Rubbish games which you loved!


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I'm sure we were all there. You went in to John Menzies (or whatever shop you frequented) and had your hard earned pocket money to spend.


You bought a shit game because the screen shots on the back of the box fooled you.


You played it anyway.


You learned to love it.


I'll start with Captain Planet (Amiga) and Time Soldiers (SMS).


Both rubbish but with some forced gaming become strangely enjoyable.


Another one was bought from long bankrupt gameing chain 'Microbyte' 'Saint Sword' for the Megadrive. I never had the Jap-UK converter so I used to just hacksaw off the side of the Jap cart and it would work fine. I paid £9.99 for Saint Sword and completed it.


It was absolute rubbish, but I wanted to justify the low price.
 
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Godzilla on the NES, I've never met anyone who liked that game but I like to go through it every now and then.


Also, Defenders of Oasis on the Game Gear. When I was a kid I loved the game, tried to get my friends to see how cool it was but they all thought it sucked and also online reviews say it sucks also so I guess it wasn't only my friends. I'm playing through it right now through emulation on my DSi XL. It found me forever to find an emulator that wouldn't stretch the heck out of it though, I hate that.


EDIT: Oh, both of these games came from a bargain bin at Toys R Us. I also got SpiderMan Vs. the Kingpin for the Game Gear on one of those bargain bin dives and liked it but could never get passed Electric Man? Probably not his real name, he was a classic villain that wasn't in the comics I had when I was a kid.
 
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I WAS 7 AT THE TIME.. BUT I ... (a.K.A: my mum) bought me Urban Champions for the NES back in 85-86. I thought the screenshots were exceptional. It was the first game I saw that I thought was a pretty cool Street fighting game.


After playing the first 5 minutes I changed out the cartridge and played SUper Mario.....again.


I later came back to it and it grew on me.... A month past.... I was still playing through each thumb mashing level until I blistered and bleed.


I beat the bloddy game.... the one of few... I've ever beaten.
 
Craigix said:
David Bowman said:
Silly Craigix, you already started this thread:
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No, this is the reverse, this is rubbish games which you loved.
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I see. Subtle difference (in my mind anyway).


Saga Frontier for the PS1? I don't know if that's considered a "rubbish" game though. It was basically the same game over and over with only minor differences in the plots depending on the character you chose at the beginning of the game. It didn't have a very high production value, and you could tell it was a bit hurried, but I loved it all the same. I never did finish all of the characters.
 
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.HACK//infection for the PS2 gets my vote. Completely pointless, lame graphics, repetitive BGM, couldn't cause me to suspend disbelief long enough to accept the premise, yet there was something oddly emotionally satisfying about running down hallways, stabbing the crap out of every monster, and collecting the drops to trade to NPCs in town later.


Also, I spent a lot of time `playing' the game Gothic II for Windows. It was horribly buggy, used at least four times as much RAM as it should have, had hysterically bad voice acting and a completely unusable combat system, but these were what I derived my enjoyment from. You could punch one of the king's guard in the face, then clip through the corner of a building and fall into skybox hell to escape, or steal from a shopkeeper, then lead them onto a high roof, then watch them accidentally step over the edge and fall to their demise (bad pathing). It was nothing short of hilarious,
 
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Time Soldiers on the SMS was really enjoyable, i dont remember what made me get it but i had many happy hours playing that.


i loved Clumsy Colin's Action Biker on the C64, jack the nipper 2 on c64, championship sprint on the specchum, brutal sports football (though i dont recall if this was "bad" per se, outun 3d on sms, microprose's gunship on the speccy, transformers on the 48k, shao lins road on 128k speccy (the music was great).


looking back there are loads of games that i would now look at and consider rubbish but at the time were fantastic. stuff like world games, DT's super test, even the mighty kevin thoms' Football Manager looking back was rubbish (on various levels) but still massively engrossing.
 
This one doesn't date back to my childhood, but the two officially-licensed Mega Man games for MS-DOS fall under this category for me.


Make no mistake, I'm fully aware of how terrible they are (I finally got hold of them early last year), and yet there's something oddly compelling about them, due to how unusual they are, and how they don't fit in with the rest of the series very well.


They also have endearingly ugly graphics;


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Their big claim to fame is that the original Duke Nukem pinched some graphics from the first one (it shares this dubious honour with Turrican, as well).
 
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Two that immediately come to mind are "Awesome Possum" for the Genesis and "Aladdin" for the Master System/Game Gear.


"Awesome Possum" is this incredibly cheesy Sonic-like lefty-environmentalist game with quite clumsy controls. But I played it for quite a while, and... it's okay. I didn't think it was horrible like all of the reviews.


"Aladdin" for the Master System I think is actually a very good game that's a bit like Prince of Persia, but it seems to get some rubbish reviews. I have no idea why.


Also, "Keen 2000", a cheap fangame based on Commander Keen. A rubbish game by most standards, but I found it to be pretty fun.
 
The Matrix Online… I bought it on release day.


I wanted to give it a try even if I disliked the last two movies and the other games.


It took some time to get used to the battle system and the average graphics.


Then I started to really enjoy the game, the fact you where able to swap your abilities without having to reroll your character grew on me.


The whole crafting part of the game was great! From my point of view, the only other game with a crafting system comparable is EVE.


It's on that game that I first used the two nicks I still often use now : KodeIn (healer/gunner, coming from codeine, the drug) and KodeOut (hand to hand/hacker/crafter, inverse of kode in).


But I was short of money, so I stopped buying the monthly time cards, then the servers closed.
 
^ Good god, I've been reading your name as Kodeln, with an "L", for all this time. :lol: I'm sorry!
 
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^No problem, in fact it's what I was aiming for at the time. Because KodeIn can also stand for code line or refer to the ln command from unix
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I and l are similar in most of the moderns sans-serif font, that's what allowed me to make that trap
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I remember when I was a kid, my mom bought a second hand NES and one game, "Circus Caper", as a Christmas present for me and my sisters. This was in the early 90s, maybe 92/93, so it wasn't really state of the art technology even then. But it wouldn't have made much sense to buy it the year before since we didn't even have a TV. Actually, most of of the time when I was growing up we didn't have a TV. So to have a TV, a game console, and a game all at was once was living like royalty. So yeah, the game was

https://www.youtube.com/embed/iMINBv_Dqvs?feature=oembed but we still loved it. Sure beat the alternatives like fresh air or talking to each other.
 
Craigix said:
Time Soldiers (SMS).
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Amusingly I had this game... as crap as it was, it certainly had it's moments even though it was effectively the same few levels repeated over and over and over till your brain melted.


Shooting giant dinosaurs that spat bullets at you and axe flinging cavemen, while you shot at them with bazooka things.. brilliant ;) and a flame-throwing T-Rex as a boss? why not?!
 
Prometheus said:
...[Mega Man 3 for MS-DOS]...
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What are you talking about? I remember that game being awesome. Although I have horrible taste in video games. I have a glitched out copy of Double Dragon for the Game Gear. I assumed the red background and galloping green slime meant they were in some sort of computer simulation...I need to go find my Game Gear.
 
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