Prompted by me coming across this:



(If you can get past the annoying voice/mannerisms of the reviewer it's not a bad watch).

Now when I was a wee nipper I LOVED Hook on the NES. I remember paying £40 for it from a Dixons...the chap had to get it out of the glass display case...

I played it for hours, days even...I don't think I even completed it (not being the ultra compotent pro gamer I am now ), but I still loved it. I lost whole afternoons to trying to complete it...I tried different levels, different routes, explored them throughout...one of them you have a metal detector and you can search for treasure...I think I did the entire thing!

But looking at that video...naff me is it a terrible game!

What games did you love as a child that you now realise were, ahem, "vomit in a cartridge".

I spent 40 pounds on this the day it came out. Went home, witnessed the horror, but played it to death anyway because I just couldn't admit how terrible it really was.

I mean, jesus. Look at the state of it.

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Stunt Race FX is a fantastic game that I haven't played since I was twelve.

Rise of the robots

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Go start your "denial of youth" thread! You're not meant to know how terrible things are.

I've bought some utter shite in my time.

Such as this:


This:


And this, the hardest racing game ever made:


But yeah, Rise of the Robots is the obvious stand-out.

Moonwalker - MegaDrive



I loved that game.

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Me too!

I also loved Bomberman Hero..

I thought that was a reasonably good demo.

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Not that I hated it but I have a suspicion it might not hold up quite so well these days...

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Crueball on the Mega-Drive

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Altered Beast. Insta-bought the XBLA version because of fond memories. My lord.

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I have a feeling that every game I had on my Atari Lynx might qualify for this thread.

Actually, I think Rygar might have actually been pretty good.

These are some of my worst purchases.

Pit Fighter (Master System)
Shaq Fu (Megadrive)
Hyper Lode Runner (Gameboy)
Hi-octane (Saturn)
Hardcore 4x4 (Saturn)
Fighters Destiny (N64)
Rumble Racing (PS2)
Eve of Extinction (PS2)

after the PS2 my taste must have dramatically improved as I can't really think of anything truly horrific that I bought myself, although someone did buy me Driv3r a couple of years back.

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The sound chip was tortured

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This has lots of "similarities" with FIFA International Soccer.

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