Shovelware

I was first brought to the attention of Shovelware by Cracked.com. Shovelware is the so called art of putting badly written games into the hands of unsuspecting consumers.

Although, when I say badly written, I actually mean hundreds of bugs, shoddy gameplay, shitty ideas and rampant plagiarism. Allow me to illustrate my point:

Here is Ninjabread Man (2005) for the Wii:

And here is Zool (1992) for the SNES:

Now, correct me if I'm wrong here, but that is no homage and more of a 'destroy my childhood with crap'-age!

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