Hehe this has been interesting.
There seems to be a very simple formula to creating a truely awful game. Just include one or more, of the following, in differing amounts.
-Film/TV license
We all like to watch a film, and would like to be able to interect with those charcters and do what they did. We don`t mind that the game is a sloppy game do we? I mean, we don`t mind that the game was only made fo the money do we? :-)
-Very short
Who needs a game which goes on for hours? We only want to get to the end anyway. This is not short, its efficient. :-)
-Impossible to do
Who needs an easy game. Gamers nowadays want a game which is a challenge. If its impossible its the ultimate challange. What a game! :-)
-Annoying/bad music
If the game is annoying then why not make the music match?
-Annoying/bad graphics
If you want the game to be out in time for the date we gave you 5 years ago the games developers should be allowed to miss out something surely :-)
-Really bad port
We all like the bad graphics of the C64 don`t we, so why change it? :-)
-Bad physics
Who needs realism? This is a flight sim, its not real? :-)
-Unresponsive
Gamers don`t have very good reactions so we have to allow for this by making the game very slow and unresponsive. :-)
Keep`em comin. This is quite funny, to find out just how many stinkers theres been. :-D