Jax Mandrake Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 I was an admin for the KidsWB AOL chatroom back in 1997. It was volunteer, so I wasn't expecting anything. As thank you at Christmastime, the head admin for the chat sent us some Wal-Mart bargain-bin "christmas classics" CD, along with a VHS for the movie Batman and Robin. Y'know, this steaming heap of crap. As far as I know both are still at my parents' house somewhere. You should receive an official apology... and a . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad.mixx Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Maybe star fox adventures. I couldn't really get into the game but I didn't like the fact that it wasn't really a star fox game and Krystal was annoying. I don't own. Many games I consider plain out bad... maybe ff13 but I don't feel like I've played enough ff games to be able to judge it on that level. The voice acting is stupid though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteo Xavier Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Speaking of parents, they bought me the shittiest shovelware when I was a kid, because I wasn't allowed to make my own video game purchases. We got games at Christmastime and any suggestions went out the window because my dad would just go buy whatever cheap crap he could find. That's why I have Bart Vs. The Space Mutants, Taz: Escape from Mars and Beavis and Butthead. At least Ecco 2 and Aladdin were pretty cool games, but since they bought me a Genesis instead of a SNES thinking it was a superior system, the cool games available in my area were pretty limited back in 1993. You never saw cool shit like Gunstar Heroes, Sword of Vermillion or the Phantasy Star games. Buffalo was kind of a black hole for cool things in the '90s. At the risk of being rude, this post makes you sound pretty ungrateful. My dad did the same thing with games like Pit Fighter and Doomtroopers, but you know what? I at least played them with a good open mind and got some enjoyment out of them. 90s parents weren't really paragons of knowing videogame quality and those of us who weren't spoiled were lucky to get what we got. Some of my favorite games today are yesterday's shovelware. Nowadays the only games people even begin to respect are the nerdcoriest AAA-games and I find that fact very depressing and counterproductive to gaming culture. Didn't mean to jump on you there, I just can't stand people's snobbish comments lamenting they never got the "classics" growing up. They weren't classics at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Felis Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Nah, no offense taken. I understand it does sound horribly entitled, and perhaps it is a bit. I intended it to be more "my dad ignored my suggestions for games" and "my town was a bad place to buy cool games at the time". I still played the hell out of Ecco 2, Aladdin, Primal Rage and Lion King because they were all halfway decent. I even tried to stick with Bart Vs The Space Mutants just so I'd have something to play on my Game Gear, but the game was nearly unbeatable due to the insane platforming skills required with a clunky control system. Once we got a Playstation (and had the internet to research what was good and what was crap), my mom did the shopping for games. She actually wrote down what we wanted and knew that money wouldn't be wasted on a game we'd actually play, unlike my dad who is just clueless about quality in everything (this Christmas he gave everybody cheap $5 gas station t-shirts from a reservation he works near...guy is totally clueless). Once I got my first college job, I used my first paycheck to get one of those compact SNESes that came out 1998, and a friend gave me his copies of FF6 and Secret of Mana. I didn't really miss out on SNES, I just got into it about five years later than most people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Williamson Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I just can't stand people's snobbish comments lamenting they never got the "classics" growing up. They weren't classics at the time. What I'm wondering now is how the frik did the GameCube start being considered classic gaming? I'm not saying I hate the GameCube. I freaking love it. But like WTF. It's not that old... is it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garpocalypse Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 but since they bought me a Genesis instead of a SNES thinking it was a superior system, Don't worry, they were right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I'm not saying I hate the GameCube. I freaking love it. But like WTF. It's not that old... is it... Just for perspective, any kid that was five years old when the Gamecube came out is now sixteen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Just for perspective, any kid that was five years old when the Gamecube came out is now sixteen. Which makes me realize that we are all aging at an alarming rate of speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 one second every second! (unless you're in a relativistic line of work) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstable Hamster Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Megaman X7 and Shaq Fu. I sorta own them with pride at how bad they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Felis Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Don't worry, they were right. The SNES' sound was better quality, as far as I'm concerned. Either way the better developers went to Nintendo instead of Sega. It's a shame because Sega didn't have crazy censorship rules like Nintendo NA did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Williamson Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Just for perspective, any kid that was five years old when the Gamecube came out is now sixteen. Oh geez... you're right. 2001 was a pretty long time ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muredmoogle Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 It's either Blasto for the PS1 or E.T 2600 for the...well...Atari 2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noTuX Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 The worst game: Mario Kart 7. Don't get me wrong, I like the game, but I like that one the least out of all the games I own. The worst movie: Spiderman 3. I don't even know why I have that movie, or how I got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Williamson Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 The worst movie: Spiderman 3. I don't even know why I have that movie, or how I got it. Seriously. There's no story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychowolf Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Seriously. There's no story. well there IS a story but its so convoluted that it seems like there is no story, the sandman being uncle bens killer always pissed me off, gwen being introduced was pointless because the first movie had done gwen's story with mj, and the alien symbiote saga was sooo watered down in this film its unreal (god damn emo peter) and venom got less then 10 min screen time. and the breaking up with mj part of the story was so forgetable because it was so god damn cliched..... i could rant for days about this film. the entire films saving grace scene.forgive my rants im a big comic geek and spiderman 3 disappointed me so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Williamson Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 well there IS a story but its so convoluted that it seems like there is no story, the sandman being uncle bens killer always pissed me off, gwen being introduced was pointless because the first movie had done gwen's story with mj, and the alien symbiote saga was sooo watered down in this film its unreal (god damn emo peter) and venom got less then 10 min screen time.and the breaking up with mj part of the story was so forgetable because it was so god damn cliched..... i could rant for days about this film. the entire films saving grace scene.forgive my rants im a big comic geek and spiderman 3 disappointed me so much. Yes. Agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theshaggyfreak Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Oh, I have plenty of bad movies in my collection. Dungeons and Dragons Flash Gordon The Hearse Superman 3 Legend TIme Bandits 13 Ghosts Scooby Doo Most consider all of these bad movies but I love them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devyn Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Legend is frigging awesome. Time Bandits is pretty cool too. Definitely not triple A movies but that doesn't make them bad. Now, I'll tell you what's bad. Catwoman. My older brother gave me the DVD. I watched it with my wife and we chuckled for the first half hour. Then it got stale really quick and we barely finished it. I don't know if I still have it as I have tried to get people to take it as they came over to my house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROTO·DOME Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 The SNES' sound was better quality, as far as I'm concerned.Really? Because I sure don't remember the SNES having a 4 op FM synth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziellink Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Cyborg Cop 1, 2 and 3. TC 2000 The Room Shark Attack 3: Megalodon Invasion: USA Man, i could go on and on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Catwoman. My older brother gave me the DVD. I watched it with my wife and we chuckled for the first half hour. Then it got stale really quick and we barely finished it. Maybe you were watching it wrong. Scantily clad viewings of Halle Berry in a cat suit with your wife. Happy mother's day btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devyn Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 If you're a fan of Hale Berry, then I guess it's not so bad. To each his own I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nOkbient Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Baby Geniuses 2. Don't ask me why I have it, or where I got it, because I don't know. I think satan put it in my collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argle Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 TIme Bandits What?? Bad movie? Does not compute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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