The Heap

Enter a fully immersive fantasy world of menus in a indie RPG that literally takes seconds to beat!

Who's at fault: Triple A Studios
Released: 2008
Platform: PC, Xbox Live

Data Design Interactive is the prostitute of the gaming industry. They're not interested in a relationship, they're just interested in fucking you and taking your money.

Who's at fault: Data Design Interactive, Conspiracy Entertainment
Released: 2005 (Europe), 2007
Platform: PS2, Wii

Nintendo Power, the source for Nintendo propaganda since the 1980s and 90s glosses over the ultra lame SNES version of Mortal Kombat...with stupidly funny results.  

Who's at fault: Nintendo
Released: 1993
Platform: SNES

Known in some circles as the worst racing game ever made, Cosmic Race replaced absolute zero in game reviews, borrowed graphics from the Playstation dev kit, and is really just a horrible, horrible game. 

Who's at fault: Neorex, Sony
Released: 1995
Platform: Playstation (Japan)

Calling itself the world's first "3D Adult Erotica Game" Immoral Cumbat is nothing more than a boring Wolfenstein 3D clone with some of the most insane and stupid crap seen in a video game.  

Who's at fault: CoreSoft
Released: 1995
Platform: PC

Experience the comedy antics and pivotal plot points of Home Improvement, based off of the show of the same name! Jill Taylor cancer not included.  
 

Who's at fault: Absolute Entertainment, Imagineering
Released: 1994
Platform: SNES

A shooting game that looks like it came from 1996, released to arcades in 2004, then ported to the Wii in 2008. This doesn't do a thing to save it from crazy frame rate issues or cheesy Photoshop effects. 
 

Who's at fault: Leviathan Games, Konami
Released: 2008
Platform: Wii

Buying actual M&M's is more fun than this broken ugly mess.

Who's at fault: Frontline Studios, DSI Games
Released: 2007
Platform: Wii

Ohhhh the doldrums! Strike out on the high seas in this watered down take on the world's deadliest job.

Who's at fault: Liquid Dragon, Navarre Corp.
Released: 2008
Platform: Xbox 360, PC

What could be worse than a first person shooter that only causes headaches and confusion? Having a cybernetic armadillo as your main character and a title that sounds like something at the local porn store.

Who's at fault: Pixel Technologies, Panasonic
Released: 1996
Platform: 3DO

Originally released at the can't miss price of $199 US, the Action 52 crapped its way into infamy with a collection of the 52 worst NES games you'll ever play. Period. With the help or Orangeaction.com's "TheJuice", let us take you on a journey into the biggest pile of crap you'll ever encounter...and may never return from!

Who's at fault? Active Enterprises
Platform: NES
Released: 1991

A strategy RPG where you can't damage anyone or strategize? Why's this game called 'Battle Hunter' again?

Who's at fault: AI Interactive, Success
Released: 2001
Platform: Playstation

An abysmal racing game that is neither fun, nor adds any credibility to the already socially crippling sport of lawnmower racing.

Who's at fault: Ev Interactive, Vivendi-Universal 
Released: 2006
Platform: PC, Xbox

Arnold smuggling melons under his shirt, midgets in trash cans, awful gameplay, and an obstacle consisting of people punching you through glory holes in a fence. I sincerely have pity for anyone who paid full price for this game eighteen years ago.

Who's at fault: Interplay, Acclaim 
Released: 1990
Platform: NES

Ninjabread Man is a horrible platforming game for the Wii. Four enemies, four levels, and one whole hour of gameplay can't even justify its bargain bin price tag.

Who's at fault: Data Design Interactive, Conspiracy Entertainment
Released: 2005, 2007
Platform: PS2, Wii

ET was so terrible, it not only killed the most powerful game company at the time, but killed the entire video game industry altogether.

Who's at fault: Atari, Warner Bros. Interactive
Released: 1982
Platform: Atari 2600

Naming kids Turok, spray painting pigeons, gravestones with ads, and billboards that drip blood. You may think this sounds unreal, but the geniuses at Acclaim Entertainment actually considered these for advertising. Worse than that, people actually played along.

Who's at fault: Acclaim Entertainment
Released: 2003-2005
Platform: Anything they could think of.

Boring mini-games, butt-ugly visuals, and music that reaches levels of creepiness that can only pollute Enya's nightmares.

Who's at fault: Disney Interactive
Released: 2007
Platform: Nintendo DS

Have you ever wanted to play a crappy Sims clone where you play the part of the most unlikeable guy ever? What about playing an adult game that would only succeed in making an Iranian blush? 7 Sins aspires to be all of that.

Who's at fault: Digital Jesters, Monte Cristo
Released: 2005
Platform: PC, PS2
 
 

Escape from Bug Island manages to set the Survival Horror genre back about ten years with back-assward conrols, ugly visuals, and fog, fog, fog.

Who's At Fault: Spike, Eidos
Released: 2007
Platform: Wii

Racing mayhem...at ten frames per second.

Who's At Fault: Goldstar, Core Design
Released: 1993
Platform: 3DO 
 
 
 
 
 

Anyone considering themselves a fan of either Kabuki Theater or fighting games should consider Kabuki Warriors a bastardization of the art.

Who's At Fault: Crave Entertainment, Genki
Released: 2001
Platform: Xbox

After being sued by Capcom for ripping off Street Fighter II, Data East got to work on Tattoo Assassins, a game aimed at the consolation prize of ripping off Mortal Kombat II this time around. Luckily, this story has a happier ending.

Who's At Fault: Data East
(un)Released: 1995
Platform: Arcade

 

Finding its way into the real world via shareware BBS CDs, Gore Galore was neither gory nor was it any good. Touting itself as a splatterfest, it mainly came off as a low-rent Wolfenstein clone. Oh, and it had a poo gun too.

Who's at fault: Jester Software
Platform: PC
Released: 1995
 
 

Vying to take down The Legend of Zelda as the best action/adventure game on the NES, Deadly Towers is much less a game than a lesson in futility. 

Who's at fault: Lenar, Brøderbund Software
Platform: NES
Released: 1986
 
 
 

One of two games that not only helped to kill a company, but crashed an industry. Pac-Man, after a ton of hype, released to home consoles and epitomized the term "disappointing".

Who's at fault: Atari, Namco
Platform: Atari 2600
Released: 1982

Marketed as an edgy, violent, and bloody title, Sword of Sodan shows that gallons of blood and swords don't necessarily make a good game.

Who's at fault: Innerprise Software, Electronic Arts
Platform: Sega Genesis
Released: 1990
 
 
 

What happens when the merchandising geniuses at Nintendo of America team up with the Topps trading cards company? Pure. Unadulterated. Crap.

Who's at fault: Nintendo of America, The Topps Company
Platform: Trading Cards
Released: 1989-1990

Infamous for being  just about the worst game ever made, Big Rigs Over the  Road Racing has to truely be seen to be believed. If there were ever one title that truely defined this site, this is it.

Who's at fault: Stellar Stone LLC, GameMill
Platform: PC
Released: 2003