17) The French Baker

It is now when I truly believe that I get it. I've had these sorts of premonitions for several games before this, but now, it seems as though I've got it. You can kinda fake a smile during the space shooters for a few minutes. You can wince your way through the first few legs of the platformers, but it is in these 2600-like experiments in programming where Action 52 earns its reputation as a game designed to hurt you. Really, the screenshot here is all you need to know about The French Baker, but I will delve a little further here just because I'm such a nice guy. Deadly enemies with reach several pixels beyond their sprites inspired by an acid trip. Two-inch fall deaths. Music from hell. More bugs than a bait shop. Programming also from hell. Sorry, but thinking about this game's vices destroys my ability to write complete sentences. If there is any good to be said about this game, it's that the graphics are some of the best on this cart: bright and clean with an astonishing dearth of slowdown.