Worst Game Revisited

Sometime ago there was a thread on this subject and I was wracking my brain for the name of one particular game. It's finally come to me and I just had to share. How about "Druuna Morbis Gravis"? Turkey of all time or what?

Gobble Gobble !! Yup, I hear that was a stinker, I'll never know cuz it never ran on my PC, so I traded it!

Louis

Did anybody ever catch this review of the Survivor PC game?

I have the Scroll in my sticky mitt.. haven't dared to try play it yet!!

Tig

That was funny Jim.

Gad, that was the funniest review I have EVER read. Definitely much more entertaining than the game and a lot less painful..

Wooee! It can't possibly, really, actually be THAT bad.

Can it?

Yes....shudder it can. The only reasons it hasn't made my worst game ever list; is I couldn't get very far in the game and I think my mind protected itself by blocking off the memories.

But this review brought all that supressed trauma to the surface. Painful - but a good thing. It really had to be faced. Now - yes now, I can move on.

Survivor doesn't sound like an adventure game and neither does Druuna. So is this thread about worst PC game or worst PC adventure game?

I liked the way they interspersed those drop down menu boxes in the review. I haven't seen that before.

Hi Tigger,
I also have The Scroll but haven't tried installing it yet. A while back a bunch of us were going to get it so we could all play it together and commiserate. So we were waiting until everyone had gotten it who had ordered it. I never heard anything about it after that.

so Jenny, IF (obviously a Big if) it will install on xp.. are you still game for the challenge?? I believe at least one other has it.. now was that Syd or Gatorlaw?????

I will have to set up a new folder in outlook using scroll as a keyword.....

Tig

So what is wrong with The Scroll? Saw it available somewhere, ordered it but it was sold out. So fortunately or unfortunately I never got it. But if its that bad I must have it. I need a new title to add to my worst games list. It would look so good next to Druuna.

Johnboy, Don't say that.. we will all be trying to sell you it at an inflated price .... as it is soo rare!!!!

Mind you its rarity may have something to do with the fact that most gamers sent the cd's towards the bin in disgust.....

Tig

Now I am definitely on a mission. Have to have it. Wont sleep until I find it. Help me! <img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" />

Spookiness itself..

I posted above and my pc froze... the game j/c fell off the table and split in two!!

There are 18 different movement icons and I think this puts most players off..

Tig (going to try it though!!!)

Way to go Tigger!

Hi

I played The Scroll all through about two years ago - and survived !!

I found the inventory system and the very fuzzy graphics to be the most tormenting issues

Having said that, I didn't find it anyway near as frustrating as Sacred Mirror of Kofun - which I'd have given up on long before I did, if Syd hadn't been helping me every five minutes

Unfortunately, I no longer have The Scroll or I'd have passed it on to you johnboy298

Cheers.

Mad

Jenny: I got the impression from the description on the box that Survivor was an adventure/sim hybrid. That's why I mentioned it.

It made me look at the game.. and the cover was upside down to the reverse...

Fixed now of course.

a spooked Tig

Another name for The Scroll is Daughter of Serpents.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,2534/

It's a DOS game and the manual says it needs 590 KB of conventional memory. I'm not sure if it will run in XP. So you may be off the hook, Tigger.

Syd is the recognized Boomer expert on The Scroll. She has some very strong opinions of the game--just ask her and cover your ears...

I thought that Syd was supposed to finish the Scroll as a dare.

I loved the review with the drop down menu for the word of your choice. We must think of this Jenny100 when we write another review. LOL

You guys do not know what bad is in PC games until you play a game called Deep Raider.

It was set out to be an aquatic Laura Croft and was made by Cyberscape Graphics. She was supposedly a telephat to dolphins and did heroic sea rescues. The trouble was tha she swam thorugh rocks and in cicles and never got anywhere, neither did the game and no one ever heard of it. I have a copy if anyone is interested. Ha ha

I was going to list Bureau 13 as worst game, until I realized you might have to have played it through for it to qualify....
Has anyone else tried this game? I tried it in around 1993, and it's stuck with me since then. (shudder).

OH MAN!!! Gotta get one!

kateri

Hi

I had a go at Bureau 13 some years ago.
Unlike The Scroll however I couldn't get through to the end of it......Just too buggy for words

Cheers.

Mad

[QUOTE]Originally posted by lasanidine:
You guys do not know what bad is in PC games until you play a game called Deep Ranger.

I believe you mean Deep Raider. Correct me if I am wrong.
I bought Deep Raider because of the box and it came with a hybrid gamepad-mouse. It was closed out for like 2.99 at EB. I figured if the game was bad I still have this neat gamepad-mouse hybrid that i am sure is worth more than 2.99.

I just loaded The Scroll on a poor unsuspecting computer. I finally figured out how to save. You have to have a certain item in your inventory before you can save. And you also have to exit your inventory and reenter before you can use the item to get to the save/load screen.

Anyone want to play this thing along with me or should I go it alone? or should I wait?

Wish I had a copy Jenny. I may have one in a week or so. Its not definite yet. Besides right now I need to finish Blackstone first.

I will Try to load it on XP.. but if that doesn't work I will have to wait til the 'spare box' is built.. This time I'm insisting on win98

Tig

I'm perfectly happy to wait for you guys, since you're interested.

Anyone else want to join the "fun?"

Sigh - I would but before I could order it - the only place that had it for sale went ga-ga cuckoo

Just have to crawl along through the underbelly of The Scroll without me. <img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/pacify.gif" />

"ga-ga cuckoo" I'm still cracking up over that one...Those bananas almost went flying right out of my mouth!
Rusty

I was trying to be discrete..heh-heh

I think I will be laughing all night over that one...
Rusty

I'm still game whenever anyone wants to tackle it

You are riaght johnboy298 I made a mistake, the game is so bad that I cannot even remember the right name. I have the game pad too. It is slower than molasses in winter on Win98 I never tired it on XP.
If you get anywhere with the game please let me know.

The tentative start date for playing The Scroll is next week, when Johnboy gets his copy. So far there are 4 people playing (Syd, Tigger, Johnboy, and me) assuming the game will work in XP.

Anyone reading this, feel free to join us.
All you need is a copy of The Scroll and a computer to play it on...

Hummph..

It won't even let me install under xp.. It goes to the screen, but no matter what I click on, it flicks about a bit, then ignores me

Oh well, hopefully once Hubby has built the spare machine I can catch up..

Tig

Jenny ya'll may start because I dont know if I will even win the bid. So far no one else has out bid me. Cant imagine why? And if I do win the bid it needs to be shipped to me. So you all start and don't wait on me. I dont like detaining people. Thanks anyway, Johnny

It looks like we may be detained anyway, Johnboy.
Without you and Tig it would be just me and Syd playing.
And we can wait...

How long before your husband can build you a "new" old computer, Tigger?
We can wait until then.

Wow, this game must be really good if you all want to play it so badly!
Rusty

Actually Rusty, unless you are just being sarcastic, its supposed to be downright aweful.
Baags in the first degree! <img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/woozy.gif" />

Hi Jenny,

it depends on how busy he is with work... the bits are there, I'll jog his memory this weekend!!

Tig

Sarcasm? Moi?
Rusty

Feel free to join us, Rusty.
I'm sure you'd just love this game.

Hmmmm...I don't know about that Jenny100! Looks like a real dog of a game to me.
Rusty

Our favorite kind! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" />

Jenny's right guys - we've waited this long to play it so a few more weeks isn't going to hurt - trust me it'll be just as bad then bwaha-hahahahahahaha
[syd digs her copy of The Scroll from the bottom of the pile, dusts the cobwebs off, stares at the picture on the cover and immediately has nightmares]

Does this mean we will need to keep a barf bag close by?

Or maybe in a padded room so our screams can't be heard????

Actually a padded room with barf bags would fit the ticket nicely And if we were truly dedicated to our craft BAAGS, we would play GOTHOS after that (which could very likely make The Scroll look like a jewel)

OMG! Gothos? Never heard of it. Now I am on another mission. Ya'll run me to death.

The longer this goes on, the more curious I become. Oh dear. Must... resist... looking.. for.... these...

Susan <img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/woozy.gif" />

Trigger why don’t you surprise him and build it yourself?

All you need is an anti-static bracelet and you can get all the help you need on the web.

I don't have Gothos, but I have Silverload.

Iasanidine, he knows I am perfectly capable of doing that.. have the bracelet And the pinny (used if you are building servers) but no mini vacuum.. (techies start laughing right now!!!)

No, the prob is that we are light on memory for the little beast, got the hdd (freed up one today) but the ram is still elusive. Will be at least a week or so before we can buy any more bits

The rest of you get going and I will catch up, especially if he is working away for a spell once it is loaded (closet adventure gamer!!) seriously, I can only truly concentrate when it is quiet here, which means between 9am and 3.30pm usual weeks, but as Himself is working from home and Al ace is on school holidays no spare time this week!!!

Oh and Himself has promised to link up the spare machine so I can use it from My desktop and not have to go over to the cramped spare desk.. something which I can't do!!

Tig

Silverload???? Please stop.

How many disc are in the game "The Scroll"? Just saw another one on ebay for 3.00 and it says game cd only. Which also probably means no manual.

Hi Johnboy,

just the one disc.. is there a piccie of it?? The instruction manual fitsinside the jewel case and has a sarcophagus on the front

Tig

No pic, but it states cd only. I assume it is cd only. No manual.

ask the seller if it has a booklet inside the jc, some folks don't realise this is the Main manual as its so small

Loom and lighthouse had a similar thing...

Tig

What, you want the Scroll to be on more than one disk? Is there no end to this masochistic behavior?

Why lasanidine! Arent you going to join us when we all start playing it together?

Oh no you don't.
You don't get off that easy.
We're perfectly happy to wait for you.
I'm sure I can find something else to play in the meantime.