Yes, I’m putting DNF on here. Truth be told, while it didn’t win much love after launch for a reason, the experience itself is at least playable (though outdated years before its release). For its numerous “Vaporware of the Year” awards and alien wall boobs, this has earned its negative press.
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rnThat said, actually playing it isn’t a self-mutilating experience or anything, just an industry joke brought to life. It might even be worth the five bucks to buy it new just to see what the fuss was all about. We can let this one go, folks. It was bad, but it wasn’t that bad.
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rnOne more thing: What BS He-Man characters gets immediately drunk on ONE beer, anyway?

Oh E.T., how you have earned the scorn. Yes, it’s a bad game, but considering it was developed by one guy (Howard Scott Warshaw, the man behind Yar’s Revenge) and inside of about five weeks, it’s actually kinda damn impressive. Even if just for that title screen (which might’ve taken two of those weeks).
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rnIt was the result of a flood of games like it that brought the industry to its knees in the early 1980s, not single-handedly almost killing off our hobby. Is it fun? Not really, but for a number of reasons—like the fact that it’s kinda pretty—it should earned a bit more respect than the hate it's received.

Might just be a personal addition, but 13th is one of the few games that ever successfully gave me a jump-scare (the other being the fantastic Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem… that bathtub, man).
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rnSure, its mechanics were biased in favor of a couple characters—Mark being amazing, and everyone else being mostly awful—and it had a confusing inventory system, but it played well enough and looked smooth and distinctive with some of the nicest backdrops I’ve seen on the NES.
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rnPlus, as it’s a horror game, it actually delivered on scares when Jason showed up in houses. On the roads, yeah, not so much, but at least occasionally I remember feeling actually ambushed.

The reason we have a video game rating system today can be traced back to two specific games, one good and one bad: Mortal Kombat (the good, in case you’re not aware), and Night Trap, the FMV cringe-fest that gave former Connecticut senator Joseph Lieberman a smelly diaper.
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rnThe point? Save the girls having a sleepover from some kind of… terrorist vampires? It’s confusing if you just watch it.
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rnBut even for its genre, it wasn’t “notoriously” bad. Try some Sewer Shark or Kris Kross: Make My Video and you’ll be begging for Dana Plato to come back with a SWAT-ready, pixelated murderer on your cousin’s-friend’s-older brother’s Sega CD (or whomever you knew that had one).

Shaquille O’Neal in video game form, only available around 1993. Whoever thought it was a good idea to put Shaq in a fighting game was hopefully relieved of any responsibilities after its publication. rn rnFloaty controls, tiny characters, a batshit-bonkers world to fight in—it has everything the early 1990s was looking for… except being actually entertaining. rn rnBut c’mon now. If this didn’t have Shaq’s name on it, we wouldn’t remember it as the big-as-Shaq steaming pile it was. I can name a number of blatantly worse fighting games during that era, like Kasumi Ninja or Time Killers, that don’t bring with them the scorn we all felt being given Shaq-Fu for a birthday or holiday present.

Yes, this game is bottom-of-the-barrel shyte. Yes, it looks like poo, plays worse, and should not be played by anyone except as an instrument of torture. [I have two guides for the game. They don't help. ~Ed. Nick Tan]
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rnNo, I don’t know what “Kryptonite fog” is, but it sounds like a convenient cover to make Superman… you know, “not Superman-y”. But can we just stop talking about it already? For those of us who’ve played it more than three minutes, it brings up terrible memories for which we still might need counseling to get over the trauma.
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rnSeriously. Think of the traumatized.

Zero Wing, for the four or so people left who don’t know, is responsible for one of the first major Internet memes. The classic “All your base are belong to us” opening is like a hated pop song: You don’t want to remember, but it won’t leave your head. Even my MOTHER knows the “all your base” talk.
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rnBut it betrays what’s actually a playable horizontal shooter. Seriously people, the opening scene is some ridiculously horrible translation, but the play itself don’t suck. Anybody that announces this as an awful game clearly hasn’t played it.