Some of these are hilarious- Ninja Hamster?
Heh, I remember Zombies Ate My Neighbors. I’m kind of proud to say that’s the only one on this list that I’ve played. Seriously, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together? What were they on?
Attack of the Mutant Camels! Wow, that takes me back.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors is now a band.
What, no love for Spellcasting 101: Sorcerors Get All The Girls?
I loved Zombies Ate My Neighbors! My mom and I used to play that together when I was a wee Soul. Aww, what fuzzy memories.
And man oh man, do I wish I had gotten the chance to play Ninja Golf.
Years ago I was at ECTS and I saw a title for a kid’s game that made my jaw drop. It was about two forest animals – a skunk and a beaver – and revolved around sports competitions in the forest. The title?
“Stinky and Beaver’s Wood O’lympics”
What, no “You are empty”? That’s got to be the worst title I’ve seen in ages.
I want to play Ninja Hamster!
I really expected to see Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie.
Those are good. Oddly enough, I think my favorite is the understated Astro Fang: Super Machine. Nothing fancy, mind you, just good ol’ fashioned “cool” words thrown together somewhat randomly. Perfect.
Although, it’s hard not to love Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. Sorta leaves you speechless.
Some of those games were quality, like Spanky’s Quest and Zombies Ate My Neighbors
I can attest that Ship Simulator SUCKED. I’d imagine Bus Driver is even worse.
At one point all the Ogre battle series had titles of Queen songs and lyrics…not that it makes any more sense.
Billy the Wizard was originally supposed to be the even more rip-offy title Barry Hatter.
Here’s another list of bad video game titles which covers a lot of the same ground, but has some other interesting ones not seen here, including the wonderfully redundant Divine Divinity and the rather intriguing No One Can Stop Mr. Domino! Too bad the box art of Phalanx isn’t a title…
Tongue Of The Fatman is a great game. It was rereleased with some minor changes as Mondu’s Fight Palace for the Genesis and SNES. I love this game and wish I could get it to run on my current machine. You can bet on your fights and buy weapons, safety devices, and performance enhancing drugs.
Leisure Suit Larry-Passionate Patti In Pursuit Of The Pulsating Pectorals
Wonderfully written, challenging, funny.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors-
Fun fun fun. Try to save all the humans on the level before they get killed or eaten. Fight with squirt guns, ball shooters, and sling shots. Distract enemies with inflatable clowns.
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I swear to Cecil I am not making this up. I spotted this winner in what was clearly a re-used cabinet in an arcade in Florida.
Violence Fight
As I recall, it was jokingly named after the designer’s favorite radio station, KMEL. I believe shooting the camels (or was it something else?) gave you the same number of points as the station’s frequency.
So it might have been poorly named but at least there was a reason for it.
They let a good one get away with their failure to mention Rock Star Ate My Hamster!
Irritating Stick…heheh.
That list is suspect as it has Jumpman on it. Jumpman was a fine example of a game with limited graphics, bad soundtrack, and fascinatingly diverse and complicated game play. On one level you may be avoiding robots, on another you’ll be avoiding copies of yourself that spawn whenever you grab a dot. Yes you jump, but you do a whole hell of a lot else and have one hell of a lot of fun.