Worst. Purchase. Ever.

[Fe 26]

It seems wierd to support a game *that owes its entire existence* to the game he has problems with.

Why? People have been doing that with music for forever now.

[Tones]

I'll have to say the Gamecube. I think I played it less than 100 hours total the 2 years that I had it.

[gameoverDude]

C: A Contra Adventure- I saw it for $9.99 and said what the heck. Appaloosa missed again and thankfully Konami has learned their lesson- Shattered Soldier kills this, and so does even the slightly disappointing Neo Contra.

Chotetsu Brikin'ger- Nice graphics, but the game was not $150 fun. Darius Gaiden plays a million times better.

32X- I could've bought a few more Saturn games with that $150 (as well as the $60-70 for the carts). Virtua Racing Deluxe was very nice but it should've been promoted to a Saturn title- instead, Sega lets Time Warner Interactive do the Saturn version. TWI's VR for Saturn has downright nasty AI for the CPU cars- the competition here is literally out to kill you. Control here is not as solid as on Sega's own VRD32X, at least if you're using a D-Pad.

Turok 2: Not as smooth as the first game. This is one case where framerate jags kill a game.

Viewpoint (PS) : Graphics look nice- closer in quality to Pulstar than the original Viewpoint. However, the framerate starts to choke agonizingly when you get to the 2nd half of the game- at around the 3rd boss especially.

Wait, are you saying you disliked the games, or the Saturn ports? Because honestly, the Saturn ports weren't bad. Load time on '96 wasn't fun, but it wasn't horrific, and unless you were planning to get a AES cart version, you weren't getting better load times from anything else. SamSho3 and 4, again they weren't cart versions by any means, but they as well weren't bad ports.

SS KOF'96 has major sound glitches on the 2P side (notable in the 2P side character's intro voices and also Mr. Big's "Beorei shimasu!" being cut short). If you use an edit team, the ending really sucks because the game hangs requiring you to reset the Saturn. Now KOF'95 is perfect except you can't play in Engrish. As for KOF'97- that one could've benefitted from the 4 MB RAM cart.

[haohmaru]

Viewpoint (PS) : Graphics look nice- closer in quality to Pulstar than the original Viewpoint. However, the framerate starts to choke agonizingly when you get to the 2nd half of the game- at around the 3rd boss especially.

Yeah, I forgot about this. Have to mention too that the soundtrack was entirely changed from its Neo counterpart, which was a damned shame.

[Shine]

Dragonball GT: Final Bout

'Nuff said.

[MarkRyan]

It seems wierd to support a game *that owes its entire existence* to the game he has problems with.

Getaway was in development well before GTA3 was released. Of course you could point to the other GTA games which, while technically limited, don't have many of the same problems of GTA3/Vice City with which I take issue. And the fact that I don't really believe that Getaway owes anything to GTA, except for the ability to jack cars...

[Jeremy]

I just saw the re-release of that at Best Buy on Saturday, surreal. Great avatar, by the way.

[Jx2]

Xena: Warrior Princess for the N64.

This was the final signature on my visa to gaming hell.

[Rocca]

Fable

[gamevet]

Mortal Kombat II on the Saturn. I went into the Babbages that day with enough $$ to buy one game only. I had to choose between Street Fighter Alpha or MKII. The store clerk told me that Alpha was missing frames and had long load times. He then proceeded to tell me that MKII was "arcade perfect" with low load times and the complete arcade intro.

I ignored the reviews on this one. The pics in the reviews looked spot on with the arcade game. Too bad the controls were sluggish and the sounds were way off. I quickly traded that one in.