10 Awful Versions Of Iconic Video Games You Didn't Know Existed

10. Tomb Raider - N-Gage

It would be cheap and easy to fill a list of terrible video game ports with mobile games but what’s important is that the Nokia N-Gage positioned itself equally as a handheld games console as it did a phone.

Getting an icon like Lara onto the system was Nokia’s biggest bet at pulling in a hardcore gaming audience. Whilst the original Tomb Raider was seven years old at this point, the promise of being able to play this classic on-the-go had a certain allure to it.

The N-Gage version of Tomb Raider was the console’s biggest seller at launch which sounds impressive until you realise it didn’t even shift 3,000 units.

Whilst ambitious in scope, this mobile port just shows why the N-Gage is flawed by design. With its tight buttons and sticky d-pad, moving Lara’s tank controls have never been harder. Being able to pull off any of Lara’s jumps is consistently challenging, and not in a fun way.

Worst of all, Lara now moves with an auto-run. Players push "up" to get her moving and then "down" to make her stop. Combine running off the same ledge over and over with the console’s painfully small buttons and it’s safe to say that even the few people who played Tomb Raider on the N-Gage scarcely made it out of the opening stage.