Any games you played as a kid that sucked but still played lots of?

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Azureth

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Growing up it happened to me a lot. One inparticular that I remember was the Beast Wars game for the PS1. I LOVED BW and wanted so bad to like the game. And it was fun playing as the characters and shooting was fun but the level designs were horrid and enemies real lack luster. I could only play about an hour but so much did I love BW that I would still play over and over.
 
I play through Super Metroid, Mega Man X, and a couple other SNES games occasionally throughout the year. Playing FFVII for the hundredth time now.
 
Advance Dungeons & Dragons The Treasure of Tarmin... Intellivision

This game had the unique feature of endless randomly generated levels. Endless BORING levels.

Alas, I played over 100 (I cant remember) of the levels. I remember loving this game for some reason. I suppose because it was the first AD&D game on any console. I would probably been happier with one of those BBS text based RPGs.

Anyhoo.
 
HeavensCloud said:
I play through Super Metroid, Mega Man X, and a couple other SNES games occasionally throughout the year. Playing FFVII for the hundredth time now.
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Hey those games didn't suck!

I remember playing a lot of shitty Sega CD games thinking they were so cool because there wasn't really anything else like them - the Kris Kross game and Night Trap come to mind as examples. They were both pretty terrible, but they were different enough to intrigue me.
 
Nope. I played some shitty games when I was a kid, but never played lots of any that I thought were terrible. I remember playing ET when I was tiny and I couldn't figure out how to get out of the first couple rooms, so I just went back to playing Wizards of Wor and Joust and shit.
 
The only negative thing I can think of regarding gaming when I was a wee lad, was guilting my great aunt into buying me Contra for NES. To be fair, she shoulda responding with my pouting by saying something like "Fuck off kid, maybe if you mow my lawn a couple times I'll buy it for you", but I still feel bad about it. If you're up there Auntie Vi, sorry!
 
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness. I wasn't exactly a kid when it came out, but not quite an adult.
 
Battle City and its 1990 variant
Wing Commander 1
Fallout 1 & 2
Raptor: Call of Darkness
Diablo 1 & 2

plenty of others to a lesser extent, those are the main ones
 
mr_zen256 said:
This game was brutal. as. fark.

The Immortal
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ugh fuck that game back to 1990 where it belongs, torturing children without access to gamefaqs.

Wizardry II: Knight of Diamonds (Yes I'm aware I'm a hypocrite.)
GemFire
Dragon Force
Resident Evil(Randomly Reborn, REII, or Veronica)

Oh that suck..well fuck you this is what I play.

Ok nvm I got one theres this completely retarded Old game for NES called Phantom Fighter, Its like this weird side scrolling kung-fu game where you actually level up and buy skills and all the Zombies hop like rabbits because Asian people cant just be scared of ghost like normal people.

On a side note I just got "7th saga" working on my old xbox I use for emulators. Wish me luck!

Mr. Snrub said:
Hey those games didn't suck!

I remember playing a lot of shitty Sega CD games thinking they were so cool because there wasn't really anything else like them - the Kris Kross game and Night Trap come to mind as examples. They were both pretty terrible, but they were different enough to intrigue me.
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True story when I was a tween kids actually wore their clothes backwards, like that was an actual thing that was cool and hip. I was neither and I regret nothing.
 
DooM for the SNES. It wasn't even my copy but my friends, it wasn't a great port (it would give me headaches) but I put hours into that game.

The thing that didn't make sense was that I owned DooM for the PC (on a 486 DX, no less), so there really wasn't much of a point for me to play it so much. But I did.
 
Racing Destruction Set

Ad games:
Guldkorn Expressen
Cool Spot

Interactive z movies, I already forgot the names of.

And lots of others I completely forgot. Basically as a kid I played any game I could get my hands on no matter how bad it was.
 
How about Way of the Warrior for 3do? Can you believe that stinker was made by Naughty Dog? They sure have come a long way since then.
 
Halo 1 back in the day when you got to the flood levels. Boring as hell, annoying as hell, but still played it.
 
I put a lot of time into E.T. for Atari. Not sure I ever figured it out but that didn't stop me from trying.
 
Last Action Hero on SNES. For some reason I owned that game, and kept thinking I could beat it. I could never get past the 2nd level. In retrospect, I now realize how awful and punishing the game really was.
 
HardUp4HardWare said:
Advance Dungeons & Dragons The Treasure of Tarmin... Intellivision

This game had the unique feature of endless randomly generated levels. Endless BORING levels.

Alas, I played over 100 (I cant remember) of the levels. I remember loving this game for some reason. I suppose because it was the first AD&D game on any console. I would probably been happier with one of those BBS text based RPGs.

Anyhoo.
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There was a game like that for the Atari 2600. Endless randomly generated levels. It was called Dungeon Explorer.

My little brother and I played until we hit level KK. Then we got tired of it and never touched it again.
 
Someone mentioned E.T. on the Atari 2600. I played that as well as the Indiana Jones game which was terrible also. Back then, games were so few and far between that I didn't discriminate, I just played them all.
 
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Yo Noid!

The game wasn't that great. It really wasn't. But, when you're a kid you just play what you got.
 
I bought a ton of JRPG's back in the SNES and Genesis days. While some (like Lunar and FF) were great, many of them full-on sucked.
Ditto with fighting games. For every Street Fighter and King of Fighters, there was a Bloodstorm or Fighting Masters.
 
Rygar
Goonies II
Friday the 13th
TMNT (NES)
Back to the Future
Jaws

I played the hell out of all of them, some enough that I started to like them (Goonies and Rygar!)
 
God damn Jurassic Park for Sega.

Game was brutal, just murdered you everywhere you went.
 
twonunpackmule said:
Yo Noid!

The game wasn't that great. It really wasn't. But, when you're a kid you just play what you got.
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A bad game indeed but like it was so B level that it had redeeming addictive qualities. It just sucked but you wanted to beat it really badly. The ice levels were obnoxious.
 
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I don't know why.
 
Probably all of those FMV games for Sega CD, most notably Power Rangers, Sewer Shark and Jurassic Park. I really loved that PR game as a kid.
 
Festers Quest - NES

The game just sucks, and is impossible (because nobody has this much patience...). One stupid music track the whole time and completely broken pseudo 3D levels. But, not many 8 year olds can buy games so you play it till the day some sucker at school accepts it in a trade for anything remotely decent...
Not a single pleasant memory. Even the title screen looks stupid.
 
OH OH, and one more, because I simply cannot leave out Wataru!
Or how its known by its western name...
Kieth Courage in the Alpha Zones! The sucky ass game that made you embarrassed to have bought a Turbo Grafx 16 instead of a Sega Genesis with Altered Beast. This game was the original pack-in game for the TurboGrafx when released in the states, and not Bonks Adventure, like any average business person with a brain cell would have chosen. You can start with this game as the beginning of the many reasons the Turbo Grafx 16(PC Engine) died outside of Japan.
 
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.

I was young and foolish....

I also remember it freezing A LOT in the Ice Pyramid area.
 
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