Whats the worst spectrum game ever???

zx1 · September 2005

Heres a question: whats the worst game you've ever played on the spec? Mines was LA SWAT by Entertainment USA it was just AWFUL! the graphics were shit, the sound was rubbish it was just A PILE OF SHITE!! Whats your worst game??

beanz · September 2005

The Devil Rides in. Played it once one rainy afternoon...decided standing in the rain would have been a better choice.

WhizzBang · September 2005

The Great Space Race. I bought it in the early days of the Spectrum and expected some kind of futuristic Valhalla type game, as it was by the same publisher in similar grand packaging. It was rubbish and was written in Basic so if you pressed the Space key, it interrupted the game and sent you to the code.
Even in 1984 when there were few classic games (just the Ultimate stuff and Manic Miner) it seemed pathetic.

Old_Speccer · September 2005

I bought SAS Operation Thunderflash based on it's cool looking inlay cover. After starting the game up I lasted approx 20 seconds before being killed. Every single time. I just couldn't get any further than that.
So that game alone ranks as my worst speccy game.

biotoxin · September 2005

The worst spectrum games here.

Spector · September 2005

Blue Thunder, Super Soccer, World Cup Carnival...
So many to choose from! :)

Daren · September 2005

See this thread for the worst speccy game:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=9579&forum=2

Daren

[FOAD]Iron · September 2005

1985: The Day After.

I only bought it because the cover looked good.

alanspec · September 2005

KNOT in 3D was my most disappointing game. Saw the adverts, read a "review" and bought it.(It's like 3-D Tron!!!!)
What a load of paid-off, lying bastids - it was like 3-d CRAP, not tron.
Right up to the day I gave(doh) all my speccy stuff away I used to glance at it with hatred and disgust when getting other tapes out of the box.

ASpec.
(Last time around I picked KungFuMaster - but it's definately knot in 3d that wins crappest out of those two)
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bigredjennings · September 2005

Sir Fred

It always amazes me that this game is on the 'good' list.

Remember buying it as it was Migro Gen and loved the Wally games. But couldn't get past the second screen in the pit...

Without doubt that's my personal worst game...

And Elite and Starquake of course not because they are bad but because they are so good they make modern ?40 internet blar blar blar based games seem pants....

Give me ramix any day....

ZX Beccy · September 2005

Elite.

OH GOD was that game AWFUL.....

chop983 · September 2005

On 2005-09-07 14:16, ZX Beccy wrote:
Elite.

OH GOD was that game AWFUL.....

bugged to buggery

bigredjennings · September 2005

Elite awful...aint it funny how we all like different things....what didn't you like about elite...?

I also thought Manic Miner was boring - nothing new in each screen, but then again loved Wheelie - strange eh

FrankT · September 2005

I Of The Mask, it got a Crash Smash, looked cool, had Sandy White as the programmer(wow, 3d ant atack), but what the hell was going on? Could never get into it, total crap for ?8.95. Also at the time all shops had the policy of only exchanging it for the same game, damn.

dmsmith · September 2005

I thought HAVOC was totally crap.

usspeccyfan · September 2005

Airwolf, of course. For both NES and Spectrum.

ZX Beccy · September 2005

I liked the look of I OF THE MASK.....

never had the slightest clue what was going on.....

na_th_an · September 2005

Sir Fred[...] It always amazes me that this game is on the 'good' list.

It's 'cause it's one of the best games of all times. And it's not by Mikro-Gen, which just distributed it in the U.K. and Europe. In fact it is a Spanish game coded by Made In Spain.

Of course it has the inherent difficulty of Spanish games, but nothing to be afraid of. After some plays you'll master the movement which was pretty good designed with real physics. Also the gfx were great and it was a nice adventure in sum.

Malc74 · September 2005

*peeks in*
(Deep breath)
FAcupfootball
*runs, pursued by hundreds of angry forummers*

FrankT · September 2005

Airwolf? Its one of my favourites! I got it one christmas and after 2 days when i got past the wall and into the caverns, i started really loving it. Can still remember the adrenalin rushes as the laser cannon fired while trying to get into the last room with the scientist to rescue. Was one of the first games I completed, and I never used any pokes, although it just went back to the beginning.

Loved that game. q,a,z,x,c

The worst of all time has to be schizoids.

Ian Hamilton · September 2005

While we're talking about games that are impossibly hard to play (Airwolf ... aaarrrggghhh!!!), has anyone ever succeeded in getting past the first screen in Dragon's Lair (without cheating)? It's not a bad game graphically, but I haven't played it in years because it's far too bloody difficult.

Street Fighter 2 is an awful game, definitely one of the worst in that time period. US Gold could have made it playable if they tried, but instead the game is far too slow and unresponsive to be any fun, plus you have to play the whole tape through every time you pick a different fighter. A total waste of time in my opinion.

Necros.

bjohnnybravo · September 2005

On 2005-09-07 14:13, bigredjennings wrote:
Sir Fred

It always amazes me that this game is on the 'good' list.

Remember buying it as it was Migro Gen and loved the Wally games. But couldn't get past the second screen in the pit...

Without doubt that's my personal worst game...

You serious? :o
I loved this game and still do :) Got quite far with it too.
If we are talking about the worst games then I'm amazed noone mentioned Sqij yet(or did I just missed the post?). The game is horrible and if I remember correctly you have to be super-hacker to even move the bloddy bird.

alanspec · September 2005

First screen of Dragons Lair??? The one with the wind bloke blowing you off a disc of wood??? That's not hard if your reactions are quick enough!! It's not Airwolf hard anyway.
Must be that dodgy Kilkenny water :lol: It's raining today init so wait for it to go green :lol:
ASpec.

sirclive1 · September 2005

malc - fa cup football is no where near the worst game on the speccy , have you played eastenders ?

Lee Fogarty · September 2005

On 2005-09-09 12:46, sirclive1 wrote:
malc - fa cup football is no where near the worst game on the speccy , have you played eastenders ?

Or Elite?

Blunderbuss · September 2005

On 2005-09-06 08:23, Spector wrote:
Blue Thunder, Super Soccer, World Cup Carnival...
So many to choose from! :)

Yeah, I actually rushed out and bought Blue Thunder after reading the rave (Crash Smash Award) review in Crash! What a complete load of old crudballs that game is.

The Black Crystal. It was expensive! It was b*ll*cks! I bought it! I can't think of anything worse. There's the already mentioned The Great Space Race, but I only hired that one, and I wouldn't describe it as a game (a game actually contains some gameplay, right?!).

zx1 · September 2005

Airwolf is one of the hardest games ever but the worst i remember was Army Moves that was the hardest game ever made! I couldn't get past the first level! The follow up Navy Moves was the same AGGHHHHHH!!!

Pikey mullet · September 2005

All those games my newsagent sold for 1.99 was it mastertronic? Nice looking inlays though.

Blunderbuss · September 2005

On 2005-09-12 21:36, Pikey mullet wrote:
All those games my newsagent sold for 1.99 was it mastertronic? Nice looking inlays though.

Some of the Mastertronic games were quite good. Spectipede, the first budget game I ever bought, was on their label(I think it was a re-release though), and it was a decent version of Centipede.

you are in a dense forest? what now? · September 2005

has to be "the empire fights back" - how they ever got away with the name i never know and it was so bad i played the game one entire weekend and by sunday night still didnt have a clue what the hell i was doing!

i'll never get that weekend back!

nuttyfox · September 2005

Having played Kick Off on the 16-bit I found it on here and had a go... I would have been seriously cheesed off even if I'd bought that for 20p at a car boot sale!

The games that spring to mind for utter 'argh!' factor were Raid over moscow, which tantalisingly showed you all the levels that looked ace, but I couldn't get out of the hangar... oh, I did once, then died straight away on the next screen coz I was so taken aback at getting out!

My vision of hell though is being locked in an empty room with only a spectrum (accessories) and copies of transylvanian tower, VU3D (Which i thought was a game when I was 6) and Zoids which was about as playable as a breeze block (and cost ?7 which was about 80 weeks pocket money).

Whats the worst spectrum game ever???

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