When I was in elementary school one of my classrooms had Stratego among the board games meant for bad weather days or waiting after school.

I had previously played Stratego and liked it, but every single other kid in this classroom read that the 'Spy' piece could kill the 'General' (the most powerful) piece and concluded that the 'Spy' could therefore kill any piece on the board. I was shouted down by everyone for pointing out the actual wording of the rules and that a 'Spy' is called that because it's obviously supposed to be a sneaky piece.

Nobody agreed and just played the game with the 'Spy' as a rampaging super piece killing everything. That was pretty miserable.

Mario Party.

I. Fucking. HATE. Mario Party.

I have had the displeasure of playing the two worst video game of all time. E.T. The Extra-Terestrial and Custers Revenge. Both were Atari games released in 1982.

Nobody should answer "Monopoly" because it's intended to be un-fun, as an object lesson in why monopolies are bad.

I rented Superman 64 at Blockbuster once.

Don't reccomend.

Much broken.

Such bugs.

Wow.

Monopoly. Tragically boring.

7-yo me hated the original Ghostbusters game on NES. So much so that I devised a plan to get my birthday money back.

Toys R Us would only refund unopened games, but you could get an even exchange if a game was 'defective'. So I made up some mumbo jumbo about how something didn't work in the game, and my mom got it swapped for me (she was nervous for some reason). Took the unopened game to a different Toys R Us location and got my money back. I felt like a criminal mastermind.

I can't really remember what I didn't like about the game...probably I had a certain expectation as a big Ghostbusters fan that no NES game could meet.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Space Station 13 is simulteanously the worst and best game I have played depending on the station you choose. I've been one a shift where we fought back every monstrosity thrown at us with ease. I've also been on a shift where I am the only medical crew and the capitan is a traitor and why is the ship already on fire its been 10 minutes?

Maybe a hot take but I stand by it.

Red Faction: Armageddon. It was just so very boring and inferior to its 3-year-old predecessor. THQ actually tried to claim that no one was interested in the franchise anymore because of the lacklustre sales of that game. But the franchise is excellent, Armageddon was just a bad game.

10-player game of munchkin. Could feel my soul trying to crawl out of my mouth after the 3rd hour.

Mario Party 9 was so bad I think I only played it one time.

The moment I saw the car thing and read that there was no way to get around it, we quit and went back to the older games.

I bought Sonic 2006 when it came out. It was my first experience with a truly terrible, broken game. I'd played things that weren't up my alley or were subpar somehow, but that was the first time I was truly blown away by how bad a game could be.

Played an old LoTR game for the SNES that was so full of bugs, it actually held my interest longer than it should have because I was curious whether the game could even be completed.

Arc: Survival (dinosaur game). Shit. Played for 15 minutes. Poor optimization and almost 1tb of space needed… wtf.

Master of Orion III, a 4X game from around the turn of the century. The two previous instalments were fun strategy games. This one was like playing the world's prettiest spreadsheet.

I have played many, many games. I remember some of the best. I forget the others. Why would I remember the worst?

Capitalism

monopoly (and capitalism)

Maybe not the worst game, but notable for being somewhat misleading - Mario Is Missing for the SNES.

If you're not familiar with it, it's is an educational game where you play as Luigi and walk around random cities asking questions, which is very different from other Mario games of the time.