Kusoge/Bakage/Obscure
An on-going, ever-growing list of bad, weird, or forgotten games I want to or have played.
Slowly adding additional info in the notes.
Many of these have been found thanks to The Obscuritory, Hardcore Gaming 101, The Rarest Gamer, Lunatic Obscurity, and Ephemeral Enigmas.
Games not on IGDB:
Liquid War 5 (MS-DOS/OS X/Windows) [Thomas Colcombet, 1998]
The Surgeon (Macintosh/Amiga) [Information Systems for Medicine, 1985]
Imagynasium (Windows) [SouthPeak Interactive, 1999]
Music Brush (Windows) [Mister Matt Software, 1996/1999] https://archive.org/details/MusicBrush2.03_1999_Mister_Matt_Software To get a registration code for the full version, add 999762854389 to the program’s serial number
The Stig 4 (ZX-Spectrum) [Antok Software, 1987]
Agent 99 (ZX-Spectrum) [Alkoholsoft, 1988]
Perfect Murder 2: Bukapao (ZX-Spectrum) [Ultrasoft, 1988]
Satochin (ZX-Spectrum) [Sybilasoft, 1988]
Kewin 2 (ZX-Spectrum) [Sybilasoft, 1989]
Kuru Kuru Panic (PSX) [Kool Kizz, 1996]
Gals Panic II: Special Edition (Arcade) [Kaneko, 1994]
Lovely Pop Mahjong Jangjang Shimasho (Arcade) [Visco, 1996]
Slowly adding additional info in the notes.
Many of these have been found thanks to The Obscuritory, Hardcore Gaming 101, The Rarest Gamer, Lunatic Obscurity, and Ephemeral Enigmas.
Games not on IGDB:
Liquid War 5 (MS-DOS/OS X/Windows) [Thomas Colcombet, 1998]
The Surgeon (Macintosh/Amiga) [Information Systems for Medicine, 1985]
Imagynasium (Windows) [SouthPeak Interactive, 1999]
Music Brush (Windows) [Mister Matt Software, 1996/1999] https://archive.org/details/MusicBrush2.03_1999_Mister_Matt_Software To get a registration code for the full version, add 999762854389 to the program’s serial number
The Stig 4 (ZX-Spectrum) [Antok Software, 1987]
Agent 99 (ZX-Spectrum) [Alkoholsoft, 1988]
Perfect Murder 2: Bukapao (ZX-Spectrum) [Ultrasoft, 1988]
Satochin (ZX-Spectrum) [Sybilasoft, 1988]
Kewin 2 (ZX-Spectrum) [Sybilasoft, 1989]
Kuru Kuru Panic (PSX) [Kool Kizz, 1996]
Gals Panic II: Special Edition (Arcade) [Kaneko, 1994]
Lovely Pop Mahjong Jangjang Shimasho (Arcade) [Visco, 1996]
286 Games
Bakage that's best described as if NieR: Automata was about vehicles instead of androids.
Japan only Famicom release, it stinks. Garfield's sprite is cute though!
HG101 article
HG101 article
A large part of me refuses to believe this is anything more than a hoax but who am I to argue with reality.
HG101 article
HG101 article
Generally labelled as a schizocore game, it's a tower defense title where the towers have individual personalities and interact with the game space in very unique ways. The story is a little bonkos but it's also pretty well written.
Non-game/art game by Epyx. No instructions and the game's mechanics change whenever you play.
This and the other Motion Gravure titles are just weirdly grotesque. Yes you get to see some attractive ladies but it's all photos that morph together. Those interstitials are horrifying. There's a vibrate button though so you can shove the controller up your ass or whatever.
An early meta puzzle game on the Mac about a number 3 that gets lost in a computer. Some of the puzzles are obscenely difficult but I might just be bad at thinking.
Obscuritory article
the Footl's Errand et al. article
Obscuritory article
the Footl's Errand et al. article
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Labyrinth of Time the 43rd-worst computer game ever released.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Intensely racist and it condones illegal activity. And it barely teaches you Spanish.
Largely atextual adventure thing focused on communication through animism or something?
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Slave rebellion strategy game by an Afro-Caribbean developer set in Martinique. Made in 1988.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Meditative spiritual puzzler thing with gorgeous color-cycling art.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Manages to take the absurdist source material and translate it pretty well into a game.
HG101 article
HG101 article
The commitment to its aesthetic alone makes this fascinating.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article