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]

The commitment to its aesthetic alone makes this fascinating.

Obscuritory article
Single screen C64 title where you have 10 seconds to save someone from being taken by a condor. Honestly very fun.

Obscurity article
Textless entry in the Clutter series, uses icons for everything and doesn't explain its mechanics. It's neat!
Psygnosis was offered the game before U.S. Gold, but turned it down for being too weird.

Obscuritory article
What if Princess Maker was about some Japanese idol?
A McDonald's RPG where you get to enjoy fun tasks like fulfilling drink orders and calculating change.

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