Worst game on the Lynx

[dalton4life]

just wondered what everybody considers to be the absolute worst Atari Lynx game eva made

 

 

i havent played all the lynx games made so its hard for me to say ,but out of the 30+ games i have pld i think my vote goes to Hard Drivin.

 

 

this could also help me decide which games to leave a while b4 buying heh

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I have 30+ Lynx games too but I kind of like Hard Driving. Batman Returns is the worst one I played by far.

[Serguei2]

Worst Lynx game?

 

Gordo 13.

[SwedenLynxer]

I think that "Pokermania" would be fine if the difficulty ramping was tweaked and/or a couple of actual card-playing simulations were thrown into the package.

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Of course it's great to see new games being released for the Lynx. But I agree. Pokermania is to difficult. One other bad thing is the slow controls. A password feature would have been nice or a memory that saved your high score (like in T-tris).

 

Other small annoying things that would have been easy to fix is the tiny bad coloured credits, the recycled screen from Sokomanina with the year "1999". And the text (on the box and manual) saying the Atari, Lynx and Comlynx are trademarks now owned by HASBRO! Not really updated.

[The_Laird]

I personally think the Lynx has a great library, probaly the best of in terms of quality of any of the Atari consoles, but here are my 5 worst games.

 

1. World Class Soccer - Totally awful and unplayable attempt at my favourite sport. Red vs. Blue waht the hell is that about??? Get Euro Soccer its awesome!

 

2. NFL Football - This is another sucky sports title but not totally awful,

 

3. Basketbrawl - Far too easy with blocky graphics and awful sound. Not as good as the 7800 version either.

 

4. Scrapyard Dog - Same as above except for the difficulty.

 

5. Ninja Gaiden 3 - Horrible NES port with some of the worst music you will ever hear!

[SteveW]

Batman Returns would be the game I consider the worst.

 

I actually like Basketbrawl. I love beating people unconscious, then taking shot after shot while the other team's out cold. Kung Food isn't one I consider as bad, just hard. Viking Child isn't a bad game either, it's just really easy to take damage. And it's a really long game, which means you have to race through it before your batteries die. I've had the same problem with Rygar, never being able to finish it before my batteries give out.

 

I've got some games that I just can't get into. Desert Strike isn't all that good a game in my opinion. Pit Fighter is just boring (and I'm not a fighting game kind of guy), Hard Drivin' has control issues, Pac-Land's dull, and with Robotron:2084, it's too hard to aim your weapon with rotating your fire by the A and B buttons. Gauntlet III is bad because of forcing you to look at it longways, and the Lynx's LCD screen doesn't have a good enough viewing angle. All sports games bore me to tears, so I don't like any of them (what few I bothered to buy). Shadow of the Beast is graphically and sonically a fantastic game, it's just incredibly difficult. I've barely made a dent in the game over the years.

[+davidcalgary29]

I personally think the Lynx has a great library, probaly the best of in terms of quality of any of the Atari consoles, but here are my 5 worst games.

 

1. World Class Soccer - Totally awful and unplayable attempt at my favourite sport. Red vs. Blue waht the hell is that about??? Get Euro Soccer its awesome!

 

2. NFL Football - This is another sucky sports title but not totally awful,

 

3. Basketbrawl - Far too easy with blocky graphics and awful sound. Not as good as the 7800 version either.

 

4. Scrapyard Dog - Same as above except for the difficulty.

 

5. Ninja Gaiden 3 - Horrible NES port with some of the worst music you will ever hear!

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I certainly agree with all your choices...except for #4. I'd urge you to give Scrapyard Dog another try, as it's got amazing depth for a Lynx platformer. You've got to spend a little effort working out the warps, bonuses, and mini-games, but you'll be well rewarded once you do. It's a great little game.

[The_Laird]

Ok, i'll take away number 4 mainly because I hate platformers which is one reason I included it. My new No. 4 is Tournament Cyberball - That's cack apart from the sound.

[RamonetB]

I have 30+ Lynx games too but I kind of like Hard Driving.  Batman Returns is the worst one I played by far.

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I'll second that.

[SwedenLynxer]

Viking Child isn't a bad game either, it's just really easy to take damage. And it's a really long game, which means you have to race through it before your batteries die.

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Although I know this awesome game is hard to stop playing...this "problem" has an easy cure: Just use the password!

 

 

 

Desert Strike isn't all that good a game in my opinion.

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Actually Desert Strike was voted as the BEST LYNX GAME ever! Do you guys remember this?? It was in the magazine Atari Entertainment special issue released with the help of Telegames a few years ago. In that magazine they listed the five best Lynx games. Accordning to them, Atari Entertainment readers voted Desert Strike as number one!

 

Atari Entertainment top 5 best Lynx games:

 

1. Desert Strike

2. Dracula the Undead.

3. Jimmy Connors Tennis

4. Lemmings

5. Blue Lightning

 

Note that Desert Strike was released by Telegames just as the magazine was. Maybe it's no suprise it was number one?

 

Also I think the people who voted was mainly from the UK. Both Dracula and JC Tennis are Handmade Software games. UK people maybe prefer games developed in UK?

[LanDi]

How blessed are Lynx ownersd moaning that Pit Fighter and APB are the worst games. I really like both!!!(Pit fighter is an excellent conversion of an average game) Come over to the Jaguar - worst game we're almost spoilt for choice.

 

You don't know how lucky you are.

[toughacton]

hmmm weird. I really love Kung Food I guess that makes me weird. Of course the game does have nostalgia for me. It was my first game. I played the heck out of it. And let's face it. At least its more fun to play than Batman... ugggh... MY worst though has got to be tournament cyberball.... just not playable for me. (of course i never claimed to be a good sports gamer)

[The_Laird]

I think Kung Food was good and I think Pit-Fighter was good but un-finished. This version, in Lynx Log 2, promised to be arcade perfect but kept falling behind in the release schedule. Ended up over a year out of its intial release date and still not finished, I guess Atari just needed to get one of their big hitters on the market before the Lynx failed. No speech which was one of the arcade games' best features and no intro sequences for each charecter, both of which the Lynx could have done with ease. The forklifts were also missing for some bizarre reason and why wasn't it 3-player like the coin-op? Still love it though!

[Jess Ragan]

I'll second Gordo 103, or whatever the heck it was called. Take a bland side scrolling platformer and throw in a sappy ecological storyline and you've got a game that's the polar opposite of Toki. If you're looking for an ape-themed action game on the Lynx, Toki is DEFINITELY the way to go. It's actually better than the surprisingly disappointing Genesis game, with brighter graphics and level designs with more character.

 

JR

[dogcorn]

Just looked it up on the gamelist and it is Gordo 106. Lol, it is hard to remember the number! Because it doesn't mean anything! And the game is lousy!!

 

All things considered, I'm gonna have to pick a title that people have wildly varying opinions about: Batman Returns. It has terrific graphics and sound. But as a game I feel it is very, very poorly designed. You get one life and first time players invariably lose it on the exploding store behind the mailbox. Even knowing about it, it took me many frustrating tries to get past it. Cheap shot.

 

Another major annoyance, one that probably won't appeal to gaming 'purists': the so-called 'cheat' code takes about a million keypad hits to execute. More often than not, I'd miss one somewhere and have to start all over. And even when I got it, it didn't help because the jumping is so @#$% difficult.

[ali_fighter]

There is only one game which is truly crap for the lynx. Its world class fussball. The game was so rubbish that it could not even afford for a decent name! What the hell is 'fussball'? It should have been 'soccer'.

 

Anyway, this game was so rubbish that commiting a foul anywhere in the pitch would result in a penalty. Also the pitch was so big that it would take couple of minutes to run from one side to another. The players would slide tackle almost all the time, like if they have eczema on their bottoms, and the animation is close to 'hard driving' for the lynx. The only reason i have this game is for my atari lynx collection which is:

 

#3 Atari Lynx mark 2

50 atari lynx games

Original adaptor

Com Lynx

Official Atari Lynx Mark 2 pouch

 

However, only good thing about the game was the theme music. That is all.

[Isgoed]

...and the animated soccerplayer who kicks the ball away

[+LS650]

The Lynx has remarkably few 'stinker' games.

 

One game that I both like and hate is Super Asteroids. Why? Because it's too damned easy - there's no challenge at all to it. You can sit there and play that game for hours without running out of ships.

[JagFan422]

i still hate Kung food, but i like tournament cyberball, if you know anything about football and don't use any run plays, you'll do fine.

[SwedenLynxer]

There is only one game which is truly crap for the lynx. Its world class fussball. The game was so rubbish that it could not even afford for a decent name! What the hell is 'fussball'? It should have been 'soccer'.

 

World Class Fussball/Soccer. Fussball of course being the german name for soccer. But mostly its called just World Class Soccer, In Ataris own Lynx brochures etc. Look at the intro screen you dont see the word fussball anywhere. In fact if you look in the manual the game is referred to only as World Class Soccer, EVEN in the german section of the manual

[catharton]

Haven't played Hard Drivin but I heard it was a stinker.

 

Hard Drivin was terrible on every format it was released on IMHO, it either had a terrible frame rate on slow machines or was very boring to play on fast machines.

 

I think its appeal had more to do with the impressive arcade machine, and that cow that mooed if you ran into it...

Edited February 1, 2006 by catharton

[JagFan422]

i don't think hard driving is that bad on the Lynx, you just gotta know how to play it. You can't just GUN the gas and keep it gunned. You have to know how to drive and follow the signs, if you see a sign that says 40mph by a stunt, well you better be around that or your going to crash. I'd say that Hard Drivin is hardly the worst game on the lynx, there are other games that are much much worse.

[JagFan422]

opps, sorry, clicked mouse twice.

Edited February 2, 2006 by JagFan422

[grimbasement]

Come on... where's the love for Tournament Cyberball. It is a great arcade conversion.

 

And Hard Drivin' I had that game back in 1993 with my original Lynx and I played that game to death. Remarkably good graphics and fairly true to the arcade as well. The thing about HD is maintaining a good speed and following the posted speed limits.

I used to have a blast with the stunt course.

 

 

True stinkers have to include:

 

Batman Returns

Casino

Pit Fighter

Fussball

Edited February 21, 2006 by grimbasement

[Isgoed]

Casino?? Why Casino?

[spacecadet]

i don't think hard driving is that bad on the Lynx, you just gotta know how to play it.  You can't just GUN the gas and keep it gunned.  You have to know how to drive and follow the signs, if you see a sign that says 40mph by a stunt, well you better be around that or your going to crash. I'd say that Hard Drivin is hardly the worst game on the lynx, there are other games that are much much worse.

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Come on, man, the game's a slide show. I love Hard Drivin' in the arcade, so it's got nothing to do with the driving style. (I also used to play this PC game called "Stunts" all the time that was obviously based on Hard Drivin' and had the same driving style.) But there are times when that damn game literally just freezes up for like 1-2 seconds. You're lucky if you get 5 frames per second.

 

The Genesis version is pretty much the same way.