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I expected a list and all I got was article after article after article... which is kind of a list as well, but not the kind of list I was expecting. Being a fan of list of lists of lists, I expected the list to be more list-y. Maybe I should lower my list expectations.
Thanks for posting it anyway. It's a nice concatenation of articles.
Courtesy of our ai overlords:
| Title | Year | System / Console |
|---|---|---|
| Custer’s Revenge | 1982 | Atari 2600 |
| Pac-Man (Atari 2600) | 1982 | Atari 2600 |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Atari 2600 |
| Cassette 50 | 1983 | Various 8-bit home computers |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1988 | NES |
| Action 52 | 1992 | NES |
| Night Trap | 1992 | Sega CD |
| Plumbers Don't Wear Ties | 1993 | MS-DOS / 3DO |
| Zelda (CD-i trilogy) | 1993–94 | Philips CD-i |
| Hotel Mario | 1994 | Philips CD-i |
| Shaq Fu | 1994 | Sega Genesis / SNES |
| Bubsy 3D | 1996 | PlayStation |
| Superman 64 | 1999 | Nintendo 64 |
| Mortal Kombat: Special Forces | 2000 | PlayStation |
| The Simpsons Wrestling | 2001 | PlayStation |
| Mortal Kombat Advance | 2001 | Game Boy Advance |
| Batman: Dark Tomorrow | 2003 | GameCube / Xbox |
| Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness | 2003 | PlayStation 2 |
| Drake of the 99 Dragons | 2003 | Xbox |
| Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing | 2003 | PC |
| The Guy Game | 2004 | PC / Consoles |
| Lula 3D | 2005 | PC |
| Ninjabread Man | 2005 | Wii |
| Bomberman: Act Zero | 2006 | Xbox 360 |
| Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) | 2006 | PS3 / Xbox 360 |
| Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust | 2009 | PC / PS3 |
| Stalin vs. Martians | 2009 | PC |
| Rogue Warrior | 2009 | PC / PS3 / Xbox 360 |
| Final Fantasy XIV (original) | 2010 | PC |
| Power Gig: Rise of the SixString | 2010 | PS3 / Xbox 360 |
| Postal III | 2011 | PC |
| FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction | 2011 | PC |
| Infestation: Survivor Stories | 2012 | PC |
| SimCity (2013) | 2013 | PC / Mac |
| Aliens: Colonial Marines | 2013 | PC / PS3 / Xbox 360 |
| Ride to Hell: Retribution | 2013 | PC / PS3 / Xbox 360 |
| Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons | 2013 | Xbox 360 |
| Fighter Within | 2013 | Xbox One |
| Assassin’s Creed Unity | 2014 | PC / PS4 / Xbox One |
| Dungeon Keeper (mobile) | 2014 | iOS / Android |
| Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric | 2014 | Wii U |
| Alone in the Dark: Illumination | 2015 | PC |
| Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 | 2015 | PS4 / Xbox One |
| Umbrella Corps | 2016 | PS4 / PC |
| No Man’s Sky (launch) | 2016 | PS4 / PC |
| Star Wars Battlefront II | 2017 | PS4 / Xbox One / PC |
| Fallout 76 | 2018 | PS4 / Xbox One / PC |
| WWE 2K20 | 2019 | PS4 / Xbox One / PC |
| Warcraft III: Reforged | 2020 | PC |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2020 | PC / PS4 / Xbox One |
| Balan Wonderworld | 2021 | PS4 / Xbox / Switch / PC |
| eFootball 2022 | 2021 | PS4 / PS5 / Xbox / PC |
| GTA Trilogy – Definitive Edition | 2021 | Multi-platform |
| Battlefield 2042 | 2021 | PC / PS5 / Xbox Series X/S |
| Babylon’s Fall | 2022 | PS4 / PS5 / PC |
| The Lord of the Rings: Gollum | 2023 | PC / PS5 / Xbox Series X/S |
| The Day Before | 2023 | PC |
That's a table, not a list. But I'll stop now :)
3 more trees died because of you!
To be fair, most of those look pretty weak.
No Daikatana. Literally the biggest flopsince Atari ET at least from the media coverage. So big it was a meme that lasted for a decade.
Hey, y'all remember CONCORD?
Real shame because the reveal trailer made it look like a nice little sci-fi action game. Then the gameplay showed it was nothing more than a hero shooter coming into an oversaturated market with a bloated budget and no hook
I always felt bad for Hello Games. They were a small team making what was essentially an indie game, but for one reason or another, No Man's Sky built up waaaaay more hype than they had presumably anticipated. I was part of that hype, because as a huge fan of 65daysofstatic I was really looking forward to hearing what they did for it.
So Sony picked up on the hype and marketed the everloving shit out of it, leaving Hello in a position where they had to deliver what was by that being considered a AAA game with an indie team. And of course, they came up short. How could they not.
That whole debacle was Sony's fault, but Hello have spent the past ten years making amends for it.
Yeah, that's a bit disingenuous take on the situation at the time.
While Sony could have toned down the marketing and better worked with Hello games, Sean Murray went on a absolute PR streak lying over and over in so many interviews about features that weren't in the game at the time and realistically wouldn't be added until many years after.
Then they released a half baked game which was missing basically every feature the gaming community was actually excited about.
They remdemed themselves and NMS in its current form is a fantastic game deserving of praise, but Hello Games deserved all the hate at the time. Entirely their fault.
Needs ‘Rise of the Robots’ the super hyped fighting game. The graphics looked amazing for the time, the characters were meticulously rendered in 3d studio. On release it bombed spectacularly because the gameplay just sucked, due to the constraints imposed by trying to achieve the fancy graphics. It was held up as an example of an overhyped game for years.