Let's Debate the Best Arcade Game Ever!

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HAA HAA The title is supposed to be:
"Let's Debate the Worst Arcade Game Ever!" Woops! I wish I could edit the title.

Ok. You can only pick one game here. Not a list, no runners up - ONE GAME. In your opinions what is the worst single arcade game of all time and why?

Yah I stole that from the other thread :D I really love games, so I can't think og a bad one.
 
Why didnt my vote for Vs Balloon Fight get counted?
 
Primal Rage.... wait... that's worst CABINET ART... uh... Logger... gotta go with Logger...
 
I know this isn't fair but a game i would never have would be Space Invaders. So boring but games i played that I think are bad and could be the worst:

Buggy Challenge
 
I know this isn't fair but a game i would never have would be Space Invaders. So boring but games i played that I think are bad and could be the worst:

Buggy Challenge

Yes SI very is boring compared to Galaxian. I like Galaga better.

Too bad the new Galaga sucks, and Space Invaders Extreme is AWESOME!
 
bottom of the 9th.

THREAD OVER, MODS please close this thread now


no need to explain why, if you play it, you will know why.
 
HRNGHHHHH.

Rhythm Nation.

Ran into one in Richmond a couple of days ago, the cabinet is purple and hideous. It has an oversized marquee with mainly blank space and a few stock art looking unnamed "characters" and the CP consists of five oversized buttons with horrible microswitches that don't register half of the time unless you slam them. Gameplay is much like Pop N Music, but suckier. The game consists of hitting the non-colored buttons 1-4 based on their order to activate little pedestals at the bottom of the screen that bounce balls into the air. The problem is that, infuriatingly, you have to wait for them to land on the bottom part of the pedestal (hitting it slightly sooner and still hitting the ball does not count) and if you wait too long (read: 1/5 of a second) the balls roll off and you lose. Once you get the hang of slamming the buttons a second before it seems you should need too, the only challenge comes in getting through the monotony. The area on either side of the playfield is full of single-color patterns and "characters" that look they broke their way out of budget hell that "dance" "to the music" by flipping the same image horizontally to an entirely different rhythm than the song and then switching to the next "character" in the line. I should mention the "characters" are composed of a badly drawn teddy bear, a black stereotype with an afro and rapper bling, a teenage girl with freaky hair and a stereo with legs. The songs you can "play" (very loosely do I use the word play as it's hardly any different between songs) include such MIDI hits as "Genius", "Wizard", "Afro", "Bikini", "Love" and "Bubblegum". These are all synthesized songs that sound like they came from an MS DOS program and have no lyrics or meaning whatsoever, and they all sound the same except "Mastermind" which has an obnoxious off-key organ. I can only pity the people that were locked in a room with their Apple IIs and a copy of "Creative Jukebox"... but I pity the people who have to hear this garbage worse. Or maybe I pity the company more for having so little of a budget that they have to make their own crappy songs and can't even afford public domain music. The game at least gives out tickets, but the ticket return is right where the player's right leg/crotch should be and scared the crap out of me by randomly dispensing 20 tickets in the middle of a song (I thought a huge snake was crawling up my leg or something). The game is quite athletic, however, as it often tells you to hit all four buttons at once which I took to mean slamming the control panel with your arm held horizontally as I don't have four hands. I tried using my freakishly long fingers but I couldn't bang it hard enough. All in all, it's a crappy music game with crappy music and crappy gameplay housed in a crappy cabinet that's a piece of crap. I should also mention that having knowledge of the programming program Game Maker, it looks like it was all made in Game Maker, by a five year old no less. This game proves that Ice should stick to making Skeeball machines, or at least hire me to make their Game Maker games- I made a SHMUP one boring day last year that blows this game away. It's not arcade worthy, but it's sure as hell better than this abomination. Games made in the past two years should NOT look or play inferior to games made in the early 80s.

http://www.mountaincoin.com/Merchan...=MCMD&Product_Code=01-53769&Category_Code=arc

At least the price is right.
 
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Actually you're right, I can't put that as the worst game ever... it was too groundbreaking of a title, even if one doesn't like the gameplay...

I'll have to think of another...

Yes the game play sucks, just like Dragons Lair, but both are so mesmerizing that they are awesome in spite of their bad game play.
 
Already at 17 posts and nobody has said any of the following argument starters:
Tron
Computer Space
Pac Man
Galaga


If anyone has a mame setup, break out the game "I'm Sorry" if it isn't the worst game ever, it has to be pretty close...
 
A 3-way tie between the 3 "extra" games on my JROK Defender:

Splat
Bubbles
Blaster

I have given each of them a decent try, and fail to see the point of any of them. Utter crap, all of them.

The other 6 games rock, however :)
 
KANGAROO is by far the worst game EVER!!!

lets have a kangaroo with boxing gloves hop slowly across the screen or climbing ladders while avoiding monkeys throwing stuff at ya. also, lets give it graphics that are on par with atari 2600 games of the time.
 
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