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
Osamu Sato's first game
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Psygnosis was offered the game before U.S. Gold, but turned it down for being too weird.
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Single screen C64 title where you have 10 seconds to save someone from being taken by a condor. Honestly very fun.
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Slave rebellion strategy game by an Afro-Caribbean developer set in Martinique. Made in 1988.
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STG presented entirely in an alien script with no analogue to any written human language. No transliteration here, and the number(?) system on display doesn't follow any base systems.
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.
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.
Non-game/art game by Epyx. No instructions and the game's mechanics change whenever you play.
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Labyrinth of Time the 43rd-worst computer game ever released.
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David Lynch and Guillermo del Toro love this game!
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Textless entry in the Clutter series, uses icons for everything and doesn't explain its mechanics. It's neat!
Largely atextual adventure thing focused on communication through animism or something?
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