Hunter

Hunter is a 1995 shooting game developed by Condor Soft and published by Power Per Post exclusively for the Atari 8-bit series of computers. It was only released by mail order in Germany.

Why It's Not A Hunter

 * 1) The game is incredibly barebones: you just move the cursor and shoot the animals to earn points until you run out of ammo.
 * 2) The aiming cursor constantly jerks and flickers, even if you're not moving it.
 * 3) Bad graphics: the animals barely represent what they're supposed to be. The deer, for example, looks like it has a sock for a face. In addition, the forest scenery never changes.
 * 4) No animations whatsoever, as the animals just hover across the scenery.
 * 5) There's no point in shooting the smaller animals, as they give very few points and are very hard to shoot.
 * 6) The music does not fit the gameplay.
 * 7) When you run out of ammo, the game says that you turned around and ran away, accidentally smacked into a deer and fell over, and had to spend a few days in a hospital.
 * 8) This game was released in 1995, the same year when the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn were already out in Europe, which is incredibly late for an Atari 8-bit title.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) The music, while very unfitting, is pretty good.

Trivia

 * This game is featured on the cover of Stuart Ashen's book Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of.