1. Every CD-i Zelda Game

What seems like 100 years ago, I wrote a Top 5 about Nintendo-related videos on YouTube. In it, I described the infamous Zelda Rap and how, over a long enough period of time, most things that start out as terrible eventually obtain value for irony. Even the cheesiest of cheesy Saturday morning 1980's cartoons can warrant a quick lookup on YouTube.

But some things are so awful that they will exude embarrassment for all of eternity. Indeed, when the leaders of a race of giant, weird, super-intelligent octopus-like aliens send their bio-engineered minions (who are physically and mentally specialized in anthropology) to excavate planet Earth trillions of years after the human race evolved into sentient light-based beings and floated outward into space, they will stumble across a miraculously working CD-i complete with a copy of Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. And after viewing the opening FMV, as you could have guessed, they will emit a loud, deep howling sound while squirting a strange and mysterious neon pink substance into the air to signify their cringing (as they are known to do).

Oh, and the animated sequences from Hotel Mario are equally terrible.

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