Crap amiga games you still enjoyed?

[runequester]

What are some games that were generally crap, but you enjoyed in spite of it?

My two nominations were Dogs of War (got terrible reviews, and objectively the game is awful in almost every way....but in 2 player we played the hell out of it)

and Deathmask (terrible graphics, terrible controls, terrible sound, terrible levels....but two player on my mate's A500 and we got so many hours out of that bastard)

[minator]

Warlords

The graphics were crap.
The sound so bad we switched it off.
The player movement included "artificial stupidity".

...but multiplayer gameplay was fantastic!

[Dr.Bongo]

Future Basketball and Take 'em out. Also, Floor 13 (not sure if you'd consider that a crap game though?)

[Tripitaka]

I played F17 (F1 racer by Team 17) for a while. Don't know if I could say I enjoyed it. It certainly had realistic damage, realistic if an F1 car was made from lolly sticks held together with beer foam that is. Damned infuriating game.

[lassie]

I like the first Turtles game, many did not like it. but i think its cool.

[itix]

and Deathmask (terrible graphics, terrible controls, terrible sound, terrible levels....but two player on my mate's A500 and we got so many hours out of that bastard)

I also liked Death Mask. Terrible graphics, terrible controls, terrible sound and terrible levels indeed but I liked atmosphere and completed it on my Amiga 500.

North & South received relatively poor ratings (here in Finland) but it is definitely an Amiga classic.

Supercars II received poor ratings again but this was another Amiga classic.

Nuclear War was stupid game but its humour is lovely.

Brutal Football was also stupid but I loved its stupid brutality.

Full Contact received poor reviews and gaming experience was poor. But its intro was so cool. I enjoyed this "game" without actually playing it.

[Darrin]

Universal Military Simulator.

God awful graphics, but I used to sit down with old army mates and play it for days.  Just setting up the armies took hours.

[desiv]

There are a few really bad arcade ports that I still played, because I loved the Arcade versions so much..
Outrun..  Yes, it was terrible, but it was as close as I could get to playing Outrun without going to the arcade...
And, in a similar vein..
Hard Drivin...

I was just so into those games in the arcade, that even bad ports were preferable to no ports..  ;-)

Looking back, I'm not so sure it was the right decision, but I had fun at the time...

:-)

desiv

[lassie]

oh and Double Dragon 1 and 3, many hate them but i still likes them :-)

[runequester]

Warlords

The graphics were crap.
The sound so bad we switched it off.
The player movement included "artificial stupidity".

...but multiplayer gameplay was fantastic!

Oh yeah. We used to play it with 3 or 4 people. Tons of fun.

Near the end, the turns took forever.

[runequester]

Supercars II received poor ratings again but this was another Amiga classic.

This is one I always pull out when doing retro-gaming with non-amiga people. It's not great on your own, but in 2 player it's mad fun.

I also liked Death Mask. Terrible graphics, terrible controls, terrible sound and terrible levels indeed but I liked atmosphere and completed it on my Amiga 500.

I remember the alien levels being rather creepy, even though they mostly involved running away from the aliens

[Methuselas]

Warlords

The graphics were crap.
The sound so bad we switched it off.
The player movement included "artificial stupidity".

...but multiplayer gameplay was fantastic!

I still love this game!

[Wolfe]

Kampfgruppe - Awkward controls and slow play - Got hooked on it originally on a C=64

Reach For The Stars - Cheap PC graphics and beeps, but addictive

Empire - Simple cheap and cheesy graphics and sound, but addictive



Nuclear War - May not belong on this list because its main drawback was it was dumb.  But I played it because it cracks me up, rib splitting at times

[rvo_nl]

There were a few bad conversions that I played a lot because the game itself was so popular at that time. Final Fight, Pit Fighter, even the original Street Fighter II. Then there were the 'bad' 3d shooters like Breathless and, much worse, Fears. Oh and there were some really ugly pc adventure game conversions like Police Quest that I kept playing.

[Darrin]

And don't forget "Starfleet 1:  The War Begins".

I think it was done in Basic and looked like it was converted from the Commodore PET.

Still addictive though.