What was the worst game you brought ?

edited November 2007 in Games
Only games you paid for please :)

Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic)

Apologies if the author is on here :oops:

But even at the time and for ?1.99 i felt cheated :( ... It was compiled basic and i was capable of better at the time too...
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  • edited October 2007
    spider wrote: »
    :( ... It was compiled basic and i was capable of better at the time too...

    Time for you to show it!! :p
  • edited October 2007
    Kenny Dalglish Soccer Match. ?9.99 for the laziest programmed football game since World Cup Carnival. The first and last full price game I ever bought!
  • edited October 2007
    (for 1.99 Alien Kill is quite good value. There's a compiler in the code - mcoder 2, I think - and a free game to boot! I'm kidding about the value.)

    Worst tape I bought - cassette 50. Got it recently for a laugh.
  • edited October 2007
    not speccy game, but a speccy company...back in 95 0r 96 I got myself a Tennis game for Sega Saturn from ocean, that was by far the worst game I ever played...

    how bad was it you ask? it was a tennis game and there was only the possibility to shoot the tennis ball straight...no crosses, no lobs nothing...it was incredibelly bad, not to mention the grafics where impossible to understand...

    now that I think of it, some of the worst games I ever got where for Saturn...back then games magazines where not very popular in portugal, and the few that showed up would always give riviews like "it's brilliant when compared to what our rival system is selling"!
  • edited October 2007
    spider wrote: »
    Only games you paid for please :)

    Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic)

    Apologies if the author is on here :oops:

    But even at the time and for ?1.99 i felt cheated :( ... It was compiled basic and i was capable of better at the time too...

    I almost bought this game when I was younger but about 10 people told me "NO! Don't do it", so I didn't guess I saved myself 1.99 cos' it is pretty dire.

    But due to the cheap price and ever growing catalogue of budget titles back then it's very hard to put a worst you ever bought when there was so many turkeys available. I'd say technically the worst game I ever bought was Happiest days of your life, for the sole reason I switched it at the shop I bought it at on average once a week every week for about 6 months, because basically it wouldn't load. In the end the old guy who owned the shop took it off the shelf (I must've exhausted his entire supply of that game). However I did buy Star Wars Droids, which probably is one of the worst games ever. If not Sheepwalk, but I can't remember if I got that with my +3, so maybe I didn't pay for it (the music on side 2 of the tape was better than the game on side 1).

    VanTammen wrote:
    now that I think of it, some of the worst games I ever got where for Saturn...back then games magazines where not very popular in portugal, and the few that showed up would always give riviews like "it's brilliant when compared to what our rival system is selling"!

    Gosh! such evil Saturn bashing :lol: Nah but seriously a lot of the early games on the Saturn were a little sub standard however some of the early games like a lot of consoles ended up being the best. I love my Saturn and it's the one machine I refuse to get rid of (I'll bring it back here to the states with me if I have to, I don't care if it won't work). However I will be the first to admit that a lot of the Saturns 3D affairs could be a touch ropey to say the least, but for 2D or Cartoon type games (The Streetfighter Alpha series, Golden Axe the duel, Dark Saviour, Dragon Force, Guardian Heroes, etc) the saturn was unrivalled and left a big sweaty turd on the Playstations doorstep :D
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  • edited October 2007
    Gosh! such evil Saturn bashing :lol: Nah but seriously a lot of the early games on the Saturn were a little sub standard however some of the early games like a lot of consoles ended up being the best. I love my Saturn and it's the one machine I refuse to get rid of (I'll bring it back here to the states with me if I have to, I don't care if it won't work). However I will be the first to admit that a lot of the Saturns 3D affairs could be a touch ropey to say the least, but for 2D or Cartoon type games (The Streetfighter Alpha series, Golden Axe the duel, Dark Saviour, Dragon Force, Guardian Heroes, etc) the saturn was unrivalled and left a big sweaty turd on the Playstations doorstep :D

    actually of all consoles Saturn is probably the one I have best memories of... if it wasn't for Saturn, I would have never played command and conquer, dragon force, world wide soccer, Torico, enemy zero, alone in the dark II, and even resident evil.

    I loved it and sticked with the console untill no more games came out...

    but for every torico (that was brilliant...at least disk one...disk two was actually to easy and disapointing) there was a "mansion of the hidden souls" (probably the easyest most pointless game I've played...) and many other crapp games that I was unlicky enough to buy...
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    edited October 2007
    The worst game i ever bought was Twin Turbo V8 but Codemasters, what a complete load of shite - a waste of money even at 2.99! Everything about the game is wrong.
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  • edited October 2007
    Mermaid Madness.

    Andrew
  • edited October 2007
    Turok on the N64 ... and it cost me ?60 :x
  • edited October 2007
    Turok on the N64 ... and it cost me ?60 :x

    The game itself wasn't too bad but the controls were awful, I wouldn't have had anything good to say about it if I'd paid 60 quid for it either though.
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2007
    A flipping joke - world cup carnival - ?9.95 of paper round money (almost 2 weeks worth, morning and night).
  • edited October 2007
    probably something by Players.

    i hated nearly everything they did. pure 'graphics over gameplay'.


    worst game I played (but didnt buy) was Superman. the one that looked like a c16 game. utterly awful.
  • edited October 2007
    spider wrote: »
    Only games you paid for please :)

    Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic)

    Apologies if the author is on here :oops:

    But even at the time and for ?1.99 i felt cheated :( ... It was compiled basic and i was capable of better at the time too...

    Alien Kill for me too, though my dad bought it (for more than ?1.99)

    Non Speccy, one of the early Motocross games on PSX (It was like riding round and round on a cake-stand. You could win the game by going forwards, then reversing over the finish line! Another bad one for me was, 'Lone Soldier.'

    and, 'The Suffering' and 'Mashed' on PS2 (see chitchat for details)

    Alien kill is brilliant compared to them.
  • edited October 2007
    super Soccer was a masterpiece of awfulness that I just couldn't resist. How could such a game be released in 1986 by Imagine after what they had done before?
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  • edited October 2007
    For the Spectrum - Hard Drivin' or Outrun Europea (or some other terrible "games").

    The worst one overall I've ever bought or any system - Superman 64 (maybe the worst game I've ever played).
  • edited October 2007
    big trouble in little china, i was so excited buying that, the film was ace, the front cover of the game was ace, the blurb on the back was ace. i dragged my mum back home so i could play it, and i nearly cried at the shitness of it. also tiger road was a waste of money.
  • edited October 2007
    ewgf wrote: »

    The worst one overall I've ever bought or any system - Superman 64 (maybe the worst game I've ever played).

    ha ha, dodn't that get a 5% mark in the mags or something.
  • edited October 2007
    Worst game bought? Unfortunately, the phrase "where do I start" springs to mind. I was pretty incensed by how bad US Gold's He-Man game was.
  • edited October 2007
    Domark's Skull & Crossbones. That was utter rubbish. And that was at a time when you actually had to cross the channel to get games for the Speccy, so I just bought everything I could find and my money could buy at the time. Must still have it lying around somewhere. Crap crap crap. And I'm sure it was more expensive than the actual ?9.99 price listed here on Wos. More like ?10.99 or even ?11.99.
  • edited October 2007
    For the Spectrum, The Great Space Race. I did only pay ?3 for it and it was in a huge box but it was awful.

    For other machines, Rainbow Six on the Dreamcast stands out as a terrible purchase. The controls were awful and the game was just unplayable, but I got the impression that it probably was a decent game at some point before it was converted to Dreamcast with little or nb care at all.
  • edited October 2007
    Altered Beast and OutRun which I paid £1 for from the son of my mother's best friend.. Crapness at it's best
  • edited October 2007
    Turok on the N64 ... and it cost me ?60 :x

    me and some guys were having a sleep over once. so we all piled into the living room and set up our sleeping bags, and the guys whos house it was had never played turok decided to give it ago while we were all settling down to sleep, we woke up to see him finishing the last boss. he been playing it all night the looser.

    i liked the game, it was just a wierd concept, a red indian hunting dinosaurs, not very believable.
  • edited October 2007
    Double Dragon was a letdown, but I still got some mileage out of it. Disappointing and underachieving rather than complete rubbish... I think my worst purchase ever was Spitting Image, the Domark-published beat em up where the combatants included Margaret Thatcher, Ayatollah Khomenei etc. Utter unplayable bilge, with a terrible multiload to boot.

    I owned Twin Turbo V8 as part of the Codies CD compilation, and actually quite enjoyed it at the time. Must go back and see what it plays like in the cold light of day.
  • edited October 2007
    The worst speccy game I bought was either Chiller or Corridors of Genon. I can't decide which as I detest them both equally.

    The worst I had bought for me was definitely Ah Diddums! What an unplayable pile of crap that was.

    Non-Speccy purchases I'm struggling to think of, I've probably bought games I think I'll like, and are good games with good reviews, but I've never been able to get into them. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter on the 360 is one. It looks marvellous and is playable, but suddenly the difficulty goes through the ceiling and I can't be bothered. Says more about me than the game I suppose.
  • edited October 2007
    Vampyre wrote: »
    The worst speccy game I bought was either Chiller or Corridors of Genon. I can't decide which as I detest them both equally.

    Genon was excellent! Still one of my all-time faves.

    Worst one for me though was Strontium Dog - a complete waste of seven quid.

    Although you did get a free copy of MCODER 2 if you knew where to look.
  • edited October 2007
    Bad Horsey wrote: »
    Genon was excellent! Still one of my all-time faves.

    He he. I thought that might cause a bit of controversy. I'm aware that a lot of people do hold it in high regard, but I simply could never get into it. The curved mazes are interestingly done though.
  • edited October 2007
    The Devil rides in, only good thing about it was the Currah speech.

    'The banshee wails and nOHthing happens.'
  • edited October 2007
    The worst game I bought was Silent Shadow, by Topo Soft.

    It looked very spectacular in the magazine advert, but the scroll and playability were horrible.

    Non-Speccy game: Nintendogs
    Perhaps it's a good game, but I don't like "Sims" style games
  • edited October 2007
    Fat Worm blows a sparky but managed to convince them to give me my money back by using the 'my aunt got me this for xmas'.

    Double Dragon was a huge letdown as was Guerilla War, i love those sort of 'Commando/Ikari' style games but thought Guerilla War, try as i might was bad

    Nemesis another which was dire. Seemed to be many more crap games in the late 80's/early 90's sadly.
  • edited October 2007
    beanz wrote: »
    The Devil rides in, only good thing about it was the Currah speech.

    'The banshee wails and nOHthing happens.'

    It says it in that game as well? Funny, I always remember the quote from Kevin Ayre's, Mystic Tower. Never played, 'The Devil rides in.' You learnin' evree daye.
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