Dec. 30th, 2006

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Remember how I wasted at least six hours of my life playing Bubba 'n' Stix and couldn’t get past the third level, and wouldn’t have made it halfway through the second level of this crap if the boards weren’t down? Yes, it’s crap. Putrid, stinking, vile dog crap with a control scheme that made everything frustrating and meant that I spent around an hour trying to climb a stupid wall and music that came into existence when Seoul, Pyongyang, and Bakersfield formed a black hole and graphics drawn in MS Paint by drowning mental patients that I swore to never touch again. However, I have found passwords for the fourth and final level, and I can never remember what they said about curiosity and cats.



Whatever. There’s water filled with purple pufferfish-like things and a background that somehow manages to be even more bland than two and three put together and I gave up within five minutes. Honestly, the largest percentage of playing this was putting in the password, and that’s because it kept going past the letter I wanted when I tried to scroll through.

I made this myself. I probably put about as much effort into making this as the creators did into the actual ending.



Bubba ‘n’ Stix, however, is not the worst game I’ve ever played. This is. In fact, it's so bad that I just grabbed the screenshots from SomethingAwful and used them. Well, I thought it was until I remembered Wait and SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!, which is quite possibly the worst game ever made. It gets a wonky award for the mushrooms on crack (SomethingAwful says they’re renegade Captain Crunch Berries, and others say they’re hopping brains, but Moon thinks they’re mushrooms) and the fact that bird poop makes you turn into Mr. Hyde. However, Bubba ‘n’ Stix annoyed me more, mainly because the damn game gives you the illusion that you can beat it, it , and because the only people who recognize it as the pile of dog crap it is are SomethingAwful, and even they’re wrong in saying that idiots are a minority.



I found a good explanation about why I, and many others, hate the mediocre games with large fan-bases (think Donkey Kong Country, or in the case of Bubba ‘n’ Stix, bad games that have no rampant haterism™ directed towards them) more than the bad ones (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). Speaking of Hyde, I had a very flawed analogy involving him being a mediocre member who wasn’t really that interesting to talk to getting more haterism™ from me for that one incident than that unmemorable guy who called LeHah something like HeHaw and has otherwise posted or done nothing worthwhile, but, guess what, it doesn’t work. His exact quote was “minor annoyances are magnified by the lens of other people’s love.”



I’m not going to talk much on it. There’s a video guide to it. HINTS: The cane is only useful against bees. And if you attack the fat ladies who sing and spew music notes at you, you turn into Mr. Hyde.

Completionists and masochists can apply within. Just watch out for the midgets and mushrooms on crack (or hopping brains). All of you who were expecting another Ristar* can do something else with your life.

*Which is actually what I was looking for when I tried to play Zool and Plok. Awful, awful games. I knew Bart’s Nightmare was going to be bad, though.

You’re probably here for We Know All Of Your Secrets, though. Did you know that Spatula is only 40% titanium?

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