Worst nintendo game ever.....

[nomaaa]

what?!

you can't waste a dollar on a nintendo game.

[TempoGL]

yes you can...if you spend it on Silent Service...

[Gantry]

Worst game ever? Just bought it at a garage sale for $4. Mario Andretti Racing... terrible Formula 1 simulation (try shifting gears and driving at the same time). It was an impulse buy (even included the original box) and was a big mistake. There are 10-30 better driving games for the NES (Super Sprint, Excitebike, even R.C. Pro-Am)...

Go Reds...

Though the price was off, good to see you sticking to your guns for Andretti...

[Metal King]

I'm probably the only one here who actually enjoys Silent Service. I got really far on a war patrol one time. Sunk around 140,000 tons of ships before one got me. I don't think it can actually be beaten, just goes on forever.  Just like R.C. Pro-Am.

Silent Service is alot like Overlord, barely any music, tons of controls (especially Overlord), but much MUCH easier. Same thing with the Black Bass. At least they have music on that one. I gave up on the Blue Marlin, it baffles me.

[TβG]

blue marlin is a good time wasting game.  i've caught some huge fish.  there's a lot of technique to it.

[redfanrod]

Damn, Dee-Nee... I must be going nuts (I am 41, after all)... How did you remember my post from 2006 when I couldn't even remember it?

Thanks for setting me straight on my Andretti purchase...

UPDATE: The Andretti game still sucks... my 3-year-old is already tired of it and he's an original Nintendo fan!

Long live R.B.I., Contra and Arch Rivals!

redfanrod

Worst game ever? Just bought it at a garage sale for $4. Mario Andretti Racing... terrible Formula 1 simulation (try shifting gears and driving at the same time). It was an impulse buy (even included the original box) and was a big mistake. There are 10-30 better driving games for the NES (Super Sprint, Excitebike, even R.C. Pro-Am)...

Go Reds...
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Though the price was off, good to see you sticking to your guns for Andretti...


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[fathedX]

redfanrod is the oldest guy here, woo hoo!

[Gantry]

Damn, Dee-Nee... I must be going nuts (I am 41, after all)... How did you remember my post from 2006 when I couldn't even remember it?

It was such an old thread that I decided to read it from the beginning.  Your memory may be spotty, but heck I sometimes forget about I made a few days ago.  Your consistent hatred for the game is consistent, and that's all that matters...

[Metal King]

Caveman Games is also an easy nominee. I rented it way back when the NES was still the big news. It's amusing the first couple times, but it's just like Track & Field II (only alot worse), so much button tapping, but turbo makes it too easy.

Harlem Globetrotters...I rented it. Probably the worst NES basketball game. Even the Atari 2600 version of Basketball is better. EVERY time you shoot, the ball bounces on the rim, and usually just rolls off. I've never hit a straight shot in, I dunno if it's possible. Only the mid-air spinning slam dunks are mildly amusing.

Other stinkers:

Muppet Adventure
Raid On Bungling Bay
NARC
Total Recall
John Elway's Quarterback (reverse/normal)!
Beetlejuice
Kung Fu (it's just too short)
Bases Loaded II
Xenophobe (probably the worst ever, NO MUSIC)!

[nomaaa]

narc ahaha. i beat that game once - the boss is the most ridiculous thing ever. it's like 6 in one.
plus when you beat it, you don't get like a congratulations screen or anything. it's like "save the war on drugs"

fuck that shit.

[Metal King]

Geesh.

Well at least you beat it.

Since we're talking about bad game endings, Karnov comes to mind. 9 freaking stages in the game, and when you beat it, all you get is a "congratulations" message at the end with some music. Battletoads, same thing. 12 extremely difficult levels (well except for 1 & 2), and you get a short message from the Dark Queen at the end before she exits, and one from your Professor T. Bird & it just shows your ship fly away, then it goes back to the title screen. With a game that hard, you'd think they'd have a great ending, but no, we get one of the shittiest endings to probably one of the most popular games in history.....

[BeefMaster]

Xenophobe (probably the worst ever, NO MUSIC)!

That was one of the first games we got with our Nintendo (my uncle picked it out because he enjoyed the arcade version).  It never ends, just cycling through the same 8 levels over and over, and if you're moderately good at it, there are enough health items around that you could play it indefinitely.  My brother and a friend use to play it for hours at a time, to the point where it would take 5-10 minutes just to show all their accumulated items between levels.

[Gantry]

Bump, this is a great watch by Norm / Gaming Historian about Nintendo owning the Mariners:



More of a baseball history than a video game one, but interesting stuff.  I don't recall any of that controversy in 1992.