Worst Video Game Ever?

What - in your opinion - is the worst video game of all time?

For me that's a tough question. Joe Montana's Football for the Sega Genesis was the worst sports game I've ever played (you threw to a receiver that was in a picture in picture window). I've got a bunch of other games that make my "D" list and they are too numerous to mention here. However, the worst video game of all time has been named this week by Vintage Computing and Gaming.com as "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" for the Atari 2600.

Remember that game? Even the cartridge label was lame. Here is a scan of the "strategy guide" (with article to follow).

Oh, and if you can think of another candidate for worst video game of all time speak up!


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"You know the story — a cautionary tale of extreme cockiness and greed. Atari was so confident of their pending success with their first major movie-licensed game, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, that they rushed it out the door with only five weeks of development time and churned out four million copies of it. Sure, it sold well for a video game, but Atari lost tons of money on the deal, due to both the exorbitant price they paid for the game rights, and the fact that they sold roughly a quarter of the number of carts they manufactured. It was also one of the biggest letdowns of any video game ever, player wise (well, perhaps tied with Pac-Man for the Atari 2600), with frustrating gameplay that only a masochist could love.

Perhaps somewhere in its cold, machine-like gut, Atari felt the faint stirrings of a suspicion that maybe E.T. wasn’t quite up to snuff. Is that why they included this small fold-out strategy hint sheet with the game? Read it and decide for yourself."


source (http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/294)


LAME!
...but kids like me bought it and played it. Suckers!

Oh god, I've got a huge list, so I'll just toss out a few titles from the top of my head.....

Almost any game from the NES days that was based off of a cheap franchise a la E.T. (Cool Spot, California Raisins in Grape Escape, etc....) except for the good ol' TMNT games.

Caveman Ninja - Great as it sounds, this is really a game. A horrid one.

Custer's Revenge - The whole game consists of moving a naked General Custer across the screen to rape a Native American girl (tied to a cactus) while dodging arrows. I shit you not, this was a real Atari game.

Revolution X - As great as the idea of fighting a pretty much neo-communist revolution to Aerosmith tracks could be, this game just butchered the idea mercilessly, and then skullfucked the remains.

Carmageddon 64 - Seriously, what's the point of the game if you edit all the fun out of it? Making the targets into zombies, and then using that cheesy old Resident Evil green blood in pixelated goodness. Wow, I still remember the disappointment of the many that were hoping to see an actual port-over of the controversial PC gorefest.

Wild Woody - I shit you not, this was the name of a game. Another flop of the Sega CD era, it was a bad platformer/adventure game involving a pencil that threw dynamite..... seriously, developers need to lay off the drugs for a few minutes.

Punky Skunk - God help us all, my little sister was but a young'in when this crapper of a game came out. Of course she had to rent it, and from there, she learned what horrid gaming was all about.

Oh man, the titles are just spilling from my mind, it's like a support meeting for horrid games in my mind right now, currently being dominated by the horrid NBA legends that had their likenesses put into games (Shut Up And Jam!, Chaos In The Windy City, Shaq-Fu)

Recently, has to be the Warhammer stuff, was a huge fan of the of the game itself, in fact my Eleven/Eldar army was unbeaten but the video games just plain and simple sucked.

The game play was unuseable and the graphics were like 3 years behind everyone else. and if I hear that "come on FireWarrior" hook again I may actually get into some self harm

Pools of Radiance. Even by commodore 64 standards the game was shit