about a Baron of Hell who escapes a UAC lab. The plot had potential but is [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot ruined]] by the above flaws and the fact that the Baron can use guns, among others a Cacodemon gun that fires a lone fireball that [[OneHitKill kills most enemies]] in a single hit and goes through them, and ''infinite ammo shotgun and dual chainguns'' that you collect [[DiscOneNuke very early on]]. For the record the Baron's usual abilities (a green fireball and a claw) are there... except they use the same view sprite (an edited fist) and the fireball ''has no proper firing frame''.
** It was so bad someone claimed they could pull a better wad out of their ass. A week later, Deathbringer made a mod titled such — "A Better Wad Pulled Out Of My Ass".
* "Nazi Auferstehung: A [=DukenDoom=] Adventure". [[http://www.doomworld.com/13years/others.php Won the Worst Wad award at the 2006 Cacowards]] for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to badly-textured levels created with a random level generator, badly-imported resources from other games, a truckload of copyrighted [=MP3s=] that don't play as music in-game, and its inclusion of multiple copies of the copyrighted ''Doom II'' resource file. But this didn't become as infamous as it is until the author hilariously attempted to defend his creation by [[http://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/38286-im-the-maker-of-the-tc-and-i-have-a-prob-with-some-of-u/ claiming to be autistic,]] which didn't fit his behavior at all; if anything, he was "anti-autistic".
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mnIwYxcRQk "UAC Military Nightmare"]], by someone under the name of Terry. The story of the mod is a bunch of JohnRomero heads trying to "rape" the player with BFG rays. The gameplay is dumb, the story and scripting is vulgarity featuring overt references to anal rape... So bad, it won Worst Wad of The Year at the 2008 Cacowards. [[http://www.doomworld.com/15years/others.php See Darknation's rather vitriolic rant about it here.]]
** "Terry" also has a large catalog of well detailed, unfinished maps designed to fool the player into a death trap filled with [[SensoryAbuse ear rape]]. As if that weren't bad enough, he has a number of fanboys that do the exact same thing (though these could be [[IHaveManyNames aliases]]), to the point that "Terry Wad" has become synonymous with "Shit" on the /idgames archives.
* There's also ''[[http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/D!ZONE D!Zone]]'', a series of [=CDs=] sold containing hundreds of .wads collected from the internet. It was quite helpful among some players who didn't have the resources to check out .wads online at the time. Too bad a large chunk of the .wads were horrible, most of them unfinished, and some that wouldn't even load correctly at all. Several Youtube users started a series called ''The D!Zone Experience'' to showcase some of the weirder ones included.
* ''Grezzo 2''. Some Italian thought it would be a good idea to plagiarize a pretty goddamn wide (and we mean ''wide''--the file takes up more than two gigabytes) variety of Doom mods, binding them all together with an extra helping of WTF(e.g. killing the pope--with a gun that shoots popes) It's disorganized, offensive nonsense on all fronts. Here's Dross Roztank doing an LP in Spanish, if you wanna look: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQg8OZYkNEY first]], story mode [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFQfPe6KaaU 1]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thyRDkxTmd0 2]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WadmNAAwdyI 3]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzwZ9PmS--w 4]]
* "[[http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=9955 Wow]]" (more popularly known by its filename, wow.wad) is a 1999 ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' level consisting of a square room with a hanging body, a [[{{BFG}} BFG 9000]] with ammo, a Cyberdemon in a deep pit...and nothing else. Oh, and the walls of the pit have no textures, resulting in graphical glitches. It's certainly one of the most pointless levels for any game, but making it one of the [[http://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/infamous.php Top 10 Infamous Wads]] is the author's passing it off as a mission to hunt and kill a wounded Cyberdemon trapped in an "illusio-pit". Can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A4rSgFaLbk here.]]
** The word "illusio-pit" comes from the use of untextured pits having fake floors drawn over them, which makes them useful for illusions simulating deep water (an area of water surrounding an illusio-pit will make the water seem to stretch over the pit, making things look like they are submerged in the water) or monsters rising up out of the ground. Of course, wow.wad's use of the "illusio-pit" seems more a consequence of the author not knowing how to apply upper and lower textures.
* "[[http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/?id=16760 Doomguy's Warzone]] is not to be confused with something with the same name that came out years earlier. It is essentially a gameplay mod with far too many unnecessary difficulty modes, too many overpowered custom weapons, too many [[GoddamnedBats ungodly annoying]] or [[DemonicSpiders lethally-aggravating custom enemies]] amongst the randomly-generated roster, and almost '''all''' of the resources are pretty much plagiarised...not to mention, there are a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ton of custom items]] that either [[GameBreaker make things too easy]] or are [[JokeItem utterly useless]]. On top of all this, the author, Doomguy 2000, [[WhatAnIdiot continues to]] [[SerialEscalation pimp the hell out of his disasterpiece]]; [[DarthWiki.WallBanger even being repeatedly told to cease and desist said pimping, by seemingly the whole Doom Community, didn't hinder him any.]] You may FacePalm at Doomguy 2000 for his [[TheDeterminator unwavering stupidity]] now.
** [[http://www.doomguy2000.com/ Doomguy 2000's other work]] isn't much better. While some of his stuff ''might'' be considered "avant-garde", he has quite the volume of horrible wads.
*** ''100x''. It's a patch that multiplies the amount of enemies and items 100 times, and ends up making the game completely unplayable.
*** ''Blind Doom'' and ''Seizure Doom''. 2 concepts that didn't need to exist in the first place, and aren't even done particularly well. For example, in Blind Doom you can still see the ceiling and floor textures.
*** ''The Worst Level Ever Made''. It's a 1x1 box. That's it. No gameplay to speak of whatsoever. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Well, at least the title is honest.]]
*** ''The Most Impossible Difficulty Ever'' lives up to its name. It replaces everything with unbelievably broken custom monsters, getting you killed almost instantly and lagging the game to near-frozen levels.

[[AC:HappyWheels]]
* [[http://www.totaljerkface.com/profile.php?id=802187 Magma Man's levels]] all follow the same basic formula. [[UnwinnableByDesign Undodgable hazards, instant death,]] [[NamesTheSame names ripped from popular maps]] or names that have nothing to do with the map within, sub-par assembly, Overt references to anal rape, [[SensoryAbuse Ear Rape]], and [[FakeDifficulty Fake Difficulty]]. Combine any or all of the above elements, and you have a Magma Man level.
** Strangest of all, Magma Man was apparently inspired by "Terry", the creator of UAC Military Nightmare (Which is covered above)

[[AC:LittleBigPlanet]]
* Christian Weston Chandler (better known for the creation of ''{{Sonichu}}''; see the {{Horrible.Webcomics}} section for details) is infamous for his ''LittleBigPlanet'' mods. They are, barring perhaps the "First Date Level," quite bugged, poorly assembled, and full of FakeDifficulty. One of the mods, despite having been up for three years, has had fewer than 20 people clear it. This carried on to the game's sequel:
** "Autism Tutorial". It's a cutscene with no gameplay proper, but the content's the real problem — it starts out as the basics about Autism, taken from ThatOtherWiki. Not halfway through, it's a schizophrenic, self-important, rambling AuthorTract that has nothing to do with Autism, yet somehow exhibits every negative stereotype associated with it, culminating in a "satirical" talk show segment where the host beats up Hans Asperger for no other reason than that he ''made Chris feel less special''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1mbTyKiqF8 Here]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn0Ef0PvLZU it]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I-zOv41b80 is,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epV54L7JWUA in]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b9n1ms-pno just]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yspuz_ZNIx0 seven]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqlr2zBgmtk parts.]]

[[AC:{{MUGEN}}]]
* Kong's characters are known to be extremely glitchy and broken. Mentioning Kong is [[InternetBackdraft calling a flame war upon yourself]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ykTPLfyt2M Here's one reason.]]
** Omega Red [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyRxgMuQW-I beat]] ''Rare Akuma'', a character '''purposefully designed''' to be broken by a skilled MUGEN character maker, on hard AI mode.
** In more general terms, the Infinity Mugen Team template for Marvel Vs Capcom-style characters is said to be so bad that it would be easier to make an accurate [=MvC=] character based on Kung Fu Man than on the template, or to take the sprites that Kong ripped and code it yourself.
* "{{Raruto}} Full Game", a game based on a ''{{Naruto}}'' [[AffectionateParody parody]] (which is WAY better than the game) whose whole roster comprises poorly-coded Kung Fu Man edits. The stages available in-game are all stolen. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFNWhDjMug Here's a peek at said horrid characters getting beaten up.]] By far, funnier than the "full game" itself.
* There are some characters referred in the ''MUGEN'' community as "Retarded Characters", all considered such because of horrible controls, badly-coded features, or deplorable spritework. In some cases, the spritework may be good but the characters are [[DolledUpInstallment blatant ripoffs of existing characters]], also known as "Spriteswaps". For example, Warner's Vampire Burns (a spriteswap of an already-horrible Jedah by Kong) and the extremely-infamous Peter Griffin by Actarus ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwuNEM2dFik no words needed]]).
* Speaking of Actarus, while his Peter Griffin is his most infamous character, he has many more characters with large problems. Bad spriting and sounds, a shortage of hitboxes, bloated stats, and overpowered attacks. Of course, various people [[http://youtu.be/o4rFZo1OIm0 have]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvPhYvYMFck beaten]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nOo-Pb59zs down]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH3Lbrxd_04 Actarus']] 'characters'.
* Spriteswaps in general tend to be pretty awful. Given the fact that the underlying code is meant for a different character, hilarity is bound to ensue even if no modifications are made. [[http://randomselect.smeenet.org/ddm/trunks.html Of course, some creators have even done sprite swaps of their own characters.]]
* Several authors take the idea of spriteswaps UpToEleven. Almost all of KoopaKingdom.com's characters are spriteswaps of MortalKombat characters, poorly made into Nintendo characters. Spriteswapping is far from the only flaw present in KoopaKingdom.com's characters. They also possess ridiculously powerful attacks, high priority on all of their attacks, spriting issues (even disregarding the spriteswapping), glitches, and several characters still have the pre-spriteswap sounds (resulting in Yoshi sounding like Scorpion, for instance.) Don't just take our word, see them in all of their unglory [[https://www.youtube.com/results?q=KoopaKingdom.com here]].
* For more examples of Retarded Characters, [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=retarded+mugen&search_type= just look at what YouTube drops on results on retarded character beatdowns.]]
* One particularly awful character creator is [=GooGoo64=]. He combines the horrible-to-the-point-of-gamebreaking coding of Kong or Ainotenshi with the spriting styles of some of [=RyouWin's=] earlier ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'' characters (essentially, using a capture card to get footage and then manipulating it into sprites for the character). His characters have unblockable moves, moves that render the character invincible while using them, one-hit kills, and various other problems. But one that stands out even among this crowd of miserable failure is his version of Gold Lightan from ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'', which turns out to be a spriteswap of an [=MvC=]-style Ryu; to make it worse, while the character is open-source, he didn't appear to have given credit to the original creator, or even changed the file names.
** The_None, author of several very much better quality {{Joke Character}}s made an extended video beatdown series where he showcases each of Googoo64 aberrations' broken moves, explaining additional bugs and subsequently beating them legitly (if possible at all). [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opmcd2xvuJo You can start from here]].

[[AC:VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld]]
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da3uZsohdwg Mario's in Terror]]''. Probably a troll game to be honest, it's a glitched, near unplayable mess that plagiarises ''Brutal Mario'' (first and fifth level), ''Kaizo Mario'' (second level) and the original game (one of the others).
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf2QSA-iPoU SMB Crossover]]'' (NotToBeConfusedWith the [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosCrossover popular and well-done Flash game]]). It's entirely level remakes based on better games, and horrendously done, massively cut off and glitched remakes to boot (the Yoshi's Island level has to be seen to be believed).
* ''[[http://www7.atpages.jp/smw/view.cgi/1322637326/ Mario Super Star]]''. No video to show it, but it's a terrible game with many... unusual problems. Namely, a level with entirely glitched graphics to the point of unplayableness, levels without any enemies, flat levels, levels which are nearly the exact same as the originals (except you're invisible), massive slow down, cut off, and an [[UnwinnableByMistake unwinnable final boss]] with no weaknesses or attacks. The biggest problem? Unlike most games listed here, which are usually only a few levels long, this game lasts for nine worlds.. You will lose the will to live if you try to play the entire thing.
** Its sequel of kinds, SMW3 New Levels and Retro Levels is a bit better, but not much. The first five or so levels have zero challenge whatsoever and often no enemies or sprites in them, but it really, really starts to fall apart in 'level' 8. That level is literally just the SMW Bowser fight. Then the next one is just the first level in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', except you're permanently invincible, the next is another unedited SMW Bowser fight, except you're forced to be small, and while one final level is sort of new, the final real one is a completely unedited SMW level. It's just so lazy all round, and it's the author's fourth game in a row which could be classified as at least SoBadItsGood. It can be found [[http://www7.atpages.jp/smw/view.cgi/1334400221/ here]]
* [[http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=showhack&id=6751 Hammer Brother Demo 3]] is a hack made by a Brazillian user called blackout77 on SMW Central. It's also an horrific mess in pretty much every way possible.
** The graphics range from bland to absolutely horrible MSPaint-level abominations that probably wouldn't stand up to [[WebComic/{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]]'s work. Most notably the stadium castle in world 1. Sometimes they clash horribly too, like ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry backgrounds with 8-bit ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' foregrounds. They're also glitched in many cases. Sometimes top down graphics like those from Pokemon are used in a side viewed platformer and look hideous.
** The music ranges from okay to awful, with some of it either having no samples in a song that needs them (which makes it sound like crap) and some ported songs that sound like the original as butchered by NES pirates. Just the horrific mess that's been made of the Cossack's Citadel stage 1 theme from Mega Man 4 has to be heard to be believed. Hear it in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCC7IoUabG4 this video]], which compares the crappy ports to the original songs.
** Levels are [[{{Plagiarism}} copied wholesale]] from better games. Including Super Mario Forever (a kaizo game) and KaizoMarioWorld. At least six are unedited from the original game.
** The whole thing has RatchetScrolling, yet levels require you to go left as well as right. Lots of being screwed over as a result.
** Whole parts are blatantly ripped off from VideoGame/BrutalMario, except without the quality ASM/programming gimmicks. Think 'Brutal Mario as if The Asylum made it'. He also horribly rips off VIP 4 in two more levels.
** Seriously, just [[http://nintendo3dscommunity.com/blog/240/entry-881-review-1-hammer-brother-demo-awful-game-design-personified/ read the review here]]. It's just... bad on so many levels.
* ''Super Mario Bros Lost Brain Ultimate Edition.'' In short, it is absolutely void of anything resembling consistency, making every single aspect of the game an excruciatingly cheap exercise in TrialAndErrorGameplay.
* ''Link's Adventure'': ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' meets ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''. [[TemptingFate Should be good, right?]] Well, no, it isn't. The graphics look just plain bad, complete with a Link who has just one animation frame and constantly faces the camera with his non existant face (yes really). The enemies are NES sprites on 16 bit backgrounds/tilesets, which look absolutely horrible, the music is extremely bland SMB 3 tunes used with no variation (literally, the grass/athletic theme is used for all but TWO levels with no changes), the level design is flat and boring with huge areas of open space with no obstacles and really, the whole thing is just an horrendous [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot missed opportunity]]. You can see the hack in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mcTpWT8gS4 The 5 Random Guys LP of it here]].

[[AC:Other]]
* Harmonix's ''VideoGame/RockBand Network'' has the song "Fat Kid" by Nothing More. Not the song itself, but the ''chart''. The only decent chart is the guitar chart; the bass chart is completely off sync and unnecessary chords, the drum chart smacks of using the wrong notes, and the vocal chart has many wrong pitches.
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' and ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' has tons of custom campaigns created for them and there are lots of bad ones. Most of the recurring elements of a badly designed map is areas that abuse DoorToBefore, throwing in hordes of zombies for seemingly no reason other than to "challenge" the player by forcing them to fight hundreds of zombies for the sake of it, and starving the player of items like ammo and health kits. Modders may not even bother to have the survivor AI work properly, which can cause frustrating things like the AI not picking up new guns or supplies and getting stuck due to badly programmed pathing.
** What also does not help for levels that don't make survivor AI work correctly are modders who defend the notion by saying that you need to play with friends to fully enjoy the levels. Little do they realize that not everyone has 3 friends who all have the same custom campaign nor are they always online at the same time.
* ''FireEmblem'' has an extensive hacking community, so naturally a lot of stinkers turn up. Some of the most common issues are poorly designed maps with bad enemy placement, high level foes that the player must defeat long before it would be feasible for them to do so, unbalanced character stats and growths that either make the game too easy (no one has any real flaws, resulting in an army of juggernauts) or too hard (none of the characters stats go up reliably, resulting in a weak team well into high levels), terrible sprite work, and poor quality music.
** Perhaps the worst big-name offenders are the Gheb Duology and Tales of the Emblem. GhebFE and Gheb Saga are prime examples of dragging a bad joke too far through the mud. Although the hacking itself isn't bad, the writing looks like something a 10-year old who just heard from his friends what rape is would come up with. Coupled with an annoyingly high difficulty, this is one to pass up unless you want to experience the awfulness yourself. Tales of the Emblem, on the other hand, is the epitome of lazy hacking. It simply replaces every major character in The Sacred Stones (Lyon being the odd exception) with Tales characters. It also makes almost everyone completely broken, gives stat boosters more than one use and gives almost everyone terrible, terrible sprites with badly-inserted blinking frames.
** There's also ''FireEmblem Different Dimensions Ostian Princess'', or FEDDOP, which is what you will be after playing it. The design decisions make hardly any sense, the plot stars Lilina but has so many holes it's hardly there at all, and there's hardly any difficulty at all and, after clearing chapter 13 the game goes right back to chapter 12, causing an infinite loop. It's broken on a completely hilarious level.
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[[folder:Hardware]]
* The existence of the '''AtariJaguar CD''' is puzzling, given the Jaguar's low sales. The toilet bowl-shaped design was the least of its troubles — few copies even worked, and were nigh irreparable to boot. Only 15 games were made for it, none of which could outperform DireStraits' "Money For Nothing" music video in terms of graphics. [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Dr. Insano]], [[http://blip.tv/the-spoony-experiment/highlander-last-of-the-macleods-4286606 one of the few who could get one to work,]] says:
-->[N]ot only is it prone to hardware failures, it's prone to about five different ways it can fail. It can fail if [it] isn't perfectly placed on the [Jaguar]. It can fail if the contacts aren't clean. It can fail if the [=MemoryTrack=] cartridge isn't perfectly set, and it can easily fail because the laser itself or the motor mechanism are defective, and they often are, and in [Spoony's] case, it would often fail because the lid is so poorly designed that, when closed, it actually closes too tightly and mashes the CD against the inside of the drive, preventing it from spinning, and that could easily cause additional internal damage[...E]ven when I did get it to work [it] still froze all the time, and I do mean ''all the damn time''!
** Spoony himself later remarked "After spending three days getting the thing to work [...] the motor [...] completely crapped out."
** It took [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]] (in tandem with Richard Daluz, his repairman) ''three tries'' to get a salvageable, let alone working, unit. [[note]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fezuYstS0Q8 The third was presented as a DVD extra]].[[/note]]
* The '''Game.com''' (the dot isn't pronounced) by Tiger Electronics. It introduced the touch screen, Internet browsing, and the potential for online multiplayer (no game for this system used it for gameplay) a full seven years before the big names. Unfortunately, it just wasn't possible to do that well with 1997 technology. The device had to be tethered to a bulky modem and two expensive add-on cartridges if you wanted to use the Internet. Its GameBoy-grade CPU was crippled (by multiple culprits, one being the OS-mandated processing overhead) to the point of barely surpassing the GameAndWatch. The touch screen didn't have a full percent of modern touch-screens' sensitivity, and suffered arguably more ghosting and smearing than any other handheld console in history. Add a library of under 20 games, and you have an example of great idea, '''lousy''' execution. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbD2SP37s3o Here it is in action]], specifically on a port of ''SonicJam''.
** For some reason, there was a Game.com port of ''Mortal Kombat Trilogy'', a sluggish and stripped-down version of the game that only included 13 of the characters of the console versions, and a limited pool of special attacks and [[FinishingMove finishers]] for each.
** [[StuartAshen Dr. Ashens]] has reviewed this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tIBIny4L6E game system]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWKfNqjjd2g several of its games]]. He was not merciful.
** Neither was the advertising, which seemed to think that insulting gamers was how they would sell their product. It was like they wanted the system to fail.
* The '''{{Gizmondo}}''', quite possibly the reigning king of mismanaged portables this side of the Virtual Boy. Released by Tiger Telematics [[note]]not to be confused with Tiger Electronics[[/note]] in 2005, the system came in two variants — one for the low price of $400, and a cheaper model for $230. The difference between the two? The cheaper model forces you to ''wait through on-screen commercials'' before playing. Couple that with a cell-phone sized screen, a pathetic battery life of 90 minutes, and a library consisting entirely of ''eight'' unremarkable games, not to mention the lousy marketing, and you have a recipe for disaster. To top it off, it sold a truly abysmal 25,000 units (making it the single worst-selling video game device ''of all time''), bankrupted its parent corporation, and brought CEO Stefan Erikson's [[TheMafia Mafia]] ties to light, resulting in his arrest.
* The '''Hyperscan''' from Mattel, a small console released in 2006 and discontinued the next year. Similar to ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'', the console has a scanner where you use cards to scan in powerups for the character you want to play in the game. However, unlike ''Skylanders'', the scanning refuses to work properly, leaving one to constantly swipe or place the card on the scanner to get it to read. Moreover, the system is incredibly light with no rubber ends to keep the console on the table. The games (all '''five''' of them) have abysmal loading times and unimpressive graphics for its time. Despite retailing at $70, the Hyperscan failed to please its child demographic and had to sink to '''$10''' to push its product before folding in 2007. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv2-M78m_qI Classic Game Room takes a look at it here.]]
* The '''Sega Nomad''', possibly Sega's worst attempt at making a console, was essentially a handheld [[SegaGenesis Genesis]] released around the time of the [[SegaSaturn Saturn]]. While this sounds like a good idea on paper, it's absolutely terrible in execution as it burned through six batteries in 90 minutes, though you could buy a rechargeable battery... which cost $80 and ran out even faster. It was also incredibly sensitive to motion, so you could barely move it lest it freeze, shut down, or ''break''. It took #1 on Website/{{Cracked}}'s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_16824_the-6-most-retarded-gaming-consoles-ever-released.html 6 Most Retarded Gaming Consoles Ever Released.]]
** Even more, because of its design, a lot of games either [[UnwinnableByDesign couldn't be played or couldn't be beaten]]! Playing games from the 32X, Sega CD, and the Master System-enabling Power Base Converter forced you to mod it or use third-party devices... and the first ''X-Men'' game for the Genesis is unwinnable because there's no reset button![[note]]One GuideDangIt puzzle at the end requires you to reset the game in order to reach the final level.[[/note]]
* The '''UsefulNotes/{{Pippin}}''', released in 1996 as a partnership between Apple (yes, ''that one'') and Bandai, was an unusual cross between a computer and a console, created with the intent of having a cheaper computer play on your TV screen. Instead, the sticker price was $599 USD at the time of launch, the very same price the PlayStation3 had at launch a decade later, and had substandard hardware below even those of computers of its day, including a 14.4k modem, an anemic RAM supply of 6 MB, and practically no hard drive storage, other than a floppy dock drive capable of handling four disks. Even its controller, the [="AppleJack"=], was apparently not of much use for connecting the Pippin to a standard AppleMacintosh computer. As the only ''legitimate'' game console Apple Computer released (this was before the iPhone and iPad), the library of games on the Pippin was small, with four times more games released in Japan than in the U.S.; most of them were from Bandai. Not surprisingly, the Pippin was an enormous failure, selling only 42,000 units and being released at a time when Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy.
* The ''notoriously'' bad [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Shoddy Knockoff]] systems continue to be churned out by an unnamed company affectionately dubbed as simply '''"POP Station"'''. Why are they so bad? They're glorified {{Game And Watch}}es masquerading as high-end electronics. The only good thing out of them have been the reviews by [[StuartAshen Dr. Stuart Ashen]]. Worse, they in themselves have their own knockoffs--and true to form, they're still [[SerialEscalation worse than the original]].
** For that matter, just about every other "knockoff" system being made. Such as the '''Zone 40''' (a Wii knockoff) and '''Guitar Star''' (a Guitar Hero knockoff that you plug straight into your television set). Where can you find those? Your local pharmacy and/or hardware store. No joke!
** Special note goes to the infamous Laden vs. US made by the same people who make Pop Stations. Yes, they made a terrible GameAndWatch knock-off game based on one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in history. Watch [[StuartAshen Dr. Ashens]] review it and see the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XNJM_Kamyg sheer disgust he has with its very existence become all but visible on video]].
* Mattel and PAX's '''Power Glove''', an NES accessory made famous by its appearance in ''Film/TheWizard'', would theoretically allow the player to control the game using one hand. It was meant to be a big thing, but ended up a barely-functional piece of garbage. It cost more than an NES console, and was nearly unusable. There were only two games released with programming ''specifically'' for the Power Glove, although three others were planned — the infamous ''Bad Street Brawler'' and ''Super Glove Ball''. There was a method intended to make the Power Glove work with other games, via a keypad and punched-in combination, -- but even then, it controlled at best like a drunk on a unicycle. These days, it's best known as a recurring {{motif}} in TheAngryVideoGameNerd, being famously eviscerated in [[http://cinemassacre.com/2006/11/22/the-power-glove/ his 14th video]] back in 2006 and featuring in later videos, as well as being frequently associated with the character in FanArt and {{Fan Game}}s.
* At a time when LCD Games were being phased out and the GameBoyColor was just about to be released. The ill-conceived '''Pro 200''', made by some unknown company under the name [=ProTech=], was released via mail-order. Claiming to be a cheap alternative to all the other systems out on the market. The "system" (to say the least) was marketed as to having 200 games, being a full-function calculator and having "state-of-the-art" computer chip technology. In reality, the system had only ''fifteen'' games (the marketers got the 200 figure by counting each difficulty level as an individual game), most of which were ''Tetris'' rip-offs. The ones that weren't ''Tetris'' rip-offs were just as bad due to the system's ridiculously small screen, much like those cheap products one could find at a bargain bin.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF1n1AxK1Dg The commercial advertising this is worse]], going as so far to toss out an SNES ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII Turbo'' cartridge at the halfway point. Ironically, the AVGN had it in his favorites on his Website/YouTube account at one point.
** As of August 2011, this product is still being sold through newspaper ads...[[TheyJustDidntCare with the same ad they made in]] ''[[TheyJustDidntCare 1998]]''.
* The '''RCA Studio II''' was a poorly designed console even for its day. Released in early 1977 before the {{Atari 2600}} and shortly after the Fairchild Channel F, not to mention faring even worse than some of the best quality ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'' consoles, the RCA Studio II had some major flaws. Despite having five built-in games, the console could only play games in black and white; it had internal speakers whose only sounds you could here were repetitive beeps; the numeric keypad controllers were built directly into the console, forcing you to huddle up close to the screen just to use them; and the RF switchbox was of a faulty design that supplied the signal to your TV set which, at the same time, gave you both video and ''DC power to the system''. Only 15 games were released on the RCA Studio II, the five built-in games plus 10 cartridge-based games, despite that it was one of the first systems to use interchangable cartridges. Watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPiBLeYE8tU this]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CB-JOzsUCw this review]].
* Tiger Electronics' '''R-Zone''', which manages the impressive feat of being a ShoddyKnockoffProduct of the VirtualBoy. The one thing it did have over the Virtual Boy was that you could wear it on your head rather than having to use a stand. When you did put it on however, you were treated to graphics ''worse than a GameAndWatch'' (mostly due to the eye-searing "red on slightly-darker red" color scheme) rendered about three inches in front of your right eye. Needless to say, this didn't produce anything even vaguely resembling virtual reality. Making this whole system even more ridiculous, there were no less than four different versions; the standard "headgear" version, a much larger tabletop variant, a traditional handheld version, and one which also incorporated an electronic organizer, all of which crashed and burned equally. Creator/StuartAshen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09so0ghPYG4 gives his take]] on the handheld version while WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u5dtBtG9yU#t=15m23s briefly analyzed]] the headgear version.
** The ads were [[Horrible/{{Advertising}} horrible in their own way]], since they showed footage from the ''arcade'' versions of the R-Zone titles rather than the crude, monochromatic blobs that passed for the system's graphics.
** When the AVGN [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5RzMmBaLOI released his video for the top ten worst video game consoles he had reviewed thus far]], he really did consider it the absolute worst console he had ever reviewed, and that console ended up beating some video game consoles that were also on this list.
* The '''VirtualBoy''' console was one of Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s most publicized and definitely most infamous failures. Originally intended as a ground-breaking 3D game system, the project was spearheaded by GunpeiYokoi, creator of the GameBoy. He was forced to get the system out as fast as he could, and it shows: The system couldn't handle color, so it stuck to a monochromatic, headache-inducing red-and-black display, which could even cause permanent eye damage if played too long. The system was bulky and had to be propped up on a table for you to play it, and only the player could see the games being played, meaning multiplayer on the same system was impossible (while the system had a port for a link cable, the system was discontinued before the cable could even be released). Only 22 games were ever released for the system, without any standout titles that took advantage of the 3D effect in a significant way, such as first-person shooters. While some of the games might not have been half-bad, such as ''VideoGame/WarioLand'', there was no reason for them to be on VirtualBoy to begin with, and putting an incredibly addictive game like ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' (two separate versions of it, no less) on a system that can cause permanent eye damage in long sessions is just puzzling. It [[CreatorKiller destroyed]] Gunpei Yokoi's career with Nintendo, and was such a humiliating flop that Nintendo [[OldShame doesn't talk about it anymore]], even editing out a reference in the overseas version of ''SuperSmashBrothers Melee''. It was decades until [[Nintendo3DS they made another 3D console]].
* The [=VictorMaxx=] '''Virtual Reality Stuntmaster'''. The device is not a console, but rather a large set of goggles that can plug into a SNES or Sega Genesis and play games in front of the user's eyes. The box also boasted a "motion sensor", which supposedly reacts when the user turns his/her head. Whilst having a slightly better design with a headband rather than the Virtual Boy's stand, the thing's size and weight put serious discomfort on the user's nose. However getting it to work presents the biggest problem; there were no instructions in the box (though it did have a bizarre joke resume) and the wiring system was a complete mess, which out of the box was unable to plug into anything but an original model Genesis. When you finally get it working, you are treated to a horribly muddy Game Gear-like display that seriously hurts the eyes. And the "motion sensor" promised on the box? It was a ripcord-like stick you clip onto your shirt and plug into the device, that shifts the display a little when the ripcord runs along a sensor. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy373DpKGAE James Rolfe & Mike Matei]] take a look at it.
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** The sad part is that the game is supposed to have point-and-click adventure elements as well, which sounds like a great idea in theory. But the game could not decide which genre to pick thus making a complete mess of a game. For all your troubles to actually play through the game, all you get is a ''TheEndOrIsIt?''-style ending. A SequelHook that will never come to life...no pun intended...

* The SNES [[ReformulatedGame version]] of ''SpaceAce'' meant to translate every single level from the Laserdisc original into a platformer, and [[GoneHorriblyRight succeeded]]...somewhat. The controls are sluggish and unresponsive; combined with poorly-placed hit boxes and fast-scrolling screens, that makes for a frustrating time. It is almost impossible to land your jumps, and missing jumps kills you in most levels. If you want to shoot someone, good luck — there are ''two'' buttons to draw your gun, one for each direction. Then there's the Space Maze, painful {{padding}} sandwiched between every level; in these sections, you have to steer your impossibly-fast ship through a bunch of narrow alleys while shooting obstacles. The graphics are ugly at times - the developers did include a few of the [[FullMotionVideo FMVs]], but they're so grainy and disjointed that you have to wonder why they bothered. The result is a long, frustrating, poorly-designed game.

* ''Batman and Robin'', released in 1998 by [[{{Acclaim}} Acclaim]] as a tie-in to [[Film/BatmanAndRobin the movie]], is admittedly a neat concept for its time. A sandbox style game where you could drive around a large recreation of Gotham City, choose between 3 characters and develop those characters skills independently, and be on a time limit to complete various tasks and missions. What could be bad about it? ''THE CONTROLS.'' Driving in this game is horrendous because your car is too big and the road is too narrow, meaning you'll either crash into traffic or just hit a wall because the car handles for crap. The fighting mechanics are sluggish and monotonous, consisting of repetitive combos or unintuitively deploying gadgets like batarangs (which take forever to aim). You have the ability to switch from a fighting mode to a detective mode, but unlike the later ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham City]]'', you can't fight in detective mode, meaning trying to gather clues while there are enemies around is beyond annoying. This game had potential, it followed the story of the movie closely and had pretty good graphics for the time, but the controls just utterly killed it.

* ''Dual Heroes'' was a terrible FightingGame for the {{Nintendo 64}} which featured characters who were all PowerRangers ripoffs. The story was bizarrely convoluted and made little sense — [[LetsYouAndHimFight why are they fighting each other when they're all after the same guy]]? The endings for all the characters contained [[AWinnerIsYou bland text exclaiming "The Battle Is Not Yet Over!"]] The entire game could be won, from start to finish, by ButtonMashing the B button. Even on the hardest difficulty, it was a joke, and you ran out of stuff to do fast, as there is little to do but fight the samey characters over and over, which gets old faster than you'd think. This was a rushed, terrible cash-in to satisfy the need for fighting games on the N64. (Read the scathing but hilarious review on IGN [[http://au.ign64.ign.com/articles/151/151964p1.html here.]])

* ''Fighting Force 2'' shows what happens when you hand a sequel to a focus test group, and it may be the game that marked Creator/CoreDesign's [[DarthWiki/FallenCreator decline]]. Hawk Mason, the only returning character from the original game, moves and controls like a tank. While watching Hawk punch the often [[ArtificialStupidity brain-dead enemies into submission]] and making inanimate objects [[MadeOfExplodium explode]] with just his fists can be amusing at times, it quickly becomes tedious due to [[CameraScrew camera-clipping problems]], extremely-long levels, lack of save points ([[SaveGameLimits you can only save after completing a level]]), and repetitive CopyAndPasteEnvironments. Not to mention UnwinnableByMistake: a bug during the last boss fight can lock him in a room with no way to open the door.

* ''Pyst'' is a parody "game" (calling it a game would imply that there's actual gameplay) of the highly-acclaimed game ''{{Myst}}'', and a prime example of TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot. On paper, the premise sounds entertaining enough: since apparently just anyone could stumble onto the book to transport you to Myst, what if the player got there after tons of other people already did, leaving the island full of graffiti and vandalism as people made notes on the various puzzles in the game and [[NintendoHard vented their frustration]]? Unfortunately, developer [[PunnyName Parroty Interactive]]'s idea of a Myst parody is to just fill it with ToiletHumor and pop-culture references, all of which painfully unfunny and often having little to do with the actual game it's parodying. It also ruins the quiet atmosphere of the original game. While Myst had only a few sections with dialogue, this version is constantly talking to you whenever you examine things, and spouting more painfully unfunny jokes. As mentioned above, there's no actual gameplay, either. There's no puzzles to solve; you just wander around until you encounter "King Mattruss" and win the game.

* ''Sniper: Path of Vengeance'' is a cheap, shoddy game made by City Interactive - the same company who later released the much better, but still underwhelming ''Sniper: Ghost Warrior''. What's so special about ''Path of Vengeance''? Let's see: its engine (Lithtech Jupiter, cutting-edge for the time) is horribly optimized, causing the game to stutter in medium details on a computer that could run ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever 2'' (better-looking game on the same engine) on high details without any problems, the graphics look monstrously outdated, despite the title there aren't many opportunities to actually use a sniper rifle, the gameplay is atrocious, the acting and script [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBDfu4L9YIU#t=1m11s are downright horrible]], and BoozeBasedBuff seems to be inserted only in a juvenile attempt at making the game "cool and mature".

** Two of the most infamous examples (listed together because they're the exact same game minus a main character model swap) are ''VideoGame/NinjabreadMan'' and ''Anubis II''. Horrible controls, a bad camera that you can't control, and a near-useless (and difficult to activate) melee attack. The games also contain only four levels, one of which is a "training" stage.

* ''CosmicRace'' for the {{Playstation}} is an awful "racing" "[[ObviousBeta game]]" with ugly graphics (some were ripped straight from ''devkits''), stupid characters (a caveman who pilots a flying bus/pineapple hybrid?!), forgettable music, random collision detection, an unnecessarily-convoluted control scheme (R1 is to accelerate, and you need to push the D-Pad and the corresponding face button just to turn), and long, boring levels. It's no wonder ''GamePlayersMagazine'' gave it a 0% and named that rating after this game; to put this into perspective, 1-9% is known as "Shoot Me".

* ''TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'' promises, via WordOfGod, to "make the player feel just like [[TheAngryVideoGameNerd The Nerd]] himself!" Which it most certainly did, ''[[GoneHorriblyRight but not in a good way]]''. The game itself pays "tribute" to the ones that the AVGN has torn apart by being an actual conglomeration of them, playing out as one of the many generic, assembly-line quality PlatformGames from the late '80s and early '90s, with uninspired and [[CopyAndPasteEnvironments repetitive]] level design, bland "retro" PixelArt graphics and [[InvokedTrope intentionally]] [[FakeDifficulty cheap]] [[NintendoHard difficulty]]. And all of this is is done ''[[StylisticSuck on purpose]]'', in the name of [[RedundantParody "parody"]]. The game's humor has even less creative or intelligent thought devoted to it, relying on mere references to various episodes as a means of jokes and relying consistently on haphazardly implemented ToiletHumor (you get shit on and fight pieces of shit, so of course it has to be funny), while the Nerd's character is {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed into a [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]], [[SirSwearsALot swearing]] one-dimensional caricature of a much more RoundedCharacter. The biggest slap in the face is that this ill-conceived fan game that would barely qualify as {{freeware}} is being sold for... wait for it... '''$15. ''FIFTEEN DOLLARS.''''' Put simply, the game is ''literally'' one big, bad joke being played at the user's expense, similar to ''IWannaBeTheGuy'' but with no cleverness, creativity or charm whatsoever. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39vW31A4xRc Psychadellic Eyeball and a team of indie gaming enthusiasts dissect this game thoroughly in his two-hour playthrough.]]

* ''TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'' promises, via WordOfGod, to "make the player feel just like [[TheAngryVideoGameNerd The Nerd]] himself!" Which it most certainly did, ''[[GoneHorriblyRight but not in a good way]]''. The game itself pays "tribute" to the ones that the AVGN has torn apart by being an actual conglomeration of them, playing out as one of the many generic, assembly-line quality PlatformGames from the late '80s and early '90s, with uninspired and [[CopyAndPasteEnvironments repetitive]] level design, bland "retro" PixelArt graphics and [[InvokedTrope intentionally]] [[FakeDifficulty cheap]] [[NintendoHard difficulty]]. And all of this is is done ''[[StylisticSuck on purpose]]'', in the name of [[RedundantParody "parody"]]. The game's humor has even less creative or intelligent thought devoted to it, relying on mere references to various episodes as a means of jokes and relying consistently on haphazardly implemented ToiletHumor (you get shit on and fight pieces of shit, so of course it has to be funny), while the Nerd's character is {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed into a [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]], [[SirSwearsALot swearing]] one-dimensional caricature of a much more RoundedCharacter. The biggest slap in the face is that this ill-conceived fan game that would barely qualify as {{freeware}} is being sold for... wait for it... '''$15. ''FIFTEEN DOLLARS.''''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39vW31A4xRc Psychadellic Eyeball and a team of indie gaming enthusiasts dissect this game thoroughly in his two-hour playthrough.]]

* ''TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'' promises, via WordOfGod, to "make the player feel just like [[TheAngryVideoGameNerd The Nerd]] himself!" Which it most certainly did, ''[[GoneHorriblyRight but not in a good way]]''. The game itself pays "tribute" to the ones that the AVGN has torn apart by being an actual conglomeration of them, playing out as one of the many generic, assembly-line quality PlatformGames from the late '80s and early '90s, with uninspired and [[CopyAndPasteEnvironments repetitive]] level design, bland "retro" PixelArt graphics and [[InvokedTrope intentionally]] [[FakeDifficulty cheap]] [[NintendoHard difficulty]]. And all of this is is done ''[[StylisticSuck on purpose]]'', in the name of [[RedundantParody "parody"]]. The game's humor has even less creative or intelligent thought devoted to it, relying on mere references to various episodes as a means of jokes and relying consistently on haphazardly implemented ToiletHumor (you get shit on and fight pieces of shit, so of course it has to be funny), while the Nerd's character is {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed into a [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]], [[SirSwearsALot swearing]] one-dimensional caricature of a much more RoundedCharacter. The biggest slap in the face is that this ill-conceived fan game that would barely qualify as freeware is being sold for... wait for it... '''$15. ''FIFTEEN DOLLARS.''''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39vW31A4xRc Psychadellic Eyeball and a team of indie gaming enthusiasts dissect this game thoroughly in his two-hour playthrough.]]

* Mattel and PAX's '''Power Glove''', an NES accessory made famous by its appearance in ''Film/TheWizard'', would theoretically allow the player to control the game using one hand. It was meant to be a big thing, but ended up a barely-functional piece of garbage. It cost more than an NES console, and was nearly unusable. There were only two games released with programming ''specifically'' for the Power Glove, although three others were planned — the infamous ''Bad Street Brawler'' and ''Super Glove Ball''. There was a method intended to make the Power Glove work with other games, via a keypad and punched-in combination, -- but even then, it controlled at best like a drunk on a unicycle.

** Not to be confused with the ''[[SoulSeries Soul Calibur III]]'' mode "Chronicles of the Sword"; neat idea, but plagued by LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading, [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheating computers]], and a GameBreakingBug that sometimes corrupts memory cards so much that they don't work ''even if you reformat them''.

** ''Super Monster Bros'' from Adventure Time Pocket (Also known as Mario Games Casas Team. No connection with ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''.) is an obvious rip-off of ''VideoGame/Super Mario Bros'' with graphics heavily designed after ''VideoGame/Pokémon''. It suffered from plagiarized game play and designs and sound, occasional inconsistent physics, a limited projectile button, and micro-transactions in which are rather expensive for its quality, with few costing at least '''$99.99 each''', making this game a monstrous cash grabber. It is even almost identical to the related game ''Super Squirrel Bros.'' Even though it is now removed from the App Store, its notoriety remains a warning to parents who didn't supervise their children browsing the App Store, indicated in this [[http://www.cnet.com.au/super-monster-bros-is-the-worst-mobile-game-cash-grab-weve-seen-339344090.htm article]].

* Whilst App stores on smartphones do offer plenty of good titles, unfortunately SturgeonsLaw very much applies.
** One example that certainly sticks out is ''3D Cartoon Land: Safari'', released in 2012. Taking out of the account that this game is [[TheMockbuster blatantly trying to capitalize on another]] [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand popular and successful game that features a character in a red hat and blue overalls who jumps across platforms and stomps on brown monstrous mushrooms]], the game just doesn't hold up. The graphics are elementary-school-level cardboard collages at best with serious draw distance/pop-up problems, there are no sound effects save for a warbling out-of-place music loop, and the play control is utterly crippled.

** ''Super Monster Bros'' from Adventure Time Pocket (Also known as Mario Games Casas Team. No connection with ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'') is an obvious rip-off of ''Super Mario Bros'' with graphics heavily designed after ''Pokémon''. It suffered from plagiarized game play and designs and sound, occasional inconsistent physics, a limited projectile button, and micro-transactions in which are rather expensive for its quality, with few costing at least '''$99.99 each''', making this game a monstrous cash grabber. It is even almost identical to the related game ''Super Squirrel Bros''. Even though it is now removed from the App Store, its notoriety remains a warning to parents who didn't supervise their children browsing the App Store, indicated in this [[http://www.cnet.com.au/super-monster-bros-is-the-worst-mobile-game-cash-grab-weve-seen-339344090.htm article]].