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
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.
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
Single screen C64 title where you have 10 seconds to save someone from being taken by a condor. Honestly very fun.
Obscurity article
Obscurity article
Non-game/art game by Epyx. No instructions and the game's mechanics change whenever you play.
Macromedia FMV art audiovisual puzzle game, very transgressive.
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!
Even ignoring the sheer crudeness of its premise, how anyone could find ladies swallowing cum that rains down from a building without any sexual contact between parties sexy is beyond me.
First known gay and lesbian themed computer game, made in Hypercard
LGBTQ Video Game Archive page
LGBTQ Video Game Archive page
Textless entry in the Clutter series, uses icons for everything and doesn't explain its mechanics. It's neat!
This game is atrocious, but that music makes it all worth it.
Osamu Sato's first game
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Bakage that's best described as if NieR: Automata was about vehicles instead of androids.
Slave rebellion strategy game by an Afro-Caribbean developer set in Martinique. Made in 1988.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
David Lynch and Guillermo del Toro love this game!
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Japan only Famicom release, it stinks. Garfield's sprite is cute though!
HG101 article
HG101 article
