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what does everyone think of this list?

Oh, that is so incorrect! :P

I played maybe five of the games on that list.

et deseved it.the game sucked

I knew E.T. for Atari would be at #1. Did that game even have instructions?

The games I agree with on that list are:

Where's Waldo?
Total Recall
Fester's Quest (Yes, I did play this before the AVGN reviewed it. I played it at my neighbor's house when I was 5, and hated it.)
Superman 64 (I rented this when it first came out. Before everyone started saying that this game is the worst game ever just because of the internet.)
Wayne's World (I played this at my friend's house. Gee, I don't remember instruments going on a rampage in the movie.)
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Shaq Fu (I played this at the same friend's house. It's so bad, that I'm thinking about uploading its commercial on YouTube.)
E.T. (I played this at the same friend's house. People seriously need to play the games they hear are bad before they judge them because of internet lists. It's not the worst game ever, Mohawk and Headphone Jack for the Super Nintendo is.)

Other than those games, I don't agree with that list.

Yeah, most games on that list sucked...but how dare they put Ghosts 'N Goblins on there! That game was extremely hard, yes...but it didn't suck.

I agree with most of the games on the list except for Paperboy. I love the Sega Genesis version and I own it and play it from time to time. I always thought it was a unique and challenging game. I have a few additions of my own from the Sega camp:




-Mickey's Ultimate Challenge--Yeah its a baby game, but any game you can finish in 5 minutes is garbage. Especially if you paid like $49.99 for the game back in 1993.




-The Adventures of Mighty Max--Based on the awesome toys and TV show, you would think this game would be an instant success. With lousy controls and a hideous weapons system this game was probably destined to be found in a bargain bin right from the get go.



-Dark Castle--This piss poor EA port of a classic Macintosh game also suffered from horrible controls, cheap enemies, and even cheaper deaths from the fact that everything could kill you. For example, you could trip over a couple short steps of a staircase and it would spell your doom. I also forgot to mention your only weapon was a sad little sack of rocks.

Here's a more indepth review of this piece of shit (hilarious):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiPk_MhpeMs



-Rolo To The Rescue--Another baby game where you controlled a little elephant and his little woodland friends. Sounds like fun, huh? Not really. The bosses in this game are cheap and its ridiculous difficulty level (One hit and you're dead and then you have to start the level over) would drive any 5-year-old to drink and smoke and bash their little noggins against the wall until they bleed out their ears. Scary thoughts...I think this game was based on the little elephant from the Rolo candy commercials hence the name.



-Batman Forever--This game could've been great just because it carried the Batman name and legacy but this was not true. Another stupid movie game from the people who brought you the Sega Genesis version of Mortal Kombat II, comes Batman Forever. This was another game that suffered from hideous controls. This game also had the same palette swapped enemies the entire game with such memorable names as "Evildoer" and "Cuddles" (I'm not lying). This game was also sold on the fact that it had awesome digitized graphics and audio clips from the actual film (that sounded awful on the Sega Genesis with its low sound memory) and any game that has the main selling point of its graphics or some other "revolutionary" gimmick is going to automatically suck. Besides this game's most common flaws as seen in a lot of movie games, the movie the game was based on was reason enough for this game to suck. Joel Schumacher's bat nipples ruined the Batman franchise until 2005's Batman Begins directed by Christopher Nolan. I actually have this game and I just keep it around for a good laugh. The only decent Batman adventure on Sega Genesis was The Adventures of Batman and Robin based on the hit 90's KidsWB Animated series.

Here's another review from "The Fat Mann Judgeth":
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YaQ0CCKN-U
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ugvOsK_SA

To each their own...

Elevator Action, especially the Arcade version... was far from 'boring' 'dull' or 'repetitive'. If that were the case accepted nationwide, then there would never have been a sequal, let along multiple versions & variations on the theme.

Paperboy wasn't all that bad for NES, considering it was a port of a great Atari/Williams game.

Joust is a pure classic. The NES version didn't have identical sounds, but gameplay was spot-on.

Ghost N Gobblins for NES was hard HARD HARD, and frustrating, but far from 'worst'. They didn't even dabble on 3DO, PS/PS2/XBox games that can be considered far worse... it was good conversion, but it was difficult... not horrible.

The list is one's own opinion, but I think they have a LOT more research to do before posting such rubbish. They must not have played many games in their life because I've played most, and I disagree with at least half of those choices.

Meh

The "Batman Forever" video game is best played on the SNES, man.

i haven't forgot about my next article, folks. i just need to work on how i'm going to review them

Ghosts N Goblins the worst game? It was hard, but I loved it.

I liked Paperboy as well.

I agree with Superman 64 and Big Rigs.

They forgot the Rocky and Bullwinkle game for the NES.

I don't see the point in talking about games you think suck

I liked Fester's but I agree with everything else Turboduo said.

Ghosts and Goblins isn't a bad game, just because the freaking Irate Gamer reviewed it doesn't mean it sucks. I do agree with MUSCLE, Where's Waldo, The Three Stooges, and Fester's Quest. I didn't think ET was that dang awful, I've played worse games than ET for Atari, such as the newer ET games on the Game Boy Color and Playstation 1 for ET's 20th Anniversery re-release in theatres.

Here is an online guide to beating the ET game...wish I had it then...wouldve have saved frustration, but it still sucked nonetheless...like the Wheres Waldo game and Hard Driven....just awful.

what the hell is fatal fury doing on the list? "Fatal Fury was fun to play for 2 seconds because of how obvious of a rip off it was of Street Fighter." well that could be said for any fighting game at the time, and just because sf was better doesent mean this sucks. And ghosts and goblins? sure it wasent good as the arcade, but what would you expect when it gets ported to an nes? He is just complaining because of the difficulty, when really he just sucks at the game. Joust was just classic, jurrasic park for the genesis did kind of suck, but it was better then the snes version. everything else was about right though.

all i'm saying is, yo noid was a great game.

anyone will agree that e.t. is clown shoes. but, there are much worse games than that list. pac-man for the atari 2600, at least. here are a couple:

Nickelodeon Guts - SNES
Rex Ronan - SNES (if you've never seen this, look it up)
Warriors of Might and Magic - PSX
(obviously) the CDI Zelda games

I happen to know a few.

Vegas Stakes-SNES
When I was a kid I could not figure out how this game worked. But then again my father use to play alot of SNES back when we first got so im guessing this game was ment more for his amusment then mine, the only thing I could make sense out of was the slot machine.

Mario is Missing-SNES
Because a Mario game should not be this hard for a small kid with a short attention span to figure out. This was probably the first game that made me feel like the Angry Video Game Nerd.

Super Battle Tanks-SNES
You'd think a game with the word tank in the title would be a blast to play? But this game trys so hard to be close to the real thing theres hardly any fun in it.

Oh great, another list by someone who clearly doesn't know jack about video games...

Paper Boy?? HUGE hit in the arcades!

Ditto Elevator Action.

Ghosts n' Goblins, ALSO a huge arcade hit, and the NES version was a pretty damn good port of it.

The Genesis Jurassic Park was also pretty darn good, especially for a movie-based game. I mean come on, you could play as the raptor and hunt down the humans! THE RAPTOR! You want awful, look up the 3DO Jurassic Park game. Which SHOULD have been awesome, but, well, wasn't.

WTF is JOUST doing on that list??? That's an all time CLASSIC! Simple controls, simple rules, and fun as hell!

Yep, the last comment on that is dead-on - "If real gamers find and read this, you will get negative feedback for having so many classics on this list. It’s too personal and no real reasoning as to why they are on the list."

Kids these days. No respect for the games that helped shape the gaming industry we know today.