They only made one Harry Potter game

[Fanta Grape]

Not literally, of course. But for a certain age group , my age group specifically, there seems to be only one game that everybody bought.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

In a recent play through I had with my friend with only the intention of making fun of it, we realised two things.

1. It's a hilarious game.
2. Many of our friends have it. Even the ones who didn't play video games.

Why? It's terrible! Horrendous cameras, stiff controls, sub-par graphics, terribly written plot, repetitive and tedious gameplay... But wow. We're not even Harry Potter fans at all. We just seem to all remember finishing the game at one stage or another.

Now while you may pin this down to pure coincidence, I believe that it's the only memorable Harry Potter game. I do have vague memories of playing the first on the PC, but that was even worse. By a tidbit, of course.


So does anyone else remember playing this?
What are other games that everyone surprisingly knows about?

 

[Simple Bluff]

I remember buying and enjoying the PS1 era Harry Potter games in my childhood. I probobly replayed Philosopher's Stone a million times. I'd probobly still enjoy it today, through magic nostalgic lens.

 

[Hippobatman]

And the loading times, oh God, the loading times!

And yes, it was fun actually. I had it on the PS2 back in the day, and my favourite part was flinging the goblins or whatever out of the Weasley's garden trying to hit all the targets.

I would like to state that the game Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone for the GameBoy Color was also very fun.

 

[vrbtny]

Of course I have it!

One of the best games of my generation. I got the first one too!

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I remember buying and enjoying the PS1 era Harry Potter games in my childhood. I probobly replayed Philosopher's Stone a million times. I'd probobly still enjoy it today, through magic nostalgic lens.

I remeber that, I used to get stuck on the Diagon Alley mini games...

 

[Bobbity]

Oh, please don't remind me.
Remember being able to hop on the broomstick and go anywhere? It would have been awesome, save that there was nothing to do...

/edit
There was a boss made out of kettles at one point, I think. Damn, but that was such a stupid game. :S

 

[Good old Grim]

I had it on PC and think that it was little more than a simplified verison of the first one. Quidditch was really cool in the first, but in the second you don't even have to steer... wth?

I think I tried a couple more HP games but only played the first two for any significant amount of time. And actually this thread makes me want to replay the first one. It was really cool and actually kind of challenging at parts.

 

[Plucky]

I remember playing the GBC game, it was awesome because it was an RPG, compared to the GBA version it was just better, since it didn't have any of those stuck parts....especially that part where you had to sneak at night, even if you were playing on an SP or something, it was Nintendo Hard.

The game? it might have been Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone...the Screenshots on Gamefaqs seems a bit samey, but i know it had some dumb wand minigame and a quiddich race

 

[Simple Bluff]

I remember buying and enjoying the PS1 era Harry Potter games in my childhood. I probobly replayed Philosopher's Stone a million times. I'd probobly still enjoy it today, through magic nostalgic lens.

I remeber that, I used to get stuck on the Diagon Alley mini games...

Half of those million playthroughs was mostly spent trying to overcome the "Railway Vault" minigame in the bank. And don't even talk to me about those slippy hallway sections.

 

[manythings]

A tie-in game is bad? Someone find a press and stop it!

 

[Fanta Grape]

A tie-in game is bad? Someone find a press and stop it!

It's not the fact that it's bad. It's the fact that people remember it so well! I mean I can tell you very descriptively about how you had to throw gnomes and that was kind of fun and how the loading screens were so annoying and how clunky the quidditch matches were and how hard it was to not get caught at night time.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I remember buying and enjoying the PS1 era Harry Potter games in my childhood. I probobly replayed Philosopher's Stone a million times. I'd probobly still enjoy it today, through magic nostalgic lens.

I remeber that, I used to get stuck on the Diagon Alley mini games...

Half of those million playthroughs was mostly spent trying to overcome the "Railway Vault" minigame in the bank. And don't even talk to me about those slippy hallway sections.

I always got my brother to do those parts for me. XD That's if I could even get past the forbiden library part. The only time I've ever wanted to srtangle a cat. [sub]Damn you Mrs. Norris...[/sub]

 

[manythings]

A tie-in game is bad? Someone find a press and stop it!

It's not the fact that it's bad. It's the fact that people remember it so well! I mean I can tell you very descriptively about how you had to throw gnomes and that was kind of fun and how the loading screens were so annoying and how clunky the quidditch matches were and how hard it was to not get caught at night time.

I can go one better:

Vampire Hunter D; IN the very first room there at four doors and two vampires. You kill them and recieve a Yellow Key and two blood capsules. There's a green door, a blue door, a red door and the one you came in. The key didn't open any of the doors, I literally couldn't get out of the first room.

 

[Serving UpSmiles]

I....LOVED THAT GAME!

Seriously, best game on gamecube, had puzzles, navigating hogwarts at night while avoiding prefects, dueling people in the hall. Seriously i think someone should make a Harry potter MMORPG.

It had the best hogwarts of any Harry Potter game, ever, Prisoner of Azkaban annoyed me because you played as Ron and Hermionie as well which made the puzzles more annoying.

Also anyone remember that level where you had to climb book shelves while avoiding bewitched books in the libary?

 

[gabe12301]

Although it was a bad game I liked the little mini games. The way the camera trolled me added challenge .