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Post by eatersthemanfool on Apr 4, 2017 0:01:01 GMT -5
Oh man I played the shit out of Super Wrestlemania back in the day. I still kind of like watching bouts from that period. Like the WWF took itself more seriously and less seriously at the same time.
My favorite, though I never actually owned it, was Wrestlemania: THe Arcade Game for SNES. That was the one that had Street Fighter-esque special moves and combos.
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Post by FreightMan07 on Apr 8, 2017 20:41:39 GMT -5
Jaws and Karate Kid by LJN for the NES.
Yea, they were typical movie to game trainwrecks and didn't offer much variety, but as a kid, how could I say "NO" to trying to kill the mighty Jaws (in hindsight, his sprite really isn't that impressive) or be the FABULOUS Daniel Russo as he beats the crap out of the Cobra Kai AND Chozen all in the same game (if he can get by the flying sticks and debris that often kill him during the levels that is...hehe).
Karate Champ for the NES sucked ass too, but I spent much time playing it.
Going further back, the Atari 2600 versions of Pac Man, Centipede, and Defender were downright awful....but don't tell that to a 9 yr old like me who was the envy of his friends back in the day ("Hey, he has his OWN arcade at home!)
The Colecovision versions of Smurf, Cosmic Avenger, and Pitstop were barely passable even back then as platformers, shoot'em ups, and racing games respectively due to how generic and/or choppy their gameplay was, but man I enjoyed the crap out of those games too!
Coleco's versions of Baseball, Football, and Boxing (The Rocky Game) were pretty putrid too, but I seem to recall having friends over at my "home arcade" and having a good ol time playing and talkin trash with 'da fellas'.
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Post by Woody Alien on Apr 12, 2017 12:35:08 GMT -5
I somewhat liked those stupid Bugs Bunny platformers on the NES. Also, even if it's not really terrible (more like cheesy), I enjoyed the shareware platformers of the "Halloween Harry" series (a guy with jetpack and flamethrower against zombies) so much that I ended finishing all the episodes.
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Post by wyrdwad on Apr 14, 2017 14:20:31 GMT -5
I somewhat liked those stupid Bugs Bunny platformers on the NES. Also, even if it's not really terrible (more like cheesy), I enjoyed the shareware platformers of the "Halloween Harry" series (a guy with jetpack and flamethrower against zombies) so much that I ended finishing all the episodes. Oh, yeah! I forgot people often proclaim their hate for Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle, but honestly, I loved that game. Played it to completion, which is no small feat considering there are something like 100 levels (or maybe even more?). -Tom
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 15:18:04 GMT -5
Damn straight. I'm an unabashed fan of Crazy Castle. AVGN seems to have poisoned a lot of peoples' perception of certain games.
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Post by wyrdwad on Apr 14, 2017 16:04:54 GMT -5
Damn straight. I'm an unabashed fan of Crazy Castle. AVGN seems to have poisoned a lot of peoples' perception of certain games. Yeah, which is a shame. I actually love the AVGN, or... I should say, I love the work of James Rolfe, as he's an incredibly talented man with a real penchant for entertainment. But there are a lot of games AVGN has reviewed negatively over the years that I actually quite enjoyed as a kid. I've mentioned Super Pitfall (which I fully admit is bad, but I still loved it), and Crazy Castle, and Castlevania II (still one of my favorites in the whole series), but there's also Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Friday the 13th, E.T. (also not a great game, but very interesting for its time), Raiders of the Lost Ark 2600 (he didn't entirely hate this one, though), Milon's Secret Castle, Deadly Towers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES, and The Three Stooges, all of which I have very fond memories of from my childhood. -Tom
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Post by toei on Apr 14, 2017 16:29:33 GMT -5
Damn straight. I'm an unabashed fan of Crazy Castle. AVGN seems to have poisoned a lot of peoples' perception of certain games. It's an interesting effect of this thread that people have started talking about games they like that are perceived as terrible. All lot of those perceptions are based on very little - one youtuber makes a video about how a game sucks, others follow, and it's now "officially" bad to a bunch of people who've never really played it. I like to see people stand up for their own tastes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 16:32:04 GMT -5
Guess it's a sad fact that even amongst nerds, there's a certain need to feel like you fit in.
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Post by wyrdwad on Apr 14, 2017 16:34:05 GMT -5
Damn straight. I'm an unabashed fan of Crazy Castle. AVGN seems to have poisoned a lot of peoples' perception of certain games. It's an interesting effect of this thread that people have started talking about games they like that are perceived as terrible. All lot of those perceptions are based on very little - one youtuber makes a video about how a game sucks, others follow, and it's now "officially" bad to a bunch of people who've never really played it. I like to see people stand up for their own tastes. Well, that is the challenge of this topic: if I genuinely enjoy a game, then as far as I'm concerned, it's not terrible. Therefore, there exist no "terrible games I liked," since that's an oxymoron. Super Pitfall is potentially the only exception to this I've been able to think of thus far, since that's a game which is objectively quite bad in many regards. But I still don't consider it a terrible game, because I sank hours upon hours into it as a kid and never grew bored of it -- so even that, I'd say, doesn't really fit in with the topic. Maybe a different word would be better suited to this topic: "Flawed games you liked as kids", perhaps? Because I think we can all agree that the titles we've brought up thus far are flawed. But then that creates its own issue, since really, every game ever made is flawed in some way. -Tom
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 16:37:31 GMT -5
I get what you mean there, but I think it's possible to admit to yourself that you've liked games that were legitimately bad. Onechanbara isn't exactly Ico, for example, but I still enjoyed it (to an extent).
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Post by wyrdwad on Apr 14, 2017 16:39:12 GMT -5
I get what you mean there, but I think it's possible to admit to yourself that you've liked games that were legitimately bad. Onechanbara isn't exactly Ico, for example, but I still enjoyed it (to an extent). Heh. Bad example for me, since I actively dislike Ico. I think I may be the only person who feels this way, but I find both Ico and Shadow of the Colossus to be very "meh" games. I'd play any of the Onechanbara titles over either of them any day of the week. -Tom
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 16:42:50 GMT -5
Well I had a much better example, but it's been kind of run into the ground around these parts...
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Post by toei on Apr 14, 2017 17:05:20 GMT -5
It's an interesting effect of this thread that people have started talking about games they like that are perceived as terrible. All lot of those perceptions are based on very little - one youtuber makes a video about how a game sucks, others follow, and it's now "officially" bad to a bunch of people who've never really played it. I like to see people stand up for their own tastes. Well, that is the challenge of this topic: if I genuinely enjoy a game, then as far as I'm concerned, it's not terrible. Therefore, there exist no "terrible games I liked," since that's an oxymoron. Super Pitfall is potentially the only exception to this I've been able to think of thus far, since that's a game which is objectively quite bad in many regards. But I still don't consider it a terrible game, because I sank hours upon hours into it as a kid and never grew bored of it -- so even that, I'd say, doesn't really fit in with the topic. Maybe a different word would be better suited to this topic: "Flawed games you liked as kids", perhaps? Because I think we can all agree that the titles we've brought up thus far are flawed. But then that creates its own issue, since really, every game ever made is flawed in some way. -Tom The idea of the thread was more games you changed your mind about with time. I don't know about you, but my tastes have changed a lot since early childhood. For example, I thought Toshinden was great. In restrospect, it's a really slow, mediocre SF2 clone in 3D that compares really poorly to its contemporaries. I liked the movie Surf Ninjas; I saw it again a year or two ago, it's just awful.
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Post by wyrdwad on Apr 14, 2017 17:34:11 GMT -5
Ahh. For me, there aren't a lot of games -- or possibly not any -- that fall into that category, as even if I don't enjoy a game as much now as I did back when I was a kid, I still tend to think of them as good games because I remember how much I USED to enjoy them, and I remember why... and it's hard to fault a game for not entertaining adults as much as it does children, because in a lot of cases, that's not what they were designed for.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 17:37:48 GMT -5
Anyone care to try to defend Dew Prism?
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