Worst game sequel

Yep, that was the game I was going to offer as a poor sequel.

Asteroids - Classic Golden Age Vector
Asteroids Deluxe - Awesome Sequel w/ so many vector upgrades (mirror, blacklight etc) to the basic 'roid concept
Space Duel - Evolved Asteroids in color vectors with geometric shapes and dual player modes
Blasteroids - Poo Poo Caca Mukor Raster Spinner Crappity Crap
I thought Blasteroids was awesome until Mukor talks. that Atari Games speech had applications where it was done right, and then there's that garbage.

I fixed a Super Zaxxon for a guy years ago. I was more focused on the fact I was working in his garage in the winter time and didn't actually play the game. I had no idea it was faster Zaxxon with a Pokemon character instead of the angry box thing for the boss.

Super Pac-Man was a game I would play when I was little (I'm talking like 3 years old) and I thought eating food instead of dots and the Super pellets were fun. in contemporary times of the last 10 years of my life it only resonates with me by way of me figuring out how to make it work in free play arcades without the coin switch lockup thing (which going back to being 3 years old, I never understood why it would go into WAKA! WAKA! WAKA! WAKA! mode)

you'll find a lot of material from that post-crash transition period of 1984-1985, mostly emanating from Japanese brands, which is where my involvement began. 40 years of this nonsense, dudes.
 
Double Dragon 3. Hands down.

YES! I remember the first time I saw that game when it came out. My first impression was "WTF; you have to buy power ups with quarters?"

Maybe the first arcade "pay to win" system ever; we lost our way since then. Now we have $10 virtual doll dress up items....
 
YES! I remember the first time I saw that game when it came out. My first impression was "WTF; you have to buy power ups with quarters?"

Maybe the first arcade "pay to win" system ever; we lost our way since then. Now we have $10 virtual doll dress up items....

even without the pay for power ups option, the game was nothing like Double Dragon. It was so bad that it killed the arcade franchise. To be fair, subsequent sequels except super double dragon and double dragon advance were pretty much crap too. They just announced another double dragon game last night and it looks crappy too. :(
 
even without the pay for power ups option, the game was nothing like Double Dragon. It was so bad that it killed the arcade franchise. To be fair, subsequent sequels except super double dragon and double dragon advance were pretty much crap too. They just announced another double dragon game last night and it looks crappy too. :(
Don't forget the crappy 1on1 fighting game on MVS; poor Double Dragon deserved better.
 
even without the pay for power ups option, the game was nothing like Double Dragon. It was so bad that it killed the arcade franchise. To be fair, subsequent sequels except super double dragon and double dragon advance were pretty much crap too. They just announced another double dragon game last night and it looks crappy too. :(
I ventured down that rabbit hole looking for info on the development of DDII which lead to DDIII. If I recall Technos dumped the third one on another studio (never heard of) while they were working on Combatribes - which is the real DDIII to me.

The only good I can say about the third is I like the Stage 1 music... that's it.

My buddy had a route circa this time; couple of instances, I went with him to his local distributor to pick up a game, pcb, whatever. They had a lobby where you can pick up flyers for the newly released games - DDIII was one I grabbed. I swear I don't recall crossing paths with one till a few years later. It was a miserable conversion (kit might've been barebones) but what a said sight. That was only the time I encountered one again.

Think that sums up the popularity of DDIII...
 
even without the pay for power ups option, the game was nothing like Double Dragon. It was so bad that it killed the arcade franchise. To be fair, subsequent sequels except super double dragon and double dragon advance were pretty much crap too. They just announced another double dragon game last night and it looks crappy too. :(
They got to fight along side the battletoads…
 
Millipede. Centipede was such a perfect pure adrenaline game. Trying to add a bunch of clunky bells and whistles (DDT Bombs, the bug that marches in sideways, Mushrooms with Peyronie's disease, the screen and mushrooms advancing downward, everything sped up) to an already perfect game kind of made it a shitty game. I know there's a lot of Millipede lovers out there, and some will say it's better than Centipede because it's faster and more frantic, but I say that's the exact reason it sucks. Centipede was perfection, Millipede just tries too hard.
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Super Zaxxon.

tomservo is right on here. It hurts my soul to say it and admit it. By the way, I love Zaxxon. It was the game that was always marvelous and amazing to play. It was the first real arcade game that I mastered. I became quite good. I remember my Nana saying to me at a mini-golf place here in Connecticut when I was 13. She said, "You want to get good at this game or go to the diner and get some pie?" and I said, I want to get great at Zaxxon. She handed me 5 bucks, and 20 quarters later I was up to level three killing Zaxxon...well guys and gals thanks for space...

I saw Super Zaxxon and just seeing it it blew me away. It was at Showcase Pizza in Danbury. I was in awe. I put my first quarter in and was like "What the hell?" Did they put the wrong dip switch up or I am playing the attract mode? Why is this so stupidly fast?. How disgusting. I have one next to my Zaxxon but to this day it aggravates me. They blew it. It's so fast it's not just not fun, but annoying. Days I think that I will get better, bet every try I get angrier. It looks neat and cool to own...but dang....
My daughter and I play four games against each other almost daily on our cocktail with an ArcadeSD. She picks two games, and I pick two games. She has picked Zaxxon every night for the last couple of weeks, and because of this, Zaxxon has grown on me.

We sometimes try to play Super Zaxxon and it is unplayable. Can Super Zaxxon be slowed down? I used the search feature and it has been asked but with no real answer. If yes, then maybe it could be a better sequel but right now......... unplayable
 
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Any further Street Fighters beyond Championshio Edition.

FWIW, I prefer SF World Warrior, so they could have stopped there
I don't play fighting games but I think Street Fighter: The Movie is probably the worst sequel in that regard. Even worse, they apparently wanted to make it the official Street Fighter 3 at some point.
 
So the finalists appear to be:
Millipede
Joust 2
Spy Hunter 2
Hopping Mappy
Dig Dug 2

These all had beloved original versions with the top 3 being the most loved and hence the biggest decline in crappy, but I personally love Mappy the most and hence Hopping Mappy is the worst to me.

I think Super Zaxxon is disqualified because Zaxxon was so horrible.
Blasteroids was the 3rd sequel, but the first 2 were great.
The fighting games had too many sequels to keep straight or care.

The one not mentioned that belongs on the list is Mr. Do! It had 3 sequels, all of them sucked ass. And Mr. Do! is a masterpiece of a game.
 
Millipede has no place on this thread, at all.
Super Pacman is the most annoying game I've ever played, that siren 🚨!
I recently played a friend's MK4, I wasn't impressed I think MK2 was far better.
Operation Wolf 3, was an epic disappointment.
 
So the finalists appear to be:
Millipede
Joust 2
Spy Hunter 2
Hopping Mappy
Dig Dug 2

These all had beloved original versions with the top 3 being the most loved and hence the biggest decline in crappy, but I personally love Mappy the most and hence Hopping Mappy is the worst to me.

I think Super Zaxxon is disqualified because Zaxxon was so horrible.
Blasteroids was the 3rd sequel, but the first 2 were great.
The fighting games had too many sequels to keep straight or care.

The one not mentioned that belongs on the list is Mr. Do! It had 3 sequels, all of them sucked ass. And Mr. Do! is a masterpiece of a game.
I don't know, I kinda like Wild Ride, never could get very far, but I liked it.
 
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