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th3l3fty posted...

Deadly Towers is not the worst NES game

There might be worse, but DT is pretty f'ing atrocious. It's also renowned for being a bad game, so if you asked people what the worst NES game is, you'd get that as a response from a lot of people...but I actually played it back in the 80s. And it's kinda the worst sort of bad because it looks like it had promise -- indeed there's a lot to the game if you watch a speedrun -- but there's so much that's designed to be punishing to the player and there's so much that is just bad because of poor design choices, and to me that's worse than a game that's just glitchy because the game that's immediately and obviously bad is going to chase you off right away. Deadly Towers gives you a fake glimmer of hope that it might, in some way, be competent, and then it just gradually disappoints (or more likely frustrates and enrages) you at every turn.