Screwattacks worst 10 fighting games-includes Kasumi Ninja for the Jaguar

[8th lutz]

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=20506&type=wmv

 

10.) Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi-Ps 1

9.) Justice League Task Force-genesis& snes

8.)Kasumi Ninja- Jaguar

7.)Primal Rage- snes&genesis

6.) Pitfighter-multiple systems including the arcade

5.)The Simpson's Wrestling game-ps 1

4.)Street Fighter 2: the movie -ps 1 & Saturn, Street Fighter Ex 3-ps 2

3.)Ballz: Director's Cut-3D0,Ballz 3d-Snes,Genesis

2.)Ultraman-snes

1.) Shaq Fu-Multiple systems

 

I felt Screw Attack should've done a worst 20 fighting games list instead of a top due to the amount bad fighting games out there. There were right about there being so many bad fighting games out there that some of them will not make their list.

 

A fighting game character shooting fire out of his crotch almost saved Kasumi Ninja from being on the list according to screw attack. There are 3 games, I would take off this list: Pitfighter(I love the genesis and the arcade version of the game), Primal Rage, and Ballz. Ballz is not a great game, but common here, there are games that are worse then this. I would put Rise of the Robots-Multiple systems, Rise 2: Resurrection, and Way of the Warrior-3d0. I heard of all the games mention when they were released except for Ultraman.

Edited June 15, 2007 by 8th lutz

[Mark III]

These kind of lists are always basically top 10 mainstream ______ games of all time with one obscure title thrown in. If you were to do a real top 10 list it wouldn't be interesting for the average mainstream gamer because it would contain almost exclusively games they've never heard of.

[2600Lives]

Primal Rage actually had a fairly deep fighting system, with actual skill required to do the combos. The home versions were crap, though.

 

Ultraman? Bah, I loved the hell outta that game! Was the very first SNES game I ever rented!

[wccw mark]

Primal Rage actually had a fairly deep fighting system, with actual skill required to do the combos. The home versions were crap, though.

 

Ultraman? Bah, I loved the hell outta that game! Was the very first SNES game I ever rented!

i agree.i enjoy ultraman for snes.i would put dragon the bruce lee story in the place of ultraman.i have that bruce lee game for jaguar and it sucks.

[Gregory DG]

Funny how any top ten list with a Jaguar game on it goes beyond the game itself to attack the Jaguar too.

 

I was looking for Rise of the Robots, Way of the Warrior, Bloodstorm, and Time Killers to be on that list. Without those four bombs, the credibility of the list is suspect.

Edited June 15, 2007 by Gregory DG

[2600Lives]

Again, Time Killers was a game I loved the hell out of. I've got the Genny version, and still play it from time to time (though the MAME version is better from an accuracy standpoint). I even managed to beat the arcade version once (couldn't believe I did it!).

 

And dude, LOVE the name WCCW Mark. I grew up watching Kerry, Kevin, and Iceman King Parsons feud with the Fabulous Freebirds (R.I.P. Bam Bam Terry Gordy). From what I've heard, Vince has finally purchased the WCCW video archives from Kevin and will be releasing DVDs very soon. I can't wait, as the AWA DVD now ranks as one of my fave wrestling titles of all time (just edging out Mick Foley's Hits and Misses DVD).

[Gabriel]

Well, on the good side, they didn't choose to bash on Battle Arena Toshinden.

 

On the bad side, where are:

 

Criticom

War Gods

Virtual Fighter 2 (Genesis)

Ravenloft: Iron and Blood

Ergheiz

Rise of the Robots

 

?

 

Oh, and Weaponlord. That one really sucked.

Edited June 15, 2007 by Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Way of the Warrior

 

That one really deserves to be on a top 10 worst fighting game list too.

 

I think it was an exercise in promotion over the game itself. It became famous because it had a White Zombie soundtrack. And for about a year, the tips and tricks sections of all the game mags were absolutely packed with codes for the damn thing. The game was filled to overflowing with goofy secret stuff. I've always wondered if EGM got paid for those little tip blocks in their magazine. If not, then Way of the Warrior got a metric assload of free advertising.

[wccw mark]

Again, Time Killers was a game I loved the hell out of. I've got the Genny version, and still play it from time to time (though the MAME version is better from an accuracy standpoint). I even managed to beat the arcade version once (couldn't believe I did it!).

 

And dude, LOVE the name WCCW Mark. I grew up watching Kerry, Kevin, and Iceman King Parsons feud with the Fabulous Freebirds (R.I.P. Bam Bam Terry Gordy). From what I've heard, Vince has finally purchased the WCCW video archives from Kevin and will be releasing DVDs very soon. I can't wait, as the AWA DVD now ranks as one of my fave wrestling titles of all time (just edging out Mick Foley's Hits and Misses DVD).

yeah,i read that wwe now owns all the wccw footage.hopefully they come out with some great dvd sets of wccw.also,have you watch the dvd heros of world class:the story of the von erichs and the rise and fall of world class championship wrestling?its a must see for any wccw/von erich fan.

[ls650]

8.)Kasumi Ninja- Jaguar

Obviously these guys have never played Double Dragon V for the Jaguar...

[Gregory DG]

8.)Kasumi Ninja- Jaguar

Obviously these guys have never played Double Dragon V for the Jaguar...

Or the Genesis or SNES versions either...

[Atarifever]

Funny how any top ten list with a Jaguar game on it goes beyond the game itself to attack the Jaguar too.

In all honesty, I'm surprised they didn't manage to work E.T. in there just so they could make landfill jokes again. I can see it now "while not technically a fighting game, E.T. counts because pit, pit, landfill, Atari, crash, E.T. pit, landfill. LOLOLOLOL". That's their general number one punchline on worst of lists.

[Scumdogg]

I own at least 4 fighting games that are worse than Shaq Fu, just in my personal collection. Yet i don't own a copy of Shaq Fu because i can't find one in decent condition. You'd think a cheap, complete copy for the Genesis wouldn't be too much to ask if they're out there in such abundance that a website is bent on destroying them.

 

The only effect lists like this ever have on me is making me say "Ooh, i gotta get that!".

[A Sprite]

Justice League Task Force earns a spot just by being 3 years obsolete upon release? Damn. I thought Street Fighter 2's gameplay held up pretty well all this time, and the game was just slightly below mediocre - thus, the greatest f-king Superman game ever, by a mile.

 

Shows what I know.

 

Mullets and Aquaman are enough to reason to bury it in the desert next to ET.

 

Thanks, Screw Attack, for helping me keep my opinions popular.

Edited June 15, 2007 by A Sprite

[nester]

I'd say that Fight For Life shoulda been on the list. At least with Kasumi Ninja it doesn't take 2 minutes to turn around.

[kevincal]

Kasumi Ninja does play pretty roughly...but it has pretty nice graphics for its generation. Now, the worst fighting games have to come from systems from the 80's and early 90's... Atleast even the worst fighters from '93+ had decent graphics... I find a lot of 2600 games downright laughable because they have absolutely nothing going for them... Atleast with the crappy Jag games, they have decent graphics to look at!

[Scumdogg]

Justice League Task Force earns a spot just by being 3 years obsolete upon release? Damn. I thought Street Fighter 2's gameplay held up pretty well all this time, and the game was just slightly below mediocre - thus, the greatest f-king Superman game ever, by a mile.

 

Shows what I know.

 

Mullets and Aquaman are enough to reason to bury it in the desert next to ET.

 

Thanks, Screw Attack, for helping me keep my opinions popular.

 

 

I don't know, i've wanted to like Justice League Task Force for years now, but i just can't. It legitimately is terrible. The only real way to win on anything but the lowest difficulty is to corner your opponent and just keep using the same move over and over again, nothing else seems to work the way it should.

Also, many of the character designs were already dated by the time it came out...that mullet superman was really a pretty dumb move. I know it's not a reason to say the game sucks, but it certainly doesn't help.

[A Sprite]

I don't know, i've wanted to like Justice League Task Force for years now, but i just can't. It legitimately is terrible. The only real way to win on anything but the lowest difficulty is to corner your opponent and just keep using the same move over and over again, nothing else seems to work the way it should.

 

You've got me there, but isn't Mortal Kombat 1-3 single player just as bad?

 

Also, many of the character designs were already dated by the time it came out...that mullet superman was really a pretty dumb move. I know it's not a reason to say the game sucks, but it certainly doesn't help.

 

Pretend it was entirely new characters, would it really be worse than

 

1. Rise of the Robots

 

2. Criticom

 

3. Fight for Life

 

4. Strip Fighter 2

 

5. Shadow: War of Succession

 

6. Survival Arts

 

7. Time Killers (Genesis)

 

8. Yu Yu Hakusho (gameboy original)

 

9. Mortal Kombat Advance

 

10. Karate (2600)

 

11. M.U.S.C.L.E.

 

etc

Edited June 16, 2007 by A Sprite

[Scumdogg]

I don't know, i've wanted to like Justice League Task Force for years now, but i just can't. It legitimately is terrible. The only real way to win on anything but the lowest difficulty is to corner your opponent and just keep using the same move over and over again, nothing else seems to work the way it should.

 

You've got me there, but isn't Mortal Kombat 1-3 single player just as bad?

 

Also, many of the character designs were already dated by the time it came out...that mullet superman was really a pretty dumb move. I know it's not a reason to say the game sucks, but it certainly doesn't help.

 

Pretend it was entirely new characters, would it really be worse than

 

1. Rise of the Robots

 

2. Criticom

 

3. Fight for Life

 

4. Strip Fighter 2

 

5. Shadow: War of Succession

 

6. Survival Arts

 

7. Time Killers (Genesis)

 

8. Yu Yu Hakusho (gameboy original)

 

9. Mortal Kombat Advance

 

10. Karate (2600)

 

11. M.U.S.C.L.E.

 

etc

 

 

The AI on the old Mortal Kombat games is questionable at times, but they're still winnable. My skills have slipped in the past few years, but i used to be able to demolish Mortal Kombat II on the higher difficulty levels. Justice League Task Force just feels broken, like nobody bothered testing the moves or hit detection.

 

And no, i wouldn't go so far as to say that it's worse than most of the games on the list you provided. But it definitely does fit the bill of a higher-profile failure, which is what these lists are all about. Many of the games on that list, you could replace with a random string of words like "Hyper Punch Battle 4: Glorious Fist", and the average gamer that watches countdown videos like this one wouldn't know the difference.

 

Rise of the Robots though...yeah, i don't know why that's not on the list. I remember that as one of my first truly crushing disappointments of the 16-bit era.

[JimmydelaKopin]

Hey, a 2D fighter isn't bad...until no one wants to "mugen" its characters.

 

Then you know it's bad. Heck, people have "mugen"ed Yie-Ar Kung Fu characters!

[Gabriel]

My list:

 

1) Rise of the Robots

 

AFAIC, the gold standard by which shitty fighting games are judged.

 

 

2) Violence Fight

 

I was recently introduced to this through the Taito Legends 2 disc. I'm very tempted to let it dethrone Rise of the Robots as the worst fighting game of all time, but I'll put it here at #2 instead. Like Rise of the Robots, it has some serious visual flair, but plays like total ass.

 

 

3) Ballz

 

I got this in a pack of Genesis games that came along with a SegaCD. Words cannot express the horror which is this game. It really is as bad as everyone says it is. Still, I'd rather play it than Rise of the Robots.

 

 

4) Criticom

 

This was soooo damn bad. Is Dark Rift on the N64 a sequel, or did they have to rename the game in order to trick people into buying it?

 

 

5) Way of the Warrior

 

No. This isn't at the top of the list. That should tell you how bad Criticom, Ballz, Violence Fight, and Rise of the Robots really are.

 

 

6) Ravenloft: Iron and Blood

 

Much to my shame, I rented this... and then bought it. I must have been on mind altering substances at the time.

 

 

7) War Gods

 

A lot of people have played this, because it somewhat rode the crest of Mortal Kombat's popularity. Plus, it was rumored to be a testing ground for MK4. It's damn bad. The only reason it doesn't have a higher rank is because it's somewhat playable, unlike the games listed so far.

 

 

Virtua Fighter 2 (Genesis)

 

What do you get when you take a game whose only real claim to fame is 3D graphics, and slap it on the Genesis with 2D sprites? You get crap like this. Perhaps it would have been acceptable in the early days of home 2D fighters, but that's only because standards during that time were so low. This game is ugly, plays poorly, and is an outright "FUCK YOU" to everyone who owned a Genesis.

 

 

9) Weaponlord

 

I got this for $2.50 at Blockbuster when they were clearing out 16 bit games. I should have simply gotten 5 rolls of pennies, put them in a sock, and had Charles Bronson beat me to death Death Wish-style. I would have enjoyed myself more.

 

 

10) Mortal Kombat 4

 

MK3 was underwhelming, to say the least. The run button and programmed combos really screwed up the game. MK4 would be a chance to vindicate that. Sadly, it seems that War Gods really was a testing ground for this game, and the powers that were decided that War Gods was just awesome.

 

 

Honorable Mention) Ergheiz

 

Let's be honest. The only reason anyone ever tortured themselves with this shit game was in order to play Cloud, Tifa, and Sephiroth. After doing that for about 10 minutes it either went back on the shelf never to be touched again, or to the pawn shop to get more money back on it than it was worth.

[AMG]

I enjoyed Primal Rage on the SNES back in the day.

[Pete5125]

Budakon...

EA game back in the days of James Pond as their mascot and before EA sports, I remember it was ported to the Genesis in their 1st generation of games and it was so bad that I traded DJ Boy (based on a generic Walmart arcade game Final Fight on skates) wasn't bad for $20. So I traded DJ Boy and got Last Battle (very slow moving side scroller) and Budakon(horrible Buddist Monk fighting game where you plsyed as a character that tediously learned how to fight the way Buddist monks do).

 

#1 Rise of The Robors 2 is the #1 worst fighting game

#2 followed by some Advanced D&D fighting game that came out for PS1 in its 1st year

#3 Budakon

#4 Double Dragon 5 (not only bad but ended one of the greatest side scrolling franchises.

#5 Shaq Fu hust because the game made no scense it would be like Hulk Hogans Rocking B-Ball(where your favorite Wrestlers played 1 on 1 Basketball)

#6 Way of The Warior...(Graphics perfect 10, sound perfect 10, music perfect 10, it had White Zombie, controll a 1 maybe not only was their like a 5 second lag between your butons and the character on screen but it never felt like you were even controlling your character, in agame that everything else is perfect.

#7 MK4 almost killed the mortal Kombat franchise and set it back 3 to 4 years.

# 8 Rise of the robots

#9 Street Fighter...it is so hard to believe a fighting game this bad brought us SF2

#10 Kasaumi Ninja....it had all the making of a good MK2 ripp-off but the creaters could not deside if it was a spoof or a straight rip, and they never play tested it enough to get the controll spot on, also why do I have to go through a slow Doom maze just to select a player w/ every other fighter just has a bunch of head shots to choose from....the only saving grace of the game was the free head band that everyone took out of the box and either did Karate Kid impersonations or hung on the wall...seriously this game is on e-bay daily and it never includes the head band

[NintendoDieScreaming]

We've all forgotten about Karate for the 2600, you know one of the worst games EVER.

[Scumdogg]

#5 Shaq Fu hust because the game made no scense it would be like Hulk Hogans Rocking B-Ball(where your favorite Wrestlers played 1 on 1 Basketball)

 

 

Umm...yeah, if they ever released Hulk Hogan's Rocking B-Ball, i would buy it at any price. As long as Randy Savage was in it, and i could windmill dunk with him. I can't think of a better way to spend $60.