13. Fire Fighter

Fire Fighter
Atari 2600
1982

There are lots of exciting professions that seem well suited toward video games.  For instance, fire fighting.  Over and over again, developers decide to make video games based on fire fighting. Maybe they’ve got their hearts in the right place, but in the past 30 years, no one has ever produced anything close to a good one. 



Imagic’s 1982 attempt at the genre is essentially unplayable. This is the sort of Atari game that you fiddle with just long enough to realize that, no, really, this is the whole game. I feel incredibly bad for the poor bastards in the 80’s that actually paid retail price for this stupid thing.