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ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« on: June 03, 2013, 10:19:57 pm »
http://www.newser.com/story/168923/nm-to-dig-up-tomb-of-worst-video-game-ever.html

The tall and short of the story is that a news crew is going to the site where one of the worst video games of all time (ET the Game) will be dug up. As someone who HAD played it in his youth, it's reputation is well-earned, although, in all fairness, there have been worse games made than ET.

I could at least use it to time boiling eggs. Games like Aquaman, Superman, and even that truck game you could never LOSE (YOU WINNAR!), were worse.

Okay, so, here's a fun idea: Name games that were worse than ET.


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Re: ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2013, 10:48:17 pm »
Superman 64 and Plumbers Don't Wear Ties.

I mean, ET was horribly bad, but at least it had some semblance of gameplay.
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Re: ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2013, 11:59:11 pm »
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties.

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Anyway, the game is nothing but a slideshow, where it was advertised as a FMV game, and the only scene that featured full motion video was the intro before the actual introductory credits. It's not even a game at all, rather some shitty Power Point slide show.

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Re: ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2013, 04:34:42 am »
Name worse games than ET? how about "X-Bladez: Inline Skater"?


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Re: ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2013, 08:06:42 am »
Action 52.  Some of the games on that cart were just... broken or completely unfinished altogether.

EDIT:  Didn't know I got the name wrong until Argyros posted.  Dang, me and numbers.  *Fixed*
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Re: ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2013, 09:51:58 am »
ZOG's Nightmare.

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Re: ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2013, 01:36:44 pm »
Action 52. The grand king of shitty video games.

Also Pac-Man for the 2600.
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Re: ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2013, 12:27:22 am »
I also played Pac-Man for the 2600, and I'm kind of surprised no one named "The A-Team" or "Custer's Revenge" amongst the worst.


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« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2013, 12:50:37 am »
I also played Pac-Man for the 2600, and I'm kind of surprised no one named "The A-Team" or "Custer's Revenge" amongst the worst.

Hahahaha, the A-Team.

Are you talking about that Commodore 64 game where you shoot the heads of the A-Team themselves and the title song isn't even the A-Team theme, but the Star Wars introduction? Yeah, I've played it. It's pretty awful.

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« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2013, 01:06:06 am »
ZOG's Nightmare.

I remember that game. Apparently Level 4 is the "Jewish hideout," where all the textures are replaced with Stars of David and the enemies slide across the floor at a million miles an hour and take over 9000 shots to be killed. Adding to the bizarreness of the game is that there are copies of Mein Kampf, which restore the player character's health, scattered all over this hideout. Like, what Jewish hideout would be hoarding copies of Mein motherfucking Kampf? If they wanted to increase the difficulty, they'd get rid of health items to reflect the different environment, not smear nausea-inducing textures everywhere.

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Oh, and apparently this level is unbeatable, and beating some other levels will cause the game to crash instantly. Lovely game.

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Re: ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2013, 01:11:06 am »
Team Fortress 2.

I've never played a more confusing hat collecting simulator in my life. 0/10, would not bang.

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Re: ET Phone Home...DIG ET UP
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2013, 01:52:26 am »
Those Bible Games for the NES.

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« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2013, 03:41:36 am »
Those Bible Games for the NES.

Actually, Spiritual Warfare was a halfway decent game... in spite of what it is.

The rest, yeah, I'd agree.
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« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2013, 04:55:39 am »
Indeed.  I liked Spiritual Warfare, though it was obvious Wisdom Tree had made a Zelda rip-off.   Still... a decent rip-off.