Worst Games of The 90s

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Originally Posted by Sean697

Just to note the 90s wasn't really the HD generation. Ya some 1080i tvs that super expensive came out but until the 2000's there was next to zero programming. No bluray no hd tv channels. I bought a Sony 36" 1080i CRT XRBG tv in 1999 for 2500 and wasn't until 2001 that I finally got any HDTV channels to watch on it. Like 2 to be exact. The 2000's were the HD decade.

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In the late 90s there was an HD VHS format. :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhfTm4-kFw

street fighter 2 on the c64 is by far one of the worst games made!

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Originally Posted by j_factor

In the late 90s there was an HD VHS format. :p

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Nobody owned that. Was a huge failure. Was super expensive. Although it did let you record HDTV and move it unlike DVRs. Unfortunately you needed FireWire to do that and not TVs had FireWire.

Dark Castle.

Enough said.

Metal Head does not belong on this list for any reason. At the time it came out it wasn't ugly, the controls are fine, I can run through the levels, and the levels themselves are well if simplistically designed. I have beat the game on many occasions. My only gripe is it doesn't have the satisfying crunch of good explosions and gunfire effects like Gun Griffon or Abrams M1 Battletank do. Mech Warrior 2 is guilty of the same thing though. Actually, all of the sound is pretty forgettable in Metal Head, but the game engine itself is a decent showcase of the 32X's true height map capabilities that Doom does_not represent.

Fanny Packs are from the 80s.

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Originally Posted by sheath

Metal Head does not belong on this list for any reason. At the time it came out it wasn't ugly, the controls are fine, I can run through the levels, and the levels themselves are well if simplistically designed. I have beat the game on many occasions. My only gripe is it doesn't have the satisfying crunch of good explosions and gunfire effects like Gun Griffon or Abrams M1 Battletank do. Mech Warrior 2 is guilty of the same thing though. Actually, all of the sound is pretty forgettable in Metal Head, but the game engine itself is a decent showcase of the 32X's true height map capabilities that Doom does_not represent.

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I totally agree. It's not a terrible game but not great either.

Gungriffon, by the way, is probably one of the best games of the 90s!

Metal Head and MechWarrior 2 shouldn't be mentioned in the same train of thought, ever, unless you're comparing it to the awful PlayStation game.

Though you could give Metal Head a slight break I guess since MW2 had not yet defined the genre. Metal Head was just way too ambitious for its own good.

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Originally Posted by Obviously

Metal Head and MechWarrior 2 shouldn't be mentioned in the same train of thought, ever, unless you're comparing it to the awful PlayStation game.

Though you could give Metal Head a slight break I guess since MW2 had not yet defined the genre. Metal Head was just way too ambitious for its own good.

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Yeah, Mech Warrior 2 is far too involved of a game to directly compare to Metal Head, I was only mentioning the middling sound effects and music being disappointing in comparison to more impactful sounding games.

Aladdin on the SNES.
(Yeah I'm gonna be doing this for awhile, blame Kimble :p)

There are several games on this list I enjoy! I have no idea why people are so hostile to MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero. I've had no problem with it, then or now. PSX Frogger is a drag, but it's got enough gameplay to keep it out of a bottom 15, and I genuinely enjoyed the sequel.

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Originally Posted by NostalgicMachine

Dark Castle.

Enough said.

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Really more of a game of the 1980s, no? The original was released in 1986, and the Genesis version is close to a straight port (but botched). Personally I kind of liked Dark Castle -- or at least I enjoyed beating it -- and either way I don't think it belongs on a bottom 15 list.

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Originally Posted by sheath

Metal Head does not belong on this list for any reason.

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"You must spread some Reputation around..."

Metal Head is one of the best games on the 32X! It's a hell of a lot more fun than Blackthorne or Kolibri, at least. BTW Sheath, since you've beaten it a few times, do you know what the medals at the end mean?

BTW Shadow: War of Succession (3DO) is one of many fighting games that are much, much worse than Shaq-Fu (either version). Maybe "biggest flops" would be a more accurate description of the list's purpose? The worst games are usually the ones you haven't heard of. But hey, at least there's no mention of E.T. (anachronism intended) or Sword of Sodan...

No Rise of the Robots?

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Originally Posted by goldenband

Metal Head is one of the best games on the 32X! It's a hell of a lot more fun than Blackthorne or Kolibri, at least. BTW Sheath, since you've beaten it a few times, do you know what the medals at the end mean?

BTW Shadow: War of Succession (3DO) is one of many fighting games that are much, much worse than Shaq-Fu (either version). Maybe "biggest flops" would be a more accurate description of the list's purpose? The worst games are usually the ones you haven't heard of. But hey, at least there's no mention of E.T. (anachronism intended) or Sword of Sodan...

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I agree, I would have to actively look for games that completely failed to inspire a play before I could find such a list. I don't remember what the medals were for in Metal Head and the manual doesn't seem to discuss it either. Sorry.

a bad game of the 90s? you just need one game... WAYNE´S WORLD.

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

Aladdin on the SNES.
(Yeah I'm gonna be doing this for awhile, blame Kimble :p)

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I consider Aladdin on both Genesis & SNES to be definative classics. I never thought I find someone who disliked the SNES version. Sure the Genesis version is superior, but the SNES version is still a great purchase.