Virtual Boy
This vertical shooter forces me to engage in combat both near to the ground and in the air; I tend to blow up and give up.
What is Vertical Force?
The second game in a dinosaur hunting series featuring great graphics, a shootable homing head drill, and very few save points.
What is Turok 2: Seeds of Evil? (Subtitle not needed)
This "4th game" [or is it the 2nd?] in a long running series has me lost after each time I swear that I'm going to beat it this time. This is despite it having excellent music, memorable characters, and me owning it several times over.
What is Final Fantasy 2 (USA), or Final Fantasy 4?
Name a Wii game that you haven't beaten, that you want to for love or hate. Free points. My game, my rules.
Up to you?
A train based, stylus only Zelda adventure that features a ghost Zelda, and a tower that has me setting the game down for years at a time.
What is Spirit Tracks?
This action platformer has me playing as one of three bros who fail to reach the bottom of each stage.
What is Jack Bros.?
This super popular 1st person shooter has me quitting after the dam level thanks to the awkward control scheme. I beat the Wii version at least.
What is Goldeneye 007?
A game with a young purple haired protagonist who turns into a bunny, and I wander I off to another game because I keep getting lost.
What is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past?
The 3rd in a 1st person refresh of a classic series. My wrist usually gets tired of holding up the remote, making for short play sessions, which lead to confusion on what I was doing, or how I was doing it.
What is Metroid Prime 3: Corruption? (Subtitle not needed)
In this stylus heavy, anime styled, music heavy RPG; I touch attacked my way through most of the game until I realized that I had almost destroyed the touch screen, and am still scared to play it. The title should have been, The DS Ends with Me.
What is The World Ends with You?
This not so funky bowling game features a Nintendo Power mascot who does little to encourage me to keep playing the game.
What is Nester's Funky Bowling?
A game that was advertised using the Snuggles fabric softening bear getting destroyed by a tank, and me finding out that my character of choice is likely the same Snuggles bear because I also keep getting blown up by enemy tanks.
What is Battletanx?
An action RPG featuring Lord of the Rings characters, great music, decent animation, horrible caves, bad play control, and my dad spent over 70usd on it. This is the only bad game on the board, and its no wonder that there hasn't been a volume two.
What is The Lord of the Rings: Volume One?
The 1st in Scoop Jessica's favorite X series, which is a sort of turn based RPG, featuring enemies big and small, giant environments, and great graphics. I keep trying to play through it, but I get a bit bored with the fetch quests and move onto something else.
What is Xenoblade Chronicles?
Mario and Luigi explore the inside of Bowser, as he ventures to save the Mushroom kingdom (sort of). I got lost, heard a 3DS version was coming out, and look forward to starting the game again.
What is Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story?
A panic inducing puzzle game which stops me from beating it on the final level with a very mean Count Dracu-Doom.
What is Panic Bomber?
Playstation gamers got Metal Gear Solid, I got a hybrid RPG/Wrestling game featuring a really strange clone plot for the N64.
What is Hybrid Heaven?
An action RPG featuring beautiful graphics, memorable music, multiplayer gameplay, and difficult action segments which keep the majority of the game a secret.
What is Secret of Mana?
An RTS game where I lead flowers to their certain doom.
What is Pikmin?
This stylus adventure game had me losing patience trying to draw paths for a pink ball, so I focused my energies on winning the woman over to my side in Feel the Magic XY XX.
What is Kirby Canvas Curse?
A wire-frame shooter where I get lost figuring out which red line I should attack.
What is Red Alarm?
A Descent style shooter, which featured both a Maxim magazine looking model on the box art, and me getting turned around repeatedly.
What is Forsaken?
This superior or inferior (depending on who you ask) version of a Disney classic cartoon has me swinging off ledges, floating downward, and repeatedly dying.
What is Disney's Aladdin?
A game featuring a pirate and a monkey who point and click their way to treasure. I set it down in 2007, and left the treasure for a future me to search for.
What is Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure? (No subtitle needed)
A very puzzling, "help the npc" game by Suda 51. I lose the will to help the npcs after a few hours, but the Flower, Sun, and Rain hotel in the game is fun to explore.
What is Flower, Sun, and Rain?