The problem is they always have to preface by saying it has to have seven professional reviews. That really limits the amount of truly dumpster fire level stuff that really released during that time but simply wasn't given the press it truly deserved.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu and they might also be going too far back if they keep the rules the same, because i bet if they go all the way back to 1983 they might have to include games like Donkey kong on the list because they were hard-pressed to find 7 reviews for actually games that released that year
They really should analyze actual bad games and not just parrot what the press said at the time. If I was to do a Worst Games of 1992 list (for example), I’d include the CD-i version of Dark Castle and that infamous NES PSA game Wally Bear and The No! Gang!
@@adultmoshifan87 the thing is this is only a small fraction of the review scores from these time periods are on aggregate websites so it hard to claim they are accurate anyway.
Yeah I thought it was fine. Beat it and had a pretty good time doing so. Although I was more familiar with the Master System version. Which was... also fine. I mean, considering just how awful the Streets of Rage 2 port was on the SMS, I'll take "Alien Storm" any day, thanks.
Out of all the year lists you made so far I have to say none of these games are terrible. Bonanza Brothers is strange, the mentioned RPGs are meh but not aweful. None of these shooters were bad at all. I understand that shooters are not for everyone but none of these mentioned here were bad.
The true problem is the whole *seven professional reviews* thing. There were some truly awful games in that time just weren't given the exposure they should have been for the garbage they were. Instead we've got these games which have aged like fine wine even though they were treated like rotten cheese back in the day.
Agreed. Back in 1991, the Spectrum, C64, Amiga & Atari ST were still in many peoples homes and there was crap being put out on those systems that was FAR worse than what was coming out on the Consoles & PC. If Triple Jump want to go farther back in time, then those home micros need to take centre stage.
@@ravengaming2597 and they should'nt keep that restriction John Doe mentioned in the lists for 2000+ as if they keep that mentality for a Worst games of 1980 they might have to confusingly talk about PAC-MAN because they werew hard pressed to find any actually bad games that met their qouta of needing 7 professional reviews.
They've got a ways to go yet. I, for one, can't wait to see them list the top 10 worst Pong clones of 1976. (Sure, there were other games available in 1976, but do you think TripleJump can name them, or find 7 professional reviews?)
Hell even the Genesis version, which was a bad port, was still enjoyable to an extent. I know I had fun playing it back in the day (beat'em ups were probably my favorite as a kid), and I absolutely loved the whole alien ghost-buster premise and always wanted them to do sequels to it! I honestly still think it'd make for a great game to make a modern-day re-make of (not a remaster). Just think, a fun game with a unique somewhat dark sense of humor featuring a ghostbuster-like team (with a robot!) facing down the aliens menace, and saving the world. While it not exactly be the most recognizable franchise, not by a long-shot lol, nor was it that successful originally, I still think the concept has the potential to be a big hit. Hell, it doesn't even need to be a sequel or remake or have anything to do with series, just give a great modern game with a similar premise and I'd still be super happy!
@@terrencethompson2941 yeah, but i fear that if they go back to 1980 while still keeping the same rules of "needing to find 7 proffesional reviews" they mightput Pac-Man on the list because they were hard pressed to find games with more than 7 professional reviews, so instead of it having actually bad games it will only include games that passed that quota
They should do lists about the actual worst games, not the ones according to weird ratings (that sometimes don't even match the articles and scores I can find from back in the days).
Fun fact: I got both Galaxy Force II AND Zero Wing for my 10th birthday (october 1992) for around 15€ in a store liquidation promotion. I did love Zero Wing's music, though.
As far as 90s 'worst games' lists go, it only goes to show how press coverage lacked reviewing shovelware/budget titles, which usually were the very bad ones that should have gotten its place here amongst dozens of lazy ports, crappy tie-ins, etc. There are actually several good games on this list that made the script far fetch negative aspects to talk about them.
"The music was forgettable" What the hell were critics in 1991 smoking?? Lagoon's soundtrack is great. I mean, aside from Two Tone Town halfway through the game (Actually just two notes going back and forth, no joke).
It's weird how Sega got so into roguelikes for awhile. Fatal Labyrinth, Dragon Crystal, and ToeJam & Earl all came out within just a couple years. If nothing else, they were probably the first experience most 90s kids had with rogueish games.
@@paladinepaladine The remake from a couple years ago was also quite good. It recreated the formula of the first game, but sped up the pace, and added a lot more enemies and events. Probably the best TJ&E game made.
@@jasonblalock4429 I downloaded that on my Xbox, but for some reason I didn't enjoy it the same as the original. I know it's pretty much the same game. I suppose it's the memories attached to the original that make me consider it to be superior version.
What the hell… Zero Wing was a solid shooter. The Amiga and Atari ST can praise themselves lucky that it is difficult to find 7 professionel reviews at this point in time as they would wipe the floor with bad games.
Let's not forget that there was still plenty of crap being released on the C64 & Speccy in 91 as well. Hard Drivin & Cisco Heat on C64 were complete detritus.
Aww, I'm sad to see Lagoon on the list (although admittedly not completely surprised). Nasir's attack length was horribly short and the attack only registered successfully on a few precious pixels at a specific point in the attack animation, so every fight felt like a risky challenge. And some levels were pure mazes. But that said, I liked the game. The music was great, especially the epic title music. And when the same title music kicked in during the final battle, ohh, goosebumps!
Zero Wing is actually a killer game, and it does have some really sick stuff going on in it. It’s also not an easy game. It’s crazy to hear what the people of the time took issue with
One other thing that ruined Fatal Labyrinth, although it was a rare issue, the procedural generation would occasionally create unclearable floors by making the exit completely inaccessible. It did have one interesting feature though, how much gold you gathered in your run would dictate how lavish your tombstone is on the game over screen.
At some point soon you really, really need to realise that the "7 professional reviews" formula absolutely doesn't work when looking at this era. Writers treated the rating scale very differently, most games didn't get column space at all, and of those that did, many reviews won't have made it to online aggregators. These lists are basically just objectively wrong.
Agree 100%. The only game on here that is arguably terrible is Lagoon and even that has it's defenders. This list is suspiciously lacking in liscensed games, makes sense as mags back in the day were a lot softer on bad games from good advertisers.
Not really when most reviews for the time were in magazines that haven't had the scores recorded so these don't give a true reflection of what they felt was the worst games of the time.
@derek diana johnson Play Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball, and get back to me on why you trusted a 'worst of' series that didn't include the CDi Zelda games.
Great games of 1991: Final Fantasy 2, Gradius 3, Super Ghoulls n Ghosts, Super Castlevania 4, Super Mario World, Final Fight, Drakkhen, F Zero, Darius Twins.... feel free to add✌
And its hilarious that Ashton definitely wasn't even born when these games released and probably didn't even know they existed until the script was handed to her 😂 🤣
Yeah that's pretty cringe putting a zoomer thot talking bad about games that she probably never played before I don't know why they keep her on triple jump if they want a female on the channel choose one who actually play games like lady decade
@@honestlyholly7657 both born in the 90s and Ashton is probably the 00s so even employing her to take the piss out of less than average games from way before she was discharged from her dad's nutsack is just stupid and warrants actual people old enough to actually appreciate what developers had to go through in those days on ridiculously slow and unintuitive hardware to develop the games they mock 30 years later and I dont even believe that Ashton even plays video games just employed her because she's a young female to gain more (pervy) subs unlike other women at say whatculture or even playstation access I can believe Ash millman and Rosie Caddick are big time gamers because they document them playing games heavily Ashton I just don't buy it I'm afraid the lads should have stayed at whatculture instead of copying cultaholic 😝
It's the latter. Most of the reviews from that era didn't make the jump to digital. These lists have become "the worst games of (year) based on whatever reviews are still accessible three decades later" and don't really have any relationship to the actual reviews at the time.
@@jasonblalock4429 Yep, there's a real lack of perspective that seems very clear. Most of these games have been considered if not classics then at least misunderstood and re-evaluated. These are only the worst because the real worst were so bad their reviews are long gone.
Fatal Labyrinth was fun; and is supposed to be weird, difficult, and random. It was hard to find any roguelike on the Genesis, and few people even knew what that was at the time. Most of the people who reviewed it probably didn't even know what they were playing. This one is also similar to Dragon Crystal on Game Gear, if I recall correctly.
indeed, I loved both that game and Dragon Crystal, though I had played the latter on the Master System (which in my opinion is way better than Game Gear's version since it's more fast-paced)
Galaxy Force 2 makes me wish the 32x was turned into a proper super scaler port factory. The 3DS super scaler ports,however, make up for this 100 percent.
Darius Twin was an awesome game. Great graphics, music, was tough, and the controls were tight. How is this on the list? What magazine are you getting the list from? As other games magazines game this game 92%
Zero Wing never came out on the Genesis until a year or two ago. It was only released in the Japanese and PAL regions in the 90s, meaning it came out on the Mega Drive. Also it kicks ass.
@Grima the Fell Dragon if you suffer from that, I'm sorry and understand why that would be a problem. Ive never experienced it personally. As a shooter though, it's objectively a well made game imo.
I don't remember 1991 being such an incredible year for video games that something as solid and enjoyable as Super R-Type makes the WORST of year list. That's absurd. A little first gen game slow down not withstanding, that's a good game.. Edit: And Darius Twin?!
I'd like to see an actual "Worst games of..." list. Basing it on ratings and only including games with at least 7 reviews really messes up the ranking. Here are some great games, like Super R-Type. It also had very favorable reviews and the main criticism were the slow downs. But the graphics and enemy designs were incredible and it was absolutely playable. I was a seven year old kid when I first played it and if I could handle the controls, an experienced player shouldn't have that much of a problem.
I've played 8 of the 10 games listed here, and, honestly, I really like all of them. Of course, I'm also one of the approximately five people on earth who genuinely loves Lagoon, so I guess take that as you will.
Are we absolutely sure these are the worst games of 1991 because Dark Castle was released for the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1991 and I know for certain it’s far inferior than every game on this list.
I have to fight back a little here. Lagoon might have been my first RPG-ish Adventure game (before getting to know the likes of Ys, and after Zelda), I wouldn't say that Lagoon has forgettable music, especially not Moonchild or Prince of Darkness. The gameplay however I can agree was a bit unforgiving, but supposedly the Sharp PC was better in that regard.
Nice list, but why just the consoles & PC games. There was still quite a bit of crap floating around on the 8 bit & 16 bit home micros that was possibly far worse than some of these games. Cisco Heat on C64 for example.
Now I know you have certain things you have to follow but I found games that are WAY WAY worse than some of the games that are in this list. Here's some fine examples: Fantasia Action 52 Darkman NES Beast Wrestler Bill and Ted NES Legend of Success Joe (worst NEO GEO game ever made) Jewel Master King of Kings (unlicensed NES) Bart vs the space mutants and Bart vs the World Total Recall NES
Me too. I can understand Americans referring to it as "Genesis" (for obvious reasons) but the last time I checked Triple Jump appeared to be British, unless the channel is trying to suck up to an American audience. Then again, Ashton referred to the ZX Spectrum as "Zee Ex Spectrum" in a video not too long ago and got picked up on it in the comments so this *might* be an attempt at trolling her fellow countrymen (and women...)
@@figureheaduk Wait, hold up, how else would one refer to the ZX Spectrum except by saying "Zee Ex Spectrum"? That's like saying "refer to the Genesis as 'gen-ih-sis.'" EDIT: Nevermind, I just remembered those wacky Brits typically pronounce the letter Z as "zed."
These games generally arent terrible. Again, the magazines that rated games this far back were very biased and were going on peoples opinions who werent really that experienced.
Alien Storm was like Golden Axe if it was rewritten by a fan of sci-fi action movies. Both are fun side scrolling shooter games. Alien Storm improves upon Golden Axe with having more variety to the gameplay such as the first-person modes that you see when you go inside buildings. I always wanted to go inside buildings and fight monsters in Golden Axe, so I finally got my chance in this game. Alien Storm and the Golden Axe series were my favorite games on the Genesis at the time (which was when I was starting college). Yeah, I'm that old. Bonanza Bros and Fatal Labyrinth were indeed terrible games. I never really enjoyed playing those. Galaxy Force II is so terrible that I find it almost unplayable unless I play it on my New 3DS XL with the settings so that you don't actually die if your ship becomes terribly crippled. You just limp along through the rest of the game.
how was Super R-Type so low rated? Love, love, love this game.
Honestly, I was shocked, this is such a great game. When I looked it up, I also found several articles praising it.
I was wondering the same thing.
Insane slow downs, terrible first level
Darius Twin stole a lot of 1991 from me. If this is in a "worst of" list, '91 was a great year for gaming.
The problem is they always have to preface by saying it has to have seven professional reviews. That really limits the amount of truly dumpster fire level stuff that really released during that time but simply wasn't given the press it truly deserved.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu and they might also be going too far back if they keep the rules the same, because i bet if they go all the way back to 1983 they might have to include games like Donkey kong on the list because they were hard-pressed to find 7 reviews for actually games that released that year
Darius Twin was an awesome game.
Graphics, music, controls.
Crazy it's on the list
Alien Storm was unexpected. I have enjoyed it.
Same
I rolled my eyes really hard. Liked alien storm
They really should analyze actual bad games and not just parrot what the press said at the time. If I was to do a Worst Games of 1992 list (for example), I’d include the CD-i version of Dark Castle and that infamous NES PSA game Wally Bear and The No! Gang!
@@adultmoshifan87 the thing is this is only a small fraction of the review scores from these time periods are on aggregate websites so it hard to claim they are accurate anyway.
Yeah I thought it was fine. Beat it and had a pretty good time doing so. Although I was more familiar with the Master System version. Which was... also fine.
I mean, considering just how awful the Streets of Rage 2 port was on the SMS, I'll take "Alien Storm" any day, thanks.
Out of all the year lists you made so far I have to say none of these games are terrible.
Bonanza Brothers is strange, the mentioned RPGs are meh but not aweful.
None of these shooters were bad at all. I understand that shooters are not for everyone but none of these mentioned here were bad.
The true problem is the whole *seven professional reviews* thing.
There were some truly awful games in that time just weren't given the exposure they should have been for the garbage they were. Instead we've got these games which have aged like fine wine even though they were treated like rotten cheese back in the day.
They absolutely need to change their parameters. This list is BUNK!
Agreed. Back in 1991, the Spectrum, C64, Amiga & Atari ST were still in many peoples homes and there was crap being put out on those systems that was FAR worse than what was coming out on the Consoles & PC. If Triple Jump want to go farther back in time, then those home micros need to take centre stage.
@@ravengaming2597 and they should'nt keep that restriction
John Doe mentioned in the lists for 2000+ as if they keep that mentality for a Worst games of 1980 they might have to confusingly talk about PAC-MAN because they werew hard pressed to find any actually bad games that met their qouta of needing 7 professional reviews.
I too enjoyed the heck out of some of the games on the list, warts and all
We should cram some 'bonus years' into history somewhere so we can have more of these.
They've got a ways to go yet.
I, for one, can't wait to see them list the top 10 worst Pong clones of 1976. (Sure, there were other games available in 1976, but do you think TripleJump can name them, or find 7 professional reviews?)
Alien storm was actually incredible, the master system was the turd of the 3 versions
I remember enjoying Alien Storm back in the day, maybe not as much as Golden Axe, but still
Hell even the Genesis version, which was a bad port, was still enjoyable to an extent. I know I had fun playing it back in the day (beat'em ups were probably my favorite as a kid), and I absolutely loved the whole alien ghost-buster premise and always wanted them to do sequels to it!
I honestly still think it'd make for a great game to make a modern-day re-make of (not a remaster). Just think, a fun game with a unique somewhat dark sense of humor featuring a ghostbuster-like team (with a robot!) facing down the aliens menace, and saving the world. While it not exactly be the most recognizable franchise, not by a long-shot lol, nor was it that successful originally, I still think the concept has the potential to be a big hit.
Hell, it doesn't even need to be a sequel or remake or have anything to do with series, just give a great modern game with a similar premise and I'd still be super happy!
I always wanted an Alien Storm 2, on the SOR2 engine but ... meh
On the real. I liked that game.
I loved Alien Storm on the Genesis! Tough as heck, though.
The original DOS Duke Nukem was a fantastic platformer. Glad to see the shout-out.
wow I actually love most of the games on this list. rented many of them when I was a kid
"Mega Drive" if you want to get serious about this.
I was hoping pit fighter on SNES would be on the list
"The music in Lagoon was forgettable"
What?
The music was the best part!
Its a shame we never got a Sharp X68000 in North America, the music was a lot better on that computer
Me coming to terms with the fact that eventually you'll run out of millennial nostalgia years to do these for =/
Then they can do it all again with best games. Or weird games. Always lists to be made.
@@terrencethompson2941 yeah, but i fear that if they go back to 1980 while still keeping the same rules of "needing to find 7 proffesional reviews" they mightput Pac-Man on the list because they were hard pressed to find games with more than 7 professional reviews, so instead of it having actually bad games it will only include games that passed that quota
They should do lists about the actual worst games, not the ones according to weird ratings (that sometimes don't even match the articles and scores I can find from back in the days).
Fun fact: I got both Galaxy Force II AND Zero Wing for my 10th birthday (october 1992) for around 15€ in a store liquidation promotion. I did love Zero Wing's music, though.
As far as 90s 'worst games' lists go, it only goes to show how press coverage lacked reviewing shovelware/budget titles, which usually were the very bad ones that should have gotten its place here amongst dozens of lazy ports, crappy tie-ins, etc. There are actually several good games on this list that made the script far fetch negative aspects to talk about them.
"The music was forgettable" What the hell were critics in 1991 smoking?? Lagoon's soundtrack is great. I mean, aside from Two Tone Town halfway through the game (Actually just two notes going back and forth, no joke).
It's weird how Sega got so into roguelikes for awhile. Fatal Labyrinth, Dragon Crystal, and ToeJam & Earl all came out within just a couple years. If nothing else, they were probably the first experience most 90s kids had with rogueish games.
Toejam & Earl is one of the games I still play on the MD :) Even have the 3rd one on the Xbox.
@@paladinepaladine The remake from a couple years ago was also quite good. It recreated the formula of the first game, but sped up the pace, and added a lot more enemies and events. Probably the best TJ&E game made.
@@jasonblalock4429 I downloaded that on my Xbox, but for some reason I didn't enjoy it the same as the original. I know it's pretty much the same game. I suppose it's the memories attached to the original that make me consider it to be superior version.
Roguelikes lol we had games
"more exciting than loading a dishwasher" is going to be my new metric for whether I'm enjoying a game or not.
What the hell…
Zero Wing was a solid shooter.
The Amiga and Atari ST can praise themselves lucky that it is difficult to find 7 professionel reviews at this point in time as they would wipe the floor with bad games.
Let's not forget that there was still plenty of crap being released on the C64 & Speccy in 91 as well. Hard Drivin & Cisco Heat on C64 were complete detritus.
@@ravengaming2597 Oh boy, those were beyond crap. 👍
Funny thing is, Zero Wing was just released on the Genesis Nintendo Switch Online
Yup! Home computers had way more shovelware crap than consoles!
I had fond memories of watching Bottom but re-watching it latter destroyed it.
Yeah it's funny how many things are like that. Or I guess I should say how unfunny things are like that.
"Karen... A woman demanding to speak to a manager" LOL!
If these were the worst games you could find, then 1991 was an amazing year for gaming.
All your base is the original meme for me.
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB!!!!!!
I will not tolerate this Alien Storm slander.
That game rocks.
"Terminator 2, Judgment Day and the Adam's Family" Someone comma-ed when they should have colon-ed
Aww, I'm sad to see Lagoon on the list (although admittedly not completely surprised). Nasir's attack length was horribly short and the attack only registered successfully on a few precious pixels at a specific point in the attack animation, so every fight felt like a risky challenge. And some levels were pure mazes. But that said, I liked the game. The music was great, especially the epic title music. And when the same title music kicked in during the final battle, ohh, goosebumps!
Exile for the TurboGrafx-16 is a game I enjoy playing very much ! I think the music, graphics, and controls were very good !
Zero Wing is actually a killer game, and it does have some really sick stuff going on in it. It’s also not an easy game. It’s crazy to hear what the people of the time took issue with
One other thing that ruined Fatal Labyrinth, although it was a rare issue, the procedural generation would occasionally create unclearable floors by making the exit completely inaccessible. It did have one interesting feature though, how much gold you gathered in your run would dictate how lavish your tombstone is on the game over screen.
I'm really happy with the research you guys did on these! A++
Used to absolutely smash Alien Storm when I was a kid. Had it on a three game cartridge with Super Thunder Blade and Super Monaco. Great games.
Using the US names Genesis and S N E S yet making jokes about ITV's Pop Idol and UK high street chains!
Catering for all audiences, it seems!
I’m starting to question whether these people actually know what they’re doing…
Dude! Super R-type was SIIIICCCCKK!!!
It was insanely hard but it was good
If they'd have made it a few years later they might have been in a better place to get rid of the almost crippling slowdown.
At some point soon you really, really need to realise that the "7 professional reviews" formula absolutely doesn't work when looking at this era. Writers treated the rating scale very differently, most games didn't get column space at all, and of those that did, many reviews won't have made it to online aggregators. These lists are basically just objectively wrong.
i like this channel, but it seems kinda lazy to limit themselves to games with 7 pro-reviews.
Agree 100%. The only game on here that is arguably terrible is Lagoon and even that has it's defenders.
This list is suspiciously lacking in liscensed games, makes sense as mags back in the day were a lot softer on bad games from good advertisers.
it's a testament to how good 1991 was that some of these were the worst despite not being that bad.
Not really when most reviews for the time were in magazines that haven't had the scores recorded so these don't give a true reflection of what they felt was the worst games of the time.
@derek diana johnson
Play Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball, and get back to me on why you trusted a 'worst of' series that didn't include the CDi Zelda games.
Great games of 1991: Final Fantasy 2, Gradius 3, Super Ghoulls n Ghosts, Super Castlevania 4, Super Mario World, Final Fight, Drakkhen, F Zero, Darius Twins.... feel free to add✌
Sonic The Hedgehog, Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy, Mega Man 4, Battletoads.
And its hilarious that Ashton definitely wasn't even born when these games released and probably didn't even know they existed until the script was handed to her 😂 🤣
It's weird when she references Simon Miller too.
@@stonecold6521 ah mate she's totally noshing him off and stroking his big empty bald noggin the steroid and creatine munching knob 🤣🤣
Yeah that's pretty cringe putting a zoomer thot talking bad about games that she probably never played before I don't know why they keep her on triple jump if they want a female on the channel choose one who actually play games like lady decade
Neither were peter and ben
@@honestlyholly7657 both born in the 90s and Ashton is probably the 00s so even employing her to take the piss out of less than average games from way before she was discharged from her dad's nutsack is just stupid and warrants actual people old enough to actually appreciate what developers had to go through in those days on ridiculously slow and unintuitive hardware to develop the games they mock 30 years later and I dont even believe that Ashton even plays video games just employed her because she's a young female to gain more (pervy) subs unlike other women at say whatculture or even playstation access I can believe Ash millman and Rosie Caddick are big time gamers because they document them playing games heavily Ashton I just don't buy it I'm afraid the lads should have stayed at whatculture instead of copying cultaholic 😝
critics in 1991 were either pretty bad, or since the stipulation of a certain amount of reviews needed held back the true bad games.
It's the latter. Most of the reviews from that era didn't make the jump to digital. These lists have become "the worst games of (year) based on whatever reviews are still accessible three decades later" and don't really have any relationship to the actual reviews at the time.
@@jasonblalock4429
Yep, there's a real lack of perspective that seems very clear.
Most of these games have been considered if not classics then at least misunderstood and re-evaluated. These are only the worst because the real worst were so bad their reviews are long gone.
I legitimately love Bonanza Bros. If that's one of the worst games of 1991, then it really was a brilliant year. ;)
agreed. Especially co-op xD
@@SuperHns yeah so good that game's like Action 52 came out.
@@stupididioticspoiledbrat2419 ehhhhhh ok
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Fatal Labyrinth was fun; and is supposed to be weird, difficult, and random. It was hard to find any roguelike on the Genesis, and few people even knew what that was at the time. Most of the people who reviewed it probably didn't even know what they were playing. This one is also similar to Dragon Crystal on Game Gear, if I recall correctly.
indeed, I loved both that game and Dragon Crystal, though I had played the latter on the Master System (which in my opinion is way better than Game Gear's version since it's more fast-paced)
I really like it. I only beat it one time. It’s really cool to have a game like Rogue or Nethack for consoles with actual graphics.
"a sword which had the approximate range of a potato peeler" well said Ashton well said !
Galaxy Force 2 makes me wish the 32x was turned into a proper super scaler port factory. The 3DS super scaler ports,however, make up for this 100 percent.
Hands up EVERYONE who beat Ashton to the punchline when Zero Wing popped up? lol
I've noticed several of these Genesis games are included on "Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection" for the PS3 and XBox 360. Interesting. LOL 😆
Whoa whoa whoa whoa, Alien Storm RULES
Darius Twin was an awesome game.
Great graphics, music, was tough, and the controls were tight.
How is this on the list?
What magazine are you getting the list from?
As other games magazines game this game 92%
Wow, I can't believe 1991 was over 20 years ago!
wait...
...
G-d I'm old. 😭
Indeed, actually, by the pressing time of this vid, it was 31 years ago. 🙂
Zero Wing never came out on the Genesis until a year or two ago. It was only released in the Japanese and PAL regions in the 90s, meaning it came out on the Mega Drive. Also it kicks ass.
I grew up with Alien Storm. I just recently learned it was an arcade game.
Super R-Type combined R-Type and R-Type II
Like the background music relaxing
Action 52 came out in 1991
Really? Super R-Type? That game was dope.
RIP Darius Danesh though
Super R-Type and Darius Twin on the worst list..... madness.
Zero Wing is a great game! Poor translation, sure, but great game!
@Grima the Fell Dragon if you suffer from that, I'm sorry and understand why that would be a problem. Ive never experienced it personally. As a shooter though, it's objectively a well made game imo.
It's completely fine! Not among my top 10 2D shooters ever, but certainly not among the worst games of ANY year!
1991!! The year when games had ups and downs. 🥳
Lagoon was simply just a bad porting job by Kemco.
Now that we all know better, we can just download the translated version of the X68000 version.
I don't remember 1991 being such an incredible year for video games that something as solid and enjoyable as Super R-Type makes the WORST of year list. That's absurd. A little first gen game slow down not withstanding, that's a good game..
Edit: And Darius Twin?!
Seems odd in hindsight that a game like Alien Storm got such tepid reviews back then.
It’s considered one of the Genesis’s best games now!
I'd like to see an actual "Worst games of..." list. Basing it on ratings and only including games with at least 7 reviews really messes up the ranking. Here are some great games, like Super R-Type. It also had very favorable reviews and the main criticism were the slow downs. But the graphics and enemy designs were incredible and it was absolutely playable. I was a seven year old kid when I first played it and if I could handle the controls, an experienced player shouldn't have that much of a problem.
I've played 8 of the 10 games listed here, and, honestly, I really like all of them. Of course, I'm also one of the approximately five people on earth who genuinely loves Lagoon, so I guess take that as you will.
Fair do's... but alienstorm is still amazing.
Also owned and finished Lagoon. It does have significant flaws, but overall it's decent and I enjoyed it.
Are we absolutely sure these are the worst games of 1991 because Dark Castle was released for the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1991 and I know for certain it’s far inferior than every game on this list.
91 was a great year, the fuck are yall smoking over there.
I have to fight back a little here. Lagoon might have been my first RPG-ish Adventure game (before getting to know the likes of Ys, and after Zelda), I wouldn't say that Lagoon has forgettable music, especially not Moonchild or Prince of Darkness. The gameplay however I can agree was a bit unforgiving, but supposedly the Sharp PC was better in that regard.
Nice list, but why just the consoles & PC games. There was still quite a bit of crap floating around on the 8 bit & 16 bit home micros that was possibly far worse than some of these games. Cisco Heat on C64 for example.
Let’s be honest here. Most of these titles aren’t really all that bad, they just haven’t aged well enough.
After that opening cutscene, the mediocre and forgettable gameplay of Zero Wing really was a disappointment.
Man critics where brutal to lack luster RPGs and Side Scrolling shooters this year
I loved the OG Duke Nukem by Apogee
RIP Darius
91 was a good year for games if these are the worst of the year, I liked most of them
Most the bad Sega Genesis games are still good games.
You need to do best worst licence games.
Buck Rogers countdown to doomsday has to be a contender
The triple jump team is awesome I love all three of y'all
These are the games nobody would rent at Blockbuster. They had these but no Final Fantasy 3.
Now I know you have certain things you have to follow but I found games that are WAY WAY worse than some of the games that are in this list. Here's some fine examples:
Fantasia
Action 52
Darkman NES
Beast Wrestler
Bill and Ted NES
Legend of Success Joe (worst NEO GEO game ever made)
Jewel Master
King of Kings (unlicensed NES)
Bart vs the space mutants and Bart vs the World
Total Recall NES
Spoiled! Super r type was my jam back in the day!
There's alot worse games in 1991 than some of the games on this list.
I get some strong Star Fox (SNES) vibes from Galaxy Force II; might just be because both are rail shooters..?
Dam these were the worst of 91? That must been a good dam year cuz most of these games are bangers lol
SUPER R TYPE was also a good game.
Good graphics, music, and it was hard.
I enjoyed it
I beg to disagree, I feel like EVERY one of these lists begins with a caveat about how #10 isn’t really that bad
The Galaxy Force arcade game was awesome back in those days.
Bro Always play Bonanza Bros. On my PS3 (Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection) as a kid I beaten so many time I can't count
Gameboy Double Dragon 2 is Renegade then?
Part of the Renegade series yes. Or to be more specific, the Japanese Kunio-kun series.
Thank goodness King Of The Monsters (Neo Geo) isn't on this list.
I know that the Sega Megadrive was called the Genesis in the US because of copyright but every time she said it I died a little inside lmao
Me too. I can understand Americans referring to it as "Genesis" (for obvious reasons) but the last time I checked Triple Jump appeared to be British, unless the channel is trying to suck up to an American audience. Then again, Ashton referred to the ZX Spectrum as "Zee Ex Spectrum" in a video not too long ago and got picked up on it in the comments so this *might* be an attempt at trolling her fellow countrymen (and women...)
@@figureheaduk really good points but who can say haha
@@gavintjames1989 also maybe the professional reviews could have been taken from (mostly) American sources hence the "Genesis" references?
@@figureheaduk Wait, hold up, how else would one refer to the ZX Spectrum except by saying "Zee Ex Spectrum"? That's like saying "refer to the Genesis as 'gen-ih-sis.'"
EDIT: Nevermind, I just remembered those wacky Brits typically pronounce the letter Z as "zed."
These games generally arent terrible. Again, the magazines that rated games this far back were very biased and were going on peoples opinions who werent really that experienced.
Finally the year I was born.
posting about the worst games that came out the year i was born... on my birthday... thanks guys i didnt know you knew
Happy Birthday
@@bdt3367 thank ya
Alien Storm is a great game, also RIP Darius Danesh
Just imagine. Aliens came ans said: "All your base are belong to us")
this was the year my middle brother was born
Alien Storm was like Golden Axe if it was rewritten by a fan of sci-fi action movies. Both are fun side scrolling shooter games. Alien Storm improves upon Golden Axe with having more variety to the gameplay such as the first-person modes that you see when you go inside buildings. I always wanted to go inside buildings and fight monsters in Golden Axe, so I finally got my chance in this game. Alien Storm and the Golden Axe series were my favorite games on the Genesis at the time (which was when I was starting college). Yeah, I'm that old.
Bonanza Bros and Fatal Labyrinth were indeed terrible games. I never really enjoyed playing those. Galaxy Force II is so terrible that I find it almost unplayable unless I play it on my New 3DS XL with the settings so that you don't actually die if your ship becomes terribly crippled. You just limp along through the rest of the game.
Golden Axe II was released that same year.
Karen joke was epic🤣
this is why you never listen to the critics most of the time their not even gamers and just failed writer hijacking the mediam.
With Out Zero wing we would have not had All Your Base
Loved Alien Storm.
Thought it was great.
Repetitive yes . .
But still a lot of fun
oh no not that game 6:50