8 – Shaq-Fu (SNES, Sega Genesis)
I’m not against Shaq, he was a great ball player and could probably eat me in two bites, but that doesn’t mean he’s safe from a nice cushy spot on the worst video games ever list. Shaq-Fu came out at a time when Shaq was capitalizing on his fame and he appeared in this failed attempt at a fighting game. Let’s start with the story, Shaq is walking to an all-star charity game when he runs into an old man who believes he’s the chosen one to enter 2nd world (how original) and punch monsters out in another dimension. Okay, so an eight year old could have drummed up a more creative story, but where this game ultimately fails is the shoddy controls and underwhelming fights. There’s a second Shaq-Fu in the works because the original actually had a following but hey, to each their own right?
7 – Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis (Game Cube, Xbox)
Imagine a game so bad that it became an award. That was the case when Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis released for the Game Cube, the fighting controls were next level bad and the game world was the most unimaginative Atlantis that could ever be thought of. The majority of the game is spent swimming around finding people to beat up and there’s really not much more to it. Aquaman was so bad that G4 created the Golden Mullet award referring to a boss in the game, it’s also the award given to worst game of the year. If your game is so bad that it sets the standard for the worst game for every year after that, it is definitely one of the worst video games ever made, hands down.
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