Nah, we never had consoles when we were really young and by the time we did my Mum would ask my brother and vice/versa.
The only person guilty of buying shit games for me, is me.
The only person guilty of buying shit games for me, is me.
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Did your family ever buy you any truly terrible games as a child?
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Yes! I had completely forgot about the game until about 3 years ago when I saw The Angry Video Game Nerd video about it. The worst kind of nostalgia but still, nostalgia none the less.
One of the dos Mega Man games. I think i played it for like 10 mins and then never touched it again.
I did it to myself and asked for this for Christmas(I really liked the show at the time). To this day I don't know if it was a bad game or not but I enjoyed it enough.
I still think this is a great game. It sucks that the license messes with its chances of being re-released.
I loved that game :)
Perfect companion to Mario Paint, the power of the mouse ahaha.
I bet you wanted Street Fighter II turbo, right ?
Yeah- There was never a time when I wasn't in complete charge over the games I received.
My first game purchase ever was Back to the Future on NES, so I was off to a good start.
Holy shit, Rollergames looks dope af. Honestly looks like a more fun licensed Konami game than Monsters in My Pocket lmfao
This has to be the worst one ever purchased for me:
in what world is gradius 3 a "truly terrible" game lmfao
This has to be the worst one ever purchased for me:
in what world is gradius 3 a "truly terrible" game lmfao
You should play Rollergames. I always liked it more than the NES TMNT games. I don't have any real attachment to the licenses of either of them.
Nice to know it wasn't just me liking pretty much everything as a kid lol.
Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22, it has a 25 on Metacritic. To be fair I actually liked it mostly because it was the only Dragon Ball game I had at the time.
Sure, my mom bought bad games for me plenty of times (along with the actual ones I asked for) and I still loved those bad games because my mom bought them for me so I didn't care that they were bad.
I got Sonic Unleashed (Wii) for Christmas. I had it penciled in on a list somewhere, and then forgot to edit it when I realized that was not a good idea.
It was okay...
It was okay...
I actually finished this in front of my parents and they were like "that's it?"
I also got Eternal Ring on the same day, but we all know that is an amazing game.
For context, my parents aren't game-illiterate, but they were hard pressed for an RPG for me in the early days of the PS2.
My parents were pretty decent at avoiding bad games; Masters of Teras Kasi and Return of the Joker (which I wanted for Christmas) were as bad as it got. More often than not, they bought me some awesome stuff on a whim like Vigilante 8, Rayman, Spyro, Resident Evil Outbreak, Jak and Daxter, and more.
I got Mario is Missing for my birthday. I was only about 10 so I understood zero of the trivia or travel questions and just aimlessly ran around and hated it.
I got this too, but I asked for it as well lol
The only LJN games I liked as a kid were Jaws and Friday the 13th. I think they're both pretty cool yet flawed games that could be really great with some QoL improvements and a little more content.
Did you play NES Punisher? That's an LJN game (developed by Beam) that I liked.
i didn't even realize it was LJN. its the one that's like operation wolf, right?
Yeah. I always thought it was funny how you could shoot the saxophone player and he keels over.
i'll have to try it again, my memory is very fuzzy lol i know i rented it a couple of times.
That game is fucking rad.
I know your pain friend, and I believe I know a worse definition of the word because I got the first of those shitty games.You don't know my pain.
Track Attack! for the Apple ][ was perhaps not a truly terrible game, but it wasn't the classic Infocom game I was lobbying for, either and I certainly didn't spend much time with it. One look at the "time to complete" of 8 hours for The Witness and my grandmother decided to buy something with ostensibly longer-lasting entertainment value instead.
I'd like to meet the person who finished The Witness in eight hours before the advent of walkthroughs.
I'd like to meet the person who finished The Witness in eight hours before the advent of walkthroughs.
Not really. Shaq Fu, but I begged them for it due to the commercial so it was my fault :-/
It still had its moments though.
It still had its moments though.