Shitty games that YOU love.

[Desh]

Just as the title says, what are some games universally regarded as being crap, that you love, and why?

Here are mine:


Spiritual Warfare.  Yeah, it is Wisdom Tree's finest.  Straight up Zelda clone set in modern times.  My Catholic grade school education pays off because answering questions about the Bible gives you power ups.  How can you not love enemies that drop to their knees and pray when you kill them?

Days of Thunder.  I love this movie.  The racing gets monotonous but this was the best NASCAR game available back in the day.  I love that you had to manually "pit" the car and that would determine the chance of winning or losing.  Plus, the damage the car can sustain and how it effects the car was ahead of it's time.

Hard Driving.  To this day the arcade version holds up as a great driving simulator.  I think this was the first arcade racer to feature a working clutch pedal.  If you have a sit down arcade of this for sale I am interested.  The graphics certainly haven't held up but VR in the late 80's early 90's was the shit.  Of course the console ports are not nearly as good as the arcade but that didn't stop me from putting hours into this game when I was a kid.

Terminator 2 Judgement Day (not arcade).  A game that actually followed the movie!  I even liked the NES version too.  This game is nothing special by today's standards or the standards of it's day but I still find it enjoyable.

Duke Nukem Forever.  Any self respecting fan of the OG Duke Nukem 3D on PC can't say that they hate this game.  It seriously looks and feels like that original masterpiece.  It doesn't hold up to today's FPS games but I don't care.  Playing this takes me right down memory lane.  Unfair deaths and WTF is killing me right now!? included.

[Punch]

Spiritual Warfare is the only decent Color Dreams game. It is well built. They released the source code for it a while ago and there's some questions (with money awards) about the NES hardware's behaviour that's widely documented in some internet sites. I find it funny because we have 10x better tools and documentations than what many people had back in the day. That includes le obey.

[vestcoat]

*Hydlide
*Circus Caper
*Ultima console ports (all of them)
*Super Chase HQ SNES
*Darkwing Duck TG16
*Addams Family CD
*Impossamole
*Deep Blue
*Time Soldiers SMS
*Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego SMS
*The 3DO library
*Hexen N64

[Digi.k]

infinite undiscovery
everyone hates the execution, the terrible american dub, the gameplay ideas, the frame rate, the name itself is awful blah blah...
i just love the level grinding on this and find it therapeutic, the gameplay ideas while not well implemented are interesting as too are the story and character designs.

[BlueBMW]

Theres an old PC game I love to play.  The game really sucks and almost no one has heard about it.  The game mechanics are somewhat flawed and overall its really really boring..    All that said, I love the subject matter of the game.  In fact I would partially credit my desire to get into alternative energy research to this game.

The one, the only...  Powerhouse!

[DragonmasterDan]

I liked Dragon's Lair 3D.

I'm completely aware of all of its flaws, but I was able to fight my way through them, play through the game and enjoy it. Terrible control and camera problems plague the game, but... yeah I liked it.

[Punch]

Theres an old PC game I love to play.  The game really sucks and almost no one has heard about it.  The game mechanics are somewhat flawed and overall its really really boring..    All that said, I love the subject matter of the game.  In fact I would partially credit my desire to get into alternative energy research to this game.

The one, the only...  Powerhouse!

I searched for it and it looked OK for a 1995 PC game. It is done by impressions so I'm not sure if it's shitty, unless you're saying it is FRUSTRATING shitty which I might agree. I'm a fan of Ceasar 3 (also Impressions) and this game has a downright IDIOTIC design of resources to houses (like food, maintenance, crime patrol, etc.) only available if the little NPC with the job to supply it passed close to the houses. This is specially aggravating when you have a road intersection since the AI of the characters are so dumbed down that houses will keep fluctuating size and kicking out villagers from them because of not having regular food from the marketplace, while being a couple of squares away from it.

I probably did an awful job describing it but those who have played this game KNOW

[esteban]

I have a long list, but all time fave:
Super Pitfall

[vexcollects]

Trevor McFur.. Cresent Galaxy (Jag)
Cybermorph (Jag)
Trick Style (Dreamcast)
Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights (Dreamcast)
Dropoff (TG16)
Star Wars Master of the Teras Kasi (PS1)
Turok Evolution (Gamecube)
Backtrack (GBA)
Ashen (N-Gage)
War Gods (N64)

[BlueBMW]

I searched for it and it looked OK for a 1995 PC game. It is done by impressions so I'm not sure if it's shitty, unless you're saying it is FRUSTRATING shitty which I might agree. I'm a fan of Ceasar 3 (also Impressions) and this game has a downright IDIOTIC design of resources to houses (like food, maintenance, crime patrol, etc.) only available if the little NPC with the job to supply it passed close to the houses. This is specially aggravating when you have a road intersection since the AI of the characters are so dumbed down that houses will keep fluctuating size and kicking out villagers from them because of not having regular food from the marketplace, while being a couple of squares away from it.

I probably did an awful job describing it but those who have played this game KNOW

Hehe yeah Caesar 3 was pretty bad.  The problem with powerhouse was multifold.  Poor AI, game crashing bugs, and generally slow, boring gameplay.  Really not much is ever going on.  But to me there was something neat about building solar power plants and researching better nuclear power that was just fascinating to me.   On the plus side, things like oil, coal and natural gas were present in the game but they were a pain to utilize. Good because it encourages alternatives.   I guess this is because the game takes place after the age of fossil fuels but I still would have expected them to be easy and super cheap energy sources in the game.   I always supplied everything with a combo of wind, solar, wave, geothermal, hydroelectric, and sometimes nuclear power.  Sounds like what we need in the real world...  Who knows, but I will always love the little game...

[Necromancer]

I don't know if they're bad enough to be called shitty, but I love Hatris and Gotzendiener.

[bob]

Addams Family.  Pretty much all of them on all platforms.  I love those games.

[Desh]

*Hydlide
*Circus Caper
*Ultima console ports (all of them)
*Super Chase HQ SNES
*Darkwing Duck TG16
*Addams Family CD
*Impossamole
*Deep Blue
*Time Soldiers SMS
*Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego SMS
*The 3DO library
*Hexen N64

I love Super Chase H.Q.  That game has the best and smoothest driving controls of any 16-bit driving game.  Maybe I need to give Addams Family another shot.  I have not played through Impossamole but I didn't mind the bit of it I've played.

[BigusSchmuck]

Deadly Towers? Got one even better: Bubsy 3D.

[Punch]

TV Sports *ball

Man screw this shitty game. Even for someone that only knows the basics of the basics of football (me) it's evident that Cinemaware's port is a turd. It doesn't compare favorably to Madden DUO (Madden '93). Hell even John Madden Football for the Apple II must be better.

Edit: unless you meant also (or) the Basketball one. I didn't play that one.