GAMbIT Magazine Issue #26 April 2017 | Page 34

Let's start this list by laying out some basic ground rules that we arbitrarily imposed on ourselves. There will be no games that are billed as educational titles (sorry Mario's Early Years and Mario is Missing) and no video games based on movies. So with our hands tied from pulling for the well marked "super easy click-bait duckets" let's get to the 10 worst Super Nintendo Games. THE 10 WORST SNES GAMES EVER! TEAM GAMBIT Pac-Man is a game that will go down in history as not only one of the most influential arcade games of all time, but one that is today still utterly playable by everyone. Hell, there's a good chance that Pac-Man will still be played by gamers long after we are all dead a buried. The official sequel to the game... well, not so much. Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures takes everyone's favorite yellow, pill- popping, circle and radically changes everything that made the original game great.  The first thing you'll notice is that the maze gameplay of Pac-Man is gone, replaced by a point- and-click adventure engine. And not a good point- and-click like those from LucasArts. The game also only ever released on consoles of the day. but one thing people often overlook when talking Pac-Man 2 is that the game didn't just come out of left field. In Japan there was an arcade game released called Pac-Land that featured a side-scrolling Pac-Man, but as this was an arcade game it lacked the point- and-click aspects in favor of much faster gameplay. The game was also popular enough to see tons of ports to computers of the time, as well as consoles like the TurboGrafx 16.  To be fair Pac-Man 2 would have been a fine enough game if only it had ditched the sequel moniker. Pac-Land was fine, but it never tread on the name of the original. Pac-Man 2 was so far away from a proper sequel that it pissed off new and old fans alike. Just imagine if a game like The Witcher 3 saw an official sequel that was a collectible card game and you have an idea of how crazy Pac-Man 2 was.