kgods wrote...
Battletoads caused me untold amounts of grief as a youngster... still hate that game.
I remember that game being ridiculously hard. For a lot of you younger people here that maybe hasn't or only very little played the NES, you'll find that pretty much any game made during the late 80's/early 90's based on a cartoon or series was very hard. Battletoads caused an extreme amount of frustration that lead to a great many instances of throwing NES controllers.
Some personal choices?
Initial D Mountain Vengeance on the PC has to be one of the worst games ever made. If you're ever played the arcade games or the Playstation games, playing that piece of crap will really make you ask questions. It can be found for free all over the net, and if you're really itching to waste a quick two minutes of play time to realize how incredibly bad it is download it and see.
I might get flamed for this one, but I though Vay on the Sega CD was a pretty bad RPG, especially when compared to other Sega CD offerings like the Lunar series. Vay's combat was just too fast paced, the difficulty was rather high (there's this elemental boss that just kicks the shit out of you and you have to spend forever leveling up), and was coupled with a somewhat predictable story. I actually gave that game away, and am hitting myself since it now sells for a nice penny on eBay.