Just how many of these dreadful games have you played? Have a shout about it in the comments, and thanks for watching! :)

I had a friend in school whose cheapskate parents would only buy him games from the local Cash Converters. While the rest of us played Sonic, he was playing Bubsy, Fantasia and Captain Planet... Poor bastard.

I absolutely love Kim's "worst videos". Top-notch tongue lashings.

I received Sword of Sodan AND Technocop on the same christmas day. It was a magical day

14:19 Fun fact, according to an interview from the TV show "Cybernet" Xenon 2 is Peter Molyneux's 4th favorite game. He placed it higher than Half Life. He was probably referring to the Amiga version though.

The Infogrames games based on French-Belgian comics are (in)famous among the French-speaking KZfaq/gaming community for their brutal difficulty. The consensus is always the same : very nice looking, with graphics faithful to the comics, but so hard you will want to smash your controller. As for the Tintin game, believe it or not, but Spirou (or even the Smurfs) have the reputation to be even more difficult.

This was like watching a Match Of The Day style highlights program of the worst moments of the last 6 months of your life! Love it!

Good list, and better for me that I never had to experience any of these myself. Games I love to hate include Asterix The Gaul and Tazmania; both of which are brutally unfair and quickly become frustrating in the extreme.

Aahhh... nicely done ma'am! I really needed this; a typical (worst of...) vid... its comfort watching. I needed this because my oldman randomly dropped and died a week or so back... he already had cancer and an emergency operation. Worst part was he stated he was having chemo. Was going great, no side effects it seems...well yeah - because he wasn't even turning up to the treatment! It was aggressive and he knew it was terminal which makes sense to his anger, because yes he was old but he was extremely health conscious aka never smoked, drank very good diet, was still playing badminton for Wiltshire aged 78!! He died immediately there and then walking to the pub due to a blood clot travelling to his heart.... But what really makes the memories hurt the most is, he bought me in my childhood most of my collection. Every sega released etc. Sadly a decade ago life dictated i had to sell them (and I certainly didn't know some of the rare ones I had worth serious money such as Keio flying squadron for mega cd. Demo and game etc) at a dirt cheap rate because I had adult boring things to pay such as about to lose my house due to rent unpaid. My only comfort was that these machines were not mint condition. They were very much loved and used 24/7; and thus serious mileage and extremely temperamental etc .... Regardless im greatful for emulation big time, but thank you Kim. Been watching you since 2014/5 area. Well before you discovered the journey you took - I thought you were the coolest dude around back then and would of absolutely enjoyed nerding out with you for an afternoon at one time or another... Stay you, and may life keep you in relative comfort. The only good thing to come my way is.... im his only son, he was pretty damn successful wheras I failed everything and even had to overcome addiction! - now I will never have to worry about rent etc... well assuming vultures like the government don't somehow hurt me. I know how things go so I won't relax until I get what I'm due etc. Sorry to over-share thanx fir being a sound board and the comfort viewing; couldn't come at a better time from one of my favourite long time channels! Best wishes

I know it's probably dreadful, but I loved Captain Planet as a child. I was so enamored with the cartoon that a game I could play and control myself was always going to be ranked highly by me. As a kid, it was my absolute favourite show. I got the magazine every week form the newsagents and watched the new episodes every weekend lunchtime on BBC2. Looking at the footage I'm sure the game sucks. But my nostalgia for it will likely win out if play it again.

God i love Earnest Evans. Unironically one of my favorite genesis games, its SO silly.

I got Art Alive preowned -- like most of the console games I had at the time, and created a "title screen" for at least one "short film" (if we're extremely very generous) by recording it on VHS tape first. Sword of Sodan is on Evercade, and maybe I should try playing it some more. So far, I prefer it over Coffee Crisis. With Last Action Hero, I feel I made a critical save by getting Wiz'n'Liz instead. A friend had Fantasia and Technocop. Politely put, we didn't like those titles even at the time.

I'd agree on all of them except Osomatsu-kun, Rastan II & Double Dragon II. Maybe 16t as well, but that's meant to be like a 2 minute play and put down. I know even the creator hates the Osomatsu game, but I've always loved the graphics and I usually have some fun with it for about 20 min or so at a time. Rastan II is mostly the same, it's bad but it's so bad it's good for me, like a cheesy 80s sword and sorcery movie. Double Dragon II plays horribly until you get into the groove, at which point it's actually one of the better ports since it's arcade accurate, whereas most of the others aren't. You just have to move with the lag and cut it some slack, lol.

Great video Kim Justice. One of your best. I’m a big fan of your videos too mate. Keep it up. A big shout to you from Cameron Greenwood Cramp AKA CGC from Melbourne Australia.

Really enjoying this video! Btw you should continue your Amiga A-Z streams where you left off. Really enjoyed that journey of discovery

Now THIS is one well researched list! Regarding Double Dragon II... the arcade game also suffered from major slowdowns, so the unfaithful ports were all the better for it!

You know Arcade classics is terrible when it doesn't even have the Atari logo on the box. They are not even mentioned on the front cover of the PAL release.

Ernest Evans is certainly an oddity. They attempted to use a 2D skeletal animation system to make more fluid animations, but the way they used it makes Ernest look more like a marionette than a person. As for American Gladiators, the NES version is a completely different game with a more arcade approach that works far better in its favor. For instance, The Wall event, instead of being a mindless button masher where you occasionally climb sideways, is instead a massive, multi-story behemoth with twisting paths, dead ends, areas with sparse handholds that require precision movement, and multiple gladiators chasing you instead of only one! You're still button mashing though, but it way more responsive than the 16-bit version. The only thing it's missing is a version of the Atlasphere, which was always my favorite event in the show. Oh, and Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales for the Atari Jaguar was the game that followed Bubsy II, not Bubsy 3D. Most people probably forget it because it not just a bad game, but one on a platform that nobody bought. That, and probably the old "3 is 3D" trope. My only comment on Foreman For Real is, if we're getting "Foreman For Real", why is his body CG? If they wanted to do the Mortal Kombat treatment and actually film every boxer full body?

50:40 Yaah I did this :), only the sprites though. Yes there are a lot of moves, Marvel pressured us really quite strongly to put a shite load of usless moves in. We didn't want to but Marvel paid the bills, The bad gameplay was the Game Directors fault.

I was glad to see that Fantasia made it into this list. It was the first truly terrible game I played as a kid. Thankfully my parents only rented it for me 😂

I have nostalgia for your original Worst Genesis Games list because it was the first vid of yours I ever clicked on. I recognized Slaughter Sport from the thumbnail :P

Hey Kim fun checking this out - i luckily never had any of these for my Genesis. But i did have Xenon 2 Megablast on Amiga - i recall liking it back then but it was so long ago.

dang, i thought that the Captain planet that came with our Amiga was a stinker, but at least that had a banger of a music track for the intro screen and the wind level

Hey KJ, I liked your original Worst Of video and it’s cool that you’ve done an updated version. I only own good SGEN games and none of the bad ones, LOL!

This was amazing, ta Kim! Oh and a very belated Happy 2024!

It feels like "your character is useless" is the recurring theme here, the common thread binding these very different games together (well, except for the sports games).

Sadly, Foreman For Real was the last game we bought for our beloved Snes. What a way to ruin all those good memories.

It's shameful how much time I spent on Art Alive back in the day...I have no idea how I even came to own it

Technocop I have a soft spot for, used to play it on my Amiga back in the day. Sword of Sodan was clunky as hell but nice to look at. Time Killers I wasted tons of money on at the arcade and then drove my friend nuts with the Genesis port when it came to SEGA Channel. X-Perts had a cool concept going but they bungled the execution. Xenon 2, yeah I agree, Amiga title theme then turn it off. Nightmare Circus, funnily enough, showed up in beta form in the Test Drives section on SEGA Channel and I remember at the time thinking it was pretty crap.

Right out of the gate, I just can't hate Earnest Evans because of the pure "Wolfteam" it exudes.

Fantasia gaslit me as child into thinking I was just bad at it. It looks so nice... and Disney would never make an inferior product, right?

As a 10 year old in the mid 1990s, I enjoyed the Terminator 2 platform game. I'd just seen the movie upon television and the programmers made it so you could destroy the background and were given a score based upon minimising damage. Me being 10 I thought it was fun to destroy as many things as I could.

ah, feeling awful and in pain. nothing like a kim justice video to help

An enjoyable video of misery and bad memories, thank you Kim thank you very much 😂 Will we see a top trumps series on adventure point and clickers through time?

Im surprised Green Dog wasn't on here. Great list btw.

I remember renting Awesome Possum and thinking it would be a fun Sonic style platformer, I was wrong.

I feel lucky that in this entire list I've owned 0 and played only 1 😅

Thank you for your service. Just out of curiousity how far into the Japanese exclusive stuff did you go considering a lot of it is unavailable in english?

Perhaps a new Best 50 as a pallete cleanse. Perhaps there some new favorites or JP exclusives you've found that are great. I hardly hear anything about JP only Genesis games, probably because the North American library is already so great.

I remember as a kid going to John Menzies with my parents and buying Sword of Sodan thinking it's was going to be just as good as Golden Axe. After a couple of weeks I told my parents to get rid of it along with Turrican (One in the Star Control Box). Tazmania gave me a headache because of that mine cart as it was too fast and I feel you need luck to be able to get passed it.

Watching the putting on Pro Challenge actually made me say "oh, bastard". Out loud, lol. Good placement, cool video as always Kim. :o)

Sword of Sodan was the only MD game I ever bought that I thought was rubbish. Never really trusted Amiga ports after that. Also taught me to be suspicious of games with overly large sprites…

After the Wheel was completed, this was inevitable.

Woah! World Cup Italia 90 was one of the first games I rented for the Mega Drive, and I had a good time with it back then. Glad it didn't make your list :) On the other hand, placing Wolverine above Dark Castle and Back to the Future 3 is criminal!

i honestly love the Fantasia game, i know it's bad and frustrating at times, but it was the 3rd mega drive game i got as a kid so i hold a very nostalgic place for it that i cant help but love it when i play it. Was pleased when i finally beat it

I just bought an old beat up Genesis, and ordered a multi-cart from AliExpress to play with. I now have this dreaded feeling that this cart will include most if not all this 50.

congrats on playing every megadrive game lol, that used to be my playground boast back in the day, unaware of the import market. on a note of one of the games listed here my late father bought me fantasia, and i was completely unaware how horrendous it was to play compared to the classic castle of illusion. I've never completed it as i just left it gathering dust. like someone else stated for their absolute horrific difficulty i cast the first Asterix game and Taz mania (with its weird interactive soundtrack) to the fiery pits of retro hell!

Always happy to see Curse get kicked around for a while. Between that game and Osomatsu, you can understand why the Sega Genesis was a total non-starter in Japan.

Have to disagree with you on Spider-Man: The Animated Series being ranked so high up on the list. There are so many games that are worse than that one including some in this very video (like Wolverine: Adamantium Rage). Hell, I don’t even think it’s the worst Spider-Man game on the system. That goes to Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge. On the other hand, the only thing I’ll disagree with you about Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones is that is didn’t take the number one spot (then again, I’ve never played Awesome Possum myself). Got Instruments of Chaos the same day I got Spider-Man: TAS (and three far better games) back in 2015 and, to this day, it’s still in a three way tug-o-war for the worst game in my collection… oh not my Sega Genesis collection. I mean my video game collection as a WHOLE! All 1,000+ of it.

Another great video, Kim. I didn't own one of these consoles so it's always fun and interesting to look through what I missed, both good and bad.

That old video is so nostalgic! Love this!!!

The best thing is I always like a good number of what gets rated worst Sega Genesis games. Shows how great a library they had.

I watched all of this waiting for the point where I'd find the single one that I disagreed with and boom, there it is, Xenon 2. Still a game I genuinely like, even if it is hilarious that it's literally subtitled after a song and then doesn't have music during the levels. In its place I offer Centurion: Defender of Rome, which hits so many of the perfect "bad MD game" notes - from a deceptively good intro, to being a collection of terrible minigames, to having abysmal graphics and a frame rate rivalling that of a set of traffic lights. One of those games where you spend years convinced that there are hidden depths only to eventually conclude that there are only depths.

Fricking,"Infogrames, of all people. And I spit take my Tetley tea , laughing. Brilliant and too true

I played through the Spider-Man Acclaim game on the SNES multiple times. It was slow-moving but fine, albeit surprisingly easy. I guess I have to try the MD version to see if it’s really that bad? But it looks like it’s mostly the same game… which I wouldn’t put anywhere near its position on this.

I remember the first time I saw Sword Of Sodan, the first game I saw running on my friends Amiga. It totally blew me away with its graphics compared to my C64. I was dead jealous :p

Love the list Kim, seems very definitive, although I'm surprised Pitfighter didn't get a mention. Is it because the original game itself was pretty dreadful to begin with?

The music in Ernest Evans rocked. The gameplay, I can't make any excuses for. Zero i-frames, you can burn through 3 lives in 5 seconds, weird awkward movement\controls, duck and roll animations that resembled suicidal tendencies.... Güd tunes though, for the Genny

What's that music during the Patron credits from?

Great list as always. I'm playing through several arcade games, and came across some truly awful ones myself.

I play Foreman for Real so I can look at the back of George Foremans head. Left Over Culture is the most under the radar gaming channel on youtube. I been watching him for 10 years. Always rooted for the guy.

Know this list is legit because it has Where's Waldo game in it, every other list like this Ive seen didnt include it. It wasnt released in the UK but one of the UK magazines like Sega Power did do a review of it (with extremely low score given, maybe it was meant for release but the bad critical reception changed that

Great stuff Kim thanks for this, as it is most appreciated.

"A sight for sore eyes" means you like it lol

Back in the day I stayed away from anything licensed like it was the plague

Yesssssssss..always happy to see new content from kim

Seriously a channel that should have thounds more subscribers. One of only a few channels that's more European. While the US was having the video game crash in the 80s. Europe was doing fine with its euro computers.

Love your vids Kim - thanks for making them

Just found your channel and been binge watching. Great stuff!

nice shaggs reference at the end. love them!

Congrats on making it through the whole library!

The fact that Sword of Sodan is only #25 makes me very afraid of the ones up ahead Also huge respect to you for liking Bloodstorm

Technocop was originally released on the Amiga in 1989 by Gremlin Graphics. Same for Sword Of Sodan, also released in 1989 by Discovery Software

The top 10 is solid 😂 As a kid I liked Bubsy 2. It is packed with hilarious moments, has a varied gameplay and looks and sound decent for the time.

I am thankful that I have not played too many stinkers in my time with gaming, but I always feel fascinated watching gameplay of panned old-school games.

Thanks. Being in school in the 90's and only knowing these from magazines, I was not aware that there seem to have been a massive difference between Awesome Possum, Bubsy & Aero the Acrobat. And I recall Xenon2 on PC being one of the better shareware titles. Interesting seeing it being shat on

It's amazing to see how consistently awful Tiertex managed to make every single version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade! 😁

"Making the enemy bullets visible should be a rather basic thing in a game like this" - you might think so, but it's all too easy to screw up! Even Gradius V has this problem. Here it looks like they've made the classic mistake of using too much contrast and saturation in the background. So many pixel artists of the day seemed to have no understanding of how to use colour effectively... you could probably make the game look half-decent just by hacking the colour palettes about.

After all those years i think i would have all double dragon games in the worst list for the mega drive, 3 close to the top. Also Terminator 2 (action game), that Indiana Jones and back to the future 3 deserves the top spot. Fantasia should not exist, for good. But the worst of the worst must be beast wrestler, no game before or after made me shout that amount of cursing and profanation that exists in more than one language. This one gets double points for having awesome cover art that probably fooled a lot of people everywhere. If there is some calculation to relate a bad game from good art, beast wrestler is one of the extremes.

Imagine if someone told a gaming company to make a video game based on an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, and that movie was "Junior". :)

Sword of Sodan was awesome. I don't care what the list says.

I have enjoyed the results. Can't say the same about the games though. These games were a bloody mess to begin with.

First video of yours I've watched and really enjoyed it. Managed to get my Mega Drive out of the loft and connected to the tv recently and looking to buy more games for it. I'll certainly avoid these!

The Bohemian Rhapsody bit from Wayne's World had me in tears! So bad!

Awesome Possum still isn't as annoying as modern Sonic though.

your commentary is among the best on the internet. You never fail to make me laugh with your unique vocabulary for slamming a game.

The Tick shouldn't have a life bar he's invulnerable he doesn't take damage. The only way to do a proper Tick game would be like Wario Land or Pizza Tower where he can be knocked back and slowed down but never die and you get rated on how well you did getting through the stage. A platformer that references the comic's humor and visual design would be far more appropriate than a beat em up.

A worst-of list from Kim... you just made my day.

Kim: imagine playing this game on a tv with a broken volume control, smartass Me: *ptsd flashback* i don't have to imagine it.

Great video on the worst..... But what baffles me is, what about the best, and the lack of ways too play them today. For me (44), as a kid, Desert Strike was one of the best games. I see all these companies that reboot franchises, or things like Antstream etc.... They have Mega Drive games, but they are all crap! Why do they release or reboot absolute dog s##t, but ignore the good games.

Earnest Evans - i'd say that was the proper place for EE, it's not necessarily a BAD game.. well still bad but not BAD. Wolf Team was trying to make something interesting and it's tricky to say the least in order to play this game effectively, but there are most certainly worse games than EE. Bonkers - wait, no? hell no, this aint bad. it's lacking and i'd feel ripped off if i paid $50 for it back in the 90s, but BAD? definitely a subjective pick if i'm being honest. for me this is more Mediocre than bad. Bubsy II - i know a LOT of people dont like the first 2 Bubsy games, but i do. i will always applaud a game for trying to do something different, even if the execution sucks. The Tick - wow, i like me a beefy game, but for a basher, it sounds 3X too long, Streets of Rage 2 has 8 long stages and that feels perfect in length. the devs got way ahead of themselves in this one, overperforming when some other things needed refinement. Sword of Sodan - much like Bubsy II i enjoy Sword of Sodan, i dont see why it is so hated. not calling it perfect by any means mind you, but if this is one of the 50 WORST MD titles, then that just screams volumes as to the quality of the console's library. Art Alive - oh this belongs on the list, not only because it pales to Mario Paint on SNES, but because it offers so damn little. if you're gonna charge $$$ for a game or "Toy" like this, it better be packed. Time Killers - like this one as well, played it on SEGA Channel back in the day and Emulation when i learned about being able to play Retro games on PC long after the MD became Retro. it's no MK, KI, etc, but i have fun with it on occasion. Great Waldo Search - much like with Bonkers i think this game's grievest sin is lacking more levels, if i had paid money for this i'd be livid, but since i never paid a pence on it, i'm fine with it as a game that i can show to my Nephew soon and occasionally play myself. after all, it's not like you can buy Waldo books anymore, at least not to my knowledge.

Mom: I got you some fun art video games. Kid: Oh Boy, Mario Paint!!!! *Mom pulls out Art Alive and Color a Dinosaur.

Was Bubsy that bad though? I still got Close Encounters of Furred Kind, not played since a kid but remember was ok. Aside from getting touched by an enemy meaning instant death ha

im a Heavy Nova fan, i like it 😁 needs a part two with tuns more mechs. i like the challenge trying to pull off every move. needs a part two with a bit of tweaking.

Just what I need right now. Thank you Kim!

44:17 Oh dear! Xenon 2: Megablast - Never played it on the Megadrive, but I did own it for the Atari ST... I TRIED, I REALLY TRIED, I wanted to like it, God I played the hell out of it... But everything you say is right - Terribly Designed, Slow, Unfair, I only ever managed to get to the end of Level Boss on Stage One ONCE!!!!

What I find interesting is that no launch games made the list. Which just shows that game quality has nothing to do with how well developers are familiar with the system.

At least Funcom made a decent spiritual successor to Nightmare Circus called The Park.

Nightmare Circus wasn't actually finished when they released it I thought?

I'm surprised the US version of the port of Shadow of the Beast isn't on your list. Not only is it unplayably fast because they didn't convert the game properly to NTSC, but the collision detection is easily the worst of any 16-bit game ever. You can literally take damage from enemies/obstacles that were almost halfway across the screen