Hahaha….this is a great little story. Custer's Revenge was one of the early computer video games and it was really rather incredibly lame.

Seriously, incredibly lame in fact. It wasn't just the incredibly blocky graphics and the entirely minimal gameplay, it was the very premise of the game which was terrible too:

In the game, the player controls the character of General George
Armstrong Custer, depicted as a man wearing nothing but a cavalry hat,
boots, and a bandana, sporting a visible erection. Custer has to
overcome arrow attacks to reach the other side of the screen. His goal
is to have intercourse with a naked, large-breasted Native American
woman, named "Revenge."

In fact it was so bad that Atari, who made the machine it was played on, sued the games writer for bringing their machine into disrepute.

I was involved in the games business, years ago, and I have to say that I never got involved in anything quite as bad as that (I should also point out that I never got involved with something quite as successful as this game. They shifted 80,000 units so I'm told). At first we were working on simply taking games designed for the Commodore Amiga and then cutting them down so that they would work on hte Commodore 64. It wasn't all that hard work: we were using E European programmers who were used to working with really little memory so they got the grasp of it very quickly indeed.

Then we moved on to more complex things: like we took the DOS version of Another World and turned it into a Windows game. It was said that this was impossible but we did manage it and it sold quite well. After that, as games got bigger and nigger, we ended up having to subcontract for smaller parts. Things like animating the figures in ClayFighter. All good fun and it all earned money but it wasn't quite as fun as it had been when we were doing full games.

But to have the manufacturer suing you because the game is so bad?

Now that's got to hurt, doesn't it? More on Custer's Revenge at the link.