The PS1 was a groundbreaking console, but that doesn't mean every game was worth playing. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, we’re counting down our picks for the terrible, awful, abysmally dreadful games to ever grace Sony's original PlayStation.
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 20 Terrible, Awful,
00:10Abysmally Dreadful Games to Ever Grace the Original Sony PlayStation.
00:20Number 20, Digimon World 2
00:28You can understand why some Digimon fans might have gravitated towards this game when
00:32they were kids.
00:33It's a dungeon crawler with your favorite digital monsters.
00:35That's all a kid could want.
00:37Well, ideally yes, but the problem with Digimon World 2 is just how slow the entire game plays.
00:43Every battle takes forever to load in and out of, with every single action taking so
00:47much time to execute before the next move comes in to eat up more time.
00:52It's enough to scare off anyone who isn't familiar with turn-based RPGs, and it might
00:56have pushed some to flee back to the first Digimon World, which that too was not as exciting
01:01as it should have been.
01:10Number 19, Spawn the Eternal
01:20There were plenty of awesome action games that let you take control of fearsome creatures.
01:24Spawn the Eternal was not one of those games.
01:27On paper, this should have been a game where you get to use all of the crazy weapons at
01:31Spawn's disposal to fight hordes of demons and eventually take down Malbolge.
01:35Instead, we got a game with tons of corridors, bland rooms, chunky combat, and some of the
01:41worst controls we had ever experienced on the PlayStation 1.
01:44Spawn deserved way better than whatever Eternal was supposed to be.
01:54Number 18, Arthur Ready to Race
02:02We tend to avoid putting games aimed at little kids on lists like this, but Arthur Ready
02:06to Race is a unique case.
02:08While the cover of the game implies that this is a racing game, you'd quickly find out
02:12that racing isn't even a fraction of the game.
02:15Most of it is spent wandering around and playing minigames in order to obtain parts for your
02:19cart.
02:20In order to collect all the parts, the race turns out to be a solo downhill derby with
02:24absolutely no challenge injected into its gameplay whatsoever.
02:28Should an Arthur fan spend the 40 minutes it takes to beat the whole game?
02:33Absolutely not.
02:40Number 17, Army Men 3D
02:47In all honesty, there were a few solid games starring our green little army men.
02:51Unfortunately, Army Men 3D was not among those solid games.
02:55Much of the vitriol towards it can be attributed to two things, the camera and the checkpoint
03:00system.
03:01It can be difficult to spot enemies from a distance far enough to take cover.
03:04The thing is that by the time you spot an enemy, they've already begun firing at you
03:09or maybe have killed you, sending you back to the very beginning of the mission.
03:12Yeah, we can already hear the legions of kids throwing controllers or simply ejecting the
03:17disc from their consoles.
03:24Number 16, Beyblade Let It Rip
03:32Much like Digimon World 2, if you were a Beyblade fan back in the day, maybe you found some
03:37enjoyment with this title.
03:38And that's a strong maybe.
03:40Most folks walked away with a negative perception of Beyblade because of this game though.
03:45So much time in Let It Rip is spent setting up and preparing for matches, and when you
03:49do get some semblance of gameplay, it's over in a matter of seconds.
03:54Beyblade told us to let it rip, we did, and just like a fart in the wind, it disappeared
03:58from our minds as if it never happened.
04:04Number 15, Dragonheart Fire and Steel
04:12Now some folks may have enjoyed the 1996 film Dragonheart for its fantastical premise and
04:17visual effects.
04:19As for the video game, we've yet to meet anyone who's actually liked it.
04:23Dragonheart Fire and Steel was like a kid turning in their homework at the last minute.
04:27Stock sound effects, stiff animations that felt unfinished, everything on display felt
04:32like the game had a budget of 20 bucks and a lunch.
04:35We won't pretend that Dragonheart was a great game of the year contender for 1996,
04:40Surely developer Funcom?
04:41Yeah, that Funcom, the one we know for the Conan the Barbarian video games.
04:46They could have done so much better than this.
04:53Number 14, Rascal Racers
05:02With the new-in-DVD gaming console hybrid floundering in sales, it was time for Motorola,
05:07Samsung, Toshiba, and RCA to figure out how to recoup costs.
05:12One of their solutions was to bring one of their own games, Rascal Racers, to the PS1.
05:17What a mistake that was.
05:19Not only does Rascal Racers fail to have an original bone in its poorly-assembled body,
05:23it's a game haphazardly thrown together with minimal music, uninspired courses, and some
05:28of the slowest gameplay ever seen in a racing game.
05:31Rip in peace, Nguyen.
05:33The ports couldn't save you there.
05:39Number 13, Resident Evil Survivor
05:46On paper, a Resident Evil-like gun game could absolutely work for the franchise.
05:50But the technology wasn't quite there yet for home consoles.
05:54Not for the year 2000 at least.
05:56Which is why Resident Evil Survivor is often regarded as one of the worst PS1 games and
06:01one of the worst Resident Evil games.
06:03The long loading screens were already making Survivor a miserable experience.
06:08Regardless if you used a PS1 controller or a peripheral, you were often subjected to
06:12extremely inaccurate and sometimes unresponsive controls.
06:16Maybe we can see Capcom eventually return to this idea now that the technology is vastly
06:21improved compared to when Survivor launched.
06:27Number 12, Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi
06:36Masters of Teras Kasi might be the most confusing Star Wars product in the franchise's gaming
06:41career.
06:42Just a few fights might be enough for you to start asking some serious questions.
06:46How can Boba Fett and Chewbacca take multiple hits from a lightsaber while everyone else
06:50is immediately dead?
06:51Who is Joto Kast and Arden Lynn?
06:54And what the actual Phantom Menace is a Teras Kasi?
06:57All valid questions, but ultimately, this is just a dumb fighting game with awful controls,
07:02movement that's way too slow, and almost no room to pull off even a small combo.
07:07A Star Wars fighting game can work, but not like this.
07:16Number 11, WCW Backstage Assault
07:24This may not be the worst wrestling game ever on the PlayStation 1, but it sure as
07:28hell one of the worst wrestling games affiliated with WWE.
07:32We'll give it credit as one of the first WWE games to include D.Vas as playable characters.
07:38However, that doesn't excuse the piss-poor quality.
07:41Assuming you can get through the confusing menu layout and navigations, you'll find
07:45that WCW Backstage is vehemently broken with easy-to-spam moves, slow animations, and borderline
07:52unfair stats between wrestlers.
07:54Speaking on that, each wrestler has looked significantly better in other wrestling games
07:58both before and after Backstage Assault's conception.
08:02So what happened here?
08:09Number 10, Pepsi Man
08:15Unsurprisingly, given the title of the game, this was more of an interactive ad for the
08:19soft drink rather than a proper video game.
08:22With bizarre humor and even weirder live-action cutscenes, the faceless Japanese Pepsi mascot
08:28runs around various environments trying to avoid different obstacles.
08:31This is all in aid of solving some Pepsi-themed problem like an empty vending machine or helping
08:36a thirsty soldier.
08:37If you're a devout supporter of Pepsi, then this may just be the game for you.
08:41But the gameplay is so bad, you might want to switch to Coke.
08:50Number 9, The Simpsons Wrestling
09:01Many licensed games often slack with the quality as they rely on the profile of the show or
09:06film they're based on to distract from the poor gameplay.
09:09Such was the case with this awful wrestling game that's been labeled as one of the ugliest
09:13games ever.
09:14The gameplay is similarly hard to watch as the collision detection is almost non-existent
09:19and the movesets are woefully limited.
09:21It could have been so much fun to play, but such poor execution for a basic game premise
09:26makes it a struggle to play.
09:34Number 8, Hellboy Asylum Seeker
09:41A PC version of this game was released to critical disdain in the year 2000, so when
09:45the same action game was ported to the PS1 four years later, there was an understandably
09:50negative reaction.
09:51The graphics were incredibly outdated for its era and the whole game was simply a misguided
09:55attempt to write off the back of the release of the first Hellboy film released the same
10:00year.
10:01The controls were almost unfathomable and too few people were familiar with the character
10:05at the time to ever give it a chance of success.
10:12Too much blood.
10:13Number 7, Rascal The thought process for the publishers at
10:20the time for this game must have been, how about we copy every other 3D platformer from
10:25this era, but this time, you know, make it look bad.
10:28Looking to ride the coattails of far more successful games like Super Mario 64, Rascal
10:33was a poor imitation if there ever was one.
10:36The camera had a mind of its own and the controls were so poor that most of the time, it's
10:40up to the will of the Rascal gods to where you actually end up.
10:49Number 6, Fantastic Four It seems like the first superhero family have
11:02always been cursed when it comes to any sort of digital media.
11:05Once you start the game, the problems become apparent almost immediately thanks to control
11:10response time issues, hilariously bad character animations, lack of combat variety, and some
11:15of the most irritating sound effects to come from the console.
11:19Its storyline lacked any sort of substance and your foes were sometimes inexplicably
11:23hard to beat.
11:24If you manage to grind your way through the game and want more punishment, then be sure
11:28to watch the 2015 film featuring the quartet for maximum nightmare fuel.
11:40Number 5, Mortal Kombat Special Forces A game that's so bad that even series creator
11:54Ed Boon doesn't want to acknowledge its existence.
11:57Mortal Kombat Special Forces is a game that had a really troubled development history,
12:02and it shows.
12:03First problem, despite this spinoff focusing on the Special Forces taking on Kano's Black
12:08Dragon, the game lacks a pivotal character, Sonya Blade, so instead we're stuck with
12:13Jax.
12:14Secondly, the iconic hand-to-hand combat the series is well known for is not only terrible,
12:19but also undermined by the extensive use of firearms.
12:22We could go on about the horrid level design and terrible story, but that would require
12:26a list of its own.
12:32Number 4, London Racer If you've ever been to London, then you'll
12:36know that there are almost as many cars as people.
12:39Traffic is everywhere, and this racing title ignored the one thing that could have distracted
12:43from its awful collision detection and short completion length.
12:47Having many Coopers smash into each other on the streets of England's capital could
12:50have been great, but there's barely another soul on the termack.
12:54Adding to this is a laughably short draw distance and strange visual aberrations galore.
12:58No fun at all.
13:00Number 3, Santa Claus Saves the Earth It's unclear how many Christmases were ruined
13:10for kids who received this painfully slow platformer, but no doubt Saint Nick himself
13:15would be upset by the quality of this title.
13:17The player must help Santa Claus escape from his imprisonment in some unspecified magic
13:22lands.
13:23But after about 10 minutes of playing, you'll want to leave him there and get as far away
13:26as possible from this abysmal game.
13:29It boasts awful graphics and laborious gameplay where every boss battle takes place on the
13:33exact same level.
13:35Despite this, it's almost worth a play to see a front-flipping Father Christmas.
13:43Number 2, Barbie Explorer What happens when you take the rolling movements
13:50of Laura Croft, levels that seemed ripped out of Crash Bandicoot, all while trying to
13:55mimic the charm of Indiana Jones using one of the most vapid dolls in existence?
13:59A disaster that defies explanation.
14:02It could have worked well as a simple platform game, but instead, the bad camera angles and
14:07incredibly clunky controls make navigating the repetitive landscape an arduous task.
14:12It is wholly unoriginal and a sloppily created adventure as lifeless as the doll that serves
14:17as your protagonist.
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14:40Number 1, Bubsy 3D This 3D platformer truly is an attack on almost
14:50all of your senses.
14:51While every level is as ugly and fluorescent as the one before, the controls are completely
14:55random and every sound grinds on you like nails down on a chalkboard.
14:59Worst of all is Bubsy's horrible personality.
15:02He's whiny and arrogant, so it's no surprise that the random assortment of enemies are
15:07trying to kill him.
15:08Every attempt at humor fails embarrassingly flat, meaning it has almost no redeeming features
15:13whatsoever.
15:14It's definitely well worth its infamy as one of the worst games ever.
15:25What's the worst PlayStation 1 game you've played?
15:28Did it make our list?
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