Until a few years ago, I didn't even realize
E.T. was such a reviled game -- I just figured it was some obscure Atari 2600 game that stunk. I'm not sure if I'd make it my #1 worst game ever (if I even had such a list), but I do speak from experience when I say it's a really bad game. I loved practically any game I'd pop into an Atari, and even back then I thought
E.T. was pure crap.
But like you said, that's easy pickings (kind of like
Action 52, another terrible game that people will often quote as the worst game ever). So I'll stick to other stuff in this thread. Like
Street Legal.
Street Legal is a budget PC racing game developed by Activision (warning sign #1) to cash in on
The Fast and the Furious craze back in the day. I bought it as a laugh one day, expecting it to be a total joke -- and I was right. I suppose its graphics aren't too terrible (for 2002), but that's hardly a ringing endorsement. Out of the box, the game is totally unplayable; my PC surpassed the recommended specs listed on the box, and the game ran at probably 1 frame per second (that is not an exaggeration). There were numerous patches available, the biggest of which was about as big as the installed game itself -- so, in essence, you had to patch the entire game to even run it.
Once you could actually get the game running, you were treated to a flat, lifeless cityscape (with building fronts that looked like the flat wooden props you see on stereotypical studio back lot sets), where you could do such things with your car as drive along the bottom of lakes without damaging your vehicle. You could buy and customize your cars, which was fun for about two minutes.
As for the game itself, you could beat it without doing any actual street racing. You see, the game allowed you to customize any race you participated in, so what you could do was make a beast of a dragster, and set up every race as a short drag. Since the AI cars were all sleek imported street racers, none of them had the acceleration or top speed necessary to win a drag race against a beefed-up muscle car. So that took whatever challenge there was out of the game.
Plus, the game allowed you to do things like set a screen resolution that your monitor didn't support. This would bork the game until you went into the game directory and manually edited the game's config file to something your monitor could display, so you could actually see the game to play it.
It's not the worst game ever, but it's pretty bad.
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As for your choice, arun,
Art of Fighting looks like a bad cross between
Mortal Kombat and
Pit Fighter. Ugh. But it certainly looks terrible!
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