Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of

Stuart Ashen

Dec 2015 · Unbound Publishing

About this ebook

In Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, Stuart Ashen has created a collection of hilarious and damning reviews of some of the most bizarre, frustrating, pointless and downright terrible video games ever made. And he would know. . . he's played them all.

Dripping with wry humour and featuring the best, worst graphics from the games themselves, this book encapsulates the atrocities produced in the days of tight budgets and low quality controls. These are the most appalling games that ever leaked from the industry's tear ducts and have long since been (rightly) relegated to the dusty shelves of history.

Welcome to a world of games you never knew existed. You will probably wish you still didn't.

Ratings and reviews

This is a fine book. Now it was a bit naff that the book suddenly cut out at the end with a choose your own adventure when instead it could have fit in a terrible game or two like Gateworld, The Endless Night, Captain Comic, or perhaps most the Skunny games. Thankfully, there's a second book coming. As in it's already been fully funded! Hurrah!

Much like Yahtzee Croshaw's books, this is a book made for fans of an internet celebrity's unique style. Ashen's dry, sarcastic humor is in every page and the guest writers are also wonderfully funny and everyone does a good job explaining terrible games through a text medium.

I loved the first book so much, I pre-ordered the sequel. If you like Ashens, the guest reviewers, and Ashens's old series, Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, you'll love this book. Made with Ashens's usual sense of humor (or in some cases the guest reviewers), along with some serious reviewing. If you like old, retro, obsolete, or obscure 8bit and 16bit computers this book is also for you. Even those who are into obscure video game history can get a kick out of this book. And in case you are wondering, there is info about stuff like other ports of the games, and what magazine reviewers thought of the games at the time.

About the author

Stuart Ashen makes videos for YouTube in which he reviews the best of the worst tat that the world has to offer. Producing hundreds of videos over the last fourteen years, he has garnered close to 500 million views and 1.5 million subscribers. Beyond YouTube, he makes films (most recently Ashens and the Polybius Heist), writes comedy scripts, and occasionally acts.

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