What is the weirdest game you have ever played??

[leicamaster]

Mine are Cho aniki,MJ Moonwalker, and Wisdom Tree Games!

[ProgrammingAce]

Stretch Panic. It's a PS2 game where the goal is to stretch women's breasts to the point where they explode and kill people. Made by everyone's favorite developer, Treasure.

EDIT: BTW, it may be the the most technically impressive game on the PS2. Unfortunately the game is really boring.

[Soviet Conscript]

agreed, MJ Moonwalker is strange

Great Greed for the GB is kinda odd as well. corny captian planetesqe story line. sausages and tentical waveing cheeze blocks as enemies and a wonderful ending where as your prize for freeing the kingdom you get to marry a memeber of the royal family...ANY member, be it the preteen daughter, the already married queen or the king himself.

its also a pretty good RPG though.

[skaar]

What, nobody's going to mention Katamari Damacy?

[Steven]

Haha, this game immediately popped in my mind... PULIRULA (Arcade/Saturn)

http://picnic.to/~taimatsu/images/emu/mame/pulirula.png

I mean, where else can you fight bad guys against a building that has two giant female stocking legs protruding out of it?

[williewonka2k1]

I played this weird game when I was young called pocket pool.

[goemon]

The Chou Aniki game on PS/SS is really strange -- it's all digitized photos of musclemen in man thongs.

[Cornelius]

I'm in the middle of Katamari Damacy and its the strangest I've played. It isn't really the gameplay (rolling) that is weird, but all the dialogue and in between stuff. I haven't played too wide a variety, though.

[DigitalSpace]

What, nobody's going to mention Katamari Damacy?

I was thinking of that right when I clicked on this topic.

I also thought of Urban Yeti for the GBA (you play a male Yeti looking for a female Yeti).

[CosmicMonkey]

Anything with Parodius in the title. Waku Waku 7 is a little on the odd side too.

[cyberfluxor]

Stretch Panic. It's a PS2 game where the goal is to stretch women's breasts to the point where they explode and kill people. Made by everyone's favorite developer, Treasure.

EDIT: BTW, it may be the the most technically impressive game on the PS2. Unfortunately the game is really boring.
But wasn't Stretch Panic supposed to be some test product for a graphics engine or something and ending up becoming a game? I've seen it in action and must say it's pretty entertaining to watch, not sure about actual gameplay.


I would expect most strange games comming from one of two sources: Japan or the retro scene. There are just some things in Japan that can't have a reasonable explaination as to what the hell it is or how someone came up with the idea. In retro gaming (70's era of gaming) there were a lot of ideas being tossed around about what a game should be, and quite a few were just freaking wierd.

[Deku_Grumble]

I'd say Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure for the Super Nintendo. Also, Shooting on Wii Play. At the end bunch of UFO's try to take your Mii's (Virtual People) and fly away as you shoot at them.

[ProgrammingAce]

Also, Shooting on Wii Play. At the end bunch of UFO's try to take your Mii's (Virtual People) and fly away as you shoot at them.

If you're going to use Wii Play, i think the game where you're racing a yarn cow on a yarn farm yard to run over bouncing scarecrows for points tops UFOs...

; )

[Deku_Grumble]

Jackass: the game sounds pretty weird too!

[j_factor]

A lot of classic games that we tend to take for granted are really damn weird if you think about them. Like Burgertime. What the hell is going on in that game?

[leicamaster]

I agree with you cyberfluxor. I played this real weird atari game called x-man which the goal was to get to this little door. While getting to this door crabs and other items are trying to cut your penus! Real weird game!

[Dire 51]

You mean no one's mentioned Monster Party yet?

"HELLO!
BABY!"

[swlovinist]

Well, my two titles I recommend are Kether for the CD-i, and Spills and Fills for the Vic 20. Honorable mention to "The sampler" for the VIS, due to how just wacked out the developers of the system must of been to throw in a disc that combined, church cute kids, an annoying bird, a cookbook, and dinosuars!

[Push Upstairs]

Stretch Panic was pretty odd.

Pinching and stretching excessively oversized mammaries until the women explode was...um....different.

[bangtango]

I don't know how many people have played Spacewar 2000 for the Atari Jaguar, which is an unfinished release that was made available for sale awhile back. I thought about that one when I saw this topic. The in-game action is pretty straight forward, just flying through space and shooting at ships. Seems normal, I thought, when I first played it after it showed up in the mail from B & C.

So what is the problem? Maybe it is just me but I've never really understood why a HUGE close-up of Lance Lewis' (*) mug is plastered throughout a bunch of the game screens. Especially when he has three eyes in the picture. How weird.

http://justclaws.atari.org/devcats/protos/spcwar2k/spcwarx0.jpg

http://justclaws.atari.org/devcats/protos/spcwar2k/spcwarx1.jpg


* (devoted Atari fans know who Lance Lewis is)

Ok, so it is not the weirdest game I have ever played but I tend to avoid a lot of "weird" games and this is one of the stranger ones I've played in the past couple of years.

[DefaultGen]

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[Hawksmoor]

Chiller is pretty weird. Also, Toilet Kids for the PC-Engine.

[MrRoboto19XX]

Incredible Crisis for the PS1 is pretty bizzare, as is Captain Novalin for the SNES.

[Icarus Moonsight]

agreed, MJ Moonwalker is strange

Great Greed for the GB is kinda odd as well. corny captian planetesqe story line. sausages and tentical waveing cheeze blocks as enemies and a wonderful ending where as your prize for freeing the kingdom you get to marry a memeber of the royal family...ANY member, be it the preteen daughter, the already married queen or the king himself.

its also a pretty good RPG though.

Speaking of the ending reward in Great Greed... you can marry the dog as well... don't forget the palace guard... weird indeed.

[PSXferrari]

Incredible Crisis for the PS1 is pretty bizzare, as is Captain Novalin for the SNES.


Damn, you beat me to it with Incredible Crisis. That was exactly what I was thinking of when I saw this topic. It gets my vote as well. It's so extremely Japanese that I'm amazed it was ever released here.

[Lemmi_Is_God]

Panty Raider for the PC

[ccovell]

Switch. But it's awesomely weird.

[Iron Draggon]

Cho Aniki for the SFC... not only do you have all the man-love weirdness, but you have it all happening while the guys are beating the crap out of each other... that in itself takes the man-on-man erotica to whole new levels...

beyond that one, gosh could anything possibly be any weirder than that? well Final Fight is kinda weird in that it has just as much male erotica in it, but it's all presented in such a subtle way that most straight people never notice it...

WEIRD

Keio Flying Squadron is pretty weird, but in such a wonderfully cool way...

lots of my Saturn imports are weird... Funky Fantasy comes to mind... so do several others... Nekketsu Oyako is pretty weird... Fantastic Pinball is also...

[djsquarewave]

http://hybridfront.teknolust.org/vgr/slps01762.jpg

[Icarus Moonsight]

:above me: This soft drink bites the wax tadpole!

Gotta love PepsiMan :)

[goemon]

Pepsiman isn't too weird if you're familliar with the commercials and Pepsiman getting pwnd. The fat tourist man in the cutscenes is hillarious, though.

Gourmet Sentai Barayarou is really weird -- it's a SFC beat 'em up made by the same people who made Chou Aniki (irc) in which you beat up punks, musclemen, and bunny girls, steal the food they're carrying in their back pockets, and have your giant robot chef cook it for you at the end of the level. It's probably my favorite SFC game -- for some reason, violence and food just go together for me.

[djsquarewave]

Pepsiman isn't too weird if you're familliar with the commercials and Pepsiman getting pwnd. The fat tourist man in the cutscenes is hillarious, though.

Gourmet Sentai Barayarou is really weird -- it's a SFC beat 'em up made by the same people who made Chou Aniki (irc) in which you beat up punks, musclemen, and bunny girls, steal the food they're carrying in their back pockets, and have your giant robot chef cook it for you at the end of the level. It's probably my favorite SFC game -- for some reason, violence and food just go together for me.
I wouldn't actually consider Pepsiman the weirdest game I've played, though it's pretty high up there. I just love the bluntness of the cover.

How about UFO Kamen Yakisoban (http://www.vgrebirth.org/games/game.asp?id=9176)? I guess it's another advertising tie-in (and another KID game) but it's still pretty bizzare.

...suddenly I'm thinking: Are we looking for weird themes here (which are notorious in their abundance in Japanese games) or weird design? You only need to look through the archive of American-made games prior to about 1985 to find innumerable examples of the latter...

[Clownzilla]

Chiller is pretty weird. Also, Toilet Kids for the PC-Engine.

LOL, I played Toilet Kids a couple of weeks ago. That is REALLY strange. It is a REALLY good shooter though(good graphics too). Was Chiller the game made by Exidy? You know, I love Crossbow, Combat, Who Dun It, etc., but playing Chiller makes me feel VERY uneasy about myself(and I have played some pretty violent games without feeling bad). I would also like to add Boogie Wings by Data East. AWSOME side scrolling shooter, but very bazaar.

[Funk Buddy]

Super Galdelic Hour - JPN PS2
Engacho! - Wonderswan
Feng-Shui Sensei - JPN Sat
The Yakyuken Special - JPN Sat
Ohsama Game - JPN Sat
Gunbare Neo Poke Kun - JPN NGPC

[tonyvortex]

noone has mentioned my favorite snes game,Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon!!!the name alone is wonderful.i love that you get to shrink down and go inside a man to clean up gross stuff that smoking has caused all the while being chased by tobacco bots and answearing trivia.
taken from the digitpress guide:Description: Funded by a grants from the U.S. Public Health Service Agency and the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research program, this game was designed to teach kids the effects smoking has on the human body. You control Rex Ronan who has been miniturized and injected into the patient's to "follow the path of smoke and nicotine removing tar, plaque, phlegm, and pre-cancerous cells, moving on to confront (the patient's) nicotine addiction." As if the surgery is not difficult enough to perform, the Blackburn Tobacco Company, fearful that the public will discover the dangers of smoking, implants the patient with dangerous Microbots to stop you! You earn "Smart Bombs" by correctly answering questions on the effects of smoking along the way.

[Flack]

I remember thinking Executioners (DOS) was pretty weird. It was the first official release from Bloodlust software, the guys who went on to release the emulators NESticle and Genecyst. Executioners is a 2D beat-em-up where you face hoardes of enemies with names like "Ramhole," "Supermidget," "the Clobber Twins," and "the Slobber Twins," and bosses such as "The Chicken Monster," "The Megamidget," and "Cannibal Ed Bujone." Bizarre.

Executioners is now freeware but you'll need DosBox to play it.

I thought Cubivore for the GCN was a pretty bizarre idea.

I just sent in a big review of Snacks 'N Jakson for the next issue of the paper DP Magazine. It's a Bally Sente arcade game where you control a clown's head connected by a string to eat food and dodge things being thrown at your face. It's up there on the weirdness scale.

http://klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9595

[Aswald]

ColecoVision Illusions.

Atari 2600 Demons to Diamonds was another.

[heybtbm]

Stretch Panic. It's a PS2 game where the goal is to stretch women's breasts to the point where they explode and kill people. Made by everyone's favorite developer, Treasure.

EDIT: BTW, it may be the the most technically impressive game on the PS2. Unfortunately the game is really boring.

???

OK, I was going to list a few weird games, but you've obviously won this round.

[exit]

Umi Hara Kawa Se (SNES/PSX) - Little Girl VS Fish.

[cyberfluxor]

Figured I'd throw Wordtris out there. It's a very strange direction to go with the Tetris idea.

[skaar]

Umi Hara Kawa Se (SNES/PSX) - Little Girl VS Fish.

Great game.

[Technosis]

Slurpy for the ColecoVision. Even weirder box art for this very rare game. (BTW if anyone has an extra in good shape please PM me...I have lots to trade...I need a label upgrade)

[mregashu]

Whoever said Burger Time is a genius. That is a truly odd concept and I never thought of it as one until now.

I found Parappa the Rapper to be rather odd...nothing like rapping about searing gas pain...

What was the name of that game that came out about a year or two ago where you were an alien who played frolf? (Frog Golf). That game was waaaaaay out there.

[scooterb23]

What was the name of that game that came out about a year or two ago where you were an alien who played frolf? (Frog Golf). That game was waaaaaay out there.

Ribbit King. One of my favorite Cube games.

[goemon]

How about Ninja Golf for the 7800? I saw a review of it on Youtube and thought it looked bizarre and awesome.

[Pantechnicon]

Yar's Revenge. The first time I played it it just seemed so abstract and no I didn't bother to read the manual. I figured it out the gameplay on the fly (pun intended) and then it went from weird to very cool.

[bangtango]

I just played this one today and have to list it. Athena on the NES. Strange enemies, strange story, strange weapons and strange music.

[j_factor]

You guys are (slightly) mis-remembering Stretch Panic. You don't stretch the giant breasts to make the women explode; you have to avoid the breasts and manouver your grab-scarf-thing to some other part of the woman's body.

Stretch Panic might've been fun if it had actual levels. All you do is make giant-breasted women burst (in one of two stages) to rack up points to unlock boss battles. Some of the bosses are interesting, but the overall gameplay gets kind of boring after a while.

[snes_collector]

For some reason went I saw this topic I thought of Shaq-Fu.....

Not only is it wierd, it's just plain awful.

[mr.soul]

Probably WarioWare and Katamari Damacy.

ADD: Elebits

[Push Upstairs]

How about Ninja Golf for the 7800? I saw a review of it on Youtube and thought it looked bizarre and awesome.

*IT IS AWESOME!* This game demands a remake!

1080P, ragdoll physics, photorealistic courses and Ninjas to fight whilst you golf! It would be better than Halo, Mario and GTA....combined!

[Borman]

Custers Revenge on the atari...

[RyoGeo]

Neo Poke Kun for the Neo Geo Pocket Color. Fun but just friggin' strange. Answering the door to a giant nose with hair blowing out of it. I mean . . . c'mon.

[leicamaster]

Another weird game ive played is Shaq Fu for the snes!

Is this the game?
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/stretchpanic/index.html
Weird how it is rated T and you need to explode womens breast if thats what you are suppose to do?

[sabre2922]

Micheal Jordan in the windy city SNES or whatever the hell it was called was pretty strange.

[Soviet Conscript]

All you do is make giant-breasted women burst (in one of two stages) to rack up points

no pun intended?

[Deku_Grumble]

I remember Double Dribble for the NES. It was a basketball game, but you can push and shove people to the ground and steal the ball!

[bangtango]

I remember Double Dribble for the NES. It was a basketball game, but you can push and shove people to the ground and steal the ball!

Oh yeah? Well Arch Rivals (NES) was weirder. Basketball with no rules and you can punch people's lights out and take the ball. Meanwhile, cheesy "street" music is playing in the background and it is a repetitive tune that I can still hum to this day. Too bad there are only a couple of moves that you can do on defense.

[Aswald]

Even Pong could be considered "weird." Think about what exactly the game was, and what you were doing.

[hbkprm]

lunar dragon song

[Steve W]

There's always Somer Assault on the TurboGrafx-16. You control what's essentially a Slinky, but in the middle of it is mounted a gun. You can even crawl along walls and ceilings. And you defeat bosses based on the signs of the Zodiac.

[Deku_Grumble]

Myst, it had books with talking people, and some books let you go to other worlds!

[Spartacus]

By far and away the weirdest video game I've played is Screaming Mad George's Paranoiascape. The funny thing is that most people are probably quite familiar with Screaming Mad George's work, though I would guess that not many know who he is. He's done visual effects, make-up work and special effects for quite a few films including Predator, Nightmare on Elm Street and Beyond Re-Animator. From what I understand he's from Osaka, Japan and came to New York to study art and was strongly influenced by Salvador Dali's surrealism. But judging by his work, I would have guessed it was H.R. Giger.
In the video game Paranoiascape, he's credited with the creature design, music and concept. I would describe it as a fantasy pinball game, though it's so surreal it only vaguely fits the description. The "flippers" are a pair of skeletons wielding large bones. They have wings and remind me of gargoyles. The "pinball" is a brain that burns with a bright blue flame. The "tables" (if you could even call them that) are mostly made up of the internals cavities of some living creature. The flippers are moved with the D-pad and using this you navigate yourself along through the body organs. There's a helluva lotta weird shit living and growing inside, most of which you will have to try and kill with the pinball. Stuff like giant spiders and wasp's, mummies, mechanical monsters, flying vampire fish, cockroaches with human heads, worms with human heads. Hell, there's even legs walking around with a face where there should be an anus. I snapped a pic of the case artwork and it shows a few things in the game.

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/736/paranoiaph1.th.jpg (http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=paranoiaph1.jpg)

There's about a dozen levels and you lose by either running out of balls or from taking too much damage to your flippers by getting attacked. There’s no way to save your game, but there are unlimited continues that will restart you at the beginning of the last level you were in. Mad George’s music is raw, but completely appropriate for the occasion and mixes in growling, snarling, screaming babies and demands that you CONFESS! It's a very unique gaming experience that I think anyone would enjoy.

[Rob2600]

I remember Double Dribble for the NES. It was a basketball game, but you can push and shove people to the ground and steal the ball!

As bangtango pointed out, the game you're thinking of is Arch Rivals. Double Dribble was a straightforward basketball simulator and one of the best of the 8-bit era.

Other weird games:

Q*bert (Gottlieb, 1982)
Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm, 1987)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo, 1988)
Dark Seed (Cyberdreams, 1992)
EarthBound (Nintendo/Ape/HAL, 1995)
Mischief Makers (Nintendo/Enix/Treasure, 1997)
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for Nintendo 64 (Konami, 1998)
Doshin the Giant (Nintendo/Param, 1999)
Mister Mosquito (Sony/Zoom, 2002)
Feel the Magic: XY/XX (Sega/Sonic Team, 2004)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft, 2006)

[scooterb23]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzpbUtV3zPw

That was easily one of the weirdest games I've ever played...I can definitely say I never finished it, which is mind blowing considering how easy this guy makes it look. (The cotton candy machine level took me forever to get out of).

[goemon]

By far and away the weirdest video game I've played is Screaming Mad George's Paranoiascape.

Okay, I have to buy that game. Thanks for mentioning it!

Many games could be considered "weird" when compared to real life -- Super Mario (jumping on turtles, eating magic mushrooms), Pac-Man (running around in a maze eating dots and being chased by ghosts), and Dragon Quest (slaughtering hundreds of cute little slimes to gain experience) come to mind. I think that the best games are the ones that make you look at what's "normal" in a different manner.

[skylark]

A Mind Forever Voyaging (Infocom) was weird. Not funny weird - great weird.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

These arent necessarily the weirdest but they were groundbreaking

Harvest moon Snes

At the time there was nothing quite like it.

Earthbound Snes

There hasnt been anything that comes close to it.

Azure Dreams and Thousand Arms Ps1

First two games i can remember where building relationships with women was important to the outcome of the game

[scooterb23]

Well, since the spammer I was replying to is gone...

how about Legend of the River King? Fishing RPG...can't get more brain numbingly weird than that.

[j_factor]

I think World Court Tennis and Final Lap Twin were at least as weird as Legend of the River King.

[OatBob]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Seaman yet. It played like lots of virtual pet games before it, but in order to the Seaman to develop, you must make conversation with it. It bundled with a microphone and its voice recognition software had a surprisingly large dictionary. He would also remember some of your responses to questions and insult you on your opinions later. Towards the end he also give you a pretty good evaluation of your personality based on past conversations.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Screaming Mad George's Paranoiascape

What the crap? He was involved in this game?! I downloaded it ages ago, had no clue! Now I really have to play it again!

[Slate]

Samurai Pizza Cats (Japanese NES Release)

I played it with an emulator and it was just weird to me.

[exit]

*IT IS AWESOME!* This game demands a remake!

I-Mockery (http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/ninjagolf/ninjagolf-flashgame.php) seems to have done that already.

[diskoboy]

Bangai-o.

The game, itself, isn't weird. But the story is typical Japanese weirdness..

The continue screen says it all..
http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Reviews/Dreamcast/bangai-o/bangai-o-2.jpg