The 10 Worst Video Games Ever Made

Video gamers are notoriously picky about their games—and why wouldn't they be? Gaming is a pricey hobby that tends to create entire communities based on them. If a game becomes a hit, it transcends gaming as a subculture and becomes an important part of mainstream pop culture.

All things considered, it doesn't take much to displease gamers. However, some video games aren't just mediocre. They're awful to the point that they become legendary for their poor quality.

Bad video games are a dime a dozen. When a video game bombs, it's pretty bad for the gaming company. When it becomes so legendary for being awful, it's impressive for everyone involved.

To be considered one of the worst video games ever made, you really have to create something incredibly awful. Here are some prime examples of what it takes to be considered the worst of the worst.

To kick off this list, we're going to start off with one of the worst video games ever made to be called "BJ porn." We're talking, of course, about Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em for the Atari 2600.

This, uh, game, was developed in 1982 and was supposed to be erotic. The game's entire concept involved playing two naked women who had to catch falling sperm in their mouths. This might be sexy if it didn't happen happen in 8-bit and if the sperm wasn't yellow.

You thought that only video game titles sounded like porn? Nope! They can be porn, if you count chicken-looking creatures swallowing yellow pills porn. Oh, it gets worse from here.

How can you get more blatantly offensive than Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em? Well, wait until you see Custer's Revenge! This bizarre video game was made by Mystique, the same company that created Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em.

Surprisingly, the laughably bad graphics are just the tip of the iceberg. This game was offensive on every level. The entire premise was that General Custer had to go and rape Native American women. So, as you can imagine, it was not particularly well-received.

Atari actually sued Mystique to try to prevent the game from being sold, but lost. That alone tells you volumes about why this is one of the worst video games ever made.

When Steven Spielberg decided to license out the E.T. franchise, he had great plans. He had toys, tee shirts, and coffee mugs all lined up. The video game, though, turned into one of the biggest disasters in video game history.

The gameplay and graphics were so bad, most people returned the games within days. The game was so glitchy and buggy, it's generally considered to be one of the most extreme examples of bad programming ever created.

Rumor has it that hundreds of E.T The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges were buried out in the Nevada desert, because they simply couldn't get anyone to take them for free.

The video game is so legendary, it even was featured in an episode of Code Monkeys due to its awful ratings.

When it comes to some of the worst movies based off video games, or vic versa, it works the same way. Maybe it was the cocaine that people had during this decade, or the lackadaisical behavior of programmers, but whatever it was, they made some serious stinkers during this time.

The video game adaptation of the smash hit horror movie was nothing short of a disaster. Friday the 13thwas known for its terrible glitchiness and plentiful bugs. The plot made no sense, and it was just way too easy to die in it.

To date, it's considered to be one of the worst horror games ever made.

Action 52 was everything that gamers hate without also adding loot boxes into the mix. This game was a package of 52 different simple games that were supposed to be tons of fun. In the early 90s, this concept was pretty novel, so it should have been a hit.

However, the $199 price tag, ample bugs, and low quality games made this a living nightmare. Most people still give it as an example of what a bad program looks like.

This 90s game has the same kind of bizarre game concepts as Eat 'Em & Beat 'Em, but with slightly better graphics. The entire game (if you can call it that) had Powerpoint-like slides that showed what happened to the characters, with narrations.

It's somehow supposed to be erotic. We don't see it. It looks like 90s kitsch trying to be badass.

Shaq-Fu? Yep. It's exactly what you think it is. It's Shaquille O'Neil, the sports player, doing kung fu. Why? Who knows? Or really, who cares?

Between the unexplainable storyline and the downright bizarre gameplay, there really wasn't much draw to the game aside from having the chance to play as a basketball player who may or may not have accidentally gotten into the wrong game genre.

The gameplay was notoriously sluggish, and Shaq looked like a giant bug that moved around due to the sprite design. Oops?

With a plot like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, you'd expect this to be a classic. Unfortunately, what made this one of the worst video games ever made was its gameplay and graphics.

You could die from bombs that blow up 40 feet away from you. Sometimes, for reasons unknown, the character would fall off the screen. Crows would throw bombs because of course they did.

Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust was one of the last games to involve the Leisure Suit Larry franchise. This franchise was one of the last bastions of the "sexy role playing game" genre—at least, when it came to the American mainstream video game world.

This movie is all about making porn, and it's 2009. You would expect the graphics to be atrocious, but even so, most didn't expect women who were supposed to be sexy turn into the crypt keeper. What makes this even worse was the fact that they had enough money to pay Carmen Electra to voice an actress, but not enough money to make it look decent.

Catfight was yet another one of the worst video games ever made, and it carries on the quasi-sexual fanservice-prone theme of many others here. This was billed as the "ultimate female fighting game," and realistically was anything but.

This fanservice game had the theme of a goddess taking on 10 other women in an event to see who would gain her power. Or something. The official copywriting for this game speaks volumes of its badness:

"Join eleven of the fiercest female warriors from across the Ethers [sic] as they battle it out for the ultimate power of the Universe! Watch the head-to-head fighting assault blaze its way to your screen -- with the hottest women in games engaging in the most violent fighting techniques imaginable!Some of the things you must endure are disembowelment, decapitation, and worse! It's the ultimate life versus death struggle, where you must pulverize your opponent in eight awesome arenas to survive! Here is your chance to claim your place next to the most awesome women in the galaxy!"

A battle game would potentially be great, if the women looked good. You can choose from a scared-looking girl with bad taste in makeup, a Saved by the Bell reject, or Joan Rivers—among many others!

Hm. Joan Rivers being disemboweled. Yeah, doesn't do it for us either.