10 of the Worst Video Game Memories of All Time

[@johngannon]

I got Deadly Towers for Christmas from my Grandma one year, it was baffling. Next year she gave me Ikari Warriors 2 so I guess it was a trend.

[@weeziepuff13]

I worked on a PS1 port of Superman 64 for Titus. At Crystal Dynamics, we thought about using Deadly Towers as a design test for candidates. "Tell us what's wrong with this game and how you'd fix it."

[@one7decimal2eight]

My dad brought home renegade from the rental store in 1987 or 1988. Blew my mind you could rent games. Next game he rented was deadly towers. We were dumbfounded just how bad it was. It became a long running joke between us. We joked that we would get each other deadly towers for Christmas. He even said he contemplated getting a deadly towers empty box and giving it to me to make me think he got me the game.

[@shawnwithlove]

The 2 worst games I ever got to pick out were in fact Deadly Towers and John Elway's Quarterback. All you could go by back in the day was cover art and the back of the box. Getting back home with Deadly Towers and realizing how horrible it was felt like getting punched in the stomach. ...I can't believe you actually featured this game in this video and the thumbnail. -Unreal

[@TheCommentNinja81]

Yeah John Elway's Quarterback just got one of those covers that scream "Pick me! Play me!" 😅

[@gregsmith9183]

@@TheCommentNinja81 Many games had fancy packaging hiding a terrible game.

[@darkoale3299]

@@gregsmith9183 Including Superman 64. Ugh

[@mjrleaguesweetie]

lmao I enjoyed both of these games, as a kid

[@TheShadowsega75GX]

@@darkoale3299 And WWE 2K20 with Roman Reigns and Becky Lynch in the cover. That game is a mess. Thank god for WWE 2K22!

[@JTSuter]

Mine is when I finally got an N64 for Christmas only to find that I didn’t come with an RF switch for my TV. I was 13 at the time and had to wait days before I could even play it. My disappointment and anger was fully captured on VHS. Not one of my proudest moments.

[@zackschilling4376]

If you had a VCR, you could have hooked up the N64 with composite (the red, white and yellow audio video cables) to the VCRs input then output the VCR with the cable coax. Most VCRs had composite inputs and outputs.

[@JTSuter]

@@zackschilling4376 For some reason that wasn't available (or not working) on my parents' VCR. I remember spending over an hour trying everything, but was probably doing something wrong.

[@bradleymayse]

My mom let me open mine Christmas Eve morning in case I needed something extra that I didn't already have to play it. I had to get the little "Y" cable (I forget the name) at Radio Shack and it still took me about two hours to get it working right. Played Mario 64 the rest of the day.

[@TheShadowsega75GX]

It happened to me. When I brought a N64 back in 1997 my mom and dad were dumbfounded that we didn't get the picture and audio since I didn't buy the RF adapter for it which I did later on when my uncle gave his Sanyo TV to my mom and my mom gave her Magnavox TV to me so I can watch WWE Raw back when it was good, Spongebob, The Simpsons, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune till I got a Emerson when I was able to see WWE Smackdown, Megas XLR, Yu Yu Hakusho and Every Cooking shows on Food Network My Mom said "The manual said to connect to composite!" I was like "OOPS!" And then I finally able to play it but the only game I own which is my huge mistake was Clayfighter 63 1/3 as my brother should've told me to get Starfox 64 which I did though. I know my moment is bittersweet.

[@carlosdavis7978]

@@zackschilling4376 I had my PlayStation hooked up to the vcr as a kid.

[@fredsvard2185]

gotta love your positive energy even though you are talking about super bad products :)

[@kjhoskins]

Great video, John. I remember some of these all too well.

[@se7enfoot]

Christmas '99 I got a hold of EverQuest from my cousin. Up until then I had played Diablo over battlenet extensively. My cousin let me play on his Ultima online account. I felt pretty proficient with online gaming. Went home that night and installed EQ, played through the tutorial map and couldn't "enter" the actual game. I struggled to get ahold of my cousin that night and went to bed disappointed. The next day I called him and that's when I was woefully informed that it was $15-$20 a month for the subscription. He helped me pay for a few months but ultimately i reinstalled Diablo and enjoyed the F2P experience

[@joshoshea3194]

I've been watching your channel for a LONG time now Mr. Hancock and I absolutely LOVE your "bad games" segment... but (now hear me out) what if you did your ALL TIME TOP 10 BEST video games. And I don't just mean "yeah I really liked those games" but THEE top 10 since the late 70's up until now gave you Euphoria playing them. Maybe you might have to extend this list somehow but just the the games that made you say "wow" for one reason or another. I'd really love to hear that and also to see if the same games applied to me. Either way, I LOVE this stuff- please continue :)

[@thomascaddy4529]

Friday the 13th on NES. I bought it new for $45 in 1989 when I made $4 an hour. The game was nothing like the cool artwork on the front cover. I was so disappointed.

[@ittilioalimenti6271]

I think I went through five original Xbox 360 consoles with the red ring of death so frustrating. I got a slim and never had a problem with it and it still works to this day.

[@airshackretro8551]

Seattle Engineering

[@DECEPTICONUK]

Great vid bro, keep up the good work

[@johnhancockretro]

Thanks, will do!

[@BoredPodcaster]

10:55 - Red Ring of Death Oh yes, I definitely experienced that. I've owned FOUR 360s and only one of them survived to today. I rarely play it, mainly because I don't want to get reinvested in the games on it, only for it to finally crap out on me. Easily the worst console experience I've ever had in my 36 years of life lol.

[@carth85]

As soon as I saw the title of this video I thought of the R-Zone. As a kid I think I bought into the hype of the commercial and I remember as soon as I turned it on the disappointment set in immediately. It was so bad. Thanks for another awesome video! Keep up the great work!

[@chrisd6287]

So I actually experienced the red ring of death about 2 years into having my 360 but at the time I went online and discovered Microsoft was supporting those with the issue. I applied for a repair, they sent the shipping kit and I got it back within 2 weeks. Besides being without my console I was totally impressed with how easy and professional the process was. Anddd it still works to this day. Thanks Microsoft!

[@mattmtdc]

It's so true about Deadly Towers, especially the cover being so misleading! I remember buying it at Toys R Us when it originally came out and it was such a let down, especially since money took a long time to earn as an 11 year old. I tried very hard to get into the game, maybe beat one boss, but the firing rate, invisible dungeons, and getting knocked off ledges frequently killed any desire to go further. Thanks for sharing!

[@dimreturns1190]

Luckily my dad had a tape drive (40 or 80 meg tapes maybe?) he brought home from work and backed up our floppies. It came in handy at least a couple times - I remember I had a Final Doom 3.5 disk go bad but was able to get it off a tape backup.

[@Dangitjibe]

Oh Superman64 🙈 Great video, good sir! As always :)

[@johnhancockretro]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@mtshark7]

Awesome top 10 list John! Yea the Tiger R zone is something else lol.

[@jessragan6714]

Yep, count me in as another red ringer. Oddly, my system was purchased used, and didn't give out on me for a good three or four years. I got desperate to repair it, going so far as to cook the motherboard in an oven for an hour. It really worked! For about a month. Years later I bought a replacement Xbox 360 and then an Xbox 360 E, and the E is pretty sturdy. No problems with that so far, knock on wood.

[@badfrank7043]

I got mine for Xmas when it came out. Played halo 3 in the morning. Went out for dinner - all the while desperate to get back home and game on my new 360. Get home. Red ring..... Didn't get it replaced till into the new year. Raging

[@falconator3419]

I still remember my worst gaming experience. That’s when I bought James Bond Jr. for the SNES. I saved up money as a kid and had the chance to buy a new game but that wasn’t common for me back then. So I took a chance in this game and I remembered thinking how horrible it was even after giving it several tries. Back in those days you couldn’t return it or sell it to a store so you had to stay with it. It felt horrible for me to had spent my hard earned money in such a bad game. I even remembered avoiding the company that released the game all together after that. Toy Headquarters Inc.

[@drztopgun]

I remember that I had the red ring of death happen to me also. That's the gamer battle scar.

[@briancorvello3620]

Mine was the Batman Forever adaptation for Super NES. Yeah, I got this as a Christmas present, and for the longest time I figured I was playing it wrong or something. It took weeks to get past the first level because I couldn't jump down, and even after I figured that out I couldn't get past the second. It wasn't until years later that I found out I wasn't the only one having problems with this piece of junk.

[@TheShadowsega75GX]

Don't remind me of Batman Forever on the SNES that game is awful! The Mortal Kombat-like graphics are horrible, the gameplay is crap and the controls are terrible! I facepalm that my mom brought that game on the SNES the moment when I enrolled into High School.

[@Delekhan]

Eight disks for Ultima VII Part Two: The Serpent Isle. SO annoying when a disk burned out. Chrono Cross was used and got stuck about an hour in and couldn't load the battle at that point. Gar! Love the vid man! Thank you Mr. Immortal!

[@juliohernandez3668]

I really enjoyed this video John. If I can pick a bad game that I can still remember that brought nothing but agony was War Gods for the PS1. Gosh was this game awful. We rented this game back when blockbuster was still around. It was a Friday after school my uncle took us to pick out a game. I still remember coming home with my brother, it was a rainy evening. We were stuck with the game for the entire weekend.

[@johnhancockretro]

Yeah that game is a rough port.

[@veniteo]

Great video! I love hearing folks' stories about their past gaming experiences -- even (especially?) the bad ones. For a different take on your "game doesn't work" memories, the first DOS game I bought was Sim City 2000. Started installing it, but it insisted my PC didn't have enough RAM (4MB required, but I had 4MB on my system). 3 days of support calls, BBSes, and learning everything I could find (pre-internet) on config.sys and autoexec.bat, and I finally got it installed and working with a boot disk! I absolutely loved the game, and despite those 3 days where kid me was really sad and frustrated, I learned a ton. Sometimes bad experiences can turn into good ones when looking back.

[@dallase1]

I had the Tiger Handheld Bowling and it was good until the contacts on the buttons got worn out or oxidized and it kept on making me mess up controlling the bowling ball control and hooking.

[@jwill7998]

Samba de Amigo for the Wii was awful. The controls were extremely unresponsive. Considering how great the Dreamcast version was, I couldn't be more disappointed.

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

Yup, definitely few things as soul-crushing as when you're a kid and you blow your b-day or Christmas money on what turns out to be a total garbage game. That'll ruin things pretty frickin' quick.

[@nightshadehelis9821]

My worst memory was trading in a bunch of games to buy crazy taxi on my dreamcast only to discover that it was nothing more than a repetitive mini game that I got bored of within five minutes. I was so disappointed.

[@coyotekelly7143]

I think mine was getting batman forever on snes as a kid, I was excited and tried to play it. I could not figure out how to get past the first level. I came to a dead point within 5 mins of playing and me and my dad never could figure out how to move on. Recently I played it again and looked up how to rappel in the exact spot and what combination of buttons to press. I played a few levels and I still do not like the game.

[@SquarePegs]

My worst gaming memory might be a bit different than some, because mine is from when I was in the industry. We were working on NASCAR 08, which was the first time we were delivering our game on the PS3 and 360 generation of consoles. And it was an absolute nightmare - our physics engine was nearly non-functional for the entirety of the development cycle until it miraculously got to a working state (please note I didn't say GOOD state) about two weeks before our drop dead date on delivery. And even with that physics flub, the worst memory was finding out from a press release that we had guaranteed a full field of online drivers - 43 human controlled cars. Sales promised this when we didn't have 43 PS3 units in our department to test with to find out if it was even remotely feasible. Needless to say, we tried to shoehorn it in for months, and we shipped with only 16 drivers online per race instead of 43.

[@darkoale3299]

It's cool to hear stories from the developer's side. Us gamers take you good people for granted!

[@SquarePegs]

@@darkoale3299 Well, a lot of times the vitriol was deserved. :P Games shouldn't ship with as many bugs as they do, and as developers, QA folks, and producers, we should be held accountable for situations like that. BUT...yeah. When it's sales forcing our hands, that makes things really hard to deal with. :) Thanks for the kind words!

[@NoThanksnothanks]

Dang hating deadly towers and owning it in box, what a dilemma!

[@arcadedude1987]

Picking out DJ Boy for the Sega Genesis as a birthday present when I was a kid and then proceeding to beat it in like an hour and not really liking it literally had me in tears since I wouldn't be getting another game until Christmas that year if I was lucky :(

[@petewillson205]

Talking to the guy who had that and budakahn and altered beast as I got the send away box for sonic, that was a long summer, but I had 50 bucks and I could get 2 games vs 1, that decision was bad in nes days, and worst in sega days. Became great at 2 really bad games, dj boy did have its charm as a generic final fight

[@DreamcastQ]

Some major stinkers there!

[@DreamcastQ]

My worst gaming memory ever was wasting my hard-earned lawnmowing money on the Tiger LCD "Ninja Gaiden" game, it was absolutely unplayable like all those Tiger LCDs, just a total waste of money, zero fun, those things were abysmal and had cool box art to lure unsuspecting kids like me to try buying one

[@SkeletorTclaws]

I also wasted money on a sonic and a Street fighter 2 tiger lcd. Man i can still remember the fighters literally said "special move".

[@CanadianRetro]

Got X-Men as a kid on Nes .... Never fully understood disappointment until I learned the meaning of it that day. Unplayable pile of trash.

[@t-bone8836]

I loved my Sega Genesis and was so pumped seeing the pics of Sword of Sodan in the magazines. I rushed out to buy it and after 5 minutes of gameplay I boxed it back up and returned it. I was ranting so hard that the guy at Kay-Bee toys just threw up his hands and said " Hey kid, no problem. Just pick out another game."

[@mariox20]

John, just wondering where you got that Zelda hat??? I love it!

[@shredbraahh8606]

You seem like such an incredibly nice person, it's so funny to see you talk about games you hate. Even talking about this subject, you're still so freakin nice!! 🤣 Love it!!

[@EirkenElite]

When I got Kane and Lynch....the hype was huge.....what a dumpster fire

[@chrislogan1144]

Thank you for another great video. I totally agree with you on the Power Glove. I also watched the Wizard and thought it would be just like the movie. Boy was I disappointed 😂

[@angryducklinginstitution76]

11:45 When you go to a garage sale and end up buying a hardcopy CD of a game that's too scratched for your console to be able to read, you drive back over to the same damn yard sale and tell them: "Look here, this disc is so scratched up the laser can't even read the disc for me to be able to play the damn game. I KNOW you're about to give me a refund for this game, and oh how I KNOW you 'bout to reimburse me for the gas I spent coming back down here. Lest, of course, you want the Chuck Norris SPECIAL..."

[@prezidenttrump5171]

I was so surprised not to see Brutal Legend on here.

[@jhnmcb301]

I probably put 1000 hours into deadly towers got close but never beat it.

[@johnhancockretro]

DANG man that is dedication.

[@jhnmcb301]

When your parents didn't want to buy a new game or take you to rent 1 you played what you had.

[@PaulRockey]

My worst gaming memory was realizing that I would be stuck playing as Raiden for the rest of Metal Gear Solid 2.

[@SkeletorTclaws]

Kojima never really gave us young snake after mgs. It was raiden then big boss,the oldman snake then venom snake.

[@kevinjames2995]

I’ve never used the power glove but I do remember seeing the commercial with punch out being played. I’m so glad my parents never bought it. My worst game of all time would probably be the game boy version of mortal kombat.

[@themegaman91965]

Came here for the Atari 5200, and Deadly Towers, yikes!! Thank God AVGN made an episode about that. Dodged a bullet in 2001 when I rented Lego Racers, instead of Superman 64. Got red-ringed once in 2008, and that definitely sucked, but could have been much worse.

[@NESADDICT]

Dude I used that mt dew website like crazy to try and win one. That’s so funny you mentioned that. Man I wanted a 360 so bad!

[@MrJechgo]

MadCatz controllers... I swear they either broke shortly after purchase, or were even broken right out of the box. I also tried their N64 save cards, and those didn't work at all.

[@Wheels8504]

The two items I still feel bad to this day that I had my parents buy for me for my birthday and for Christmas was Batman Forever on SNES and the game com

[@legacyoftheancientsC64c]

I don't want to sound ungrateful to my parents but the worst disappointment I had on xmas was the one where they got me a "video game" so I could "stop complaining that my friend had one and I didn't". Xmas morning arrives I rush to open my "video game" expecting an NES and it turned out to be a friggin Tiger handheld (some cowboy game I can't remember the name of). The disappointment was immeasurable. Thank god for my grandparents who got me an NES for my birthday a few months after that xmas.

[@nightshadehelis9821]

LOL! Bless their hearts though. One year my mom bought me some video games and I excitedly opened it up on Christmas, only to discover that she bought me Genesis games for my new game gear that wouldn't work. Not only that, we didn't have batteries in the house and all of the stores were closed. I couldn't even sleep the night before because I was so excited to play my new game gear, which I knew I was getting because I could see the logo through the wrapping paper. I know I sound like a soiled brat here, but it crushed me not being able to play with my new toy. I genuinely miss being that excited about things.

[@legacyoftheancientsC64c]

@@nightshadehelis9821 Ha! I can relate! On the xmas of the year they got me the NES my grandparents showed up with a Master System copy of Astro Warrior. My grandma told me the story of what had happened years later. Grandpa bought it thinking it would work with my NES (since the NES came with a pack in game they had no idea what the standalone cartridges looked like and he thought it was like VHS tapes that worked with any machine). So I tell him "Papee you got me a Nintendo this is for a different system" He just gets up saying he's going to exchange it. A couple days later they showed up with the game AND a Master System. It seems my grandpa had lost the return receipt and decided to buy the console so I could play the game he had chosen.

[@oddojaggins]

My worst experience was having an official Playstation memory card corrupt and losing save data for several games I had been working on for months. I later bought a 4 pack of knock off memory cards from gamestop and even though the salesman gave me all the Doom and gloom speech over using 3rd party memory cards those ones never lost the data. I've had my Dreamcast since 2005 or so and some of that data on the VMUs was originally written well over 10 years ago and will still load up no issue dispite never even bothering to change the cr2032 batteries

[@gustavocoimbra2398]

The first games I got for my NES were Ghostbusters, Super Pitfall and Predator. Terrible, terrible games, but moving from the Atari 2600 days to this new generation of consoles was enough thrill to keep me playing they for months.

[@MVLGAMING]

One of the worst games I've had was the Tiger GAME COM handheld version of Resident Evil 2! So much potential for a Game Boy like version of RE2, but the movement was slow, and the game was a bit of a mess!

[@nightshadehelis9821]

Anything by tiger was the worst.

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

I still have my launch 360 from 2005 and it’s still working. I play it often. I do tear it down and clean it and add new thermal paste every 5 years.

[@sonicmario64]

I didn't deal with the Red Ring Of Death when I played with my Xbox 360, mainly because I had actually bought my console back in 2013, but it did end up getting fried from an electrical storm that took place over where I live a few years later in 2017. T__T

[@kornsin]

Still have my Tony Hawk Shred "board".

[@thefunkdroid2777]

I remember vividly not being able to progress in Loom for my Atari ST because a floppy went bad. I even remember that the last thing I was able to watch was a dragon killing a dude thinking it was my character. Those were the best of times, those were the worst of times.

[@itsahmed450]

I remember playing Street Racer on the PS1, we played it so much that the disc got scratched; we didn't know or couldn't tell straight away because the back of the disc was black - in the right lighting we saw the scratches. Man those memories were great...

[@basicforge]

I tried to play the Quake 4 single player campaign. I third of the way through a bug prevented me from continuing on. I simply could not walk onto a lift. Maybe all these years later the bug is fixed? I should give it another try?

[@JLAvey]

I still have a copy of Tiger's Mega Man 2. Still works too. Not bad for something so cheap. It's no Neo Geo Pocket but hey, it still works. Like to see microsoft hardware last that long.

[@ridwaankaranie5089]

Hi John, my worst gaming memory was not getting a PS2 while all my friends bragged about theirs at school. My dad finally bought one for my brother and I by the time the PS3 released. I learnt recently this was because my parents were eager to pay the house and cars off first - It all worked out because I still play that same console to date..

[@TheMightyOmega-NotTheAlpha]

My biggest disappointment in gaming was Dark Castle for the Genesis. What an awful game! I still own it only because nobody is fool enough to buy it from me!

[@johnhancockretro]

Yep, covered that in an EA Ranking video. Very bad indeed.

[@TheMightyOmega-NotTheAlpha]

@@johnhancockretro worse, I know I bought it new!

[@Invidente7]

@@johnhancockretro it was because the original game used a mouse to aim which consoles lacked at the time.

[@danphelps8865]

I got the power glove as well when it came out.... Totally was let down!

[@ItsameMatt]

My launch Xbox 360 got the RRoD. It was the day after Halo 3 released. I had come home from the midnight release and stayed up all night playing Halo. The next day, after classes, I came back to my apartment to play more Halo, and immediately got the red ring. I got a replacement within a week (Microsoft's customer support was amazing), and to this day I still have and use that console.

[@Jarod_Schultz]

I remember buying a QuikShot SNES controller as a kid, because I thought it might have something that would enhance the game, like turbo fire. When I used it, it was just a standard controller. No turbo. The controller still worked fine. I remember it had the multi-colored buttons like a Super Famicom controller, rather than the purple and lavender like the North American controller. At the time I didn't know they were Super Famicom buttons.

[@retrojoe85]

I have some, not just one: that's my Top 5, enjoy! 1) My first, most "advanced" console was a Famiclone: ​​imagine the disappointment to rent a new NES game for the weekend and discover that your console doesn't support it ... the only luck was that the rental store was close to home, otherwise my whole weekend would have been completely wasted! 2) My first console was a 2600: I have always LOVED it but, back in the day, the difference between the 2600 and the most advanced 8-bit and 16-bit consoles owned by my classmates was a struggling experience! My parents were not living a great financial condition, so that was the best I could get (it was cheap like no other console), but every time the comparison was like night and day! 3) Super Kick Off for the Game Boy. Senseless, frustrating and boring at the same time. It was an insult more than a game. One of lowest peaks among the huge Game Boy library, and that says everything. 4) The Watara Supervision! Maaan, that was TERRIFYING! It lasted at home for less than 24 hours, then I forced my uncle to send it back: horrible screen, horrible games, horrible quality control. It was a very well known product in Europe, with huge advertising campaigns who tried to make it seems cool stuff, but the reality was far, far away from that senseless glorification. 5) Deadly Towers. It was one of the very first import games from US when the Famiclones were the big thing of the middle '90s: once I rented it, and I was going to spit my vomit against the screen. Today I own two copies, just for the glory of the supreme crapness. Prince Myer, F**K YOU and your miserable adventure!

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

The Power Glove was so bad... And I mean, baaaaaad...

[@boulax]

Growing up with a video game addiction and little pocket money, I had been tempted twice to pick up games that were priced cheaper than "regular" games. I can remember getting two like this, Paperboy 2 and Blazing skies. Nough said.

[@11shovel11]

Mighty Bomb Jack is my bad memory.

[@SirHilaryManfat]

I always thought that Microsoft should have been sued for selling a faulty unit with the Xbox 360, and not offering replacements without question. I remember being told that I was unable to get a replacement because my 360 was past its warranty, yet the original Xbox 360 design was discovered to have a design flaw that led to RRD. So surely they should honour replacements like any company would recall and replace a product with an issue, regardless of when it was purchased?! It's unbelievable that I ended up wrapping my console in a towel to get it to work, then buying a kit to fix the heat sink and add thermal paste. Even then it only lasted a couple more months! It really put me off ever buying an Xbox console again, out of principle.

[@Natepwnsu]

Gotta wrap that 360 in a towel and reseat that processor. Hahahah. No that's all bullshit from Microsoft they used a garbage thermal compound and no bracket to hold the processor safely seated so the pins would end up reseating because of the compound being melted.

[@ilpohartikainen2771]

I still remember those days 35 years ago when I was playing C64 with casette deck and during playsession that deck said "ZUIP!" and then there was tons of casette spagetti. About 15 years after that I was installing Office 97 to my computer using 3,5" floppys and the second last disk was corrupted (not a video game but still).

[@johnhancockretro]

I don’t miss those multi disk installs whatsoever.

[@kevinroberts1888]

Probably the worse memory I have is with the Commodore 1541 II disk drive. My parents, who realized I could no longer find games for my Atari 800xl, gave me a Commodore 64c and a 1541 II disk drive for Christmas of 1987. Not long after I had it, while trying to play Ultima V, the disk drive went out of alignment. So, we got another one and it also went out of alignment. I finally came to the concluding that the 1541 II drives where badly made and bought a third-party drive which was still working fine when I moved onto my first DOS PC in 1992. Still, that was a very frustrating time in my life as a gamer.

[@IND4GR0V3]

i had 4 rrod 360s total the 5th one still works today thinking of cloning the drive and swapping it for an ssd

[@michaelfields7088]

When I was a kid, I was really into Back to the Future. In fact, call it a guilty pleasure, but I loved the NES game. That box art of the movie alone made me want to play it. I saved for Back to the Future 2 and 3 and it was the first game I remember buying on my own. It's the worst game I ever played.

[@mattb9664]

There were some severe quality issues with that first release of Xbox 360. I had reliably cured my RROD using a better clamping arrangement, but my DVD drive eventually failed on the same console. It actually spit out my SF4 disc while spinning, upon me doing Ken's Ultra Combo finish...and then froze the game. I ended up transferring the unique drive key from the original drive over to a replacement drive using a hack tool, and out of spite for releasing a console with issues I ended up doing one of the mods that let you do game backups. Everything was fine for about 6 months, but the console became wave-banned when Modern Warfare 2 was released. That console is now in the nearby landfill...I did transfer the chrome eject button and drive cover to the basic Xbox 360 I bought as a replacement.

[@mattjohnson6916]

My worst gaming memory will always be playing Super Pitfall for the NES. To this day it frustrates me to even think about that thing. Too cryptic, bad controls, bad graphics, that repetitive soundtrack; I could just never make any sense out of it. My first games when I got my NES were Super Mario, Top Gun, Super Pitfall, Ghostbusters, and Back to the Future. If it wasn't for Mario, I would probably hate video games to this day.

[@fakename2212]

I was part of the kid testing for the activator back in the day. I remember it being ok, but the controller was a lot better, lol.

[@TyG2k9]

I didn't get my 360 until early 2008. Later that year they had the first dashboard update. And I got red ringed immediately after the update completed. Sent it in to Microsoft, they sent a replacement. Exactly one year later, red ringed again. Sent it in, got the replacement, and that one ran great ever since.

[@retro_anime_gamer_8716]

One of my bad gaming experience is wanting a sega cd so bad but my parents saying no over and over lol I picked up the headband R-zone when it came out. I kinda expected it to be garbage but now I have fond memories of it lol

[@HeyImKevin]

In the mid 90's I slept over at a friend's house. At school he was like "yeah, I've got video games!" Aaaaaaaand when I got there he had like three tiger handhelds.

[@kmo4651]

I had the red ring of death on the OG Xbox and the 360. Definitely frustrating

[@diamondking1969]

John, here are my ten... *No return or exchange for a different game after opening and trading in half your game collection for a new game. *Losing saves on memory cards or accidental deletion. *Purchases that go on sale soon after buying or selling off games just before they sky rocket. *Buying many digital games on a console and then no longer use or have it. *Starting to love and invest in a console, but then a better new console is announced. *Add ons and upgrades like sega did with the genesis and harddrives today. *Getting games to play on the original nes, by blowing into them while the back told you don't. *Long loading times and in game freezing. *Intellivision action side buttons and the colecovision joystick location. *Needing to repurchase sports games every year and which were always dated forward a year.

[@KartKing4ever]

My 2008 Xbox 360 survived many hours and still works to this day. I believe my manufacture date lines up right around when the red ring was fixed, but I was quite nervous for a while, ass I had friends get the red ring.

[@epicon6]

Please make a series of videos of your earliest videogame memories and your first few consoles (if you haven't made those vids already) and what about the system/games/controllers/smells/boxes/cardridges/seeing new games at a friends house/what made you fall in love with gamimg and overall what made the whole experience memorable. From 85-88 i only had a tv sports game console that had the classic tennis and games and such but i was only 1-5 years old at that time but i still had a blast with it and i was happy it was my first console because even though at 88 it was ancient technology i got to experience early games even though i was born in 84. In 88 i got an Amiga 500 and it was the absolute best first proper gaming system because it had an insane amount of great games amd even though it was 88 i got to experience Pacman, Tetris, Asteroids and other early games that were ported to the Amiga. To me the greatest things to share are the magical moments when a console/generation is new /first impressions of gaming/consoles/games like when i got the PlayStation in 1996 and even before i booted it i had seen the ads on tv and those alone were enough to convince me that it was the next big thing and the whole design of the console and the buzz around it was great. But when i booted it for the first time and saw the colorful PS1 logo and heard the boot up sound i remember thinking that this just changed everything. And when the demo disk booted and i heard the CD quality music and the new visuals it created some of the best memories i have and every single time i boot a ps1 game it takes me back to that moment. BTW you ever happen to smell the controller cords of the original XBOX controller when they were fresh out the box? :) both on Duke and the redesigned. I have no idea what was on those but i've never smelled anything that good anywhere after :)

[@eternylbliss2151]

I remember buying Sssnake for Atari 2600 new - probably worst gaming experience back then. When they put their promo record out you thought their games were going to be on the next level. I do recall multidisc pc games... insert disc #3 - failed.... ugh i can't play the game any further what?!

[@susanfit47]

I still have memories of my gaming experince: Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Jaws, Mickey Mousecapade, R.C. Pro-Am, Paperboy, Goal!, RoadBlasters, Double Dragon II, Spot: The Video Game, Tetris, The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, Dr. Mario, Ski or Die, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Blue Marlin, the controllers: NES controller, the Zapper, the NES Advantage, and the QuickShot Joystick, for the 8-bit era for the Nintendo NES. Star Wars: Episode I - Racer, San Francisco Rush 2049, Beetle Adventure Racing, and Glover for the Nintendo 64, Super Mario World, Wheel of Fortune: Deluxe Editon, World Heroes 2, Super Star Wars for the 16-bit the Super NES. I could have more games for the NES, Nintedo 64, and the Super NES and more accessories.

[@andresjoberg]

Got to really bad memories about games: Getting the Stallone «Cobra» game for the C64 for my birthday, I had the poster, I even made a replica of the gun in my woodworkingclass in 6th grade school - booted up the game … and after not even 10 seconds of playing a character just split at the middle, legs running one way, upper body moved in the other direction, sooooooo slow, and so full of bugs and glitches. The other bad memory was buying european double dragon for C64 for my own money after beating it in the arcade … sooooooo bad

[@TheGamingCircle]

Red Ring of death on the Xbox 360 & Red light of death on PS3, was my Omen, happened to me so many times back in the day:-))

[@thisisakodibox2635]

Only 2 RROD? Those are rookie numbers I had 5 over 2 systems! 😜 Finally got the black elite 120gb to resolve. You better believe I got the warranty after the first one

[@jonathanjenson5000]

I broke 2 controllers on Dragon's Lair for Sega CD. I still think about it occasionally. It's been almost 30 years... and I could break another controller from memory alone.

[@stephenshelottiii3272]

I remember working hard all summer to get a Nintendo Power Set. Mario and Duck Hunt were hours of fun. And then… I set up the power pad. At 1st I tried to run and jump like the athletes on screen. Ya that was ok for the 1st 2 levels. But every level after that I was on my knees pounding that mat with my fists trying to keep up. My hands hurt, I was covered in sweat, and my parents were yelling because of all the noise.

[@shinobuiscool]

My bad gaming memories was playing Deadly Towers. The worst gaming memory was getting to choose two gbc games (Shadowgate and Mortal Kombat) from a store as a gift from my Grandma and playing them and thinking these games are the worst games. I should have gone with Shantae instead of Shadowgate!

[@cecilsgames845]

The nes uforce was my worst experience with a controller

[@TheRealJPhillips]

I remember Konami made tiger style handhelds as well. I would say they were slightly better than the tiger ones. They had the TMNT license and all that

[@adm712]

My worst video game memory- "Back To The Future parts 2 & 3" for the NES. Need I say more...

[@johnhancockretro]

Yep, those were bad!

[@conzpiracy9382]

When San Andreas first came out for ps2, I had to go through three different preowned copies from the local game store until I got one that worked. They either didn’t load or just froze in random areas. And it was a summer when I was in high school so I was so ready to spend too much time playing it lol.

[@theconsolekiller7113]

Great video. My worst overall gaming memories were probably those fuckin red rings of death on the 360s. I kept mine alive off of best buy warranties, tried various fan set ups and attachments but in the end I went through 9 consoles. I had one that lasted less than 24 hours and on average they lasted about 3 months. They were in open areas too. The last console I had ended up lasting years, but it left a real bad taste in my mouth. Never had issues like that with any of my consoles. When I was younger I picked up some real shitty games going off of game pro reviews which were extremely biased. These were full price games at the time. One of them was Alien 3 for the genesis. Shadow Of The Beast was another one. Awesome art design and sound but shitty, cryptic game. Dark Castle was the worst game I owned for the genesis but picked it up at a very cheap price so it wasnt a huge disappointment like some of the 60 dollar games.