10 video games you regretted purchasing

Some games are bad, some worse, and some scar you forever. While we all love gaming, a few are just not worth our time. Awful game-play, crude graphics, and mindless plots, that's all they are. These are some of the most woeful games you'd ever have the misfortune to get your hands on. It's important that we know them. This way you can willfully avoid these nasty pieces. It might be a rocky ride down memory lane, but here's a precautionary list of 10 worst games money can buy.

#1 E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

This was the death knell for Atari. The company went bankrupt in 1984. There was a time when it stood shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Microsoft and Sony.

The film was the blockbuster hit of the year. However, the video game adaptation isn't half as good as it's motion picture cousin.

It was created hastily over a mere 5 weeks, just in time for the Christmas shopping season and was expected to sell 5 million units. Of course it failed to deliver. Atari ended up burying millions of unsold cartridges in the New Mexico desert. The pile was found in 2014.

The graphics are horrible, the colors garish, and the gameplay mindless and monotonous. It was about E.T. falling into pits, and trying to get back out. This game played a major role in the video game crash in the 1980s which almost killed the industry.

#2 Stellar Stone\'s Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing (2003)

This one is a truck racing game. Sounds simple? This one couldn't manage to do even that.

It was falsely advertised as a simulation of the life of an illegal hauler, but all you have to do is race against opponents to reach the finish line. There was no real race either. Often your opponents don't even care to move past the starting line. No police, and no real AI opponents to deal with.

There are only three levels, that too with no collision detection.

Often moving in reverse gear lets you accelerate endlessly and drive over mountains and into space. Yeah, a truck here can defy the laws of Physics.

#3 Superman (1999)

This superhero game based on the critically acclaimed animated series was meant for the Nintendo 64. It failed miserably. Some may rightfully argue this was the worst superhero video game ever made.

Here Superman is more busy flying through complex patterns of imaginary floating rings under impossible time limits than fighting real villains.

The controls are stiff, the gameplay horrible, the missions repetitive, and the graphics dreadful.

The movies are a hell of a lot better. This one broke many a superhero fan's heart, let alone Superman enthusiasts.

#4 Final Fantasy: All the Bravest (2013)

This is a fairly recent one. It is meant for the iOS and Android. There's a reason why it features so high in the list. Creating a bad game in good faith is understandable if not condonable, but deliberately creating a manipulative one to rip off loving fans is simply disgusting.

Many free games tried a hand at this, but nobody did it as explicitly as this one.

In Final Fantasy: All the Bravest, players enter into battles with villains and try to defeat them. That's it. That's the game. Everything here costs real money. Whether be it unlocking new members, reviving party members without delay or accessing new areas. Honestly, if you really have all the money, you're better off buying another game in the first place.

#5 Duke Nukem Forever (2011)

The game faced several development issues over a decade. It was lucky to have reached the store shelves, and we're unlucky to have it in our lives.

Duke Nukem Forever made us realize that our grown up selves no longer found crass jokes or disgusting settings funny. It was our stupid teenage selves from the 90s who may have. In one of the missions 'What Am I Doing?' you find yourself at a military base, throwing human feace at army personnel. Get the drift?

Duke Nukem was basically designed as a satire of chauvinism. But in 2011, his puerile humour seemed dumb, add to that the obnoxious gameplay and crappy missions.

#6 Batman: Dark Tomorrow (2003)

This one's enough to scare off any Batman fan from playing any of the later Batman games. Those who have overcome the shock have been witness to some of the best superhero games ever made.

The game was so bad that IGN rated it 2.2 out of 10. The reviews were so harsh that the Play Station 2 version was never released.

This terrible game has repetitive missions, awful gameplay and weird camera movements. The only saving grace could be the story, but how can it single-handedly save the game's giant collapse?

#7 Ghostbusters (1988)

This is another of those terrible adaptations. The film 'Ghostbusters' is about a group of elite paranormal investigators trying to find out and exterminate a wide range of spirits. While the film was fun, the game was not.

Repetitive missions and stiff controls for both on-foot and while driving made it worse.

The biggest eye sore was when the game's ending screen read, "Conglaturation!". You're better off watching the 1984 classic, but stay away from the game.

#8 Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

In 2006, Sega released Sonic the Hedgehog for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in the hope that it can rise above it's predecessors and rejuvenate the fading icon. It couldn't quite obviously.

There have been many terrible Sonic games earlier, but this one's always handpicked as one of the worst because this is the worst.

The shoddy graphics, dreadfully long load times and loose controls were a strict no-no for gamers with such advanced hardware. Add to that an uneven difficulty curve and an incredibly creepy plot.

Sonic isn't dead as a character, but the game almost killed him in the eyes of his fans.

#9 Survivor : The Interactive Game (2001)

Survivor: The Interactive Game was not a bit as competitive and inventive as its reality show counterpart. The game was a compilation of pathetic graphics and antique gameplay.

In the game, players are supposed to act as any of the contestants, and are meant to complete tasks, mini-games and establish social alliances. That's what it was meant to be, mind.

In reality, the game was just shallow, the dialogue nonsensical and it crashed constantly. That's not anybody's idea of fun.

#10 Zelda\'s Adventure (1994)

This is another example of a failed film-to-game adaptation. When fans of The Legend of Zelda heard they can now play a game as the princess, they must have been overjoyed. But their happiness sure didn't last long.

The game was just a test of your patience with ridiculously long load times, bad graphics and mindless gameplay.

This is from the time when Nintendo partnered with Philips to design the doomed CD-i game console.