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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: anakirob on September 27, 2004, 03:43:29 AM
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I see many old amiga games for sale on e-bay, etc. Some of which do not have reviews, or are reviewed by nostalgic idiots who rate defender of the crown with five stars. Please post your top five suckiest amiga games here, so ppl don't get caught paying $5 a piece for something which is not even worth the time it takes to download the ADF (but, YOU SHOULD OF COURSE BUY THE DAMN THING IF YOU WANT TO PLAY IT).
1. circus games - this was the first game I ever bought. avoid! (unless you're a masochist)
2. abracadabra - you would finish it in your first sitting, if you fight the urge to reset and mangle the disks.
3. bad cat - an apt name (it is BAAAD indeed). you play the role of a cat, and you do some pointless stuff in four game sections, which you see all of even if you suck at joystick waggling.
4. flip it and magnose - ...the water carriers from mars (here to nick all our precious h20). frustrating, tedious, and even when you meet the quota on level six (the final) it still gives you the same old game over (it tells you that you lose).
5. defender of the crown - this one is waaay overrated by almost everyone, and you will finish it on your first go (unless you suck). OK, so the gfx are nice for something made in the 80's which runs on 512k, but there is even less gameplay than dragon's lair.
To think I actually payed good money for these all those years ago is enough to make me suicidal (i.e. play lemmings, it should never appear on this list). :-D
Lemmings 2 would be very close to making this list though.
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Yea,
Defender of the Crown game for the C64 was a pain in the arse, but the Music was great.
I always though Lemmings 2 was a great game, so no complains here. :-D
Some software to really avoid is space quest 4, where it looks too realistic. :-D
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Quite obviously, it has to be Dangerous Streets.
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Quite obviously, it has to be Dangerous Streets.
I agree 110%. Without a doubt - Dangerous Streets - the worst Amiga game, ever. I think the bundling of this game in the A1200 magic pack was what finally killed Commodore. ;-)
Other stinkers I seem to remember include Days of Thunder (though the C64 version was even worse!), Several of the Brutal Sports titles, and Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix. Even Psygnosis had a few.... Air Support, anyone? Maybe Combat Air Patrol, as well. CAP suckered me into an ill-advised purchase. Amazing demo -- it was fast, beautiful, and playable. Three things they managed to remove for the full version.
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Hrm. Defender of the Crown is one of my favorites. :-/ There was a game I used to truly despise that was similar in gameplay and style to Hudon's Adventure Island on the NES. I can't remember the name. . . .
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I agree 110%. Without a doubt - Dangerous Streets - the worst Amiga game, ever
Do I remember wrong, or was there really really cool titlemusic in Dangerous Streets?
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Hooligan_DCS wrote:
I agree 110%. Without a doubt - Dangerous Streets - the worst Amiga game, ever
Do I remember wrong, or was there really really cool titlemusic in Dangerous Streets?
You've got to be wrong or something. NOTHING was cool about Dangerous Streets :D
http://hol.abime.net/?id=265
Another stinker, Tube Warriors
http://hol.abime.net/?id=1522
And let's not forget the sourest license from hell, Last Action Hero:
http://hol.abime.net/?id=837
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You are right, I remembered wrong. The game with ultracool titlemusic was Wild Streets (http://hol.abime.net/?id=1713)
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Come on, you're not even trying. Absolutely horrendous were also:
1. Magic Pockets. Overhyped to the extreme, "developed by a guy with just an A500, A501 and stock A590". Sucked big time: it was nearly impossible to gain sufficient powerups to crank out big whirlwinds at a useful rate. Baddies were way to strong.
2. Whirligig. Beautiful gfx, impossible to play since there is no way people could puzzle out the mathematical issues. They stated the solution in the manual, for cryin' out loud. Also suffered tremendously from its 320x200 screen size where it should've been 320x256 at least.
3. Weird Dreams. A terrific idea with a wonderful story line. Absolutely ruined by the more-than-pixel-precision and way too stringent timing requirements you needed to get past all levels.
4. Any AMOS-game. 'Nuff said.
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'Laser Lars'
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I'd remove Weird Dreams from this list. It is hard, but absolutely beautiful.
Those "minesweeper" clones and "memory" type games are crap
I never liked card games either like poker, except maybe for strip one :crazy:
and of course any text adventure.
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and of course any text adventure.
Text adventures are great! Infocom rules! :-)
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Microcosm.
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Capital Punishment.
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Text adventures are great! Infocom rules!
As an old Spectrum user, I have played many of these adventures seen here. (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestadventures.html)
Can't even imagine how many hours I have spent playing them :-D
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Fascination?
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Clever and Smart ... my first game a friend of mine let me borrow.. that was the crappiest game I have ever played. Gave it back the next day.
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Operation Clean Streets!!
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Hey, another vote for Capital Punishment, it's one of the biggest piles of dog poop I've ever seen.
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My vote goes to artura. Crap graphics and crap gameplay. Also overkill (cd32), too damn hard to control and just a defender clone. A few of my favs would be shadow of the beast and epic (played the hell outta them both)
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there can be only one:
Rise of the robots
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Surely this has got to be one of the worst, in the top 5 at least?
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Played on my friends DX2 66, brilliant (for a PC), so bought it for my amiga, 30 quid for 2 sound effects and 10 frames of animation. Gametek are criminals. Just not on. Even the original street fighter 2 was better.
And of course
FEARS
Doom on the amiga? No gameplay to speak of, enemies homed in directly on you with abslutley zero AI (the most pathetic creatures i've witnessed in any game), the rockets didn't explode, and did anyone play deathmatch? The most appalling display I've ever seen, it took 99 shots of the shotgun to kill the other player. An abomination, imo.
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I used to kid myself that both Fears and DeathMask were brilliant when I was obsessed with finding a "Doom-beater".
Another feature in Fears that I "loved" was that it was impossible to dodge projectiles from baddies, they just seemed to hurt you by glancing at you!
How come it turned out to be such a POS compared to the demo that was released earlier? :-?
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Am I the only person who never figured out WTF I was supposed to be doing on terrorpods?
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Anyone ever play Slip Stream from Microdeal? THAT was pretty bad! Graphics, sounds, 2 or 3 fps on an A500...
What else. There weren't that many games that I hated to be honest... Crazy Cars II comes to mind, Turbo Outrun, everything made in SEUCK except Smurfhunt :-D.
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Other stinkers I seem to remember include Days of Thunder (though the C64 version was even worse!), Several of the Brutal Sports titles, and Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix. Even Psygnosis had a few....
I really liked brutal sports football actually.. the scrolling wasnt very nice, but that didnt matter to me. I loved getting the shields, passing severed heads around, stomping on people when they were on the ground, getting the rabbit that made you super fast for a few seconds, and so on.. :)
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Any AMOS-game. 'Nuff said.
Heyyyy... I thought Wheelchair Gladiators and Extreme Violence were awesome! That's about it, though.
Award for the most overrated game goes to Wrath of the Demon. I think that was the ultimate contrast between looks and playability.
Double Dragon 2 was pretty awful, too, but it was a hilarious kind of awful. :-D It's a shame I can't get my disk to boot, anymore.
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Dalek Attack
Nightbreed
Wizzball
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No gameplay to speak of, enemies homed in directly on you with abslutley zero AI (the most pathetic creatures i've witnessed in any game
Apparently you haven't played UFO:Aftermath..?
It had Carcrabs .. yes. Giant crabs with cars on top of them :lol:
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Ladies and gentleman, here is the absolute champion considering used resources (30Mb!!!&AGA) and ugliness:
Wendetta 2175
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As mentioned before in this thread: Defender of the crown was terribly overrated. The graphics were ok, but the gameplay... Yuck...
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Supaplex was the most crapiest game all time!
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Hoya!
Myth.
WAY too hard!
Be funky
M A D
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Supaplex??? Supaplex?????? SUPAPLEX!!!!
:-D
Hey man, its a GREAT game. I've mad it to level 80 IIRC on a PC. Yes, its damn tough, you wouldn't believe how much...
Some levels seemed IMPOSSIBLE. Unfortunately, I got fed up with it, trying to solve that level 100s of times.
Anyway it certainly doesn't belong here. If you had seen how interestnig higher levels are..
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Rise of the Robots
Dangerous Streets
Microcosm
All so, so bad. I got RotR for Christmas - boy I was happy with THAT... :-(
I already knew that DS was a pile of crap, but I secretly held out that all those reviews were wrong about Microcosm. So when I got my CD32 a few months ago, that was the first game I put in. It was removed pretty damn fast and replaced by the much much much much better Chaos Engine! :-D
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Am I the only person who never figured out WTF I was supposed to be doing on terrorpods?
No. I figured it was just because i didnt have manual that i couldnt work it out. I've tried everything i can think of and NOTHING HAPPENS its damned frustrating. I have this hope that it'll be good if i only figure out what to do.
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Well, I played a hell of a lot Rise of the Robots with a friend of mine, until the early hours. Tis sure fun 'gainst each other.
And Supaplex is a masterpiece, if not the best boulderdash clone in existance.
you guys have to do better, way better, since there were enough gruesome games on the Amiga
Double Dragon 2 and Wrath of the Demon is quite a good start, methinks
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Any ReadySoft game (Dragon's Lair series). Great visuals, but no gameplay at all.
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@speelgoedmannetje
Oh come on! Are you for real?! Supaplex is a pile
of crap! It sure aint no good boulderdash clone!
I think it's only for "little toy men". :lol:
:roflmao:
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you know what a crap game was?
DOOM!
boring as hell!
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Still suffering from that "Doomy" trauma, I presume?
:nervous:
:lol:
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bOiNgHeAd wrote:
Still suffering from that "Doomy" trauma, I presume?
:nervous:
:lol:
not me, others (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12023).
btw. nice chainsaw in yer av
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speelgoedmannetje wrote:
not me, others.
You think this people, including you,
are being traumatized by Doomy?
btw. nice chainsaw in yer av
Thanks.
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bOiNgHeAd wrote:
including you,
not me
Can't you read?
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speelgoedmannetje wrote:
not me, can't you read?
But you where also playing along with that
"googlefight" you linked to.
So actually, you where also pointing to yourself!
Are you blind and suffering altzheimer?!
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As you might've read, in that thread, there was one who mentioned Doommaster:
Wayne wrote:
Doommaster versus Sanity (http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=doommaster&q2=sanity&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us)
I did not, so your argument that I pointed at myself is based on nothing.
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So, are you saying that Wayne is traumatized
by Doomy?
And what about the others you mentioned then?
You think they are traumatized too?
These are serious accusations!
This thread is gone completely of topic!
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amigean wrote:
there can be only one:
Rise of the robots
Amen!
Even the graphics sucked!
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By unanimous decision the worst amiga game of all time would have to be
dangerous streets
I have not played it myself (and never will now!), but that was the one title which everyone heard of and nobody debated in favour of (rise of the robots was saved by one persons multiplayer testimony).
P.S.
It's funny how just about every thread which gets over about 20 replies turns into a discussion on the one known as 'doomaster'.
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People who think that Dangerous Streets was poo, they are fooled. Play Tube Warriors first and then you'll see what a crap game is...Simply, a piece of junk!
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I vote for Crash Garret (http://hol.abime.net/?id=3111). And I actually *bought* that game...because it had such a 'pwetty plane' on the box cover :lol:.
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odin wrote:
I vote for Crash Garret (http://hol.abime.net/?id=3111). And I actually *bought* that game...because it had such a 'pwetty plane' on the box cover :lol:.
Rise of the Robots has a cool box cover too. I have the game with the original disks, but can not get it to install to save my life!
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There was this Formula1 racing game that was sooo bad I couldn't even give it away
can't remember the name though
Gary
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Dark castle was a really bad game on the Amiga platform because you could not set the keys for moving the character
like you could in the Mac version. It was impossible to remember which key did what. They would have been better off
using a joystick interface.
:-x
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you...
RETURN TO ATLANTIS!
I started to shake with repressed trauma just thinking about it.
SubLogic's Jet was pretty miserable for gameplay, but I still enjoyed just flying around. It was novel at the time.
And The Krystal (Cinemaware) looked promising until I couldn't do the swordfighting at all.
And for the record, Lemmings 2 is great in my opinion--not the same as Lemmings 1, but great in its own way.
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Myth wasnt that hard i thing, i was finish it in a couple of hours.
I thing wery hard was Projext-X, or Apidya (little easier)
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Did someone forget the Amiga Desktop Dynamite pack's stinking heap of
a license 'Dennis'?
The game was to gameplay what rice-paper is to foodstuffs.
:-) :-)
I think it's a little unfair to include Wendetta in there - it may
have forgotten about anti-aliasing but was very similar to Stardust.
Death Mask was very playable and had damn good sound FX (the minigun
was particularly satisfying).
Usually Amos games get deleted within seconds of downloading them from
Aminet but I do remember some 2-player biplane game where you could
shoot eachother down and bomb your friend's runway.
We're forgetting those fairly new games too like Tales of Heaven.
To the gallows!
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1. Any UNFINISHED game that is currently on aminet! I get all hot to play a game I downloaded and the "readme" file says this in the title: "This game is not finished yet.... " or .... "Incomplete game..... " "beta version...."
2. I would put this next game in the above catagory, but, being it caused me so many headaches and even did recently again on WinUAE........ from Aminet..... There is no game worse than........ ULTIMATIUM! This game looks so cool at startup...... intriguing sound..... 3-D like effects with the red and blue fonts which seem to make the words leap out of the monitor. Nice 3-d tank roving around to shoot at... good sounds...... then the crash! So far this game has crashed more than 100 x on an A3000. And a pair of times on WinUAE, and maybe even a handful of times on my old A500.
The author needs to be beat senseless with a programmers handbook until he pulls it down and fixes it.
3. Ballistix. Yeah, another great game. Lovely graphics, nice music. Actually would have made a very very very good multi player game on the net. Too bad it was OCS only and crashed every other Amiga on the planet beyond 512k of chip ram and 1.3 OS.
When I get home from a hard day's work, I used to look forward to turning my 020 driven 3.1OS A500 on to watch this once often played game, dance with distorted graphics, white noise sound, and then a guru.
Grrrrrrrrrr grrrrrrrrrrr
I'd rate phuq-the-world (from aminet) higher than Ballistix. At least it's hilarious and entertaining. (heh)
Im sure there are others on aminet that crash, which Ive forgotten about. Most of the others listed on the thread I havent played. (maybe that's a good thing?)
But if you think Defender of the Crown is bad? Can you imagine that they actually ported that game to Nintendo? And it's graphics are WORSE.
Hell, at least in the Amiga version your character aged and looked haggard when he went thru a losing streak. When he was winning he was smiling and looking confident. Sad that no other strategy games Ive seen do this.
Imagine Romance of the 3 Kingdoms where the rulers start to get grey hair and get old...... even they could have learned a lesson from D.O.C
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Gotta be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
The arcade version was great fun with 4 players. The Amy conversion just sucked. Ouch.
2nd prize goes to rise of the Robots. I waited for ever for this over-hyped piece of junk. Disappointment plus.
(Dis)Honourable Mention: Dragon's Lair.
@ Cymric
I loved Magic Pockets. With enough practice big whirlwinds/bubbles/etc were easy. Warping through levels, poppy soundtrack, great fun. I think I might have even finished it.
@ Garyed40
Grand Prix Circuit?
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Ok, i have the WORST one!
It's called VENUS (!!!?!??!??!!!) and it is about a.. fly!
Although it has great intro music the game really sucks!!!
I think you can find it on Back2Roots.org
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The Colonel's Bequest by Sierra
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Worst game ever... well was really boring was Nightbreed.
Stoopid stoopid game :D
Oh, and something called "all dogs go to heaven" ... i had it free with my a500+ :D