9 Video Games That Were Recalled For Completely Bizarre Reasons
5. WWF No Mercy
Released by the now-defunct THQ, WWF No Mercy was one of the better wrestling games to launch in the early 2000s. Filling your wrestler's attitude meter and pulling off a finishing move never got old, but even though the game was fun to play, a couple of notable technical issues put a damper on that goodwill.
The game would often start to lag when multiple wrestlers appeared onscreen, which was annoying all by itself - but that wasn't even its biggest problem.
An untold amount of copies contained a glitch that would randomly erase all save data that the player had built up, making it seem as though they had never even touched the game. Players could potentially lose all the money they'd earned and all the wrestlers they'd created - alongside their championship mode progress - which could mean that dozens of hours of playtime were gone in a heartbeat.
As a result, THQ had to recall and repair as many affected cartridges as they could, which proved tricky, because the glitch seemed to strike at random. This also means that some buggy copies will exist out there today, so if you're in the market for an original copy of WWF No Mercy... beware!