you know,.. when the worst game still has 41+% and the 10th place has 60% you know it was generally a great year for gaming. because there are lists that start at 40% and go downhill from there
I have RARELY been so vindicated at seeing the #1 on one of these lists. I rented Paladin's Quest several times, assuming I must be playing it wrong because that's how it used to be to play videogames in the era before the internet. Now if only someone else would remember that "Brandish" existed... I think I only just now realized that I conflated The Family Dog and Spuds MacKenzie in my head as a kid. Thanks Triplejump, for solving yet another mystery from my childhood!
4:01 In Germany, the word for cucumber "Gurke" can describe something that is just generally terrible and is another word for a terrible, slow old car. So that joke works on multiple levels. Congrats, german reviewer from the 90s.
Is it common to call someone/something an item of food in Germany, as an insult? I keep seeing that happen recently with German jokes I'm not getting. Various foods, various circumstances, various people.
@@furiousapplesack I'm guessing it's because insults are actually punishable by law here. It's tied to the first article of our constitution, which the allied forces mandated on the Germans after WWII. People can call the cops on you for insulting them and you'll get a hefty fine, especially if it's tied to road rage. No, I am not kidding you. And they actually do that. The Krauts are crazy, man. And calling someone a vegetable gives you room for plausible deniability of an intended insult in court if they do. 'Cos the fines can be in the thousands.
@@furiousapplesackwell, there's some food related insults or descriptions in German. "Beleidigte Leberwurst" for example is someone who is easily offended, "Pflaume" (plum) can be a simple insult, "Spargeltarzan" and "Bohnenstange" (asparagus-Tarzan and beanstalk) describe very thin people and so on... There's also food related nicknames, for example our former chancellor Helmut Kohl was called "Birne" (pear)
I love the nostalgia that comes with having The 7th Guest at #10. My dad spent 3 days trying to get it to load on MS:DOS and after many sleepless night my mum, dad, and I spent several evenings trying to figure out how many words there are that don't contain vowels. 1993, you make me proud to have been born in 1987.
I was ready to get up in arms as I have a lot of fond 16 bit memories for Double Dragon/Battletoads but it was always with a second player on the couch with me I don’t have a good frame of reference for how bad it might have been as a single player experience. I certainly don’t remember the controls being a struggle.
I had the NES version. I thought the game was pretty good, not as fun as the first Battletoads, but still pretty good. I seem to remember it being short.
@@davidnec571 The NES version version is much better than the SNES version, it plays much smoother and is a pretty good game. Slightly nicer visuals asides, the SNES version's a bad port and the controls do feel sluggish in comparison. I don't even like the soundtrack on the SNES version as much as the NES one.
I played this on both NES and Genesis. I did not think it also had an SNES port. I thought the deal was the SNES got Battlemaniacs instead. Apparently they got that as an extra SNES exclusive. I really enjoyed this game and don't think it belongs on this list. I have played it single player and man is it a tough game, but it is very fun and very rewarding, particularly if you have an appetite for high-difficulty games and the learning curve required. I thought it was an excellent, successful crossover that worked really well. Only thing is I can't speak for the SNES port or if it's noticeably inferior to the other 2 ports. I beat both NES and Genesis versions on single player but it's quite the daunting task. Was really satisfying each time though.
I take issue with Battletoads and Double Dragon being on here; it was a lot of fun and many of the issues brought up (unevenness, unresponsive controls) weren't there in the game at all.
Exactly, sounds like massive cap. Battletoads & Double Dragon was fun as hell and of course requires SKILL to play because Battletoads as well as Double Dragon weren't meant to be easy. I also never experienced any game issues or bugs on the game either.
Battle toads and Double Dragon was so much fun. it was a challenging game but it is possible to beat, unlike original battle toads or original Double dragon. I remember being a kid, my brothers, cousins and I would stay up all night trying to get to robo manus. our favorite fight was Big Blag
Holy cow, there are actually games I've played in this list! Several! - 7th Guest... I said it in a comment below, but my brother and I beat this one. It was legitimately satisfying. In a world dominated by point-and-click tosh, this really stood out in a good way. I feel like if it were re-released today with the technical issues fixed, it would score a lot higher than it did back then. - Battletoads vs Double Dragon... Again, I enjoyed this one. Ok, it was simplistic, and the difficulty was all over the place. But still a decently fun game. It loses points for not giving you the option to force-feed spinach to Abobo. - Columns 3... This was... fine. It was a pretty decent puzzler in the "Tetris" vein. There was a lot worse out there. - Mario is Missing... Ok, I never actually played this one. My friends did though. Wasn't this the game that taught kids to identify countries by shallow national stereotyping? Edutainment! - Mortal Kombat... Honestly this seemed fine at the time. I'm guessing it wouldn't hold up too well now though.
Funny you mention that: 7th Guest has a canon sequel released just last year from the original makers and with the "community theatre trying their very best" tone FULLY intact.
That moment where you forgot you played something until you see footage for it. Completely forgot about that SNES Wayne's World game until you showed that footage.
I have *such* a soft spot for Megarace. Because, yeah, it wasn't a very good game - but those pre-rendered tracks and cutscenes were amazing for the time. And they were genuinely fun, in a cheesy way. If you're a fan of 90s FMV games, at least check out the intro on TH-cam for a laugh.
I wonder if the criteria of needing seven professional reviews skews these earlier lists more than later lists because of how the internet developed. 1993 was the year Link: Faces of Evil came out and while I was young at the time I was aware of its existence. It's weird to me that it would either have gotten more than 60% or failed to meet the seven review criteria
It failed to meet the criteria, because few critics were reviewing CDi titles, and even fewer critics are included in the places TripleJump turns a lazy eye.
I honestly loved Megarace when I played it in the mid 90s! Specially because of its presentation. The host dude was pretty funny, at least on the translated version I played (PT-BR).
"Battletoads and Double Dragon" was the ultimate friend over for a sleepover video game. That and "Pocky & Rocky" Alot of good memories with those two games
I remember that "game". I actually wanted it when it was released but I didn't have a good enough PC. Good thing too, as when I saw a let's play a few years ago, it was insultingly bad.
@@GreyHulk2156 I know, but back then I thought the PC one was a good adventure game, having played all the other types out there like the Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Space Quest, Kings Quest and Quest for Glory ones.
Wow what a trip back in time. So many memories. There are people watching this video that weren't even alive in 1993. Looking at the amazing stuff released in 1993 you had Doom, Duke Nukem 2 and Sim City 2000.
Yeah, I agree, but I was one of the people who was born in 1993, but I didn't start playing games until 1996, when "Super Mario 64" came out, and my Grandma got me it and that was the very first game I ever played and my Dad also loved playing it. But I do wish I could've played games like Doom, Duke Nukem 2, and Sim City 2000, but they weren't on the n64, but I do love that console anyways. It's how I got into series like Pokémon, Resident Evil, The Legend of Zelda(both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask), even other series like F-Zero X, Star Fox 64, Duke Nukem 3D(the n64 version), Kirby 64 and The Crystal Shards, DK64, Conker's Bad Fur Day(even though I never got a sequel), Banjo-Kazooie and; Banjo-Tooie, and most of all to me the, Super Smash Bros. series, but sorry for getting off track there. But I'm glad for the chance to go back and see what stuff I missed out on back then. It wasn't half bad of a list. But I guess games like the Zelda CD-I Games, and "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties", aren't bad enough for the list? Because I've heard of their infamy, I mean, the Zelda CD-I games were so bad, they created ytp's, and I love watching those. So at least the Zelda CD-I Trilogy did something right, after all?
I have wonderful memories of me and my brother playing Megarace as kids. We thought the host guy was the funniest shit ever. It was like nudge nudge wink wink cringe decades before that was a thing.
Yeah, I'll still replay it every now and then just for those wonderful cheestastic FMVs. "Welcome to Megarace - the action-packed show where violence only happens once... every few seconds. I'm Lance Boyle, and people often wonder if I'm real."
I bought Megarace from a vendor at the Minnesota State Fair as a child... The game play did suck, but I put 20+ hours into it strictly due to the fact wanting to see more of the FMV cutscenes.
German here, huge fan of your channel. Shedding some light on the "Cucumber"-thing ... in germany, calling a product (or performance) a "cucumber", it's synonymous with "train-wreck".
Yeah I had Blaster Master on NES and it was great. If you aren't aware there's a reboot of the Series called "Blaster Master zero" They are up to the 3rd and last game which released last year. They have gotten really good reviews.
To be honest i enjoyed Blaster Master 2 but at the same time i understood why most people didn't like it, my main gripe with the game is there are no Jason dungeons to explore and the over head Sophia sections are frustrating as hell.
Megarace. It looked like poop, it played like poop, but Lance Boyle *almost* made it worth booting up. I got it free with my first PC, along with Encarta. Pretty sure I spent more time playing Encarta's Mind Maze of the two XD
Dang the 7th Guest? I LOVED that game. It was so creepy as a kid. The puzzles were tough as nails though when I was younger. I’m lucky enough to have found an actual big box complete edition at my local goodwill for a few bucks. That’s so cool to own!
In the 7th Guest, the pantry can puzzle alone would kill most reviews, even after seeing the answer, and that puzzle is pretty early on. It is one of those "I will never forget the solution as long as I live" level of insanity. After beating the game I remember looking in an official guide book for a proper solution to the microscope puzzle and it literally saying we have no idea how to beat this one. And I love the entire trilogy.
@@deusprogrammer_thekingofspace yep, now imagine being a reviewer coming across that. And the slow trading of each can took me and a friend over an hour putting it together after solving it on paper first.
@@valetboy21 back then it didn’t really bother us that much. We were just enthralled by the spectacle of the game. My grandma and I played through it together. She was so cool.
Not to mention that neverending maze, which was almost impossible to brute force. The maze is actually on a rug upstairs, but these were the days before screenshots, so you'd have to manually copy the maze to be able to get through it. Such a pain in the ass.
Having owned Battletoads/Double Dragon, I feel attacked. That game was good, if infuriating at times. Anyone else remember how levels would end if either player got a game over in the middle of a level?
I am surprised nobody's tried to remake 7th Guest at any time. It could have even worked turned into a a portable puzzle game like the Professor Layton series.
a "Gurke" (Cucumber) is a derogatory term to describe a slow or old car in Germany. From it derives the verb "Gurken" (to cucumber) for aimlessly and very slowly driving around. I guess the German reviewers refer to that and the translation is just bad ^^
Honestly, I kind of enjoyed Paladin's Quest. It's no Final Fantasy, but I enjoyed it far more than the Game Boy Mortal Kombat and any version of Mario is Missing. Then again, critics in 1993 were on to something, it wasn't that good of a game, and it's likely sentimentality on my part that made me enjoy it, as I was just on the cusp of being a teenager when it came out, so I didn't really know any better.
Nah. Paladin's Quest is great and the critics blew. GamePro gave Bubsy a perfect score. Critics are now and always have been idiots. That Ren and Stimpy: Veediots was not on this list yet Paladin's Quest was shows that the critics blow.
About the German review: We call lackluster things "Gurke" (cucumber). This goes back to "Saure Gurken Zeit" (pickle time), which describes a time of sparsity - as in the time of the year, that only has preserved food.
The only part that was actually pretty cool was the music. It wasn't great but for the game boy it actually wasn't that bad. But of all the games I bought for the game boy or got as a gift it is definitely at the top of the list of deep regrets.
If you bought a computer in America from Best Buy the 90s mega race was definitely included in it, I remember it came with all these free CD ROM games that I wanted to believe were amazing at the time because I never had a computer with a CD ROM
Are you not aware that Columns III had a story mode, whereas the original 1990 Columns game did not? That's why you're fighting against the creatures in the middle of the screen, and their table is on the right side while yours is on the left. There are also several gems in the game you could use to temporarily sabotage your enemies' efforts, such as reversing the controls, preventing the player from switching the order of the blocks, and turning all the blocks black and white.
DOOM is still by far my favorite! The entire franchise kicks ass! Even though Wolfenstein 3d was technically the blueprint for the FPS genre, DOOM straight up perfected it
Mega Race was awesome! My best friend and I played this for hours back in middle school. Then again, we used to chug "blue drink"....off brand Kool-Aid, so our literal and figurative tastes probably weren't the most refined. 🤣
The weird thing is that Paladins Quest was really intricate, with magic taking your HP actually being a thing to balance it out, as once you levelled your spirits, magic became incredibly overpowered. Granted, the game doesn't explain this at all, and you only really have 2 characters, everyone else is just there temporarily. Which was a weird choice.
Earring Magic Ken needs to be brought up. Mattel, the company behind Barbie was upset with the Ken attache rate. For every dozen Barbies sold, only 1 or less Kens were sold. So the higher ups sent their designers to clubs to find out what was cool and hip at the time to redesign Ken for the 90s... What they came back with was Ken wearing a mesh top, silky, roomy pants and a metal ring on a necklace. What they DIDN'T tell the CEOs/HIgher ups was the designers went almost primarily to GAY DANCE CLUBS, and the Ken they were selling was a very openly gay Ken wearing a cock ring necklace. Which is why he quickly became such a hot buy.
@Grima the Fell Dragon The best part, the designers claim they saw all these guys wearing metal rings on necklaces, and didn't know what it meant just that it looked cool...
So the 7th Guest was near impossible to enjoy property without a beast of a PC but ran like a dream on the CDi. Strange. Never knew I was lucky to be playing a CDi.
The thing with Mario is Missing is that the bad review comes from the SNES port - this and Mario’s Time Machine are PC ports, and that’s why they don’t work as well.
7th Guest surprises me. That said, I can see how an FMV game of it's nature would be hard pressed to work on a standard 1993 PC. We're talking the same year Myst was released for the graphically-savvy Macintosh. So yeah, I can see where that comes from.
Earring Magic Ken was known as 'Gay Ken' because they (perhaps accidentally, probably intentionally) dressed him up in stereotypical gay fashion of the time. He also had a ring hanging on a necklace, which was fashionable at the time too in gay clubs - though the ring isn't one for your fingers, it's for another appendage 😂
I have fond memories of playing MegaRace on Christmas break after we got our first PC (a Packard Bell Pentium 60mhz). The announcer's name was "Lance Boyle" - a completely useless bit of trivia which I've always remembered! I'm sure the game got very little play after those first few weeks, though. It wasn't very good.
I actually had (still have actually) that Game Boy Mortal Kombat. I made it a point to learn the game when I found out there was a cheat to play as Goro...
I used to work with a woman whose only claim to fame is that she used to know Chesney Hawks, and this was in 2005, years before his monumental comeback that I'm sure we all remember fondly.
I love y'all at Triple Jump but could you not use that clip of getting hit by the car from _Meet Joe Black_ in the future? Please? It's very jarring when talking about goofy bad videogames. Ofc I don't expect y'all to listen to me or anything but just... putting the request out there for the future.
Oh my gosh, Megarace! Haha I used to play that on my Grandparent's computer, it was more powerful than the computer we had at home that my dad bought. Lance Boyle! Haha! I always wondered what the name of that game was, I had forgotten it's name a long time ago.
You forget to mention that 1993 was also the year that moms everywhere rioted in the aisles of ToysRUs because they couldn't find a Dragonzord from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers line of toys for little Timmy.
My mom wouldn't let me play SNES Mortal Kombat as a kid because if the violence, but got me Gameboy Mortal Kombat instead. I have played much more of that terrible game than anyone should. It is nearly impossible to execute any special moves.
I had a somewhat similar experience game boy was all I had as a kid and I played the heck out of that thing. But that game boy game will always be infamous to me because I remember buying it and regretted it instantly. But like you did in those days you kept playing it because it was what you had. I know I finally sold that game to a shop at some point but I couldn't tell you how much I got only that I got rid of it.
I think the Game Boy Version of Mortal Kombat wasn't actually the worst way to experience that classic title if you ever played the Tiger-Handheld of it.
you know,.. when the worst game still has 41+% and the 10th place has 60% you know it was generally a great year for gaming. because there are lists that start at 40% and go downhill from there
There was one year it started at higher 30's.
@Brainreaver79
Quit being gullible. These lists are trash. Do you really think the CDi Zelda games are too good to make the worst 10?
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 seems like you watched those lists too,,... so whats your poin?
@@Brainreaver79
My point is that Defunct Games made two lists about the worst of 1993 that are better than this one.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Well, you still have those lists to look back on, this one didn't record over them. It's just a bit of fun.
I have RARELY been so vindicated at seeing the #1 on one of these lists. I rented Paladin's Quest several times, assuming I must be playing it wrong because that's how it used to be to play videogames in the era before the internet. Now if only someone else would remember that "Brandish" existed...
I think I only just now realized that I conflated The Family Dog and Spuds MacKenzie in my head as a kid.
Thanks Triplejump, for solving yet another mystery from my childhood!
Yeah, you were playing it wrong.
4:01 In Germany, the word for cucumber "Gurke" can describe something that is just generally terrible and is another word for a terrible, slow old car. So that joke works on multiple levels. Congrats, german reviewer from the 90s.
Is it common to call someone/something an item of food in Germany, as an insult? I keep seeing that happen recently with German jokes I'm not getting. Various foods, various circumstances, various people.
@@furiousapplesack I'm guessing it's because insults are actually punishable by law here. It's tied to the first article of our constitution, which the allied forces mandated on the Germans after WWII. People can call the cops on you for insulting them and you'll get a hefty fine, especially if it's tied to road rage. No, I am not kidding you. And they actually do that. The Krauts are crazy, man. And calling someone a vegetable gives you room for plausible deniability of an intended insult in court if they do. 'Cos the fines can be in the thousands.
@@furiousapplesackwell, there's some food related insults or descriptions in German. "Beleidigte Leberwurst" for example is someone who is easily offended, "Pflaume" (plum) can be a simple insult, "Spargeltarzan" and "Bohnenstange" (asparagus-Tarzan and beanstalk) describe very thin people and so on...
There's also food related nicknames, for example our former chancellor Helmut Kohl was called "Birne" (pear)
@@tjtourette5261 Ah okay, good to know. Thanks!
I love the nostalgia that comes with having The 7th Guest at #10. My dad spent 3 days trying to get it to load on MS:DOS and after many sleepless night my mum, dad, and I spent several evenings trying to figure out how many words there are that don't contain vowels. 1993, you make me proud to have been born in 1987.
My brother and I beat it. Soup cans and all. Completely legit (no Internet around at those times.) I have a lot of fond memories of that game.
@@H0lyMoley Without googling it was along the lines of 'my shy sly tryst by thy gypsy crypt'
It was the microscope puzzle in The 11th Hour that killed us
Not to brag but we got it for my wife’s Macintosh, and installation was effortless. Also, the game is available for iOS and android now!
I was ready to get up in arms as I have a lot of fond 16 bit memories for Double Dragon/Battletoads but it was always with a second player on the couch with me I don’t have a good frame of reference for how bad it might have been as a single player experience. I certainly don’t remember the controls being a struggle.
I played it recently and it's pretty awful. Not a patch on the earlier games.
I played the crap out of that game growing up and really loved it.
I had the NES version. I thought the game was pretty good, not as fun as the first Battletoads, but still pretty good. I seem to remember it being short.
@@davidnec571 The NES version version is much better than the SNES version, it plays much smoother and is a pretty good game. Slightly nicer visuals asides, the SNES version's a bad port and the controls do feel sluggish in comparison. I don't even like the soundtrack on the SNES version as much as the NES one.
I played this on both NES and Genesis. I did not think it also had an SNES port. I thought the deal was the SNES got Battlemaniacs instead. Apparently they got that as an extra SNES exclusive. I really enjoyed this game and don't think it belongs on this list. I have played it single player and man is it a tough game, but it is very fun and very rewarding, particularly if you have an appetite for high-difficulty games and the learning curve required. I thought it was an excellent, successful crossover that worked really well. Only thing is I can't speak for the SNES port or if it's noticeably inferior to the other 2 ports. I beat both NES and Genesis versions on single player but it's quite the daunting task. Was really satisfying each time though.
Seeing a few games that I actually owned as a kid making a list is usually a good thing, just not this time🤣
I take issue with Battletoads and Double Dragon being on here; it was a lot of fun and many of the issues brought up (unevenness, unresponsive controls) weren't there in the game at all.
Exactly, sounds like massive cap. Battletoads & Double Dragon was fun as hell and of course requires SKILL to play because Battletoads as well as Double Dragon weren't meant to be easy. I also never experienced any game issues or bugs on the game either.
It was the only game with the Battletoads I ever beat.
Wasn't a fan. But I was a huge fan of the classic beat em up Double Dragon and Battletoads games. To each their own, I'd give it a low rating as well.
Battle toads and Double Dragon was so much fun. it was a challenging game but it is possible to beat, unlike original battle toads or original Double dragon. I remember being a kid, my brothers, cousins and I would stay up all night trying to get to robo manus. our favorite fight was Big Blag
I agree I liked it
If you wanna play Battletoads get the RARE REPLAY or a ROM of the arcade version. No turbo bikes, no snakes, just pure kick the crap on of everybody.
Holy cow, there are actually games I've played in this list! Several!
- 7th Guest... I said it in a comment below, but my brother and I beat this one. It was legitimately satisfying. In a world dominated by point-and-click tosh, this really stood out in a good way. I feel like if it were re-released today with the technical issues fixed, it would score a lot higher than it did back then.
- Battletoads vs Double Dragon... Again, I enjoyed this one. Ok, it was simplistic, and the difficulty was all over the place. But still a decently fun game. It loses points for not giving you the option to force-feed spinach to Abobo.
- Columns 3... This was... fine. It was a pretty decent puzzler in the "Tetris" vein. There was a lot worse out there.
- Mario is Missing... Ok, I never actually played this one. My friends did though. Wasn't this the game that taught kids to identify countries by shallow national stereotyping? Edutainment!
- Mortal Kombat... Honestly this seemed fine at the time. I'm guessing it wouldn't hold up too well now though.
Funny you mention that: 7th Guest has a canon sequel released just last year from the original makers and with the "community theatre trying their very best" tone FULLY intact.
Yeah a lot of these games aren't very bad.
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte The 13th Doll
Good God, I was 7 when MK Gameboy came out and it was honestly the worst game I ever played in my short life
Love these worst games videos. One of my favorite TH-cam channels.
That moment where you forgot you played something until you see footage for it. Completely forgot about that SNES Wayne's World game until you showed that footage.
Seeing "Battletoads & Double Dragon" on the list of worst games... END VIDEO.
I have *such* a soft spot for Megarace. Because, yeah, it wasn't a very good game - but those pre-rendered tracks and cutscenes were amazing for the time. And they were genuinely fun, in a cheesy way. If you're a fan of 90s FMV games, at least check out the intro on TH-cam for a laugh.
I wonder if the criteria of needing seven professional reviews skews these earlier lists more than later lists because of how the internet developed. 1993 was the year Link: Faces of Evil came out and while I was young at the time I was aware of its existence. It's weird to me that it would either have gotten more than 60% or failed to meet the seven review criteria
It failed to meet the criteria, because few critics were reviewing CDi titles, and even fewer critics are included in the places TripleJump turns a lazy eye.
Yes, obviously it did that. Isn't exactly hard to figure that out
I honestly loved Megarace when I played it in the mid 90s! Specially because of its presentation. The host dude was pretty funny, at least on the translated version I played (PT-BR).
"Battletoads and Double Dragon" was the ultimate friend over for a sleepover video game. That and "Pocky & Rocky" Alot of good memories with those two games
Battletoads and double dragon was awesome on Sega Genesis
Battletoads and Double Dragon was awesome
There’s also a third type of Wayne’s World game. On the PC, it was a “point n click” adventure game.
I remember that "game". I actually wanted it when it was released but I didn't have a good enough PC.
Good thing too, as when I saw a let's play a few years ago, it was insultingly bad.
@@dragondude9637 I never said it was a good game. They’re ALL bad. :)
@@GreyHulk2156 I know, but back then I thought the PC one was a good adventure game, having played all the other types out there like the Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Space Quest, Kings Quest and Quest for Glory ones.
Wow what a trip back in time. So many memories. There are people watching this video that weren't even alive in 1993. Looking at the amazing stuff released in 1993 you had Doom, Duke Nukem 2 and Sim City 2000.
Yeah, I agree, but I was one of the people who was born in 1993, but I didn't start playing games until 1996, when "Super Mario 64" came out, and my Grandma got me it and that was the very first game I ever played and my Dad also loved playing it. But I do wish I could've played games like Doom, Duke Nukem 2, and Sim City 2000, but they weren't on the n64, but I do love that console anyways. It's how I got into series like Pokémon, Resident Evil, The Legend of Zelda(both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask), even other series like F-Zero X, Star Fox 64, Duke Nukem 3D(the n64 version), Kirby 64 and The Crystal Shards, DK64, Conker's Bad Fur Day(even though I never got a sequel), Banjo-Kazooie and; Banjo-Tooie, and most of all to me the, Super Smash Bros. series, but sorry for getting off track there. But I'm glad for the chance to go back and see what stuff I missed out on back then. It wasn't half bad of a list. But I guess games like the Zelda CD-I Games, and "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties", aren't bad enough for the list? Because I've heard of their infamy, I mean, the Zelda CD-I games were so bad, they created ytp's, and I love watching those. So at least the Zelda CD-I Trilogy did something right, after all?
I have wonderful memories of me and my brother playing Megarace as kids. We thought the host guy was the funniest shit ever. It was like nudge nudge wink wink cringe decades before that was a thing.
Yeah, I'll still replay it every now and then just for those wonderful cheestastic FMVs.
"Welcome to Megarace - the action-packed show where violence only happens once... every few seconds. I'm Lance Boyle, and people often wonder if I'm real."
@@jasonblalock4429 Haha yes! "I'm Lance Boyle and if you were me that's who you'd be."😆
I bought Megarace from a vendor at the Minnesota State Fair as a child... The game play did suck, but I put 20+ hours into it strictly due to the fact wanting to see more of the FMV cutscenes.
I'm surprised "Color A Dinosaur" for the NES didn't make that list.
Paladin's Quest kicks ass. Specially the psychedelic graphics. This list sucks and now I'm mad. Thank you.
The sequel's graphics were better...and so was the everything else.
German here, huge fan of your channel. Shedding some light on the "Cucumber"-thing ... in germany, calling a product (or performance) a "cucumber", it's synonymous with "train-wreck".
Sad to hear about Blaster Master 2. The original was incredible and holds up pretty well today for the most part.
Yeah I had Blaster Master on NES and it was great. If you aren't aware there's a reboot of the Series called "Blaster Master zero" They are up to the 3rd and last game which released last year. They have gotten really good reviews.
To be honest i enjoyed Blaster Master 2 but at the same time i understood why most people didn't like it, my main gripe with the game is there are no Jason dungeons to explore and the over head Sophia sections are frustrating as hell.
Megarace. It looked like poop, it played like poop, but Lance Boyle *almost* made it worth booting up. I got it free with my first PC, along with Encarta. Pretty sure I spent more time playing Encarta's Mind Maze of the two XD
The "Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure" cameo in the beginning made me so happy. I still play that on my SEGA a lot.
Funny how you included a Django Unchained clip when I literally just rewatched it a couple of days ago. 😂
Dang the 7th Guest? I LOVED that game. It was so creepy as a kid. The puzzles were tough as nails though when I was younger. I’m lucky enough to have found an actual big box complete edition at my local goodwill for a few bucks. That’s so cool to own!
love these videos!
In the 7th Guest, the pantry can puzzle alone would kill most reviews, even after seeing the answer, and that puzzle is pretty early on. It is one of those "I will never forget the solution as long as I live" level of insanity. After beating the game I remember looking in an official guide book for a proper solution to the microscope puzzle and it literally saying we have no idea how to beat this one. And I love the entire trilogy.
Something, something slyly spryly tryst by my crypt.
Wait, was it “Shy gypsy, slyly, spryly tryst by my crypt?”
@@deusprogrammer_thekingofspace yep, now imagine being a reviewer coming across that. And the slow trading of each can took me and a friend over an hour putting it together after solving it on paper first.
@@valetboy21 back then it didn’t really bother us that much. We were just enthralled by the spectacle of the game. My grandma and I played through it together. She was so cool.
Not to mention that neverending maze, which was almost impossible to brute force. The maze is actually on a rug upstairs, but these were the days before screenshots, so you'd have to manually copy the maze to be able to get through it. Such a pain in the ass.
Surprised 7th Guest is on there. I'd put that in the top 10 PC games personally.
My best friend in grade school had Battle Toads/Double Dragon. We played the hell out of that game
Having owned Battletoads/Double Dragon, I feel attacked. That game was good, if infuriating at times. Anyone else remember how levels would end if either player got a game over in the middle of a level?
That happens in the original Battletoads as well, and since Rare made both games, there is definitely a pattern.
I am surprised nobody's tried to remake 7th Guest at any time. It could have even worked turned into a a portable puzzle game like the Professor Layton series.
I object at The 7th Guest being on the list.
As do I!
Same here!
I loved the game, but the list is based on scores, and well, they weren’t great.....
@@AJ72281 fair enough.
Megarace is one of my favorite games of all time and I feel personally attacked. I was also 3 at the time though...
a "Gurke" (Cucumber) is a derogatory term to describe a slow or old car in Germany. From it derives the verb "Gurken" (to cucumber) for aimlessly and very slowly driving around. I guess the German reviewers refer to that and the translation is just bad ^^
My birth year! I've been looking forward to this 😁
Honestly, I kind of enjoyed Paladin's Quest. It's no Final Fantasy, but I enjoyed it far more than the Game Boy Mortal Kombat and any version of Mario is Missing.
Then again, critics in 1993 were on to something, it wasn't that good of a game, and it's likely sentimentality on my part that made me enjoy it, as I was just on the cusp of being a teenager when it came out, so I didn't really know any better.
Nah. Paladin's Quest is great and the critics blew. GamePro gave Bubsy a perfect score. Critics are now and always have been idiots. That Ren and Stimpy: Veediots was not on this list yet Paladin's Quest was shows that the critics blow.
What the heck! Battletoads & Double Dragon is probably one of the better Snes beat em ups ever.
About the German review: We call lackluster things "Gurke" (cucumber). This goes back to "Saure Gurken Zeit" (pickle time), which describes a time of sparsity - as in the time of the year, that only has preserved food.
So is no one going to comment how Columns 2 was never released outside Japan until 2019?
As a lot of the early MK characters were just palette swaps, it’s no wonder a black & white version sucked!
The only part that was actually pretty cool was the music. It wasn't great but for the game boy it actually wasn't that bad. But of all the games I bought for the game boy or got as a gift it is definitely at the top of the list of deep regrets.
I love Paladin's Quest! It was one of the few games I owned for SNES as a kid.
Double Dragon & BattleToads has a very redeeming feature though: it's soundtrack! As to be expected for either franchise the music is awesome!
Paladins quest was one of my favorite games as a kid, right next to 7th Saga and Illusions of Gaia.
All this list seems to be showing this time around is that critics in 1993 were off of their game (pun intended) .
7th guest was the flipping best! But I build PCs for a living...
If you bought a computer in America from Best Buy the 90s mega race was definitely included in it, I remember it came with all these free CD ROM games that I wanted to believe were amazing at the time because I never had a computer with a CD ROM
Best Buy? Ha! Comp USA gave you that good shit...like the Journeyman Project Turbo, MechWarrior 2, and Torrin's Passage.
@@Marc_Araujo okay comp usa too, CONFIRMED!!! lol
Are you not aware that Columns III had a story mode, whereas the original 1990 Columns game did not? That's why you're fighting against the creatures in the middle of the screen, and their table is on the right side while yours is on the left. There are also several gems in the game you could use to temporarily sabotage your enemies' efforts, such as reversing the controls, preventing the player from switching the order of the blocks, and turning all the blocks black and white.
I loved MegaRace as a kid! Used to play that, Jazz Jackrabbit, SC2000, and the Jurassic Park interactive CD game on an old 33MHz i486 Packard Bell
Ayyo, some classic Slow Mo Guys action at 4:37, niiiiiice
DOOM is still by far my favorite! The entire franchise kicks ass! Even though Wolfenstein 3d was technically the blueprint for the FPS genre, DOOM straight up perfected it
Mega Race was awesome! My best friend and I played this for hours back in middle school. Then again, we used to chug "blue drink"....off brand Kool-Aid, so our literal and figurative tastes probably weren't the most refined. 🤣
The weird thing is that Paladins Quest was really intricate, with magic taking your HP actually being a thing to balance it out, as once you levelled your spirits, magic became incredibly overpowered.
Granted, the game doesn't explain this at all, and you only really have 2 characters, everyone else is just there temporarily. Which was a weird choice.
You should do worst games of the year by users next. These are great videos.
Earring Magic Ken needs to be brought up. Mattel, the company behind Barbie was upset with the Ken attache rate. For every dozen Barbies sold, only 1 or less Kens were sold.
So the higher ups sent their designers to clubs to find out what was cool and hip at the time to redesign Ken for the 90s... What they came back with was Ken wearing a mesh top, silky, roomy pants and a metal ring on a necklace.
What they DIDN'T tell the CEOs/HIgher ups was the designers went almost primarily to GAY DANCE CLUBS, and the Ken they were selling was a very openly gay Ken wearing a cock ring necklace. Which is why he quickly became such a hot buy.
@Grima the Fell Dragon The best part, the designers claim they saw all these guys wearing metal rings on necklaces, and didn't know what it meant just that it looked cool...
Battletoads Double Dragon was a fun game! There had to have been been many, many worse games to come out in 1993 that could have been on this list.
Great list, super topical
So the 7th Guest was near impossible to enjoy property without a beast of a PC but ran like a dream on the CDi. Strange. Never knew I was lucky to be playing a CDi.
Oh, now don’t be comin’ for Family Dog!
That game was my jam, and I STILL love breaking it out and playing it!
The year that Kirby's Adventure released,.. we got all this garbage,.. god bless Kirby :P
I am not a fan of the new background music for the video. I feel like it overtakes what is being said. Just an opinion from a fellow video editor.
The thing with Mario is Missing is that the bad review comes from the SNES port - this and Mario’s Time Machine are PC ports, and that’s why they don’t work as well.
7th Guest surprises me. That said, I can see how an FMV game of it's nature would be hard pressed to work on a standard 1993 PC. We're talking the same year Myst was released for the graphically-savvy Macintosh. So yeah, I can see where that comes from.
When I was eight years old, I literally wrote Mega Race fan fiction...
Great video!
Earring Magic Ken was known as 'Gay Ken' because they (perhaps accidentally, probably intentionally) dressed him up in stereotypical gay fashion of the time. He also had a ring hanging on a necklace, which was fashionable at the time too in gay clubs - though the ring isn't one for your fingers, it's for another appendage 😂
Yeah, I'd never heard of this Ken either, but the moment I saw the picture, I could have told you why he was popular, LOL.
that bloody Family Dog cartoon 5:40
When I was a kid, I really enjoyed Mario is Missing and the GB Mortal Kombat!
There was actually another Wayne’s World game, a point and click for the pc
Yeah and that one was even worse. Though that wasn't that hard to do honestly
Paladins Quest is actually a pretty cool game.
I really enjoyed mega race on the packard bell and battletoads/double dragon on genesis. They were good enough for their time.
I have fond memories of playing MegaRace on Christmas break after we got our first PC (a Packard Bell Pentium 60mhz). The announcer's name was "Lance Boyle" - a completely useless bit of trivia which I've always remembered! I'm sure the game got very little play after those first few weeks, though. It wasn't very good.
That BTDD is on here is absolutely criminal. I guess even reviewers in 93 were morons. None of the issues presented here were in the actual game.
Hey now, I happen to really enjoy the Family Dog game. The physics are bizarre but there's a lot of weirdness
Ah yes the year I was born... Beautiful year
didnt play the GB MK, might have once or twice but not much, after seeing this I'm gratefull for the Master System version I had back in the day
Whoever gave 7th Guest a bad review...wow...what a bad take.
Two skulls and two stones, the rest is just icing.
First Guest was awesome. Dam scary for 10 year old me!
I had so many nightmares from 7th guest!!
Time for my birth year let’s go!
You 4 rules ! Keep it up !
I only know Blaster Maser because I saw Kanna hentai from this game.
my jaw dropped when hearing 7th guest on this list.
I actually had (still have actually) that Game Boy Mortal Kombat. I made it a point to learn the game when I found out there was a cheat to play as Goro...
Megarace was one of my first PC games. RIP
Family dog the show was ahead of its time
I used to work with a woman whose only claim to fame is that she used to know Chesney Hawks, and this was in 2005, years before his monumental comeback that I'm sure we all remember fondly.
First comment! 😂 fantastic content guys keep up the great work ! 😊👍
I played the heck out of megarace on my Packard bell computer back in 1995.
The 7th guest? Really? I loved that game.
I love y'all at Triple Jump but could you not use that clip of getting hit by the car from _Meet Joe Black_ in the future? Please? It's very jarring when talking about goofy bad videogames. Ofc I don't expect y'all to listen to me or anything but just... putting the request out there for the future.
Oh my gosh, Megarace! Haha I used to play that on my Grandparent's computer, it was more powerful than the computer we had at home that my dad bought. Lance Boyle! Haha! I always wondered what the name of that game was, I had forgotten it's name a long time ago.
You forget to mention that 1993 was also the year that moms everywhere rioted in the aisles of ToysRUs because they couldn't find a Dragonzord from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers line of toys for little Timmy.
For a second I thought it was called "Blaster Master 2: Genesis" on SNES lol
My mom wouldn't let me play SNES Mortal Kombat as a kid because if the violence, but got me Gameboy Mortal Kombat instead. I have played much more of that terrible game than anyone should. It is nearly impossible to execute any special moves.
I had a somewhat similar experience game boy was all I had as a kid and I played the heck out of that thing.
But that game boy game will always be infamous to me because I remember buying it and regretted it instantly. But like you did in those days you kept playing it because it was what you had. I know I finally sold that game to a shop at some point but I couldn't tell you how much I got only that I got rid of it.
I think the Game Boy Version of Mortal Kombat wasn't actually the worst way to experience that classic title if you ever played the Tiger-Handheld of it.
Family Dog was based off an episode of Spielbergs Amazing Stories, a short lives but pretty good Sci-Fi series of the time. Sorta like Twilight Zone