10 Companies Who Made Their Name With Shoddy Licensed Games

10. Radical Entertainment - Wayne's World

While modern gamers will know them for the rather excellent Prototype series, Radical Entertainment has a long history of taking licensed properties and producing absolutely horrendous results.

The peak of their creative failures came during the early days of the company, where they created shoddy game after shoddy game to capitalise on any licence they could get their hands on.

The company continued to mine the tie-in trough for almost two decades. Unfortunately, for every Simpsons: Hit and Run there was a Hulk, Independence Day or Dark Angel to show that the developer got it wrong way more often than they got it right. The only reason that they aren’t higher on this list is because their recent output seems to indicate a new direction for the company that will hopefully see them redeem themselves for some of their past failings.

The Worst Game - Perhaps the most bizarre title to come from the developer was the side-scrolling Wayne's World title on the SNES and Megadrive. A lazy title by every definition of the word, Wayne’s World was a platformer like most at the time, but it had the misfortune of suffering from average graphics, substandard controls and the sort of gameplay that leads to most players switching off in record time.