Bad Games That You Love

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Lushus mentioned the Power Rangers game.  I loved both the original side scroller and the game based on the movie.  I really need to download those, especially the movie game, since I never got further in that one than that blue boss with horns.

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I remember that I bugged my parents to no end so that they would buy me the game for Christmas. I received a big wrapped box, which contained another wrapped box, which contained another box, etc... ( they did the same thing for me when the Game Boy originally came out ) ... all the way to the Power Rangers Movie Game. I was estatic, me and my brother went to play it right away.

 

Not even an hour later, we beat the game and none of us died once. What I considered to be the greatest game in the world was in fact a crappy clone of Street of Rage that was just there to capitalize on the movie hype.

 

 

On wrestling games, I owned Royal Rumble for the Genesis. All the wrestlers, save for their finishers, had the same moveset and I could end a match at the hardest difficulty under a minute. However, I played it all the time. I was making my own storylines, which were beyond stupid, and there was like a King of the Ring tournament every 30 minutes. When Raw came out later, it was beyond awesome. I mashed the buttons so hard the first day that it gave me a blister on my thumb.

 

 

Other bad games that I enjoyed are the ones usually found on old X-in-1 NES cartridges. The ones I remeber the most are Legend of Kage, Elevator Action, City Connection ( damn that cat ! ), Sky Destroyer, Devil World and that game with bubbles and the girl you could undress. God did that sucked.

[Ced 0]

WM: The Arcade is great. I've owned all the home versions over the years.

 

Adam Bomb is like the Ermac of WWF games.

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I thought he was the Shen Long of WWF games, the urban legend people still debate as fact.

[AndrewTS 0]

"On wrestling games, I owned Royal Rumble for the Genesis"

 

It's amusing that Ric Flair was exclusive to the SNES version, and Hogan was exclusive to the Genesis version.

 

I guess their egos were so huge no game could contain them both until WCW vs. the World.

 

The Arena/LJN and Acclaim wrestling games ranged from totally horrible (Super Wrestlemania) to the awesome WWF Raw. I actually rented Raw for SNES back when I hadn't watched wrestling since I was a little kid. The game was just so damn fun I started watching the shows--and even though it was during 1995 (one of the worst WWE years ever), I'd wait through the crappy shows to catch the occasional HBK or Bret Hart match.

 

Raw was pretty much the same game as Royal Rumble, but each character had a unique moveset (though wildly inaccurate--Diesel with a DDT? 123 Kid with a big boot off the ropes, which Diesel doesn't have?). It had Mega Moves (super moves, which were ultra-powerful; to this day I can not do Diesel's, where he's supposed to stand behind you, toss you waaaaaaaaay up in the air and then you come crashing down), which I'd often have memorized--like Doink's--left left left A, and HBK's--down, right right, tap A...which I'd just pretend is the superkick since they still had him listed as using the Back Suplex for a finisher. You could toss guys into the corner, and do the ten shots. However, against the computer, I'd mercilessly pound them to the count of 8 or 9, do a running shoulder ram into the corner twice, then repeat. Muhahaha!

 

Plus, you could smash people over the head with a chair or a bucket. The chair could be smashed overhead--after which is was useless, or be used to jab somebody in the stomach. If you laid it down on the ground or smashed it over somebody's head, you couldn't use it anymore, but it was respawn when you left the screen. The ref couldn't do anything if you did it out of the ring--you could eye gouge and choke your opponent. You couldn't take weapons into the ring, but you could punch the crap out of the ref to knock him out (or just run over him). Abuse the ref enough, and he motions "screw this" and leaves the ring--then whoever gets their energy meter drained first loses.

 

It was one of the first 4-player wrestling games to come out in the US. You could do tags, Royal Rumbles, Survivor Series matches, a standard season where you'd beat all of the other wrestlers/teams, and it had the "Bedlam" mode. Stupid name, but it was a TORNADO TAG match. There was also Gauntlet matches (Raw Endurance Match).

 

The game took into account "attributes" (not everyone had the same stats), but you could change them. The total number of points was fixed, but you could redistribute them to make 123 Kid a lumbering mini-hoss with massive strength, or make Yoko a nimble guy who could attack quickly, etc.

 

Obviously, I've played waaaaaaaaay too much of that game for my own good, but I still enjoy it here and there. It's a button-masher, so anyone can play it.

 

Too bad that the 32X version didn't really add much, except for the Raw sign (as a weapon), and KWANG! KWANG didn't really even have a special, unique moveset either.

 

However, before Raw, the Sega CD got Rage in the Cage--a version of Royal Rumble souped up to the nth degree. More play modes than the regular 16 bit games, I think it had 30-40 wrestlers (even if only their finishers were different), you could watch (grainy) video of a wrestler doing his finisher, ring introductions by Howard Finkel using actual voice samples (height, weight, hometown), and SUPERSTAR VOICE OVERS ("Everybody has a price for the Million Dollar Man, and I bet I could buy you really cheap." *DiBiase evil laugh*; Kamala: *usual grunting noises and belly slap*). It had a pretty cool intro. Naturally, the star attraction was the STEEL CAGE match, though. Too bad they didn't put it any of the Raw games.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

My pals and I only had the chance to play Rage in the Cage once when we rented it and the Sega CD from a video store and boy was it fun.

 

The thing I remember about the Rumble game (and even the Rumble mode in Raw) was me and afriend seeing how fast we could clear out the computer and get back to me vs him. Irish whip, backdrop/hiptoss, repeat. Good times.

[Black Lushus 0]

The thing I remember about the Rumble game (and even the Rumble mode in Raw) was me and afriend seeing how fast we could clear out the computer and get back to me vs him. Irish whip, backdrop/hiptoss, repeat. Good times.

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I did this myself once, beat it in like 1 minute, it was fun!

[Special K 0]

In the SNES Rumble, wear down your opponent just a bit (maybe take away 1/5th of his life) Then Splash-->Running Elbowdrop back to splash and he'll never get up. Still a fairly fun game, but that's game-breaking right there.

[Vampiro69 0]

How could you all forget the classic SNES game "Zombies Ate My Neighbors!" This game was great, espically since I was able to pick it up for like $10 at a Kay Bee Toys about 10 years ago.

[TheFranchise 0]

How could you all forget the classic SNES game "Zombies Ate My Neighbors!"  This game was great, espically since I was able to pick it up for like $10 at a Kay Bee Toys about 10 years ago.

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THIS GAME RULED!!

[Aero 0]

Zombies Ate My Neighbors was hardly a bad game. It's one of my favorite SNES games. I fear the doll factories.

[Jericholic82 0]

I still have RAW for Genesis. I used to love that game. It was the first game I played where you got to use actual finishers. Though diesels powerbomb looked messed up, all of them were well-animated (outside of the sharpshooter for bret and owen being locked in at superspeed. I loved the mega-moves though I cannot always do them (I have the button combos copied from an aold wwf magazine). My fav is Kids, jumping from turnbuckle to turnbuckle, then splash onto the opponent. Bret does a 450 somersault splash thingy?(!)

 

Plus for the first time a woman wrestler, Luna Vachon, was included. Plus the great midi-versions of the theme songs (owen's sounded pretty good actually as did Doinks and Takers)

[Rendclaw 0]

Royal Rumble was the best of them all... I loved using Shawn Michaels' atomic drop going right into that nasty back suplex finisher he had... now that he's done a heel turn, he should start busting that out again.

[Jericholic82 0]

I only played The Power Rangers game for Genesis, that was like a streetfighter/MK ripoff. You had to fight different monsters using the mega zord (i think that was the name) Robot. I renetd it once and found it lame.

[Art Sandusky 0]

The teardrop suplex was hot.

[Fökai 0]

Super Baseball Simulator 2000 for the SNES. 

 

Some of the CRAZIEST Baseball ever...which makes it a bad game to some. 

 

Fun as fuck, says I.

 

Dames

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Oh god.

 

I had Super Baseball 2020 for the Genesis, which I played the FUCK out of when I was growing up.

 

Seriously, for a good year, I could not put the game down. After school, I raced home to play, usually as the 'American Dragons'. I refused to have more than one robot on my team at a time (unless they were purchased during the game, which made it okay).

 

I remember, by the end of any given game, a friend and I would have a complete line-up of fully-upgraded humans and bots, so the scores would inevitably end up in the 30's. Everything about the game was absolutely ridiculous, from the jumping pads, to the fact that homers hit anywhere but center field resulted in a live ball played off of the domed seats, to the upgraded stats for the 'seventh inning stretch', made this game a underrated classic that was ahead of its time.

 

Fuck, I need to find that shit on eBay and relive my childhood again.

[Rendclaw 0]

I remember having Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 for the Snes.. I was a huge Braves fan at the time so I made that lineup and played with both normal and the super settings... that was a fun game to be sure...

[Black Lushus 0]

Cyberball was a pretty bad game that I loved playing...it was on the Genesis (there was an arcade version, too) where you had robots playing football and if you didn't score a touchdown within a certain amount of downs, the ball would explode and destroy whatever robot was carrying it...

[Special K 0]

BaseWars was awesome. (NES game) You had 4 types of robots (normal, tank, spider, hover) and you could upgrade tons and tons of their parts. Win games and you got money. In tagout situations, the robots fought.

It was a bit easy, as if you were pretty good at the game, you could have a completely unstoppable team by season's end.

[Anya 0]

I just played Two Crude Dudes for the first time. Not as good as Bad Dudes. We need a new "Dudes" game to have a Dudes Trilogy.