I love bad games and bad accessories. I own a few of the Bible games on NES and I actually had a good time with a religious friend who had never heard of them. He got such a kick out of Baby Moses that we beat the whole game.

Alowishus wrote:

Yes but some games that people think are bad i disagree with. The best example is E.T. People think it's the worst game of all time. It's just an extremely boring game, it's nowhere near the worst game of all time. The worst game of all time would be a glitched unplayable mess. The fact that you can actually play E.T. signifies that it isn't the worst game ever. By no means am i saying it's a good game. Like i said it's boring as fuck to play...people attribute the video game crash to it. It's not the games fault per se but more the fact that it was a marketing/economic failure in that too many carts were produced.

I don't think most people actually believe that E.T. is the worst game ever made in terms of playability (at least not informed people). I am guessing that most people call it the worst game ever made for the latter reasoning. Obviously, no one game can cause a market crash, but it embodies a lot of the problems that did lead to the crash and it is a title that most people know about due to the fame of the license so it is understandable that it is so often cited as the worst game ever made.

Camshaft wrote:

What about misunderstood games? There's a lot of games that people call "bad" because of the difficulty (Milon's Secret Castle) or the license (McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure). In fact this goes back to what someone just said about AVGN, especially some of the copycat asspie wannabe badasses who think arbitrarily yelling at a game and swearing on Youtube is too cool for school. It's like I can't find decent reviews on Youtube anymore because of these retards. I just want to take them by the scruff of their pimply four-chinned necks and say "I know you think it's totally uncool to like a McDonald's game, but trust me...I've boned better looking chicks than you, make more money than you, and drive a faster car than you and I'm not afraid to say that the McDonald's game is fucking incredible." Did anyone actually watch the AVGN review of Milon's Secret Castle? The game is damn hard but it's not as bad as he says...if you've actually played the game you'd think this guy was a fuckin' retard. I know it's kind of his thing to flip a shit but just because he's too much of a dumpy idiot to find the level exit dosen't mean it's a bad game. I'm convinced that this guy is banking on the fact that 90% of his fanbase was too young to play these games when new and as a result have NEVER played them. /rant What the hell were we talking about again? >___> Oh yeah, bad games. That BTTF game, on the other hand, is an actually bad game. Fuck that piece of shit.

I disagree with your assessment of the AVGN on Milon's Secret Castle. I do agree that the game isn't that bad, and is actually decent if you know what you are doing, but I don't think he is trying to reach kids that have never played the game. I had the game when I was a kid and I still own my original copy, and until I watched that video I had no fucking idea what to do in that game. I might just be an idiot, but none of my siblings knew either. We probably popped it in once a month and never once found how to get beyond those first 4 rooms. I think a lot of the time AVGN does his reviews by exaggerating the way that he felt when he played a game as a kid. Assuming he didn't own the game and just rented it I don't see why he wouldn't be pissed as a kid, because I don't imagine without any assistance most kids would figure out what to do in that game.

Having said that I do agree with you complaining about AVGN ripoffs on youtube. AVGN always leaves me with a nostalgic feeling, like he is paying tribute to the annoying things in some classic games, and I get the sense that even as he complains about them he really holds a fondness for the character that "bad" games add to the history of video games. This can clearly be seen in some of his reviews like the R.O.B. review where he fights to bring back all the "shitty" games, and by the amount of effort he clearly puts in to the production of some of his episodes. Copy Cat reviewers never seem to have any of that going for them. They just seem to go by the title of AVGN and try to replicate that rather than the spirit that he brings to his episodes.