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Cobra
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« Reply #61 on: October 18, 2007, 07:50:01 AM » |
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For those not already in the know of why it's hated by so many, read this little sniplet from Wiki Reputedly coded in just six weeks, this game was rushed to the market for the 1982 holiday season, and it was based (very loosely) on the popular E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial movie. The game was hard to play, simplistic and took place mostly in pits that the player had to somehow levitate out of. It was expected to sell millions, and even director Steven Spielberg seemed excited about the idea of having his hit movie made into a video game. Word of mouth spread fast but the video game sold extremely poorly during the holidays and beyond. Expectations were so high for this game by Atari, that warehouses were filled with cartridges for the would-be rush of buyers running to get the game. It turned out that the game was such a huge disaster, that millions of unsold excess cartridges ended up buried in a landfill in the New Mexico desert.[32] The game is thought to be one of the main causes of the video game crash of 1983 and contributed to how Atari went from the US's greatest games publisher to a laughing stock. It is widely considered to be one of the first big video game flops ever.
The scale of the E.T. disaster has become almost legendary and the game is still well known nearly 25 years after its publication, despite the fact that few gamers today will have played the game. E.T. was ranked in 21st place in GameSpy's "25 Dumbest Moments in Video Game History".[33] More recently, the game (and its creation process) was parodied extensively in an episode of the G4 TV show Code Monkeys. |
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« Reply #71 on: November 29, 2007, 12:02:10 AM » |
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Motocross Mania 3 for the PS2/Xbox. This game brings a new level of suckability only a whore or a Hoover can match. In fact it's so bad it has earned a place in my most hated games list on my staff page. Worst $2.99 I ever spent on a game.  Broken gameplay, graphics a decade out of date, bikes that handle like limos in a slalom course, pop-in that looks like Mr. Scott having fun with his transporters, and that's the good points of this game.
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