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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: motrucker on September 14, 2009, 12:11:25 PM
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I may have just found it! I had a new (in shrink wrap) box of Dr. Plummet's House of Flux that I put on eBay. Didn't get a bid. Then I noticed several other copies that some one keeps re-listing - never gets a bid.
I finally had to see what this game was, so I ripped of the shrink wrap, and popped the disk in - oh lord, - what a rotten game. This would have have stunk as a magazine cover disk extra. I doubt if anything is worse!
It's sort of like an old Vic 20 Jupiter Lander (IIRC) without any features.... or controls.
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Some links for this game:
Hall of light (http://hol.abime.net/401)
Lemon Amiga (http://www.lemonamiga.com/?game_id=1221)
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I'm intrigued - didn't think anything could be as bad as Terminator 2 - Judgement Day:uzi:
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I don't know. Anything made by Titus would be hard to beat as worst game ever.
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Ah, so many stinkers and so little time to bag them all! :-)
One particularly whiffy turd was the shameful Amiga conversion of the arcade classic "Rolling Thunder"...
Those (ir)responsible should've been shot at dawn...
Cheers,
Mike.
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Total Carnage was a BIG stinker...
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I still say Dangerous Streets has to be in the top (bottom) 10 of all time. It was exactly like Street Fighter, except for the crappy characters, molasses controls, poor balancing, terrible design, random button mashing... Ok, it was nothing like Street Fighter, except for the word 'Street' being in the title. It must have taken a management team for that game to have ended up bundled with some A1200's. I can picture it now....
Manager 1: "We need something to package with the new A1200."
Manager 2: "Hey, my kids tell me that Street Fighter thing is still kinda popular."
Manager 3: "Yeah, but we can't afford to port Street Fighter."
Manager 4: "We can get a good deal on stacks of this 'Dangerous Streets' game that the publisher can't even give away. Who can tell the difference, anyhow?"
All: "Perfect! Time to vote ourselves bonuses to our offshore bank accounts!"
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Kang Fu?
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Kang Fu?
Buh.. it had HAM8 and kangaroos. What could be better?
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I don't know. Anything made by Titus would be hard to beat as worst game ever.
What about Crazy Cars III? No the WORST game by a country mile is Top Banana! God what a pile of s***.
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I MUST be a sadist because I impulsivly wnat to try each game that gets mentioned.
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@redrumloa
bah! Prehistorik was fun (but technically not very good).
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My vote goes to Touring Car Challenge.
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Did anyone notice that Dr. Plummet's House of Flux scored 77% while Pirates! scored 74% in Amiga Format 9 (Apr 1990) (Link found on "Lemon Amiga"). They're both reviewed on the same page..
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http://www.lemonamiga.com/?game_id=1387 <- Crash Garrett left quite a scar on my childhood mind. I bought that 'cos it had some cool airplanes and stuff on the box! Little did I know, it turned out to be a smelly text-adventure.
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What about Crazy Cars III? No the WORST game by a country mile is Top Banana! God what a pile of s***.
Agreed, Top Banana suck and blow, were the developers smoking dried banana peelings? I'd also like to add Nemac IV and Breathless to the list, they got to be THE crappiest 1st. person shooters ever.
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Have you not played Death Mask? =)
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Have you not played Death Mask? =)
I found that hilarious. It was like fighting monsters conceived by Terry Gilliam in one of his more obscure Python moments :)
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Top banana was bad, but I would vote for Akira. All the money was spent on the license leaving a game so bad a PD programmer would have been ashamed to upload it to aminet.
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Have you not played Death Mask? =)
Unfortunately, yes... I just had forgotten about it.
Hmmm... If we put the games that suck into canister, would that make a vacuum-bomb?
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No! The worst game is Offshore Warrior (http://hol.abime.net/2279) :hammer:
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No the worst game gotta be Cliffhanger.
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No the worst game gotta be Cliffhanger.
Can't believe Psygnosis made this thing :shocked:! It doesn't even have their trademark graphics and overall polishness.
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I believe the game-of-the-movie Willow got 6% in CU Amiga.
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I believe the game-of-the-movie Willow got 6% in CU Amiga.
That's weak :roflmao:
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Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!Operation Clean Streets!!
Worst game evar!!
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I believe the game-of-the-movie Willow got 6% in CU Amiga.
I remember in this one issue of Amiga Power they gave International Rugby Challenge (or something like that) 2% and two other games 3%, one of which was Edd the Duck 2 - back with a quack and I think the other may have been 4th and inches. Those three have got to be contenders!
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Hi
I would guess I have played around 5% of the hundreds of Amiga games I have and whilst I accept there are real stinkers, I would suggest it's the ones that claimed to be ace and kept us waiting the longest that take the prize for being the worst. Some I waited an age for, particularly when they came on the back of a roaring success.. Anyway these are my bottom three... just cus the creators should have known better.
The Speris Legacy - Team 17
Robinson's Requiem - Silmarils
Sensible Golf - Sensible Software
I didn`t think Terminator 2 was too bad given I spent a whole Christmas playing it. As to the game Dr Plummet's thingy... I guess like others I would love to try it.
scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com
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I'd like to nominate every bad trackloader single floppy disk game that only worked on an unexpanded A500 with 1mb of chipram and 1m fast-ram, vanilla 68k, no HD, no second floppy and for god's sake don't have anything else added on.
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I remember being duped by Dino Wars back in the day. :-(
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Sounds like this post brought back some fond memories...:roflmao:
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Personally, I think the worst Amiga game ever created was by Amiga, Inc. and their "Amiga Anywhere" project.
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And that was....
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Personally, I think the worst Amiga game ever created was by Amiga, Inc. and their "Amiga Anywhere" project.
Amiga Anywhere is *NOT* Amiga, it is an early Tao Intent. I think we can all agree on that.
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I found that hilarious. It was like fighting monsters conceived by Terry Gilliam in one of his more obscure Python moments :)
Hehehe..
I remember playing that on the A500 after being told "it's just like doom!"
Only... It really wasn't.
Certainly that has to be in my top 10 gaming disappointments.
Now for worst game....
For me it'd have to be Akira...
Horrible graphics and controls that were obviously conceived by Beelzebub.
And to think it shared the name of the greatest Anime ever produced.
Also add Rise of the Robots and Cool World.
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Biggest disappointment had to have been the way of the little dragon, olo fight and rise of the robots. I know there's more that suck but i gotta think for a bit
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Wow, how did I ever forget Rise of the Robots? Made all the worse by the hype.
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I'd like to nominate HOI. Even with cheats it's still impossibly annoying.
I'll also put The Final Gate up for consideration - an FMV trainwreck for CD32. Similarly, Prey - An Alien Encouter is another one of those no-gameplay kind of games.
Akira and Rise of the Robots are definitely excellent candidates.
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uh huh, some good candidates there.
i got suckered into the rise of the robots hype. i believe primal rage was either comming out or just out or something, and fighters where all the rage.
i'd just got a brand new CD32 and wanted a fighter. oh Rise sucked so bad. secretly i hung my head in shame at it's pretty graphics and video cut scenes, but at the time, i was young and reckless and in my "Amiga beats all down, fool" phase, so on the outside, it was this kicks arse!
plus. never buy a movie tie-in, or a franchise deal. MacDonalds Land anyone?
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Mine would be Dragon Ninja as they didnt program the game for a forward jump so once you got to level 2 where you had to jump over to the next platform you were f**ked. I think it got 1% in Amiga Format.
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@morcar: i liked it, but as you say, it was impossible to play with joysticks with microswitches. But with a TAC-2 you could jump without problem.
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Hmm.... Pitfighter springs to mind. Total cr*p
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uh huh, some good candidates there.
i got suckered into the rise of the robots hype. i believe primal rage was either comming out or just out or something, and fighters where all the rage.
i'd just got a brand new CD32 and wanted a fighter. oh Rise sucked so bad. secretly i hung my head in shame at it's pretty graphics and video cut scenes, but at the time, i was young and reckless and in my "Amiga beats all down, fool" phase, so on the outside, it was this kicks arse!
plus. never buy a movie tie-in, or a franchise deal. MacDonalds Land anyone?
i agree 100 on Rise of the Robots, but how could you say that about McDonaldland - It was one of my favourite games on my mate`s NES.
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Microcosm was one of the worst games I've played on Amiga. The graphics were brilliant and the intro was incredibly fun in a B-movie Robocop-ish kind of way, but the game? Holy cr*p that was bad.
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I haven't had a chance to try most of those games listed, but out of the ones I still have sitting around, "Turbo Outrun" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" were two stinkers that I couldn't play more than five minutes with, without giving up. I also kinda have to agree with Hoi. I played the AGA version, and although pretty to look at, it was annoying as hell to get through the levels with my limited platformer skill set. Jump, miss, die. Jump, miss, die.
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With Microcosm I think they literally put all their effort into the FMV side, thus neglecting gameplay to the detriment off all CD32 users who bought it thinking it was like that in-game.
But nope!!
Microcosm was one of the worst games I've played on Amiga. The graphics were brilliant and the intro was incredibly fun in a B-movie Robocop-ish kind of way, but the game? Holy cr*p that was bad.
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I haven't had a chance to try most of those games listed, but out of the ones I still have sitting around, "Turbo Outrun" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" were two stinkers that I couldn't play more than five minutes with, without giving up. I also kinda have to agree with Hoi. I played the AGA version, and although pretty to look at, it was annoying as hell to get through the levels with my limited platformer skill set. Jump, miss, die. Jump, miss, die.
You haven't lived then! Want a free copy of Dr Plummet's House of Flux?
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Wow, how did I ever forget Rise of the Robots?
With a great deal of effort and mind-bleach I suspect ;)
Seriously though, if you've never played them, try Cool World and Akira. Both of these crimes against videogames should be played by everyone at least once, if only to realise how good we got it :D
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Let's see worst hmm...
MindWalker (if it weren't for the 3D) and the Surgeon (it's like the game of operation with a hellicious scream when the patient wakes up and dies)...
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The most worst games I ever played are :
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, after the third round you couldn't win even on the easiest level
Dangerous Streets, unplayable
Master Axe, problems with hitting and kicking the opponent.
On the other hand: Rise of the Robots is a great game when you use a 68030 to play the game.
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On the other hand: Rise of the Robots is a great game when you use a 68030 to play the game.
Even with an 040 it sucked big time.
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Wow, how did I ever forget Rise of the Robots? Made all the worse by the hype.
I've played Rise of the Robots quite much against a friend of mine. Fond memories. :)
But then again, it was my first fighting game, it was a demo version and I had never heard of it before, just tried to get the hang of this new type of game.
Anyway it certainly cannot be the worst game, maybe the most disappointing, but certainly not the worst.
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I don't know. Anything made by Titus would be hard to beat as worst game ever.
Wha-whaaat!? I love those games!
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I think Dangerous Streets and Operation Clean Street must have been the same game!
Maybe they changed the title for europe for some reason?
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Here are some Amiga magazines who has reviewed the Rise of the robots game:
http://amr.abime.net/amr_search.php?search=rise+of+the+robots&mag_id=0
The scores are mixed. That is the reason why I play the game first before I give my opion about it.
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Futile League of Pathetic Superheroes. Certainly a F.L.O.P..
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Here are some Amiga magazines who has reviewed the Rise of the robots game:
http://amr.abime.net/amr_search.php?search=rise+of+the+robots&mag_id=0
The scores are mixed. That is the reason why I play the game first before I give my opion about it.
I think CU Amiga is quite right with their 80% score :)
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Rise of the Robots certainly ranks up there, in part because it took so damn long to load, for so little gameplay.
There were plenty of other forgettable games, but they at least had the common decency to only take up 1 or 2 disks and load up pretty quick
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Futile League of Pathetic Superheroes. Certainly a F.L.O.P..
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'Cummon the name says it all.
Gertsy.
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Operation Clean Streets ! I love me some Operation Clean Streets! Watch out for that bitch by the docks though, she looks good but will stick you with her dagger!
LOL, really, that game hurt me, and changed me forever, in a bad way. WORST GAME EVER - THE QUESTION IS RESOLVED...