Back to the Future on NES. All I remember is a series of pain in the ass mini games having little to nothing to do with the plot. One of them was called “That Sinking Feeling”, where Marty apparently had to platform his way out of his own stomach.

And E.T. of course, fuck that game.

Evergrace. Half-baked and outdated in every way. Life is too short to play bad games just because they’re cheap.

Sea of Thieves.

That game is too buggy over the years it exists to be as popular as it is, and not in a “haha smol glitch” buggy, but “lets disconnect at the WORSE possible moments” (like you having a ton of loot).

Not worth it. A waste of 30 bucks.

‘Home improvement’ on the Super Nintendo

Turok Evolution on GameCube.

It doesn’t look that bad on reviews, but it’s pretty awful.

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I got recommended Suikoden 4 by a guy at game stop when I was younger saying that Suikoden 2 & 3 were pretty good so this would be worth a try. I played & beat it since I didn’t have many games & already paid for it, but it sure wasn’t very good.

Hydlide, probably. A deeply mediocre action RPG that came out on NES waaay after everyone else had one-upped it, or ten-upped it.

And I played it circa 1997.

No, hang on - I at least progressed in Hydlide. To this day I have no goddamn idea how to get out of the first room in Batman Forever. I had the Game Boy version. I did not buy this game. Some kid just gave it to me, which should have been a warning. As I understand it, all versions of the game are quite similar, which would be admirable if they were not, to a one, total dogshit. I think it’s the Mortal Kombat engine used as a platformer… made by aliens.

Ooh, I’m torn. They’re both NES “games” - Rocky & Bullwinkle had sluggish controls, awful hitboxes, and I can only describe its graphics AND sound design as offensive. That said, at least it technically played like a game. Where’s Waldo didn’t even have that. I think Where’s Waldo is the worst, but it’s close.

Superman 64.

Weeks and months of hype (the era of print gaming journalism), Blockbuster stocking 100 copies on launch day for “guaranteed availability” etc.

Then I finally popped the cart in, and this thing was so bad it just defied all logic. Horrific controls, shitty graphics, unclear user interface and objectives, terrible draw distance. Timed level segments and insane difficulty.

There might be “worse” games but I have never been more disappointed in a release than Superman 64.

I bought Haze for PS3 the day it came out even after reading a lot of mid to negative reviews, both because I really love all three TimeSplitters games and wanted to support the devs, and also out of a feeling of ‘how bad could it really be?’. It was incredibly boring, graphically underwhelming, and I ended up beating it the same day I bought it. Tried to trade it in and even on release week EB offered me an incredibly insulting amount, like $7 or something, and I still took it.

Over the years I’ve played a bunch of awful games. But the one that always sticks with me is ET. I spent hours stuck in pits in that game.

C&C4, hands down. Single handedly murdered the whole franchise.

Edit: to be specific, I took this to mean “worst game by a major publisher”

Lula 3D. Though, I never played with it eventually as it froze up the computer so bad we had to pull the plug, the experience as a kid was probably my worst gaming moment.

Master of Orion III. A 4X game for PC that had had all the fun carefully eliminated during development. It was like playing a spreadsheet.

My greatest shame is that I actually bought it twice because years later I couldn’t believe it had been that bad and risked a bargain bin copy. It was exactly that bad.