American Gladiators

In general, you can always count games based on movies and television shows to be absolutely horrid. Behold the prime example: American Gladiators. Both the NES and SNES versions of this game play like vomit. For those that don't remember the premise of the TV show: "normal" people battle the American Gladiators in various "sporting" events for money. While that goal remains the same in the game, it really doesn't matter because it's terribly unfun to play.  Virtually every aspect of the game fails. The graphics are rancid, even worse considering they were produced in 1992, when the best technology to create fantastic graphics existed. The sound and music are equally or less uninspired, although there is one damn good digitalised screaming sound. Play control is ambiguous and poorly designed, adding to the games intrisically hard level of difficulty. The final result of these bad equations: a randy  NES cart that is too ungoldly horrible to play, much less enjoy.

The Verdict: After playing this dud for a minute, the Teletubbies will seem enjoyable.

Graphics: D-

Sound/Music D

Play Control F-

Challenge A

Fun Factor N/A

Replay Value N/A

Overall F- no links