Ten Worst Games of All Times[Video Games]

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[AppyPappy]

The Worst Game of All Time

1. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Atari, 1982) Platform: Atari 2600

About a third of the people I quizzed came up with this title almost instantly, and it's not hard to see why. No matter how you rate it, E.T. was a misbegotten product that deserved to be buried. (And, as things turned out, it was. More on that in a minute.)

How, you may wonder, does someone screw up the one-two punch of the year's most popular movie and the number one video game console? Through a combination of poor planning and unbridled optimism. Warner Communications, then Atari's parent company, sealed the deal to make a video game adaptation of the blockbuster movie in the summer of 1982, aiming to have the cartridge out for the Christmas shopping season. (Remember the TV ad, with E.T. in a Santa outfit? No? You can refresh your memory.) The result was a severely compressed development schedule, giving programmer Howard Scott Warshaw a mere five weeks to pull the game together.

[AppyPappy]

Finally, some good news. They had to go way back for some of these.

[smith288]

Altered Beast was pretty friggin bad.

Riiiiise froooom yoouuurrrr graaaaaaave.

[philsfan24]

total bs. i love et! one of my all time favorites. it gets ripped on way too much by the media.

[Echo Talon]

5. Pac-Man (Atari, 1981)

I don't agree with this... I played Pac-Man(Atari) for HOURS on end and flipped it(turned the score over) a few dozen times

[Echo Talon]

I also had ET, I don't "remember" it all that much but from what i do remember it wasn't "that" bad.

[domenad]

No way Prince of Persia belongs on that list. True, it had a more adult theme than the previous ones, but being chased by a monstrous, murderous time beast tends to make a person a little irritable, I would say. The only thing was, you had to find every little tiny secret to get the best ending, something you never would do without the help of a walkthrough.

[BenLurkin]

I can see the darn thing in my mind's eye but can't remember the name -- the display looked like an electronic funnel and it involved spinning the track ball so that the player intercept changes coming from the bottom of the funnel before they got to the perimeter. It was interesting for about ten minutes.

[Rastus]

Warrior Within's inclusion is ridiculous. I hated the "edgy" elements they felt they had to add, but it was still a solid sequel.

[Toby06]

Percentage of chart which resembles Pac-Man

[Augustinian monk]

Q-Bert and Quix were pretty pointless IMO. HOwever, I disagree about Smurf rescue on Coleco. I thought that was pretty fun. Dang I'm old.

[Echo Talon]

They also had "Postal" in the list of mentions of bad games
that game is EXTREMELY VIOLENT(And has some weird themes) but can't be one of the worst.

[Rastus]

Tempest.

[Rastus]

Tempest was fun. Tempest 2000 was even better, but not the "touching the face of God" experience the gaming mags made it out to be at the time.

[HEY4QDEMS]

How can they trash elf bowling, now I can understand if they trash frogger but there's something about knocking over a bunch of dwarfs by hurling a bowling ball at them that always seems to bring a smile to my face.


Hey did anyone see the game where the penguin uses a club to fungo seals?? Bloody and funny as hell.

[ClaudiusI]

Anyone want to post their top ten?
Assuming we're including computer games under the umbrella of video games:
Planescape:Torment, Legend of Zelda:Majora's Mask, Crystalis, Super Mario 64, Serpent Isle.
Those are my top five, not sure of what the next five would be... It would probably include Ultima 5 and Knights of The Old Republic II...

[Echo Talon]

LOL

[Echo Talon]

Tempest.

!!!! thats it... i was sitting here trying to remember the name!!! a girl down the street from me had a real tempest machine in her house. :)

[Rastus]

Majora's Mask would be on my list of best games.

[Mr. Mulliner]

That's really cute. I can't stop laughing here.

[Rastus]

I'll bet she did! ;)

^^ Not sure what that means, but. . . .