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{{quote|''"I'm glad I got this... because, it's fun. Not fun as in good, fun as in 'fun seeing all the horrible stuff on here'."''|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3_7nz0J7_s Joshua8600]''' reviewing the [[Serial Numbers Filed Off|Zone 40]]}}

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== Games ==

** And rejoicing about how the LOSER HWSNBN got fired.

* ''Target: Terror''. The first time you [[Groin Attack|shoot a terrorist in the junk]] in this arcade shooter, you'd understand how ''awesome'' it is. And in ''Gold Edition'' you get a score bonus for doing it enough times. [[Porting Disaster|The Wii port, on the other hand...]]

* Similar to the above, ''Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror'', paints a rather dismal and menacing military subject in a completely new light, with horribly outdated character models, copious amounts of gangster rap, and (even though the rest of the game is a First Person Shooter) martial arts battles against the bosses for no reason. The result is so hilarious that after playing it, you might crack up every time you see any picture of [[Osama Bin Laden]] anywhere.

* ''Sprung'' earns the So Bad It's Good title by making itself a [[Dating Sim]] - only to give you a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] when Brett scores a threesome, and having to do absurd tasks like speaking to a Cow-headed Hippie (no, seriously), and the fact you win the final round by a coin toss, [[Golden Snitch|regardless of all the decisions you made in previous rounds]].

** ''Animal Soccer World'', one of Phoenix's titles, deserves a special mention. It's not actually a ''game'', really, just a cartoon with a few minigames thrown in. The animation's bad, but the dubbing is even ''worse''; it seems to be improvised by a couple Dutch guys who aren't entirely fluent in English, with no attention paid to [[Mouth Flaps]] whatsoever. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdvkjK92-Y It has to be seen to be believed.]

** ''Animal Soccer World'' isn't the only "game" guilty of this. There are several other "Cartoon Movies" packaged with minigames that Phoenix created, such as ''Mouse Police'' and ''Son of the Lion King'', complete with the same unintentionally hilarious dubbing, the same footage from Dingo Pictures, and, occasionally, [[Obligatory Swearing]].

** Their actual games are little better - ''[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8qbSISQI4 London Cab Challenge]'' (a ''[[Crazy Taxi]]'' clone) has cars that are little more than cuboids on wheels, a draw distance so near that you can't even see the car in front, spectacularly bad physics, glitchtastic collision detection and spectacularly bad AI. And that's on the Playstation ''2'' version.

* The ''[[Free Space|Freespace 2]]'' user-made campaign ''Second Great War Part II'' is considered one of the worst among the Freespace community. Supposedly set after the FS2 main campaign, it has so many plot holes and isn't even consistent with the universe it's set in. But there are so many ships present in every mission (Freespace players call this the ''Battle of Endor Syndrome'') that there's so many things to blow up, it becomes kind of fun. You get to singlehandedly take down half a dozen squadrons and 10 cruisers and stuff, just destroying stuff for the heck of it.

* The games by [[Artix Entertainment]] probably wouldn't be the same to some players without the puns. And trust me, the creators make sure that you know that they are aware of how many of them they make.

* The makers of the Philips CD-I licensed characters from ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Bros]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' for a number of games: ''[[Hotel Mario]]'', ''Link: The Faces Of Evil'', ''Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon'', and ''Zelda's Adventure''. They were produced without input from the original creators, and are unanimously considered [[Canon Discontinuity|non-canonical]]. The gameplay is generally considered to be slow, monotonous and unfairly difficult, but the infamy comes from the laughably bad cutscenes. They are, depending on opinion, [[Narm|Narmishly]] hilarious with [[Fountain of Memes|every line a meme]] ("Mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for?", "I wonder what's for dinner..." and "Nice of the princess to invite us over for a picnic, [[Mondegreen|Gay Luigi!]]<ref>"...eh, Luigi?"</ref>"), or horrifying (the animation was [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmarishly]] [[Off-Model|poor]]).

** There is also ''[[I.M. Meen]]'', animated by the same people responsible for the above. The gameplay itself was pretty lackluster, but the crazy personality of the titular [[Big Bad]], I.M. Meen, makes the game endlessly entertaining.

* ''[[Mario Is Missing]]'', the MS-DOS version in particular. It's so bad it unleashed [http://pooparchive.com/wiki/index.php/Weegee Weegee] upon the world. What makes it even wor--er, "better" is that it was supposed to be Luigi's [[Moment of Awesome|grand debut]] as a main character.

* ''[[Zoo Race]]'', a completely mediocre racing game with a less-than-subtle Christian message. Yet there's so much about it that makes it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rninK-0G1ec unintentionally hilarious], such as the Nightmare Fuel that is Rueban, horses being shot out of cannons and the fact that the race announcer is ''[[God]]'', while seemingly stoned''.

** And a hilariously bad localization effort, too. For example, every "Breath" attack was translated as "Bless". So watch out for those dragons and their "Fire Bless". And the card game "Rebirth Moon" was translated as "Reverse Moon" despite there being an ''English translation'' on the logo displayed where they wrote this.

* ''[[Dawn of War]]: Soulstorm'' has spawned dozens of memes because of its hilariously bad writing and voice acting, of which "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbRGg3e1b68 SPESS MEHREENS!]" and "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3MttgvHUY METAL BOXES!]" are only the tip of the iceberg. See [[They Just Didn't Care]] for more information.

* The ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' video game.

* ''[[Samurai Zombie Nation]]''

* ''[[Final Fight]] Streetwise''. The graphics were terrible, the "zombie druggie" story-line was unnecessary, you can't play as Cody, Haggar or Guy in single player and except for the increase in bad language the game feels lackluster overall. However, the pit fights were great, the overreaching story harkens back to ''Final Fights'' of long ago, and the surprise final boss and (relatively) happy ending make it worth playing.

* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' [[Follow the Leader|had many clones]], with various degrees of success. Among those that are bad, there are many that are a great source of it. This doesn't apply to all of them, since there are some (like ''[[Kasumi Ninja]]'') that don't have anything fun in particular, or others (like [[Shadow War of Succession]]) that are just plain horrible. If you want to see MK clones, just see the [[Follow the Leader]] section in the [[Mortal Kombat]] page.

** ''[[Primal Rage]]'' would just be another generic fighting game if wasn't so stupid-awesome. In it, the dinosaurs went extinct because a wizard from another dimension imprisoned one of their gods in the moon. An asteroid hits the Earth, releases the [[Player Character|ancient dinosaur gods]], rearranges the continents into a ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex|T. rex]]'' skull, and turns the Earth into the [[Grimdark]] [[After the End|post-apocalyptic]] "[[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Urth]]." Throw in some [[Gorn]], an [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|ape]] who uses [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|various]] [[Urine Trouble|bodily]] [[Fartillery|functions]] as weapons, and the ability to [[I'm a Humanitarian|eat your worshippers while playing]], and you've got the ''coolest'' game ever.

** Both of Strata's fighting games (''[[Time Killers]]'' and ''[[Blood Storm]]'') just have to count. Both are attempts at creating a [[Bloodier and Gorier]] rival to ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', and both fall flat on their face because of horrible graphics, terrible sound, and piss-poor gameplay. And yet, this was the first fighting game to let you chop off people's limbs...[[Just a Flesh Wound|and keep hacking it out.]] ''Time Killers'' would even let you cut off someone's head ''at any point in the match'' with just a single button press. ''Blood Storm'' was more of the same, but now you could cut off someone's '''lower body.''' If they still had some health left, they could still move around by sliding on their exposed entrails. It's just so incredibly stupid and immature it suddenly becomes hilariously awesome.

* ''[[Rumble Roses]]''. Says [[Noble Savage]] Aigle, "Cowgirl has teats more magnificent than my sheep!" Oddly enough, it is a solid game, especially compared to the generally low-quality wrestling games of the time, and it is presented well, but conceptually it's just so [[Audience-Alienating Premise|mind-bogglingly terrible]] that it seems [[Better Than It Sounds|much worse than it is]].

* ''P.N.03'' for the [[Game Cube]], a.k.a. "Striptease: The Game", a massive blob of [[Fan Service]] disguised as a [[Third-Person Shooter]]. Every move the female protagonist does is designed to show off her [[Jiggle Physics|lovingly crafted behind]], and it seems [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTJ23dnteL0 she can't even shoot without moving her behind like a stripper, or groupie in a rap video.] In the cutscenes, on the other hand, she's constantly snapping her fingers, bobbing her head, and tapping her feet like she's got some ''awesome dance tune'' blazing through her invisible headphones or something. The voice acting is [[Narm|goofy]], and the protagonist has a horrible... [[What the Hell Is That Accent?|it's really not clear what her accent is]]. To top it all off, the plot is a [[Sci Fi]] [[Cliché Storm]] that can't decide if it wants to rip off ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', or ''[[Metroid]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUDyefjdwHo The ending should tell you everything you need to know.] {{spoiler|She kills a giant robot by snapping her fingers, finds out she's a clone of her employer, and then dances. Roll credits.}}

** It should come as no surprise that the creators would later go on to make ''[[Bayonetta]]''.

{{quote|''Hushhhh... They will not... find us! insuchastormasthis. YOU must rest.''

''Nay. Too many have died already. '[[Department of Redundancy Department|Tis an accursed place that is]].'' }}

** That's not even scratching the surface of all the subtle stupidities that make that game so awesomely horrible:

*** The evil threatening the land is called ''The Taint''. The number of accidental innuendos this causes is quite simply [[More Than Infinite|ridiculous]].

*** At one point along the road you'll notice all the trees have, for no apparent reason, become bamboo. You enter the city, and BAM! you're in [[Wutai|Japan]]. Japan, where everyone has horrible accents (which clash amazingly with the "fare thee well" dialogue - you haven't lived until you hear a man say "mayhap a bandit methinks!?" in an accent lifted from 1940s [[Yellow Peril]] movies). Japan, where everyone [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign|has names like "Mako Yamamokuzi"]] and speaks in great stereotypical monologues about honor and their ancestors. Japan, where [[Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana|the shops only sell katanas]]. The kicker to all of this? Every citizen of the city, [[Unfortunate Implications|except for the mayor, nobility, and other important figures]], has ''black'' skin!

*** Another side-quest involves gathering flowers for a lisping [[Camp Gay]] artist with an obvious crush on you.

*** After gathering all the pieces of the [[Artifact of Doom]], you take them to where they're to be forged, and you get ready for a cutscene, as they say "get ready, there will be much lightning during the ceremony." [[Anticlimax|Except there is no cutscene]]. It just jumps to "Forsooth! I can't believe he betrayed me! Now I have to stop that pentagram that appeared in the sky of else some vague doom will befall the land!"

*** Oh, there's a cutscene. However, it is definitely as cheesy and as stupid as the description sounds.

** And yet somehow, it still manages to be addictive, despite being full of bugs, plot holes, and [[You Fail Logic Forever|ridiculously illogical]] moments of stupidity.

** ''[[Two Worlds]] 2'' not only failed to fix any of the issues of the original, but somehow managed to be worse. How bad? [[Obvious Beta|many of the items are called by their ''file names'' in the inventory menu screen]]. That's right. The programmers where so lazy they forgot to input item names.

*** Or maybe they just went "Forget it! It's not like this game's gonna be any good anyway".

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk61NgvNbts Kids' Tetris]''. Mouse controls, a mode that deals out two-block pieces, and "YOU'VE GOT TALENT, KIDDO! YES YOU DO!" "GREAT! YOU'VE WON ''[[Tetris]]''!"

* ''Snake's Revenge'' is a rejected chapter from the ''[[Metal Gear]]'' canon made for the overseas NES market. Its gameplay isn't bad, although unreasonably difficult, rather short, and strikingly experimental in places (with side-scrolling stealth sections that make ''[[Contra]]'' look like ''[[Tetris]] DS''), and it has some legitimately good moments (like the boss battle against the tank and the container ship infiltration). However, the plot is incoherent even for a ''[[Metal Gear]]'' game, thanks in part to the game's [[Blind Idiot Translation]] (one part of the game involves getting in touch with a captured ally who is actually an enemy spy in disguise, a plot twist you can see coming thanks to his [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|suspiciously specific denials]]); the graphics are so bad that the heaving back of a dying man looks like some kind of [http://i33.tinypic.com/v8fsbo.gif vibrating phallic tentacle] (and Snake [[Highly-Visible Ninja|wears a luminous orange shell-suit to a stealth mission]]); the American manual was famously bizarre ([http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/manuals/snakerev.txt 'Higharolla Cockamamie'?]); and yet nothing even comes close to the final battle. It involves Big Boss coming back from the dead, transforming into a giant purple cyborg that breathes fire, and chasing Snake through a maze because he ''WANTS REVENGE''. This was stupid at the time, but later games in the ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series has made it extremely [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].

* Even the [[American Girls Collection]] was no exception to this - the ''American Girls Premiere'' for the PC and pre-OS X Macintosh was supposed to be a fun game for little girls looking for some theatre action while learning American history. It turned out to be a laughable little game to kill some time with, allowing players to spawn Felicity Merriman and her friends and subject her to rounds and rounds of crude humour and profanity, thanks to the speech engine.

* In Japan, such games are so beloved that they have been given a title, "Kuso-ge" (translation: "shitty games"). Not all are terrible, but to qualify for this title, they need to be enjoyed primarily for [[Camp]] value, rather than gameplay.

* ''NeXgame'': a game with a live-action guy breaking walls of ice by punching them, and smashing the last one ''with his head''. It's '''super''' full of narm, like when the guy starts running off when he's done, and 'yes!' 'yyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!'

* Calling ''[[Progress Quest]]'' a game is stretching the definition of the term, but it's still a [[So Bad It's Good]] parody of MMOs with repetitive [[Level Grinding]] and a [[Status Quo Is God|non-interactive game world]].

* ''[[Left Behind]]: Eternal Forces'', the licensed game for the titular novel series, is a truly terrible [[Real Time Strategy|RTS]] loaded with bad controls and Ark-loads of [[Unfortunate Implications]] in addition to the source material's own problems. However, a game which features mechanics like the main character running through New York frantically praying aloud so his faith isn't eroded by the hordes of guitar-playing buskers on every corner has massive comedy potential.

** Also, you get the option to play as [[Satan]]!

{{quote|APPROACHING SOUND BARRI- Look, a nut.}}

** The kicker? The gameplay itself is fun. Some programmers were putting a lot of work into it, despite everything above.

{{quote|'''50 Cent''': Help me the fuck up.}}

* [[The Trapped Trilogy]] by [[Godlimations]], a point-and-click adventure Flash game series. [[Guide Dang It]] puzzles, [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]] to shooter, obvious [[Art Shift]] between games making characters unrecognizable, horrible interface that changes between games, lackluster voice acting, a plot completely lacking in logic and continuity, and Christian references clumsily shoehorned in... And yet, it's strangely addictive.

** If nothing, it's worth hearing [[Edwyn Tiong|Edwyn Tiong's]] performance as Dan [[Mc Neely]], who sets a new record on how [[Smug Snake|smug]] you can make a human being sound.

* ''Battle Construction Vehicles'' is an unusual fighting game where two people [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|battle each other in construction vehicles.]] The controls are unresponsive, the vehicles move slowly, and basic attacks are a pain to pull off (in some vehicles, attacks sometimes hurt '''the attacker''' more); most of the fights consist of slowly ramming and scraping against the opponent (and randomly pulling off super moves) until someone wins. The ridiculous premise, awesome plot, and hilariously bad voice acting make up for the actual game's shortcomings.

* ''[[Trio the Punch]]''. Made by [[Data East]], it's regarded as the first ''kuso-ge''. The three characters are the most stereotyped heroes ever (a ninja, a brawler and a barbarian that looks like Rastan), each has his own theme which loops endlessly throughout ''the entire game'', Karnov is inexplicably a common enemy, clearing a stage nets a "WIN WIN" and a roulette where you can power-up or down with an old sensei declaring "LUCKY! CHA CHA CHA!", a sheep boss turns your into a sheep for the whole next stage... since it would take too much to list everything, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Z3Nb4KXwA here's a 3-parts commentary] on this (clearly voluntary) crappy game.

* ''Chaser'', an obscure first person shooter by Slovakian developer Cauldron has numerous graphical and gameplay glitches, absolutely horribly-written dialogue and worse voice acting, but it also happens to be a genuinely fun shooter despite these faults, with absolutely awesome music, a unique gritty cyberpunk-ish style, and a certain charm to its quirky unpolishedness.

* ''[[Drakengard]]''. The 'bad' part is very repetitive and boring gameplay, the 'good' part is a plot that's [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|completely absurd/crazy]] and sets new records for [[Darker and Edgier|dark and edgy]].

* This is the entire point of games developed for [http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/ Glorious Trainwrecks].

* ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'' features FBI criminal profiler Francis York Morgan ([[Cloudcuckoolander|Just call him York. That's what everyone else does.]]) going to a town to investigate a link between a drug and murders. The controls are awkward, the characters are all mired in the [[Uncanny Valley]], the American voice acting is often [[Hong Kong Dub|out of sync with the character animations]] that seems to have been motion-captured by a Japanese amateur theater troupe, the soundtrack is limited (leading to common [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]), most of the graphics looks like they were meant for a [[Dreamcast]] game (despite being made for 7th generation consoles), and the first 20-30 minutes of game consists of arguably the weakest part of its gameplay - a level of [[Narm|Narmy]], ''[[Resident Evil]]'' inspired [[Survival Horror]] combat. And yet, behind this hides a pretty entertaining ''[[Twin Peaks]]''-esque [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game, which is quite charming in its own quirky way. The Destructoid review also mentions the quirkiness as one of the game's strongest points:

{{quote|[http://www.destructoid.com/review-deadly-premonition-165168.phtml "This game is so bad, it's not just become good. It's pretty close to perfect."]}}

* The hilariously weird Dreamcast launch title ''Blue Stinger''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rld3jxcZiEo Please to enjoy.]

* ''[[Home Alone]] 2'' for the SNES counts as [[So Bad It's Good]], despite it's a [[The Problem with Licensed Games|video game based on a movie]]. It has an [[Everything Is Trying to Kill You|absurd cast of enemies]], decent graphics, and weird sound effects.

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMhCXBG8KzM Death Crimson]'', an "horror-themed [[Light Gun Game]] for the [[Sega Saturn|Saturn]] is one of Japan's most beloved ''kusoge'', thank to its [[Special Effect Failure|epicly horrible]] graphics and the soundtrack, which is a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] by itself.

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iyXMn9LceA Revenge of the Sunfish]''. [[Art Shift]] on every stage, terrible art, inexplicable gameplay and something that vaguely resembles a plot all combine to make this a [[Mind Screw]] as you try to figure ''how'' and ''why'' anyone would make this.

* ''[[Sewer Shark]]'' is a dull rail shooter with repetitive backgrounds and several vital facts [[Guide Dang It|the game doesn't bother to tell you]], - In other words, the perfect game to package your [[Sega Genesis|untested and expensive add-on]] with. However, while the actual game is terrible, the cutscenes saves it, featuring an [[Narm Charm|awesomnly cheesy]] script and performances by [[Ham and Cheese|actors who clearly knew what they were into.]] Witness the madness [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1WEq3dhnnI here.]

* ''Mario Teaches Typing 2''. The first game was just bad all around, but the second game for its credit had some of the most Narm-filled, uintentionally hilarious cut scenes known to man, like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0QKiLE0xko ending] and the somewhat silly mafia like scene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWF9oFFE3nI here].

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEq2orcvckI Kreed]'' is an obscure Russian first-person shooter. Though the actual game isn't very good, it is immensively entertaining thanks to the bad animation, horrible character design,, unfitting buttrock music played at random moments and hilarious voice acting by Russians clearly not fluent in English. "''Quit winning!''".

* ''[[Darkened Skye]]'' has terrible gameplay, and two categories of dialog: Hilariously overdone, intentionally bad dialog, and intentionally lampshading and mocking category one.

* ''Pepsiman''. You're Pepsi's mascot, running around various landscapes trying to bring Pepsi to people via [[Excuse Plot|Excuse Plots]], [[Everything Is Trying to Kill You|Everything (including ''giant Pepsi cans'') is Trying to Kill You]], there's no in-game music, the graphics aren't very well polished, there's a fat American bloke that is present in ''all'' the cutscenes, each mission is time-limited and it's very [[Nintendo Hard|hard]]. However, partly because it's still an enjoyable yet frustrating game, partly because the main theme is [[Awesome Music|pretty awesome]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkIaReGceTk (with a catchy theme tune screaming "PEPSI MAAAAAAN!!!")], partly because God only knows, some countries loved it. And no, there were no Pepsiman ads in these countries, oddly enough. Another reason is probably how ridiculously goofy Pepsiman take things on, and some death scenes can get amusing for poor Pepsiman... (helps that Pepsiman himself is an [[Iron Butt Monkey]])

* The Vietnamese [[Blind Idiot Translation|bootleg translation]] of ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'', [[Intentional Engrish for Funny|with hilarious errors such as]] "monaters", "missle bomb" instead of Team Rocket or "fuck" instead of [[Freud Was Right|"put in"]]. A really entertaining LP can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ_bhwCgtXg here].

** The best part is that the use of the f-word, used as an analogue to "put in" as in "player put that item in his bag", comes ''right'' after we get to see how that translation calls the Potion item: [[G-Rated Drug|"DRUG."]]

* Indie RPG ''[[The Demon Rush]]'', despite the title, is painfully slow paced. However, it makes up for it with hilariously shoddy graphics and music, goofy looking and acting characters, a nonsensical, unfollowable [[Cliché Storm]] of a story, and several [[Inherently Funny Words|Inherently Funny Character Names]]. See the full, ''very long'' experience [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOcOD6mx52g in these] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4W-uXVfIg two videos.]

* ''Rise of Immortals'' is a MOBA trying to cash in on the success of ''[[League of Legends]]'' and the announcement of [[Dot A 2]]. However, it manages to be horribly balanced, with confusing stats, weird interfaces and lacks the ability to change characters once you've logged in. That said, it also has some of the hammiest voice acting in the history of video games, the character designs are so cliche it's hilarious and if you're playing with friends, it actually manages to be surprisingly fun.

* ''[[Haze]]'' is a playable if unimpressive FPS which fell victim to its [[Hype Backlash|overblown hype]]. However, the true star of the show is its storyline. A bold attempt at [[Deconstruction|deconstructing]] the standard FPS plot, it stumbles due to its [[Anvilicious|ham-fisted morality]], a [[Plot Hole]]-ridden setting and some truly stupid lines. Those flaws, combined with the poor acting, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVrHl5Sgii4 weird music] and the [[Special Effect Failure|technical]] [[Most Annoying Sound|issues]] of the game itself, combine to form a surreal and damned funny mess, the like of which will probably never be seen again. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-BEhDKpE98 Here's] a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWA4IhLvgGc sampler].

* ''Mega Man: War of the Past'' is a fan-made [[Beat'Em Up]] for the Dreamcast, combining the Mega Man universe with a ''[[Streets of Rage]]''-style engine in a rather clumsy fashion. There's nothing really wrong with the gameplay, but some of the misuse of graphics is laughably terrible. The menu screen shows characters from other Mega Man series' (who aren't in the game), Eddy is used as an enemy, and proportion is a mess, courtesy of the creator's combining ''Mega Man 7'' sprites with those from ''Marvel Vs. Capcom'' with no regard to resizing. Even Duo and Gutsman are shorter than Roll, many of the enemies (such as an army of Cutman clones) are even smaller, and so is Dr. Light. Also, the bizarre enemy names, like "Jewish."

* ''[[Overblood]]'' is certainly one of these. Tank controls, [[Guide Dang It]], [[Narm]] to the tenth degree and average graphics for the time. Hilarious deaths, great fighting and... it's beautiful.

* ''Sniper: Path Of Vengeance'' is a thoroughly glitchy and ugly game that you could hardly call playable, but the nature of these bugs gives it its charm. You have a school bus that bleeds when you shoot at it, and eventually disappears into thin air, being able to fly by pressing jump+duck, some truly idiotic AI, weirdly deforming characters, and the "climactic" shootout of the final cutscene, where the developers forgot to give the characters guns (yeah, they fire by [[Finger Gun|pointing with their fingers]]). Became a [[Cult Classic]] comparable to ''Big Rigs'' in Hungary, when a game reviewer trashed it to bits, and later made several follow-ups, as the glitches just kept coming.

* The obscure Italian-made [[Driving Game]] ''Blomby Car'' had only had a limited arcade release in the 1990s, but since has become somewhat more known through emulation. The player's car has ridiculous acceleration and handling, and is good at producing engine noise and smoke, caroming off walls and overturning continuously when it crashes. Other vehicles (including first-aid trucks) lie across the road, forcing the player's course off it at some spots.

* ''Paris-Dakar Rally Special'', a [[Driving Game]] for the Famicom that is utterly deranged. It actually starts out as an adventure game. Enemies in the driving stages range from very fast cars that try to rear-end you to boulders that fall from nowhere. There is even an [[Under the Sea]] level.

* ''[[Metal Wolf Chaos]]''. The story centers around the [[Authority Equals Asskicking|President of the United States of America]], Michael Wilson, fending off a coup by the [[Evil Chancellor|Vice President]], [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Richard Hawk]], in his [[Humongous Mecha|gigantic mecha]], Metal Wolf. The gameplay, mostly centering around [[Stuff Blowing Up|blowing up American landmarks]], is fun and genuinely good (as you'd expect of [[From Software]]), which means the ridiculous plot and dialogue, containing mangled [[Engrish]] that is spoken by native English speakers, can be enjoyed by all. Oh yeah, there's also a fight sequence where the President [[Large Ham|yells]] "SUCK ON MY [[Rocket Punch|MISSILE PUNCH!]]" and "[[For Great Justice|EAT MY FLAME OF JUSTICE!]]" We'd vote for him.

* The [[Atari Jaguar]] featured a ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' clone called ''Kasumi Ninja'', with controls broken in as rudimentary ways as the menu screens, and many an [[Ethnic Scrappy]] in the roster of characters. Those features would tend to make it a horrible game for the most part, but on the plus side, one of those characters is a Scotsman who can lift up his kilt and shoot fireballs out of his crotch.

 

== Voice Acting ==

** "Don't come yet! Don't soil your hands!"

** "Lil' bro! Dead but still bros!"

** "Keeping it a fool free zone"

** "I'm kim of two homes and seven moms"

** Even [[I Wanna Be the Guy]] brings the scene up {{spoiler|[[Everything Is Trying to Kill You|just be careful of the wineglass]]}}.

*** '''What is a Man?''' {{spoiler|wineglass kills you}} GAME OVER - PRESS 'R' TO TRY AGAIN.

* The first ''[[Resident Evil]]'' game, despite being a pretty scary game, has horrid voice acting to make the game seem like more of a B-movie. Most of it comes from a clumsy ally named Barry Burton. Examples include, after a ceiling nearly crushes your character Jill, saying you were almost a "Jill Sandwich." Another infamous one is how Jill is the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XyghKl72R0 Master of Unlocking.]

** Allegedly the reason why the acting in the first game was laughably bad was because the actors were directed by a Japanese director.

** [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|BEEEEEEEE SEVURNTEEN BAAAAAAAWWWWLMER]]

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFA08BJUtPo Dynasty Warriors 3]'' is a lot of things, not least of which is [[Narm|unintentionally hilarious]] thanks to the localizers hiring high school drama students to do the voicework.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvfP5BQxaw Jax's ending] in ''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]''. '''[[Big OMG|Oh my God!!!]]'''

** Although most people seem to think it sounds more like '''Imsogaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!'''

== Music/Graphics/Etc. ==

* The ''[[Blue Dragon]]'' boss battle theme, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWtpAzbEnc8 Eternity]. There are just no words for how ''bad'' this song is, but somehow it works in a twisted sort of way.

* The first ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' game had [[American Kirby Is Hardcore|North American]] [[Contemptible Cover|box art]] that [[wikipedia:File:MegamanBox.jpg|must be seen to be believed]]. Fans have come to love its [[Did Not Do the Research|ridiculous inaccuracies]]. As the page quote indicates, ''Mega Man 9'' paid tribute with [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Megaman9cover.jpg silly box art of its own]. This wasn't even the first time -- Inticreates' previous game, ''Mega Man ZX Advent'', included an in-game [[Shout-Out]].

** Capcom USA has also brought us ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]] 4'''s [[Blind Idiot Translation]], which was a much, MUCH worse translation job than anything else in the entire series, both before and after it. Examples include "What a polite young man she was!" and "Mega Man, is the jack out now!" Even the manual had its share of silly mistakes.

*** The legendarily awful dub job for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ_FSVWR6ZE Dr. Light] in ''[[Mega Man 8]]''. It's made of crystallized [[Narm]]. You know your voice acting is bad when Mega Man sounds more like a girl than ''Roll.''

* ''Persona 3'' Portable brings us the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMvj653xiFI Sun], which manages to combine ALL of the common critisism towards the game's soundtrack. And it is amazingly catchy.

* [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaOBSdwJP7k/TFfZbw0Py8I/AAAAAAAABFQ/crE_sdzUIR4/s1600/Twocreepers.png The Creeper], one of the most iconic characters from ''[[Minecraft]]'', was actually [[Good Bad Bugs|a miserable failure from the coder's part to create the 3d model of a pig]]. Its distorted shape and downright terrifying face, as well as the fact that it ''sneaks onto you with a SSSS sound followed by your death'' - and probably a heart attack - make it one of the most original and frightening enemies in modern videogaming history.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14KwzYBjm-8 Minecraft in a nutshell]

* ''[http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=showhack&id=1044 Chaos CompleXX]'', a hack of ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' made by the same man who made The Second Reality Project. It's a intentional joke hack.

* The Half-Life Fanfiction-made-[[Garry's Mod|Garry's-Mod]]-Video "[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|Full Life Consequences]]". So bad it has to be [http://youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs seen to be believed.]

* ''[http://www.mfgg.net/index.php?act=resdb¶m=02&c=2&id=321 Paper Mario World]'', a ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' fangame, enjoys this reputation to so great an extreme, the game's original creator has produced a series of videos playing off of its legendary camp value, as well as apologizing for the whole thing. According to him, because the game was made in the earlier days of fangaming, he had no idea what sort of quality or expectations existed. As a result, he released a "game" that was really essentially just a string of clumsily-conducted experiments along the set Mario theme. Though they do display a good amount of the various things TGF can do, the developer spent little to no time honing any one aspect to the optimum capacity, and as soon as [http://www.mfgg.net the site that hosted it] began allowing reviews, the game was nitpicked to death by numerous players. Most of its camp value owes to its particularly horrible graphics, with sprite styles that clash, as well as badly scaled individual sprites (numerous doors the player can enter that are much smaller than himself may be the greatest example), background scenery that ranges from dull to nonexistant, curiously-placed terrain, such as magma floating in mid-air, and bosses that bounce around the arena with no true animation frames. And the [[Narm Charm]] of its completely unnecessary narrator.

* ''Atomic Sonic'', a hack of the original ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' for Mega Drive. Badly hand-drawn replacement graphics! Glitchy audio! Completely unfitting music swaps! Kaleidoscopic grass! Only one level that actually works! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua2wOiEY62o See it in action here.] Like the above-mentioned Chaos CompleXX, the badness is almost certainly intentional.

* A few of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] games have really, really odd stories or cutscenes, becoming the most apparent around ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'', where the characters are generally poorly animated (Policemen walk away from Chaos... But they don't bother to reverse the walking animation, so he's ''moonwalking'' away from Chaos.), or have odd proportions (Sonic's mouth is ''huge'' in the game).