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Any of the Bible games on the NES were horrific, especially Bible Adventures.




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Wait, our friends at Phoenix Games have other games besides London Cab Challenge. Here are some more:

EDIT - embedding isn't working for me :(

Skateboard Madness 'Xtreme Editon'

Extreme Sprint 3010

Maniac Mole

Drag Racer USA

The sound and music are especially great.

 



My Mario Kart Wii friend code: 2707-1866-0957

http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/uk/company.html

Emphasis mine:

Phoenix Games Ahead of it's Time

With a small elite team of 6 people specializing in licensing, marketing and publishing of value priced games, development and manufacturing are bundled through outsourcing and collaboration. This approach suppresses our fixed costs and enables a revolutionary low price strategy.

We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months. With integrated standards in production and packaging it is now possible to realize low costs through stabilization of variable costs and suppression of fixed costs. In the case of fixed costs we are suppressing development costs per product unit by maximizing the sales volume through a low cost strategy and also both diminishing advertising and promotional costs and maximizing operating profits by securing a dependable fan base through an identifying packaging of a series.

With long-term strategic partners based all over the world, Phoenix Games (Holland) B.V. is perfectly situated to be able to recognise and effectively work with the challenges of price policy, competition, languages, region accessibility and most importantly, to ensure a profitable relationship with its distribution partners.

Phoenix Games (Holland) B.V. has become the leading European publisher for Value Priced Games. To this end Phoenix has adopted for PS2, DS, Wii & PC formats, a completely different approach to product publishing and distribution. Phoenix aim is to bring quality product to the market at remarkable prices, thus maximising sales for the developers.

Sony PS2, Nintendo DS & Nintendo Wii

The complete collection of premium budget product on these fast moving formats will be successfully sold through the many thousands of retail outlets offering quick turnover consumer goods where the general public does its everyday convenience shopping. Such as 24 hour stores, Newsagents, Garage Shops etc. marketing the ranges through these diverse outlets means they will get high exposure and this will result in high sales levels. Although the ranges will be sold at low retail prices, they will not be short on quality. The retail price points are incredibly competitive considering the quality of the content. This, together with eye catching packaging represents exceptional value for money.

All product packaging and manuals will be available in 6 different languages : English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, a further feature to ensure international success.

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hey rugrats? shovelware? i had a blast playin those games they were fun as shit



That Taxi thing is hilarious.
I kind of want it.



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The_vagabond7 said:
a.l.e.x00 said:
None of those can touch Imagine: Babyz.
 See now this is the difference between shovel ware and something of a different taste. Imagine babyz is probably fun for an eight year old girl. Actual thought went into that and imagine dancing or whatever the other one is, in order to be fun for little girls. London Cab Challenge and Animal Soccer are just crap. They aren't fun for anyone, they are hideous from a technical standpoint, and contain little if any entertainment value for anyone. 

L-O-L, you don't know the half of it with Imagine: Babyz. They actually show full vaginal and penis parts on the babies in the game. IGN gave the game a 1-2 out of a 10 lmao They said it was that pathetic AND horrible for not censoring private parts lmao I think an 8 year old girl would get off to a male baby and their uncensored penis.



Naraku_Diabolos said:
The_vagabond7 said:
a.l.e.x00 said:
None of those can touch Imagine: Babyz.
See now this is the difference between shovel ware and something of a different taste. Imagine babyz is probably fun for an eight year old girl. Actual thought went into that and imagine dancing or whatever the other one is, in order to be fun for little girls. London Cab Challenge and Animal Soccer are just crap. They aren't fun for anyone, they are hideous from a technical standpoint, and contain little if any entertainment value for anyone.

L-O-L, you don't know the half of it with Imagine: Babyz. They actually show full vaginal and penis parts on the babies in the game. IGN gave the game a 1-2 out of a 10 lmao They said it was that pathetic AND horrible for not censoring private parts lmao I think an 8 year old girl would get off to a male baby and their uncensored penis.


"Wah! Baby Pharoh want milk! Someone fetch me a nipple!"

Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series. 



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

sweet, I'm buying that babyz game...I mean...for my...child....to learn....about....HOW ABSOLUTELY HAWT BABYZ ARE!!! *runs to walmart being chased by the FBI*



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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.



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RolStoppable said:
Final-Fan said:
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.
Well, in Big Rigs you can at least see what's in front of you. In that London game in the OP, stuff is appearing on the screen right at the moment you bump into it.
But at least the taxi game has things to bump into. You watched the video, right? The taxi game is playable. It's just bad (extremely so, of course).  Big Rigs is like a SHMUP where the enemies and obstacles are all intangible.  Worse -- watching the SHMUP levels scroll by might be interesting.  

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