• Ur crazy, that wu game kicks ass

• Barkley also got a vanity comic from Dark Horse chronicling his battle with Godzilla. They play a game of basketball, and I don't wanna spoil the ending, but CB is not known for getting his ass kicked by cold-blooded opponents on the court.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_no_Ch%C5%8Dsenj%C5%8D

• I never knew about that! I've gotta go download a ROM of it now to try it!

• you just made me spit up my Gatorade laughing.

• I am appalled that anybody could ever talk trash about SpaceJam.

• Jeremy, Jeremy, JEREMY! Jackie Chan's NES game is one of the greatest NES platformers every made...better than Kid Niki, I think. Don't make me smack you! And that Michael Jordan game actually isn't so bad either. I know, I know...but it's actually not! I've played it as recently as last month (don't ask). Also, allegedly, Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuttin' ta fuck with. In their place, I would have substituted the following games: SingStar: Savage Garden Edition, Dave Coulier's Action Comedy Racing, Skee-Lo's Skee-Ball Challenge and Street Fighter Margot Kidder Alpha.

• I agree, Moonwalker was a lot of fun. I thought the perfect way to honor MJ on the first anniversary of his death would've been to release the original arcade person on XBLA. Oh well. Maybe the second anniversary.

• To be fair, Bruce Lee had been dead for thirty years before this game came out, so he had no say in it, and it certainly wasn't a vanity project.

• I would swear we were seoerated at birth. Experiences are just too similar. I'd like to place a small defense of the 2600 cart. To my knowledge, it was the first celeb tie in to a video game excluding licensed characters such as E.T. And perhaps George Plimpton himself. And as a total Journey die-hard, I'm mildly proud of that. Such a shame the game was absolute dogshit. But if there'd been a Rush -Moving Pictures cartridge, I'd have sold anything, done anything and actually spent the night at Neverland Ranch to own a copy.

• Power Factory Featuring C+C Music Factory http://www.mobygames.com/game/power-factory-featuring-cc-music-factory = Because C+C Music factory is gonna move units on the Sega CD... I own this.... +Cosign the Wu-Tang game being decent... the fatalities alone made it worth it, Method Man dropped someone into a cauldron of St Ides 40 water for fuck sake... game actually got hard too... oh and somehow they made the REBEL-INS, Inspectah Deck, balls out bad ass!

• This list is nothing but a pile of Fail. Because the writer used examples that were not terrible in the slightest. Shit, id say 6 of these games dont belong on this list, and of that 6, 3 were great fun, and 1 (the Wu-tang game) was amazing. Not only that, it got almost universaly great reviews when it came out, it sold well, and even had a limited edition with its own controller. There are plenty of bad celebrity games out there, I was so sure the Steven Seagal game would be on here, even tho it was never released.

• Wu-Tang was the shit albeit pretty difficult and I remember having sdome fun with Windy City back in the day.

• I seem to recall hearing the 50 Cent game was actually pretty good, despite being the most moronic idea of all time.

• Michael Jackson's Moonwalker didn't make this list?

• Actually, you seem to not have even played Revolution X yourself. You're just parroting some vague things you've heard. If you had ever played the game, you would have known that it's called the "New Order Nation", not the "New World Order" and that you don't fire a gun, you throw CD's and Laserdics's. Oh, it's still a terrible game. Much more terrible than you give it credit for. But if you're going to make a list of these, it'd be nice if you actually played most of these games, and new something about them other than what vague things you heard. Because your descriptions are lame at best for many of them.

• Very pleased to see Shaq Fu top the list, as it was the first game I thought of when I saw the header. It's the best/worst vanity project game ever.

• don't ya bee hatin' on mike. he's coming out of retirement next..um..lockout in 201.er..2012. yes in the year 2012. after la lakers repeat next year.

• But really, the best part of Moonwalker was how if you hung around the start of the graveyard level for a bit, a shooting star falls. Catch it, and MJ transforms into a giant robot with jetpacks and lasers. It was nuts.

• what the hell the revliton x was a bad ass game to play whene i was a kid and it still is

• Honky for the win!

• I believe that the reason behind Shaq-Fu and Michael Jordan is the same, actually: because they weren't part of the NBAPA for licensing purposes, EA had to pay each of them a shit ton of money to get them into the 'regular' basketball game. To amortize the cost of those signings, they tried to do spinoff projects.

• Agreed. Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu is awesome. The guy kicks frogs, cyclops monks, shoots hadoukens, ride a cloud, etc. It´s obviously not Kackie Chan, but who cares? It kicks ass

• I'm sorry, but Wu Tang: Shaolin Style was the shit.

• No Marky Mark/ Kris Kross/ INXS: Make My Video mentions? Really Rob?

• I have to say Revolution X is the reason I got into and love Aerosmith to this day. I have the game for the SNES and the PS1. Now if I could find the Arcade version. I would be one happy camper.

• JOURNEY was the arcade game, and it was pretty cool--if rather silly--for its time. The digitized faces of the band members were a clever and innovative touch for an early 80s game. JOURNEY ESCAPE was the lame 2600 cart that didn't even superficially resemble its forebearer. I'm fairly certain they just slapped the name "Journey" onto a completely unrelated game to improve sales(as was done with A-team, Super Mario 2, and countless others).

• Never got a chance to play it, myself. But I gotta admit, it doesn't look bad for a PS1 game. Certainly not bad enough to warrant inclusion here.

• Hey! Chan's game is fucking awesome. One of the most fun, if not unusually short, platformers on the NES and TG16.

• agreed

• I agree, Nightmare Child was not bad. Especially the Demon level...your weapon is a fire breathing dragon!

• a good list. for it shows that some times celebs doing the voices for video games do not mix that plus number one shows Shaq should have fired the ones who convince him to do that game on the spot as for pycho circus. it just shows there is no idea Gene and kiss will not say no too for the all might buck even if it turns out to be a turd

• Haha this list is pretty damn awesome. Shaq Fu definitely deserves that number 1 spot.

• Oh and to the people ripping on Moonwalker: You might want to remember back to when it first came out. It was amazing then. Yeah it's goofy as hell TWENTY YEARS LATER but seriously it's exactly what people wanted back then and was the first 16-bit title a lot of people ever saw.

• How dare you forget the "Journey Escape" arcade game from the 80's http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=journey&page=detail&id=1227

• " if there's one thing that (male) gamers fantasize about besides kicking ass, it's bangin' a lot of chicks." Truer words have never bee spoken. Props for him not automatically putting Revolution X at #1. Like the writer said it was stupid but at the time it was no worse than any other gun game. The Aerosmith license just makes it easy to make fun of today. As far as shitty games with basketball players, I believe there was also a Charles Barkley game that looked way worse than Shaq Fu.

• what a load of crap that game was.

• Revolution X was originally supposed to have Public Enemy in it instead of Aerosmith. A sequel was planned with the rappers, too. It would have made a hell of a lot more sense. Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster on the PS1 was a really good beat-em-up/platformer in which you did the sort of stunts and fighting found in his movies, including fighting a chef with a fish.

• The arcade game by Midway at least was way better. It was kind of similar to their TRON game in that it was broken-up into minigames where each band member - whose faces were actually digitized as black and white photos onto little cartoon bodies - had to go through a set of specific obstacles to retrieve their instruments (Neal Schon with his guitar, Jonathan Cain with his keyboard, Steve Perry with his microphone, etc.) Once you got them all, you were treated to a concert with the band playing "Separate Ways" (provided by having an actual tape of the song in the machine) as you played a bouncer who had to keep blocking fans from getting on the stage. You would lose eventually, though, and you would repeat the individual levels again. Better use of the band than the 2600 game.

• You forgot about Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon for XBOX. The Black Lotus gang steals some relic from your dojo to make super soldiers or something like that. Not a <i>terrible</i> premise, but the gameplay, graphics, environments, and pretty much everything else made it unplayable.

• Man, I was so pumped when I found a used copy of Revolution X at a video story, I went out and got an SNES gun controller the same day.

• Agreed as well. Revolution X was a pretty fun game. My girlfriend and I played it often in the arcades, and it's especially one of her favorites. Too bad the latest versions of MAME can't seem to play it tho. :( Also, KISS: Psycho Circus was not that bad either. It was actually based on the Todd MacFarlane comics that were out at the time, and it probably made the best use of the mythology behind the band's character alter-egos (the Demon, the Starbearer, the Celestial and the Beast King). Even though the poly count was low by today's standards, the levels were atmospheric and well-designed and did a very good job of fitting the themes of each of the characters you played. The weapons too were pretty cool and were consistent with the characters as well (eg, the Demon had a dragon-like shotgun weapon that fired lava, the Starbearer had a gatling gun that fired ice shards as he was associated with the water element, the Celestial had a pretty cool vortex grenade launcher and shock gauntlets, and the Beast King had a whip that was good for both sniping and grappling). So I think the Kiss game gets kind of a bad rap if for no other reason than it's association w/ Kiss. But if you're a fan like I am, the Kiss theme is icing on the cake of what is otherwise a fun FPS.

• I can't recall how many quarters I pumped into Revolution X once upon a time. Shooting things and explosions with Aerosmith tunes as theme music--who cares if the plot was silly, you still have to love that basic format! I especially enjoyed the high-speed chase level with a constant loop of the main riff from "Toys in the Attic". . I think that any genuine bad rep that Revolution X has picked up was from the mutliple poorly-executed ports for home consoles. For people who didn't have a Revolution X machine show up in their local arcade or convenience store, the crappy home versions were their only exposure to the game--thus the stain on its reputation.

• As I was reading this list, a wave of anxiety washed over me. I was worried that ShaqFu was some how not going to make this list. Thank God it was number one. Phew... Shamefully, I will admit, ShaqFu is the first game I can remember beating.I was young, I didn't know any better... I... I'm... I'M SO ASHAMED! Hold me Warbear...

• In fact when I think of Wu Tang I do think of Kung Fu, that is part of their shtick and gimmick. Hell that is why they have the names they do. GZA's Liquid Swords starts with clips from Shogun Assassin, and Enter the 36 Chambers is completely based around old Kung Fu movie feel. So yeah, that game was a perfect fit.

• Yeah, CITWC was one of the better licensed platformers for the SNES. It had great controls and gameplay and some truly original and imaginative elements. Jackie Chan for the NES and PC Engine was a decent platformer, too. I dunno, maybe you should actually try playing the games in your lists before repeating what pretty much every other ignorant video games site says.

• +1 for Journey. This was the first game I thought of when I saw this list. Search YouTube to check out the classic "move left and right" gameplay and to hear "Don't Stop Believing" as "performed" by an Atari 2600 sound chip.

• No Moonwalker, no cred!

• Agreed

• I'd have to throw "Journey Escape" to the top of the pile. It was a terrible Atari 2600 VCS game in which you played the members of Journey and had to avoid getting mauled by fans. - It was ridiculous because: 1. The graphics were bad. 2. Atari 2600 Journey music is awful. 3. Everyone knows Journey didn't have those kinds of fans.

• Point 2 is made of very yes! That game had a great soundtrack too, I can still clearly remember the music to the river level.

• I've gotta ask, because it's been mentioned a few times, in such hushed tones, with such reverence: is that Riddick game just beyond deadly? What the fuck, I thought it was your average run-around-and-punch-things game, in a Riddick wrapper. Damn, I may have to give it a go!

• Thank you! I was wondering where Moonwalker was on this list. *shudders* but I did forget about the "rescuing" kids part of the game. "your toddler is in another castle" as it were.

• What? No Rap Jam: Volume One? Take off either the Jordan or Jackie Chan game (both were pretty good) and replace it with this ill-conceived hip-hop starred basketball game and the list will be much improved. Good call with Shaq-Fu at #1.

• Okay, I hate being fair, BUT... In all fairness to Shaq Fu, the sprite animation -does- have a lot of life to it.

• Agreed. Jackie Chan's NES game was pretty good. There are dozens of other games based off of JC, most of them worse than Action Kung Fu.

• I've never heard of this 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano games before now. I will make it my quest to find it though.

• What's not to like? Everything you just wrote...

• Definitely agree. I used to love that game. It was just silly fun fighting game. The fighting system was actually pretty good as well.

• As a fighting game whore, I come here to not only defend Wu-tang,but Shaq-fu as well. It's not.that.bad. Silly as shit,but if you had that,another person,and a couch,you were set all weekend.

• Does any one remember the tie in video game for MJ's Moonwalker? It was on Sega Genesis. It's cracks me up everytime i see it. You go around collecting small children while avoiding the attacks of mobsters and criminals, all the while kicking and dancing. If you open a door, MJ spins and does a toe stance. Even the special attack is a spin with a hat throw...... amazing. Not to forget every song is a MJ hit.

• just got this game working in wine, and it was worth it as the lolz are unending

• The Wu-Tang game really shouldn't be on this list. You could've put Hudson Hawk for NES on here instead.

• Other possibles: Spiceworld, the god-awful Spice Girls PS1 game. Michael Jackson's Moonwalker on the Mega Drive - not actually a bad 16 bit platformer, but totally insane. You play as Jacko going around rescuing kids (oh, such innocent times), then Bubbles leads you to the boss. And the super special move makes all the enemies on screen do the thriller dance then explode I also read about some 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano game on the NES that was some post modern joke on videogams, where to beat levels you had to do things like not touch the controller for 5 hours.

• Agreed: the Foreman grill kicks all kinda ass. It's a versatile piece of cookware, and easy to clean. Respect, yo.

• The fifty cent game was great, it even had emenem as a crooked detective whats not to like?

• I think the music from Shaq-fu made my ears bleed.

• Good list, but of course I have some stuff to pick on. 1) The George Foreman grill is awesome. It's an amazing little device for dorm rooms and apartments so please don't put it down. Sure it might me celebrity endorsed, but it works. 2) Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu game for the NES is an awesome platformer game. Sure it isn't exactly what you'd think of as a Jackie Chan game, but it's awesome and fun!

• I have to agree, as one of the few four player games on ps1, this was a MUST have.

• Hey! Chaos in Windy City was actually a pretty good game! Sure, it was idiotic in it's premise, but what game isn't when you really get down to it? The controls were decent, the graphics were good, and it was a lot of fun. Plus, I just found something hilarious about Michael Jordan attacking basketball-headed zombies with basketballs - that and dribbling the thousand pound solid lead basketball during his idle animation.

• I'll agree with you on this one. Not all the MK ripoffs were bad, and Thrill Kill wasn't as bad as it's made out to be. Plus the trailer footage looks pretty good.

• Agreed. Not a sucky game.

• I love downloading terrible games, which is why I intend to add Michael Jordan to E.T. and Shaq Fu. Surprised you didn't mention Jackie Chan's Fighting games.

• Number one is spot on! Worst game ever!

• Of course Playboy-The Mansion was a cheap Sims clone, but i had a lot fun playing it. Probably i will install it again and play it while watching Entourage, seems like a fine plan to me.

• I was a big fan of Celebrity Death Match the game...mainly because i could kill Carrot Top with Ron Jeremy...

• Its not on the list and debatedly celebrity, but you dont get much worse than WWE Crush Hour.... wrestlers and vehiclar combat should never mix

• Revolution x was actually a lot of fun. I would play it before a lot of the other shooters in the arcade at the time.

• The only game on this list I've played is the Wu-Tang game, and I'll cop to enjoying the hell out of it. It was totally silly, didn't take itself seriously, and fit in with their weirdo chop-socky kung-fu schtick.

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