SilverspoonGaming | 332 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 For me its Blast Corps on N64. When it was released it was getting perfect scores in magazines so I def wanted to play it and I gave it about 15 mins and realized it was total crap and never played it again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peg | 370 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 The n64. 2 7 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrunner | 422 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 ActRaiser 2 (SNES). I think it was about 5 minutes for me. I remember thinking "what have they done?" and shutting it off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj_robot | 540 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Bart vs the Space Mutants, and then again with Bart vs the World. I guess I never learn. Also, Blast Corps is awesome. Just sayin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,932 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 There's a reason they call him peg and why the pain comes out in those posts, but you'd need an only fans account to find out. I never rented ever when it came to games, but I never was in short supply which I'll be always thankful for. My form of 'rents' came in the back half of the 90s getting things at a shop cheap, and if they sucked they went back and traded for another. If that counts, I'll add something, but asking first as it's gray area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,518 Editorials Team · Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 None, considering I revisited every SNES game in depth. But what rental was the biggest flop? Maybe Top Gear 2. I couldn't even beat the first race. And you're nuts, Blast Corps is awesome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,793 Events Team · Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 I can't really think of any either. I was pretty deliberate with what I rented. Fester's Quest or Who Framed Roger Rabbit were probably the bottom tier of stuff I rented and I would make sure to get my money's worth. How about favorite rentals that you never ended up buying? I'm sure i rented the Road Rash series for Genesis enough times to actually purchase a copy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,401 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Not a rental, but Aidyn Chronicles on N64. Probably got it used at Hollywood Video used for <$10. I only had so many games, so I generally played the hell out of everything, but Aidyn Chronicles was just too awful. It was likely around the time I was playing Neverwinter Nights too, which made it seem like even more of a joke. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1nz | 611 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 O.D.T. for PlayStation. I rarely rented games but there was this candy shop near me that rented out games. Only other rental I remember is Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee but I beat it during the rental period. I can't remember much more of O.D.T. than it being frustrating and boring. Definitely didn't play for a full hour and never touched it afterwards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bighab | 58 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Not a rental but I remember buying Metal Mech when it was released at Toys R Us. I brought it home and fired it up and it was absolute shit. I was so disappointed with my $100 purchase. I returned it the next day telling the clerk I didn't like it. Back in the day they'd actually let you return opened games. The game I exchanged it for? Nes Play Action Football I grudgingly held onto that one cause it wasn't that bad. I just couldn't return a second game now could I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,709 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 14 hours ago, cj_robot said: Bart vs the World. oh man, I had this one. I got some real stinkers for Christmas. Bart vs the World, Star Voyager, Videomation… did I play them anyway? Yeah, I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,793 Events Team · Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Link said: Videomation Hell naw. Videomation rulz. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,709 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 2 hours ago, JamesRobot said: Hell naw. Videomation rulz. I remember that from the contest thread. Did you do that natively? (console and controller) And, howthefuck? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhyNotZoidberg | 585 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 There are a couple that I specifically remember: 1. The original Dragon Warrior. I got caught up in the hype from TV commercials and rented that. But I didn't speak or read english at the time. It was my first experience with a JRPG and I couldn't get anywhere due to the language barrier. 2. Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. As soon as I got to the mine carts. Couldn't get past this and went outside to play. Screw this game. 3. Dr Chaos. The cover art looked super awesome to me as a kid, with the blood dripping on the dude's hand and all and I had perstered my mom to let me rent it. She wasn't too pleased with it (because of the bloodiness) but she let me have this one and, yeah, I couldn't get anywere and I gave up on it super quick. Language was a barrier and also I was too young to fully wrap my head around and adventure game like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themisfit138 | 523 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Populous. I couldn’t figure out how to do anything besides lay out the shape of the land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,939 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 "As a kid" might be stretching it, because Yoshi's Story came out in 1998, but I rented it and hated it. Can't imagine that I played it for more than an hour. Most other games I didn't like I still kept playing. It's weird, I distinctly remember not liking fighting games at all back then, but for some reason I still rented both Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat 2 and played the hell out of them. I guess I was just too curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,939 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 On 6/6/2021 at 5:28 PM, JamesRobot said: How about favorite rentals that you never ended up buying? That's a good one I think. I specifically passed over both Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country, because I 100%'ed the former, and at the very least beat the latter within the rental period (which was less than 48 hours, probably not much more than 24 actually), so I didn't figure I would get much money's worth from actually purchasing them at the time - despite liking them well enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,731 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 (edited) I rented Max Payne when it first came out. I hated it so much I returned it the same day even though I could have kept it for 3 days. Edited June 8, 2021 by TDIRunner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,731 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 On 6/6/2021 at 10:13 AM, Reed Rothchild said: But what rental was the biggest flop? Maybe Top Gear 2. I couldn't even beat the first race. Seriously? My brother and I loved that game. We rented it so many times, we really should have bought it. It's up there with Rampage on the NES for games that we rented enough to pay for a new copy. I actually just played it again last week and I still enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,793 Events Team · Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 12 hours ago, Link said: I remember that from the contest thread. Did you do that natively? (console and controller) And, howthefuck? Yes, oem controller on AVS. I'd actually rate the control of the paintbrush as pretty tight. The arrow icon lets you control the direction of the brush and you kind of steer it as it draws rather than directly drawing with the pencil icon which limits you to the 8 way dpad directions. That's how I achieved perspective of the railing and avoided the 45 degree angle limitations. You can slow it down quite a bit for more minute detail. I also drew it with this color palette. It's fairly pastel but was actually the closest to the local color of the painting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,518 Editorials Team · Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 16 minutes ago, TDIRunner said: Seriously? My brother and I loved that game. We rented it so many times, we really should have bought it. It's up there with Rampage on the NES for games that we rented enough to pay for a new copy. I actually just played it again last week and I still enjoy it. It's in my top 200 SNES games; it's good. But it was my biggest rental flop. I tended to pick winners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 984 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 James Pond 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot_Ninjutsu | 122 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 On 6/6/2021 at 7:16 AM, cj_robot said: Bart vs the Space Mutants, and then again with Bart vs the World. I guess I never learn. Not a rental, it was a purchase. I had a choice: Bart vs. The Space Mutants or StarTropics. I chose poorly, and picked Bart. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj_robot | 540 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 4 hours ago, Robot_Ninjutsu said: Not a rental, it was a purchase. I had a choice: Bart vs. The Space Mutants or StarTropics. I chose poorly, and picked Bart. To be fair to our younger selves, I had no idea back then that licensed games could be such crap. I owned DuckTales, Rescue Rangers and Ninja Turtles 1 & 2, all of which I thought were great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ookii_risu | 206 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 One weekend we rented Fist of the North Star and Mystery Quest. I played Fist of the North Star for an hour tops, never to play again. My brother played Mystery Quest for most of the weekend, and I ended up watching him try to make a hard jump for what seemed like an eternity. Horrible weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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