I'm wondering how other video game fiascos been like

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I'm wondering how other video game fiascos would have been like, if the Internet was like it is now back when they were introduced? I'm wondering that, as this xBox One fiasco is really entertaining, along with the new SimCity game. Pac-Man and ET for the Atari 2600 would have interesting to watch, as they were so bad.

The industry used to be so different, even without taking the internet into account. And imagining if youtube and 4chan existed in the 1980s will make you have a stroke.

playing an 8 bit game online with others would be fun!

Pacman for the Atari2600 was a bit duff.
I had Pacman jr. - which was a lot better.

I thought Superman for Atari 2600 was another shockingly bad game.

Chess was pretty awful too, because it has 8 difficulty levels.
The lowest setting is stupidly easy.... but if you set it any higher then the damn thing would take anything between 10-30 minutes to think about it's next move.
The time it took couldn't be guessed in advance, and then it would only give you ten minutes to have yours once it was done. And the time it took would get longer and longer as the game progressed. The graphics seared a hole in my brain because the colours were so hideous.

I wish you could play the Gamegear version of Mean Bean Machine (re-released for the Nintendo DS) with other people, over the Nintendo network.... but as far as I can tell the game only includes the single-player modes.