The Gamescrap forums (aka 18 Wheels of Thunder)

If you have a game you'd like to see featured on Gamescrap, or one you think I just don't know about, feel free to post it here!

i WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO REVIEW a bOY AND hIS bLOB, mICKEY mOUSE'S mAGIC cASTLE, AND iNDIANA jONES AND THE tEMPLE OF dOOM FOR THE nes, sPACE hARRIER, gAIN gROUND AND fANTASIA FOR THE gENESIS.

tHANKS, THIS SITE MAKES ME HAPPY TO THINK ABOUT THOSE GAMES tHAT WERE CRAPPY AND HOW i sOLD MORE THAN hALF OF MY gREAT nes GAMES LIKE sUPER mARIO 3, dRAGON wARRIOR, ETC FOR THE WONDERFUL gENESIS HAHAHA!   

Heh heh, don't forget Solar Jetman and Destiny of an Emporer :P. I never played Space Harrier on the Genesis, but I loved playing it in the arcade. How bad does the Genny version compare? Gain Ground was ooooooooooooookay, but tastes were less discriminating back then. I'm sure if I ended up playing it these days, I'd be right there with you.  I never played A Boy and his Blob either...what made that one so bad aside from the jellybean thing? Everyone longingly remembers that one too for some odd reason.

As far as the others, they've been added to my master list of games to do ;).

although it spawn may kick ass verision and reincarnations, please talk about the original mortal kombat, like arcade style, and how us cheesey winners suck at this version..... i recently got a plug and play, it goes right into my tv, and it kicks my ass..... well, maybe i just dont like it cause it does to me what i have done to countless others..... lol.... you know what i mean....  

i kid about wanting mortal kombat to be written about...... i was frustrated, by the by, i almost beat the game today...... :P

While inducting the original MK would totally make me a martyr, I think you'll be pleasantly suprised by this week's update :). It should be up by the end of the day.

Haven't you beaten that game yet??

why yes dr.... i have beat the game, like twice already.../. havent had much time to play though (pouts) stupid work and all

First, I love the idea of this site, hopefully it'll thrive.  :D

Second, I'd love to see more early 90's homebrew games get reviewed. So many fond (and sickeningly bad) memories... Perhaps such "gems" as Outlaw97, Aldo's Adventures... the bad indie game list is endless.

Thanks a lot for stopping by ShaggE, I'm hoping this little site will thrive too ;).

I have made somewhat of an unwritten rule not to include indie games in the list, but after posting Gore Galore, I've gone back on that promise a bit. You're right though, a lot of those homebrew games from the early 90's are pretty bad. I haven't played the ones you've mentioned, but I have taken the old Bloodlust Software games into consideraton, like Punishers or even the original Noggin Knockers which I totally put into their own "so bad, they're good" category.

Now I've gotta track your suggestions down and give them a try! Thanks a lot ;).

Nifty! You may have a tough time finding Outlaw97, but I'm sure someone has it stashed on their site.

I was actually going to recommend Bloodlust's games, but the inclusion of midgets in their titles boost them from bad to wonderful :P

HAHAHA...the midget revolution will begin...shortly. Great stuff.

Alright man, I got a hold of Outlaw 97...you're totally right about that one being bad. I need to find a fatality list ASAP...if the game is any indication, the fatalities are sure to be pure gold!

I can't help ya with the fatalities unless I find the compilation disc it came on, which had a .txt file listing them all :( (damn my inability to keep things organized.. lol)

Not a problem man, it looks like they come down to nothing more than hitting a direction and shooting  ::). I thought Tattoo Assassins had some lame fatalities....but damn!

I heard that Doshin The Giant (GCN) was pretty bad, how about a review of that?

Seriously? I heard it was good...or am I getting that confused with the N64 game??

Another possible game from Nes days...  Eggventure. Look it up, this is the first game I rented and returned the same day! That one belonges in the garbage! How about some of the crappy plug into the TV joysticks! Doesn't get any better than that folks!

Eggventure? Any relation to those crappy shooting games in the arcades? I'll check that one out for sure.

Mstygerlille could say a thing or two about those joysticks...she's got the Mortal Kombat model :P. I almost bought the Genesis collection that came in a Genny controller...it had Sonic 1&2 as well as Streets of Rage and I think Golden Axe.  But I passed, since well, I already have enough.

However, I do plan on getting my grubby mitts on something in the same vain...there are some bastardized handhelds that look like DS and PSP that are complete garbage. If you think TV connected joysticks are crap...just wait until you see those!

OOOO!!! We should get that one that looked like a Wii-mote.

I was sooooo thinking that!

I'm trying to think of something really crappy I've played recently, but I got squat. I live in painful, perpetual poverty (woo, go P's, power to the pissant P's!), so anything I buy has to pass a 37-point checklist featuring intensive psychosexual questioning, with a side order of pepperoni pizza. This paragraph doesn't make sense, but I sure am hungry.

I do remember being six years old and having my mom rent me Dr. Mario for the NES from the rental store. I thought it was the shittiest shit anyone ever shat, and was so disappointed that I'd wasted my weekend rental on something so shittily shitty that I cried. Mums was good enough to take me back so I could rent something else that wouldn't break the heart of an innocent child. (Dr. Mario's an asshole!)

I miss Mums.  :'( College is gay, makes me do stuff, and doesn't bake me brownies for my birthday.

Awww :( We need to send Moose Brownies!