10 Worst Pokémon Video Games Ever

3. Pokémon Dash – DS

Pokemon Dash
The Pokémon Company

Ever wondered why there hasn’t been a Pokémon racing game for the Wii or Wii U? There was a brilliant racing episode in the original Pokémon cartoon series featuring a Rapidash that relented to Ash Ketchum’s charms, so why not introduce a Mario Kart style racer featuring Pokémon instead of go karts?

Well, animal rights activists would probably lose their marbles and Pokémon has already branched into racing, and you just didn’t know about it until now. Pokémon Dash was a horrendous on-foot racing game for the Nintendo DS that restricted you to using everyone’s favourite mascot, Pikachu, as your racer.

A Pokémon known for its electric powers more so than speed dragged around a race track using the stylus rather than the D-Pad or motion controls resulted in a recipe for utter disaster. If I’m racing Pokemon, I want at least a Ponyta or Doduo and I want to use a control stick not a stylus – call me a traditionalist but that’s what I want, not this rubbish.

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