Donkey Kong Country 3 feels more like the first game than the second, and retains some of its quirks.

Another mobile game that's fun to play for a few days but that you completely forget about afterwards.

Below average park sim. Dragonvale is way better.

Zelda II is an interesting idea for a game, but the high difficulty is achieved through extremely cheap means. It's easily the worst game in this series, but it can be fun at times.

This is a genuinely great arcade style mobile game that's actually fun to come back to.

A bad, laggy version of other games that do this concept much better.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are extremely disappointing games. They aren't as bad as the prior games, but they represent the distinct fall into mediocrity of this once great series. Everything to say about these games has been said a million times before: the performance is terrible, it's stupid easy, the open world feels empty, the whole game feels lifeless, etc.

This is probably one of the worst Kirby games. It's painfully average, and mostly devoid of the charm this series is known for. The only new mechanic of converting enemies to fight alongside you gets boring pretty quickly.

Zip Lash isn't as ungodly bad as most make it out to be, but it still isn't great. At best, it's a competent, middling platformer that doesn't stand out very much.

Mario Bros. is an interesting arcade game and important to video game history, but has little staying power today.

This game is probably the worst of its series, and the ending just makes that inarguable.

Sonic 1 was alright for the time, but has too many glaring problems to even be really thought of as mediocre. Green Hill and Starlight Zones are pretty great, but the rest are just awful. The underwater mechanic is particularly underdeveloped. Overall, the game is below average, but it doesn't really matter because the sequels fixed everything.

1984

The NES probably shouldn't have had a golf game. This is really really boring.

This is one of the worst games I've ever played from a major publisher. It just doesn't function. Almost none of the game is fun, and clipping through the floor is more likely than not. The controls are also terrible, a huge downgrade from 64. It wastes your time often, throwing you out of a level after dying or all the way back to the central plaza if you lose all of your lives. This not only doesn't hold up today, but it was never good in the first place.