The Worst Video Games Released In 1994

No Escape

• Platform
• Shooter

Based on the 1994 movie of the same name starring Ray Liotta, the player takes control of Liotta's character, Capt. J.T. Robbins, whose only objective of the game is to escape an island. After shooting his commanding officer, Robbins is imprisoned and eventually sent to the island Absolom as a war criminal,...

Bouncers

Arcade basketball game where YOU are the ball. You can't jump high enough on your own to go through the hoop, so you must bounce off other players. Supports up to four simultaneous players. There are eight characters to choose from, powerups (and powerdowns) that affect your speed and jumping ability....

Legend

• HackAndSlash

Legend is a Beat'em up game that resembles games like Final Fight, or Streets of Rage. The game features a medieval setting.

Cluedo

International Tennis Open

• Simulation

Ultimate Body Blows

Ultimate Body Blows is a 1994 Amiga CD32 and MS-DOS fighting game. It is largely an amalgamation of Body Blows and Body Blows Galactic released in 1993 by Team17, featuring all the characters and most of the stages from both games, but using the HUD and menu interface of the first game.

Tenshi No Uta

• RolePlaying

Tenshi No Uta , and Tenshi No Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori was released on 25 October 1991 for PC-Engine Super CD-ROM². Tenshi No Uta II: Datenshi no Sentaku is a video game published by Telenet Japan for the Super Famicom in 1994. Series regular Michiko Naruke was not tasked to compose for the...

Grind Stormer

• Action
• ShootEmUp
• Scifi

The game takes place in the year 2210 where 'the ultimate arcade machine' Grind Stormer/V・V has finally been released. The game was released on the Sega Genesis as a 2-in-1 package. Search - A weapon that only affects the options, this will turn the options into homing devices that seek out any...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters

• Fighting

[game]Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters[/game], or Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters in Europe, is the title of three different fighting games based on the characters the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, produced by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Mega Drive/Genesis,...

Virtua Racing

• racing

Though its use of 3D polygonal graphics was predated by arcade rivals Namco and Atari , Virtua Racing had vastly improved visuals in terms of polygon count, frame rate, and overall scene complexity, and displayed multiple camera angles and 3D human non-player characters, which all contributed to a greater...

Plumbers Dont Wear Ties

He's a plumber, she's a daddy's girl. Only you can get them together, or tear them apart! Plumbers have everything: Greed, sex, spirituality, white-knuckle chases, shameful propositions, a nun, humor, true love, jaded love, jealousy, taut action, comedy, a bad guy, a good guy, a hero, spine-tingling...

Star Control 2

• adventure
• ShootEmUp
• Strategy

In the adventure game, the player takes charge of a flagship of alien origin and sets out to free the Earth from enslavement. This is accomplished by travelling between different solar systems and interacting with the systems and their inhabitants.Travelling is in itself quite challenging. Inside a solar...

Mortal Kombat 2

• Fighting

500 years ago, Shang Tsung was banished to the Earth Realm. With the aid of Goro he was to unbalance the furies and doom the planet to a chaotic existence. By seizing control of the shaolin tournament he tried to tip the scales of order towards chaos. Only seven warriors survived the battles and Shang...

The Settlers $11.99 $5.99

• RealTimeStrategy
• Simulation

The first game in the series is The Settlers .

Ridge Racer $9.99 $2.49

• racing

In each of the games, players take part in races set in and around the fictional Ridge City while utilizing the concepts of drift racing to quickly traverse corners. As many of the turns on the course were not intended to be taken at race speeds, players drift through the corners, attempting to maintain...

Popful Mail

• Platform

Popful Mail was developed by [publisher]Nihon Falcom[/publisher] for the NEC PC-8801 computer in 1991 and for the PC-9801 in 1992. It was later ported to PC Engine CD-ROM by NEC Home Electronics and to the Sega CD by "Sega Falcom", an alliance of the two game companies Sega and Falcom. The...

Illusion Of Gaia

• Action
• RolePlaying

"The Fantasy Chronicles of Gaia"), known in Europe and Australia as Illusion of Time, is an action role-playing game that was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, in Japan on November 27, 1993, and in North America on September 1, 1994. Moto Hagio, the influential manga artist,...

Shadowrun

• Action
• RolePlaying

Shadowrun is a science fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in a near-future fictional universe in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. A Shadowrun – a successful data theft or physical break-in at a rival corporation or organization – is one of the main tools employed...

Rise Of The Phoenix

• Strategy

The gameplay and control are quite unlike the similarly themed Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Nobunaga's Ambition series. The player plays as either Liu Bang or Xiang Yu. Liu Bang has below average stats for Politics and Skills however his Charisma is high and hence it is easy for him to make allies,...

Crusader Of Centy

• RolePlaying

The story centers on Corona, a boy who has just turned 14 years of age so must inherit his father's sword and fight the monsters that threaten the human race's very existence. The game's hero, Corona, has just turned fourteen at the beginning. Only after beating a huge dragon will the second half of...

Space Harrier

• Shooter

Produced for arcades, the title has been ported to over twenty different home computer and gaming platforms in Japan, North America and Europe. Two home-system sequels followed in Space Harrier 3-D and Space Harrier II , as well as an arcade spinoff, Planet Harriers, in 2000. I calculated the position,...

Rise Of The Triad $14.99 $3.44

Rise of the Triad: Dark War is a first-person shooter video game, developed and published by Apogee Software in 1994. Rise of the Triad is a typical early first-person shooter game, as the single-player mode's objective is to stay alive, kill as many enemies as possible, and collect keys in order to...

Mega Man X2

• Action
• Platform

Mega Man X2 takes place in the near future in which humans try to peacefully coexist with intelligent robots called "Reploids", with some of the Reploids going "Maverick" and threatening daily life. Mega Man X2 features much of the same action-platforming elements as the first installment...

Transport Tycoon

• Simulation
• business

Transport Tycoon is a video game designed and programmed by Chris Sawyer, and published by MicroProse in 1994. Transport Tycoon Deluxe is an expanded and improved version of the original game, produced in 1995. To start building a transport empire, the player must construct transport routes, consisting...