Article 1148 of alt.humor.best-of-usenet: Path: news.CSOS.ORST.EDU!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!malgudi.oar.net!news.ysu.edu!doug From: Jakob G}rdsted Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [comp.sys.amiga.games] Re: The WORST EVER game Followup-To: alt.humor.best-of-usenet.d Date: 30 Aug 1994 01:37:43 GMT Organization: best of usenet humor Lines: 88 Approved: best@cc.ysu.edu Message-ID: <33u2h7$71i@news.ysu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: unix1.cc.ysu.edu X-Disclaimer: the "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. See .sig below. Originator: doug@unix1.cc.ysu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games From: mhr@aber.ac.uk (Mike) Subject: Re: The WORST EVER game In article <19940811.839CC20.10519@cryo.cryogenic.com>, Michel J. Brown wrote: >In , >csimpson@burner.com (Chris Simpson) writes: > >The worst game ever IMHO belongs to "TerrorPods" by Psygnosis. It was a >terrible bore, and even though graphically nice, it suffered from arcadish >game play, and stupid random periodic senseless acts of wanton destruction >of your mining ship without warning. Even though I managed to finish the >game, all it did was say `END', and go back into the startup screen. Very >lame of Psygnosis, even if it came out in '88-'89. SOTB was far better! Yep - what a dud of a game. The only thing that salvaged it was the absolutely gorgeous final picture of the Terrorpods in the ice. That convinced me that the Amiga was worth the money. Bad games - When you're talking about bad games here are just some of the highlights (lowlights ?) of the games that the software industry has convinced (conned ?) me into getting .... UMS 2 - play World War II - in REAL time !!! Bionic Commando - just like the arcade original - except for the gameplay, the graphics, the sound etc. etc. Outrun - arcade perfect - except some slight loss in the quality of the gameplay, graphics and sound. Better luck next time US Gold ... Except next it was ... Forbidden Worlds - well it was a big coin-op and US Gold were frank that they'd have to cut out a few features - so out went gameplay, graphics and sound. Who said US Gold couldn't write a decent game if they tried ? Say it a bit louder next time. Enough, I'm victimising US Gold - how about Ocean ??? Total Recall - re-enact the famous `jumping along the platforms and climbing ladders scene' from the movie. Also seen in the Untouchables, Batman, RoboCop, RoboCop II, Lethal Weapon, Addams Family etc. etc. [Apparently some movie censors cut these tremendous scenes out of the original movies - a tragedy] And I'd hate to leave out the darlings of the game industry Team 17 ... Alien Breed - the game is loosely based on `Aliens' (the movie) and a good quote from that film is :- `is this another bug hunt ?' Well there are lots of really nasty ones here - doors that don't open, credits that don't um credit, squares that suck you in and won't let go ... A classic. One for all the disassemblers amongst us ... Project X - love the rave music, like the title graphics, wanna play a game? Insert disk - and wait, and wait, and wait - why were we here again ....? Or what about Psygnosis ??? Lemmings 2 - `Oh No ! More Lemmings', yes I couldn't put it better myself. Remember the fun and addiction of the original ? - well I hope you do, 'cos this ain't got either. Second Samurai AGA - its just incredible ! by a clever use of the AGA palette it looks identical in every respect to the original ... Once again we ask - `How do Psygnosis do it ?' Then we ask `Why do Psygnosis bother doing it ?' Then we ask `Why did we buy it ?' Answers on a postcard please ... And I haven't played these but, Cliffhanger and Last Action Hero from Psygnosis are supposed to be *REALLY* bad. (Rumour has it that LAH (the game) is *actually* worse than LAH (the movie) - can it be *THAT* bad ?????) Mike. (Relieved that Psygnosis didn't do a `Universal Soldier' movie licence - now that would be the definitively BAD game) -- Postings to alt.humor.best-of-usenet reflect what the submittor considers to be the best in usenet humor, and the poster is responsible for the content. The moderator removes duplicates, copyrighted material, posts without headers, but does not drop articles based on content. See the group charter for more info. Sigs may be truncated. Moderator address: best@cc.ysu.edu