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The Bad Game Hall of Fame is dedicated to giving bad games the due process they deserve. Through examining their history, reviewing their contents, and measuring their impacts on the industry, we hope to bring about a better understanding of these oft-dismissed releases.
Along the way, we'd like to give readers a better understanding of how the games industry operates, and the pressure put on game developers to deliver these products in short order.
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Mortal Kombat Trilogy (Game.com)
Indiepocalypse #24: Gotta Get Down on Friday the 13th
DOOM (3DO)
“Swept With the Boom, Don’t Forget to Assume, Time Catches up With Some 3DO DOOM.”
DOOM‘s foray onto the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer doomed from the word go, thanks to its being handled by the industry’s most clueless publisher. Given just ten weeks’ time to develop it, a lone hero would thwart Hell itself to see the game through.
Interview: ‘DOOM (3DO)’ Developer, Rebecca Heineman
Our interview with Rebecca Heineman: A co-founder of Interplay, current head of Olde Sküül Games, and a woman with a hand in countless hundreds of games over the course of a nearly forty year career. She’s also the lady responsible for DOOM on 3DO, but please don’t hold that against her!
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Indiepocalypse #23: As We Forgive Those Who Trespasser Against Us
Ganso Saiyūki: Super Monkey Daibōken
“Roulette Blast a Roddin’, Reptile Rhythm Voodoo, Journey to the West and…?”
The quest to adapt Journey to the West to the Family Computer was fraught with its own set of hardships, as a first-time publisher and recently-pivoted developer embarked on their very own pilgrimage of game production. Did they achieve enlightenment, or fall into digitized despair?
Top Five: Games Cancelled After Release
It’s not every day that you see game companies voluntarily turn down the opportunity to try and turn a profit where they can, even off of knowingly sub-par products. In this list, we compile five instances of immediate regret on the part of publishers, and their attempts to erase already-released games from history.
Battle: Los Angeles
SSFF: Resident Evil 4’s Bizarre Mobile Ports | DELISTED
Indiepocalypse #21: Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle