10 Video Games BUTCHERED By Terrible Ports

1. Pac-Man - Arcade To Atari 2600

For many, this exemplified The Great Video Game Crash of the 1980’s. A moment of greed, laziness, and a betrayal of gamers as a demographic.

Back in the day, Pac-Man was one of the most popular arcade games of the era. Namco had made 400,000 arcade units, but made best of friends with Atari when they signed a deal to port the game over to the Atari 2600.

It’s since gone down as one of the worst examples of any port. Ever.

This game not only managed to be rife with bugs, but it looked like sh*te and was kicked out so quickly that developer Todd Frye couldn’t figure out how to have 4 ghosts on screen at once. Instead he had to work with 2 at a time, phasing in and out.

In a brilliant moment of idiocy, Atari made 7 million copies of the game; more than the amount of 2600 consoles available, as they believed Pac-Man would boost sales of the system overall. It backfired when the game was revealed to be so terrible, and just like that, Pac-Man for the 2600 went on into infamy.