Shitty games given to us as kids

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

This thread is inspired by TransatlanticFoe's hilarious rhetorical question

who hasn't had a mad aunt that's bought something awful that you've had to Stockholm Syndrome some love for

So we all had games as kids that were shit, that we knew were shit, but we still played them since carts were expensive and in those days you had to play what you had.

For me, it was the atrocious Robin Hood gameboy game. Got it on my birthday from a friend's mum who bought it heavily discounted at the local supermarket. Bless her heart, but it was a shit game

[bbbhltz]

Fun idea.

Out in the boonies of Canada, the nearest town had a K-Mart and a Zeller's. In fact, K-Mart set up in the former Zeller's location when the new mall was built. Anyway, what had to happen happened and K-Mart pulled out of Canada and sold everything at massive discounts.

My mother was a shopaholic at the time and was first in line. She elbowed her way to the video games and swept everything into the cart.

My brother lucked out on the Sega front. Lots of good quality stuff (UMK3, Earthworm Jim, Comic Zone, Vectorman, Sonic(s), Space Harrier, a really awesome RNG, and so on).

Edit: the RNG was Doom Troopers, I thought it was awesome at the time.

I had the Nintendo consoles and got a single shitty NFL game for my SNES, Emmitt Smith Football, and a few Game Boy titles...

I tried my best and did get some joy out Torpedo Range, Raging Fighter and Battle Bull even though I was initially very upset. I hid my pain and still have those games, boxes and all, today. I did convince myself that Raging Fighter is probably the best of the fighting games I had for the console, and the other games are pretty good for the genre.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

My brother lucked out on the Sega front. Lots of good quality stuff ...
I had the Nintendo consoles and got a single shitty NFL game for my SNES

Did your brother not let you play on his Genesis?

[Lord British]

My dad hated videogames and bought a fucking Phillips CDI for Christmas 1992 (and we were not rich). But to his credit, it's a great choice if you hate videogames. Two years prior we (my brother and I) wanted a TG16. What did we get? A Miracle keyboard. My dad was and still is an uber troll.

[Steven]

I got Fellowship of the Ring for GBA for Christmas. Among other non-functional things, it was the original revision of the game that was guaranteed to crash in a room in Moria that you are required to pass through. Boring, awful game, and one of the most dysfunctional things I have ever experienced, with almost nothing functioning correctly, and with zero redeeming qualities at all, but I still beat it at least twice that I can remember. You have to pause and save the game as you enter the crash room. Then, once the game crashes, you can load your save and play normally.

Apparently there is a revision of the game that fixes the crash glitch. Too bad it didn't fix the rest of the game. Seriously, if you hate yourself, you need to play this game. It's so bad.

[bbbhltz]

Did your brother not let you play on his Genesis?

Yes, of course, until "the event" when I learned how to spam Kabal's combos in UMK3 and absolutely and gleefully destroyed him again and again. Soon after that the Genesis and the Game Gear were packed away and he got into PC games.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

Did your brother not let you play on his Genesis?

Yes, of course, until "the event" when I learned how to spam Kabal's combos in UMK3 and absolutely and gleefully destroyed him again and again. Soon after that the Genesis and the Game Gear were packed away and he got into PC games.

Hahaha
Dang, I remember on the first day when I got my Neo Geo CD with Samurai Shodown 2, best mate spammed jumping slash with Jubei when he found out I didn't know how to defend against it, which made me fume with rage, and I banned that specific character

[R79]

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