Top 10 Worst Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Games

The Top Ten
1 Action 52

Action 52 is still my least favorite game of all time.

The games are loaded with multiple bugs and glitches, crashing, atrocious controls, random characters, super tiny sprites, dying in mid-air, proportion problems, misleading titles and power-ups, unorthodox weapons, eye-straining backgrounds, enemies not showing up, impossible wins and losses, lack of sense, horrible graphics, musics, menus, and so much more.

There's a kid that says that Dick Tracy is worse then this. That kid deserves to lose his head (I don't care how harsh I'm sounding, that's literally one of the dumbest things I've ever heard) for his bad taste. Because no one in the right mind would think that Dick Tracy (a game that's actually good, well somewhat) is worse than Action 52 (fifty-two atrocious games).

2 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Nope. It's the Shaq-Fu of the NES (bad, but way too hated.) If you think this is worse than Takeshi's Challenge, never post your opinion about 80's games on the internet ever again.

The comment that starts with "The Laughing Joking Numbnuts who made this game" was written by someone who meant to say "The Laughing Joking Numbnuts who ruined this game". Let's face it, no matter who made this game, they gave the Angry Video Game Nerd's least favourite 19th-century licensed property the LJN treatment.

Have you even played this game! It is bad beyond its normal definition. Playing this game is like playing catch with a chimpanzees frozen turd in the zoo. But even that is more fun than playing Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde for one second.

3 Color a Dinosaur

This didn't need to be a game. If you wanted to color a dinosaur, BUY A COLORING BOOK! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

This didn't need to be a game. If you wanted to color a dinosaur, BUY A COLORING BOOK FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

At least this coloring game has a fill option, unlike a certain MS Paint ripoff brought to you by Laughing Joking Numbnuts.

4 Where's Waldo

Where's Waldo? Good question, everybody almost looks like waldo

At least all the others are at least games... How do you call this a game

Fun fact: very durable cartridge. It took me 20 minutes to destroy!

5 Karate Champ

A couple years ago I got a lot of game for NES and I saw this one. I figured it would be like Kung Fu. Boy was I wrong. I actually thought there was something wrong with my controller. This game has the worst controls in the history of gaming. The graphics are bad too. The players never move from where they are and the scenery is boring. It's an all around terrible game. My personal least favorite game on NES.

The graphics are bad, even for a NES game, and the controls are a joke.

6 Deadly Towers

This should be first, not action 52, as action 52 isn't even a real game.

7 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

I think Elvis would want a guitar, not a gravestone. Giving Cleopatra a credit card? What were them Laughing Joking Numbnuts thinking... No, What's on second! I'm not asking you who's on second. Who's on first. I don't know... THIRD BASE!

What were they thi thinking ABOUT giving illogical items to certain people in history? Imagine someone giving you a gravestone for your death. Bill and Ted are jerks. This game might be the worst lgn game for nes

This game makes little sense. Giving a famous criminal an Uzi? I'd think Edison would want an elephant-sized electric chair, not a CD someone living many decades before lasers existed would ever want.

8 Ghostbusters

The Commodore 64 version of Ghostbusters was much better.

The Sega Genesis version is great.

The "Ghostbusters" voice sample... I hate it. This game makes Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Action 52 look like Super Mario Bros 1 and 3 in comparison.
Top 3 Worst NES Games
1. Cheetahmen II
2. Ghostbusters
3. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

9 Back to the Future

Published by LJN, developed by Beam Software. This had no chance of being not-bad. It's just a matter of if you toss it against the wall or out a third-story window.

See the top left corner of the box? That's why this game stinks.

How to make a bad Back to the Future game?
Step 1 - Allow LJN do it.
Step 2 - Make the game nothing like the movie.
Step 3 - Add bad graphics, gameplay and music.
Step 4 - Add "BACK TO THE FUTURE" in the cover
Step 5 - Sell it.

10 Cheetahmen II

If you have one of the 1500 cartridges known to exist, it's hard to tell whether or not you are lucky or living in a dumpster. This game takes the first Cheetah men game and sprinkles magical crap dust all over it. I bet if you look in the dictionary for "Glitch", you will soon find footage of the gameplay that was released to Earth as a warning shot by Satan.

Cheetahmen 2 is not only crap, it's crap with a hefty price! Why would you want to pay $1500 for this game? You'd be better of spending that much on good games!

This crazy joke was released in pre-alpha stage.

The Contenders
11 Super Pitfall

It's so glitchy, it puts sonic 06 to shame. It ruined a beloved series from the Atari 2600. Stick to the atari version

In Japan, there was a sequel of Super Pitfall called Atlantis no Nazo.

Bad graphics, bad controls, and too cryptic

12 Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters

THIS SHOULD BE NUMBER 1! Because it did a horrible job on making a Godzilla game. This is the worst Godzilla game, worst NES game, and WORST GAME OF ALL TIMES! WORST THAN SUPERMAN N64! Don't play this game at all!

13 Fester's Quest

I don't really think this deserves to be this high. I don't really find it that bad of a game.

This game isn't that bad. It has flaws, but its at least playable. And the music is good.

Actually kind of decent. It's hard, but the music is pretty good.

14 Back to the Future Part II & III

Let's face it, the Laughing Joking Numbnuts who never stop ruining everything to do with video games didn't learn a thing from their first Back To The Future NES game.

15 Home Alone

Beyond worthless game. Terrible mechanics, terrible gameplay, terrible graphics. I have nothing good to say about this horrible piece of trash. Even worse than games like Wheres Waldo, Back to the Future, Super Pitfall, and even worse than Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers.

Worst NES game. Probably the worst movie game I have ever played. Definitely one of the worst games I have ever played period. Should not exist!

Worst game I ever rented on a weekend. So glad I never bought it. One of the very few John Hughs movies that suck.

16 Winter Games

Guys, you realize LJN isn't a programming company right? They just publish the games that gaming companies give them...

No matter who programmed this crazy joke, they gave it the LJN treatment. Can anybody say Rainbow Of Doom!

Just like Dragons Lair, this game should be almost as high as Action 52.

17 Little Red Hood

Let's face it, no matter who programmed this crazy joke, they gave Little Red Riding Hood the LJN treatment. Can anybody say Rainbow Of Doom!

Its stupid

Dear riding hood thank you for your coming!

What did Little Red Riding Hood do to deserve this!

18 Dragon's Lair

Getting stuck on the first screen of the game is no fun.

Don't play the NES game, I prefer the arcade version.

19 The Uncanny X-Men

Seriously? Silver Surfer's in the top ten, but this game isn't? Makes no sense.

Literally the characters are either laser-shooters or mêlée fighters. Mêlée here means 'running into enemies'. What I'm saying is, the graphics are bad.

It's certainly LJN!
And also the title in-game should be The Uncanny X-Men not Marvel's X-Men!

20 Silver Surfer

I actually kind of like this game, especially the music. But the difficulty is unfair.

Every time you touch something, you die and have to try it all over again.

Gee, this game is so hard & its gameplay is unfair.

21 Dick Tracy

Play attention to none of the comments saying that this game deserves to be in the top 10. This is actually a decent game once you get good at it.

The most frustrating feature of this game is summed up by the Angry Video Game Nerd (aka James AVGN Rolfe) as follows: "One guy, no continues?! "

Watch the AVGN review. It is so funny & inspiring. Also, it is so true. This game is even worse than Action 52.

22 Silent Assault
23 Friday the 13th

When I was a kid, I loved Friday the 13th movies, so I bought the game and when I realized it was bad, I threw it into the garbage can. but now I'm older, and I don't remember much about the game since I threw it
away trying it the first time. But now, I decided to give the game a second chance and searched online for a free NES game website and found the website game-oldies.com (It took me back to my childhood memories with games ranging from Atari 2600 console to SNES. And this game makes no sense! First of, there is a weird and senseless map which allows you to go somewhere, But you actually have to move and I have no idea where to go because this game doesn't show where the heck you are actually going! What about the completely irrelevant monsters such as zombies or tigers? And your horrifying weapon that doesn't work unless you are close to the enemy and crouch. and you have a time limit, making it nearly impossible to find your way to a certain place! I quit after I got stuck in a house because the layout is confusing and makes no sense. This isn't a good old fashioned horror game with jump scares or creepy stuff, instead this is a bad platformer which bores the crap out of you.

24 Barbie

Who thod this game was a good idea?! I read about a rumor that 4 Mattel factories were blown up because of this game.

PS: Yes, AVGN reviewed it in the Episode 102: The making of an AVGN episode.

Go away, Barbie! Nobody even likes your franchise anyways?!

Barbie just ruined my whole life!

25 The Terminator

I own the game the only reason why I bought it was because I wanted to see how bad it was the controlls are bad and the music is just a 3 second loop and the enemies copies your movement and you're jumping on q tips its ridicilously bad

(To the one who assumes LJN made this) No, no one can say Rainbow of Doom! We's have to be the most imbecilic people to think this is an LJN game, no logo, then it's not an LJN game. Get your facts strait, LJN only published Terminator 2 games!

The life counter for this game has a one-digit display that maxes out at 6 instead of 9. Can anybody say Rainbow Of Doom!

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