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
First game where Mega Man can slide - ported by people that never played Mega Man.
One of my favourite games, a follow-up to the Japan only Groove Jigoku V: SweepStation Version. You take on odd jobs to earn paltry wages to use gachapon machines to unlock more jobs, software tools, and useless knick-knacks.
This game blows but it has Olive Garden music.
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.
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.
This game is atrocious, but that music makes it all worth it.
PS1 racing game where you run really fast instead of drive a car or whatever. It's not bad, the concept is just bizarre.
Japan only 'intervention' sim where you try to make some nobody's life better. Inspired by the early Internet popularity of things like the Trojan Room coffee pot and JenniCam. Featuring music by Richard Jacques and Serani Poji, a fictional pop idol that eventually released an independent album unrelated to the game!
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.
Macromedia FMV art audiovisual puzzle game, very transgressive.
