I got batman forever for Christmas, it was a sad day. I played up to the part where you had to use the grapple hook and I couldn't get so I never played it again
This channel is gold,only came across it by mistake a few days ago and I've been hooked since,seen so many games on here is used to play back in the day,keep up the good work man
You should check out The Kung Fu on Turbografx and the arcade game, Ninja Clowns if you ever want to do a follow up, but terrible beat em ups is a huge rabbit hole. Also, the Batman Forever arcade game is pretty terrible too.
FINALLY I find a video that talks about how dreadful The Perfect Weapon is!!! My cousin traded me this pile of garbage for 2 good games that I had played too death at the time.
Hey dude, cool video. And I agree with you about just every game on the list. One thing about The Crow City Of Angels... It wasn't based on the Brandon Lee film, but on the sequel to that film starring Vincent Perez. (In my honest opinion, it's a terrible sequel, but it does have a cool visual style.) From one fighting game fan to another, keep up the good work ;)
"The Crow: City of Angels" had one other good point. The late Thuy Trang (who played Trini in "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers") appears in it as one of the villains. She was awesome there.
I personally remember how horrible Perfect Weapon was lol. At the time I was young as hell and just thought I didn't know what I was doing, but looking back on it now...that game had some of the worst controls ever smh
Pffft.....aww man i remember Batman Forever, sad thing is that was one of my first Genesis games as a kid and i actually played all the way through it...yea. Once i got more games tho i ended up throwing it in the back of my closet and never touched it again. Its like they tried to copy Mortal Kombat's gameplay and make it into a beat em up. Game is trash-tastic
..i like this guy.. he reminds me of the PBS documentaries narrated by ppl like John Forsythe & Leonard Nimoy.. i get the same warm fuzzy when he's talkin bout shyt as those dudes .. i luv PBS
+TheFightersDen I loved the Tick so much that I played thru and beat that whole game! It took forever and got hard as hell, but I was a kid, I had some spare time to waste.
First and foremost, excellent video. You have another subscriber. I hated Double Dragon 3 for this very reason and I argued endlessly with people about this. Now I believe River City Ransom predates the Double Dragon series, it still doesn't detract that Double Dragon was one of the first. The Crow City of Angels was the sequel to the original movie The Crow. The game sounds as bad as the movie (sequel not the first).
Really cool video and a genre I love! Where is your accent from? It sounds kind of Jamaican to me at some points, but I'm crap at recognising accents so it's probably not.
Agree with this list. However the other Batman Forever game, The Arcade Game, is a whole other brilliant bonkers beat em up that seemed to have jumped out of the mind of the movie's Riddler! It was on the PS1 and Sega Saturn, I had the PS1 version, it rocked in 2 player. Well worth checking out if you have never played it.
Why in the hell was the hit detection so abysmal for like ALL of these games. And I can’t even figure out the problem. Like is it the invincibility frames? Why do your punches/kicks fly straight through the sprites? Nobody expects a GOOD tie in game, but wtf man?!
Thank you for showing Guardians of the Hood! I remember that game now that you show it but had forgotten about it for years!!! Good memory of being in the arcade actually!
hey i love those games ... LMAO !! couldnt agree with this list more.... it makes you wonder looking back, who at the time gave them the go ahead, i feel insulted that anyone paid any money for any of them on that list, i never heard of a couple but listening to u, & watching the gameplay, spot on well done making this list, game makers need to be shamed on these titles.
I remember renting "perfect weapon and batman forever" as a kid yet again from my local blockbuster video back in those days. And as a kid it didn't understand the concept as much they way I do know as now that I'm older and wiser.
Wow, you know it's bad when MK Mythologies and Special Forces aren't even on the list. That means those games have more redeeming qualities than this. Though if I had to make a suggestion, Highlander: Last of the McLeods is another top contender. Suffers the same problems as the Crow: City of Angels, but doesn't even have a metal soundtrack, only repetitive 4 seconds loop sound that grates on your eardrums. Puzzles that make no sense whatsoever. And released on the Atari Jaguar CD, a notoriously unreliable console attachment. The number of people who could play it to tell us how bad it is dwindles every year. Until at long last, only one remains who shall inherit the Prize: the accumulated knowledge of all previous Atari Jaguar CD owners and the realization their lives were completely meaningless. Like the Highlander sequals.
Another thing I wanna point out to you fighter's den. What did you think about that game "Spawn The Eternal" for the PS1? I was kinda curious to see if you had that one on the list as I was watching the video.
You ever pick up MAME and try every arcade beat em up ever just because you can? There are some greats sure, but dear Lord the trash pile is big and it stinks.
Great List ! I disagree about Batman Forever, it was Batman cross with Streets of Rage, Pit Fighter, and Mortal Kombat. The Worst Beat Em Ups for me on this list Were Last, Action Hero, Bebe's Kids, and The Crow: City of Angels. I would also like to add the Iron Man Movie Based Video Games and Thor God of Thunder.
I actually enjoyed a little playing The Tick a few years ago. But it sure was boring, I'll give you that ^^ Huge for a beat'em up, and not enough variety for its length. But hey, at least it worked? Not all games in this list can say that ^^
Guardians of the Hood...hahaha. I remember playing that shit once at a Wal Mart when it was at the entrance. There was also a Judge Dredd game that played very much the same and was just as bad.
Once I said that Batman forever was a good game, and I wasn't aware that there was another shitty Batman Forever game, there was the PS1 Game which is good, and then this version sucked ass.
...from your list, it looks like Last Action Hero, Bébé's Kids and above all Heavy Nova are absolutely the worst shit games ever. Fortunately I never had to do with those ones. Good Grief...
I actually Enjoy Guardian of the Hood..its fun to watch.like some stage music and I though the threater stage was dope..the womens head turning and the guy ripped right though the screen
I didn’t even know fucking Bebe’s Kids had a game, and Champions of the Hood…da fuck?! But the Crow game I actually owned, and it was just as bad as you said and probably more. It is however based on the sequel which starred Vincent Perez who played a character named Ashe Corvan, so we can at least breathe a sigh of relief that this didn’t disrespect the original Crow with Brandon Lee where he played Eric Draven. The new movie coming out however…oh man fuck my life…
Great list of stinkers of terrible beat em up's. Back when video rental stores was every kids destination for game rentals,I was luckily enough to rent Double Dragon 3 for the Genesis and boy it was definitely a disgrace to the Double Dragon franchise,the poor gameplay mechanics and terrible hit detection was to blame it's like those developers forgot how to make a successful Double Dragon game. I'm a huge Double Dragon fan and 3 for the Sega Genesis was absolute garbage.
The Tick is mediocre but not bad enough to be considered one of the worst beat em ups, try Ninja Clowns (arcade) or Ninja Rabbits (MS-Dos) any of them deserve that spot.
that might be the only case where a game based on a movie is good. most of the time the games are just rushed to the market to be for sale when the movie is still in theaters.
I didn’t know they made a game out of The Crow city of angels only the first Crow movie was classic n great but everything after that city of angels and wicked prayer was garbage so no surprise the game was trash too.
Had batman forever n I thought u were making a mistake having it so high up then I saw the crow which I had on PC.... Beat it. But horrible as well....... "Judas waitin'"
the crow is waaay better then guardians of the hood i am serious id rather play crow then that to be honest its also bad but guardians of the hood the worst beat em up ever made. with shadow warrior of succession the worst fighting game ever made. crow is not bad compared to those
side note.... ps1 graphics were way shittier than that lol.. boxes, boxes with squares, live backgrounds that twitched when you moved lol. oh man im old.. had a ps1 before most you people haha.
DAMN! To think we went from Batman Forever to the Arkham Series! Man, they've come a LOOOONG way, LOL!
I got batman forever for Christmas, it was a sad day. I played up to the part where you had to use the grapple hook and I couldn't get so I never played it again
dem gutts you crazy batman forever for Sega was the shit. PlayStation 1 version was terrible.
dem gutts Used to got Batman Forever on the Sega Genises
Bateman Forever The Arcade Game was great! 100 hit combos
dem gutts a lump of coal would of been better!!
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did he call the first stage guys jobbers? lmao
This channel is gold,only came across it by mistake a few days ago and I've been hooked since,seen so many games on here is used to play back in the day,keep up the good work man
You should check out The Kung Fu on Turbografx and the arcade game, Ninja Clowns if you ever want to do a follow up, but terrible beat em ups is a huge rabbit hole.
Also, the Batman Forever arcade game is pretty terrible too.
It's weird to see your subscription box walk around and talk. I see it sometimes, but every time I feel shook.
Anyway, keep up the great videos!
Don't slander Batman Forever Arcade! It was awesome, me and my best mate used to hammer that one after school. Good Times!
"You wanna know the best parts about this game (*Heavy Nova*)?... The intro, and the ability to turn it off." 😭
FINALLY I find a video that talks about how dreadful The Perfect Weapon is!!! My cousin traded me this pile of garbage for 2 good games that I had played too death at the time.
Bebe kids had a video game? Lmfao smh
Yeah. This messy bag of eww and maggots existed. The Nostalgia Critic made a video about it.
Tre M. I just learned something new.
Tre M. That shit looks disgusting and horrifying to even consider playing...😢😢😢
Yes, and the awfulness of it was too strong!
This shit had me in tears for hours😂😂
Who remembers the old Avengers arcade game? Great game!
Ouch! This is was a pain to watch, let alone play these "gems"
Hey dude, cool video. And I agree with you about just every game on the list. One thing about The Crow City Of Angels... It wasn't based on the Brandon Lee film, but on the sequel to that film starring Vincent Perez. (In my honest opinion, it's a terrible sequel, but it does have a cool visual style.) From one fighting game fan to another, keep up the good work ;)
"The Crow: City of Angels" had one other good point. The late Thuy Trang (who played Trini in "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers") appears in it as one of the villains. She was awesome there.
I personally remember how horrible Perfect Weapon was lol. At the time I was young as hell and just thought I didn't know what I was doing, but looking back on it now...that game had some of the worst controls ever smh
Love this channel, commentary cracks me up.
Really scraped the absolute bottom for these.
Go...to...sleep! 😂😂😂
Pffft.....aww man i remember Batman Forever, sad thing is that was one of my first Genesis games as a kid and i actually played all the way through it...yea. Once i got more games tho i ended up throwing it in the back of my closet and never touched it again. Its like they tried to copy Mortal Kombat's gameplay and make it into a beat em up. Game is trash-tastic
..i like this guy.. he reminds me of the PBS documentaries narrated by ppl like John Forsythe & Leonard Nimoy..
i get the same warm fuzzy when he's talkin bout shyt as those dudes .. i luv PBS
Double dragon 3 featuring ghost legs billy!!!
Love you're videos. Keep doing them. I like when you make fun of the bad games.
+TheFightersDen I loved the Tick so much that I played thru and beat that whole game! It took forever and got hard as hell, but I was a kid, I had some spare time to waste.
Thank you for the review!
As someone who plans to develop their first beat em' up, I now know that hit detection... is important.
This channel needs more credit
I beg your pardon, sir, but I am an aspiring voice-actor and am FASCINATED with dialects and accents... Might I ask the origin of your own?
I still have my original copy of batman for sega, man you're great this channel needs more followers I will definitely promote it
First and foremost, excellent video. You have another subscriber. I hated Double Dragon 3 for this very reason and I argued endlessly with people about this. Now I believe River City Ransom predates the Double Dragon series, it still doesn't detract that Double Dragon was one of the first. The Crow City of Angels was the sequel to the original movie The Crow. The game sounds as bad as the movie (sequel not the first).
Really cool video and a genre I love!
Where is your accent from? It sounds kind of Jamaican to me at some points, but I'm crap at recognising accents so it's probably not.
Agree with this list. However the other Batman Forever game, The Arcade Game, is a whole other brilliant bonkers beat em up that seemed to have jumped out of the mind of the movie's Riddler! It was on the PS1 and Sega Saturn, I had the PS1 version, it rocked in 2 player. Well worth checking out if you have never played it.
I fucking lost it at "Michael Jackson as the bad guy"
Why in the hell was the hit detection so abysmal for like ALL of these games. And I can’t even figure out the problem. Like is it the invincibility frames? Why do your punches/kicks fly straight through the sprites? Nobody expects a GOOD tie in game, but wtf man?!
Thank you for showing Guardians of the Hood! I remember that game now that you show it but had forgotten about it for years!!! Good memory of being in the arcade actually!
hey i love those games ... LMAO !! couldnt agree with this list more.... it makes you wonder looking back, who at the time gave them the go ahead, i feel insulted that anyone paid any money for any of them on that list, i never heard of a couple but listening to u, & watching the gameplay, spot on well done making this list, game makers need to be shamed on these titles.
Bottom of the barrel beat em ups.
I remember renting "perfect weapon and batman forever" as a kid yet again from my local blockbuster video back in those days. And as a kid it didn't understand the concept as much they way I do know as now that I'm older and wiser.
Wow, you know it's bad when MK Mythologies and Special Forces aren't even on the list. That means those games have more redeeming qualities than this. Though if I had to make a suggestion, Highlander: Last of the McLeods is another top contender. Suffers the same problems as the Crow: City of Angels, but doesn't even have a metal soundtrack, only repetitive 4 seconds loop sound that grates on your eardrums. Puzzles that make no sense whatsoever. And released on the Atari Jaguar CD, a notoriously unreliable console attachment. The number of people who could play it to tell us how bad it is dwindles every year. Until at long last, only one remains who shall inherit the Prize: the accumulated knowledge of all previous Atari Jaguar CD owners and the realization their lives were completely meaningless. Like the Highlander sequals.
Def not a stinker, but I’m just gonna go ahead and say it. Streets of Rage was the absolute BEST this genre had to offer. Period.
OMG I almost forgot about these games. God, I owned all of these games and yes they were trash.
Funny thing i've played DD3RS days and days same with batman forever.
Why is it that Everything Fantastic four related outside the comic always ends up sucking?
Another thing I wanna point out to you fighter's den. What did you think about that game "Spawn The Eternal" for the PS1? I was kinda curious to see if you had that one on the list as I was watching the video.
Excellent top 10! I agree with all of those games.I think it could be added hellboy from the Ps1 somewhere for this list
You ever pick up MAME and try every arcade beat em up ever just because you can? There are some greats sure, but dear Lord the trash pile is big and it stinks.
I bought Rapid Fire after watching this review. Great movie.
Just about every 90's game that used digitized graphics was god awful!
What about the Mortal Kombat games?
Go to sleep, hilarious
But it's the TRuth,that Game makes You sleep
I used to enjoy The Tick a lot when kid, loved it. And DD3 is my fav beu of all, the NES version tho.
Good Thing I Never Even Heard Of Any Of These Games
No surprise that a lot of the games on this list came out on the original PlayStation, that thing was notorious for shovelware
(Dis)honourable mentions:
* Burning Fight
* Ninja Clowns
* Riot City
Great List ! I disagree about Batman Forever, it was Batman cross with Streets of Rage, Pit Fighter, and Mortal Kombat. The Worst Beat Em Ups for me on this list Were Last, Action Hero, Bebe's Kids, and The Crow: City of Angels. I would also like to add the Iron Man Movie Based Video Games and Thor God of Thunder.
Some of these are comical lmao
LOL @ #4. As soon as I said to myself, "I've never even heard of that game" you said it in the video!
I had heard the Genesis version of Double Dragon 3 was better than the coin op version?
I actually enjoyed a little playing The Tick a few years ago. But it sure was boring, I'll give you that ^^ Huge for a beat'em up, and not enough variety for its length. But hey, at least it worked? Not all games in this list can say that ^^
Very nice Intro
9:15 😂
11:13 😂
I loved guardians of the hood. Brawl brothers should of been on this list
Double dragon 3 for nes was pretty good, not sure what was shown on the video LOL
Sega Genesis version. It really sucks that bad!
Guardians of the Hood...hahaha. I remember playing that shit once at a Wal Mart when it was at the entrance. There was also a Judge Dredd game that played very much the same and was just as bad.
That fantastic 4;game was putrid corpse from mk Shaolin monks trash. I loved it growing up
I see no one know the difference between an action platformer and a true beat'm up
Once I said that Batman forever was a good game, and I wasn't aware that there was another shitty Batman Forever game, there was the PS1 Game which is good, and then this version sucked ass.
...from your list, it looks like Last Action Hero, Bébé's Kids and above all Heavy Nova are absolutely the worst shit games ever.
Fortunately I never had to do with those ones. Good Grief...
thanks for the video
I actually Enjoy Guardian of the Hood..its fun to watch.like some stage music and I though the threater stage was dope..the womens head turning and the guy ripped right though the screen
I love your videos- 👍
There have been some really bad Power Rangers beat em up games; Lightspeed Rescue on N64 is particularly bad
Holy god, i think i play one of these bad games years ago. Anyway great video man.
'Ere me now, rude boy
I didn’t even know fucking Bebe’s Kids had a game, and Champions of the Hood…da fuck?! But the Crow game I actually owned, and it was just as bad as you said and probably more. It is however based on the sequel which starred Vincent Perez who played a character named Ashe Corvan, so we can at least breathe a sigh of relief that this didn’t disrespect the original Crow with Brandon Lee where he played Eric Draven. The new movie coming out however…oh man fuck my life…
I disagree with #10. I actually like Double Dragon 3. Because I own it on the Sega Genesis as Double Dragon 3: The Arcade Game.
What about Bad Dudes on NES?
The Tick is on the list! Awful game
Great list of stinkers of terrible beat em up's.
Back when video rental stores was every kids destination for game rentals,I was luckily enough to rent Double Dragon 3 for the Genesis and boy it was definitely a disgrace to the Double Dragon franchise,the poor gameplay mechanics and terrible hit detection was to blame it's like those developers forgot how to make a successful Double Dragon game.
I'm a huge Double Dragon fan and 3 for the Sega Genesis was absolute garbage.
Lmaooooooooo
Buffy the vampire slayer should be on this list
No, that was a good game.
The gbc version? Nice choice
When I first saw Guardians of the Hood in MAME, I thought it looked really cool. Then I played it. Horrible, horrible game.
Rando1975 i didnt ever bother playing it until the end, worst arcade game ever
@TheFighterDen @9:46 What was that?
The Tick is mediocre but not bad enough to be considered one of the worst beat em ups, try Ninja Clowns (arcade) or Ninja Rabbits (MS-Dos) any of them deserve that spot.
if a game is based on a movie its will always be 1 out of 10 no mater what.
OLE SammyOLE Unless it's Goldeneye.
that might be the only case where a game based on a movie is good. most of the time the games are just rushed to the market to be for sale when the movie is still in theaters.
There are a bunch of good licensed games. Probably 5x the amount that blow though.
Dude just check out Hell Boy on PS1 and Brute Force (Arcade) We can make they the number 0 and -1 on this list
& Brandon Lee's final film
I didn’t know they made a game out of The Crow city of angels only the first Crow movie was classic n great but everything after that city of angels and wicked prayer was garbage so no surprise the game was trash too.
Please make The Worst actors ever
Adam Sandler Is the number One ever
Can anyone tell me the name of the boxing game in the intro?
Tekken 4
No!!! Guardians of the Hood is cool!!! You can get a bum and use him as a weapon!!!
Shambolic
Had batman forever n I thought u were making a mistake having it so high up then I saw the crow which I had on PC.... Beat it. But horrible as well....... "Judas waitin'"
Batman Forever Arcade for arcade and Sega Saturn is better than Batman Forever on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.
Why isn't rival turf in here. Omfg worst most shittiest game ever!
Rival Turf was OK... not terrible but not great either... I'd rather play it that any game on this list thats for sure
Your forget the blade game
Game batman is cool
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I don't know why streets of rage 3 isn't on here because that game sucked ass nothing like its predecessors #EpicFail
Gts lol
the crow is waaay better then guardians of the hood i am serious id rather play crow then that to be honest its also bad but guardians of the hood the worst beat em up ever made. with shadow warrior of succession the worst fighting game ever made. crow is not bad compared to those
side note.... ps1 graphics were way shittier than that lol.. boxes, boxes with squares, live backgrounds that twitched when you moved lol. oh man im old.. had a ps1 before most you people haha.