(So! Sorry for the delay. I was thinking about the games that I’ve played during my life as a gamer, and good lord, it’s hard to decide what’s good and bad, and what’s worse amongst the bad. Let us go and see some of the games I consider bad or just boring.)
9-. Jurassic Park (SNES): Who didn’t watch this movie? A lot of us loved this classic, but the games were awful. This one had certain potential, though, mainly for the parts were the camera angle changed from air view to first person shooter ala Doom; some of those motherfucker raptors were scary as hell! The main gameplay, though, wasn’t that good, even when sometimes the game give you a rocket launcher to blow the dinosaurs to bits. The worst thing? No save slots, no password, nothing to keep track of your progress, you must finish this game in a single playthrough… with no continues. Frustrating.
8-. Asteroids Hyper 64 (N64… duh): The classic game, reimagined for the N64. It was kind of fun, but really short-lived. The lack of music, the repetitive gameplay (I know, the original one was like this, but at least they could have added some new challenges according to that time!) and the very realistic sense of being in a void, ready to be crushed by a boredom asteroid placed this game here.
7-. Planet of the Apes (GBA): Oh god, this one… I remember I bought this game for… 8 dollars. I miss those 8 dollars. This game, supposedly based on the movie, was a Prince of Persia clone with awkward controls, not a single challenge or change of gameplay, and the same music over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And. Over. And. Over. A. N. D. O. V. E. R. again!!!
6-. Cruis’n USA (N64): You know? I’m being so hard with this oldie. The game was actually fun, the music was an earworm, the crashes between cars were so goddamn funny and… there was that strange and somewhat creepy severed head that appeared during the best times scene. Yeah. The only problem was the very short life span of this game. You can enjoy this game, for a weekend, after that… well, try to cross the USA in the real life. Just don’t crash, ok?
5-. Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (SNES): I would be enraged, too. This game had bad graphics for its time (even when I’m the kind of gamer who doesn’t put graphics above all else), the music and the constant audible sharpness was annoying, the controls felt heavy and there was Maximum Carnage at the time, and later War of Gems, both of them better games than this one.
4-. Clayfighter 63 1/3 (N64): Another very short-lived game. The concept of plasticine fighters has existed since the SNES era, but it’s not that fun. It had some good things, like the detailed stages, the claytalities (Icky Bod Clay’s claytalities were the best), and Earthworm Jim as a guest fighter. What I really hated was the lack of a solid story, but hey, fighting games with story modes were still something strange for the time.
3-. Plok (SNES): Ignore the sick harmonica solo. This game isn’t as good. No, I don’t really want to talk about this one… the fact that you find underwear instead of flags doesn’t save this game. The music was, sometimes, good, but… ugh, meh.
2-. Mario is Missing (SNES): Yes, I’ve played this thing and I am ashamed. Boring, not even educative and this is why we have Weegee… well, the PC version gave us Weege, at least the SNES version had the Super Mario World sprites. Also, I was learning at the time, so it wasn’t that educative to me.
1-. Any damned Simpsons game: No, seriously, if you have ever played any of their NES, SNES or GB games, you will instanty agree with me.