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
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
Despite its success in Japanese arcades in the wake of Ninja Hayate and Dragon's Lair, it's porting to Sega CD is at least somewhat responsible for the add-on's failure.
The commitment to its aesthetic alone makes this fascinating.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Intensely racist and it condones illegal activity. And it barely teaches you Spanish.
Bakage where you fight construction vehicles. It has a cool anime FMV opening and you can play as a dog. If you can believe it, the big vehicles are way better than the dumpy little trucks you can play as!
Japan only Famicom release, it stinks. Garfield's sprite is cute though!
HG101 article
HG101 article
This game is atrocious, but that music makes it all worth it.
A McDonald's RPG where you get to enjoy fun tasks like fulfilling drink orders and calculating change.
Macromedia FMV art audiovisual puzzle game, very transgressive.
Manages to take the absurdist source material and translate it pretty well into a game.
HG101 article
HG101 article
Psygnosis was offered the game before U.S. Gold, but turned it down for being too weird.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
