Gaming is a wonderful hobby, an interactive medium that lives and dies by its execution. The sad fact is, even while we sit amongst a myriad of fantastic gaming delights and fun-injecting peripherals, gaming is awash with terrible disappointments, often hyped up to be the next big thing.

Grabbing some opinions from the readers of GamesTM magazine, the Nowloading forum and our very own, I decided to take a look back at some of the biggest disappointments across gaming’s wide spectrum of sadness. From awful games in the 8-bit era, to wonderful failures from the very present, I’ll be looking back with weepy eyes at the failures we’ve had to endure.

Now this is by no means a "Top 10", after umming and ahhing over the actual format of the article, I decided that it was far too objective a piece to put things in order, so look at this as a Magpie’s nest of classic, obscure or downright ridiculous disappointments, as opposed to something you can complain about on the internet because it didn’t include all of your opinions.

So, without further ado, let us go forth into the terrible realm of misery that is: "Biggest Gaming Disappointments: Episode 1".