Worst games ever | TheaterFire

[-]

ThatOneDudeFromIowa@reddit

Raiders was awesome if you READ THE MANUAL. Takes 2 joysticks and was awesome.

[-]

florida-karma@reddit

100% loved solving that shit. The graphics sucked. So what. It was a puzzle. I was locked in.

[-]

Kylearean@reddit

Took MONTHS for us to realize it was a two joystick game.

[-]

tinfoilzhat@reddit

Worst game for a gen X is the stupid lion king game we bought for our kids and they could not get past level 2.

I burned weeks of my life trying to get past that thing...finally scrapped it. It's def infamous.

[-]

x_x-6fenix@reddit

Refueling and landing on the aircraft carrier were impossible when I was a kid.

[-]

ricperry1@reddit

Yep. We never successfully refueled, so we never progressed any further than about 10 minutes of play time.

[-]

x_x-6fenix@reddit

Ahh, my Top Gun therapy group finally found me.

[-]

OhSoScotian77@reddit

E.T. for Atari AINEC.

Wtf am I supposed to do with the reese's pieces?

[-]

WarpedCore@reddit

E.T. is by far the worst game ever made.

[-]

HurricaneSalad@reddit

It's actually really fun. And pretty easy to understand and beat if you read the instructions.

[-]

REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

I actually enjoyed E.T.

You had to read the manual, though, or you'd have no idea wtf was going on.

The Reese's are your energy. You can use them to levitate out of pits, and run/warp. But you're best to save them up for getting out of pits.

It was an easy enough game to beat, but the game play was pretty dynamic, and victory wasn't guaranteed.

ET was just way far ahead of its time. High scores didn't matter as much as your ability to manipulate the character and respond to the environment around them, and the goals changed every gameplay, or at least the locations of the pieces and where/when they had to be used.

but at the time, it was expected that any videogame could be picked up and played with little to no instruction: Shoot stuff, avoid the bad guy, don't die. This was complicated and impossible without that booklet.

[-]

pimpfmode@reddit

Exactly. I don't know why the game received so much hate. For a game from that era it had a lot of replayability. It wasn't the same thing over and over just to accrue points. I was a kid but my sister explained it to me and I played that game of shit ton just because it was different every time And you could lose.

[-]

HurricaneSalad@reddit

I'm with you. I still have the memory of sitting on the living room floor with my mom and figuring it out. Reading the instructions and then just remember what the symbols mean. I beat it pretty consistently as a 7 year-old kid.

[-]

REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

I think the market just wasn't ready for it. It was about the only Atari game I played that you couldn't figure out in just over a minute. Who wants to READ to play a video game? I messed around in it for years before I read the manual. And I only did that because I was bored one day. But it TOTALLY changed my opinion of the game!

[-]

kalitarios@reddit

Adventure for me was like this. I had no idea what I was even doing

[-]

REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

I played it for YEARS before I read the manual. I only read it because I was bored one day, and when it had info other than the names of sprites, I immediately picked it back up! It was so crazy just to see how everything worked, and the seemingly random stuff all followed a set of predictable rules!

[-]

PutridWorth938@reddit

Damn.. All that time wasted on that effing game and I just had to RTFM...

[-]

702PoGoHunter@reddit

Damn, you beat me to it. I was about to say "you never played E.T. then..".

As a kid I feel bad for my parents buying so many games across multiple platforms that were an absolute waste of money.

[-]

REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

nah, E.T. was pretty good. People just didn't get it

[-]

CaptainxInsano69@reddit

Tbf E.T was the main contributor to the video game crash in the 80’s. They had so many unsold copies that they supposedly buried them in a Mexican landfill

[-]

draggar@reddit

Home console popularity was already waning in that time. Next gen consoles weren't taking off as much as they had hoped and the first gen consoles (Atari 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision) were limited by their own hardware. Anyone who played Pitfall ][ knows exactly what I'm talking about.

E.T. was just that final straw.

Add in that home computers, while still very limited (80286 processors, or early 80386 processors) were becoming popular, too. Systems like the Commodore 64 could play games and do work (word processing, etc.). Yes, they were less user friendly (although the Commodore 64 also had a cartridge slot).

Then, it flipped again when the NES came out and became popular in the US. Home consoles were again on the rise, and PCs ("IBM compatible)) slowed. As the 486 systems (especially with VESA local bus compatible video cards and Sound Blaster cards), (and later, Pentiums) we started to see steady growth in both industries (and the whole console vs. PC debate).

[-]

spargel_gesicht@reddit

Well there was also all of Atari’s best developers getting poached and having to finish coding the game with their scrubs.

[-]

RVAblues@reddit

Even with the NES, they felt like they had to add things to encourage wary American consumers to buy it—remember R.O.B. The robot that shipped with the NES that first year? That’s how they got away with marketing it not just as video games, but an entire “Entertainment System.”

It was enough. Then once folks got hooked on Mario, there was no looking back.

[-]

revdon@reddit

Some copies of ET were landfilled along with other warehouse inventory rather than continuing to rent the warehouse space. But this was because of the crash. ET did not cause the crash.

[-]

TheVoicesOfBrian@reddit

New Mexico. And it's true.

[-]

draggar@reddit

But, it was the landfill where all of Atari's returned cartridges went to, not just ET. But yes, ET was a lot of them.

In Atari: Game Over they found a lot of games, and gave some to the developers of the games (Yars' Revenge comes to mind).

[-]

PutridWorth938@reddit

I played yars revenge... So at least one copy was sold... If I recall it was somewhere between space invaders and galaga..

[-]

draggar@reddit

Yep, loved that game.

[-]

DragunovDwight@reddit

I played yars revenge so much I got hood enough to “flip it”. It’s what we called scoring like 100,000 or something to where the numbers went back to zero. I kept going and it froze for the first time ever.

[-]

aftrnoondelight@reddit

It was one of the few puzzle type games that I finished. Pretty early on too. Raiders of the Lost Ark and Swordquest were maddening.

[-]

kalitarios@reddit

and the games weren't exactly cheap by today's comparisons. IIRC weren't Coleco and Atari games like $50 each back in the 80s?

[-]

beaushaw@reddit

We recently got a hacked nintendo Wii. It has tons of old games on it. We play some for a few minutes and realize this game is terrible and move on to the next.

Just the other day I was explaining to my daughter sometimes you would save up, buy a game and get home so excited to play it. Then you realize it is terrible, but you keep trying to play it because you spent a lot of money on it. I spent hours playing that stupid ET game. Like where are there so many pits all over the place?

[-]

spargel_gesicht@reddit

Watch the pit!

[-]

aftrnoondelight@reddit

Ya eat ‘em! Then you gather the parts of the “phone home” machine, and find the spot in the forest where the icon changes to a spaceship, then you call. Ship picks you up. Bing bang boom.

[-]

burnednotdestroyed@reddit

I don't know how ET didn't make the main post. I spent months trying to get out of a hole.

[-]

ispongeyou@reddit

gif

[-]

claytionthecreation@reddit

This pic gave me a full on seizure.

[-]

u2sarajevo@reddit

That's nightmare fuel.

I couldn't wait to play this game!!!!! And then I did. And it just kept getting worse, and oops stuck in a pit. Yay.

[-]

draggar@reddit

In Atari's defense, Steven Spielberg personally went to their office, watched a playthrough, he might have even been able to play it, and still signed off on it. (Source: the documentary, Atari: Game Over).

[-]

RVAblues@reddit

Apparently Spielberg was and still is quite the gamer. Even in the 80s, he always kept video game/arcade machines in his office and on set during production.

[-]

Weekly_Host_2754@reddit

https://i.redd.it/9e6b2cauw8re1.gif

[-]

Donkey-Hodey@reddit

I remember playing ET for hours and never knowing what I was supposed to be doing. Just falling in holes and levitating out! 😂

[-]

RVAblues@reddit

Yeah…back then they hadn’t learned that you have to teach folks how to play the game within the game.

ET wasn’t a bad game if you fully read the manual and practiced things (like making sure you are completely levitating out of the holes before proceeding). But no kid is going to do that.

Super Mario Bros., on the other hand, gradually teaches you everything you need to know by the end of level 1-1 (and really by the end of the first couple of screens).

[-]

don_teegee@reddit

I remember playing for 5 minutes. I’d fall into a hole, quit and go back to Vanguard or Pitfall.

[-]

Kaizenism@reddit

Pitfall music permanently plays as soon as I see any atari 2600 graphics

[-]

pbrooks19@reddit

I had a friend who had the ET game. I think we kept falling into pits for no reason, and couldn't do literally anything for more than 10 minutes of play at a time.

[-]

currentsitguy@reddit

So bad they actually bought them all back and buried them in a hole in New Mexico.

[-]

u2sarajevo@reddit

I have verifiable proof they didn't buy them all back.

[-]

currentsitguy@reddit

I know a lot made it into consumer hands. I meant the ones still left on the shelves.

[-]

u2sarajevo@reddit

I figured. I was just low key bragging....

....about still having a copy of that stupid game.

[-]

currentsitguy@reddit

It might actually be worth something today.

I have it as a ROM Image in the little RetroPi gaming thing I made.

[-]

Ironklad_@reddit

Loved et got him to phone home so many times !! Damn agents !!!

[-]

compactable73@reddit

The worst bit was that the shops were flooded with copies of this túrd, which in turn resulted in every “i have no idea what he likes, but he has an Atari” relative I had buying me a copy.

The only game I ever rage quit.

[-]

TrippDJ71@reddit

Came to say this too! Ha !!!

[-]

La_Mano_Cornuta@reddit

Throw them in the same NM landfill where the game is stored.

[-]

KerouacsGirlfriend@reddit

ET WAS SO BAD!! I was going to comment about it but u did the job.

[-]

WilliePullout@reddit (OP)

Just google it

[-]

Ti47_867@reddit

I have PTSD and flashbacks from landing on that f**king carrier.

[-]

Unhappy-Molasses-398@reddit

I landed it once. Once and it was a total fluke now that I know how to land it. I still can’t land it not that I really tried all that often and to be quite honest. I think my kid, who can knock out Tyson, tried it a few times and basically said fuck this.lol

[-]

3nar3mb33@reddit

I too landed it once. ONCE!

It was one of only two games my dad let us have. The other was tetris. I was beast at Tetris...and I guess you could say I was pretty beast at Top Gun since I did land it once.

[-]

wyattdonnely@reddit

My mother hung me on a hook once. Once!

[-]

brimstn@reddit

Fargin’ icehole!

[-]

bigSTUdazz@reddit

The MOUTH on that guy!

[-]

misterpickles69@reddit

How would you like to make a couple of bucks?

[-]

HurricaneSalad@reddit

Watcha makin' ma?
Beer.
With noodles... what a great idea.

[-]

spidersinthesoup@reddit

you bastage!!!

[-]

Express_Area_8359@reddit

Knock down that wall, knock down that wall, and knock down that fargin wall.

[-]

SubparSensei71@reddit

Now it’s fargin war!

[-]

Express_Area_8359@reddit

Now Im really angry!!

[-]

oxfordclubciggies@reddit

Bastich!!!

[-]

Rob_LeMatic@reddit

One and done club. I thought I'd figured it out, but the next time I tried it I crashed again and that was the last time I ever played

[-]

RVAblues@reddit

Really? I landed it like 95% of the time. Just gotta do what it says.

I also figured out that if you just climb to the highest altitude, all the bogies just fly right under you. Made the entire game as safe and exciting as commercial air travel. Consequently, I didn’t play it much.

[-]

UpstairsCommittee894@reddit

I've always wondered how so many people couldn't land the plane. I think castlevania pissed me off way more when you had to find the herb and go all the way back across the map, then kneel forever to go forward.

[-]

BoboliBurt@reddit

I needed some nerd at Hebrew School nerd wirh Nintendo Power to smarten me up on Simon’s Quest. I had not the foggiest damn clue what that hint meant.

Finally dude was an absolute dud weakingl too compared to Castlevania and the double brute.

[-]

Unhappy-Molasses-398@reddit

Castlevania is a whole other level of frustration as a kid.

[-]

ace_in_space@reddit

I didn’t play Top Gun so I’m just reading the comments harmlessly, minding my business, see the word “Castlevania” and now I’m triggered beyond belief. I absolutely could NOT beat that game.

[-]

Mindes13@reddit

Not even with the code?

[-]

Lord-Cartographer55@reddit

The Grim Reaper boss was the worst. Finding a safe spot to attack him in the absolute sea of spinning scythes was infuriating.

[-]

CityBoiNC@reddit

I use to do the Maverick brake and let them fly right under me.

[-]

ShaChoMouf@reddit

The Angry Video Game Nerd on YouTube bitched about Top Gun and the impossible landing. He also complained in another video about how the PowerGlove sucked. But then he tried the PowerGlove on Top Gun and was able to land the plane first try with the glove - go figure.

[-]

zornmagron@reddit

Yeah I was never ever able to beat Mike Tyson also glad they made it that tough

[-]

brainrotbro@reddit

I memorized every move in Abadox and did speed runs through an alien anus. But I too only landed once in Top Gun.

[-]

Wingnutmcmoo@reddit

You literally just do what it says to land. The actual game outside the landing sequence is one of the better nes games if we're being serious.

But yeah the landing sequence is like a game of bop it. That's it. The game tells you want to press and you do. The instruction manual has the guide for what meant what if I remember right.

The YouTube Ryukahr did the game for a series fairly recently I think as well and given the nature of the series it was on I assume he shows how it's done (not actually watched that video but seen others of his.)

[-]

trpclshrk@reddit

I think I got it twice. Once a kid, once years later messing around on a fluke. But never more than once at a time. I’m

[-]

LarryDaBastard@reddit

Your kid is Buster Douglas?

[-]

Craiss@reddit

My immediate thoughts when I just saw the post while doom scrolling. I don't think I'll ever forget my buddy and I deciding to play this after bashing our heads against Battletoads for a few hours.

We eventually beat Battletoads, which is saying something. we did not beat Top Gun.

[-]

flbp@reddit

One I realized you could hold down the button to decelerate vs hitting the button it got much easier. It took weeks to figure that out.

[-]

ToddPundley@reddit

I wish I knew that 36 years ago.

[-]

ToddPundley@reddit

Worse yet was having to refuel mid flight

Such a frustrating game. The actual missions themselves were easy and fun. Until you ended up fail-kamakazing at the end

[-]

Qwirk@reddit

Am I the only person on the planet that landed that carrier regularly? I think there was a tip about pitch/speed in one of the Nintendo Power magazines that got me though it.

[-]

No_Manufacturer_1911@reddit

No, I could win the game at will. There was a ceremony at the end.

[-]

Ysiriff@reddit

I guess so. I never played it. We had space invaders and a few other games.

[-]

greaper007@reddit

My dad was a literal F-14 pilot and he had a hard time landing. Though I did kind of figure it out eventually.

Also, it was accurate in that he said landing on the carrier at night was the absolutely worst thing he ever had to do as a pilot.

[-]

ApatheistHeretic@reddit

One time... I landed one time. I, then, retired from the game having reached the peak of achievement.

[-]

Dry-Interaction-1246@reddit

TOP GUN. Beat the game, age 8. First NES game beside what came with it!

[-]

Rolandersec@reddit

I loved that game. I had no clue until recently that people had such a hard time landing.

[-]

jmskywalker1976@reddit

My people! Fuck that carrier!!!

[-]

bnelson7694@reddit

My first thought! Every single time. Never landed once without crashing.

[-]

Sad_Advice_8152@reddit

Landing on the carrier was preparing us for sex and we didn’t know it. Just follow instructions

[-]

Complete_Fisherman_3@reddit

Just push the right buttons. Handle the joy stick. Try to cum in on the landing deck.

[-]

implicate@reddit

I believe the word you meant to say was "fucking."

[-]

Gaglia79@reddit

Such a disappointment after watching the movie and rushing out to get the game. You couldn’t even do rolls or loops.

[-]

vistaculo@reddit

It’s the lack of sweaty, bare chested, erotic, male volleyball that ruins that game.

[-]

steve_dallasesq@reddit

My Dad, who couldn't get Mario through the first level, could land on that thing every time.

I got so mad.

[-]

kyserzose@reddit

Between this and the water level of the Ninja Turtles game, I think video games were a social experiment in getting used to failure. See also: Battletoads.

[-]

Beautiful-Program428@reddit

Ghosts and Goblins entered the chat.

[-]

vistaculo@reddit

oh man, I’m pretty sure that is still considered one of the hardest games of all time

[-]

Wingnutmcmoo@reddit

The only thing on this list that should be here is battle toads. Without level warps that game is hard hard even if you know exactly what you're doing.

Top gun you just press what it tells you to press to land. And with the ninja turtles water level you can just keep swap turtles before they die if you mess up a lot. Your burn like 1 health bar total out of 4 health bars so it wasn't bad tbh.

[-]

RomanWraith@reddit

For reals. I've been watching a guy on YouTube beat these old games that we thought were hard. Turns out, we were just impatient little shits.

[-]

Every-Cook5084@reddit

Same. I also have memories of mid air fueling being stress inducing

[-]

Lovis1522@reddit

You need fuel??? Impossible!!!

[-]

bhub01@reddit

Good music at that sequence though!

[-]

izak_jbrt_1973@reddit

lol reminds me of F19 stealth fighter. I could never get a damn plane to land, so after awhile I just ejected the plane when the mission was done. God if they ever send me a bill for all those planes

[-]

yallknowme19@reddit

Congrats, you have the actual combat pilot experience 😆

[-]

AnxiousDwarf@reddit

The NES advantage controller made it a little bit easier

[-]

furyian24@reddit

Yes, I remember that. Fuck that. I was 8 trying to land this thing, and all I heard was pull up altitude too low or something to that degree. Fuck man.

[-]

TheDandyWarhol@reddit

Out of the thousands of times I played, I'm not sure I ever landed it.

[-]

UpstairsCommittee894@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11fKLy3IZNs

[-]

Wassupeth@reddit

It was literal torture

[-]

mtert@reddit

Apparently it's not as tough as we thought it was:

https://youtu.be/3XlOofUHiYY

[-]

fLeXaN_tExAn@reddit

Here are some flashbacks for ya!: https://youtu.be/IzyDtrj-11Q?t=1157

[-]

lordtaco@reddit

Up! Up! Slow down Speed up Slow down Speed up Down down

Crash

[-]

No_Pumpkin_1179@reddit

I don’t know that I ever finished that level without using the warp, but the warp just sent you to the next impossible level.

[-]

sketchahedron@reddit

The makers of this game really thought refueling and landing were the best parts of being an F-14 pilot in the Navy.

[-]

lordtaco@reddit

Highway through the boring zone

[-]

lordtaco@reddit

Highway through the boring zone

[-]

DouglasHundred@reddit

I'm not sure I was ever able to.

[-]

Prestigious_Ad_1037@reddit

My ADHD kicked in and I wasted an entire summer hyperfocusing on the landing. It was a completely underwhelming feeling of “success.”

[-]

EvilDan69@reddit

I also have this super power lol. I've landed quite a few times, after a lot of trial and error.

[-]

punktualPorcupine@reddit

You had to ignore the flashing text and use the gauges. The text would cause you to over correct.

[-]

Thebadmamajama@reddit

So frustrating

[-]

Apart_Appointment_10@reddit

Worst atari game was E.T. it had a glitch that you couldn't get past. Ridiculous

[-]

Realistic_Toe_219@reddit

Sorry but Frostbite was the worst game ever and probably damaged me for life.

[-]

ExcelsiorUnltd@reddit

Listen just because I was never able to land on the aircraft carrier doesn’t mean it’s the worst game ever…

I did have a copy of E.T. for the 2600

[-]

ricperry1@reddit

ET on Atari.

[-]

englishpatrick2642@reddit

I loved top gun! Beat it about 30 times as a kid! I also learned how to beat Raiders of the lost Ark on Atari in less than five minutes. Not a great game, but I spent hours figuring out how to beat it that quickly. I stayed home a lot as a child :-)

[-]

WilliePullout@reddit (OP)

What about toe jam and earl?

[-]

englishpatrick2642@reddit

Never played that one. Was it on PlayStation?

[-]

WilliePullout@reddit (OP)

Sega I eventually beat it in an emulator

[-]

englishpatrick2642@reddit

Never owned a SEGA myself. My progression went Tandy TRS 80, Atari 2600, Atari 5200(with all five or six games! Lol), NES, SNES, PS1, N64, Xbox, then all Xboxes until present day.

[-]

apollo_popinski@reddit

Jaws was awful too

[-]

redtesta@reddit

Cracks me up, knowing that game and seeing guys talk and how you're talking total gen x . Made me smile. I was same way with that game but enjoying comments of the ptsd it has left trying to land on the carrier. Man, I miss my youth.

[-]

Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit

Lol. I actually liked top gun. Except when I crashed trying to land on the carrier deck. I probably played this one the second most after super Mario brothers. Mostly because this is the only one my dad liked to play, we’d play it together even though he generally thought “vidya games” were a waste of time.

[-]

PeaTearGriphon@reddit

I liked it too.. sucked when you missed the refueling part in missions.

[-]

cmeth43@reddit

Yeah. If you missed the refueling, you might as well start over… but you were already like 15 minutes invested at that point so now you gotta stick the landing first try!

[-]

janderson75@reddit

I loved it!

[-]

Unhappy-Molasses-398@reddit

The best games are the games you played with parents who openly shrugged at the idea, but you know deep down they were having a blast. For me it was Tetris for my mom and rad racer for my dad.

[-]

3mta3jvq@reddit

Raiders was fun, I remember the tsetse flies and trying to land the parachute in the cavern.

Now I feel old, that was at least 40 years ago.

[-]

WilliePullout@reddit (OP)

Those flies wouldn’t fuck off

[-]

N2VDV8@reddit

Shaq Fu. I remember there was a review in a gaming magazine back I. The day that said “it is not humanly possible to make a worse game than this.”

Rivaled only by Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball.

[-]

WilliePullout@reddit (OP)

I had shaq fu on sega. Totally forgot about it.

[-]

NewAir5@reddit

no one's gonna mention "The Adventures of Bayou Billy" ?

[-]

FormulaBob27@reddit

I loved top gun lol

[-]

dae_giovanni@reddit

I actually liked E.T. and Indiana Jones, as a little kid. I was just a touch too young to really get through them on my own. (I'm guessing i would have disliked both had I been an adult.)

and since I'm apparently "That Guy" right now: Top Gun wasn't that awful and-- you guys are not gonna like this-- landing the aircraft carrier was NOT that hard.

the screen absolutely tells you exactly what to do, and it actually works. you were probably going too fast...

I have a buddy who is 43-- he also hated the landing sequence and said he never could pull it off as a kid. he still has his NES and fired it up recently and I told him JUST FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS ON SCREEN and for the first time in 40 years, he landed the motherfucker.

[-]

FoolWh0FollowsHim@reddit

Yep. It really helps when people actually read the manual and follow on screen directions lol. I never understood all the hate for ET. I loved it. I beat the game so many times. Raiders too.

[-]

Appropriate_End_3345@reddit

I landed it 6 times in a row and never landed again.

[-]

No_Possession_5038@reddit

Top Gun is and was solid. Once you learn the secret to each mission and refuel and landing it’s a pretty easy game.

[-]

SV650rider@reddit

Yeah, I loved Top Gun! Was able to land on the carrier.

[-]

ZooterOne@reddit

This is why I'm happy I had an Intellivision. Even the bad games were pretty good.

[-]

uncivil_society@reddit

Yeah Intellivision was pretty rad, we had one too. It had such better games than any of its competitors.

[-]

Ysiriff@reddit

Did you guys play Castle Wolfenstein on the computer?

[-]

uncivil_society@reddit

I did. That was a lot of fun, but it was hard. I remember getting blown up a lot by my own grenades.

[-]

No_Manufacturer_1911@reddit

I loved top gun. Got to where I could win it at will.

[-]

Hazys@reddit

Actually top gun not bad

[-]

GrandMoffJerjerrod@reddit

That E.T. game was probably the worst game ever.

[-]

strangething@reddit

Ever play Ghostbusters for the NES? What a turd of a game.

[-]

Thelastnormalperson@reddit

ET in a landslide... Err landfill.

[-]

king_of_poptart@reddit

Top Gun is a fun game. It's not my fault you can't land on an aircraft carrier. /s

[-]

Status-Impression738@reddit

Dude when I was a kid I spent hours trying to land. Once I got that… top gun was good

[-]

msgkar03@reddit

Top Gun was great. I’d say ET for Atari and Ghostbusters for the NES (which looked like it should have been for Atari)

[-]

AngryK9_@reddit

I actually liked both of those 😢

[-]

DarkHawk347@reddit

Both are arguably not bad. Top gun is fun but people don’t realize how to use their instruments and ET is a fun adventure game but you need to read the manual to be successful. Charlie’s angels 2003, or power rangers on sega CD, those are bad games

[-]

NotRightInTheZed@reddit

Top gun was awesome. Raiders was terrible.

[-]

twrt0es@reddit

Don’t be mad at me, but I never liked the movie either

[-]

WooSaw82@reddit

Top Gun wasn’t the worst game ever. It was just an impossible son of a bitch to land on the aircraft carrier for 6 yr old me.

[-]

REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

2 worst games: Space War, and Night Driver.

they committed the sin of laziness.

I used to call Space War Space Assholes, as we'd accelerate our "ships" to ludicrous speeds and basically break the game. It's asteroids without the asteroids. ZERO EFFORT, and they had the gall to charge money for it.

Night driver was an excuse not to draw a background. And that thing you're driving looks like a fucking garden tractor. What kind of asshole mows the road at night?

[-]

GeoHog713@reddit

Chicks dig night tractors!

[-]

REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

Can't Buy Me Love was such a great movie!

[-]

GeoHog713@reddit

So good!!

[-]

Pressman4life@reddit

Hey, I spent a few days sick in bed once and played Raiders for hours and finally beat it.

[-]

Appropriate_Cow94@reddit

I beat that Raiders game so many times.

[-]

live_love_run@reddit

ET for the 2600

[-]

HackedCylon@reddit

The 2600 game based on the TV series MASH was terrible.

[-]

MuddMeyer@reddit

Top Gun was awesome at that time, landing sucked but still played that game hundreds of times.

[-]

victor4700@reddit

ET on 2600 would like a word

[-]

No1ButtMe@reddit

E.T. on Atari

[-]

Ok_Dragonfruit7353@reddit

Raiders is one my earliest and favorite video game memories when we figured it out and actually finished it.

Top Gun….well except for landing the plane. My success rate was probably about 50% back in the day.

[-]

Caffeinated_Narwhal_@reddit

You clearly never played E.T.

[-]

crapheadHarris@reddit

I loved that Top Gun game once I learned how to shoot down missiles and land the damn thing.

[-]

HighBiased@reddit

ET

[-]

Eofkent@reddit

I had raiders for years as a kid without realizing you needed to use the second controller….

[-]

MonkeyTraumaCenter@reddit

The NES' reset and power button were on the front of the console, so when you were pissed off at Top Gun, you could chuck your controller at it and turn the game off.

[-]

drhoads@reddit

Festers Quest! Nintendo Power sold me on that game and what a turd.

[-]

photoguy423@reddit

It wasn't that hard to beat if you had a rapid fire controller. I'd just wander the street and farm upgrades for the gun and other weapons as I got them. It was kinda boring after a while.

[-]

ThrenderG@reddit

Holy shit, memory unlocked. I also remember reading about Fester’s Quest in Nintendo Power (which somehow made every upcoming game sound like the totally awesome next big thing).

[-]

50YearsofFailure@reddit

Nintendo Power almost sold me on a Virtual Boy until I saw it in a Blockbuster and it was super awkward to use or even see things.

[-]

Evil_Mikec51@reddit

Just gonna leave this here

[-]

Feeling_Name_6903@reddit

The best raiders game was pitfall

[-]

justaguy394@reddit

Pitfall 2, IMHO.

[-]

SargentSchultz@reddit

I loved that one

[-]

FlingbatMagoo@reddit

https://i.redd.it/olmfznj4x9re1.gif

The best Atari game ever.

[-]

SargentSchultz@reddit

I got a perfect score on pitfall II I think it was. Sent it into ACTi vision and everything.

[-]

compactable73@reddit

Most activision was great

[-]

Kylearean@reddit

Back in the day Activision always meant it was going to be a great game. That and Electronic Arts.

[-]

Qwirk@reddit

River Raid was the best.

[-]

InevitableOk5017@reddit

River Raid gave me so much anxiety from running out of fuel.

[-]

compactable73@reddit

But it was a good anxiety 😉

[-]

2044onRoute@reddit

When i saw the Raiders cartridge I thought for a second... That was a Great game.... but I was thinking about Pitfall

[-]

queenofcaffeine76@reddit

came here to say this! #teampitfall

[-]

calmikazee@reddit

Enduro till your eyes dried out from not blinking!

[-]

TestForPotential@reddit

Pitfall was my jam! I desperately wanted to be the kid in the commercial. Turns out that kid was Jack Black. So I guess I wanna be Jack Black when I grow up. lol.

[-]

iambarrelrider@reddit

All I wanted for Christmas was that game. I got it and I never got past the first mission because of not being able to land on the carrier. It deviated me, and I can say it ruined my life ever since then.

[-]

MidwestNurse75@reddit

I beg to differ and raise you a copy of E. T.

[-]

Ulldimmutwarrior@reddit

Solomon’s Key anyone 🫠

[-]

SargentSchultz@reddit

OMG Raiders was gonna be SO COOL I HAVE TO HAVE IT MOM AND DAD.... wait this game sucks

[-]

Pablo_Louserama@reddit

Wait wait wait. You had to use TWO JOYSTICKS???

Well that fucking explains it.

[-]

219_Infinity@reddit

ET atari 26

[-]

Kylearean@reddit

Loved Raiders -- it was confusing and hard at first, but once you sort of understood what you needed to do, you could beat it.

It was the first souls-like game.

[-]

letsee7654321@reddit

Top Gun is great. Look up and fly and you will win if you can land it.

[-]

lexi_prop@reddit

Who framed Roger rabbit

[-]

AlternativeGrass3164@reddit

My mom bought Top Gun for me randomly as a surprise. Not a special day or anything, so she was just trying to be cool. But I could never figure out how to play it and had a bad temper as a kid. I probably got upset and ruined the whole moment. Now that I’m a parent, I feel bad, cuz I know she was just trying to make me happy.

[-]

No_Cow_4544@reddit

Refueling…….

[-]

Curiousone_78@reddit

E.T on Atari was by far the worst video game of all time.

[-]

theothertetsu96@reddit

Nobody mentioned Deadly Towers? That was so much worse than Top Gun, SO MUCH WORSE…

[-]

Davethephotoguy@reddit

Raiders was so goddamn frustrating!

[-]

redditmetallik@reddit

I'm sorry but RoTLA was awesome on the 2600, closest that system ever got to a real adventure/puzzle game. It was NOT an arcade game and that's why so many people gave up in frustration. Great game if you read the instructions and actually knew how to approach the puzzles. Few 2600 gave as much satisfaction on finally completing them.

[-]

wieldymouse@reddit

I thought it was Atari's E.T..

[-]

Joepatbob@reddit

Especially how amazing you think the topgun game is gonna be.

[-]

hawkeye0066@reddit

Don't forget E.T.

[-]

Due_Entrepreneur_382@reddit

When I was very very little, my family had an Atari with Raiders.

I didn’t understand it then, and I still don’t quite get what you’re supposed to do in it

[-]

Piscivore_67@reddit

Raiders was the first game we got with our Atari. I loved it, played it all the time. When I finished it, it was very gratifying.

The gameplay was like the old Sierra adventures; trying things and failing and learning from that was the point.

[-]

Sizzlersister43@reddit

No E.T.? That is widely regarded as the worst game ever, and for good reason.

[-]

teodocio@reddit

XMen on nes

[-]

Minnow125@reddit

Came here to second ET for Atari. It was horribly disappointing. I just remember the whole game felt like falling into a hole or something.
There’s some videos how it started the decline of Atari.

[-]

Root16Farm@reddit

Fall in hole. Erect neck and bellow. Float out of hole. Fall in hole. Erect neck and bellow. Float out of hole. Again and again and again and again and again...

[-]

Minnow125@reddit

Core memories unlocked… of utter disappointment and frustration.

[-]

Average_40s_Guy@reddit

The only thing I really remember about it was you had to remember the exact spot of the screen where the ship left you because you had to go back to that exact spot after collecting the pieces to phone home.

[-]

sfmcinm0@reddit

OP never had to play the atrocities that were the Atari 2600 versions of Pac Man and E.T.

[-]

TaseMulhiny@reddit

I liked Top Gun, still in the collection. Especially remember the mid air fueling.

[-]

kevbo9000@reddit

My mom called Atari on behalf of my exasperation with Raiders of the Lost Ark, and they sent us an illustrated hints guide and solution guide in the mail. It was a breeze after that.

[-]

freddbare@reddit

I own Festers Quest.

[-]

itsmellslikefish@reddit

There are still holes in the wall of my childhood home because of Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles on NES

[-]

Storyteller678@reddit

I really don’t see why everyone hated the Dam level so much. It wasn’t as hard as the later stages. 🤷‍♂️

[-]

chek-yo-cookies@reddit

I could never get past the Dam level, so I couldn't tell if the later stages were any good or not 😂. That's why it was so frustrating.

[-]

foeplay44@reddit

Once I figured out how to land, Top Gun was fun. Learning to land was a major achievement tho.

[-]

NavierIsStoked@reddit

The original PacMan for Atari sucked.

[-]

murrayzhang@reddit

This was truly one of the great disappointments of pre-puberty for me.

[-]

murrayzhang@reddit

Atari Pac-Man still ranks as my greatest video game disappointment of all time.

[-]

preacherman1975@reddit

I loved the Top Gun NES back in the day.

[-]

BlueProcess@reddit

As a player of the C64 Microprose F-15 Strike Eagle kid me just could not understand how Top Gun could be worse. It was Nintendo, it was supposed to be better in every way.

[-]

50YearsofFailure@reddit

Everybody's saying ET and rightly so, but I'm going off the board and saying Infiltrator on NES. I bought it out of a bargain bin for like a dollar or something and I actually thought about getting my money back.

It also fits my theory that the cooler the graphics on the cartridge, the lamer the game was inside.

[-]

SkylerKean@reddit

Rygar was the best worst game of all time. And the first NES TMNT game. I loved them both so much when I was younger.

[-]

Trbochckn@reddit

I kicked aas at top gun. Once you figure it out it's not so bad.

[-]

aptruncata@reddit

In its defense, it still had a psychedelic intro.

[-]

TheRealJim57@reddit

Let me introduce you to the abominable failure that was E.T.

The game was so bad that Atari shipped a ton of brand new cartridges to a landfill.

[-]

raven21633x@reddit

I played the hell out of that game

[-]

Root16Farm@reddit

Raiders was awful, but on a rainy afternoon with nothing to do, I got really far into it. It only happened one time, but for an after noon I fucked them tsetse flies up and really enjoyed it. I never finished it and never found that wonderful enjoyment again. Also, many people didn't know you needed to use both controllers, one for movement and one to use objects.

[-]

Beneficial-Chair4639@reddit

I had no idea re; both controllers!!!!

[-]

galenp56@reddit

Those fucking tse tse flies…

[-]

haverchuck22@reddit

That Simpsons game, I forget what level is impossible but the whole thing is so hard

[-]

Flybot76@reddit

Did you have anything to actually say about them or did you just post the pictures based on knowing people often dislike those games? That's what this looks like, spam clickbait with no insight, not interesting reading for Reddit.

[-]

chechnyah0merdrive@reddit

1943: Battle of Midway. I still don't know how to play that game.

[-]

crunchypudding15@reddit

Gotta vote for E.T. on Atari and Superman on the N64.

[-]

zornmagron@reddit

I will take you back waiting for over a year for the donkey kong port to the intellivision. Finally got it two screens instead of four only had barrels and rivets.. so disappointed lesson learned

[-]

Redducer@reddit

I liked Raiders of the Lost Ark. I don’t remember hating E.T.

Ports of Pac Man and Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600 were truly horrible. Still to this day, after decades playing hundreds of other games, they’re in my bottom 5.

That machine was terribly limited but there were a couple miracles too (Yar’s Revenge, Pitfall! and especially Pitfall! 2, Ms PacMan which redeemed the franchise on the Atari).

[-]

finlyn@reddit

Rygar was the best IMO.

And yeah, this Top Gun game was awful.

[-]

Tiovivo1@reddit

Swordquest was a piece of crap imho.

[-]

Storyteller678@reddit

I’d like to add Ghostbusters on the NES which was vastly inferior to the C64 version and a serious disappointment to this Ghostbusters fanatic.

Also, am I alone in hating Rescue: The Embassy Mission?

[-]

stataryus@reddit

Lol I liked Top Gun

[-]

Express_Area_8359@reddit

You mess up one more time ill bust you down so low you’ll be flying a plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong

[-]

C-ute-Thulu@reddit

Section Z. Nothing but a nonstop side scroller. Almost no variation

[-]

OE2KB@reddit

Is this the version that had the bald Navy boss make little speeches, along with a Wolf Blitzer news clip?

[-]

Wheres_Jay@reddit

You forgot E.T. on Atari

[-]

MyMommaHatesYou@reddit

E T Atari 2600. I think I trashed it back when.

[-]

Cosmologyman@reddit

Bait.

[-]

War1today@reddit

Is there a best game ever post? Curious what that list will include.

[-]

Definitive_confusion@reddit

My kids had the Teletubbies game

Play that once and get back to me

[-]

NihilsitcTruth@reddit

Personally Bart vs the world or most nes Simpson games.

[-]

4k420NoUserName@reddit

Top Gun was shitty Nintendo game. I could never land on that aircraft carrier.

[-]

joetie59@reddit

Landing on the carrier! I wish I could never NEVER refuel

[-]

MNxpat33@reddit

gif

[-]

DeLaOcea@reddit

Atari’s E.T.

[-]

The_Dude_2U@reddit

ET for Atari should be #1

[-]

zork3001@reddit

Pac Man for Atari 2600 was the worst game I ever played. Lucky that I borrowed the cartridge from a friend and saved myself the disappointment of paying for it.

[-]

effingcold@reddit

Also, Fester’s Quest. Ugh.

[-]

effingcold@reddit

Fucking fact! I hear the shitty NES Top Gun music in my sleep.

[-]

DoomWad@reddit

E.T.

[-]

JETEXAS@reddit

Top Gun wasn't that bad. I think the worst game I ever came across was Friday the 13th. All I could ever figure out was that you could light fires in the cabin fireplaces, but then Jason would show up and kill me.

[-]

InevitableOk5017@reddit

13th was great but gave me nightmares when I would turn around and Jason was there!

[-]

Doomed-Doomer@reddit

Refueling and landing the plane was such a pain, though.

[-]

Unhappy-Molasses-398@reddit

Really? Oh man!I love that game as a kid! We would rent that any chance we got. We would be able to finally kill Jason three times which was the final kill. Once you understood what you had to do, it was pretty fun.

[-]

swilkers808@reddit

Top gun was at least fun but the carrier landings were a bitch. There are waaaaaaaaaaaaay more worse ones.

[-]

witch_bitch_kitty420@reddit

Never got past the Tse Tse flies

[-]

InevitableOk5017@reddit

Raiders was awesome I could beat it every time.

[-]

theredwolf@reddit

I mean, it was Atari. They all sucked except the basic ones like pong. Themed games just didn't work.

[-]

JuggernautAsleep3413@reddit

Just pull up and left for the duration of the mission, and then land it. Who says landing is hard?

[-]

Pretend_Safety@reddit

Impossible Mission on the C64 was tough. My dad got fed up with the sound of the guy falling to his death, over and over and over

[-]

Wartickler@reddit

I loved Top Gun once I understood how to play it. I went through every mission. Great game!

[-]

Ysiriff@reddit

Space Invaders. I dominated that game. Once you get to 99999 it flips back to 0. I flipped that thing 8 times before I was like, yep, I'm all good. The Pac-Man games were cool.

[-]

Bloodless-Cut@reddit

Uhm... E.T. is right there

[-]

Quack_Smith@reddit

top gun was not as bad as silver surfer

[-]

Lilikoi_Maven@reddit

Absolutely any one of the Christian theme games put out on nes. They were all singularly atrocious. My son had a friend whose mother had rules...

[-]

MonkeyCobraFight@reddit

I didn’t know I was the only one who could never land that f’in plane.

[-]

narcowake@reddit

I gave up on Top Gun when I couldn’t refuel mid flight … arrrgh

[-]

FENTWAY@reddit

E.T.

[-]

Swashbuckling_Sailor@reddit

I can hear the theme music…

[-]

fuzzypotatopeel72@reddit

Took me a while to figure it out but I did complete raiders. It was pretty good by 80s standards, several "different " style levels.

[-]

Senninha27@reddit

I wish I could remember the name of the NES game I hated. You were in space flying a ship and there was nothing there. Occasionally, you’d see a planet and once I saw a monolith. I think that was the first time I ever heard the word.

[-]

yallknowme19@reddit

Mad Max was pretty bad too.

[-]

Adept_Bass_3590@reddit

Top Gun was the first NES game I ever rented...I had only just learned that renting games had become a thing.

[-]

CGSRQ@reddit

Wow Top Gun game was fun. You must not have been able to land on the aircraft

[-]

TroppoAlto@reddit

So much disappointment with that game. It's almost criminal how much that game sucked.

[-]

IrishTex77@reddit

The Arcade version was awesome!

[-]

kennyofthegulch@reddit

There's nothing wrong with Top Gun.

[-]

Shot_Campaign_5163@reddit

E.T. on the 2600 for the win

[-]

BiscuitWhisker@reddit

Could not beat Raiders of the Lost Ark as a kid. Tried many times. Many years later in college, the solution came to me suddenly in the middle of one night; Jump off the staff indicated plateau, parachute through the hole under the branch, dig under the rock, profit... Later at a house party I discover their Atari Attic dedicated to their collection, they had the game, they showed me the ending. I was right.

[-]

ertyertamos@reddit

I thought I recall really likening the Top Gun game, but after watching a clip of it, I must have been stupid.

raiders definitely sucked though. So did ET.

[-]

DrChansLeftHand@reddit

That Top Gun game can fuck itself. It NEVER worked!

[-]

EvilKungFuWizard@reddit

Platoon for NES was just impossible. You have enemies jumping right on top of you from out of nowhere. I know the Vietcong were sneaky, but c'mon.

Rambo for NES. When you think of Rambo, you think of him with a machine gun mowing down hordes of enemies. He should have gotten the Contra, Ikari Warriors, or Operation Wolf treatment, but no. Instead, we got a weird side-scroller that tried to be Zelda II and failed miserably.

[-]

Intelligent_Text9569@reddit

I liked that Indiana Jones game

[-]

Lopsided-Power-2758@reddit

This game was invented to make kids cry.

[-]

EvoSL@reddit

Capt skyhawk was way easier

[-]

Greedy-Mycologist810@reddit

Pac Man for the Atari 2600 was pathetic

[-]

Haselrig@reddit

I'm gonna land that sucker one of these days!🤣

[-]

ThePatriotGamer@reddit

"Superman" for N64 ... epically terrible ...

[-]

PantsyFants@reddit

For decades I thought I was so stupid that I couldn't figure out that Raiders game and am only just this very moment realizing it was just shitty

[-]

lancerreddit@reddit

Raiders was great

[-]

apost8n8@reddit

Laughs in Atari ET.

[-]

Hot-Trainer-6491@reddit

Superman 64, and any mobile game ported over to consoles

[-]

Xerio_the_Herio@reddit

I remember Top Gun... wait, or was it After Burner....

[-]

GeoHog713@reddit

Not even close.

ET for Atari was so bad they dug a hole in the desert and buried all the unsold copies.

I found the Noid game for NES particularly bad.

Dragons Lair had a scene early in the game that I could never get past. Despite the great graphics, I think it was a very very bad game

[-]

Fortyouncestofreedom@reddit

Dude! Top Gun was great!

[-]

Raynet11@reddit

Took all summer but I mastered Top Gun..

[-]

TheRauk@reddit

ET would like to phone home.

[-]

OutlandishnessNo7575@reddit

ET was the worst game I ever played on the Atari.

[-]

SgtDoakesSurprise@reddit

My god. I remember maybe the summer of 1988. Did odd jobs and saved all my money to buy this game - for like $54.99 in 1988.

The OG Legend of Zelda was the same way. But that game had a good cartridge with three game save spots. That was my best game buy on the NES

[-]

bar_non@reddit

While reading this, I can still hear that amazing top gun theme song in all of it's 8 bit glory!

[-]

himenokuri@reddit

ET from Atari

[-]

Tacokolache@reddit

Top Gun was THE FIRST Nintendo game I played. Fucking terrible! And I was comparing it to Atari games!

[-]

Alpha__OmeGuh@reddit

Moat impossible gane to land its rigged.

[-]

Secret_Cabinet2348@reddit

Top Gun was bad ass. I can't land the carrier still, but I loved the game.

[-]

DragunovDwight@reddit

Hells nah.. I loved that game.,

[-]

TIPtone13@reddit

I may be in the minority but I really enjoyed that Raiders game when it came out all those years ago.

[-]

Skinbot77@reddit

Wasn’t this the Raiders one where you entered that one screen and immediately got bitten by the snake and died, every single time?

[-]

bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit

I really like Raiders.

[-]

ImCaffeinated_Chris@reddit

[-]

BodaciousTacoFarts@reddit

Ghosts and Goblins (this game is insanely difficult)

[-]

RebelStrategist@reddit

You didn’t have “the need for speed” enough.

[-]

og-lollercopter@reddit

gif

[-]

Weekly_Host_2754@reddit

https://i.redd.it/htk4co01x8re1.gif

[-]

Sufficient_Space8484@reddit

Raiders of the lost ark was actually very cool. It was the instructions that sucked and could be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

[-]

phillymjs@reddit

Never understood how people found the landing and refueling so difficult.

[-]

PutridWorth938@reddit

Naw, ET was worst Atari 2600 game of all time... I got trapped in that stupid pit so many times

[-]

Nofanta@reddit

Those were two of my favorites.

[-]

TheFrontierzman@reddit

It's easily Deadly Towers for NES.

[-]

Transphattybase@reddit

Raiders was an awesome game in 1982! There were very few games like that then. Hell, that was the first “puzzle” explorer game I ever played.

[-]

_qor_@reddit

No, E.T. is widely regarded as the worst game ever made.

[-]

lordtaco@reddit

I liked ET when I was a kid. I played the shit out of it. I really didn't have a lot of Atari games though so you found enjoyment in what you had some how

[-]

NeoKnightRider@reddit

Top Gun was a pain, especially trying to land on the carrier.

[-]

Huge-Total-6981@reddit

Ghost n Goblins. Maybe not the worst, but the most frustrating game I remember playing on nes

[-]

JasonMaggini@reddit

Only cartridge I ever rage-threw across the room.

[-]

burnsniper@reddit

Super hard game but still fun.

[-]

wophi@reddit

Uhhhhhh...

ET phoned in.

[-]

burnsniper@reddit

I actually love that game!

[-]

Hot_Cryptographer552@reddit

You don’t have the need? The need for speed?

[-]

NicolawsCatpernicus@reddit

I had a love/hate relationship with Top Gun. Once I mastered landing on the carrier, I had to master the frustrating process of refueling mid-air. Eventually, I beat the gam,e but it took me an entire summer.

[-]

SuchDogeHodler@reddit

No, it was ET.

[-]

elcad@reddit

My room mates only had Top Gun and Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage. Top Gun was the better of the two.

[-]

BidSmall186@reddit

They definitely don’t live up to their expectations as it relates to the movies.

Having said that, landing in the carrier is hard AF…was it even possible?

[-]

Nerdysilverfox@reddit

Most of the games for Atari 2600 were pretty bad but we loved them anyway. ET was the obvious worst of all, basically unplayable. But I especially enjoyed Superman, a terrible game that you could win in less than 3 minutes of game play.

[-]

lastofthefinest@reddit

I loved that game

[-]

insanecorgiposse@reddit

Jurassic Park for the PC was broken right out of the gate and unplayable. They released it anyway.

[-]

AaronTheElite007@reddit

Top Gun was great. Don’t know what you’re on about. Landing and refueling was challenging, yes. That was the point, though

[-]

Confident-Mission-24@reddit

Thank you for posting this! Fuck that game. Impossible

[-]

betamaxxx1967@reddit

E.T. has entered the chat

[-]

Tempest_Fugit@reddit

Top Gun will always have a special place in my heart

My friends and I were like, 10, and they visited us for thanksgiving weekend. We got Top Gun during a Black Friday sale at some department store. I had never seen the movie but I thought the opening music was fantastic and literally taped it off the tv with a microphone and boombox.

We played the shit out of that game all weekend and, yeah, landing the plane was insane and I still remember when my buddy alistair cracked it on Saturday.

[-]

DirectorBiggs@reddit

Y'all gonna downvote me but the movie also sucked ass, I never even considered the game.

Pop culture sucked so bad in the 80s, especially military propaganda bullshit, with the exception of Red Dawn -that shit was dope.

[-]

right_bank_cafe@reddit

Dude!! I loved raiders of the lost ark and solved it at least twice!! lol

[-]

oh_todd@reddit

Same and same!

[-]

OhDatsStanky@reddit

Motherfucking Ikari Warriors

[-]

marshallkrich@reddit

Attari E.T. enters the chat

[-]

Survive1014@reddit

Landing on that carrier man... *long slow dark drag of a cigarette*

[-]

MMShaggy@reddit

You clearly never played E.T. on Atari.

[-]

3rdplacewinner@reddit

Landing on that carrier was what gave me the inspiration to become a Navy pilot.

Spoiler: I'm not a pilot

[-]

mess1ah1@reddit

Raiders doesn’t rank as a worst game, you just couldn’t play it.

[-]

fcewen00@reddit

Clearly you never played ET.

[-]

didntstopgotitgotit@reddit

Rambo also sucked.

[-]

Plane-Fan9006@reddit

Lol....I actually loved both of these

[-]

evilBogie666@reddit

E.T. Phone… maverick?

[-]

SpyderDM@reddit

Top Gun was solid, just super difficult.

[-]

HealthyDifference593@reddit

Castlevania was my ishhh! I could never get into these two though.

[-]

Independent-Owl-8659@reddit

I loved the Top Gun game!!!!

But ET could f right off! 🤣

[-]

Temp_Job_Deity@reddit

Swordquest

[-]

owensamo@reddit

I enjoyed Journey: Escape on Atari when I was a kid, but looking back, it seems so random. I get the storyline - which was itself both understandable, and totally 80s weir - but where does the Kool-Aid Man come into it???

[-]

Perenium_Falcon@reddit

Nobody has ever landed on the carrier.

[-]

Menzicosce@reddit

My friend’s dad back in the day did it all the time.

[-]

Perenium_Falcon@reddit

Was your friend’s dad named Maverick?

[-]

Menzicosce@reddit

😂 George actually. He used to ask us “are you a Top Gunner at Top Gun” then proceed to destroy us every time. RIP he was a good guy.

[-]

Flimsy_Imagination86@reddit

The first one was easy. The second one I only did a handful of times and then quit to play an actually enjoyable game. Like 1942 or Life force.

[-]

Nano_Burger@reddit

Played for maybe 30 minutes before it gathered dust for the rest of my life.

[-]

Djinn2522@reddit

I was able to beat the Raiders of the Lost Ark game back in the day. The ending was horribly anti-climactic, consisting of nothing more than your character descending on a pedestal, the height of which somehow reflected your performance in the game.

[-]

u2sarajevo@reddit

The stickers on that cartridge were changed from E.T. apparently.....

[-]

Trent1373@reddit

I remember trying to play Top Gun. It seemed like any time you tried to fly any other way but a straight line you would easily stall out. I got it for Christmas, but I could never figure out how to fly the damn thing.

[-]

i80flea@reddit

You missed E.T.

[-]

zoot_boy@reddit

Tse tse flies still haunt my dreams.

Can add ET to the list.

[-]

Ironklad_@reddit

I actually loved that game.. I think … kinda fuzzy memory but I do remember playing it over and over.. waaaaait

[-]

Physical_Carrot_6283@reddit

I enjoyed Raiders

[-]

Informal-Face-1922@reddit

Journey Escape

[-]

ObviousIndependent76@reddit

I loved Top Gun.

[-]

7thAndGreenhill@reddit

Wall Street Kid for NES: Wall Street Kid - Wikipedia

[-]

lazygerm@reddit

Those god damned tse tse flies in Raiders! But hardly the worst game.

[-]

chriscoda@reddit

Back to the Future on NES. Never made it past the second level because it was so difficult, and not in a “fun challenging” kind of way. Gameplay was so dumb, it wasn’t worth trying.

[-]

efreeme@reddit

Top Gun was far and away my favorite nes game..

2 player split screen dog fights were LIT!!!

[-]

Fuck Fuck

Off Off

[-]