Top 10 Worst Nintendo Games

The Top Ten
1 Hotel Mario

This game sucks. Controls are extremely unresponsive on the phillips, awful plot, everything's bad on this game. At least the ytp community made some funny ytp's with it.

Why does this game really exist?

This game is horrendous because YouTube Poop is addicted to this game. Horrible controls, poor framerate, this is one of the worst of the Mario games and should be removed from the Mario canon.

The first 3 where not made by Nintendo, the cdi games where made by Philips, and the Mario early years game was by some company called Software Toolwork.

This isn't made by Nintendo, this would be on the list, but not nintendo's,

2 Mario's Early Years: Preschool Fun

At least it's on a Nintendo console *cough* hotel *cough* Mario *cough*

Game grumps is the only thing that gave this game positives

Uh why would Nintendo allow a game of preschool to slide?

I didn't play but it sounds like garbage

3 Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon

This game is such a hot mess. The writing sucks, with the adventure in the game not starting until the console startup, the main character is deemed as a hero without doing...anything, and not being a hero, all of the characters are ridiculously flat and irritating, and the plot is extremely choppy, and the unfortunate implications of undeserved credit, with the fact that this game led up to nothing. The annoyance in this game being HUGE, the voice acting is very dull and uninspired, and this game is just a fudging chore to sit through. A pathetic, annoying, poorly-written film that is definitely a dark spirit amongst the canon.

This game shouldn't exsist. In 1991 sony was developing a cd add on for the super nintendo. The project didn't get very far because nintendo oped out of the contract because it was unfair for them. They instead decided to work with philips and give them the rights to develop some nintendo games on the philips cdi. An underpowered. Useless. Clunky. And overpriced excuse for a consle. Philips developed hotel mario (Which is also a horrible mess of a game) and a triliogy of zelda games. With this one being the worst. It throws away everything that made the series great and replaceded it with cutscenes so bad there funny. Awful controls. And Bad gameplay. Most of trevesal in the dungeons and the overworld relies on platforming. There is a lot of it. Its bassicly a 2d platformer with a few adventure elements thrown in. It is way to difficult and items are a pain to find. Sometimes you will need to treverse the whole map to find a required item. The first dungeon is so hard youll need to be ...more

It's one of the worst games of all time terrible graphics super bad voice acting and terrible controls it should be called Zelda this game sucks

A game that Nintendo would not even want to mention and want you to play.

4 Wii Music

I disagree that this was a bad game, it was rather entertaining, in fact. While the easy songs may have been a little less exiting than others, the Orchestra was a heck of a whole lot of fun.

This is a bad game, but there are much much much worse monstrosities way farter down that deserve to be number one or higher, Superman 64, The Zelda Cd-I games, and more

I was gifted this game just because I'm a musician. Well, I HATED this game actually.

But why? It's just as creative as super mario maker 2.

5 Paper Mario: Sticker Star

From what I know, Nintendo get rid of the story, wich was a mistake from them..

without the story, it wasn't simple for me to know what to do, what I should use in a level, I had to search on the internet for that.

the main plot is reduced to.. saving the princess, I know this is not new, but even the other Paper Mario have a different way for that.

the supportive character is annoying and serve no real purpose for the game, you can learn how to use a power, how many stickers you can use in combat, and... it's all, simply useless after that.

the game, despite these flaws, is quite nice to play and the ost fit the levels of the game, I just expected more but I'm not entirely dissapointed.

Honestly, this isn't even a good game by it's own standards, let alone a good Paper Mario game. The puzzles are often ridiculously obtuse, the navigation sucks, and battles are completely pointless. I know some people think it's a good game if you don't compare it to the other Paper Mario games, but I have to disagree. I can't really enjoy this game even when I don't think about the other Paper Mario games.

I own this game, and it's actually not that bad. It has some upsides, like 3D, a storyline, and the sticker system is actually enjoy in my humble opinion.
However, it has downsides too. Quite a few of the puzzles are really hard to understand without a walkthrough, the battle system isn't the best, the way looking+controlling works makes parkour difficult, and the game doesn't really appeal for replaying.
Overall, this game shouldn't be close to where it is on this list, (this list is not good at all by the way), but shouldn't make any top 10's. It's just an average Mario game.

Super bland by-the-numbers environments, a stripped down inventory based combat system that feels unrewarding, no story, and generic Mario characters make this a forgettable mess. To defenders of this game, what's so great about a game having less creativity than its predecessors?

6 Donkey Kong Jr. Math

Seriously, this is fourth worst video game I've ever played in my entire life!

This thing sucks who plays math video games

I didn't care for it much, but it is still really hard to find for the NES. It was a terrible way to teach math, but overall, personally, I would probably put it at,at least, after Link: The faces of Evil on the list.

The bad game few people remember.

7 Metroid: Other M

Honestly, it's a great thing that Metroid Dread is coming back from an extremely long development hell, as it will bring a new light into the franchise. This game is what started the downfall of the franchise, in my opinion. The graphics look decent, but weaker than other entries in the franchise, like Super Metroid, Fusion or the Prime trilogy. It tried to fuse the classic 2D shoot-em-up style of the games with the first-person style from the Prime trilogy, but it ended up falling flat on its face and comes off as clunky. And the voice acting, God, the voice acting just sucked. The voice actor of Samus didn't sound that serious and edgy, instead she sounded bored as she mumbled her lines. "The baby". "The baby". "The baby". It's not a bad Metroid game, but a massive disappointment and a letdown coming from the franchise, as we know there are still good or great Metroid games.

Ok look it isn't the best Metroid game ever because personally Super Metroid is probably the best Metroid game, but it isn't terrible. The voice acting could use some work but when Samus isn't talking she looks like a bad ass. It also looks pretty good too. I would give it a fair try. Did we all forget when Samus ripped apart that one winged alien? That part was really awesome. I think we are all a little too upset over the voice acting. I know there is someone out there who could act like Samus perfectly but sadly this girl wasn't it. She was okay at best. Oh and by the way Federation force has Samus in it, and it's the one from the prime series, also I heard the game-play is fun so I think we are going to be okay. Too bad Federation Force wasn't shown properly though.

There's this one glitch in this game where one door wouldn't budge, even if you try to shoot down the door. Did Nintendo ever fix the glitch? No. Instead they released a beta test mode of this game. Nintendo did buckle down on this game, but you can't help but think that this game's graphics make Sonic 06 look like Wind Waker.

I was a Nintendo fan from the beginning but the lame story coupled with badly implemented Wii controls made this game the worst one in the whole franchise. That is until federation force. Either way the good metroid games stopped with prime 3.

8 Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival

Animal Crossing just sucks in general. Worst series ever made.

Not even Isabelle's adorable little face can convince me otherwise that this game is a waste of money that's not even fun.

Literally an Amiibo Tap Simulator. Do I even need to be more exact?
- Anonymous

An insult to the Animal Crossing franchise... Amiibo Festival in a nutshell

9 Volleyball
10 Hey You, Pikachu!

I thought it was good when I herd about it but then I played it and I basically failed because I couldn't figure out how to get the pikachu to do what I wanted it to do probably because of the bad voice control.

This should be remade in the 3DS eShop, but with actually good voice controls, and actually getting to control Pikachu a reasonable amount. I would buy it.

The game is so boring and it drives me nuts that the microphone is used for kids with high voices

When I was a kid, I wanted this game so bad! I've never played it though. I regret wanting it now.

The Contenders
11 Clu Clu Land

I love Clu Clu Land

Are those rupees?

You suck go die

12 Urban Champion

This game was fun it doesn't deserve to be on here

13 Super Smash Bros. 64

This game was literally what started the whole Smash Bros Franchise! It's pretty amazing to see a game like this back in the 64's good ol' days!

Amazing game why has the TOPTEN developers put this here it is a revolutionary masterpiece by HAL labrotories who also created Kirby

I'm gonna falcon punch whoever put this as an option.

Whoever put this here will be sent to hell...

July FRIDAY THE 13TH!

14 Mario Kart: Double Dash

How won't people see how utterly lousy this entire game even is? It's so overrated and there shouldn't be another game like this. I would be ok if MK9 had single kart and double dash modes though.

I agree that this game is good and probably shouldn't be on the list. However, in my opinion it isn't great for a Mario Kart game.

Only the Mario Kart series that you can pick two characters and it's considered one of the worst?
Okay, okay, some people don't like this game, but I think very fun.

Danteem will murder you for putting this on here.
And even though I suck at racing games, it was pretty fun to host tournaments at Summer Camp and see who was the best at this game.

15 Mario Party: Island Tour

To me, this is more of a 3DS version of Mario Party 9. Does anyone agree with me? I have a 3DS XL system, but I'm not really going to buy it. I would prefer Mario Party 9, or the DS version of Mario Party. Since Nintendo has announced the 10th installment of Mario Party A.K.A. Mario Party 10 for the WiiU, I feel like Nintendo is repeating its own history when they released the first Mario Party game for the Nintendo 64, then they made two sequels to it, which were Mario Party 2 & Mario Party 3. Mario Party 1, 2, and 3 were pretty much the same thing, but have a few differences. They were still fun, despite the fact that friendships are ruined by it, but I find that completely ridiculous. Seriously people, how could your friendships be ruined by Mario Party? Whatever, I'm getting off topic. The first Mario Party games were all on the Nintendo 64, but that when the Nintendo 64 was popular. Now, that there's new systems like from Wii, to WiiU & from DS, to DSi, to DSi XL, to 3DS, to 3DS ...more

I played this game back then and it wasn't that bad.

Hi my name is chris I hate you

Meh.I guess I was glad it removed the travel together function

16 Mario is Missing!

Worst Mario game alongside Mario's Time Machine!

17 1-2-Switch

A bad party game, really nintendo?

18 Mario Clash

This game is AWESOME! Seriously, why hate this game? The graphics are awesome although this game is only black & red. I mean, come on! The Virtual Boy I great despite being a hard-to-use commercial failure.

Whoever put mother over this is gonna get a warlock punch to the face

I've never heard of this game before.

Ah my eyes it burns

19 The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

This has one of the worst stories in the history of stories. Link and Zelda should not be together, and they made her such an annoying bratty crybaby. Link's expressions are way too exagerrated and cartoonish, it's unrealistic. They need to just stick with stoic zelda and make her a better version of the Twilight Princess one.

Oh, I also hate the ending of this game, it was way too melodramatic.

Remember Egoraptor? He hates this game so much. Other game reviewers like IGN give this game a total score of 10. Just because you admit this is the best Zelda game ever made, doesn't mean this is the best Zelda game ever.

Revisiting the three original provinces over and over again... someone please give me Beamos laser surgery. Either than that, I love this game.

Never played it, but this game is apparently one of the BEST games EVER made so BOO your JUDGEMENT!

20 Stack Up

This game was part of an attempt to recover from the video game depression. If it had more development, it could've been better.

21 Devil's Third

This isn't made by Nintendo, it's just a third party game for the Wii U

22 Metroid

This game is good. It is very hard though.

What this game is great

How is this here?

23 Metroid Prime: Federation Force

Where do I even start with this one?
First of all, Samus is completely absent from the story. Second of all, a lot of the aspects used in other Metroid games are missing. Altogether it just feels like a different game to begin with. And that is the reason why Federation Force is the worst game in the Metroid series.

It hasn't came out yet, but based on trailers, I don't think you can even play as Samus Aran. And its on the 3DS(I'm not a Nintendo hater). I can see the pixels on the screen. It's basically Metroid Prime Multiplayer. So I don't think it'll be good.

24 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

Holy crap why just why I love this game

I loves, I have it for snes

How is this a bad game?

25 New Super Luigi U

"New Super Luigi U is totally worth the money! For an extra $20, you can play as LUIGi in New Super Mario Bros U! "
-Nobody

Everyone: do we really wanna spend even more money on just playing as Luigi and Nabot?
Danteem: I WILL PAY ALL OF MY MONEY FOR THIS OML (oh my Luigi) THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER!

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