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.
Osamu Sato's first game
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
This game blows but it has Olive Garden music.
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!
Meditative spiritual puzzler thing with gorgeous color-cycling art.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
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.
What if Princess Maker was about some Japanese idol?
Largely atextual adventure thing focused on communication through animism or something?
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Intensely racist and it condones illegal activity. And it barely teaches you Spanish.
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.
The commitment to its aesthetic alone makes this fascinating.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
This game is atrocious, but that music makes it all worth it.
Non-game/art game by Epyx. No instructions and the game's mechanics change whenever you play.
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
Japan only Famicom release, it stinks. Garfield's sprite is cute though!
HG101 article
HG101 article
