I remember seeing a longplay of the arcade version of Double Dragon 3 and staring in disbelief as players had to spend real money to buy skill sets. Of course, that tactic is all too common now in gaming because of loot crates and DLC.
Something crazy though, the Amiga version is arguably the best version of the game out there. They had access to the code for the arcade version and removed a bunch of the stupid crap that was on there. Only issue was that it didn't have music in the levels which was annoyingly common with the Amiga.
I understand some of the criticisms but at least in this video I didn’t see the man block...not even once. You can’t play that game and not block. At least that’s what I remember about it it was many years ago, but mastered it. You have to block, and it’s got its own kind of rhythm to it.
Oh, good, I was hoping Slaughtersport would be on here. I like to imagine the two guys that made Mortal Kombat played Slaughtersport and said “we can do this, but good.”
Also, it's a pre-SF2 fighting game. All pre-SF2 fighting games are terrible, as far as I know. The Genesis has others. Budokhan was also a pre-SF2 fighting game ported from PC, and it is very bad. And Street Smarts, which was a pre-SF2 arcade game. Also terrible. There's also no shortage of bad post-SF2 fighting games on Genesis, like Rise of the Robots and Time Killers.
@@FedorovAvtomat I’ve heard of that game but never actually played it, I may have to check that out on MAME. I’ve been trying to think of good 1-on-1 fighting games before the SF2/MK/Fatal Fury fighting game renaissance (all 3 of those games had overlapping development) and haven’t come up with much. Maybe Punch-Out! if that counts, but it isn’t even 2 player. The arcade version of Pit Fighter isn’t terrible, but it isn’t exactly great either
I want to hear “bollocks” being used in the next episode. Or even “the bollocks”. Some context in case SLX is unaware: Bollocks = shite The bollocks = amazing
I remember when my brother and I rented Back to the Future III for an entire weekend + the following bank holiday. Man, that was so painful that we could just look at each other and cry...
I really respect your compassion for the developers of these games, and how many of the problems that befell these games were a result of extenuating circumstances. A very thoughtful touch that makes your videos special, even if you’re doing something as simple as roasting some bad games. Keep it up, man
@Karl Burnett You didn't miss anything, it was a port of an arcade weapon vs fighter that was trying to capitalize on the blood n gore that was popular at the time.
Me: "He's STARTING with Batman Forever? What the Hell is worse than that?" Me as this video went on: "Oh... oh, no, that's right. Oof I must have blocked that one from my memory because I forgot it existed and, yeah, Holy crap that game is horrible." I respect that you don't want to bash these games and disrespect the people who made them. Merely pointing out mistakes and flaws. I feel the same way about movies. With the exception of modern ones because they are in your face that their agenda not artistic vision is what they care about. But I love a lot of old movies and B-movies and if I can see passion in the project I'll usually look past anything wrong with it. However there are movies that are clearly cash grabs or the actors are phoning it in or the director clearly has no clue what they are doing where I must conclude it's a terrible film.
The game might actually be better than the movie but that's not saying much. The soundtrack of the Megadrive version was what made me switch the game of after 2 levels.
@@mentalphilanthropist35 yes I subscribe to that account too, I watched long kiss goodnight after the documentary as I'd not seen it for over 20 years 🙈
That game is an absolute acid trip. I gotta say, I had fun with the level select code in there. It's interesting sampling the levels, but not playing the whole thing through.
Batman Forever was the only one of these games I'd be comfortable saying had any effort put into it, and that's only because the graphics looked kinda cool at the time.
I was a broke kid stuck with Batman Forever for Genesis. I mustve been 9 or 10, but i remember having some fun with that game. I remember getting a chuckle with the item select voice-overs.
What an unholy group of games. Keep doing these, it's always fun to remember the bad games too, i had the terminator (1) on game gear...it was terrible, but i had to stick with it because i was poor...well i still am lol.
Target Earth was very hard at the beginning, I'm pretty sure that first escort mission caused a lot of people to give up on it. When you get past it, the game opens up. Your Mech gets more abilities, weapons, armor etc... it is very limited in that first stage. Definitely understand that it could be someone's least favorite; it took me a good while before getting past the first stage, plenty of other games out there that didn't frustrate as much.
To be fair, Target Earth isn't that bad of a game once you managed to get past the first stage. Stil, you gotta be tough enough to go through with it from start to finish!
@Orzuum Agree 100%. I first got the Genesis port and then later got one of those compilation discs that came with the arcade original. I was genuinely surprised to find myself enjoying it less than the Genesis version (though I still had some fun with it).
I did have some fun with Terminator 2. It's not a goog game by all means, but it follows the movie pretty good. The later stages give you a machine gun that makes the levels much more playable. :)
I agree, not a good game at all, but I still loved it as a kid. At John's house you can shoot the alarm, giving you time to explore the house without any enemies. At the mall, cops leave you alone unless you hurt/kill anyone. Loved how closely (mostly) it followed the movie, and little details like checking the answering machine at John's house.
T2 is actualy not a real bad game , I have play it back in the days on the SNES . If you know how the driving works , the game becomes easy .. so easy that I had completed it over 40 times and every time in under 45 minutes ..... I thinkmy record was under 25 minutes .
Back to the Future III was actually done back when Arena Entertainment was a part of the british game company known as Image Works who also did the TMNT arcade ports for home computers.
This is a great topic for a video. Your channel's whole identity is talking about how kickass SEGA games are. That makes a video like this unique. Otherwise, a "these games suck!" video would just be cliche.
Dark Castle was originally released on the classic Macintosh. It was actually a pretty good game on Macintosh and controlled very well. You used the keyboard to move, jump, pick up things, and kneel while you used the mouse to aim and throw rocks.
I remember my grandma spending £80 on Toki and Fantasia. I was so dissapointed with those two. We've all been there as gamers. Great content as always SLX.
Mr SegaLordX, thank you for the warning in the intro. I usually watch your stuff with my little kids, but this is one for just daddy to watch. It’s nice that you’re considerate of your viewers’ varying circumstances in this way. Very respectful. Keep up the great work; loving this channel!
Sword of Sodan was more exciting when it came out on Amiga. By the time it was ported to Genesis, it already hadn't aged well. Back when EA thought porting it's Amiga catalogue to Genesis was a good idea.
I think a fair amount of effort went into Terminator 2, it was somewhat different to other action games on the system at the time, perhaps the high difficulty let it down, I found it way more pleasurable than Last Action Hero and Robocop 3 from around the same time for example. A lot of the time it seems like good ideas are hampered by a technologic ceiling.
Dark Castle visuals remind me of that arcade mess called "Special Forces" in 1985 which is basically a game I made in MS Paint as a child that someone put on an arcade PCB
Loved the "good night" was i wrong. I knew a man when i was a kid who used to call us "turkeys" when we cause trouble. If he ever called us "roast turkeys" that meant he was really upset.
You last bit in this video has given you major points, coming from a game developer of 35 years (and creator of many a Genesis game). It seems really easy for people to crap on the hard work of others, without any clue or respect. It's good to hear someone acknowledging that... even for a collection of "bad games".
The game I most feel your pain with is Sword of Sodan! It feels like I’m in the same slow motion as in a nightmare where I’m running from a killer and can’t get away meanwhile he runs as fast as he wants.
I still remember playing Dark Castle on my dad's Macintosh. It was in black and white(despite being on a color monitor) and, at the time, there was just nothing like it on the Mac. It's slightly less irritating to play on the Mac just due to the mouse being used to aim your rock throwing. All the sound effects are still there, and the quirks like getting dizzy, running into a wall, tripping, etc, etc. I feel like if they completely retooled the game as a platformer instead of trying to port the Mac version as accurately as possible, it may have been saved...
I clearly remember buyind Dark Castle. During my first play I knew it was money wasted and I traded mine in at Funcoland days later. I never even bothered playing past the first stage.
It feels like I just watched a game boot in reverse order with that disclaimer right before the intro. Then again the disclaimer using streets of rage game over music then kicking back to restart also feels like a rage quit moment. Amazing how a short piece of music can dredge up memories of me beating my head against the wall that was two player !ania difficulty.
IMO, the one redeeming quality of Awesome Possum is the fact that Dr. Machino is voiced by Doug Lawrence, the voice of Plankton and Filburt the Turtle.
Bad games are the same as bad movies bad, TV shows and bad food. If nothing else it helps you to truly understand how good some things are in comparison. It really helps you to fully appreciate something good and realize how special they are.
HE SAID SHITE!!!! I love him now and forever. I never heard anyone else say that but me and my family. But here this stranger is. I’m subscribing. And loving. Thank you.
Back in the early 2000s, I bought a used copy of Double Dragon 3 from Media Play (remember them?), without doing any research. I figured, hey it's a DD game, it's gotta be pretty good, right?Holy hell. I played it once and never touched it again.
I agree with you on all of them. But I must say that for some mysterious reason several other identical to those ones games never get such a scorn. Mick And Mack Global Gladiators (one weapon, no bombs, no upgrades, totally similar stage design on all levels), Zool (the same ultrasensitive controls as in Awesome Possum)...
@@zzzae how do you make a fighting game where player 1 cannot select any other charecter other than the cover bot...I also forgot to add Shaq-Fu and Revolution X to the crap list
Arrgh. I often conflate Rise of the Robots with Heavy Nova, this was also released for the Genesis back then. Everyone was going gaga for the graphics back then, both these games had fighting robots that used 3D rendered sprites, the gameplay was boring and tedious though. RotR was originally an Amiga/PC title an relied on one button joystick controls, in 1994 several years after SF2 one button isn't enough. Heavy Nova had side scrolling and vs fighting gameplay. 🤦♂️
i bought the MD version at the time, based on a "91/100" rating from CVG (yes i still remeber it, surely they got paid to that), mine was really a bad decision....
T2 gets too much unnecessary hate. Far from perfect, but is close to the film unlike many, many licensed games. Driving parts were a serious nightmare, though, lol. I always appreciate when devs choose to nix the hopping and bopping for games that have a character that isn't meant to do that, e.g. Robocop for NES, T2 for Sega. Not every 2D sidescroller's meant to have platforming jumping.
Excellent observation at the there regarding developers and the reasons games come out so bad. That was really insightful! Good going man, keep up the good work
LJN and Acclaim are one and the same. Notice the rainbow on Acclaim ? "MCA agreed to sell LJN to Acclaim Entertainment, for an undisclosed sum paid in cash and stock, on March 13, 1990."
Alien 3 on Genesis was pretty good for an Acclaim movie license game. Also, the other Terminator 2 for the Menacer gun was about as good a light gun arcade game port you could reasonably expect for a peripheral that was not a true light gun.
@@SteveBrandon Alien 3 I recall as being pretty good. Unfortunately I never really got to play with a menacer back in the day. Also, I didn't realize the menacer wasn't a "true" light gun- did it work similarly to the super scope, or something? I seem to be learning all kinds of stuff through this thread, you guys rock!
@@hjalmarjohnson5846 I never got the Super Scope but the Menacer had an infrared receiver that you'd put on top of the television and I presume the Super Scope was the same. The Menacer worked pretty well with the T2: Arcade Game but it seemed like a step down from the Sega Light Phaser on the Master System, a proper light gun (which you could hold point blank in front of the CRT television screen).
Man those were some stinkers. I agree on all of your picks, except Batman Forever. That game also started with a bad impression but somehow I persisted and kept on trying, figuring out new moves and what the items did and as I got better, so did my opinion of the game. It was hard as balls but worth the investment.
Swod of Sodan was an Amiga Commodore game port.The original one was a graphical and musical marvel for the time togheter with Shadow of the Beast (ported to Genesis too).
I don't know where all the Sega T2 hate comes from. Spread like wildfire youtube. I rented it back in the day and was surprised how close to the film it was. I thought Arnold's sprite and sprite animation looked cool. I wonder what gaming mags back in the day, like GamePro, rated this. I'm willing to bet it wasn't hated when it was released.
@@bmshaven I rented T2 and loathed it. Only fun I got out of it was the stupid looking crook neck the sprite makes when you jump, like he's hanging from a rope.
This video reminded me of the Angry Videogame Nerd. LOL. Yeah, I agree the developers aren't the ones to blame. Budget and time constraints were. The developers were mostly talented and were the one who made great games when proper budget and scale was given. And sometimes they were literally the same ones who collaborated in some of the great games we love.
Thanks for the viewer discretion at the beginning. Sometimes I like to listen while driving the kids to and from the bus stop and need to know if I can.
If you're a sonic fanboy and say anything otherwise, sus. If you're a pinball fan though and say the opposite, it makes sense. If you happen to like both: match made in heaven.
@@gameboy_colorful7078 yeah I got to the point where I really loved everything but the last level the last level just would make me tear my hair out! But I somehow accidentally figured out the whole secret on making the pinball switches rise in the machine which saved me and my brother so much time to get those emeralds!
I have never been as disappointed in a Genesis game as I was in that Terminator 2 game. Should have been a slam dunk. Aside from the points you talked about, there were three things in the game that really upset me. First, the game has an overworld map, but there were no chase scenes against the T-1000 - no tow truck, no helicopter, not even the tanker hauling liquid nitrogen. Second, the final boss was the T-1000 transforming into a giant lava monster. Third, if you beat the game (or if Sarah or John die), the Terminator just teleports BACK to the future. No, SLX, I'm pretty sure the developer never saw a single frame of the movie.
@@SegaLordX Disney got big mad at 'em for that game, too. Lol We can see why... 👀 I think heard it was done mostly without them (the devs on Fantasia) realizing the license deal was already expired. Funnily enough.
@@SegaLordX so bad that Disney forced Inforgrames and Sega to recall all unsold copies of it once they heard how bad it was and got released without their knowledge.
Heck the producer actually admitted that it sucked really bad. It had downright design problems, I'd call them glitches. Not only were the enemies much faster than they should be, there is a delay between a button input and it actually taking effect in the game. This made me extremely confused as to whether killing enemies by bouncing on them was a thing, since it often didn't work and only sometimes worked. This was due to the input lag where you had to press the jump button again in mid air to be able to bounce on enemies, but the lag made it so that if the enemy was very close when you do so, you'd land on them and take damage. Without being able to bounce on them, that left only the very limited magic as a means to kill enemies. The game was, to me at that time, one where you had to avoid all these fast moving enemies and make your way to the end of the stage. Not what I would call fun.
Lol one of my favorites Terminator 2: Judgement day is on here lol I was shocked that people hate it so much because I have fond memories of it! Awesome Content SLX! Great Video as always!
That T2 game makes me wish Delphine had done a T2 game with the movie plot in the quality of Flashback. The way the Flashback enemies fly backwards when you hit them...that could have been t800 using a shotgun.
I remember buying Slaughter Sport as a kid at EB games with money I saved up. The cover art intrigued me 😁Man I absolutely hated that game, but tried to make the best of it and playing the hell out of, being it was the only other game I had besides Sonic 😭
I expected to find a favorite somewhere among these to defend but I too have nothing good to say about any of these games and proudly say none of them ever remained in my library longer than a week.
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The worst part about Double Dragon 3 is that despite how bad it is, it is much better than the arcade
@stephen schneider yeah believe it or not the arcade version of DD3 is a lot wore than the console version
I remember seeing a longplay of the arcade version of Double Dragon 3 and staring in disbelief as players had to spend real money to buy skill sets. Of course, that tactic is all too common now in gaming because of loot crates and DLC.
Something crazy though, the Amiga version is arguably the best version of the game out there. They had access to the code for the arcade version and removed a bunch of the stupid crap that was on there. Only issue was that it didn't have music in the levels which was annoyingly common with the Amiga.
I understand some of the criticisms but at least in this video I didn’t see the man block...not even once. You can’t play that game and not block. At least that’s what I remember about it it was many years ago, but mastered it. You have to block, and it’s got its own kind of rhythm to it.
Kind of ironic, if you ask me. Normally, it's the other way around.
Seems like Acclaim was trying their hardest to be the “LJN” of the Genesis... LOL
What if I told you Acclaim bought LJN back in 1990 but kept their video game label active?
In the form of Spirit of Speed 1937 for Sega Dreamcast. The worst game on Dreamcast.
@@LorenHelgeson Holy shit. U rite
Oh, good, I was hoping Slaughtersport would be on here. I like to imagine the two guys that made Mortal Kombat played Slaughtersport and said “we can do this, but good.”
Sword of sodan looks like a boss challenge at the end of a nick arcade episode.
Nah. Kids actually beat Nick Arcade. Who could honestly beat this game outside of save states?
LMAO!!!
the amiga version is slightly better, but the last boss is about near impossible
Out of the games I've tried for the system, it's by far the worst. It may be the worst for any system actually.
Slaughter Sport is based on a PC game called Tongue of the Fatman which has the weirdest box art I've ever seen.
the first time i saw that box i thought i was on acid
Also, it's a pre-SF2 fighting game. All pre-SF2 fighting games are terrible, as far as I know. The Genesis has others. Budokhan was also a pre-SF2 fighting game ported from PC, and it is very bad. And Street Smarts, which was a pre-SF2 arcade game. Also terrible. There's also no shortage of bad post-SF2 fighting games on Genesis, like Rise of the Robots and Time Killers.
@@cbarger2327 - Not all of them are bad. You haven't been looking hard enough.
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I think Yie Ar Kung Fu was actually a pretty decent game for the arcades that was a good 6 years older than SF2.
@@FedorovAvtomat I’ve heard of that game but never actually played it, I may have to check that out on MAME.
I’ve been trying to think of good 1-on-1 fighting games before the SF2/MK/Fatal Fury fighting game renaissance (all 3 of those games had overlapping development) and haven’t come up with much. Maybe Punch-Out! if that counts, but it isn’t even 2 player. The arcade version of Pit Fighter isn’t terrible, but it isn’t exactly great either
Batman just looks like Johnny Cage wearing a Batman suit.
Played terminator 2 too, quite ironic as Arnold doesn't kill anyone in the movie
I appreciate hearing the word “shite” spoken by a cousin from across the pond 🤣
As an Englishman, made me smile as-well.
Yep bloody loved that
I want to hear “bollocks” being used in the next episode. Or even “the bollocks”.
Some context in case SLX is unaware:
Bollocks = shite
The bollocks = amazing
aye, agreed. Pish and bugger are also welcome editions from our yankee friends
@Sandman Slim Oh yeah, though I’m a scone man myself
My favorite Batman villains finally got into a game. Fruit Cake and Centaur.
Condiment Man and Mustard Boy
🤣🤣🤣 dyin'
A night on the town in San Francisco! 😂 😂 😂
@@mduke2k 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don’t forget Evildoer.
The fact that EA put Dark Castle on EVERYTHING at that time is still crazy
Ballz 3D has got to be up there for me. Feels like a fever dream. Great video as always!
The main T2 sprite looks and animates more like Hank Hill than Arnold.
Another Arnold-based license, Last Action Hero, has the hero sprite looking more like RedLetterMedia's Mike Stoklasa.
I could name one game where laziness made it bad. Sonic Genesis GBA.
That's a great answer
You are my main reason I started my sega collection. You are great at what you do, never stop. Thank you.
I remember when my brother and I rented Back to the Future III for an entire weekend + the following bank holiday. Man, that was so painful that we could just look at each other and cry...
I really respect your compassion for the developers of these games, and how many of the problems that befell these games were a result of extenuating circumstances. A very thoughtful touch that makes your videos special, even if you’re doing something as simple as roasting some bad games. Keep it up, man
SEGA LORD X comes thru tonight with a new video! Thank you sir!
Thanks for being here to watch it.
Alright some nightly content. I hope Time Killers is on the list. That game can burn.
Fun fact about me? I didn't play Time Killers until about 10 years after it came out. It looked so bad, I just never played it.
RGT Commenting on a Sega Lord X Video? GG, my life is complete.
I played TK on a broken arcade cabinet that played for free. I enjoyed (that version) of it very much.
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@Karl Burnett You didn't miss anything, it was a port of an arcade weapon vs fighter that was trying to capitalize on the blood n gore that was popular at the time.
Me: "He's STARTING with Batman Forever? What the Hell is worse than that?"
Me as this video went on: "Oh... oh, no, that's right. Oof I must have blocked that one from my memory because I forgot it existed and, yeah, Holy crap that game is horrible."
I respect that you don't want to bash these games and disrespect the people who made them. Merely pointing out mistakes and flaws. I feel the same way about movies. With the exception of modern ones because they are in your face that their agenda not artistic vision is what they care about. But I love a lot of old movies and B-movies and if I can see passion in the project I'll usually look past anything wrong with it. However there are movies that are clearly cash grabs or the actors are phoning it in or the director clearly has no clue what they are doing where I must conclude it's a terrible film.
The warning was on the box - it said Acclaim.
This is one of my favorite games.))
What is this, a crossover episode?
AVGN SLX
LJN - Acclaim/Flying edge
Beautiful!
Great upload as always.
Why do the X-Perts characters walk like they have shit their pants?
I just whatched a Geena Davis doc yesterday, cutthroat island was just bad Mojo in every form.
The game might actually be better than the movie but that's not saying much. The soundtrack of the Megadrive version was what made me switch the game of after 2 levels.
@Karl Burnett Joblo WTF happened to Geena Davis. Yes it's good and it is up to date.
@@Yuuretsu At least you can say you gave it a shot and beat the first level, not everyone can boast the same.
yeah i remember the movie being so bad that the studio that developed it went bankrupt
@@mentalphilanthropist35 yes I subscribe to that account too, I watched long kiss goodnight after the documentary as I'd not seen it for over 20 years 🙈
I've got a baseball game for Genesis that I never figured out how to even play. I gotta go find it
Wayne's World was such a let down as a kid
It really was. Just so bad.
It shouldn't have been. A game based on Wayne's World? Only a miracle could get a good game out of that kind of movie.
My parents bought it for me for Christmas back in the day and it instantly crushed my spirit. I don't think I ever made it out of the first level.
That game is an absolute acid trip. I gotta say, I had fun with the level select code in there. It's interesting sampling the levels, but not playing the whole thing through.
Batman Forever was the only one of these games I'd be comfortable saying had any effort put into it, and that's only because the graphics looked kinda cool at the time.
I was a broke kid stuck with Batman Forever for Genesis. I mustve been 9 or 10, but i remember having some fun with that game. I remember getting a chuckle with the item select voice-overs.
I was at a retro game store today and almost bought Terminator 2 on the Genesis. After watching this video, I’m really glad I changed my mind 😅
Played T2 a lot in my friend’s basement as a kid...no idea what we saw in it
I remember buying Sword of Sodan based on the cool looking graphics on the back of the box. Jesus did it suck. I was a rage fiend playing it.
Batman Forever, to quote AVGN, “This game is triceratops testicles.”
managed to dodge all these games as a kid. Somehow very little games released in 1995 and beyond reached my country.
Me at the store: Is Dark Castle like Castlevania?
Clerk: Yes
Me Two minutes after playing: Son of a B**** lied to me.
I got my money back.
What an unholy group of games.
Keep doing these, it's always fun to remember the bad games too, i had the terminator (1) on game gear...it was terrible, but i had to stick with it because i was poor...well i still am lol.
I have a lot of respect. Thanks for putting up with these games to put in an episode like this, really enjoy it
You gotta do a crossover episode with AVGN. See who can come up with more colorful metaphors.
Target Earth for me, also Osomatsu-Kun, but I kinda grew fond of it in the end.
Target Earth was very hard at the beginning, I'm pretty sure that first escort mission caused a lot of people to give up on it. When you get past it, the game opens up. Your Mech gets more abilities, weapons, armor etc... it is very limited in that first stage.
Definitely understand that it could be someone's least favorite; it took me a good while before getting past the first stage, plenty of other games out there that didn't frustrate as much.
I like Osomatsu-kun in its own stupid way. It's not good, but it has its charm with the silly animations and weird enemies.
To be fair, Target Earth isn't that bad of a game once you managed to get past the first stage. Stil, you gotta be tough enough to go through with it from start to finish!
@@chaosgreyblood I love TE! One of my first games. But yeah it's way too hard
Target Earth was very playable/enjoyable. Loved it. There was an all weapons cheat that made it much easier.
I remember Pit Fighter had me pretty mad before I knew what a bad game was.
@Orzuum Agree 100%. I first got the Genesis port and then later got one of those compilation discs that came with the arcade original. I was genuinely surprised to find myself enjoying it less than the Genesis version (though I still had some fun with it).
12:22 it can’t be worse than Pit Fighter
Thankfully a certain Rocket Knight took Awesome Possum behind the woodshed when it comes to possums on the Genesis.
*Damn,*
you have been on a roll lately with new videos keep it up!
I did have some fun with Terminator 2. It's not a goog game by all means, but it follows the movie pretty good.
The later stages give you a machine gun that makes the levels much more playable. :)
I agree, not a good game at all, but I still loved it as a kid. At John's house you can shoot the alarm, giving you time to explore the house without any enemies. At the mall, cops leave you alone unless you hurt/kill anyone. Loved how closely (mostly) it followed the movie, and little details like checking the answering machine at John's house.
This was a great episode! Thanks for sharing your valuable opinion with your audience.
The rail shooter Terminator game on genesis was awesome as a kid
I completed T2 for the first time a few months ago after owning it since I was 7 (1997). That game is not so bad...with save states
T2 is actualy not a real bad game , I have play it back in the days on the SNES . If you know how the driving works , the game becomes easy .. so easy that I had completed it over 40 times and every time in under 45 minutes ..... I thinkmy record was under 25 minutes .
Back to the Future III was actually done back when Arena Entertainment was a part of the british game company known as Image Works who also did the TMNT arcade ports for home computers.
This is a great topic for a video. Your channel's whole identity is talking about how kickass SEGA games are. That makes a video like this unique. Otherwise, a "these games suck!" video would just be cliche.
I totally agree on this list. Id keep awesome possum just for the historical quality audio sampling
Omg Dark Castle is in this list. I forgot how annoying that game was with the noises. Wow so much cringe....it's all coming back to me.
Dark Castle was originally released on the classic Macintosh. It was actually a pretty good game on Macintosh and controlled very well. You used the keyboard to move, jump, pick up things, and kneel while you used the mouse to aim and throw rocks.
Nyehnyehnyehnyehnyeh!
Playing Dark Castle for a whole day gives you a horrifying level of depression that no spiraling from addiction or break up could top.
I remember my grandma spending £80 on Toki and Fantasia. I was so dissapointed with those two.
We've all been there as gamers.
Great content as always SLX.
Mr SegaLordX, thank you for the warning in the intro. I usually watch your stuff with my little kids, but this is one for just daddy to watch. It’s nice that you’re considerate of your viewers’ varying circumstances in this way. Very respectful. Keep up the great work; loving this channel!
I remember having fun with Sword of Sodan, back in the day. Of course, I could say that about a lot of games that I wouldn't be able to return to now.
Sword of Sodan was more exciting when it came out on Amiga. By the time it was ported to Genesis, it already hadn't aged well. Back when EA thought porting it's Amiga catalogue to Genesis was a good idea.
@@danceswithmules The Amiga color palette suited this game better.
I think a fair amount of effort went into Terminator 2, it was somewhat different to other action games on the system at the time, perhaps the high difficulty let it down, I found it way more pleasurable than Last Action Hero and Robocop 3 from around the same time for example.
A lot of the time it seems like good ideas are hampered by a technologic ceiling.
Dark Castle visuals remind me of that arcade mess called "Special Forces" in 1985 which is basically a game I made in MS Paint as a child that someone put on an arcade PCB
Loved the "good night" was i wrong.
I knew a man when i was a kid who used to call us "turkeys" when we cause trouble.
If he ever called us "roast turkeys" that meant he was really upset.
You last bit in this video has given you major points, coming from a game developer of 35 years (and creator of many a Genesis game). It seems really easy for people to crap on the hard work of others, without any clue or respect. It's good to hear someone acknowledging that... even for a collection of "bad games".
me and my friend love to watch you vids. i love the title theme tune
The game I most feel your pain with is Sword of Sodan! It feels like I’m in the same slow motion as in a nightmare where I’m running from a killer and can’t get away meanwhile he runs as fast as he wants.
Play the Amiga original instead.
I still remember playing Dark Castle on my dad's Macintosh. It was in black and white(despite being on a color monitor) and, at the time, there was just nothing like it on the Mac. It's slightly less irritating to play on the Mac just due to the mouse being used to aim your rock throwing. All the sound effects are still there, and the quirks like getting dizzy, running into a wall, tripping, etc, etc. I feel like if they completely retooled the game as a platformer instead of trying to port the Mac version as accurately as possible, it may have been saved...
I clearly remember buyind Dark Castle. During my first play I knew it was money wasted and I traded mine in at Funcoland days later. I never even bothered playing past the first stage.
It feels like I just watched a game boot in reverse order with that disclaimer right before the intro.
Then again the disclaimer using streets of rage game over music then kicking back to restart also feels like a rage quit moment.
Amazing how a short piece of music can dredge up memories of me beating my head against the wall that was two player !ania difficulty.
IMO, the one redeeming quality of Awesome Possum is the fact that Dr. Machino is voiced by Doug Lawrence, the voice of Plankton and Filburt the Turtle.
My Brother and I used to play Dark Castle just because the laugh of it
Ninininini ninininini ninininini!!!
You just keep em coming! Impressive work as always.
Bad games are the same as bad movies bad, TV shows and bad food.
If nothing else it helps you to truly understand how good some things are in comparison. It really helps you to fully appreciate something good and realize how special they are.
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Long time viewer, first time commenter. Just want to say thanks man. I love this channel
Back in the early 2000s, I bought a used copy of Double Dragon 3 from Media Play (remember them?), without doing any research. I figured, hey it's a DD game, it's gotta be pretty good, right?Holy hell. I played it once and never touched it again.
What a great list...I never heard of half of these! thanks
I agree with you on all of them. But I must say that for some mysterious reason several other identical to those ones games never get such a scorn. Mick And Mack Global Gladiators (one weapon, no bombs, no upgrades, totally similar stage design on all levels), Zool (the same ultrasensitive controls as in Awesome Possum)...
I'm just surprised Rise of the robots didnt make it. My hatred for that game is pure...
It was not released on SG, but on MD its garbage
I own the SNES version and yeah that game is the second worst fighting game I own (the first being Mortal Kombat 4 for Game Boy Color).
I never played it but I remember being thoroughly entertained by the scathing review it got in the local video game magazine.
@@zzzae how do you make a fighting game where player 1 cannot select any other charecter other than the cover bot...I also forgot to add Shaq-Fu and Revolution X to the crap list
Arrgh. I often conflate Rise of the Robots with Heavy Nova, this was also released for the Genesis back then. Everyone was going gaga for the graphics back then, both these games had fighting robots that used 3D rendered sprites, the gameplay was boring and tedious though. RotR was originally an Amiga/PC title an relied on one button joystick controls, in 1994 several years after SF2 one button isn't enough. Heavy Nova had side scrolling and vs fighting gameplay.
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i bought the MD version at the time, based on a "91/100" rating from CVG (yes i still remeber it, surely they got paid to that), mine was really a bad decision....
T2 gets too much unnecessary hate. Far from perfect, but is close to the film unlike many, many licensed games. Driving parts were a serious nightmare, though, lol. I always appreciate when devs choose to nix the hopping and bopping for games that have a character that isn't meant to do that, e.g. Robocop for NES, T2 for Sega. Not every 2D sidescroller's meant to have platforming jumping.
Excellent observation at the there regarding developers and the reasons games come out so bad. That was really insightful!
Good going man, keep up the good work
So... my main takeaway here is Acclaim is the LJN of the Genesis?
LJN and Acclaim are one and the same. Notice the rainbow on Acclaim ?
"MCA agreed to sell LJN to Acclaim Entertainment, for an undisclosed sum paid in cash and stock, on March 13, 1990."
@@Gatorade69 well hell, that explains a lot. Thanks for the info!
Alien 3 on Genesis was pretty good for an Acclaim movie license game. Also, the other Terminator 2 for the Menacer gun was about as good a light gun arcade game port you could reasonably expect for a peripheral that was not a true light gun.
@@SteveBrandon Alien 3 I recall as being pretty good. Unfortunately I never really got to play with a menacer back in the day. Also, I didn't realize the menacer wasn't a "true" light gun- did it work similarly to the super scope, or something? I seem to be learning all kinds of stuff through this thread, you guys rock!
@@hjalmarjohnson5846 I never got the Super Scope but the Menacer had an infrared receiver that you'd put on top of the television and I presume the Super Scope was the same. The Menacer worked pretty well with the T2: Arcade Game but it seemed like a step down from the Sega Light Phaser on the Master System, a proper light gun (which you could hold point blank in front of the CRT television screen).
Man those were some stinkers. I agree on all of your picks, except Batman Forever. That game also started with a bad impression but somehow I persisted and kept on trying, figuring out new moves and what the items did and as I got better, so did my opinion of the game. It was hard as balls but worth the investment.
Swod of Sodan was an Amiga Commodore game port.The original one was a graphical and musical marvel for the time togheter with Shadow of the Beast (ported to Genesis too).
Am I the only one who thought he should have used Knuckle's theme from Sonic 3 & Knuckles as the profanity warning. Still a great video though.
I knew sword of Sodan would be on here. Why is there golf background music?
Bit harsh on Terminator 2 when there’s far worse. Back to future 3 is just solid.
It isn’t a list of objective views about what’s worse. It’s my list for my least favorites.
I don't know where all the Sega T2 hate comes from. Spread like wildfire youtube. I rented it back in the day and was surprised how close to the film it was. I thought Arnold's sprite and sprite animation looked cool. I wonder what gaming mags back in the day, like GamePro, rated this. I'm willing to bet it wasn't hated when it was released.
@@bmshaven I rented T2 and loathed it. Only fun I got out of it was the stupid looking crook neck the sprite makes when you jump, like he's hanging from a rope.
@@SegaLordX you not played that many mega drive games then? 😂
I think peoples hate was due to them not owning an arcade stick, otherwise T2 was great. Plus the fact they struggled to play it.
I was worried about seeing Terminator on the thumbnail for a second. I thought you were gonna talk the one based on the first movie.
Awesome Possum looks like what old people think video games look like.
Haha T2 and Batman Forever were definitely two I regret getting, back in the day! Some real stinkers on this list
This video reminded me of the Angry Videogame Nerd. LOL. Yeah, I agree the developers aren't the ones to blame. Budget and time constraints were. The developers were mostly talented and were the one who made great games when proper budget and scale was given. And sometimes they were literally the same ones who collaborated in some of the great games we love.
Whoa whoa whoa SegaLordX, Double Dragon 1 on Genesis was awesome
I have never been so happy to have not played most of the games on a list video.
Funny. I thought that T2 side scroller was a Nintendo exclusive.
I've seen a few Americans complain that the Megadrive is too dark.
Is this a problem with the ntsc output because the pal MD never seemed dark at all.
Thanks for the viewer discretion at the beginning. Sometimes I like to listen while driving the kids to and from the bus stop and need to know if I can.
I never got past that first T2 level as a kid. Never realized the phone booth lol
Where's ET when you need him
Sonic Spinball...and yes that's coming from a longtime Sonic fanboy 😳🥺
If you're a sonic fanboy and say anything otherwise, sus.
If you're a pinball fan though and say the opposite, it makes sense.
If you happen to like both: match made in heaven.
Not a fanboy. Loved the damn game because I paid for it! Lol
@@Planag7 I got the game for free from my cousin and I love it.
@@gameboy_colorful7078 yeah I got to the point where I really loved everything but the last level the last level just would make me tear my hair out! But I somehow accidentally figured out the whole secret on making the pinball switches rise in the machine which saved me and my brother so much time to get those emeralds!
Sonic fan here, but total agree.
I really like Batman Forever, it’s one of my favorite Batman games
Beat it so many times with my best friend and on my own 😎
Thank you for these awesome videos. Great commentary on these games.
AVGN episode for Dark Castle is a classic!
I have never been as disappointed in a Genesis game as I was in that Terminator 2 game. Should have been a slam dunk.
Aside from the points you talked about, there were three things in the game that really upset me. First, the game has an overworld map, but there were no chase scenes against the T-1000 - no tow truck, no helicopter, not even the tanker hauling liquid nitrogen. Second, the final boss was the T-1000 transforming into a giant lava monster. Third, if you beat the game (or if Sarah or John die), the Terminator just teleports BACK to the future.
No, SLX, I'm pretty sure the developer never saw a single frame of the movie.
Oh my GOD, Fantasia! Do not even get me started about this trainweck of a game. I had that game when I was a kid, and it is completely broken.
It was total shite
Yup. Awful game.
@@SegaLordX Disney got big mad at 'em for that game, too. Lol
We can see why... 👀
I think heard it was done mostly without them (the devs on Fantasia) realizing the license deal was already expired. Funnily enough.
@@SegaLordX so bad that Disney forced Inforgrames and Sega to recall all unsold copies of it once they heard how bad it was and got released without their knowledge.
Heck the producer actually admitted that it sucked really bad. It had downright design problems, I'd call them glitches. Not only were the enemies much faster than they should be, there is a delay between a button input and it actually taking effect in the game.
This made me extremely confused as to whether killing enemies by bouncing on them was a thing, since it often didn't work and only sometimes worked. This was due to the input lag where you had to press the jump button again in mid air to be able to bounce on enemies, but the lag made it so that if the enemy was very close when you do so, you'd land on them and take damage.
Without being able to bounce on them, that left only the very limited magic as a means to kill enemies. The game was, to me at that time, one where you had to avoid all these fast moving enemies and make your way to the end of the stage.
Not what I would call fun.
Lol one of my favorites Terminator 2: Judgement day is on here lol I was shocked that people hate it so much because I have fond memories of it! Awesome Content SLX! Great Video as always!
Sega should've used that opening for all Saturn games
That T2 game makes me wish Delphine had done a T2 game with the movie plot in the quality of Flashback. The way the Flashback enemies fly backwards when you hit them...that could have been t800 using a shotgun.
I remember buying Slaughter Sport as a kid at EB games with money I saved up. The cover art intrigued me 😁Man I absolutely hated that game, but tried to make the best of it and playing the hell out of, being it was the only other game I had besides Sonic 😭
I expected to find a favorite somewhere among these to defend but I too have nothing good to say about any of these games and proudly say none of them ever remained in my library longer than a week.
I just recalled that I have met Sword of Sodan before, gosh how frustrating it was.