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Dustin Bailey

22 years ago, the worst game of all time launched to a Metacritic score of just 8, and now it's on Steam with 83% positive reviews from a whole new generation of garbage lovers

The infamous "you're winner" trophy from Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

ET. Superman 64. Gollum. There are a whole lot of games in the running as "the worst of all time," but none of them hold a candle to Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, a broken mess of racing game that launched to a Metacritic score of just 8 out of 100 back in 2003. Today, it was finally re-released on Steam, where it's apparently finding a whole new audience of ironic fans ready to appreciate the finest garbage gaming has to offer.

The Steam release of Big Rigs was announced a few weeks ago to no shortage of disbelief, not least because publisher Margarite Entertainment had appeared out of nowhere to bring back this genuinely awful piece of software with no apparent connection to original publisher GameMill. In a Steam forum post, Margarite clarified that it had "obtained the rights to a few classic titles (including Big Rigs Over the Road Racing) worldwide," and somehow nobody has stopped it from happening.

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