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Worst Ever Amstrad CPC Games

Started by Xyphoe, 07:19, 05 September 11

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mr_lou

Of course a disappointing game = a bad game.  ???

Gryzor

Of course not. If there wasn't an arcade Out Run, or a Bubble Bobble arcade original, we wouldn't be talking about them now.

mr_lou

Quote from: Gryzor on 18:24, 05 September 11
Of course not. If there wasn't an arcade Out Run, or a Bubble Bobble arcade original, we wouldn't be talking about them now.

Er...  what?

So... because we're talking about them... then they're not bad?
Ok, I didn't know the rules then. My mistake.

Gryzor

No, you didn't get it, maybe I wasn't clear.

A game may seem to you bad or real bad or whatever because you had great expectations for it and it failed to deliver. But this doesn't prevent it from being a mediocre or even good game in its own right. What I was saying is that if Our Run was not Our Run but rather "Ferrari road trip (c)" or something, we'd judge it much better than now.

tastefulmrship

I think a better example would be my SAINT DRAGON;

I used to play SAINT DRAGON in the arcades almost every day, I could finish it in one credit and my highscore is still 23 million. Then, I heard they were releasing a computer version. The Amiga version was bad, but passable; the CPC version was horrible! The graphics were horrible, the sound was horrible, the scrolling was horrible, the controls were horrible.

Therefore, SAINT DRAGON is a bad game.


BUBBLE BOBBLE was playable and looked 'similar' to the arcade and OUTRUN wasn't as bad as people here are making out.


P.S. Also, what Gryzor said!

mr_lou

Ah like that. Yes of course.
It they didn't call it Bubble Bobble, but maybe Crap Dragons, and if you never played the original, then it could probably be ok.

Gryzor


mr_lou

Wait a minute....

Quote from: tastefulmrship on 18:40, 05 September 11
I think a better example would be my SAINT DRAGON; The graphics were horrible, the sound was horrible, the scrolling was horrible, the controls were horrible. Therefore, SAINT DRAGON is a bad game.

So, you honestly think that the graphics and sounds and scrolling and controls were better in Bubble Bobble? Obviously you've never played the CPC Bubble Bobble.

tastefulmrship

Quote from: mr_lou on 18:45, 05 September 11
Wait a minute....

So, you honestly think that the graphics and sounds and scrolling and controls were better in Bubble Bobble? Obviously you've never played the CPC Bubble Bobble.

Oh, I have. It doesn't even compare to SAINT DRAGON!

Please, load it up on a CPC/emulator and see. Then view any MYTUBESPACE video of the arcade!
I think I win.

MacDeath

Chiller :

Ow com'on.... the music is simply excellent on this game.

redbox

L.A. SWAT by Mastertronic was a big pile of sh*te.  So bad, I can't even find it on CPC Power.

I actually liked a lot of the Codemasters games, were cheap and quite often good(ish) fun.

tastefulmrship

Controversial choice:

ZYNAPS

- Beautiful music (either via JDR's music disk or real hardware, as the game seems to lose a sound channel on emulators)
- Pretty and colourful, if small, graphics.
- Decent enough scrolling on a small screen.
- Nice, and varied, sound effects.

However, the game has some of the worst collision detection ever. You can die a mile away from the thing you "hit" & this makes the game almost unplayable without cheats... and then, later on in the 'bubbles' section, there's one part of the scenery that the collision detection doesn't ever let you past (or at least it doesn't let me past) and so the game is impossible.

For this reason, albeit a lame one, I claim this game as one of the worst... ok, most unfair, not worst!
(Thank-you, Mr. Rogers for a 6 minute AY tune)

Nich

Quote from: redbox on 19:19, 05 September 11
L.A. SWAT by Mastertronic was a big pile of sh*te.  So bad, I can't even find it on CPC Power.
It was listed under Los Angeles Swat - but I have now modified the entry to include L.A. SWAT as an alternative name. I've played it as well and it is shockingly awful! :o

Devilmarkus

Quote from: redbox on 19:19, 05 September 11
L.A. SWAT by Mastertronic was a big pile of sh*te.  So bad, I can't even find it on CPC Power.

I actually liked a lot of the Codemasters games, were cheap and quite often good(ish) fun.

Well, as child we all had our idols and this also controlled us to buy CPC games.


So, if you liked this cop, you are or singer in Village People or gay or both... :D
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nurgle

Quote from: Jase on 15:35, 05 September 11
But I have just remembered "Karl's Treasure Hunt"... Anyone remember that? The noise made when your character jumps... sounded like a depressed cow or something... Graphics were crude too, and the (can't think of another word for it) physics when your character does jump...


Ahhh, the pain. Got that as original on a compilation with Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. One of the first games I bought.

nurgle

Anyone remeber "Flight Path 737"? Awful. Even by the standards of the time http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Flight_Path_737

Xyphoe

I think I really did open a can of worms here! LOL  :o

I have to say some of the games listed I couldn't honestly put as the worst ever games -

Barbarian II is a rather 'marmite' game - you either 'quite like it' or hate it. Ironically I'm somewhere in the middle - I loved the animation, deaths and the Conan inspired environments, but it was a frustrating experience and only really playable if you made yourself a map which always annoys me. Anyway - there's a longplay of it in my YT channel, so it is very completable.

ST Dragon - hardly played it much, think I've downloaded the disk a few years back and gave it a couple of games before getting bored. It's playable, but not exactly enjoyable - I don't think it could be put in the list. But just another disappointing arcade conversion like Bubble Bobble, which is exactly the same in the above respects.

Commando I thought was great fun!

Anyway yea I think Gryzor and others are right here ... there are a lot of crushing disappointment of games but it doesn't necessarily make them a bad game in their own right. However OUTRUN was and was a truly dreadful game putting aside the licence - sorry Gryzor!  :P

Xyphoe

I suppose if you want to find terrible games, you just have to mine the archives of DOMARK and US GOLD

So Just remembered -

(Domark)
Pit Fighter
Badlands
Super Space Invaders (how can you fuck up Space Invaders???)

(US Gold)
Line Of Fire (utterly unplayable and dreadful looking. Crashes on Plus machines too)
ESWAT (Actually many many people hate this and looks/plays rather dreadful... but I strangely kinda like it?!)
Streetfighter (well remembered)


Oh and Double Dragon III ... probably the slowest game I've ever played. Even the crap versions of DDI & II look good compared to this!

McKlain

But ESWAT has 2 different versions, the 64k and the 128k version are like 2 different games. Are they both terrible?

I remember being quite dissapointed with 1943 and Vigilante, as I was a big fan of the arcade versions, and after buying the games and trying them on the 464 I felt like I had been ripped off.

Vigilante is still a terrible game (for my taste), but 1943 wasn't that bad.

sigh

Human Killing Machine

Wild Streets.

remax

Badlands, a ugly Supersprint in mode 1.

Super Soccer... totally unplayable.
Brain Radioactivity

MacDeath

Sorry i resurrect a bit of the past...


QuoteBARBARIAN 2 - Just plain rubbish in comparison to the brilliant, if a little samey, original!
I liked it... not as good as first opus but still a decent production.
QuoteGAUNTLET 3 - Terrible sequel that didn't need to exist!
Speccy port, does it even count ? anyway such game could have been a Proto Diablo game.

QuoteGLIDER RIDER - Bombing was almost impossible & it was a blatant one-coloured Speccy port. The only redeeming grace was DW's awesome soundtrack!
Don't know...
QuoteJET SET WILLY - Why? The FINAL FRONTIER should have been the only JET SET WILLY game. Why have a cut-down version?
What ? jet Set Willy 2 was good...

QuoteTHE SENTINEL - Our version was diabolical in comparison to the 6502 and 68000 versions.
I never figured how to play this game, but it looked great.

Quote
Human Killing Machine
Street fighter shitty engine re-used... some decent Mode1 graphic though.

QuoteWild Streets
totally... it even don't look as good as it should

QuoteBut ESWAT has 2 different versions, the 64k and the 128k version are like 2 different games. Are they both terrible?
Well, quite like Double Dragon ?
Don't know, the port was perhaps too ambitious like many Arcade ports from this era...

You know, they tried too hard to get the sprites almost the same size as on Arcade but of course, CPC couldn't do it...

Final Fight ?


QuoteVigilante
It looks so bad...



I suspect a lot of Graphical ports for some of those Arcade games to be straigtly ported on Atari ST with no handwork after the automatic re-dimension.

Anbd too often a badly used palette too.


Quote(Domark)
Pit Fighter
Badlands
Super Space Invaders (how can you fuck up Space Invaders???)

(US Gold)
Line Of Fire (utterly unplayable and dreadful looking. Crashes on Plus machines too)
ESWAT (Actually many many people hate this and looks/plays rather dreadful... but I strangely kinda like it?!)
Streetfighter (well remembered)
those guys should be exterminated for crime against youth.

Xyphoe

You're right ... there was a 64k and 128k version of ESWAT.

It's on the same tape and disk though ... basically the 64k version is squashed down vertically and looks truly dreadful.

Shame as that (and also Final Fight) are rumoured to be Richard Aplin games!

Jase

AmSoccer
A game less technically advanced than pong,
Scrolling worse than... um... cystoscopy (sorry!)?
Sound? Beep & Static interference...
I thought I had cleared this from my mind, but it just came back.


awergh

How could you possibly consider Caves Of Doom for the worst game ever list its a perfectly fun game if you use the joystick

anyway
Supergran is probably the worst game ever for me.
Flightpath 737 isn't great but I think Ace of Aces is much worse
Rig Attack is pretty unplayable if you want to actually get any points
Fireman Sam apparently isnt great but I haven't been bothered to load it up to find out.

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