Re: Worst Games Ever

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Tom Greene wrote:
> Don wrote:
>
> > My votes go to a couple of games I bought from a bargin bin at Kay-Bee
> > toys back in the late 80's/early 90's:
> >
> > Nitro Alert (some alien space shooter)
> > Highway Trap (some ground based car shooter)
> >
> > Both games were prodcued by a company I have never heard of: Ala
> > Software.  While the descriptions on the box sounded promising, but
> > games were major disappointments.  I was expecting some high action and
> > good graphics.
> >
> > Instead, I got games that seemed there designed for the public domain.
> > Graphics were poor and the games were limited to a single screen with
> > no vertical or horizontal scrolling.
>
>
> I've got a few of these games, also from Kay-bee. The three titles I
> have are "Monolithic Laser", "Scavenger", and "Vulture Watch". The
> disks were labelled "ALA Enterprises" but the title screens say
> "Copyright 1983 General Masters Corp."

I never saw anything of interest in the bargain bin generic
software.  It was often for Apple on one side of the disk and
for C=64 or PC on the other side.  ;-(

These are pure bottom-feeding products:  $250 to the programmer,
$1000 for 3000 boxed copies, sold to dealers for $2.50, priced to
sell next to the cash register at $5.

Take the money and run.

-michael

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