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The WORST Snes games of all time?

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glen varley

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Mar 6, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/6/96
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1.Wizard of Oz
2.Full Throttle Racing
3.California Games II
4.Terminator II:Judgement Day
5.Cliffhanger

Anyone care to post their own 'worst' lists. On the subject of
Cliffhanger, does anyone know if it had any snowboarding sections
like the mega-cd version was reputed to have as I heard these bits
were pretty good?

Michael P Collins

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Mar 6, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/6/96
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Excerpts from netnews.rec.games.video.nintendo: 6-Mar-96 The WORST Snes
games of all.. by glen var...@cbl.leeds.ac
> 1.Wizard of Oz
> 2.Full Throttle Racing
> 3.California Games II
> 4.Terminator II:Judgement Day
> 5.Cliffhanger

The last two caught my eye...
Can't think of a better name for the type I'm talking about, but I mean
the ones which are based on a movie or TV show - have there been any of
them that were actually good? I'm still amused by the spate of "Make
your own video" CD's for the Sega...

Michael Collins, mc...@andrew.cmu.edu
Overworked, Overstressed, Underslept, Underfed - Undergrad


Tim Browne

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Mar 14, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/14/96
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In a previous article, mc...@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael P Collins) says:

>Excerpts from netnews.rec.games.video.nintendo: 6-Mar-96 The WORST Snes
>games of all.. by glen var...@cbl.leeds.ac

>> 4.Terminator II:Judgement Day

That reminds me: I have yet to pass level 1 in this game. I have the pistol,
both future objects which shouldn't even be in the game until much later, the
shotgun with rounds flying out of my butt, and John Connor's address. The game
even says "not proceed to next level", but I can't get to the next level!
Obviously, you have to get onto one of the motorcycles, but which one, and how
do you do it? Any hints, please? Please send any and all tips to me privately,
as I'm still trying to catch up to this group from about 4 days behind, and
I'll probably be that way for about a month. Thanks in advance. L8r.
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don stolz

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Mar 20, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/20/96
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gl...@cbl.leeds.ac.uk (glen varley) wrote:
>1.Wizard of Oz
>2.Full Throttle Racing
>3.California Games II
>4.Terminator II:Judgement Day
>5.Cliffhanger
>
>Anyone care to post their own 'worst' lists. On the subject of
>Cliffhanger, does anyone know if it had any snowboarding sections
>like the mega-cd version was reputed to have as I heard these bits
>were pretty good?

here is my list of worst snes games

1.rise of the robots
2. seperation anxiety
3. tuff enuff
4.maxium carnage
5. mortal kombat 1
6. hammerlock wrestling
7.wcw superbrawl
8.final fight 2


Sarah Othman

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Mar 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/22/96
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I've got one to add: Bill Laimbeer Combat Basketball!!!!

Tom Enright


ADAM HENRY

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Mar 23, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/23/96
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In article <4itpu1$6...@odin.cc.pdx.edu>, psu0...@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Sarah Othman) writes:
>I've got one to add: Bill Laimbeer Combat Basketball!!!!
>
> Tom Enright
>
Nope, Pit Fighter sucks most of all

The Master Cow

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Mar 24, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/24/96
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ADAM HENRY (sah...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu) wrote:

I think I'd have to say Bram Stoker's Dracula. It just sucks...


ADAM HENRY

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Mar 24, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/24/96
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Ohh..uh fuck yeah...
maybe you're right =)

Colin Copeland

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Mar 24, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/24/96
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The Master Cow (qua...@marcus.its.rpi.edu) writes:
> ADAM HENRY (sah...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu) wrote:
> : In article <4itpu1$6...@odin.cc.pdx.edu>, psu0...@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Sarah Othman) writes:
> : >I've got one to add: Bill Laimbeer Combat Basketball!!!!
> : >
> : > Tom Enright
> : >
> : Nope, Pit Fighter sucks most of all
>
> I think I'd have to say Bram Stoker's Dracula. It just sucks...
>
I'll second that. It stinks!


Damascus

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Mar 25, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/25/96
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Super Smash TV.
King of Monster I and II


Pan of Anthrox

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Mar 25, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/25/96
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The Master Cow wrote:
>
> ADAM HENRY (sah...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu) wrote:
> : In article <4itpu1$6...@odin.cc.pdx.edu>, psu0...@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Sarah Othman) writes:
> : >I've got one to add: Bill Laimbeer Combat Basketball!!!!
> : >
> : > Tom Enright
> : >
> : Nope, Pit Fighter sucks most of all
>
> I think I'd have to say Bram Stoker's Dracula. It just sucks...

WHAT?! those games are awesome compared to.............
BEBE'S KIDS!! YES that's right kids! Horrible game play is just the
silver lining! This games has it all! From bad graphics to bad sound and
music to choppy scrolling and dumb storyline. Was there ever a worse
game? How could this POSSIBLY EVER GET THE NINTENDO SEAL OF QUALITY?!
SIMPLE! But you'll have to figure it out cawz you'll end up calling me
something i'm not! :)

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Alex Hutton

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Mar 26, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/26/96
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cj...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin Copeland) wrote:


>The Master Cow (qua...@marcus.its.rpi.edu) writes:

>> ADAM HENRY (sah...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu) wrote:
>> : In article <4itpu1$6...@odin.cc.pdx.edu>, psu0...@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Sarah Othman) writes:
>> : >I've got one to add: Bill Laimbeer Combat Basketball!!!!
>> : >
>> : > Tom Enright
>> : >
>> : Nope, Pit Fighter sucks most of all
>>
>> I think I'd have to say Bram Stoker's Dracula. It just sucks...
>>

>I'll second that. It stinks!

you are forgetting The Last Action Hero. I've played Dracula and Pit
Fighter, and The Last Action is MUCH worse.

bye

al...@ivanhoe.starway.net.au

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Mark Kramer

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Mar 26, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/26/96
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It would have to suck pretty bad to beat out Pit-Fighter.


Thomas R. Murray

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Mar 27, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/27/96
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THe first NBA jam is by far the worst game out there

>> : >I've got one to add: Bill Laimbeer Combat Basketball!!!!

>> : Nope, Pit Fighter sucks most of all

Terrence C. Briggs

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Mar 27, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/27/96
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I don't believe anyone's included Mickey Mania (but that game's
just an acquired taste -- I didn't acquire it). The audivisuals are
outta there, but the gamplay is as Atari as anything I've ever played.
Not that Atari's bad, but video gameplay complexity has come much further
than simple jumping and marble shooting. No power-ups, no hidden levels,
no point system. Nothing.

Without a Game Genie, Firepower 2000 is perhaps the worst video game
on ANY system. No continues, one life, and you never live long enough to
power up your lame weapons. Avoid this one at all costs unless you have a
Game Genie (then it's just bad).

That's all for now.
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Kim Eng

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Mar 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/28/96
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In article <4j9d1h$1p...@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>,
mkr...@holly.colostate.edu says...

>
>It would have to suck pretty bad to beat out Pit-Fighter.
>Oh yeah, what about Home Alone 2, for Super Nes?


Theodore Patri Perrotti

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Mar 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/29/96
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Hyperzone's the worst SNES game I've ever played. Totally non-descript
enemies and non-existent storyline.

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Mr. Nutz

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Mar 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/29/96
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Theodore Patri Perrotti wrote:
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> Hyperzone's the worst SNES game I've ever played. Totally non-descript
> enemies and non-existent storyline.

Not a chance. Hyperzone was just a mode-7 showoff title, and it did hav
good music. You want bad? Paperboy 2. Pitfighter. Big Run. Death Brade.
Space Football. Race Drivin'.
Games like these are so bad, they're legendary.

Oliver Krancher

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Mar 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/30/96
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Sparkster (booooooring).

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Cliff Lemons

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Mar 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/31/96
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For worst games? Remember Drakken? That was a real bomb.


Joe Ottoson

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Apr 1, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/1/96
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In article <4jm5k4$d...@ionews.ionet.net>, Cliff Lemons <rok...@ionet.net> wrote:

> For worst games? Remember Drakken? That was a real bomb.

Dream TV!

Till we meet again...

xxx xxx

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Apr 2, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/2/96
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Cliff Lemons (rok...@ionet.net) wrote:
: For worst games? Remember Drakken? That was a real bomb.
Yah I do. That was one of the first games I rented for SNES. I played
several really bad Genesis games before that and thought SNES wasn't
going to be any better scince this game seemed so much like many Genesis
games. Thank god I tried other games, otherwise I would of toasted my SNES.


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How about Cutthroat Island? That game looks pathetic. I feel sorry
for the programmers who had to write it! Ughhhh. You know they wanted
to be doing soemthing else just by looking at the graphics.

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swhi...@ucs.att.com

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Apr 2, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/2/96
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Hmmmm the worst? How about Chuck Rock? BONGA-BONGA....YUCK!

Jaliya Jayawardena

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On Tue, 2 Apr 1996 19:18:41 GMT, swhi...@ucs.att.com
(swhi...@ucs.att.com) wrote:

>Hmmmm the worst? How about Chuck Rock? BONGA-BONGA....YUCK!

Was it anything like the Genesis version? If so, how dare you!
CR, like, rrrroolsz MAN! Ooga-Booga!

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Lasher

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Apr 5, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/5/96
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The worst game I've played was Terminator II, the video game.
I would rather get laid with a ten-dollar whore than spend forty or fifty
bucks on this sniveling piece of drool.
But wasn't that movie good?


The Flapper !!!!!!!

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Apr 5, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/5/96
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Yeah, Chuck Rock is a badass hairy mutha! That game was cool...although
I did kinda prefer the Genesis version, as the control was a little tighter.

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Isaiah Paradise

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Apr 6, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/6/96
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Ohhh, no. You are mistaken there. The worst SNES game has got to be
"Home Alone." I'd rather have molten lead poured down my throat then go
through that horror again.

I actually miss the glory days of the NES. Remember that game "Batman?"
I thought that was the coolest game. Same with all the Mario's and
Zelda's, Metroid, Kid Icarus, etc... A lot of the games today are just a
show of graphics and sound. They have a bit "WOW" factor, but they get
really old fast! We need to reevaluate the meanging of a good game again.

-Isaiah Paradise


Glen Patrick Ryan

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Apr 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/8/96
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Isaiah Paradise (para...@bmi.net) wrote:
: Ohhh, no. You are mistaken there. The worst SNES game has got to be
: "Home Alone." I'd rather have molten lead poured down my throat then go
: through that horror again.

Yup, that was pretty bad, but I don't think it can possibly compare to
"Mario Is Missing." Yegods, what a bad game.

[..]

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Ian Kelley

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Apr 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/9/96
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In article <4k9ofv$n...@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>, ry...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
(Glen Patrick Ryan) wrote:

> Isaiah Paradise (para...@bmi.net) wrote:
> : Ohhh, no. You are mistaken there. The worst SNES game has got to be
> : "Home Alone." I'd rather have molten lead poured down my throat then go
> : through that horror again.
>
> Yup, that was pretty bad, but I don't think it can possibly compare to
> "Mario Is Missing." Yegods, what a bad game.
>

That's a bad game too, but the worst ever has to be "Rocky and
Bullwinkle." My brother rented it once and it was so bad he that after an
hour of playing he begged me to go 50-50 on the rental price and rent it
for the rest of the time. I played it--and this game was so bad it wasn't
even funny!

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Danny Kusters

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Apr 10, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/10/96
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In article <4k9ofv$n...@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>,
ry...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Glen Patrick Ryan) wrote:
>Isaiah Paradise (para...@bmi.net) wrote:
>: Ohhh, no. You are mistaken there. The worst SNES game has got to be
>: "Home Alone." I'd rather have molten lead poured down my throat then go
>: through that horror again.
>
>Yup, that was pretty bad, but I don't think it can possibly compare to
>"Mario Is Missing." Yegods, what a bad game.
>
>[..]
>
No,no,noooo....
That game for diabetics (can't remeber the name) was absolutely
the worst shit I ever saw!


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Casey Rhee

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THE WORST SNES GAME OF ALL TIME IS PITFIGHTER. This arcade
translation made by THQ was the shittiest thing I ever saw on
the system. Actually, anything by THQ sucked. The top ten
shittiest SNES game is probably all THQ games.

Casey Rhee

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Apr 10, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/10/96
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THE WORST SNES GAME OF ALL TIME IS PITFIGHTER. This arcade
translation made by THQ was the shittiest thing I ever saw on
the system. Actually, anything by THQ sucked. The top ten
shittiest SNES games are probably all THQ games.

Flap on, Flap off...

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Apr 10, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/10/96
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On 10 Apr 1996, Danny Kusters wrote:
> No,no,noooo....
> That game for diabetics (can't remeber the name) was absolutely
> the worst shit I ever saw!

That was Captain Novolin...what the hell were they thinking to waste
silicon with that shit? I didn't even think that the game was released
until I saw it at a Funcoland...tried it just for the hell of it and felt
sick!

Flap on, Flap off...

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T*HQ stands for To Hell with Quality...yup, everything they've put out
has been shit, how their titles got the Nintendo Seal of Quality baffles
me. I did kinda like Ren & Stimpy: Time Warp though, it was pretty fun
except for the fucked-up collision detection. The funniest thing about
Pit-Fighter was that they didn't even bother translating the arcade game,
they just tried to port over Tengen's code from the Sega Genesis version
of Pit-Fighter, so it was a translation of a sub-standard translation!

Justin Hogaboam

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Apr 10, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/10/96
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Glen Patrick Ryan had these words to say:

-(Yup, that was pretty bad, but I don't think it can possibly compare to
-("Mario Is Missing." Yegods, what a bad game.

-=- Ummm....my vote goes in for "Yoshi's Cookies". As in, spew your cookies.
This has got to be on the top of the list. :)


Justin -=-


Magus

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Apr 12, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/12/96
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Nothing can top Batman Forever in the worst game list. Just thinking
about that game makes me wanna puke...dammit AKKLAME!

The supreme and almighty,
MAGUS


Magus

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Apr 15, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/15/96
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Cliff Lemons <rok...@ionet.net> wrote:

>For worst games? Remember Drakken? That was a real bomb.

Hmmm...I actually like that game. Though you will find yourself
wandering around like an idiot most of the time, I still like it.
Strange....

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Woodchuck Takeuchi

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Apr 15, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/15/96
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How about T-HQ needs to learn TQM.

Nelson Fernandez

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Apr 15, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/15/96
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Soldiers of Fortune was really bad, I also thought that Rocko's Modern
Life was crap (hell, all the Nickolodean stuff is pretty bad!)


Jan Siren

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Apr 17, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/17/96
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I've played all of these games, and let me tell you that NONE of them even
REMOTELY compare in the level of crap that Paperboy 2 and Hyperzone spit
out.


Ex.bob.@postoffice.tcac.com. (Voyager)

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Apr 17, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/17/96
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In article <4kf53j$5...@hera.cuci.nl>, dan...@cuci.nl says...

>
>In article <4k9ofv$n...@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>,
> ry...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Glen Patrick Ryan) wrote:
>>Isaiah Paradise (para...@bmi.net) wrote:
>>: Ohhh, no. You are mistaken there. The worst SNES game has got to
be
>>: "Home Alone." I'd rather have molten lead poured down my throat
then go
>>: through that horror again.
>>
>>Yup, that was pretty bad, but I don't think it can possibly compare
to
>>"Mario Is Missing." Yegods, what a bad game.
>>
>>[..]

>>
>No,no,noooo....
>That game for diabetics (can't remeber the name) was absolutely
>the worst shit I ever saw!
>
>
>Grtx, Ryu
>
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>
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> feel how week you truly are!"
> -Akuma, Street Fighter Alpha
>
>Ryu's homepage: http://www.cuci.nl/~dannyku/index.htm
> email: dan...@cuci.nl
>
> General interests:
> Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Neo Geo, pc, snes
>
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My personal opinio is Rocketeer. I sold that game for $6 at mys
shop and a guy returned it.
A fairly close second is Combat Basketball.

Best: Hard to say, though I love Vega Stakes.


David Goodwin

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Apr 25, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/25/96
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>
>Nothing can top Batman Forever in the worst game list. Just
thinking
>about that game makes me wanna puke...dammit AKKLAME!

>I've played all of these games, and let me tell you that NONE of
them even
REMOTELY compare in the level of crap that Paperboy 2 and
Hyperzone spit
out.<

God no! I think Rise of the Robots was the WORST game ever! Hell,
write to a gaming magazine and say you like it; they'll be
printing you up the the loony section (one mag gave it a 3%!!!)

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