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[RRS]

"Intentionally bad" (versus "poorly planned/executed") is hardly a redeeming quality...

The fact that this thing shows you how pointless is grinding in (online)RPGs doesn't mean it's good. By the way, it's not a game, as it has no interaction.

[Superfunky]

Originally Posted by Mighty Midget

I had to look up that title. Why? WHY did you mention that title?! WHY did you make me look it up?! It is not a game. It makes absolutely no sense. Right now I have a zig zag mouth to go with my bewilderment.

One word softens the blow when attempting to play that one: JUGS!

[TheChosen]

Regarding Takeshi no Chousenjou, or however you write it in in romaji, I think the reason why the game turned out like that is bit different. I dont think Takeshi ever hated video games, especially how Takeshi's Castle is a bit like videogame and it even has its own proper videogame adaptation. There's also a third Famicom title under his name, which is a boardgame. Both are humorous, but neither have unreasonable stuff like in Takeshi no Chousenjou.

The fact that Takeshi was drunk during the creative meeting is the real reason why the game turned out like this. Since he's big celebrity (seriously, check out this guys wikipedia page. He's done it all) and Japanese are big on respect, they just wrote down everything he suggested and tried to implement them in the game.

And what its worth, there's a huge cult following for this game and its really unique for its time. In what other 80's Nintendo game you could punch your own boss, get a divorce from your wife and you had to sing karaoke in order to progress?

And finally, Japanese had games more awful than that. Like Bird Week and Bokosuka Wars

[Mighty Midget]

Originally Posted by Superfunky

One word softens the blow when attempting to play that one: JUGS!

If the whole Ming family juggled their jugs, it wouldn't make one toss of a difference I'm afraid.

[bukimi]

After watching all 10 YouTube episodes of Let's Play It:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV7Q8370is
(yes, masochist detected)
I must say that Isle of the Dead is not that bad.

I mean, this game has graphics you can stand, sound that doesn't hurt your ears, even has some plot and humour! It's just encridibly boring and that's all.
Moreover, it's not very buggy - it seems that the game looks more or less exactly the way the designer wanted it.

In summary, I don't think it should be found among "worst games ever" because it seems it's not even in TOP100 of most idiotic games of all times

[Tomekk]

Play it on your own and enjoy the horrible hitbox, repetitive enviorments, useless adventure elements and instadeath fun.

[bukimi]

Originally Posted by RRS

people flock to it and buy that booster 100x times to get that ultra-rare card = profit.

Originally Posted by TheChosen

all thats left are prototype cartridges, explaining why its so rare and valuable.

Still, it's incredible that people want to own cartridge of prototype of product that was such a low quality.
I know that rarity = value, but logically it should also matter WHAT is rare, not only the rarity itself. It reminds me that my father collects coins and a few editions had production mistakes on them (like a missing letter or one element upside down), which made a coin with this mistake worth much more than a proper one.

For sure, I would not hunt for having a product that is known to be crap or something that was a failure even on design stage. As for mentioned collector cards, what is the purpose of buying a rare card that, for example, is much weaker than common ones or has generally crappy design?

[Tomekk]

Pfft, you guys haven't seen anything yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3nh27bRXYQ