YMMV / It Came From The Desert

• Awesome Music: "Sea of Love", a country rock song exclusive to the Turbo CD version, is surprisingly catchy, especially considering it was written by Ken Melville, one of the co-founders of Digital Pictures.
• Nightmare Fuel: The original version does a good job of invoking this with the giant ants. The TurboGrafx-16 version utterly fails at doing so, but almost makes up for it with the "rescue" sequences where the victims are slowly eaten alive by ants.
• Padding: The TurboGrafx-16 version just straight up repeats certain scenes.
• So Bad, It's Good: The TurboGrafx-16 version has awesomely awful full-motion video in a similar fashion to Night Trap and Critical Path.
• Special Effect Failure: All over the place in the TurboGrafx-16 version.
  • The (stop-motion) ant at the power plant and the canyon doesn't crawl from the ground insomuch as it just slides up and moves its appendages.
  • Whenever a character appears on TV, their heads poke out from the top of the screen.
  • The graphical quality of the game itself, which is extremely pixelated and grainy, also counts.
  • In cutscenes, whenever someone fires a gun, nothing comes out of it.