[game_preservation] Worst game ever made

[Jim Leonard]

On 1/16/2010 10:58 AM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Never heard of the ET game? :)


ET has an incredibly bad rap.  Howard Scott Warshaw was given six weeks 
-- SIX WEEKS -- from 0% to 100% completion to get the game finished in 
time for the xmas season.  The game has no bugs and clearly-defined 
gameplay.  This is the same person who gave us the Raiders of the Lost 
Ark game for 2600 (also of significant historical context) as well as 
the built-for-the-technics-of-the-system Yar's Revenge.  E.T. was not a 
stellar game, but I hate to see it bashed.  There aren't many people who 
could create a finished 2600 game in six weeks.


> There are downright incredibly bad games released on likely every

> console and operating system. Just takes some time to find them - many

> won't have been heavily reviewed or widely released I bet.


Any system with more than 10 games released has at least one horrible 
game.  The inverse is true:  Any system with less than 10 games released 
has at least one good game ;-)

The only system to violate this rule was the Atari Jaguar, which had 
about 5-6 decent games out of over 50.  I have never had such a 
depressing experience gaming as I had with the Jaguar.  I had the 
misfortune of playing Tempest 2000 first, which set my expectations, 
then saw every single game I purchased after that get worse and worse...
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