The video game industry comes up with a lot of crap. But now and then, there comes a game which everyone holds their breathe for, anticipating its release like a child on his birthday waiting for gifts. Then the inevitable shoot down, when you realize all you’ve gotten for a whole year of being a spoiled brat is a lousy sweater. That is the feeling these would-be games give us. We’ve limited the list down to five secure choices that poked at our consciousness and caused our anxiety to run a muck. Hit the jump to dive in:

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The Ghost Goblet is plain cool. Pouring any beverage in the glass’ hallowed out form results in the appearance of a phantom goblet floating in the middle of the glass. It must be magic! That, or it’s 100% hand blown glass. Perhaps both.

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Great job. You’ve just killed yourself in a freak cheese grating accident, and now your ghost has no nuts to show for it. Awesome. What to do now? Well, you can always go check your hair in the mirror. Oh, wait! Ghost’s don’t have reflections!

The Ghost Mirror uses some weird magic powers or trick of perspective (one or the other), to give you an early taste of how frustrating it must be to be wandering around in Limbo. The mirror is described as follows: “In this mirror, the observer can see the reflection of his surroundings and yet he is never able to see himself.”

Left to haunt a house for eternity, yet unable to make sure you don’t have a boo-ger hanging. Get it? Boo-ger!

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Some teens entertain themselves by watching TV and listening to music. Others go out for a midnight run to the graveyard with their Oujia boards, on a quest to contact the dead. You can guess which of those demographics gets the most dates, but how can a musician yield to the spirits while maintaining his cool factor?

The Oujia Board Slide Guitar eternally binds the correlation of gothic culture and musicians. The slide guitar is a much less played form of the instrument, but if you’re a geeky enough kid to play the slide, then you might just be geeky enough to whip out the Oujia board for a rousing night of ghostly interaction. — Andrew Dobrow

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