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
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
Textless entry in the Clutter series, uses icons for everything and doesn't explain its mechanics. It's neat!
Bakage that's best described as if NieR: Automata was about vehicles instead of androids.
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.
A large part of me refuses to believe this is anything more than a hoax but who am I to argue with reality.
HG101 article
HG101 article
Intensely racist and it condones illegal activity. And it barely teaches you Spanish.
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.
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 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.
This game blows but it has Olive Garden music.
A McDonald's RPG where you get to enjoy fun tasks like fulfilling drink orders and calculating change.
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!
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!
