A handful of game developers, both professional and independent,, or even playable. Game mods and homebrew creations exist that can put the worst fanfic in perspective. Your internet and cell phone aren't even safe. And, in some cases, even the consoles are better off sacrificed to your trash compactor. Important Notes: • Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not sufficient. Hard as it is to imagine at times,, no matter how small a niche it is.

It has to fail to appeal even to that niche to qualify as this. • A game isn't horrible just because,,,, or any other. Nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com and Metacritic. Note is a prime example of a perfectly functional game with a ridiculous number of negative Amazon.com reviews - at least 90% of which are nothing more than complaints about the game's DRM system.

There needs to be independent evidence, such as professional reviews, to list it. (Though once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review(s).).

For example, if you use Mario Sprites, in the Credits or game info put 'All sprites property of Nintendo (C)' Your game may even be subject to copyright if you edit the sprites or even fully color them all! Some links on Google lead to viruses or some sort of third-party software download (Click Here to download the Keylogger.

• Active Enterprises is mostly infamous for creating, a compilation of 52 different 'games' — but only by the loosest definition of the word. These games have a lot of, sloppy controls, bad level designs, etc. You couldn't tell that to the guys at Active; not only did they expect to make $200 a pop off of this garbage, but they also had plans to make one of the games ( Cheetahmen, perhaps the most mind-wrenchingly terrible side-scrolling ever burned to an EEPROM) into a rivaling the likes of, including a line of action figures and a Saturday-morning cartoon. Well, they weren't 'plans' so much as 'pie-in-the-sky dreaming with absolutely no grounding in reality' but, much like the legless boy who dreams of running in the Olympics, it's somewhat endearing in a way to see somebody hoping to make so much out of such a crappy game. (Note that has actually been accomplished.) If you want to know why this was such a trainwreck, shines a light on the project's dubious history. • The nadir of the already loathed package is generally considered to be Micro Mike, which is almost unplayable. It is nearly impossible to beat its three sparse stages without tool assistance, due to its insanely claustrophobic level design and merciless enemy placement, combined with Micro Mike's uncontrollably fast speed and status.

• In the game's defense, it did have in Ninja Assault, and the Non Human. The Cheetahmen background music has been well received, achieving a cult status amongst gamers and the Japanese. Unfortunately, Action 52 is the worst possible place to try to listen to that background music because the game can't play the music and the sound effects at the same time. • uploaded it to his channel. It has poor voice acting with stereotypical English and Hispanic accents, hints that the 'games' might not be that good, but the animation was decent, and the sad thing is, they still clearly put more effort into the advert than the actual 'games'. • Cheetahmen 2, the planned-but-unreleased sequel, was programmed into cartridges while (presumably they were prototypes). It had the same clunky Action 52 jumping, waves of nigh-undodgeable and, the inability to crouch or shoot while jumping, and a which makes Level 4 unbeatable.

Even if you use a or hacked ROM (or you do what the AVGN did and slightly tilt the Cheetahmen 2 cartridge a little bit) to skip to the last two levels, there's programmed. • People like also noted that in the NES Cheetahman game for Action 52, if you go down a certain hole that takes you to a 'Level 9' (which is just a room that holds a 1-Up and an exit in either direction) and then go to the right door, it takes you to a 'Level 10' that's. It's likely a thing that was originally cut due to strict deadlines, but to Vinny, it was essentially the first time he ever saw a game basically.

• The Genesis version of Action 52 was only published by Active, as actual development was done by Farsight Technologies (developers of the Game Party series and ). Their version of Action 52 is still an overall failure,. • Arcane Raise is a 'company' that downright abuses the ease-of-use of various programs to churn out games with as little effort as possible: • The Arcane Raise series, made using, is a shining example of how to not use the engine. All the graphics are stock assets, most of the sound effects and music are stock too, the plot and characters are weak, and the are overly frequent. The games also feature zero-effort achievements (completing the tutorial grants you access to a long hallway that grants one achievement for each tile) to appeal to lazy achievement hunters who only care about having as many achievements as possible or spelling funny messages in their achievement showcases.

The games' worst sin, however, is that it sells characters and items as separate DLC, just to squeeze some more money out of people unfortunate enough to buy these games. Given that many far superior titles are available for free elsewhere, there is no reason to buy these. Watch a video of it. • Glitch Simulator 2018 is probably the first time where a game is horrible for its lack of glitches. The concept of a game deliberately filled with is interesting, but. Instead, what you get is an extremely generic made using the 'Game Guru' engine, and using only the default assets said engine comes with.

The game contains a single map filled with a few zombies and assassins that you can kill with a small selection of bland weapons, and a handful of buildings that cannot be entered. See gameplay and criticism.

The game had so little effort put into it that the person who made the linked video recreated the entire game in only 12 minutes and. Geico Defensive Driving Test Online. Also in the series are Suicide Simulator and ISIS Simulator, which are the same generic FPS games with an offensive premise shoehorned in for no reason.

Entertainment was a low-budget company who mainly used licences that were on sale for absurdly low prices and made game adaptations based on them. While not all of the contract developers they hired were awful, all of the games those companies did for that team were, which is why people should thank Sony for making sure those titles were Europe-exclusive.

Some of their most infamous works include: • Their game, which is a completely failed attempt at an FPS with generic and dull environments, stiff animations, sloppy shooting mechanics, lack of voice acting, countless glitches and an ugly PS1-grade player model of Axel Foley that does not even vaguely resemble. Everything is covered in, though Giant Bomb takes a as well. •: The Video Game, which was hailed by many UK critics as the worst game on the PS2, is basically a compilation of a few awful mini-games which were blatant rip-offs at best and totally pointless at worst.

Anything you need to know about it is summed up nicely. • Their version of (for those not familiar, the PS2 version) also applies, due to its very unintuitive gameplay, horribly outdated graphics that make the game look like it came out on the Nintendo 64, very repetitive level design and with the film. Took a look at it in his Home Alone video game journey • Code Monkeys was a company known for collaborating with to release games centered around Dingo Pictures films (exclusively for of all things). These games were nothing more than a mediocre activity center with puzzles and paint programs involved note the company constantly recycles the base for their games, as well as watching the film they were based on.

Normally, companies who make these type of games would not be here because most of them aren't horrible, but what made them so notorious is the fact that Dingo Pictures makes, and they have their own spot on the. Go look them up on and witness the. Well, You gotta love the three frame-per-second walking cycle, the reused voice actors and that they aren't even pretending they aren't copying the character designs. And since when is Thumper the size of a horse? • ◊: The and the 2.

• Their most infamous 'games' are English dubs of ripoffs from (who are also covered on ). But many of their actual games are worse. • Dalmatians 3, and he considers it the worst game he's ever played, even worse than Coronation Street: The Mystery of the Missing Hotpot Recipe. It's not hard to see why, either. The game takes every notorious aspect of shovelware and somehow ratchets it up to new levels of horrible. The box art is meant to look like a sequel to Disney's 101 Dalmatians series, but features characters who.

Instead, the main feature of the game is a 45-minute video that is so badly written, animated, and voiced that it makes the look good in comparison. The Sims 2 Hacks. The rest of the game consists of mind-numbingly easy minigames without an ounce of creativity in them. To top it all off, the game is so poorly coded that it takes quite a while to load even the language-selection screen, and it spins so fast inside a PS2 that the game can never play again if left on for too long.

If you're wondering, 'too long' in this case refers to (more-or-less) watching the entire movie. • It seriously says a lot about the quality of their games when there have been reported cases of PS2 consoles that have simply stopped working upon attempting to play one of their games.

To quote a YouTube comment. 'I actually own Animal Soccer World and let me tell you it's a piece of shit. We actually had to get a new PS2 because of it - our first one stopped working after I played it for the first time.'

• Aside from the collaborations, they were also responsible for The Simpsons Skateboarding, a third-rate knockoff of the games with terrible controls and poor level design among other problems. This game also got a bashing by Caddicarus seen. • Color Dreams was an infamous and prolific developer of unlicensed NES games. Many of their beat-em-up games share the same gameplay, with unresponsive controls, near-zero attack range, etc.

They eventually changed their name to Bunch Games because of the poor reputation of their video games, and later on became a Christian company known as Wisdom Tree.

If you only want to rip them can I suggest an emulator instead, even vanilla VBA has a decent tile, map and BG viewer inbuilt. Saves you scrambling to find the palette as well (you will still probably have to scan through the in memory palettes mind but that is a 16 choice slider rather than the entire rom plus encoding methods and worse dynamic palettes (rapid changes of colour- Mr Driller multi blocks being a good example are often done by this). If you want to up the ante here most GBA roms bundle like data together so with a little bit of work you can usually track down later stuff if you have the location of early sprites. There have been a couple of compression tools that can do scan roms for graphics but I reckon the one Heran Bago is thinking of is unLZ-GBA: It is pretty good but I reckon crystaltile2 takes it these days for BIOS compatible compression searches and if you can forgo graphics there are others now as well (romhacking.net has most of them).