Worst Games you bought (Console)

[Theenternal]

What are some of the worst games that you bought? Technicallly I did not pay for these, but I asked for them for my Birthday or some other special occasion. These are the prices I paid back when they first came out.

Decapattack 19.99 Genesis (not that bad imo)
Checkered Flag 39.99 Jaguar (Craptastic)
Kasumi Ninja 49.99 Jaguar (Nastastic)

[godhatesjustyou]

Final Fantasy X-2.

[punqsux]

oni

[goatindaruffness]

10 Yard Fight (NES)...
Which in turn is the WORST game of all time, I dare anyone to challenge with anything other than Aquaman which I'm greatly considering...
I got Intellivision Lives for (XBox) and the whole wannabe old school number pad control system makes half the games unplayable, but it's good for about 2 minutes for a laugh...
Also Bebe's Kids, Home Improvement, and Power Moves (All SNES) as well as Pirates (PS2), Urban Yeti (GBA), and Kiss Psycho Circus (DC)...
Bad investments, REALLY bad investments... :)
Oh and that Nickelodeon Party Blast! game is pretty terrible...
As far as NES goes, there were as many bad games as there were good games, I just feel 10YF covers the horibblanity in its own capacity...
-Goatman

[punqsux]

pirates rules!

[danh920]

decapattack was great, how many games out there let you toss your head around

[godhatesjustyou]

pirates like maddox most definetly rule.

[hutno]

The Bouncer for PS2. What a letdown, next generation fighter my ass!

[MorganWebbLover]

That an easy one Yoshi Story for the Nintendo 64 . Man that game blew big time .

[Kaijufan]

Enter the Matrix

[Theenternal]

10 Yard Fight (NES)...
Which in turn is the WORST game of all time, I dare anyone to challenge with anything other than Aquaman which I'm greatly considering...
I got Intellivision Lives for (XBox) and the whole wannabe old school number pad control system makes half the games unplayable, but it's good for about 2 minutes for a laugh...
Also Bebe's Kids, Home Improvement, and Power Moves (All SNES) as well as Pirates (PS2), Urban Yeti (GBA), and Kiss Psycho Circus (DC)...
Bad investments, REALLY bad investments... :)
Oh and that Nickelodeon Party Blast! game is pretty terrible...
As far as NES goes, there were as many bad games as there were good games, I just feel 10YF covers the horibblanity in its own capacity...
-Goatman

10 Yard Fight wasn't that bad when it first came out :). but some of those other games are really nasty.

[alongx]

this is embarassing.

i actually purchased pen pen triicelon and blue stinger on dreamcast's release date for $50 each...

i could still cry every time i think about it.

[WeaponX2099]

I brought SpiderMan /X-men for Genesis instead of X-Men. Man, That sucked Gorilla ass.

[st0neface]

Barts Nightmare, SNES, man did I hate that game.

[jmcc]

Well, technically a friend bought it for me, but out of the games I have I think Daikatana for the N64 is easily the worst.

[Strider Turbulence]

SPorts Pad Football/Great Football

Yeah, Sega released the same game twice, one just supported sega's 'sports pad'. I have never played such a slow, busted, and downright boring football game in my life.
To make matters worse it can take nearly an hour and a half just to finish a game that starts in the fourth quarter.

[YoshiFan1]

Probably Roadsters for Dreamcast. I only paid $12.50 for it though so I don't feel that bad about it.

[MisterRaven]

Evergrace. I was desperate for an RPG at the PS2's launch. Terrible game. Luckily, I also bought Armored Core 2 on launch day, so I still had fun. :D

[bfg9k]

I think the only game I ever returned was Back to the Future for NES. I traded it in for either Metroid or Golgo-13 TSE, so I guess we can all agree it was a smart move. :)

[thatstoobad]

although i was disappointed when i bought batman returns for snes (i have no idea how much it was back then), the absolute worst game i have ever purchased was tetris worlds for the gamecube for $19.99. i played it for about 20 minutes then sold it.

i've already mentioned my disgust for this game in another thread in the gamecube discussion forum, so i'll just say that rick james would give tetris worlds four thumbs down.

[CaseyRyback]

War Gods for me. I am ashamed to say I bought this game. I thought it was going to be a good fighter since it was from Midway. Sadly it was so bad I actually threw it in the trash

[EggViper]

i usually research my games really well so i dont get stuck with bad games but one time i didn't and got stuck with this piece of shit game i never played twice. i dont even remember the name... it was for the n64, and the main point was to jump from 1 place to the next (no enemies or anything that i saw), just jump from start to finish. yea it was so retarded i got pissed off and threw it in a mad rage, it landed behind the couch where it rested for what had to b a year or two.

[Mr. Anderson]

I've never really bought a bad game without knowing it....I actually enjoyed Enter The Matrix for what it was. I bought Shooter: Starfighter Sanvein for PS1, but I knew it was a bad game, so I dont' think that counts.

[regisphilbi0]

Worst game I bought was Survivor for PC. Pointless, boring, and annoying all wrapped up in one. GOt it for $1.99 and almost went in to demand a refund for my wasted $2 bucks.

[Ebraum]

I think I can top you all, but I didn't buy it, my parents did.
When was about 8 years old, I begged for and recieved........brace yourselves........E.T. for the Atari 2600.

[magilacudy]

The worst game I bought was Duke Nukem Land of the Babes. I don't know what I expected but it had crappy graphics, crappy control, pixelated babes and just all around suckiness. I paid full retail (about $30 for it). The only thing that kept it from being a total loss was that it had average multiplayer.

I think Ebraum won this competition though.

[CaptainObviousXl]

gundam wing jorny to jaburo

[sexdrugsandrocknroll]

I actually liked all of the games I bought. I rented a lot of crappy games though...

Quest 64

EDIT: I crap nm, I remember I bought Shaq-Fu SNES) for $0.50 for a laugh. Damn I miss my $0.50.

[daphatty]

I don't buy shitty games. Not even cheap ones. Can't bring myself to spend the money no matter how cheap it is. Only shitty games I have ever owned were gifts from someone else. They either were sold or traded away quite promptly.

[jshorr]

A long time ago I was really excited to get Wrath of the Black Manta for NES for 50 i think, and it was horrible.

I also paid 40 for Double Dragon for C64, thinking it would be like the arcade :

[MadFlava]

I would say the worst game that I bought ever (full price or discount) had to be a little known game published by EA called "Sword of Sodan" for the Sega Genesis. It came out early the life of the Genesis around the same time as the first Madden. Desperate for a new game for my early Genesis console (since game releases were monthly in the early days of the system) I picked up this turd of a game because it looked like the arcade classic Rastan but with bigger sprites and blood! Sorry to say that when ever I see people publish there list of worst games ever they are all wrong because they have never played Sword of Sodan. This review on Gamefaqs is poetic in describing how bad this game is.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/review/R57876.html

At least I have the dubious honor of owning one of the most underated worst games of all time...

[MadFlava]

I think I can top you all, but I didn't buy it, my parents did.
When was about 8 years old, I begged for and recieved........brace yourselves........E.T. for the Atari 2600.

Hey, my brother has E.T. for the Atari 2600 too. I remember an uncle of ours got us this game for christmas. Probably bought it for real cheap too considering how bad it was. Anyway, I have to admit no matter how bad it was, I played that crappy game until I beat it (I think I was 5 or 6 years old at the time)

[jshorr]

I think I can top you all, but I didn't buy it, my parents did.
When was about 8 years old, I begged for and recieved........brace yourselves........E.T. for the Atari 2600.

DAMN YOU'RE RIGHT!!! I got this for $2.00 at Odd-Lot and it was a ripoff! I remember there were these other games for Atari 2600....like Firequest and Waterquest, something like that, came with a comic book? Made absoloutely no sense to me whatsoever....

[redgopher]

oni

WTF? Oni is awesome. Go Konoko!

At least you didn't buy Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball for $50.

God that was stupid.

[sm04as]

I think I can top you all, but I didn't buy it, my parents did.
When was about 8 years old, I begged for and recieved........brace yourselves........E.T. for the Atari 2600.

DAMN YOU'RE RIGHT!!! I got this for $2.00 at Odd-Lot and it was a ripoff! I remember there were these other games for Atari 2600....like Firequest and Waterquest, something like that, came with a comic book? Made absoloutely no sense to me whatsoever....

I remeber Odd-Lot....actually it was Swordquest: Earthworld/FireWorld/Waterworld...and I have to agree witih you, it was too hard to understand what you were supposed to do in those games. The comic was nice though.

[bfg9k]

I had ET, earthworld and fireworld too. You know people say that ET was one of the worst games of all time but i disagree. Without a doubt it was one of the most hyped, most disappointing, and worst selling games of all time. But it still wasn't that bad of a game. I honestly would rather play ET than the 2600 version of pac-man.

[Quackzilla]

James Bond, Agent Under Fire

Have never bought a game with EA on the packaging since.

[Theenternal]

I think I can top you all, but I didn't buy it, my parents did.
When was about 8 years old, I begged for and recieved........brace yourselves........E.T. for the Atari 2600.

DAMN YOU'RE RIGHT!!! I got this for $2.00 at Odd-Lot and it was a ripoff! I remember there were these other games for Atari 2600....like Firequest and Waterquest, something like that, came with a comic book? Made absoloutely no sense to me whatsoever....

This game sounds so bad, im very interestd in playing it now....perhaps ill find the rom and give it a try.

[Mr Unoriginal]

When I owned it, I didn't think it was too bad. I was a youngun of course. It was very simplistic, but let's face it, all Atari games are. Whoever said that it was overhyped was correct. There were tons of crappier games for Atari IMO.

[SneakyPenguin]

honestly, i have the rom, it doesnt suck as much as some would say. it horrible, but ive played worse, like halo (i kid but not much).

i personally dont buy bad games. i can usually find something of value in them. look at my sig, full of good games.

except gta 2 for the gbc. ugh, that was money well spent

[Theenternal]

I have not bought a bad game for my personal collection in years, it was just in my elementry school days that I was asking for x game, and ended up with something sorry :(. BTW I also had Spiderman and X-Men for the snes, while not extremely crappy, I was very very dissapointed, I did manage to finish the game which was pretty difficult.

[sm04as]

Spideman/Xmen was difficult. I don't think I even finished it because I couldn't figure out how to beat Rhino. I was disappointed as well...Cyclops looked kind of dumb the way he kicked.

[Theenternal]

I just played ET, that game is pretty bad even considering its age

[saigumi]

Dash Galaxy and the Alien Asylum for the NES... a close second to Sky Odessy for the PS2.

*shudders*

[Advocatus]

"Ready, hike hike hike hike hike"
cue cheesy midi music...
tackle *crowd cheers*
"Ready, hike, hike, hike, hike, hike"

I actually have a friend who is learning about american football, by playing ten yard fight on his mame/x-arcade set up...

I didn't buy it but I still felt the pain for a friend... Unreal Tournament for the PS2. It was so much fun on the PC.. how could it be such a horrible horrible port on the PS2??

[wookieballz]

Hm...

Star Wars: Jedi Outcast
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Silent Hill 3

[JibbaJabba]

BMX XXX (GC) WORST $2 I ever spent.

Zelda: Wind Waker (GC) was completely disapointed with the game.

[Ebraum]

E.T = walk around, fall in a hole, stick your neck out to levitate, almost get to the top, fall..repeat.

[Vampire Hunter D]

I remember when i was younger liking that Xmen SPiderman game even though it was hard.The worst game i ever bought was MK Advanced worst waste of 30 precious dollars i ever spent.The day i bought it i hadnt really looked into it and the reviews werent out yet and i was so convinced it was just like MK3.I played it for about 5 seconds quickly got my ass kicked by scropin and cryed.I coulnt return it either cause i live like an hour away from the mall so i dont get a chance to get there all that often. :oops:

[alongx]

Here's a good question: did anyone here ever own/play Custer's Revenge? I think it was for the Atari 2600, and it was rated as the worst game of all time by EGM a while back. Or maybe the second worse, I know Bible Adventure for the NES was up there too...

[jousley]

Dash Galaxy and the Alien Asylum for the NES... *shudders*
Good LORD that game sucked!

Anyway, buying and playing games for over 25 years I have come across a LOT of shitastic games. My personal lows:
Atari 2600- Rubiks Cube
Colecovision- Smurfs
NES- John Elways Football/ Dash Galaxy/ Total Recall
SNES- Crono Trigger (haha...just kidding), The Lawnmower Man
Sega CD - Sewer Shark
Genesis- Super Nova
Jaguar- Kasumi Ninja
3DO- Way of the Warrior
Saturn- Hot Blooded Family (import)
Nintendo 64- Turok
PSone- Cosmic Race (import), Criticom(my friends and I called it Shiticom)
Dreamcast -Blue Stinger
PS2- Orphen
Gamecube- (haven't bought any I hated yet)
PC- Freedom Force
Xbox- Crimson Sea
Sadly, I've owned them all...but the bad games make you grateful for the AWESOME ones :)

[video_gamer324]

Zelda: OOT

I saw it at a friend's house when I wasn't old enough to appreciate the value of money, and I thought it looked cool, so I paid the full $60 for it (ouch!). It wasn't really bad, but for some reason I expected a little more. I haven't touched it for years now, but hopefully I can sit down with it this summer and finish it.

[guessed]

Dash Galaxy and the Alien Asylum for the NES... *shudders*
Good LORD that game sucked!

Anyway, buying and playing games for over 25 years I have come across a LOT of shitastic games. My personal lows:
Atari 2600- Rubiks Cube
Colecovision- Smurfs
PC- Freedom Force
Xbox- Crimson Sea
Sadly, I've owned them all...but the bad games make you grateful for the AWESOME ones :)

Smurfs -- Embarassed to say I played that a lot. Not only the Coleco one at a friend's house, but the Atari port of it as well.

Freedom Force? Good game.

I haven't played Crimson Sea yet, but I do have it. I hope it isn't all that bad.

[jousley]

Zelda: OOT

I saw it at a friend's house when I wasn't old enough to appreciate the value of money, and I thought it looked cool, so I paid the full $60 for it (ouch!). It wasn't really bad, but for some reason I expected a little more. I haven't touched it for years now, but hopefully I can sit down with it this summer and finish it.

I couldn't disagree more! That game was and still is excellent!

[jousley]

[quote="guessed Freedom Force? Good game.

I haven't played Crimson Sea yet, but I do have it. I hope it isn't all that bad.[/quote]

Well I don't buy very many PC games at all. Maybe a total of 10 in my lifetime...and by comparison, Freedom Force was the biggest disappointment

As for Crimson Sea....I was expecting Dynasty Warriors in a modern setting....to me, Crimson Sea couldn't carry DWs jock.

[elprincipe]

Final Fantasy VII new for $49.99. What a waste of money. All that game was good for was putting me to sleep.

[Lefty]

A bug's life for GBC. I got it for $2...worst $2 ever spent.

[DigitalSpace]

-Space Ace for Super Nintendo. What a ridiculously hard piece of crap.

-Other awful SNES games I've had include Batman Returns and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (I fortunately got the latter for free).

-Top Gear Dare Devil for PS2 was awful too... so bad that I exchanged it at Gamestop the next day. I don't know what the hell I was thinking.

-Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for Genesis. Back when my younger brother had a Genesis in the mid 90's, he wanted the game for his birthday because he was a big Power Rangers fan. Awful game.

[Tricky]

3 xtreme for the PlayStation was the worst game I ever bought. I paid $40. What a waste of money.

[huma79]

I also paid 40 for Double Dragon for C64, thinking it would be like the arcade :

Whoah! Me too! I still remember trying to force my self to enjoy it.. After that I saved my money up and bought a Sega Master System and Double Dragon to get a better arcade experience.

But to top that, my worst purchase ever was when I bought SimEarth for the SNES the day it came out for $79.99 at Babbages (now Gamestop).. what a rip. I enjoyed simcity for snes so much, i thought the 'sequel' would kick ass too. :?

[michael6668]

Batman: Dark Tomorrow and Sneakers for the Xbox. Both sucked really bad.

Smurfs for the Colecovision rocked! Especially after a few beers at 3 in the morning. :D

[xspeedracerx]

The rocketear(sp?) for the snes, worst game ever.

[jdevlin7756]

Like michael6668 I also bought Batman Dark Tomorrow and it blew more than any other game in the history of..... well, history. The graphics were friggin awesome, but the game play was so bad that I was cursing like a manic sailor within five minutes of starting the game.
The funny part is that I feel that I got ripped off worse than I've ever been, even though I got it for $2.99.

[kfkl]

Sorry to all you military strategist fans out there, but Kessen is the worst game i have ever paid 20 dollars for. Played for ... 2 minutes (at the most) and traded it into funcoland.

[Sporadic]

I haven't bought that many bad games so the worst one I have is Silent Hill 2 for Xbox. I hate that game with a passion.

My cousin's friend got Superman 64 for 60 bucks on the first day it was out. I was there when he was playing it. The look of dissappointment was classic.

[S_G]

Crimson Sea is one of the worst games I've ever played. Absolute trash.

[ragincajun]

WWE RAW for XBOX

GARBAGE

worst game i have EVER PLAYED


My friend who owns a game store tried to convince me not to buy it cause it blowed.... but me being a huge wrestling fan bought it anyways cause the graphics were great and IGN (cant spell Ignorant without IGN) gave it a 9.1 out of 10

after 2 hours I gave the game back and told him to burn it to hell...

[Hunter55]

No Contest....Zombies Ate My Neighbors for SNES was definitely the worst.

[Tom]

Omg, Zombies Ate My Neighbors kicked ass! (except i played it on the genesis) That was an awesome multiplayer game!
The worst game I have played must be True Crime for the XBox

[XboxMaster]

Sorry to all you military strategist fans out there, but Kessen is the worst game i have ever paid 20 dollars for. Played for ... 2 minutes (at the most) and traded it into funcoland.

What?! Kessen is definitely not the best RST game ever, but it's still worth $20.

I guess the two worst games I've bought would be Enter the Matrix ($50) and Brute Force ($50). Both of those games I was so excited about, both I pre-ordered, and both I bought on launch. Oh, I forgot one, Dead to Rights ($50).

[jousley]

No Contest....Zombies Ate My Neighbors for SNES was definitely the worst.

I call bullshit! That game is awesome!

[Technique]

I dont think anyone can beat this ebarresing purchase... LOL... MAGIC CARPET For the ps1. Lol wooh.. I remember getting that game at toys r us man... LOL.. I got this when i was about 8 years old. The only thing I remember was flying around on a damnned carpet and shooting fire balls with this arabian music in the background.. LOL.. Also I remember my brother almost beating it. I dont no why in the hell he would try but.. Anyways one day I accidently deleted his file.. LOL wooopsies :shock: my bad :D

[Technique]

Hunter55 wrote:
No Contest....Zombies Ate My Neighbors for SNES was definitely the worst.


I CAN BULL SHIT THAT ALSO! DUDE THAT GAME ROCKS! I REMEMBER GETING THAT A FEW MONTHS AGO. My brother told me about it casue his friend was desperate for it. I found it at gamestop in one of dem used bins.. I WAS LIKE CHA CHING! Well maybe no, but you no.. I loved the look on one of the employies faces when I bought it. The cashier was like, "Shaun this kids buying your game."
Ha ha ha! Suckas.!

[Demon-Xanth]

Test Drive for the PS2 is pretty far up there. It's #1 redeeming feature was that you can play Pong. And more often did I power it up to play Pong than I powered it up to play Test Drive.

[snotknocker]

Batman: Dark Tomorrow for the Xbox, Faxanadu for the NES

These are the 2 first stinkers that came to mind

[Mr. Anderson]

Yeah, I bought Enter The Matrix first day (pre-order), but I actually enjoyed it. I was caught up in Matrix hype and I was like "0MG BULL37 71M3 15 73H R0X0R!!1!1!!

[JohnnyDrama]

The worst game I've bought is BloodRayne for PS2. I got it for $5 at CC and I never really got into it.

[yattaman3]

Pokemon Snapshot $50. When I bought this, I didn't know what the hell I was smoking. I thought you could go around taking pics of pokemon in their most cutest positions but noooo I had to stay on a cart! the whole friggin time! Damn you nintendo