[game_preservation] Worst game ever made

[Andrew Armstrong]

I was only picking on the classic example, Jim, and I'd say that Martin 
may be right, the gameplay isn't exactly knowable without a manual, and 
it doesn't make a lick of sense :) There are obviously worse Atari games 
(this being before big licences and so forth), but it was probably the 
major one that got returned en mass.

In any case, Big Rigs isn't alone as a terribly incomplete PC game. It's 
just a lot more games means it's harder to find the really bad ones 
(hell, it's hard to find the really good games sometimes!).

Andrew

On 16/01/2010 23:36, Jim Leonard wrote:

> 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.