Worst Video Games Of All Time Timeline

1982 Smurf Rescue is Released for ColecoVision
Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle is a video game in which the player must brave a series of obstacles to rescue Smurfette from Gargamel's castle. An Intellivision version was planned bu...
1982 Mar Pac-Man is Released as an Arcade Port for the Atari 2600
Pac-Man is a port of the Namco developed arcade game of the same name. The port was developed and published by Atari Inc. (Atari) for the Atari 2600. Like the original arcade version, the...
1982 Oct 13 Custer's Revenge is Released
Custer's Revenge (also known as Westward Ho and The White Man Came) is a pornographic video game made for the Atari 2600 by Mystique, a company that produced a number of adult video game ...
1982 Dec Atari Releases E.T., Often Called the Worst Video Game Ever Made
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is an adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console. It was based on the film of the same name, and was desi...
1987 Bad Street Brawler is Released for the NES
Bad Street Brawler was designed to be used with the Nintendo Power Glove, and they go well together since neither of them work. In the game, you controlled, or if you used the Power Glove...
1990 Aug 1 Total Recall Video Game Released for the NES
Total Recall is an action platformer that loosely follows the events in the movie. You're Douglas Quaid, a man on the run from mysterious people who are trying to kill him (including his ...
1990 Dec 31 Air Diver is Released for the Sega Genesis
Seismic infuses the mach-speed action with a ridiculous story about a Middle Eastern terrorist organization that somehow has alien technology. Since I kind of take solace in games with si...
1991 The Action 52 is released for the NES
Not just the 52 worst NES games ever. Looking deeper reveals a history of cartridges overheating inside of consoles and even melting, tales of merchandising blitzes based off of one of th...
1991 Nov Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball
When basketball fans think of Bill Laimbeer, they think of one thing: his legendary coaching career that’s seen him win three WNBA titles. Oh, wait. They think of his rough-and-tumble ant...
1992 Make My Video is Released for the Sega CD
If you were an aspiring music video director, you could play one of these games, featuring early-1990s acts Marky Mark (better known today as Mark Wahlberg) and the Funky Bunch, Kriss Kro...
1993 Oct 10 Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon is Released for the CD-i
In Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, you play the princess. And as you know from better games, princesses are helpless little girls pining for prince wang in castles with bad security just waiting ...
1994 Shaq Fu is Released
Shaq Fu is a fighting game released on the Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Super Nintendo, and Game Boy game platforms in late 1994. It was later ported to the Amiga platform. The game was ...
1994 Jun 16 Revolution X is Released
This game is biblically horrific. You're overthrowing an oppressive world order. With Aerosmith. And music is your weapon. That scream of terror you just heard was probably you. Using ...
1994 Nov Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City Released for the Super NES
Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City was released by Electronic Arts in 1994 for the Super NES. The game did not sell well and was named in the top ten worst video games in Nintendo Po...
1995 Gore Galore released on Shareware BBS CDs
Released in 1995 by the not-so-infamous Jester Software, Gore Galore made the rounds on BBS’s through the then cutting-edge medium of Shareware CD-ROMs. The game’s description, prefaced w...
1995 Jan Rap Jam: Volume One is Released for the Super NES
Rap Jam: Volume One is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System basketball video game in which the players are rap and hip-hop artists. The game is played on an urban basketball court, with ...
1995 Jan 20 Cosmic Race is released for Playstation in Japan
Known in some circles as the worst racing game ever made, Cosmic Race was the zero rating in Game Player's magazine. Released in 1995 for the original Playstation, the game was ridiculed ...
1995 Aug 20 Wild Woody for the Sega CD is Released
Wild Woody is a game for the Sega CD that was released just before the death of the system by Sega of America in 1995. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board gave the title a "Kids To A...
1996 Nov 1 Bubsy 3D is Released for the Playstation
Bubsy 3D uses the third-person, behind-the-character view as seen in Mario 64 and Tomb Raider. Only here it's combined with mundane jumping/shooting/gliding action. (For reasons never exp...
1999 May 29 Superman 64 is Released for the Nintendo 64
Superman, unofficially referred to as Superman 64, is a video game that was released by Titus Software on May 31, 1999 on the Nintendo 64. The game is based on the Superman Animated Serie...
2000 Apr 14 Daikatana is Released
In several respects, Daikatana set a new standard for gaming misfires. Legendary developer John Romero planned to top his earlier work on Doom and Quake by creating a first-person shooter...
2000 Jun 22 Omikron: The Nomad Soul is Released for the Dreamcast
In the end, when you take all of Omikron's various parts and add them together, the game doesn't amount to much. The game's attempt to integrate multiple styles of play just doesn't work,...
2000 Dec 25 Extreme Sports with the Berenstein Bears Released for the Gameboy Color
Calling this game "extreme" is like calling this game "crappy." Both of them are way too kind. The game has four events: sledding, kayaking, biking, and skateboarding. All of them contain...
2001 Nov 19 Kabuki Warriors is Released for the Xbox
Kabuki Warriors, our choice for worst game of 2001, epitomizes just how bad a bad game can be, as there are truly no redeeming qualities to it. The gameplay mechanics are simplistic and u...
2003 Nov 20 Big Rigs Over the Road Racing released
In the short time it's been out, it's gained some cult notoriety going as far as earning the lowest possible score on Gamespot to churning out one of the catchiest quotes this side of “Al...
2005 Elf Bowling 1&2 is Released for the Nintendo DS
The first two Elf Bowling games were put in a pack that was called Elf Bowling 1 & 2. It was released for Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. The pack was universally panned by critics, cit...
2005 Apr Super Columbine Massacre RPG
Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, abbreviated SCMRPG!, is a role-playing video game created by Danny Ledonne and released in April 2005. The game recreates the 1999 Columbine High School sho...
2007 Jul 25 Escape from Bug Island! Released for the Wii
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.
2007 Oct 1 Ninjabread Man is released
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.
2007 Oct 25 M&M's Kart Racing Released
Buying actual M&M's is more fun than this broken, ugly mess.
2008 Jun 17 Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm released
This game is like a visual lullaby, slowly hypnotizing you into some tedium induced trance only to have nothing but a bunch of virtual crab and a beat up boat to show for it.