Awful, Terrible, Terrible Games.

[D-Mac]

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

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 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! 
• The randomly appearing, "YOU'RE WINNER" TROPHY!  - 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.

[BurkeWorld]

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

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

Burkey

[Methid Man]

And I thought Big Mutha Truckers was bad...

-- Sam the Methid Man

[BurkeWorld]

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

Burkey

[ApacheMan2K]

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  i'd be a moron not to ignore that waste of CD space.

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

Burkey

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.

[BurkeWorld]

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

Burkey

[Blackcat]

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.

[AsterCrow]

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

[Tigriss]

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

[Turbos]

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
Then, they had the guts to actually make a sequal.
Extreme PaintBrawl 2
Then, they thought that they'd pull over on someone and made the next installment. Only there's something weird....
Extreme PaintBrawl 4
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.

[ApacheMan2K]

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."

[D-Mac]

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

[ApacheMan2K]

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.

[Marurun]

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).

Oooh, I own that game And I never could figure out how to play it because it was so stupid.

[Valkyrie]

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) for NES
-No Story
-No clues in what you have to do
-Just plain AWFUL!

[cabbage]

^^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

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?!

[Valkyrie]

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

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.

[KyoZaber]

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

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

[ApacheMan2K]

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.

[Supersonic]

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