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#16: Robot Wars Metal Mayhem
Robot Wars was, back in the day, <3. I mean, it was just a fun show and was kind of awesome to watch...unfortunately, this game was anything *but* that. First of all, the modes on offer weren't exactly the most thrilling: you had the usual "battle" mode and a gauntlet of said matches, and then a couple of crappy mini-games on the side. The "robot workshop" that the game boasted was equally as crappy, because all you could do was choose from like, one of four shapes for the robot and then how quick/heavy it was...and a weapon that never worked. I mean, seriously: you could have a flipper, a spike, a saw - nothing actually did any damage. Such a letdown for a game that could have been so awesome...


#15: Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle III
It isn't the greatest thing ever for a game when the thing that you remember the most about a game is the show that you were watching whilst you were playing it (an episode of Smackdown in late 99, during the Big Show vs. Big Bossman feud). Crazy Castle III was...well, I wouldn't say it's the most enthralling game. You face the baddies from the Looney Tunes cartoons (I seem to recall Taz and possibly Marvin the Martian) whilst you're running in to doors to try and grab keys, climbing up ladders at the same time as you try and avoid being hit. This goes on for approximately 60 levels. Which is fuuuuuuun. Honestly. Not boring or repetitive at all. In the slightest.

But it's Bugs Bunny, which means it does get extra <333333.

#=14: The Rugrats Movie
So, the Rugrats were <3. I mean, I loved them as a kid, and it was probably one of my favourite Nickelodeon shows (Sabrina G.ODDESS <333333). The Rugrats Movie itself, and the second one too (where they went to Paris, if I recall) were both really good too, although introducing Dill or however it's meant to be spelt was a bit annoying, since the kid hogged time from Phil & Lil and the parents (mother of Phil & Lil <3, by the by). As for the game...eh. It was a bit like a slightly easier but slightly shittier Bart vs. the Space Mutants, I guess (I'm using that as an example because it's the only one I can think of right now). It was just a load of jumping, avoid this enemy, find this item...and got very tiresome as the levels went on. But, still, it was alright and not all that bad.


#=14: Soccer Manager
Yes, this wasn't on the list, but that's because I forgot about it until yesterday when I suddenly remembered. So I'm cheating and just making it tie with Rugrats, since it was better than the other three games below and not better than #13. So, I am a huge fan of the Championship Manager/Football Manager series, and always have been since I got CM 97/98 as a kid (that'd probably be top 3 if I ever did rank my favourite PC games). So the opportunity for handheld football managing fun? Awesomeness!...right? Well, actually, no. It wasn't awesome, it was adequate. It only had the UK leagues, and while it had all the right club names and player names, it was just...well, bland. Bland layout, bland matches (even though like, every match ended with at least three or so goals scored. 5-0 wins were regular in this game) and just blandness, but it wasn't unplayable, so...yeah. Joint 14th, hello.


#13: Yu-Gi-Oh: Dark Duel Stories
The start of what you will see to be a slight obsession with Yu-Gi-Oh during the ages of 10-14. Dark Duel Stories was my first Yu-Gi-Oh game, and since I'd only seen the anime (the first season, too, which had unreliable rules as it was >_>) I wasn't too sure how the game worked. I was, however, pretty sure that some pathetic monster in my deck with like, 200 attack points should NOT have beaten a Blue Eyes White Dragon - yet it did. Turns out that Konami, in their infinite stupidity wisdom had decided that certain types on monster cards could immediately kill others, making the *entire* game useless, since you could have a massively powerful deck that could be destroyed by your opponent having the right type of card to win by sheer luck. Add to that the fact that the computer quite obviously cheated (more so than the other YGO games) and a general air of "meh" about the game, Dark Duel Stories isn't going much further. Also, Marik is on the box and yet they don't mention him until the very end, and even then he's just some random opponent that's fairly easy to beat.