What is the Worst Game you Ever Bought?

[Classic Pac]

What game you actually paid money for that later turned in to a huge pile of elephant droppings?

 

Me it was Super Hylide - Genesis Which almost turned me off of RPGs forever.

[cimerians]

Rise of the Robots on PC

 

Runners up:

Shattered Light PC

Firefly on the 2600

 

 

Luckily I haven't gotten too many rotten ones until later years just for collecting purposes.

[Reaperman]

For full price 'back in the day,' Master of Orion 3 comes right to mind.

They did two very good ones before it, so I bought it pretty much as a reflex.

It wouldn't have been hard to have made it great--just copy one of the earlier games and make it prettier.

That's all I wanted.

 

I still play MOO2 every so often.

Edited September 19, 2013 by Reaperman

[VectorGamer]

Pac-Man (Atari VCS)

Space Jockey (Atari VCS)

[slab0meat]

State of Emergency comes to mind.

[Hyperboy]

Outlander on the Genny

[CatPix]

The worst game I bough without knowing it would be crap (so games I bough knowing it will be crap doesn't count) is Silent Hill : Origins on PS2.

 

Goodness. I can't even play it again despite the fact I beat it once. I guess my brain refuse to go through that shit again.

[Tales from the Game Room]

What game you actually paid money for that later turned in to a huge pile of elephant droppings?

 

Me it was Super Hylide - Genesis Which almost turned me off of RPGs forever.

 

For me, it was any game on Sega CD or Sega 32X that was literally a carbon copy of the Genesis version, save for better music or more colors. I mean, seriously, couldn't the game companies have put SOME EFFORT into those releases? Give me an extra level, extra characters, extra something...to justify spending $60 over the $30 Genesis version...

 

- Ash

TALES FROM THE GAME ROOM

[awhite2600]

Frogger for the Intellivision - back in the day. I was a big fan of the arcade game. I have a love for games with good background music.

 

As the Intellivision had great sound capabilities I had (wrongly) assumed that the background music would play during the game. I was so disappointed when I got the game home only to discover that there was just a brief bit of music and then nothing "in game".

 

I tried to return the game the next day but the store wouldn't take it back. I ended up trading it (along with Tron Maze-A-Tron) for another game at a different store.

[Hatta]

What game you actually paid money for that later turned in to a huge pile of elephant droppings?

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity

[Emehr]

Dark Castle for Genesis. Bought it new from Babbages and promptly exchanged it for Starflight, which rocks. Dark Castle was designed for a mouse.

 

I actually liked Super Hydlide enough to play it to the end boss. I appreciated how they tried to switch up the game play so it didn't rely on ambush encounters. I also liked how they tried to make the tile-based graphics more organic. The game was a good effort but it could have used some polish, for sure.

[S1500]

Top Gear Daredevil for the PS2. The last game I will ever buy based on the cover.

[Rex Dart]

Floating Runner! What a piece of shit.

 

 

[mkiker2089]

This is tough for me. I don't think I can count the shovel ware I bought for the C64 as it was always dirt cheap and mostly decent. They had so many space shooters with odd graphics.

 

Worst could be Knight Rider on the NES but as I paid 2 dollars I hate to even consider it. Do we factor in price?

 

I have it, worst game that I paid money for would be Toki Tori 2. Some people love it, I HATE it. It's one of those games that has poor direction so you end up wandering around a lot.

[NE146]

SNES Power Moves for $99 comes to mind... oy!

[Seob]

Indiana jones and the staff of kings for the wii. And i was a bit disapointed when i bought Ferrari for msdos it wasn't the pick up and drive game i thought it would be.

[goldenegg]

Myst for the 3DS. I'm a huge Myst fan (just the original, don't care for the sequels) and have played every port. The 3DS port is horrendous. They should be ashamed for releasing it.

[BydoEmpire]

One of the Batman games for NES. It was about $70, which was a big chunk of change in college - I really wanted an action/platformer and it seemed like it had it all, with the driving levels and everything. Truth be told, it probably wasn't *that* bad, but it was so far below my expectations - especially considering the price - that I have to rate it "worst game I ever bought."

[dendawg]

Beast Wars for PSX. I literally traded that piece of shit in the next day.

[+CyranoJ]

without a doubt - The Eye - Atari ST

[DaytonaUSA]

Star Fox: Assault

 

Looking back, it really wasn't a horrible game, but my disappointment while playing it... expecting the next gen version of Star Fox 64... well it was like someone gave me 80,000 copies of E.T and Pacman for Atari on my birthday. I was crushed.

[Chuck D. Head]

Star Fox: Assault

Ha! I am playing that now and quite enjoying it. But I paid $1 for it.

 

Mine is a tie, and I bought them both the same day - Firefly and Sorcerer for the 2600.

 

Superman 64 would actually be worse if graded by enjoyment per dollars spent. What a piece of crap!

[jhd]

The only thing that comes imediately to mind is Shipwreckers on the original PlayStation. I was expecting ship-to-ship combat; what I got was a puzzle game.

 

(Dis)Honourable mention goes to Airlock on the 2600. I did not buy it myself, but I persuaded a friend to purchase it, and I then borrowed it from him.

[Skarrj]

Monkey ball for the wii is on the top of my list somewhere. Flashpoint dragon rising is up there as well

 

Most recently, 007 for the wii u. What a giant pos

Edited September 19, 2013 by Skarrj

[+save2600]

BITD, would have to be 2600 Starfox - was dirt cheat at KayBee, but still. What a turd.

 

In modern times, I'd have to say something along the lines of Lego Indiana Jones or that MMORPG Star Wars game, where you were just wandering around. Blech!

 

OR any driving game that has you button mashing to get past all of its silly options before you can friggin' race already!