A Journey Through the WORST Games Of All Time

I played "the worst games ever" so you don't have to.
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[@rightyloosey8554]

Quick history lesson: Pac Man for the Atari wasn't finished. They released the prototype. The dude who sent it in straight up said "It's not ready, this is what I have so far."

[@alex_-yz9to]

This is why i think atari was one of the worst Gaming company, this is just STRAIGHT UP HYUBRIS

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Anyone curious about what a finished version with a decent ROM size would look like, should check out Ms. Pac-Man on the same platform. And if you're curious what the 2600 could really do, there's a homebrew called Pac-Man 8k that shows off just how underused the system was....but in fairness, it was only designed to play Combat and Pong. Anything else requires racing the electron beam of a CRT television at over 14, 000mph, and exploiting the inability of the console to remember what it's already drawn.... If you can mentally track all the sprites, one scanline at a time? You can make a 2600 game.

[@TheEpicPikachuD]

So that makes it twice then where Atari released an unfinished version as the actual game? First with 2600 Pac-Man, then Fight for Life (if I remember right the version Atari released was an unfinished early build)

[@rightyloosey8554]

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 There are homebrew versions of Super Mario Bros for 2600, an improved version of Donkey Kong, among other projects.

[@rcmero]

@@alex_-yz9to Atari later on straight up gave no shits because they already knew they lost. Fight for Life, the final Atari Jaguar game released, is intentionally in the state that it is because its developer was pissed Atari did not pay him, so he gave them an unfinished prototype and kept the finished product as ransom, and Atari didn't even care and released what he gave them as the final product, so they had _something_ to put on the shelves.

[@Dopply]

I appreciate the kind comments about the Zelda CD-i remasters. What started as a joke project became a personal effort to make the games somewhat fun, because the original design is, like you mentioned, really not that bad. Still dumb, as you said, and I made sure to keep the games as close to the originals as possible...while also not doing that! A very interesting and challenging project. I'm working a spiritual successor project right now that I hope will continue their legacy...in a good way. Thanks for playing!

[@moonman375]

ngl the cdi remakes were surprisingly very fun to play, they are also pretty short games so it's easy to replay them and playing them as the King... well, that was fun in its own right. Tho the one thing no one seems to mention are the subtitles, there's some off the wall jokes that got me laughing harder than i thought [chiptuned sound of going off-screen]

[@Sandman_Slim]

IT'S JUST BAD

[@lucyinchat]

Someone should do this for Superman 64

[@carlrygwelski586]

Those games are AAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

[@brookie1141]

@@moonman375 the king had a lot of cake

[@PeanutButterGamer]

Yo, thanks for having me in the video, Gilly! It was fun to revisit the CDI Zelda for a bit.

[@WhereAllYourDeletedCommentsGo]

Hey. When's the next time your going to eat some awful foreign snacks ?

[@iwatatiff]

This should add subscribers to gilly

[@jimbo2revengeance]

Hi, been a while since i watched a video of yours, and by no means am i trying to make fun or offend you, but did you always pronounce your S's like that? I am having a mandela effect breakdown here.

[@Gemma-Majoran]

@@jimbo2revengeance he doesn't in his newer videos or his older ones, its weird how much hes slurring his s's im this

[@jimbo2revengeance]

@@Gemma-Majoran Thanks, at least im not schizophrenic yet.

[@dillongeorge5866]

“Mega Man X7 would go on to receive such criticisms as…” Scott the Woz: “THAT GAME SUCKED!!” That’s all Scott needed to say to be funny

[@Triff3599]

It's so weird hearing Scott say something "sucked" lol. It's just funny to me, because he usually just says "stunk" or something

[@shawnfields2369]

​@@Triff3599Or he'd say something like: "This game blows!" And then proceed to throw it into the nearest toilet!

[@GameApologist]

Ninja Turtle footage while mentioning shell brands. You clever devil

[@gillythekid]

You actually caught it

[@GameApologist]

@@gillythekid if you want I could get defensive about a game before actually watching the video instead.

[@muddashucka9743]

Bonjour

[@wateronion]

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:18 Pac-Man (Atari 2600) 4:57 The Video Game Crash of 1983 6:53 E.T. (Atari 2600) 9:02 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES) 13:57 Action 52 (NES) 17:54 Night Trap (Sega CD) 21:22 The Legend of Zelda: The Faces of Evil & The Wand of Gamelon (CD-i) 26:59 Shaq Fu (Sega Genesis) 30:12 Zelda's Adventure (CD-i) 35:15 Bubsy 3D (PS1) 39:30 Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero (N64) 42:36 Superman 64 (N64) 45:39 Megaman X7 (PS2) 49:00 Drake of the 99 Dragons (Xbox) 52:37 Shadow the Hedgehog (GameCube) 55:30 Bomberman: Act Zero (Xbox 360) 58:40 Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (Xbox 360) 1:01:42 Ninjabread Man (Wii) 1:05:41 Duke Nukem Forever (Xbox 360) 1:09:38 Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (Wii U) 1:12:47 Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 (Xbox One) 1:17:45 Star Fox Zero (Wii U) 1:25:03 Mighty No.9 (PS4, running on PS5) 1:30:13 Balan Wonderworld (Nintendo Switch) 1:33:21 Conclusion

[@Juanlopez-t1x7d]

22:16 YTP Link!

[@reidwcarroll]

Thank you!

[@KnottsBear-yTalesPreserved]

I'm shocked Ride To Hell: Retribution isn't on here. That to me is a snub...

[@Sassy_Witch]

Thats a really basic as fuck list. Something an ai generated article would put up. And shadow the hedgehog? Seriously? Thank you for saving my life

[@candykaind]

@@Sassy_Witchi uh, i think that's the point 💀 he's trying out notoriously bad games not a list of his own bad game picks 😭

[@pixelbomb97]

Most of the cameos of this video: heartfelt stories about why these games were disappointments or underrated gems. Caddy and Scott: PUNCHLINE! BYE!

[@anothergamer112]

Honestly, it's very on brand for those two.

[@davidzea-smith1417]

That's why I love them both equally.

[@mxjuno1998]

Caddy & Scott: Partners in Piss

[@Power11112]

Especially Scott who literally had one punchline out of nowhere and then left

[@MadameSomnambule]

I was so happy when Caddy showed up. He never disappoints with his jokes and comments. XD

[@PersonaPhase]

33:26 PeanutButterGamer 38:32 Caddicarus 46:53 Scott the Woz 55:16 Antdude 1:11:15 Somecallmejohnny 1:23:46 The Completionist

[@EthanTheGamer77]

He just collected the game reviewers like the infinity stones or something I don't watch marvel its a analogy

[@mexicantails751]

Pontez B. Gilson SPONS Scott the Woz with the tiny little schnoz Antman SomecallmeJohnnyYongBosch ProJirad the Finishest

[@user-km4st7un7r]

@@EthanTheGamer77 as a Marvel fan, I approve this analogy 👍

[@AnAverageGoblin]

thanks for warning me about the hack fraud at the end

[@retrogamernes3121]

I honestly don't know any of those people listed

[@OrgaNik_Music]

I was a bit skeptical about this video since most of these games have been pretty much done to death, but you actually had some fresh points on these and didn't just repeat what everyone else has said. Nice job.

[@TheShadowReviewer]

He did for shadow and somehow did it worse, nothing was said at all why it's bad objectively, his points where just poor subjective reasons

[@thegreatgonzales6813]

@@TheShadowReviewer Thank you for your input Shadow Gaming very cool

[@mr.goodboi2780]

@@TheShadowReviewer kek

[@SalamanderLights]

@@TheShadowReviewer Ah yes. Subjectivity. The worst thing to have in an opinion video. My dude, you are fighting a war for an old video game. It doesn't need your defense. It exists, and you enjoy it so enjoy it. Others don't. Oh well. No one needs to agree with you for your feelings to be valid nor do people disagreeing with you make their lack of enjoyment invalid.

[@B0risTheBlade]

Plus its been a decade since AVGN tackled most of these

[@TeryJones]

I hear that Sonic Boom wasn't even meant for the Wii U, that Sega decided to be limped dicked cowards regarding that three game deal they made with Nintendo _(which included Colors and Lost World)._ And instead of actually making a damn third game for Nintendo like they promised, they pussed out and took an already in development game that was meant for PS4 hardware and forced it into the game it became. Certainly explains a lot....

[@sebastianescalante5618]

The developers weren't told what console they were releasing it on, and hoped for a multiplatform release. However, when they were told it was a Wii U game, it created a HUGE issue, as the engine they were using (Cry Engine) was NOT compatible with the Wii U at all!.

[@calebdonaldson8770]

I'm just glad we got Colors out of that deal. Makes the whole thing worth it!

[@dialga236]

colors wasnt apart of the 3 game deal, it was made as an exclusive due to sonics main target demographic likely owning a wii (various other sonic games on the wii before, sonic in brawl, etc). the 3-game deal was specifically for the wii u, and included lost world, rise of lyric, and mario and sonic at the rio 2016 olympic games.

[@TeryJones]

@@dialga236 And? That still leaves Rise of Lyric as the outlyer for not actually being designed for the Wii U initially. Sega ultimately pussed out on the deal by only delivering two games actually made for the Nintendo console.

[@dialga236]

@@TeryJones Im not disagreeing I was just giving a small correction, thats all. BigRedButton was working with way better hardware in mind, and the Cry Engine, which Rise of Lyric uses, is not optimized for the Wii U, at all.

[@PhoeniksStorm]

Listen, I'm not gonna pretend Shadow the hedgehog is a great game. But compared to most of the games in this video, it's nowhere near as bad.

[@deathbunny3542]

Agreed

[@AngelDustSimp69]

Tbh I actually enjoy Shadow the Hedgehog when I played it in a long time ago.

[@V-Jes]

Heck I wouldn't even say it's 1 of the worst Sonic games of all time, mostly because there are so many games that are even worse...

[@PyeFive]

It's still one of my favorite Sonic games. Despite how fucking insane and absurd the game is, there's an incredible amount of charm and passion put into it, and that goes a long way for me. I still believe it has some of the best gameplay animations in the series too, there's a lot of squash and stretch which I love.

[@gillythekid]

I agree.

[@graydeotto2820]

I got Big Rigs over the road racing at a Value Village for a few dollars and it deserves every bit of criticism thrown at it, its almost too broken to consider a game like these lol

[@makitstop]

oh yeah, i haven't played it but i know some of the history behind it and it's almost as interesting as balan or action 52 basically, an indie company went to a shady publisher and asked if they could make a racing game, and the publisher said they'd fund the game, however a few months in development the publishers basically went "we don't care what state the game's in, release it now" leading to them basically releasing a tech demo then the publisher had them release another game that was basically the bike and car sections that weren't in big rigs, as well as fixing some of the most major bugs like the infinate reversing, being able to just drive out of the map and the complete lack of collision, but the game was still very broken and bare bones

[@renakunisaki]

I don't think you can consider Big Rigs a game.

[@Loner098]

Damn. And here we are in modern times complaining about games being disappointing yet there were also games in the past that were straight-up fucking awful...

[@DavidDrouant]

@@renakunisaki fr

[@neoqwerty]

@@renakunisaki My Animal Crossing Calendar/Clock apps on my DS are more of a game than Big Rigs is, and that's saying something.

[@Bempes3477]

Im surprised that you didn’t talk about Ride to Hell: Retribution. That always seemed to be far more hated than Shadow the Hedgehog at the very least.

[@nguyenquyetthang1326]

I think everyone and their mother already talked about it so he just left it out

[@Bempes3477]

@@nguyenquyetthang1326 everyone and their mother have already talked about Superman 64 and ET too

[@DarkSageWalker]

Was looking through the comments section just to see if this was mentioned. I was not disappointed.

[@TheShadowReviewer]

Which doesn't make sense with his intro and why he chose the games, Ride to hell retribution should have been on this list regardless if it's already been down to death as it's been apart of bad game lists before His reasons for shadow being a bad game literarily didn't make any sense and takes a second of thought to debunk if you've played the game (also his points more apply to sa1 and 2 and heroes the "sacred cows" of sonic games)

[@DarkSageWalker]

Opinions differ greatly with Shadow the Hedgehog. I, personally, have had those problems described with the poor design, level structure, and the maybe glitchy or downright broken objectives. I completely agree with its placement here. I just think that Ride to Hell should have been added.

[@ilikecurry2345]

But hey, at least Sonic Boom introduced me to such people like Travis Willingham being esteemed voice actors, and even Knuckles being the lovable buff idiot is pretty fun, although it deviates pretty far from his canonical personality of "the angry, gullible one".

[@matthewrease2376]

I love how much screen time and complex dialogue were given to Scott The Woz.

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

Uh, what? That was clearly a game journalist from 2003.

[@shawnfields2369]

@@ninjabluefyre3815 Yeah, I didn't know Scott was a time traveling game journalist from 3002! That's great. I loved everyone's brief appearances in the video(if I can be serious for a second), because I genuinely enjoy all of their videos, and Peebs is my favorite youtuber, but Scott The Woz, Time Traveling Game's Journalist From 200003, is one of my favorites, and I'm glad both Caddicarus and SomecallmeJohnny are still doing alright, because I thought we wouldn't see them again until like, next year, or near the end of the year, or something, but it's nice to see them in something like this, because the last time I saw this many people I'm a huge fan of in one video(that also had Caddy), was Caddicarus's review for a certain game where tons of people tried to stop him from reviewing the game, from Shane from Rerez, to Johnny, and a whole bunch of other people. Also, most of these people were on the Nitro Andre Show.

[@galfinsp7216]

When did this “moment” start?

[@bababooey6201]

*licks lips* oooh.. The sarcasm tastes like wine.

[@BewbsOP]

Finally! Someone actually gives star fox zero a good shake and mentions that you can turn the motion controls mostly off. Every time someone mentions it, people just go off on it for the motion controls and it makes me so mad because you can literally turn them off! I can't count the number of times I've read a variation of "Star fox zero might be pretty good if I could just turn off motion controls" and I die inside every time.

[@BewbsOP]

@Grima the Fell Dragon The gimmick didn't ruin it. Peoples refusal to simply look in the frickin' options before shouting their bad reviews from the rooftops about not being able to turn motion controls off did.

[@BewbsOP]

@Grima the Fell Dragon so? The complaints weren't "My first impressions were of motion controls and I didn't like them therefore the game is bad." They were "You CAN'T turn them off" which is just a lie from people too stupid to actually check. If you can't be bothered to actually fact check yourself, than that's your fault, not the games.

[@BewbsOP]

@Grima the Fell Dragon The game does not have to hint or suggest that you can change the controls! Theres a settings menu. That's what it's there for! If you are a reviewer and complain about a game having bad controls but failed to even check if you could change them, thats YOUR problem. The game doesn't have to make a pop up for every feature and setting that someone could complain about just so that you know you can change it. Games don't have to tell you that you can rebind keys or change the resolution. It's your job as the player to actually check if what your complaining about is even actually even a problem at all.

[@BewbsOP]

@Grima the Fell Dragon wtf are you talking about? "I just looked up the game and you can't turn off motion controls" is literally a lie. You literally can! You can literally change one setting, and no one did and then bashed the game for it. You have done nothing but repeat the same bullshit blaming the game for not telling you you can turn it off. Stop blaming the game for you being too stupid to check.

[@okagron]

Doesn't change the fact that the motion controls are trash and it's the control style that was advertised prior to the game's release. And really, it's just yet another, basic, generic Star Fox game that is borderline yet another remake of Star Fox 64. So even if you can play it without motion controls it's still just a worse Star Fox 64.

[@mainmanstan7405]

You took most reviewers entire career and put it all in one video. Impressive job.

[@otakumarcus]

Almost, cause he missed a few games like Ride to Hell

[@doggodrinkingbepis4646]

I was expecting Ride to Hell: Retribution or Big Rigs, and definitely wasn't expecting Star Fox Zero. Great video, btw. I'm sure it was painful to play all this garbage.

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

Star Fox Zero should not be here

[@KnottsBear-yTalesPreserved]

@@EssexAggiegrad2011 That spot should have been given to Ride To Hell. That to me is a huge snub.

[@otakumarcus]

@@EssexAggiegrad2011if Zero was in there, then Paper Mario Sticker Star should’ve been covered here too. At least Sticker Star isn’t buggy and unplayable plus it’s family friendly.

[@jaydenpatterson5165]

Nice to see that while caddy is constantly annoyed by his own side characters, he annoys everyone else he can

[@RoboticEdward]

Good vid though I wanna correct you about something regarding Miyamoto: while it's true he had influence over the decisions made in Sticker Star, the mandates he placed weren't as severe as the final game would make you think, and that the team just took his word to heart, and they've done nothing to improve that issue since then. Also Yuji Naka, while definitely not entirely to blame regarding Balan's quality, still has a lot of that grandfathering issues that have plagued his work. Like you can't tell me the one button problem was placed there because Square executives thought it was good like c'mon.

[@gameman250]

I think the one button thing was there because it worked for Sonic once upon a time, but as games grew more and more complex you really can't ride that strategy anymore. Plus, if Naka did this (and I want to say it was Naka and not a Square mandate) to make the game as accessible to as many people as possible, including the youngest of audiences.... methinks he doesn't have confidence in his audience to understand using more than one button for multiple actions. Freaking Super Mario Bros worked fine on two buttons, Kirby worked fine on two buttons. Maybe Naka should've played a few Kirby games before trying to apply his multi-power idea into the game.

[@costby1105]

I wouldn't be surprised if Naka was the center of some issue during development. You don't get so many staff members recommending your removal with becoming a severe enough liability that you removal is preferable to the public backlash. Again Naka has a history of not being a team player as both Sonic Extreme and Geist Force show. Few people who have worked with Naka have had nice things to say about him.

[@straightupanarg6226]

The one button idea worked for Sonic because Sonic could do literally one thing, jump, and the entire game was based around that. In Balan, only one button was used, but what that did depended on what suit you were wearing and (in a platformer) that action was often not jump. I think Sonic proves that, if the costume idea had been scrapped, the "one button" was mapped exclusively to jump, and the game's platforming action was focused on interesting platforming challenges, it could have worked. Balan should have been the main character, he had plenty of style. In short, if your game uses only one button, that button must be mapped to a single action, and that action should either be jump or shoot.

[@otakumarcus]

Bad Nintendo Fan obsessed with JRPG: NO, YOU’RE WRONG! Miyamoto is to blame for everything! He’s indoctrinating everyone at Nintendo with his bullshit philosophy! He’s destroying all the good video games! How am I suppose to get horny if the story isn’t like Final Fantasy 7? I hate him!!! AND NOW, I’M GONNA DESTROY HIM AND EVERYTHING HE’S EVER LOVED!!! You know, my mom always said: Never bite the hand that feeds you. So I think you petty assholes should stop blaming Miyamoto because one day, you’ll regret disrespecting him. Mario never should’ve been in an RPG

[@thegreatgonzales6813]

Your channel is like a Platinum Games game. It’s absolutely incredible and everyone who experiences it agrees but it’s doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. This is maybe your best video yet, here’s hoping it does well on the algorithm.

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

"but it doesn't receive the attention it deserves" I think NiER: Automata got all the fucking attention it could HANDLE, my guy. Yeah, one could debate whether that's a Square game, a Platinum Games game, or a Yoko Taro game, but Platinum IS on the box, so I'm counting it.

[@KingCasual1986]

From what I’ve seen, one legit positive I will give to the CDI Zelda games is that Zelda’s VA is actually pretty good. It’s just the script that sucks! Zelda herself sounds fairly strong and mature!

[@shockburst569]

1:20:30 Miyamoto didn’t work sticker star he just gave his thoughts on early builds while Tanabe took them to the extreme

[@MrTherandomguy42]

On a side topic, I wonder how much influence Tanabe has on Intelligent Systems or any projects he works on? Because clearly, he doesn’t seem to understand what it means to have good game design. But as long as his projects print money (and don’t have an “understandable” catalyst such as a game he worked on being a part of a franchise Nintendo never cared about like Chibi Robo or in the case of Paper Mario: Color Splash, being released on a failed console), Nintendo will keep him as producer on projects like Paper Mario.

[@wesman0410]

@@MrTherandomguy42 he's produced games like dk freeze and luigi mansion 3 he definitely just sucks at doing paper mario games LMAO

[@marywallace3620]

It's wild to think that most of the bad retro games became known to the internet public via James Rolfe's Angry Video Game Nerd series, it's even wilder to know that James only posted the first few videos as a joke (and as a partial dare given by Mike Matei) and who knew that thsoe videos would blow up and enable him to become a youtube giant in the video gaming community on youtube :)

[@rcmero]

Timestamps for your convenience: 1:16 Pac-Man on Atari 2600 4:57 E.T. 9:02 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 13:56 Action 52 17:54 Night Trap 21:22 The Zelda CD-i games 27:00 Shaq Fu 30:13 The _other_ Zelda CD-i game (ft. PeanutButterGamer) 35:15 Bubsy 3D (ft. Caddicarus) 39:30 Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero 42:36 Superman 64 45:38 Mega Man X7 (ft. Scott the Woz) 49:00 Drake of the 99 Dragons 52:37 Shadow the Hedgehog (ft. AntDude) 55:29 Bomberman: Act Zero 58:40 Sonic 06 1:01:42 Ninjabread Man 1:05:41 Duke Nukem Forever 1:09:38 Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (ft. SomecallmeJohnny) 1:12:47 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 1:17:45 Star Fox Zero (ft. The Completionist) 1:25:03 Mighty No. 9 1:30:12 Balan Wonderworld

[@bria.w4073]

Ah thank you

[@Knarrenheinz1021]

I’d love to see a part 2 to this video with some stuff like Hotel Mario, The Guy Game, and Elf Bowling 1/2

[@LiamOwO]

This video showed up in my sub feed and recommendations already. The algorithm might of blessed you Gilly. Seriously though the amount of effort put into this video, the research, the time and suffering in these games, then there's the collabs and cameos,- thee whole thing is a treat so far and the nostalgia is real seeing people talking about these games again, bit this time actually seeing these memed on games played is a treat, and your honesty while not overreacting is appreciated. This is going to be the video that dethrones the PETA videos from the top, calling it now. It sure deserves it!

[@jimmymeisterich8564]

This is the first video of yours I've watched, and I wanna say, great job! I was somewhat upset to see that you omitted Ride to Hell: Retribution. I definitely think that that game deserved to be in this video. But hey, maybe you forgot about it, maybe you just decided that there was no way in hell you would even give that game the time of day. I definitely would not blame you for that lol. It is clear that this video took astronomical amounts of dedication. Kudos to you, sir, you have absolutely deserved a subscription from me!

[@DuskusCB]

Using that TMNT ad when referring to Ultra Games as a “shell company”… I SWEAR IF THAT WASN’T INTENTIONAL

[@WhereAllYourDeletedCommentsGo]

I was glad he didn't put that TMNT game on the list. A lot of people think it's a bad game thanks to AVGN. It's a flawed game but it isn't bad.

[@Patterrz]

16:15 I swear to god that's Winnie the Pooh

[@smmemperorlucifer4675]

28:42 I swear to god that's Shantae

[@Kaipo_Sean_Primevil]

sorry that this whole process gave ya such a headache Gill, but it was really nice to be able to have a large amount of content from ya to watch, always like your vids, I'd say you're more underrated than you ought to be

[@Aidswayz]

This was so so so well made. As someone who edits his own videos, I can't even imagine how long this took you to make! It clearly all payed off because this was a great video! But I am legally obligated to be a cliche commenter and ignore your amazing work by saying you need to start work on the best games of all time video

[@michaeloverton04]

Ok, I am by NO means defending Bubsy 3D. That game deserves all of the hatred it gets. However, the developers never could expect Crash Bandicoot 1 and Mario 64 to release around the same time as it. The developers actually hated the franchise from when he was first conceptualized. They were likely banking on doing something completely original and never before seen, all the while, hoping people would go nuts until future 3D platformers would release and improve on literally everything. Fuck that game.

[@woaddragon]

You are mostly correcty the story goes that the Accolade developers were showing off their game to E3/CED, and were 'jackshift" when they say the demostration of Mario 64. So they already knew that Bubsy 3d was going to look bad in comparsion, but not just awful as it turn out to be. It really sad, because the most 2d deaigners of tue game, made a entire 3d engine out of sratch, and spend a fair number if a better "version" of a bubsy game.

[@brunettebi4111]

All Bubsy games suck.

[@junker15]

>The developers actually hated the franchise Given the atrocity they released, I'll believe it. "Crash and Mario 64 came out around the same time" is a joke-shop excuse; Bubsy 3D was clearly an intentional act of sabotage that made Action 52 look tighter than two coats of paint.

[@adamgr6988]

The developers could have had a better time of it if they didn't inexplicably use the "high resolution" PS1 mode for Bubsy 3D. If you've ever seen footage of it and wondered why it looks oddly "crisp" all things considered, this is why. Apparently they thought they could make a unique selling point out of "one of the highest resolution games on PS1!". That resolution was never really intended for the kind of use cases that Busby 3D is, and the decision radically limited the amount of memory they had available and surely added a ton of headaches that weren't necessary, and not just for the visuals either.

[@michaeloverton04]

@@adamgr6988 I never realized how sharp the game looked before, but now I can't remember a time I saw the game at a low resolution. I don't think I even remember seeing any instance of the patented Ps1 texture warp in the game either. But to be fair, the game is so ugly with using solid colors for giant textures that it's impossible to tell. Still, that's weird and uncanny.

[@nashvontookus7451]

Now you see, what you did wrong in Zelda's Adventure was using the Jade Ring to fight Llort (the first boss). The ring does almost zero damage to him. Yes, the same ring you get in the same dungeon Llort is in from a talking mimic. You literally have to hit him like 50 tines with the default wand to kill him. The rest of the game is very much like this.

[@TheMGMfan]

53:55 I'm pretty sure the stage you're thinking of is The Doom. It's the fourth stage of the semi-dark path, and if so, the reason you couldn't find all of the enemies is because not all of them spawned due to a glitch. No, I'm not kidding, this is a real issue that is apparently very likely to happen, and to fix it, you have to use the checkpoints to warp to a different part of the stage and back, which makes the game spawn the missing enemy in.

[@gameman250]

Either that or Lost Impact. Same setting, same basic hunt down the things you need to destroy in a confusing maze of a level.

[@TheMGMfan]

@@gameman250 That's also possible, but I feel like The Doom is more likely to be the stage because it's very likely that you literally can't find the last enemies without warping between areas to make them spawn. Both are very likely, however.

[@TheShadowReviewer]

Only on the ps2 port- Xbox and GameCube don't have this, the game gives you more than the 60 needed to complete the stage it's actually pretty short only around 5 minutes for me as it's a straight line just occasionally going up floors Same with lost impact, a 7 minute stage that is a straight line only requiring to go up floors and into one off set room It's a space station after all the level design is pretty good and there's maps to not get lost, it's a nice touch

[@DeathMetalDerf]

I literally burned my copy of Superman 64. My words to it before it went into the bonfire were, "you're firewood," and I just tossed it in, packaging, cartridge, and manual together. And you know what? I still don't feel the least bit bad about it to this day.

[@cursoryintegration8512]

Huh, never knew the CD-i games got remade, that actually sounds like a really cool project to check into. Props on the huge project, I know tackling bigger stuff like this is intimidating!

[@danielchaconlimon7666]

This year I started streaming (and finishing) what I called "ugly games" and played Sonic Boom, Mighty No. 9, Star Fox Zero and the Zelda CDi remasters and I loved them for the reasons you mention in this video. I'm happy to see that you gave these games a chance because indeed, some of them hide fun experiences in the layer of reputation and rushed development agendas.

[@ragnose1]

i really enjoyed shadow the hedgehog for its branching paths as a kid, they were often unique and fun challenges for most stages, not just "kill x enemies"

[@stevenoliver5763]

😊😊😊😊

[@stevenoliver5763]

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[@stevenoliver5763]

Pp

[@retrohanska4441]

It was first 3D sonic game I played and it's not like I had much more experience with 2Ds either so I didn't have expectations for it. And tbh, I didn't think it was bad game. Even back then with my way less critical mind I realized it had some kind of identity crisis between the "gotta go fast" gameplay and more combat oriented action adventure exploration and lack of commitment to either made both worse but overall at no point I thought I was playing a bad game.

[@davidjr3658]

“Sonic 06 being the worst Sonic game ever made” Sonic 1 port for GBA: “Forgetting something?” *evil laughter*

[@TheLeetCasualGamer]

Core-A Gaming did a video on Shaq-fu Your guessing game isn't too far off. It was made by the same guys that made Prince of Persia. It's why it has the motion capture animations which is actually pleasant to look at. But the lack of a buffering system is the problem. If you don't know what that means, you have to wait until the animation is finished for an input to go through. This is why motion inputs are basically imposible.

[@JDelwynn]

I can't find any reference that the Shag Fu guys had anything to do with Prince of Persia, as that was made by Jordan Mechner, who rotoscoped his brother for the animations. However Shag Fu was made by Delphine Software Interactive, who made Out of This World and Flashback that are similiar to PoP gameplay wise.

[@BinglesP]

I knew a video this long would have at least one crossover, but I’m not joking, all of them were fantastic in both timing and choices. I’m so happy all of you are friends!!!

[@flyestnihilist9105]

I don't comment on videos super often, but man, this has to be your best video. I was engaged from start to finish, and it was just a fun watch overall.

[@rotten2thebit221]

“Oh because the controls are bad the game is bad” That’s a very valid reason to hate a game

[@danamahr3773]

This was some very good and concise work with a lot of character, insights, and fun. Chapeau!

[@Doomerang01]

Yuji Naka CLAIMED he was rushed. However, everyone who's worked with him both on Balan and in past games have painted him as a complete diva and jerk. The fact that he blamed everyone under the sun for Balan's issues comes off as "When everyone has the same issue with you, you might be the person with the problem".

[@elin111]

People claiming that Balan would've been miraclously saved if Naka hadn't been fired are either delusionally fanboy shielding Naka or don't know anything about game design. The bulk of the bad ideas in Balan were Naka's ideas in the first place and even if he hadn't been fired 6 months is nowhere near enough to fix a game that's terrible down to its initial concept. If anything Naka was fired for a reason.

[@ThatMediaGuy150]

Good job! Can't wait for the sequel where you cover Big Rigs and Ride to Hell!

[@RookMeAmadeus]

I definitely learned a lot from this vid. Didn't even know there was a remake to the CD-I Zelda games. They don't look...all that bad. I suppose one of the big things with Shaq-Fu though is that people keep saying it's the worst fighting game (or the worst game) ever. It's hot garbage, but I could name at least 3 fighting games just on the genesis that are worse, and I could name LOADS more on the SNES that are trash. Keep up the good work on these videos, man.

[@crumpbarker]

Much love to you Gilly and very excited to get to dig into an entire hour and a half video

[@HisameSymouri1995]

6mos later, and there's a small team of modders who are bringing the original DNF back from the dead with the blessings of the original dev team.

[@strangedude9008]

you can not just fit 15 years of AVGN's life in 95 minutes video

[@jeffypeters333]

LOONIE TUNES B-BALL was a fantastic representation of basketball in the 90’s on the Super Nintendo! If I still had all my Super Nintendo stuff, I would still be playing that game today!

[@jeffypeters333]

I love the description of “a Bukkake of enemies” lol that got me right in the chuckles lol

[@oscarangel2989]

"A Journey Through the WORST Games Of All Time" -Sonic: "Hold my beer"...

[@1wngdngl]

The Jekyll and Hyde actually seems like an interesting concept, and has a pleasing art style.

[@MythicMachina]

So funny story about Sonic Boom. I have a friend who was at Pax West, which had Sonic Boom demo kiosks. So naturally, he tried the game out. And because it was Sonic Boom, the game bugged out...and crashed. After the machine crashed, the director of Sonic Boom came over to him and started to accuse him of tampering with the booth. The whole thing started an argument so bad that the Director of the game threatened to sue him over this alleged "sabotage"! Nothing actually came from this, but the whole thing is so fucking petty that it loops back to being hysterical. It also reflects the quality of the game if the director was willing to blame his failures on someone else like that.

[@blitz4506]

Damn that actually sucks

[@gameman250]

Random tangent since Wisdom Tree was shown in the video: I heard a story about them once that I don't know if it's true or not. But Wisdom Tree was formerly known as Color Dreams, making plain ol' unlicensed NES games. Apparently to cover their asses against legal action from Nintendo they changed their name and rebranded themselves as a Christian-based video game company, logic being that the big N wouldn't dare pick a fight with a Christian group, there'd be scandals!

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

It's all very true. But to their credit, Spiritual Warfare is a pretty decent Zelda clone if you go in with lowered expectations. And Super Noah's Ark is just straight up good for a 16-bit FPS, since it's a Wolfenstein clone. Id was pissed at Nintendo's censorship, and the rest is history.

[@Chaos89P]

The kicker is that Wisdom Tree is still around. Now, I don't know if they have plans to rerelease their Color Dreams stock, but last I heard, they plan on doing that with their NES games. Maybe they'll be touched up to make them less janky?

[@WebstersYouTube]

This was a really fun watch. It's kind of damning just how many Sonic games are in here, but good on you for saying "You know what? Instead of taking the Internet's collective echo chamber as gospel, I'm going to play these games and make up my own mind on them." I honestly wish more people did exactly that, rather than just parroting the general consensus.

[@johndoe24328]

Dude I used to LOVE bubsy 3D. definitely liked it as a child though. Something about the super weird and crazy colorful levels really gave me the feeling of a fun world to run around in. I also loved how the characters motion was animated and how quirky they were. I definitely spent a lot of time on that game. All that said, I clearly remember having no idea how to beat the levels really and also didn’t know there was boss fights.

[@fi-fithedestroyer5871]

Theory: Action 52 was going to be action 100 but they either ran out of Money, Time or Cartridge Space. Or All Three.

[@zeliardforty-two4692]

It’s always interesting when you actually check out a title with a bad reputation. Sometimes you can actually find something you’d might enjoy. Don’t get me wrong you can also save yourself time by listening to the warnings! I think the main thing here is, if you really want to understand what makes a good game, you need to try out the spectrum I held once, and attempted to play, Action-52 … when you collect you come across these things. You hold this thing in your hands that spawned many nightmares of the curious reviewers. I even remember a late night infomercial selling this thing. It was about 25 minutes and I always wondered why they never showed game play. Well years later and several epic reviewers take I had this legend in my hand. I played it and actually made attempt to play each game, as the trial mandates … and it’s not worth even the asking price. Not then, not now! Look I understand some titles are expensive because people will pay for it so they can have that complete collection … but this is not worth it. It sucks even compared to other bootleg multi carts. And no the limitations didn’t matter because the Genesis version wasn’t much better But I think I ranted enough. Great video man! Didn’t expect such a long one, but was awesome to see. Maybe play something good? You need a palette cleanser lol

[@crazizzle85]

At least action 52 gave us the epic cheetahmen theme song, which has managed to outlive everything else in this abomination

[@strain42]

Just wanted to take a moment to swing by and say I can tell how much effort you put into this journey and I definitely appreciated the efforts. Good job, dude!

[@TheSuperSmashBros01]

A couple years ago I saw footage of the lawsuit of Night Trap and I remember Nintendo lawyer Howard Lincoln saying this: “Night Trap will never appear on a Nintendo Console.” Then the 25th Anniversary was announced that came out on Switch and I was laughing my ass off at how poorly this quote aged, it’s incredible.

[@lankthedank6931]

Silver the Hedgehog as a character is great and I love him. I'd say he's one of the only good things to come out of the game, ignoring that boss fight.

[@awetistic5295]

So true! Most people hate him because of that notorious boss fight... well, and simply because he's from Sonic 06, but he's a cool character.

[@ryandomville3621]

I like the idea of tackling done to death singular topics in a long form video like this. It's made hearing about Bubsy 3d, Superman 64 and Action 52 again feel fresh somehow.

[@ThatRandomFastingGuy]

From beginning to end this was perfect. Cheers Gill. Thanks for suffering through those for us.

[@faerieknight2298]

I had the misfortune to actually own Superman 64 back in 2000. Hell, I beat the game... eventually. The game is... not good. And the only reason I beat it was... I refused to let the game win.

[@brookearnold3609]

Ahh, Night Trap. Remember this: Nintendo: "We would never let a game like this be on nintendo console!" Nintendo now: *has even less censorship than the ps4 and has the ANNIVERSARY VERSION OF NIGHT TRAP ON SWITCH*

[@WhereAllYourDeletedCommentsGo]

I can't believe the little bitches in Congress who thought the Night Trap was violent. Truth is they never played or even looked at the games. Nothing has changed either.

[@mrdth1987]

I used to own Shaq Fu and I really liked it. I’m from the uk a country where no one watches basketball so I had no idea Shaq was a real person

[@AtlasBlizzard]

It's a good thing that the X series didn't go out on X5, because good lord would that have been a terrible note to go out on. It's abysmally bad; inexplicable level design, horrible look design, you can just use the best armor in the game from the start, and then of course there's Alia. In short, a total clusterf*** of a game. As we all know, it only went downhill from there. I want the X series to return to glory, I really do, but it will take a miracle.

[@blackmarketbingo]

As someone that loves researching and learning about awful video games, this video was really well made, man. You genuinely did your research and explained the games correctly because you actually played them, unlike most other channels that seemingly just read an article or two and quote it verbatim without understanding just HOW bad they are or how they work. It's exactly the kind of way I'd want the information presented to me and you did a fantastic job. Your hard work really, really shows and I look forward to seeing more of your stuff!!

[@wigglyplays5958]

damn if only this video came out one year later, Gollum would of been on here

[@mattalan6618]

and Redfall

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

It surprises me that Mortal Kombat Mythologies is considered one of the worst games of all time when Special Forces exists...

[@whotio7374]

Excellent job, Gilly. This video really brought me back to the kinds of videos I'd see as a teenager, in the best way possible.

[@jeffypeters333]

Soooo happy to see a new video man! I’ve missed your stuff for the last couple months. But I’m still always happy to go back and watch a ton of your re-runs. I really loved your video about the more unknown first person shooters with the vibe of DOOM and whatnot! Would love to see another video like that, if there’s enough games to like that to make another video lol Long story short so happy to see a new video!

[@FranticForte]

This is a great format, I like this a lot. Wouldn’t mind seeing more vids like this from you in the future, albeit, I’m not asking for 1hr+ videos lol I can imagine the work behind these is extensive. But good stuff! 🙂👍🏼

[@ddjsoyenby]

yeah.

[@tixnofal0971]

Excellent video! But I was surprised that there wasn’t Ride to Hell Retribution and Alien Colonial Marines that have worse reputation than Duke Nukem Forever

[@MajorasMaskFreak1]

I played shadow as a kid and never finished it and I recently went back and completed it and it’s not that bad of a game, not that good of a game it does make some questionable decisions, but overall I had a pretty fun time. I like the movement and I didn’t have any issues with the gun mechanic, just a few level missions here and there (like that DAMN Lost Impact)

[@TheShadowReviewer]

Lost impact is around a 7 minute stage, the doom is around 5 and all but like one mission can be done gunless and it's still plays the exact same a 3d sonic game only better I've played shadow a lot and it's an objectively good game that improved upon broken mechanics from heroes sa1/2 in so many ways

[@tyler_keeble]

Really surprised to not see Big Rigs Over The Road Racing in a worst games of all time list

[@Sliider36]

hard to believe the wii couldnt handle sonic '06 considering Twilight Princess is on the system.

[@zombietrash416]

people need to stop calling it the "videogame crash of 1983" and call it the "home console crash of 1983." Computer games werent affected, they were still doing great.

[@HeroesRiseUp]

Not me clicking on this video and looking for AntDude because of the thumbnail xD

[@jaynemesis3055]

Peebs! Always love a random Peebs cameo Also I am also a big MegaMan fan. I bought and played mighty number 9 at launch. Personally, I hate it. I played it literally once. I tried every stage, once. Then said, meh... This ain't MegaMan. Never touched it again.

[@ShadowWolfQc]

One of your best videos, I'll honestly rewatch it and recommend it to friends. Grrrrrrrrrrrreat work!

[@Tanookicatoon]

Considering Atari Pac-man. You're emulating. The ghosts would not be "Seizure inducing" if you played it on CRT. The effect blends in with the background, and would have made them transparent. The NES and SNES did the same effect to make water transparent.

[@funcoolfunfun]

Shadow the Hedgehog is unironically one of my favorite Sonic games of all time. Not in my top 5, but definitely top 10.

[@SuperKittyPogoDance]

"Because the controls are bad, the game is bad." YES. This is exactly true. If a game doesn't control well, then it's NOT GOOD. If you want to talk about the ability to alter the control schemes, that's a separate issue. But just because there's a good game hidden under unusable controls, doesn't mean we should overlook the fact.

[@zetmoon]

Luckily, we Europeans never experienced the videogame crash!

[@ToxicCrobat92]

Gil, you're not done until you've played Ride to Hell: Retribution. That game is hell.

[@slashtheporcupine6746]

Finally! Someone agrees with me that Star Fox Zero is actually a pretty good game. Felt like I was the only one in the world that thought that. Is it as good as Star Fox 64? No, or course not. But the game is absolutely beautiful, the shooting is satisfying, and the controls are not as bad as everyone makes them out to be, they just need time to all click before it becomes great. Also, if you want a Mighty No. 9 game that’s actually pretty good, check out Mighty Gunvolt Burst made by Inti Creates, the guys who made Mega Man 9 and 10.

[@Chaos89P]

From what little I've played so far, I'm gonna have to agree with both y'all. The dual screen "swap" actually didn't take too much time for me to adjust to, perhaps because I've had some practice on some other Wii U games where that kind of feature was optional.

[@slashtheporcupine6746]

@@Chaos89P Personally, I never actually used the swapping feature and I never really found the duel screens intrusive. I always saw it a driving a car: just a quick glance down and keeping your eyes on your driving the rest of the time.

[@Chaos89P]

@@slashtheporcupine6746 What I meant was I would change my focus from the TV to the Gamepad and back as I felt the situation called for it. Sorry if you thought I meant hitting the - button.

[@129140163]

42:36 I’m not convinced this game wasn’t designed by General Zod. I could SO see Zod saying something like “I shall have my revenge on you one way or another, son of Jor-El! If I cannot force you to kneel before me, then I shall make a mockery of you with a bad video game!”

[@AkiDave]

I really wanna try those CDI remakes. Great video Gilly! 💙

[@honarpalani7327]

Caddy: Ah, I’m sorry your named after a fish lung that makes it much better! Gilly: And your named after a storage container. Caddy: *Nods and grins like a geek*

[@WilliamHasMelted]

I have beaten Mighty No. 9 multiple times, including the hardest difficulty, and while I can agree that it can be fun, I'd call it plainly lame. Most of the game's best ideas are done half as well as they could be, aside from dashing, I like that.

[@mskain4896]

A great collection of garbage, but focused A) on Western Games and B) on Console Games, which leaves out some absolute stinkers worse even than most of those on this list. Two particular RPGs I (do not) recommend: Megatraveler 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy, 1990, by Paragon Software, released for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. Based on the Traveler tabletop RPG which was popular at the time. The game has better narration and story of most RPGs of the time, but that's about it. The way character creation works, you can spend hours making characters, simulating out their military career accumulating skills, levelups, stats, and money, and deciding when to retire so they can start the adventure; but don't leave them in the military for too long, because eventually they'll get old and their stats will actually start to drop. To get the most out of them, you have to find a 'sweet spot' where your old men are in top form but before they start to show their age, and then retire. And then, after all your hard work, you enter the game, get attacked immediately after the introductory story, and will see your party killed off immediately. You're actually intended to run from this fight anyway, so maybe after 3 or so attempts end in death you try to get your characters to run away and maybe you'll even figure out how to make it to the port, but 9 times out of 10 you'll die before you get away anyway. Turns out the game runs on the Traveler RPG mechanics but in real time, and unlike Bioware's Baldur's Gate they didn't do a good job of fairly implementing this, as the AI is capable of giving orders to all units simultaneously and there's no way to pause battle to issue orders as you cycle through them. You could always use the default characters available instead of making your own so you can skip the hours grind of character building, but they tend to suck so bad you have no chance. If you manage to persevere long enough to escape this first death trap and take your ship out to space, you have to deal with the badly-implementing navigation gameplay that attempts to simulate real space physics, including gravitational fields and inertial, to hilariously bad results. I attempted (many times) as a kid to play this on my Atari ST and could never get anywhere. Since Speedrunning, even of horrible games, has led to even the cream of the crap like these to get people beating the games consistently and publishing their efforts, I thought I might try my hand at this game and see if I could develop a speedrun for it...but amazingly, I could not find any documentation anywhere of someone who even had a barebones walkthrough or anything close, so if I were to try to beat this game for speedrunning I'd have to do all the terrible work myself, and I haven't yet managed the gumption. Hoshi Wo Miru Hito (People Who Watch Stars, or 'Stargazers') is a Famicom game developed by Another and published by HOT B in Japan in 1987, and was so bad that it (naturally) never got a Western port, so you have to play it in the original Japanese--which is pretty much impossible even if you speak Japanese. It's not real-time, but the combat is comparable to Megatraveler in difficulty, there's no way to run away until you get a spell at (relatively) high level, and in the early game there's only one healing point--an NPC in the first town, which is actually invisible on the world map. You start on the world map, and not in this town, so you literally only find the town and the ability to heal if you wander into every square, and there is no intro to the game that explains anything about anything to you, so welcome to the blind start. There is so much wrong with the game that it would take ages to explain, but people actually speedrun this game--sort of. The main way they can is by using the terrible programming to use a second controller to move the map around the character instead of vice versa and other such shenanigans. The 'save game' feature is a password with both Japanese characters and English character possibilities, 25 total needed to be entered with over 50 possible characters to scroll through on each one as you enter (it even includes such Western characters as the copyright symbol!). After all is said and done, the speedruns technically aren't even real because there's no proper ending to the game, the final boss wasn't even programmed in. It has a sprite, but the battle doesn't have any data, you just lose, and there's text in the coding for if you beat if, but it was never implemented. Dowolf has speedrun this abomination for both RPG Limit Break and Awesome Games Done Quick, and watching him do it is one of the funniest experiences you will ever see.

[@HybridAngelZero]

A fresh, calm fair perspective on these is just so refreshing. I actually had a lot of fun with Mighty No. 9 and like it a good bit, it also has some fantastic character designs. I also think Shadow the Hedgehog is pretty unfairly maligned. Like, it isn't great or anything, but it's an okay enough Sonic game if you beat all the Adventures and Heroes and want some more. I think the premise is what alienates people more than anything

[@TheShadowReviewer]

The issue I have with the shadow segment is that nothing was said "it's kinda sorta fun" like okay what do you mean? As that seems to be the main point throughout it Nothing objective was said the whole thing was subjective takes that made no sense when actually deconstructed No music, stage design, cut scenes, level gimmicks, bosses and so on weren't talked about, it was an empty attempt to throw it into the video because it's seen as "the worst sonic game" (even though there's 06, free riders, the boom games, forces, the storybook games, sonic spinball, sonic unleashed for PS2/ Wii, sonic R, knuckles and the chaotix, sonic episode 4 and so on- and all of these have objective reasons as to why they are bad, where as shadow has to be all subjective reasons)

[@JdRDMS]

Should've made Johnny wear his Sonic Boom outfit if he hadn't gotten sick. Either way, great video.

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

Were you like an anime fan on prom night when you played Mighty Number 9?

[@kingslayer2999]

Do you Remember what the developers said? Having Mighty No. 9 is better than having nothing 😒

[@tossingturnips]

Hey Gil! I saw this video come up on my recommendations shortly after you released it and binged your back catalog and decided to give this one another watch now that I'm all caught up. You're a great video essayist and I've enjoyed all your offerings, even the non-game related ones. Keep it up! You've more than earned your subscribers.