{"id":935382,"date":"2025-12-29T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/whats-the-best-game-on-the-worst-console"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:44:19","slug":"whats-the-best-game-on-the-worst-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/whats-the-best-game-on-the-worst-console\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the best game on the worst console?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/whats-the-best-game-on-the-worst-console.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s now a premium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-games-ever-podcast-extended-edition-info-page\">extended version<\/a> of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber &#8211; check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/subscribe\/standard\">Support Us<\/a> page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don&#8217;t worry if that&#8217;s not for you, the main show will always be free.<\/p>\n<p>Video games are great, but sometimes you just have to admit that some of them are only available on consoles that, well, aren&#8217;t great. Rubbish, even. You can guarantee an argument if you ask people to pick the worst games console, so that&#8217;s what we did. But what is the best game on this worst console? Who showed their ineptitude and picked a game on a great console? Who picked something so perfect it could never be argued with? Did Jim say anything of interest or just stir things up?<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, depending on your exposure to certain consoles you&#8217;re likely to have different views on this to everyone else, but we had to make a definitive choice over the best game on the worst console. It absolutely won&#8217;t annoy anyone!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/whats-the-best-game-on-the-worst-console\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/whats-the-best-game-on-the-worst-console\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber &#8211; check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don&#8217;t worry if that&#8217;s not for you, the main show will always be free. Video games are great, but sometimes you just have to admit that some of them are only available on consoles that, well, aren&#8217;t great. Rubbish, even. You can guarantee an argument if you ask people to pick the worst games console, so that&#8217;s what we did. But what is the best game on this worst console? Who showed their ineptitude and picked a game on a great console? 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