What the hell were they smoking?

[Lemmy Kilmister]

I just finished playing a round of Parodius Da! on my snes and it got me thinking about just the hell konami was on making that game. I mean a flying octopus with underware on it's head shooting at a kitten pirate ship? What the fuck. :hmm:

So I'm asking what are some of the weirdest games you ever played?

Other games would have to go out to panic for the sega cd and the Choaniki series.

[Dahne]

I think everyone at Konami spends a lot of time licking toads.

Personally, I consider it an advantage.

[GameNinja]

I think that Heianky Alien for the Game Boy is wierd. Its a puzzle-ish game where the object is to dig holes so aliens fall in them. You then have to fill the hole back in.

[Aussie2B]

I've played so many fruity imports that I've become accustomed to them and they don't even seem all that weird to me.

Getter Love would definitely be up there, though, on a list of the weirdest Japanese games ever.

[Jasoco]

Fantasy Zone.

I've NEVER even beaten the first level. But love the music and graphics. Freaky. There needs to be a GBA version.

[-hellvin-]

Probably Air Zonk on the duo. The first time I played this I was like.....wtf?? I loved though when I got the cow wearing the shades sidekick and he destroyed the final boss. That boss got fucken mooed. LoL.

[Crush Crawfish]

Monster Party for NES is one of the weirdest games I've ever played. Of course I love it. What other game has a Giant Fried SHrimp for a boss, let alone one that morphs into an onion ring and then a shish-kabob?

Also, I recently played a Super Famicom game called "Crayon-Shin Chan 2" or something like that. Anyway, there's a power-up shaped like an elephant, and when you use it, the kid drops his pants, exposes his bare ass for the whole world to see, and the enemies burst into flames. Needless to say I laughed my ass off after that one.

[Pantechnicon]

Atari 7800 Ninja Golf deserves mention as an earlier example of the "doobie factor" in game programming.

[Classicgamesdepot]

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Monster Party for NES is one of the weirdest games I've ever played. Of course I love it.


.. Man I'm glad to hear there's a little love for this game, one of those titles I grew up with as a kid. I love that game. Wacky, bizarre, yet extremely fun and a fairly long action game, never beat the last level though, should really go back and play that one again..

[FantasiaWHT]

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Monster Party for NES is one of the weirdest games I've ever played. Of course I love it.


.. Man I'm glad to hear there's a little love for this game, one of those titles I grew up with as a kid. I love that game. Wacky, bizarre, yet extremely fun and a fairly long action game, never beat the last level though, should really go back and play that one again..

I'm a Monster Party lover here *g* Used to play it constantly when I was reeeeeeally little.

[Ninja Blacksox]

"Monster Party" is 100% greatness.

I never fully understood how a game like "Uniracers" could have been developed by Nintendo.

"You'll love it... It's a racing game featuring rider-less unicycles racing along a brightly colored tube!"

"Hrm... I like what I'm hearing, but I can't shake the fact that it's just not edgey enough."

"Well, maybe we could throw in phrases like 'Nuttin but a G Thang' and other nonsensical crap when tricks are accomplished! Kids loooooove nonsensical crap!"

"Gentlemen... I smell a million-seller."

Seriously. That game was weird. Not bad. But weird. But then again, this is coming from a guy who's handle is taken from the David Crane classic "A Boy and His Blob." Sue me.

-A Boy

[Jasoco]

Uniracers kicks fucking ASS! The music, the levels. The fun! I so totally wish they'd port this one to the GBA. :D

[Kamino]

Weirdest games i own...that rock...
Harvest moon series. It's three A.M....do you know where your crops are?
Bubba N Stix - Genesis.....weird man, just plain weird, but addicting as hell.
Norse By Norsewest: The return of the lost vikings - Saturn....Olaf farts on command!
The Texas chainsaw massacre - 2600....(THIS GAME ROCKS!) vintage violence man!
Manhunt - ps2...i have to nominate this game as extremely sick. Execute people. as gorily as you can. Does it get better?
And one of the weirdest of all...
TOEJAM AND EARL(both genesis titles, and the xbox title)

[Nez]

Eternal Darkness, some of the insanity effects had to bbe created by a meth addict. But as far as games that have far too strong of a japan influence I'd say air Zonk fun but weird.

[Push Upstairs]

Atari 7800 Ninja Golf deserves mention as an earlier example of the "doobie factor" in game programming.

Having that game concept explained to me it sounded like the greatest thing ever thought up

Of course i was picturing "Links" type swinging and then 3rd person Ninja combat.

This game screams modern update....complete with fighting sharks underwater :D

[HaggarCodyGuy123]

For absolute weird, Toilet Kids for PC Engine, takes the cake.

[Roganjohn]

i know it's a david crane game, but i think 'A Boy and his Blob' was a bit strange. Strange but good. :D

[Milk]

Space Harrier is one of those games that is just nonchalantly weird. It's not played for laughs. It's not marketed as horror. It's just a simple game about a man with a jet pack running across neon, checkerboard worlds while dodging alien pods and Chinese dragons.

And prehistoric mammals.

And Easter Island heads...?!

What the hell is this? Some sort of "fantasy" zone?!

[Dire 51]

Monster Party is one of the greatest games ever. However, if you really want a game with a weird plot, try Yume Penguin Monogatari (http://www.digitpress.com/reviews/yumepenguinmonogatari.htm).

Now that you've read that, tell me if you've ever seen anything like it before.

[Dahne]

That's thing the thing with my chosen career. If I become a translator like I hope, inevitably someday I'll be faced with trying to change sometihng like "Dream Penguin Story" into a title that would sell in the US.

Actually, if I saw a game called "Dream Penguin Story" on the shelves, I'd have to pick it up out of sheer curiousity. However, I also think they should have kept the name of "Blade Runner" as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", so I figure I'm weird that way.

[Azazel]

Steam Hearts
Toilet Kids
Cho Aniki
Divine Sealing
Hi Leg Fantasy
Bobble Bubble

[Lemmy Kilmister]

Monster Party is one of the greatest games ever. However, if you really want a game with a weird plot, try Yume Penguin Monogatari (http://www.digitpress.com/reviews/yumepenguinmonogatari.htm).

Now that you've read that, tell me if you've ever seen anything like it before.

Yeah it's almost like paradious. Their both even made by konami.

[Graham Mitchell]

I'm not sure if I'm getting his name right, but there's a guy named Hang Shinwei who made a bunch of horrible Famicom games. Most of them pop up on those 100-in-one carts that are all over the place. They're usuall rip-offs of classics, like Frogger, Columns, or Block-Out, and they're usually really bad. I mean, if you're not even bothering to use more than 4 colors on an NES game, why bother, right?

The interesting thing is that some of them get mixed with porn, like the infamous Wildball, and 3D-blocks. Wildball is a game of rock paper scissors where, every time you win, a piece of the anime girl's clothes fly off. If you lose, the game resets. If you win, the game resets.

Another strange one is called "Brush Roller", and it's a ripoff of Make Trax, which is a wierd enough game. But for some reason, the title screen of Brush Roller has a purple...thing with a pompadour. Okay....?

Anyway, it's just wierd to see porn on the NES, a system known for censoring Maniac Mansion and Deja Vu in a really rediculous fashion. And it makes it wierder that is sucks.

[sisko]

Uniracers is great :D

No One Cant Stop! Mr. Domino (PSX) was pretty bizarre too. You're a domino that runs around a supermarket laying dominos.....and then you knock them over. Where did that come from? Fun game though :)

[FantasiaWHT]

Two things popped into my head this morning...

Ka (Mister Mosquito)

Katamari Damacy (not out yet)

In Katamari Damacy, you control this rolling ball... that picks up everything it runs over... you start out with paper clips and toenail clippings, eventually start absorbing chairs and desks, and finally move up to whole buildings, like olympic stadiums.

Weird stuff :)

[EnemyZero]

I still think earthworm jim is still an odd game.....nowhere else can you run around as a crazed worm in a space suite launchig cows into the air o.O

[Sotenga]

Lots of great ones have been mentioned, but I think the Twinbee series is bizarre to an extent. The weirdest game I can think of there is Twinbee Yahho! Expect a battleship attacking with parasols, a flying pig with a flamethrower snout, giant cats marauding about, and the bosses of stage 4 and 5 are just indescribable... what a great game. I think insanity just adds to the charm. :)

Also, any game based heavily off of Japanese culture and mythology, such as Genpei Toumaden (The Genji and the Heike Clans) and the Goemon series is inexplicably strange. I love that culture, I do. I also think Shadow of the Beast is pretty bizarre, considering some of the hellish things you'll meet, like big disembodied hands, a giant mouth with two skulls inside, demons hiding out in the floors and in treasure chests, and to beat the game, you have to destroy a rotten giant's foot. WTF, Psygnosis?

[Escape•From•Jenny•Island]

...Super Mario Brothers.

An Italian Plumber who got his princess girlfriend stolen by a Giant Dinosour Turtle looking thing. Needs mushrooms to get big and gain extra lives, happy plants in the background, shoots fireballs out of his hands, flys in a racoon suit, turns in to a statue, rides on little multi-colored dinosaurs, talks to little pink bombs... he is an Italian Plumber now.

Chex Quest, cereal box CD-Rom game based on the Doom Engine starring a giant Chex man fighting off flemoids.

[Geddon_jt]

J.J. and Jeff (turbografx). x_x LOL

[rbudrick]

Earthbound! As wacky as imports go, this is by far the weirdest game to ever actually hit American shores.

So many things in this game could not have ever been created were it not for psychedelic drugs....no way.

But yeah, Super Mario Brothers IS pretty up there....but Earthbound is far stranger due to all the wacky dialog and game length.

-Rob

[SpasticFuctard]

Neverhood and Skull monkeys.

Weird and clay.

SF

[Oobgarm]

Uniracers kicks fucking ASS! The music, the levels. The fun! I so totally wish they'd port this one to the GBA. :D

A truly wonderful statement.

Although I dunno if the game lends itself to be played well on the GBA. Plus, it's pretty freakin' hard, so I'm sure the current crowd of softies wouldn't play all the way through it.

[Graham Mitchell]

Lots of great ones have been mentioned, but I think the Twinbee series is bizarre to an extent. The weirdest game I can think of there is Twinbee Yahho! Expect a battleship attacking with parasols, a flying pig with a flamethrower snout, giant cats marauding about, and the bosses of stage 4 and 5 are just indescribable... what a great game. I think insanity just adds to the charm. :)

Also, any game based heavily off of Japanese culture and mythology, such as Genpei Toumaden (The Genji and the Heike Clans) and the Goemon series is inexplicably strange. I love that culture, I do. I also think Shadow of the Beast is pretty bizarre, considering some of the hellish things you'll meet, like big disembodied hands, a giant mouth with two skulls inside, demons hiding out in the floors and in treasure chests, and to beat the game, you have to destroy a rotten giant's foot. WTF, Psygnosis?

I agree wholeheartedly with all this. Genji and Heike is an absolute mindfuck. Is the scoring in hexadecimals or something?

As for Shadow of the Beast, I recently started playing all those on the Amiga...they're great but unforgiveably difficult (thank God for save states.) Can you believe that Reflections, who did SotB 1, 2, and 3 have gone on to do Destruction Derby, Stuntman, and the Driver series? To be honest, I prefer the insane games like SotB or the Killing Game Show.

[Kroogah]

How about the Japanese version of Um Jammer Lammy where Lammy dies and goes to Hell? And you thought the US release was weird....

[Ninja Blacksox]

How about the Japanese version of Um Jammer Lammy where Lammy dies and goes to Hell? And you thought the US release was weird....

Whoa. I've got to get my hands on that one. The U.S. version was indeed weird enough.

"Listen. I lost my dojo. But there is still a dojo in my mind. It even has a casino!"

That may have been misquoted. Apologies to the die-hards. Anyhoo, Chop-Chop Master Onion's dialog, the dreaded nursery level, and that weird Diva-looking character's "'Triumph of the Will' meets Madonna concert" level combine to make one hell of a weird-ass game.

Needless to say, it is fucking a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

-A Boy

[Arcade Antics]

Two PSX games immediately come to mind, both are EXCELLENT:

- No One Can Stop Mr. Domino

- Incredible Crisis

Gotta love 'em.

[Jasoco]

Chex Quest rocked! Even the downloadable "Sequel". It was basically DOOM with a lot of patching. But the levels actually were well done. I was surprised. And had a lot of fun with this. But the second game had a small bug where the door to the exit would lock if you accidentally crossed something I dunno what, either way, I had to cheat once to get passed that part. Very good for a free DOOM clone hack from a cereal box.

Earthbound is another one of those I love. Damn Nintendo for not bringing the GBA version here! I can't import it because I don't know Japanese! So I'm stuck with a game existing, but not being able to do anything about it. Unless they put an English option in it, dammit.

Katamari Damacy.. I saw a preview for it in a game mag. It is indeed a weird concept.

Now.. someone tell me more about Twinbee.. Or Pop 'n' Twinbee. I hear music for PnTB on an internet radio (http://classic.gamingfm.com/main/) station all the time and the music itself kicks ass. I want to know more! Or at least download the music!

[Graham Mitchell]

The only Twinbee game to get released in the states was Konami's Stinger for the NES. Stinger is a pretty good intro to the whole Twinbee saga. I've really only played that and a couple of the PC-Engine games, but they're all essentially the same idea; a shooter that oscillates between a side-view and a Xevious-style overhead perspective. There might be more releases that do more, but I haven't played them. Any experts out there know anything more?

The aesthetics of Twinbee are kind of like Parodius in that they're pretty nuthouse. You play a little ship (that sometimes grows legs?) that seems to have a lot of personality. When clouds pass overhead you shoot them and bells fly out. If you continue to shoot the bells they change colors. Catching the bells when they're different colors grants you different powerups, be it speed, a better gun, better bombs, or just points, etc.

The game looks good, and has some out there enemies (think Space Harrier, not Cho aniki or whatever that Great Brother game is...) They're cute, and look like they belong either in the ocean or in your dinner. (I seem to remember a watermelon trying to kill me to.)

[Dahne]

Minor derailment:

Is it possible to play imported GBA games on an American system without modifying it?

[Kroogah]

Yep, GBA has no region protection. This is true for pretty much every handheld.

[Jasoco]

At least until now. I hear the DS will have regions. And the PSP WILL have region protection. I'm hoping the DS doesn't. I don't want to have to buy a boot card to play an imported DS game. Handhelds are meant to be taken places. Even if those places are other countries. Handheld + Region Protection = Teh Stoopid.

Hey.. Pop 'n Twinbee music kicks ass. I finally found it on the internet. Along with some other SNES music. Whoo!

[calthaer]

The weirdest game I've ever seen is that crazy drum game that has the characters from Oobgarm's avatar. I don't know what it's called - I saw it at the Philly Classic 2004.

[Ruudos]

I never fully understood how a game like "Uniracers" could have been developed by Nintendo

Maybe because it wasn't developed by Nintendo, but by DMA Design.
Great game.

I've read reviews and seen screenshots of Kid Niki (NES) and does that game looks weird, another is the Incredible Crash Dummies.

[Graham Mitchell]

Kid Nikki is wierd, but the Japanese sequels look wierder. I guess one of them has an enemy that is either peeing on you or masturbating and shooting semen at you. From the color of the fluid, I'd guess it's the latter.

[vintagegamecrazy]

How 'bout "Synbad Mystery" for the SG-1000. The programmer had some serious "Iron Butterfly" syndrome going down when he made that game!

[Ninja Blacksox]

I never fully understood how a game like "Uniracers" could have been developed by Nintendo

Maybe because it wasn't developed by Nintendo, but by DMA Design.
Great game.

Aw. Boo hoo. "Published." There. Sorry.

I don't know how all of us could've gone on this long without mentioning the single strangest game ever released for the Dreamcast.

"Seaman"

Playing that game always made for a surreal experience. Unfortunately, all of the important events in the life of my Seaman (e.g. his first words, his first insult, etc.) happened while I was at class. The game actually caused quite a struggle in my mod that year.

"You've been spending too much time with Seaman! When will I get to see him again?!"

"Hey. You were never there for him when he was a baby. You think you can just waltz back into his life all willy-nilly?! Do you honestly think he wants anything to do with you after what you did to him?!"

"Fuck you, bitch!"

I'd really like to believe that conversations like that didn't happen. A lot.

But they did. A lot.

I'm hard pressed to think of any game that's easily capable of breaking up a marriage. "Seaman" is possible of doing just that.

Oh yeah. And it's fucked up. Seriously, have you played that shit?

-A Boy

[evildead2099]

Doki Doki Panic
Street Fighter II: Rainbow Edition
Monster Party

[MegaDrive20XX]

Doki Doki Panic
Street Fighter II: Rainbow Edition
Monster Party

Doki Doki Panic

Here's a game that takes an Arabic Fairy Tale and really makes it trippy...Warping into a book like a Tom Petty music video "I'm running down a dream..." Im sorry but if I have to see weird mask faces flying at me after I grab a key...then I am SERIOUSLY thinking about a 12-step program...but for what? I have NO idea...

[Jasoco]

I just played the Pop 'n Twinbee and Parodius games on an emulator (The ROM's were surprisingly EASY to find.) and I must say wow. I really wish I could get my hands on these games. Even an imported compilation of some sort. I hoped Lik-Sang would turn up some kind of compilation for the Cube or something, but all it found was the Famicom Mini Twinbee. Maybe it's a phase, but I must find this game!

[rbudrick]

Street Fighter II: Rainbow Edition


Hmmm, haven't heard of it.

What is it?


Doki Doki Panic

Here's a game that takes an Arabic Fairy Tale and really makes it trippy...

Is it really based on a real story? Anyone know which one?

-Rob

[VinnyT]

DJ Boy.

Skate into random holes in the street for no reason, and punch the occasional badguy. Then, fight the Chippendales boss, or the evil fat lady with the bread sticks of DOOMINESS!