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The Top 7... Games you don't want for Christmas

We round up the worst titles 2008 had to offer

Words: Tyler Nagata, GamesRadar US

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Bubble Bobble Double Shot is the antithesis of all the great retro-friendly remakes we saw this year. Instead of sending you swimming in nostalgic NES-related memories, Double Shot kicks you in the groin and makes you remember the worst of the 8-bit era.

The difficulty feels cheap instead of challenging, the levels are uninspired and repetitive, and without any ability to save your progress, you’re forced to start over on the first level every time you die or need to take a break.

Games based on movies are almost always awful. But because of its ridiculously short length, clumsy combat system and fugly graphics, Jumper: Griffin’s Story wins our award for the worst movie-based game of the year. It’s so terrible, that we can almost admire how Jumper manages to succeed at sucking so hard. Almost.

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Tasty_Pasta - 11 months 14 days ago

Bubble Bobble Double Shot? My God, who in their right mind would ever buy these?

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Gingerbread - 11 months 14 days ago

lol homie rollerzz hahahhahahaha!!!!

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DarthSackboy - 11 months 14 days ago

Please God no.... I hope to never touch these games.

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Cryose - 11 months 14 days ago

...Why isn't that kid in the movie on the last page wearing any pants? If I was the other kid, I would've let him keep the present.

Ermm... Never mind, good article. Homie Rollerz actually made me chuckle a little.

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GamesRadarCharlieBarratt - 11 months 14 days ago

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Please tell me that kid is wearing a diaper or underwear...
I can't tell!

According to the YouTube page, those two boys are teenagers now. How humiliating.

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blootoon2 - 11 months 14 days ago

i actually heard that dbz infinite world was pretty good and i do want it for christmas!
After all the ps2 is the only system i have!
after this game, dbz is leaving ps2 for good

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TrIp13G - 11 months 14 days ago

I remember the first time I saw Homiez figurines in a gumball machine at Price Chopper. "Why are they all Mexican and Puerto Rican? Where are all the African-American homiez?", I think sounds like a good paraphrase of my initial thoughts.

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skyguy343 - 11 months 14 days ago

wow, its just perfection, i had that game, its deff. not worth it

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climbing wolf - 11 months 14 days ago

Ohh...I like Hell's Kitchen (the show, screw the game)

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georgeguy - 11 months 14 days ago

wow that video at the end was scary...

on the other hand great artical

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Gatastrophe - 11 months 14 days ago

This didnt seem like a list of the worst games of 2008, but a list of the most publisized bad games of 2008(Castlevania Judgement and Rock Revolution).

BTW I loved how the reporter kept saying how ugly the cabbage kids were.

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HungryBeaver - 11 months 14 days ago

@ GR Charlie...I don't think so...I thought I saw a little peek lol.

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jimsondanet - 11 months 14 days ago

ewwwwwww you cant be that hungry, beaver
hopefully somebody will wake up an make a dbz mmo with no relation to the story whatsoever

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GaMeZ4LiFe - 11 months 14 days ago

Wow this could quite possibly be the worst games known to man, these deserved to be burried with the E.T game in the middle of the nowhere.

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Bronxx - 11 months 14 days ago

Pants.

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zabu_san - 11 months 14 days ago

WOW, these games must be el terible for them to surpass "Wii Music" on this list...

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NelosAngelos - 11 months 14 days ago

Just take the damn toy away from those two before I shove my yuletide foot up their chimneys. And this list just makes me glad all I ask for is money and gift cards for Christmas.

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