Thoughts on this one? Here's my draft, could well be one of the worst games I've ever played on the system:
- The infamous Pit-Fighter and its many ports are already despised enough, a brawler-fighter relying on its gimmick of digitized graphics but suffering from slow controls and gameplay among other things. If that's not "horrible" proper, how then, you ask, do you make it horrible? Make one of said ports for the Game Boy. "Crowds" comprised simply of the same groups of four people copy-pasted along the perimeter (all facing the camera, even from along the sides), repetitive music and voice clips, and it doesn't even have the items or weapons.
I though to add the 1993 interactive movie Morphman but so far, only Rerez reviewed it and it's probably in violation of the rules for this page because of that.
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It's also probably disqualified because the glow effects the game could sell itself on at the time is a point in its favor. Rerez also admitted the cutscenes were probably the best they could manage at the time, and it's mostly as a game that it fails.
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I have found a fighting game perhaps even worse than Shaq Fu, Rise of the Robots, 3D Ballz, And Fight Fever combined:
It’s called Best of Best, and it’s generic characters, pillow-shaded graphics, stolen music, and ugly backgrounds do it no favors. It’s by a no-name company called Sun A.
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How about this for a write up?
Best of Best is an obscure fighting game by Sun A. The game features ugly, pillow-shaded sprites of generic characters, often traced off of their inspirations by SNK, with a strange phenomenon of black nipples on the shirtless characters. The whopping four music tracks in the game are all stolen, including “Lambada”. The backgrounds are just as ugly as the characters, and downright inexplicable at times, such as a screaming Statue of Liberty. The kicker? This clunky, primitive game was released in 1994, the same year as games like X-Men: Children of the Atom, which all featured superior graphics, gameplay, and music.
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Good except the end part. I'm not familiar with that X-Men game, so it's confusing.
SP00PY month!
So this example was just added, but I'm not certain if it qualifies:
- Lolita Syndrome, an early (from 1983, to be exact) Enix title for the PC 88 & FM Towns Japanese home computers. While the game has some historic value as one of the first eroge ever, the content is horrendous. In a candy-coloured mansion called "Maison Lolita", you save little girls from guro death games, and in return they strip for you. The games are fun activities such as throwing knives at a girl to remove her clothes, and preventing another girl from being splattered by a chainsaw. And the art looks straight out of Doraemon. Unsurprisingly, Enix quickly brushed the game under the rug (but not before it won a programming contest!), and aside from the Koei title My Lolita, made by the same programmer/artist, a sequel was never made.
The description is focused entirely on the game's subject matter even though the So Bad, It's Horrible front page mentions that "Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as So Bad, It's Horrible". Plus, I'm not even sure if it's okay to list this given the Content Policy.
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The fact it's a pornographic game is not an issue in this case, so it can theoretically be included.
However, you have a point about the reception bit. There have to be several reputable sources of unambiguosly negative reviews, with no signals of So Bad, It's Good following, for the work to qualify to the article.
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The fact it's a pornographic game is not an issue in this case, so it can theoretically be included.
However, you have a point about the reception bit. There have to be several reputable sources of unambiguosly negative reviews, with no signals of So Bad, It's Good following, for the work to qualify to the article.
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Should Donkey count as a mention here? It was a game that Bill Gates and Neil Thompson created overnight for IBM's first ever personal computer that was shipped alongside said PC for free at the time, but it was also infamously derided by prominent Apple computer people in Steve Jobs and Andy Hertzfeld, with the latter calling it the most embarrassing game he had ever played and was shocked that it was even co-authored by Bill Gates in the first place. This looks to be another game that only Rerez has covered thus far (through their recent video covering some of the Worst Racing Games of All Time that also included other infamous racing games like Yaris, Spirit of Speed 1937, and Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing and its "sequel" Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), but this doesn't seem to have any major positive notes saving it by comparison, even as an early PC game.