Games as a kid you got but were bad but you had to stick with.

piscian18 said:
your childhood sucked :D

though on that note somebody asked me to raddle off my favorite PSOne games last week. I couldnt think of any because at that time in my childhood I was to poor to own a PSone :(
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That's not even the half of it either. My girlfiend's always telling me that my childhood is a literary gold mine, and all that's needing to unearth it would be for me to start writing about it and get published. Snippets of some of my other gems...

...Being sent to a one-room church-sponsored school that resided in the basement of a dentist's office for first grade. Halfway through the year, it was shutdown by the local fire department. The desks were then moved to the basement of the principal's house, where we finished the rest of the year. Recess for me was playing with GI Joe's and Transformers upstairs in the bedroom of one of the principal's kids who also attended the "school."

...Since Halloween to us was basically all a bunch of Satan-worshipping whoremongers implanting razor blades and HIV-laced syringes inside of Charleston Chews and handing them out to unwitting children dressed as demon-spawn, the church had its own spin on the holiday. They named it "Hallowed be Thy name", and we celebrated by dressing up as Bible characters, eating fondue with "mana" (IE, white bread), and praying for the souls of all the children that just contracted a life-threatening disease by trick-or-treating. My least favorite costume was when I was forced to be dressed up as Jonah, with my face occupying the space of the mouth of a cardboard cutout whale.
 
Back to the Future 2 and 3 for the NES. It was a gift and it was bad... really bad (typical LJN). My aunt and uncle, a year or two later, got me darkseed for the PC so that more than made up for it :)
 
Xenogears on the original Play Station.

I played for 10 hours an still didn't understand the f'ing plot or controls................
 
I don't recall getting stuck with any real turds. My brother and I must have just gotten lucky picking out titles. Cartridge games were so expensive, you really had to make your selection count (our parents knew nothing about games and thankfully didn't choose for us). Game rentals were so important to us then, you only bought AAA titles.
 
I wasn't a kid but a few years back me and my brother played Romance of The Three Kingdoms 9 for about 6 months even though we really didn't like it. I'm not sure why we kept playing or why it took so long but it was one of those games that you just wished would end.
 
fucking TOP GUN for nintendo. hands down the WORST FUCKING GAME i've ever played in my life. but i played the shit out of it because it's one of the only games i had. DAMMIT that game pissed me off.
 
dr.stevil said:
Back to the Future 2 and 3 for the NES. It was a gift and it was bad... really bad (typical LJN). My aunt and uncle, a year or two later, got me darkseed for the PC so that more than made up for it :)
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I remember number 2 on the c64.....very bad!
 
illybang said:
fucking TOP GUN for nintendo. hands down the WORST FUCKING GAME i've ever played in my life. but i played the shit out of it because it's one of the only games i had. DAMMIT that game pissed me off.
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I enjoyed that game... though I didn't buy it so I only played it when I hired it, maybe you just over played it? lol
 
dario03 said:
I wasn't a kid but a few years back me and my brother played Romance of The Three Kingdoms 9 for about 6 months even though we really didn't like it. I'm not sure why we kept playing or why it took so long but it was one of those games that you just wished would end.
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DONT YOU DARE BAD MOUTH ROTTK!!!
 
illybang said:
i was looking for some gameplay footage on youtube, and angry video game nerd seems to show it off for the piece of crap it was quite well. i'm glad you enjoyed it though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ay5jOGI0w
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I loved aircraft and anything aeroplane related as a kid so maybe I was biased :p I enjoyed it enough to hire it several times but not buy it, lol. That and Ultimate Air Combat I got a lot of joy out of playing. Back in those days I spent more money on model aircraft than video games.
 
Shaq Fu for SNES. I got this new for like $9. I thought any SNES game for $9 had to be a good deal. Boy was I wrong.
 
Hmm my aunt bought my a birthday present of 2 of the most low-budget original Nintendo games I'd ever seen. I wish i could remember their names, but one of them was a stock-market trading game. You would read fake news articles and profit statements for fake companies and then go trade stocks.

It was riveting, let me tell you. The other was some standard platformer, with supposedly some way to win some huge cash prize by completing some sort of objective; of course the deadline for the contest had expired a long time ago when I was given the game.

She meant well, and all these years later I still feel kinda bad, asmy reaction was pretty obviously underwhelmed and douche-y.
 
TwistedAegis said:
She meant well, and all these years later I still feel kinda bad, asmy reaction was pretty obviously underwhelmed and douche-y.
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Honestly I'm kinda glad my family almost never bought me video games for christmas/birthday when I was younger, I certainly never feel deprived by it. The fact there's so many shit games out there would make it difficult for a non-gaming person to buy you a game unless you specifically asked for a particular game and where's the fun in that? :p
 
Being a child of the 80's I had NES, SNES, and then N64/PSX when I was a teenager.

During the years of NES and SNES I don't think I ever had a game that I remember not liking.

Had Top Gun for NES and loved it. Had a game for SNES called Harley's Humoungus Adventure and love it too. My grandmother would pick out and bring us home games and we were grateful.

The first game I remember sticking with even though it was a total crapfest was on the N64. My brother and I had saved up for a new game, and decide on...

SUPERMAN 64....WHAT A TOTAL CRAPFEST TO PAY $80 ON.
 
I didn't buy many games as kid. Since I had to spend my own allowance money on games I just rented them most of the time since my mother would pay for weekend rentals. I pretty much stuck with games I was familiar with for buying. Mario, Zelda, Megaman games like that. I don't recall ever buying a game I thought was bad. I rented my fair share of bad games, but I can't think of any that particularly stand out as ones I tried to force myself to play through. If I rented a bad game I usually tossed it aside (sometimes literally) and went back to playing Super Mario since that game ate hundreds of hours of my life as a kid.
 
lol i always had zelda the very first ones... there not bad but thats what i had lol
 
My dad came back from a trip once and brought us Raid on Bungeling Bay for NES. That game was boring as hell but for some reason I remember playing it forever anyway. According to wikipedia the guy that made it went on to create simcity.
 
I had Mario, I hated the fact that it made me start from the beginning and had no saving options for some reason. It really pissed me off, but I had no other game :)


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Mario 3d or whatever it was called for the Nintendo 64. My mother had to drive hundreds of miles to get the N64 + games for my birthday, so I felt bad and acted like I liked it but I really hated it. Killer Instinct was great fun however.
 
devil22 said:
Mario 3d or whatever it was called for the Nintendo 64. My mother had to drive hundreds of miles to get the N64 + games for my birthday, so I felt bad and acted like I liked it but I really hated it. Killer Instinct was great fun however.
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Mario64....

KIGold was awesome on n64, I loved San Francisco Rush too :D
 
Tigerblade said:
Mario64....

KIGold was awesome on n64, I loved San Francisco Rush too :D
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Ha my uncle and I were huge N64 nerds...he stopped by on the way to work to play a bit of KI...4 hours later we look up and HOLY SHIT you're so late to work. Ah well, back to KI...that and Mario Kart 64. That was srs bzns in my house, lol.
 
TwistedAegis said:
Ha my uncle and I were huge N64 nerds...he stopped by on the way to work to play a bit of KI...4 hours later we look up and HOLY SHIT you're so late to work. Ah well, back to KI...that and Mario Kart 64. That was srs bzns in my house, lol.
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I tried to skip school a few times to play KI, didn't go too well. KI came out at the perfect time too, right at the peak of my love of fighting games. After that era my enjoyment of fighters sharply declined.
 
As a kid I generally rented games before I purchased them so there wasn't many stinkers in my collection. There were some sports games I bought that were horrible however. I remember NBA Live 96 on the PC. The console version of NA Live 96 wasn't too horrible but the PC version was god awful. There was also Bulls VS Blazers on my SNES another horrible game. NBA Live 2001 on the PS2 was another true stinker. Yeah I guess I was a sucker for basketball games. I would suffer through playing them for the longest time cause I bought them all new for $40+ dollars. *sigh*
 
Final Fantasy VII, because when I was younger, I didn't know there was such a thing called a memory card to save your progress on, I always had to restart from the beginning. (I was 7 or 8 at the time lol)
 
bufodr_T said:
E T on my atari. that game so shit on my xmas.
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You weren't the only one,that game pretty much started the video game crash that killed the industry for a time. For me it was PacMan,god that was a terrible job of porting the arcade version,even given the limitations of the 2600.But at least they greatly improved with Ms.PacMan.
 
squall78 said:
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
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This probably sticks out in my mind as the biggest disappointment of a game I ever owned. I guess this, and the Final Fantasy series on Gameboy, should have clued us a long time ago Square was going to slap that name on anything it needed to to get a sale.
 
Jimi_Shuffler said:
Final Fantasy VII, because when I was younger, I didn't know there was such a thing called a memory card to save your progress on, I always had to restart from the beginning. (I was 7 or 8 at the time lol)
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LOL that's horrible but pretty damn funny. :D
 
Lawn Darts AKA Jarts.

Ok, so I'm an old man. They didn't have video games when I was a kid. I hated having to dodge the runaway darts. It was as if your life depended on it.

On December 19, 1988, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned lawn darts from sale in the United States due to their hazards as a flying projectile with a sharp metal point causing multiple deaths.
 
Hmmm...I can't remember actually purchasing any games that I didn't like...of course when I was a kid I usually either borrowed/swapped or rented games.

I do remember just buying games because they looked or seemed cool...not because I had read 13908 reviews and articles about them before they were even released.

I still remember buying Life Force for NES having no clue what I was getting...ended up being one of my all time fav's.
 
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