DISQUS

Tara · 2 years ago

you could also do an opposite version of this list on the worst video game movies, IE Mortal Kombat, Mario Bros, but i guess everyone would just end up being on the list ;)

John · 2 years ago

If you're a writer, please proof-read your grammar: "Sure there's some exceptions to the..."

Robert Fure · 2 years ago

In Back to the Future the game after you make it to the Cafe, Biff throws milk shakes at you that you have to dodge. I forgot how you beat him but the second level is more of the same and even harder and that's where I get stopped.

maggie van ostrand · 2 years ago

This is the best of Gallagher's lists (so far). These games are so the worst, they cross the line of "so bad, they're fun."

Matt · 2 years ago

Your claim that ET "spawned an urban legend about a mysterious landfill created just to bury the leftover unsold Atari cartridges." is quite true. Just take a look: http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp

John Philips · 2 years ago

"and just about every other “Star Wars” game created since then"

The Knights of the Old Republic series was awesome, especially the first...

tim · 2 years ago

Nice analysis, but your grammar is atrocious. Some of these reviews are almost unreadable. I would suggest reading the real MLA guide and not just skimming the Cliff's Notes.

anon · 2 years ago

There is a funny scene in Michael Jackson Moonwalker where you can get him to hump the kids if you position him right... at the end of each level they also all run into a dark cave.

Jonathan Bartolomeo · 2 years ago

It's not just a legend. They really DID bury unsold Atari E.T. games in the desert. Read it for yourself: Snopes

some dude · 2 years ago

this list is made of fail.

Frank · 2 years ago

I totally remember being so incredibly pissed off at E.T. I still don't know what the creators were thinking.

Charles · 2 years ago

4 years is nearly a decade after 1985?

nick · 2 years ago

How about doing the 10 most bizarre video games of all time. Has anyone ever played Lester the Unlikely for SNES?

Dennis · 2 years ago

i thought Zork the worst in all history

Derek Quenneville · 2 years ago

Have you even played E.T.? What about NES duds like Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Total Recall, or Cheetahmen? I'd rather play E.T. or SF: The Movie than those crappy games.

JJrhda · 2 years ago

What? No Daikatana?

Levi Blackman · 2 years ago

I love the Back to the Future game...don't remember if I ever beat i though, that was a long time ago.

Jake · 2 years ago

Perhaps I am alone here, but I loved the E.T. game when I was younger. My cousins and I would play it all the time, and we'd win, and we loved it.

Clifford · 2 years ago

I agree with Jake. ET was good. A bit tricky, but good. Hell, I played it when I was 5 or 6 and managed to finish it. I guess some people suck at playing ET. Moonwalker was good at the time. Enter the Matrix was not too bad. I haven't played the rest.

Matt · 2 years ago

What's this, a list of bad movie games with not even a mention of the superman game? Weak.

ibz · 2 years ago

haha...ur right ...

ibz · 2 years ago

moonwalker rocked man! u danced ppl to death at the end of each level!! and m.js......aaao! was the bomb

jon · 2 years ago

Come onn, I thought enter the matrix was actually pretty good, i had fun playing it and how could you ever diss a star wars and bond game. And street fighter, that game was awesomme.

Jayci · 2 years ago

Moonwalker is in my local arcade..

..and people actually play it upon occasion..

..egh.

JCVD · 2 years ago

Moonwalker was a really good game, both the Genesis and arcade version.
Still a fun platformer by todays standards and certainly better than the 5th Element on Playstation.

Dale · 2 years ago

I used to play moonwalker a lot, lol

Sonnenrad · 2 years ago

"Matrix" fand ich ganz gut!
Aber das schlechteste Spiel zum Film war "Kinkong", was f¼r ein Dreck!

Tihocan · 2 years ago

What are the chances that any of these ET carts survived? I wouldn't mind having a copy of the 'Game That Brought Down Atari'.

crossover · 2 years ago

Moonwalker was good. So were the Blues Brothers, IMHO. While I approve with the list for the most part, some if jst screams FAIL.

Art Fellon · 2 years ago

These video games in their own way were fun
They were somewhat predictable as compared to the games that you have now
Fun and games

Golo Molo · 2 years ago

1) Moonwalker is pretty damn good game. I still own the cartridge xD
2) Pixelated world in ET ... i think we're talking about Atari 2600 here. What else were you expecting at that time? Bump maps and 16x AA?
3) Tomorrow Never Dies is pretty good too.

DarkPup · 2 years ago

This list is completely bogus... Superman 64 didn't make the list.

JALbert · 2 years ago

Moonwalker was a pretty good game. Bizzare, yes. But a pretty good platformer. There's a lot worse movie tie-ins that could have made this list.

MC · 2 years ago

I still think Raiders of the Lost Ark is worse than ET.

Bcalla · 2 years ago

I liked bounty hunter. The side mission of collecting bounties on random characters was kick ass and added a unique dimension to that game. Using the mask to 'tag' bounties, and also to snipe with the poison darts was very creative. Sure the camera got tricky but I played it on GC and thats what the other analog was for! Plus the jet pack, and control puzzles were very fun. This game should be way back on a list of this genre imo.

Jason · 2 years ago

E.T. bashing is really weak. For a game that was made in a few days it's head-and-shoulders above everything else on this list.

RayZyN · 2 years ago

Uh... The movie Back to the Future came out in 1985, and the video game was released in 1989? I've never heard four years referred to as "nearly a decade" before.

scratchdisk · 2 years ago

Nice post, but I kind of liked moon walker in the arcade, i thougth it was fun. Check out my list of the Top Ten Video Game Movies:

http://playingwithpower.com/2007/06/06/top-ten-...

Go2doug · 2 years ago

Guys, I don't know about you but I loved the ET game for Atari as a kid. I just loved assembling those phone pieces and "phoning home"! :-/

No, seriously, I did really like the game. I remember playing it a lot, along with Pitfall 2.

Jon · 2 years ago

actually there was nothing wrong with bounty hunter. it played great and had a great storyline. also i dont think james bond deserves to be on this list. there are alot of worse games out there. i.e. daikatana?

Ankst · 2 years ago

The funny thing is, when I was a kid, somehow I knew what to do in the ET video game. I owned and finished that game, I remember that clearly. And yes, it was very very stupid.

Wayne Harke · 2 years ago

What?! No "Friday the 13th?" It was horrible!

Rushy · 2 years ago

You forgot "Meta-Galactic Llama's Battle at the edge of time"!
That was classicly awful!

Tom · 2 years ago

I could live till I was a hunnert and happily never hear another goddamn joke about how ET wasn't a very good game.

Lord Amazing · 2 years ago

Here's a short list of games I find less fun than Moonwalker:

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (NES)
Dick Tracy (NES)
Gremlins 2 (NES)
Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)
Friday the 13th (NES)
Rambo (NES)
Total Recall (NES)
Home Alone (SNES)
Rocketeer (SNES)

Covarr · 2 years ago

Moonwalker was unintentionally funny, but it was hardly bad. It's sure loads better than Ice Age (GBA).

Elliot · 2 years ago

You are right, E.T. WAS the worst game ever. PERIOD.

However, the "myth" about the landfill is no myth at all. E.T. was released around the end of the 2600's era, and when the console was taken off the market, Atari was still stuck with millions of these things. They thought the game would be an instant hit, but of course the game sucked balls, so they were stuck.

The games were rendered unplayable in order to discourage people from trying to salvage the games, and they were put into a landfill.

One of the greatest video game failures in recorded history.

OJ · 2 years ago

Star Wars Bounty Hunter is a brilliant game - I spent many a happy hour completing that one, and aside from one or two others, it's the most satisfying game I've played in ages. I've played supposedly better ones like Battlefront, but they're not as good as Bounty Hunter.

The controls aren't clunky and while the camera isn't ideal, I've seen much much worse.

Bert · 2 years ago

What about Die Hard Nakatomi plaza? I bought that game thinking it would be fun, but it turned out to be so brainless & too movie-like to even think for yourself during gameplay. YAWN.

Crimefaction · 2 years ago

Insert Penis here, I have nothing more to say

TurboIce · 2 years ago

How come the Aquaman game for the Gamecube didn't make the cut? Or 50 Cent Bulletproof? Those games sucked so much they blowed.

TurboIce · 2 years ago

opps. didn't see the title. lol

Pyro · 2 years ago

seriously? no Superman 64 on the list? I thought that one would have a reserved spot on this.

Arcturus · 2 years ago

You know as a kid I finished ET, well finsihed it twice, if I rememebr correct, on the 3rd time around if I"m remebering correctly (hey this was 24+ years ago on an atari leave me alone) it just got too hard to finish....

Maybe you just had to be not stupid to get how to play, it wasn't my most fun game.. but then every atari 2600 video game stunk pritty much...

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simone · 2 years ago

i think you have forgotten a very very vey bad videogame. it was "ghost busters II" for the commodore 64. The story did not make sense and no one i know managed to get out the second level, where u were supposed to descend in a sewer, tied to a rope, and kill monsters with the "protonic laser" or whatever it was.

asasasasas · 2 years ago

the mario bro film wasnt that bad

Oo.oO · 2 years ago

The matrix game was wonderfully fun, I have no idea what your talking about.

Bret · 2 years ago

I remember the Friday the 13th game. Looking back now it did really suck. I think it merely consisted of having the alter ego run from cabin to cabin looking for mundane items to combat Jason with. When he did show up it was a bit scary at the time, and he was very difficult to fight. Such was my addiction to Nintendo - I simply had to try and beat the darn thing. But I didn't and never rented it or considered purchasing - and that says a lot for a fool that sunk over $1,000 into the silly Magic the Gathering franchise (Fun? Yes. Addicitve? Yes!! Worth the cash that could probably have me all the closer to retirement? NO!!!)

Gwenn · 2 years ago

OMG I thought I was the only one who owned Back to the Future and who couldn't make it past the first level. I never knew what the hell was supposed to be going on... I only ended up extremely pissed cus "Marty" would always end up in this weird position on the floor twitching and stuff... LOL what a dumb game hehe

Jay Hunter · 1 year ago

"There’s nothing worse than a bad video game, except the extremely rare bad video game that’s based on a crappy movie that’s based on a great video game."

I can't believe you'd write "bad video game" next to Street Fighter. I'll readily go off on a rant on how terrible the Movie was, but SF was the first massively popular Beat-Em-Up. I won't hear a word about it. Do you think Mortal Kombat or Killer Instinct or Tekken would've made it to the big time without being inspired by SF? That's like saying The Simpsons didn't have any influence South Park, Family Guy and King of the Hill.

The fact that SF has been going for the best part of 20 years means that it's something special. Rag on the film as much as you like, but don't bring Street Fighter down with it. It's completely unfair.

JKH

nick · 10 months ago

hi

avb · 8 months ago

charlie's angels, superman 64, bad boys:miami takedown, bebe's kids should be here.

pur3vil · 2 days ago

How about plumbers don't wear ties? That should be on there man.