LOL, Seanbaby's site was a classic! It also made me try some of these awful games out of curiosity. Super Pitfall was painful, and Athena felt it only sold because of the character.
I agree that '90s internet humor made some games seem way worse than they were. E.T. on Atari? It's not great, but it's not the disaster people claim. And Pac-Man 2600? It's alarming, but it could've been worse, considering the hardware. Some of these ""worst games"" just needed better instructions.
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