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When I found out about this game, it made my day. I could not stop laughing.  :D

Yes that's right, the guys at the mysterious Stellar Stone company have managed to throw together a monstrosity which surpasses even Atari's legendary "E.T." in terms of, umm... lack of effort.

The game known as Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing.
Watch the video review over at Gamespot (http://www.gamespot.com/live/streamer_new2.html?title=Big+Rigs:+Over+the+Road+Racing+Video+Review&path=bigrigs_pc_vreview101.asx&pid=919220&ppath=pc/driving/bigrigsotrr&ksubmoid=c75b77f6-e2c4-72aa-aff8-2f4e2a4d9393&urdate=1069315200) to see just how bad (and hilarious) this game is.

Big Rigs features:

• 4 slightly different trucks to drive, including "Thunder" and "Thunderbull"
• 4 stages, including "Rural area during the day" and "Rural area during the night"
• An opponent that NEVER leaves the starting block.
• Ability to drive through any wall in your path, and up cliffs that slope 180 degrees!
• Ability to drive in reverse at over 1000MPH, and stop on a dime!  :O
• The randomly appearing, "YOU'RE WINNER" TROPHY! (http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2004/reviews/919220_20040114_screen001.jpg)  - Best engrish ever

Jokes aside, it's really sad that a company would actually publish something like this, and I feel for the poor, uninformed individuals who happened to buy it.

I'm hoping lazy game developers like that remain rare thing, but seems to be becoming more and more common, albeit it's usually with developers like EA games, who are trying to make a quick cash-in on a popular license.

A game called "Uo Poko" (Japan) has 'em all beat.

When you lose, your cat characters drown! So sad!

Burkey

Superman for the N64 has to be up there too.. Horrible game!  :O

Burkey

hahahaha, you know, i think i saw a review of this game on G4 Tech TV once. they mentioned trucks going through mountains, falling off bridges, and so many other laughable things i can't remember at the top of my head  :D i'd be a moron not to ignore that waste of CD space.


yeah, definitely. i remember wanting to try it out, but little did i realize that i was in for a gyp. first off, you're flying through rings. what's that about? Superman doesn't fly through rings to save Metropolis. the play control was horrible, especially with the Control Stick. i had to crank my stick a bit just to fly around or run around avoiding enemy shots and explosions! Titus really hurt Superman's quality and franchise with this 64-bit failure.

Try not to double post, just common courtesy, use the edit button to add to posts. Thank you!

Burkey

I played lot of superman games, most of them arcade games, and the only decent one was the “Death of superman” one.

Whith Professionals doing games like this, I want to go and play freeware games like “Akuji the demon” and “Sonic Time attacked” again. Akuji is really good, but a bit easy unless you play the hard mode.

lmao...you're winner...that made me laugh so hard. thank you :)

"You are winner, hahaha! You are winner, hahaha!" ^_~

A game that goes right up there with Big Rigs. One so bad that barely anyone knows about it 'cause it's too awful to even mention.
Extreme PaintBrawl (http://pc.ign.com/articles/160/160455p1.html)
Then, they had the guts to actually make a sequal.
Extreme PaintBrawl 2 (http://pc.ign.com/articles/164/164025p1.html)
Then, they thought that they'd pull over on someone and made the next installment. Only there's something weird....
Extreme PaintBrawl 4 (http://pc.ign.com/articles/362/362053p1.html)
Yes. I don't know how they skipped a game, but they also skipped a number. Though, it's not suprising when you see the Artificial Intellegence-- err... better yet, Artificial Stupidity, that's in the game.

to quote what some may know as the ZanyVG Quoter about the "You're Winner" quote...

"It doesn't matter whether you're winner or loser, as long as you're haver of fun."

To allow more flexibility in discussion, this is now just a general "Awful Games" thread.

i have a list of NES games that all should avoid. i can tell you why each one is no good from the pain i had to suffer. here they are, in random order.

1. Ghostbusters

- Plain, infantile graphics.
- Only one BGM that repeats over and over.
- Ghostbusters at Zuul move too slowly.
- Takes way too long to get equipment upgraded, and you have limited time (once the PK Energy reaches 9999, it's game over).

2. Othello

- Computer player goes for cheap. 'nuff said.


...
um...well, that's pretty much all i can name right now. there are lots of other bad games i've heard about, but [fortunately] i haven't played most of those.

Terrible Game:
Back to the Future, for NES
-Poor control
-No Story
-Extremly small time limit
-IT BURNS THE EYES!!

Terrible, terrible game:
Monster Party, for NES
-Lame Story
-Extreme difficulty
-Blood and Guts, everywhere! (and I'm talking about NES)

Awful, Terrible, terrible game:
Milon's Secret Castle (http://www.disasterlabs.com/index.php?sec=cheese&che=milon (http://www.disasterlabs.com/index.php?sec=cheese&che=milon)) for NES
-No Story
-No clues in what you have to do
-Just plain AWFUL!

^^I liked Milon's Secret Castle and Monster Party a lot, they are far from terrible games IMO. If I remember Back to the Future and not one of the sequels, it wasn't TOO bad, either.

Anyone tried Herdy Gerdy for the PS2? I got it cheap ($5) at a circuit city clearance, and it's kind of neat just for the graphics but the load times are so bad it's pretty much impossible to play while maintaining your sanity. So unless you have one of those HDLoader things, I would recommend skipping that one :D

Edit: D-Mac, thanks for the link. It reminds me a little bit of some Monster Truck game for the N64 a friend made me play earlier this summer, only much much worse (which is kind of hard to do...)
It was funny and sad at the same time. How does something like that get released?!

well, when I played Milon's secret castle, I was like 5, and didn't know that you had to push the one block for a whole 5 seconds. Must have been the extremly small attention span.  Monster party is still kinda weird and all. But one bad game I truly can mention is

Sonic the HedgeHog for SNES.
I'm dead serious, here's a picture http://prezkennedy.org/modules/myalbum/photos/353.jpg (http://prezkennedy.org/modules/myalbum/photos/353.jpg)

Just think the original Sonic, but less action packed, worse graphics, and whole lot darker.
I was watching my bro play it once, and it disgusted me to see Sonic and Mario put to shame.

Hmm... That must've been a fan-game... I can't believe that back durring the system-wars days that Sega'd let Sonic on a Nintendo system. O_o

oh man, that one is defintiely a bootleg. heck, i've seen "Super Mario World" on the list of Genesis games! Nintendo and Sega were fierce competitors during those days, so it was quite obvious that both of these games are fakes, not to mention that "Somari" game that some random guy made for NES.

It's a sprite-swap of the Speedy Gonzales game. ;-)

really? i never imagined any of them as a redone version of one of the Speedy Gonzales games  8O

Really? Thats weird, I never would have realized a sprite swap on a game like that.

What I remember...  Worst games:

Revolution X for the SNES.

Heroes of the Lance for the NES (the game that you could beat in 5 minutes, literally.).

Extreme Sports with the Bernstein Bears for the NES (It was basically a collection of minigames where the only differences were what the background looked like.  I'm not even kidding.)

Legend of Zelda:  Wand of Gamelon for the CDI  (One of the legendary Zelda games that had animated cut scenes in it.  I kid you not.  Don't believe me?  Here's some proof.

(http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/5751/zelda19bb.jpg)


(http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/9/zelda27us.jpg)


I know.  Don't get me wrong.  The cut scenes weren't all bad, but the gameplay was terrible...  So horrible that I couldn't even begin to describe it...)

Explain to me how killing people with CD's while saving Aerosmith isn't a rad concept for a game. :D


...ok your right, it's pretty bad. 

Bebe's Kids for SNES
Fist of the North Star for Gameboy
Sumo Spirits for SNES (the nintendo sumo game was alot better)
but these are all b-rated pieces of crap.

The worst game I've ever played, was one that actually tried to be good. The Adventures of Dr Franken. Try them all out.

you want some really bad games?

Try Paperboy on the Atari 2600
and Dangerous Dave for Dos 2.3 on the PC

They are by far the worst games you'll ever have to lay your eyes on ;)

and yea these games were about before a lot of you were even born :]

Neko

Revenge of Custer 2

Wow.. GG Atari.

Burkey

Ghostbusters (NES)
Othello (NES), because the computer player is a cheapskate
Capcom Fighting Evolution (PS2), due to lack of fighter variety and complicated fighting system. well, complicated for me, anyway.

paper boy reminded me of those damn Tiger games. Any hand held tiger game is a piece of crap. I wont even call it a video game.

Yeah, those Tiger handhelds were crap. I remember having a couple of them as a kid, and it just wasn't the same as a Nintendo. 16 colors is just 8 times as better as 2

Way of the Warrior for the Panasonic 3DO. 

Now, this one wasn't too well known, and would have probably been a really good game, except for two problems.

1:  Terrible graphics for a CD-Rom game.  The characters were basically paper cutouts for reasons unknown.  (They wanted another MK clone.)

2:  The game was impossible to beat.  Now let me give you an example on this, not using me because I am terrible at fighting games.  A buddy of mine had at the time beaten EVERY SINGLE MORTAL KOMBAT GAME THERE WAS!  On every difficulty too!!!  Now, not only didn't this game have a customizable difficulty, but it kicked the crap out of him constantly.  I tell you truly, I have NEVER seen ANYONE win a single round against the computer on this game... 

one of the worst games ive ever played was.....hmmm...everyones talkin about ataris and stuff...i bearly remeber my nes!!i must b young compared to all of u...or something..hmm..the only one i can think of is that truck game mentioned in the begining of this...and NO I DID NOT BUY THAT! if i did...i would of killed myself or something.......

Any game for Virtual Boy and Bandhi WonderSwan

ET for the gameboy. A completely uncompleteable game

Gremlins and Gremlins 2 for the Apple II and Dragon 32, again not completeable.

But finally one (when it came out in 1981) Ghosts and goblins, Ghouls and ghosts on the Amstrad CPC 464, Spectrum 48K, and Coin op were not completeable. I got to the 453rd level without an boss to fight. I just switched the thing off after 14 hours of play.

Neko

sonic 3d blast


god that game sucked.

I got one that tops the list....

ET for the Atari 2600    x.x


And othello isn't too bad Am2k, you did watch me beat the cpu that time :P    lol

No, it was one of those games where you could get the computer down halfway before taking a hit, then the computer would suddenly become a gaming prodigy and never make a single mistake.  And since there were no combos in the game, that meant the computer couldn't lose.

Hide and Seek for Atari and Custards Revenge for Atari.

yep, E.T. was so bad it hurt Atari's economy. literally!  :O

and, that's true, you did show me how you beat the cheating computer player before :P

herese one for ya, wheres waldo for the NES or SNES. what were they thinking when they made it?!?!?!?

Lets make really crappy BG music, with a giant picture we stole right out of the wheres waldo books cept make them impossible to distinguish faces for feet.
Also lets make the entire game moving a little square around that moves half way across the screen with just a tap of the button.
OH and make it so you just jam the A button over and over again untill the square passes over a blob thats supposed to be Waldo.
Lastly lets give each "Map" a time limit!