Guilty pleasures?

[A Sprite]

There's something wrong with me. Sure, I look normal, to the average eye. Perhaps a little small, perhaps I wear too much black, perhaps my skin is too pale, perhaps my hair is too many colors, all of them natural...okay, so I don't look the least bit normal, but still, you wouldn't expect me to have such a dirty secret.

 

You see, I once owned a Sega Dreamcast... it was everything you've ever heard. Soul Calibur had yet to de-evolve, Hwang stood tall in a world as sharp and clear as the best fantasy art paintings. Jet Set Radio was cell shading with an edge, before that became a marketing bullet point. The Skies of Arcadia beckoned, with a joy even the smallest things waking every cliche' to show us what it could really do, but never had, all those times we'd met before.

 

And I was playing KISS Psycho Circus. Worse still, my shame - I enjoyed it. A lot.

 

Surrounded by hundreds of low polygon enemies, no more than 12 to each insect (they had no heads, you see, and just 4 legs, so as to confuse their mammalian adversaries into a false sense of security - when was the last time you looked carefully at a coffee table? ) , there's music by a band I can't stand, telling me they want to "Rock and Roll All Night, And Party Every Day", and as the hordes of triangles cover the screen, and I pull out my ridiculous cliche' weapons of death, I nod my head along and decide I'm in videogame heaven - that this was what all those other action games have been aiming for, all this time. DIE you deformed cockroach slaves of the AntiChrist!

 

The song is over too soon. The game goes back to being an unfinished Gauntlet mod for Quake, but it's too late... I'm a fan, of one of the worst games ever made.

 

Or so I'm told.

 

We know better, don't we? That what offends the critics, and what offends our own tastes, can often be just as fun as what we're told is good for us.

 

Here's my blasphemy: I enjoyed it way more than Wolfenstein 3D.

 

So what are your guilty secrets?

 

What bad games are the right kind of terrible?

Edited July 31, 2007 by A Sprite

[Atarifever]

I sometimes play computer games from Valusoft, and enjoy them. I remember playing one where I went into a cave (it was very clearly a cave, like a million other caves) and, after several minutes in the cave, the character I was playing said, I shit you not, "what is this, some kind of cave?" That was perfect. He was silent for most of the game, but then you got him asking the dumbest question of all time for no reason.

Edited July 31, 2007 by Atarifever

[Ghost Soldier]

I haven't had too many stirring's of guilty pleasure lately. I do however have one secret that is so profound it could shake the very fabric your wearing on your back. I long to buy a copy of Shaq-Fu. Yep, you read it right and only this secret unplayed, unbought gem can bring my therapy visit's to an end.

[AtticGamer]

I play SFII just to see Chun-Li's pantyshots and I play Alien 3 SNES and I like it a lot more than any Contra.

 

And yeah, I wear too much black as well as doing anything possible to keep my skin pale.

Edited July 31, 2007 by Atari_kid

[Quadhorn]

*cough* ... Bust-A-Groove ... *cough* ... and the sequel despite being NTSC-only ...*cough*cough*

[fdurso224]

Hmmm.... I would say E.T....... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[8th lutz]

Pitfighter

[+FujiSkunk]

I still play Star Fox now and then. Not the Nintendo one, the Mythicon one.

[BydoEmpire]

I've always enjoyed 2600 Pac Man.

 

I play Zombie Revenge every Halloween - and love it. You can't beat that late-90s Sega voice acting. And you can spear zombies with a giant drill. What's not to love?

[cyberfluxor]

I sometimes play computer games from Valusoft, and enjoy them. I remember playing one where I went into a cave (it was very clearly a cave, like a million other caves) and, after several minutes in the cave, the character I was playing said, I shit you not, "what is this, some kind of cave?" That was perfect. He was silent for most of the game, but then you got him asking the dumbest question of all time for no reason.

Haha, that's just great.

 

Guilty pleasures? Well, I own nearly 1000 console games however I spend way more time playing PC games instead, and that's maybe 100 games to choose from tops. Also, I watch movies on Laser Disc more often than on DVD format.