07-20-2011, 02:32 PM
In no order what so ever out of the ones that I played and hopefully won't play again. It's hard to remember the bad games when you have the good games.
The Flintstones (Master System) - It is a really terrible game that came out on home computers but the Master System version is the worst one due to that it was handled by Tiertex. Your first stage is paint a wall, that's right paint a wall. While doing it in real life might not be so bad if you add your own touch, here you have a timer, Wilma nagging at you and Pebbles making your life worse. The second stage is the easiest in the game where you drive but there's even a chance you might lose the stage due to a bug. The 3rd stage is playing Bowling that should be reasonable but here Barney cheats and you're lucky to even get a Strike. The last stage is a platforming stage. There are only two music tracks that are just the Flintstones theme, the controls are horrible where if you can complete the game you should get a medal, graphics could be better, glitchy collision detection is awful and will mess up the 2nd and the last stage. It can even make the happiest person in the world turn sucidal. Luckily most people didn't play it.
Batman: Revenge of the Joker (Genesis) - The NES version actually showed at least some power of the console and is quite decent, the Genesis version is opposite. The graphics are horrible, the sound is a bit weak for the console (using the GEMS sound engine, one of the worst sounds of the console that was used in lots of games due to American musicians were too lazy to use any better), the game is hard even with cheats to the point of complete unfairness sometimes, the controls even seem a touch off resulting in deaths and that's it really.
OutRun (Amiga/Atari ST) - OutRun is a good game and most of the ports are good to decent but not the Amiga/Atari ST version. While the intro is fantastic over the top dramatic, the developers spent more effort on that than the rest of the game. The graphics are ugly even though OutRun is meant to look pretty, there's even a sign of laziness where the driver and the girl swap places when you turn. The game has a poor frame rate that is barely playable and the controls could be better. The music even doesn't sound right with Passing Breeze being unfinished (there was a reason why the tape versions of OutRun included the arcade soundtrack on tape) and is missing the OutRun touches such as the Music Select, the crowd with the flagman and other things. It even has to wait 20 seconds to load into the next stage after each checkpoint (to fair though it was hard to load the entire game in one go on them machines). This game also caused people to avoid the Probe name altogether even though it was one of their earliest games.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [the one published by US Gold, not the LucasArts one] - Another Tiertex effort, both console versions are bad. The controls and hit/platform detection are very poor with silly things that can kill you like the jumping to the top, shallow water and even grass in the 4th stage in the Genesis version. The timer is lethal in both versions, sometimes lucky to complete the stage with 1 second left. Hard games are not bad games (I do enjoy Contra), just when they are hard due to glitches and unfairness on your side. The only redeming thing is that the music isn't bad in the Genesis version, just unfitting for Indiana Jones.
To be honest that's all that I can of right now (unless I could include some more Tiertex ports like Strider and Turbo OutRun), I'm sure there's another 6 games to add but even some so called bad games I just find them medicore depending on the game. Also pirated games don't really count due to that they were made with their own tools with no help from the console companies.
Actually I'm not sure to include Sonic Heroes as well due to the amount of glitches (this is the Gamecube version supposably the best one out of the 3) and caused to be put off future Sonic games (except a couple of the 2D ones) but there were a few good things as well. Hmm...
The Flintstones (Master System) - It is a really terrible game that came out on home computers but the Master System version is the worst one due to that it was handled by Tiertex. Your first stage is paint a wall, that's right paint a wall. While doing it in real life might not be so bad if you add your own touch, here you have a timer, Wilma nagging at you and Pebbles making your life worse. The second stage is the easiest in the game where you drive but there's even a chance you might lose the stage due to a bug. The 3rd stage is playing Bowling that should be reasonable but here Barney cheats and you're lucky to even get a Strike. The last stage is a platforming stage. There are only two music tracks that are just the Flintstones theme, the controls are horrible where if you can complete the game you should get a medal, graphics could be better, glitchy collision detection is awful and will mess up the 2nd and the last stage. It can even make the happiest person in the world turn sucidal. Luckily most people didn't play it.
Batman: Revenge of the Joker (Genesis) - The NES version actually showed at least some power of the console and is quite decent, the Genesis version is opposite. The graphics are horrible, the sound is a bit weak for the console (using the GEMS sound engine, one of the worst sounds of the console that was used in lots of games due to American musicians were too lazy to use any better), the game is hard even with cheats to the point of complete unfairness sometimes, the controls even seem a touch off resulting in deaths and that's it really.
OutRun (Amiga/Atari ST) - OutRun is a good game and most of the ports are good to decent but not the Amiga/Atari ST version. While the intro is fantastic over the top dramatic, the developers spent more effort on that than the rest of the game. The graphics are ugly even though OutRun is meant to look pretty, there's even a sign of laziness where the driver and the girl swap places when you turn. The game has a poor frame rate that is barely playable and the controls could be better. The music even doesn't sound right with Passing Breeze being unfinished (there was a reason why the tape versions of OutRun included the arcade soundtrack on tape) and is missing the OutRun touches such as the Music Select, the crowd with the flagman and other things. It even has to wait 20 seconds to load into the next stage after each checkpoint (to fair though it was hard to load the entire game in one go on them machines). This game also caused people to avoid the Probe name altogether even though it was one of their earliest games.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [the one published by US Gold, not the LucasArts one] - Another Tiertex effort, both console versions are bad. The controls and hit/platform detection are very poor with silly things that can kill you like the jumping to the top, shallow water and even grass in the 4th stage in the Genesis version. The timer is lethal in both versions, sometimes lucky to complete the stage with 1 second left. Hard games are not bad games (I do enjoy Contra), just when they are hard due to glitches and unfairness on your side. The only redeming thing is that the music isn't bad in the Genesis version, just unfitting for Indiana Jones.
To be honest that's all that I can of right now (unless I could include some more Tiertex ports like Strider and Turbo OutRun), I'm sure there's another 6 games to add but even some so called bad games I just find them medicore depending on the game. Also pirated games don't really count due to that they were made with their own tools with no help from the console companies.
Actually I'm not sure to include Sonic Heroes as well due to the amount of glitches (this is the Gamecube version supposably the best one out of the 3) and caused to be put off future Sonic games (except a couple of the 2D ones) but there were a few good things as well. Hmm...