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Post by whazeboo on Jan 28, 2023 10:38:45 GMT
Well, with 'Ridiculous' I mean a wacky, weird, offensive or stupid game that is imprinted in your mind for years. For me, I associate it with PC-"games" released in the mid-Nineties when the absolute bottom of the barrel was reached with Full Motion Video at its peak and playability thrown out of the window. Two games immediately spring to mind: Alleycats bowling game: OK, this is a difficult one as I cannot exactly remember the title (definitely 'Alleycats') and any trace that the game actually existed cannot be found on the Internet. It was a bowling game with similar gameplay to Team 17's Kingpin but definitely not suited for youngsters. You see a digitised bowling-alley where a badly digitised spotty nerd walks from the right into the screen. After having made some dubious innuendos, he walks off the screen at a snail pace (thanks to badly looping digitised animations). Then suddenly scantily-clad cheerleaders pop up who yell at every Spear or Strike you make, losing garments along the way and... that's it. Very weird, very unplayable, and I hope someday I will find YouTube footage of it. Gooch Grundy's X-Decathlon: A multi-minigame sports-compilation like Summer Games or Daley Thompson but without the playability. The game-equivalent of a GeoCities 1997 webpage, it uses clashing graphic styles (mixture of hand-drawn, ray-traced and digitised stuff) just because technology exists that allows it be used. Thank goodness many moons ago I was able to run this game on a Windows 95 virtual machine and shared it with the world at Mobygames. So, what weird games do you remember playing? |
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Post by megamixer on Jan 28, 2023 18:26:40 GMT
BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles on the PS2 is one that springs to mind immediately. Fighting in arenas with diggers, bulldozers etc. But it was the anime-style storyline and script that drove the whole thing that was incredibly bizarre. I can't tell whether it was translation errors or what, but it was so ridiculous that it was actually entertaining.
Also, never played it myself, but I have seen a lot of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties for the 3DO and I think whoever made that "game" must have been on absolute crack or high on acid. How it was actually mastered and released as finished product though, I have no idea. Again, absolutely hilarious and entertaining for being so bizarre!
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Post by kerr9000 on Jan 28, 2023 22:13:09 GMT
BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles on the PS2 is one that springs to mind immediately. Fighting in arenas with diggers, bulldozers etc. But it was the anime-style storyline and script that drove the whole thing that was incredibly bizarre. I can't tell whether it was translation errors or what, but it was so ridiculous that it was actually entertaining. Also, never played it myself, but I have seen a lot of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties for the 3DO and I think whoever made that "game" must have been on absolute crack or high on acid. How it was actually mastered and released as finished product though, I have no idea. Again, absolutely hilarious and entertaining for being so bizarre! I am pretty sure I still have BCV somewhere it is a awesome little slice of weirdness... |
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Post by icemann on Jan 31, 2023 8:16:53 GMT
* Custer's Revenge (Atari 2600)
* Leisure Suit Larry games (PC)
* Plumber's Don't Wear Ties (3DO)
* QWOP (Weird running game)
* Any of the horse raising games on the Nintendo DS (there is hundreds of them on that system for some odd reason)
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Post by pratty on Feb 1, 2023 20:03:10 GMT
If ridiculous can also be a good thing I'd say Warioware on the GameCube, some of the mini games were pretty bonkers and random.
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Post by mattb on Feb 1, 2023 21:55:28 GMT
All the Warioware games are a bit bonkers but I'd have gone for Smooth Moves on the Wii if I had to single one out.
While the machine has a somewhat undeserved reputation for games requiring you to hold poses and engage in frantic waggling to play them, that one was utterly guilty as charged. Still really good fun though.
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Post by megamixer on Feb 2, 2023 12:35:09 GMT
Loosely-associated with Warioware (in that it is a similar premise), I can't not mention Project Rub on the DS! That was one wacky game with surreal and bizarre minigames with a lightly risque nature.
F*@! the games that required blowing into the mic though.
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Post by kerr9000 on Feb 2, 2023 15:32:33 GMT
Loosely-associated with Warioware (in that it is a similar premise), I can't not mention Project Rub on the DS! That was one wacky game with surreal and bizarre minigames with a lightly risque nature. F*@! the games that required blowing into the mic though. I really really love that game its super fun and the weirdness really adds to it. |
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Post by AlexH on Feb 2, 2023 22:02:21 GMT
I found Tubaruba on the Amstrad CPC crazy. Kid smashes school window and has to collect coins to pay for it, and I think if he does he also gets his teacher's supercar? Levels included a load of toilets piled up (or maybe that was just the graphical limitations at the time).
Agreed on Smooth Moves for Wii. Ridiculous fun.
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Post by pratty on Feb 5, 2023 12:49:29 GMT
I've still to play the third game but The No More Heroes games can be included in the ridiculously fun category. They have some pretty crazy stuff going on including turning into a tiger.
Suda 51's games seem generally pretty out there, Killer 7 had some pretty random moments too.
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Post by AlexH on Feb 5, 2023 16:05:39 GMT
Mystical Ninja Starring Goeman on N64 is another for ridiculous fun. I'm sure Goeman blows a trumpet from his backside, and of course Impact being introduced for the first time...
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Post by megamixer on Feb 5, 2023 20:02:02 GMT
I've still to play the third game but The No More Heroes games can be included in the ridiculously fun category. They have some pretty crazy stuff going on including turning into a tiger. Suda 51's games seem generally pretty out there, Killer 7 had some pretty random moments too. Can't believe I forgot Suda51s games. I would also add the Silver Case games by him. I played 25th Ward on the PS4 and had absolutely zero idea what was going on. I would also add God Hand by Clover/Capcom and Devil's Third in the Wii-U as just damn weird games. The latter is just a very uninspiring shooter but the characters and plot are just bonkers. Anybody who hasn't played the game should look up the Jane Doe boss fight and her kinky insta-kill moves. |
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Post by Antiriad2097 on Feb 5, 2023 20:28:35 GMT
Ah, if we're getting into more well known ones like God Hand, then Incredible Crisis on PS1 fits the bill.
It's just a mini game collection, but the themes and plot are mental.
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Post by rednoggy on Feb 6, 2023 18:53:16 GMT
Ok, no idea what this game was called. But a mate had a hand me down speccy. We were around 8 and he loaded up a game where you played a fat naked man. You walked around past windows where women would call you a perv. It got boring fast. It was on a blank tape and he didn't know where he got it from either but it's always stuck in my head.
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Post by Antiriad2097 on Feb 6, 2023 20:04:10 GMT
Ok, no idea what this game was called. But a mate had a hand me down speccy. We were around 8 and he loaded up a game where you played a fat naked man. You walked around past windows where women would call you a perv. It got boring fast. It was on a blank tape and he didn't know where he got it from either but it's always stuck in my head. Streaker maybe? The 'undress' option isn't much in evidence in this video. [edit] Here you go, naked fat men as requested (NB: Not me). It's a Mastertronic game. |
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