Play Mag: PlayStation Vita is launched! Hooray! Not over here yet. We’ll have to wait until February 22nd before we get our hands on Sony’s handheld but those in Japan along with impatient importers can snap theirs up now. Vita has the likes of Uncharted, Wipeout, Motorstorm, ModNation Racers, LittleBigPlanet and so on coming.
A tasty line-up but it’s also worth looking back at how far we’ve come since the days of… well, these atrocities. Compiled using our own knowledge and that of Retro Gamer’s Darran Jones, here are the worst 14 portable games ever.
These classics need to make a return.
Pre-ordered mine a few days ago. Love this concept and hope there are more games announced. I can’t justify paying the prices for games that collectors are asking for. It’s the primary reason I own almost every console except the Neo Geo.
I've pre ordered one here in the UK, no games though, as I'll move it on for a higher price. The white model looks awesome, but as expected, the price is too high. We'll probably see more of those all in one cartridges from China containing every AES game. In the UK, AES+ game at £70 ($95) is better than eye watering prices for the originals, but these games are so old and I can honestly say SNK didn't release many classics. The Metal Slug series is the only series I rate, there were just too many Street Fighter clones and not enough scrolling fighting games. Overall, the Neo Geo was poor for all genres apart from one on one fighters. Videos on YouTube asking for games from that console generation to be ported to the AES+, but who'd want to pay £70 for Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2? There's a lot of SNK collections out there, the best being Metal Slug Anthology on the PlayStation 2. The Street Fighter Anniversary Collection on the Switch contains 12 games for around £30, instead of £840 if released on the AES+. For collectors, the AES+ is the best news since sliced bread. Are there enough SNK fans out there? Nowhere near. Those £70 cartridges will soon start creeping up in price and it'll be a re-run of the original console.
I always wanted one in the 90's but couldn't afford it. Now i can but i think if i get one it will be collecting dust fast. It's a nostalgia thing i guess.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
Every system ALWAYS gets terrible shovelware games.
The Vita will not be immune to this type of atrociousness as the PSP, DS, Turbo Graphix16, Game Gear, Gameboy etc. all had some forms of craptastic games hit their systems.
Expect the same for the Vita. You will have some developers looking to make a quick dollar by making quick and craptastic games to sell.
LOL... look at Howie Mandel's hands. He looks like elephant boy!
I liked SDvsRAW2006... granted I only put my PSP to sleep to avoid some loading screens, but still, I don't think it's one of the worst portable game of all time...
I miss my game gear...
The game gear was awesome, just the battery life sucked dick