7 Worst Ports of Legendary Games

In theory it’s a good thing when a brilliant game is ported onto a less powerful machine, giving more people the opportunity to enjoy it. In practice, these ports can be downright travesties, bearing as much resemblance to the original game as Andy to Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

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Written by Chris Scullion and Outside Xbox

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[SmoothDonatello]

gotta love a game with graphics so bad that it just flat out says "Hey, so we lied to you...."

[ASpooneyBard]

RE2 also got a genuinely impressive port with the N64 version. They managed to cram an entire PS1 game on a cartridge without losing anything significant (in fact they somehow added some stuff).

[peterhague]

That Batman line is one of the finest pieces of writing I've heard in ages.
And tremendously delivered.

Well done all

[alankerrr]

Oh good, Jane's in this video - she's the best one! (Apart from Haggar)

[kaneaquino]

Now the opposite; Top 7 Legendary Ports of The Worst Games

Edit: This is supposed to be games that are bad from the start that were ported and became slightly to full on better than the original.

[warpstorm]

Anyone noticing a Capcom-like theme to this list?

[Forriedude]

You got The Rock to do your intro? Moving up in world, grats!

[MrFutago]

You know the saying "But can it run Doom?" Well the 3DO sure can't if you give one single programmer 10 weeks to make it. Said programmer having to work with probably one of the most incompetent person in the video game industry at the time, Randy Scott.

[xenogil]

The technical details really help me to understand why the ports I played as a child were so, so bad

[possumsinatrenchcoat]

"processing power of a bowl of spinach" is absolutely going to be my new go-to insult now 😂

[Mankoi]

Andy: There's nothing worse than a hit video game coming out and you not having the hardware to run it.

Which is why I'm begging creators to stop de-listing the non-remastered versions of their games on online platforms. Do you know how long it took me to play Dark Souls just because every time I got a new computer that was potentially good enough to run it, you upped the bar again?

[YoungAce]

X-Men vs Street Fighter was the first game I thought of. A tag fighter where you can't tag...yeah. I remember as a kid thinking I was doing something wrong because I couldn't figure out how to do it

[Darkreaper]

I bought Street Fighter for the Commodore 64 for £14.99. To give some context, the game store I bought C64 games sold the vast majority of games for £2.99.

I was not a happy bunny when I got SF2 home and loaded it up!

[zennihilation]

When Jane brought up Batman's Parents, I got real flashbacks about Andy and Luke as Thomas and Martha.

[sambridgett]

Nice to see Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson guesting as a presenter this week. Anyone know where Andy's got to?

[DJChrist]

Oh shoot, I clicked on this thinking it said "7 Worst PARTS of Legendary Games".
Now there is anide for another video, I tell you what.

[DodderingOldMan]

I genuinely thought that said 'worst parts of legendary games', and based on the thumbnail assumed I missed a bit in RE2 where you get to play a crappy simulated Gameboy within the actual game.

[Michael_Lindell]

What about the '7 Worst Ports In Legendary Games'?

I'm sure there are some bad harbours in great games.

[sethneville]

OMG I had the 2600 version of Pac-Man, and I completely forgot how bad it looked. Well, thanks OxBox for reminding me that I'm older than dirt.

[DanLifschitzEsq]

Fun fact: There was a “cheat code” for the PS1 version of X-Men vs. Street Fighter that restored the tag battle feature in two-player mode, but only if you and your friend selected the same characters. That way the PS1 still only had to load two sprite sets for the match and just palette-swap them.