Shovelware? You don't know shovelware.

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How could no one mention Big Rigs yet?! In all seriousness that has to be the worst game of all time. Other games are more infamous, other games have done more damage, other games have been bigger flops, but I find it hard to imagine that a game exists that has as many things broken or as few things functional as this game.



Wikipedia describes it thusly:

The box of Big Rigs states that the player may "race trucks across the country, with cops chasing [them]." GameSpot's Alex Navarro wrote that this description of the game is nothing more than "horrible, horrible lies", since there are no police in the game. Additionally, they pointed out, the computer-controlled opponent vehicles have no AI and never move from the starting position, making even the description of the gameplay as a "race" questionable.

There are technically no obstacles for the player to negotiate in Big Rigs, as the truck may freely be driven on and off roads without any loss of traction, straight up 90° mountains (with no loss of speed), through structures, simply falling right through bridges, and even out of the boundaries of the map into an endless grey void. No matter what the player does, it is impossible to lose the race. When the player's truck is put into reverse, the truck will accelerate infinitely; however, the truck will halt instantly when the reverse key is released.

Upon completion of the race, the player is presented with a large, three-handled, on-screen trophy cup overlaid with the text "YOU'RE WINNER !" Due to a developer oversight, the game occasionally fails to distinguish between whether the player is starting or finishing the race when they pass through the starting checkpoint, and so this screen may appear to end the race before it even begins. In addition, one of the game's five maps causes the game to crash altogether when accessed.