In 1974, a shockingly disturbing (for it's time) horror movie was released. Titled 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', it quickly gained controversy and became very popular. Many were amazed because of the film's graphic content, and that it was inspired by real events.
In 1983, almost 9 years after the release of the original film, VSS developed a game for the Atari 2600 based on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Published by Wizard Games, who also developed and published Halloween, the game is less than stellar, and is often considered on of the worst games of all time. It can be that bad right? Let's see how much of a massacre this game is.

Graphics, 4: Well, it looks bad.It looks like it was made on MS Paint. I understand it wasn't exactly easy to make backgrounds for games in the 80's, but it looks terrible. In the background that never scrolls, you see a house, some trees, and what looks to be a truck. It may be Leatherface's house. The house looks decent, and the truck looks good, considering how far away it is. The worst thing in the background are the trees.
The trees are just a few vertical orange bars, and the entire top of the screen is covered in green, representing the branches and leaves. The entire top of the screen is covered in green, which is very lazy.  It would have been better to break the green bars every once in a while to make it look more realistic. 
There are a few objects placed on the ground in the game, which act as obstacles in Leatherface's path. They consist of wheelchairs. bison skulls (that what it looks like, at least), hay laying on the ground (which, apparently, slows you down) and a fence. All look decent, but the absolute worst are the sprites of the people.  First off, Leatherface looks horrible. His mask is just brown with a thin black stripe on top. He only wears blue with black boots, and his chainsaw sticks out of his chest. And worst, the chainsaw is blue, so it blends in with his suit.
When  Leatheface kills the girl, a wierd sprite of a mirrored girl appears. It's very weird.
The chainsaw in just a blue line with square block moving around it. Every once in a while, you'll see a girl. She looks just a bad and maybe even worse than Leatherface. She wears a dark yellow dress, similar in shade to the plain green ground,  She has a few pixels on top of her head for hair, and her arms are invisible. You can see through the dress where her arms are supposed to be. Could they not give her any arms?
The graphics looks very bad for the Atari 2600, but it's not the worst, so graphics get a 4.

Sound, 2: If there's anything worse than the graphics, it's the sound. This game has roughly 4 or 5 'sound effects' which sound more like beeps. The title screen has 1 second of sound, which is the best sound in the game. The game also plays a sound when Leatherfaces revs his chainsaw, which sounds decent. On of the most annoying sounds in the entire game is when ever the girl appears. A high-pitched beeo is played every time she shows up. From what I know, it's supposed to be screaming. When you kill her , a loud series of three beeps is heard, which each beep lowering in tone, but the sound only respawns you right back to where you started.
There's not music at all in this game (which Halloween had) and the sounds get annoying after a while.
Sound gets a 2.

Addictiveness, 1: It's VERY hard to play this game for any longer than 10 minutes. It's very repetitive and gets old quickly. At the top of the screen, there's a fuel meter, which shows how much fuel is left in your chainsaw. It runs down very fast, and only takes 30 seconds to run out. You goal is to kill as many people as you can before your chainsaw is out of fuel, and then, it's player 2's turn. However, it keeps track of player 1's score, so if player 2 scores, it'll add to the score, so all it does is show the total both players have scored.  To kill a person, you have to rev up your chainsaw right before you run into her, but it requires precise timing. If you kill someone, you get 1,000 points. The most points I got before the chainsaw ran out of fuel was 4,000.
It gets old very fast, and it's boring, so addictiveness gets a 1.

Story, 5: Similar to Halloween, the game doesn't have a story, but I assume it's the same as the movie. The story goes like this; 'When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape". Story gets a 5, since the game has no story, but it follows the movie.

Depth, 2: This game only has one game mode. the two-player game and that it. There's nothing else to do in this game besides that. Since there's almost nothing to do in this game, depth gets a 2.

Difficulty, 1: From what I know, there is no what to lose in this game. If your chainsaw runs out of fuel, you just start over. This game is way too easy, and if you play long enough, you can get a lot of points. It's probably like old arcade games, where you goal  is just to get the most points. Difficulty gets an easy 1.

OVERALL, 2: Well, that was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was certainly one of the worst games that I have ever played.
It's unfortunate that the best thing in this game is the graphics. It could have been much better than it actually was. I'm not going to tell you to not play this game, but if you ever see it, just avoid it. There are many other games that are better than this. Overall, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre gets a less than mediocre 2/10. At least we know it could have been worse.

Thanks for reading, and until next review, bye!