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
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Labyrinth of Time the 43rd-worst computer game ever released.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
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.
Psygnosis was offered the game before U.S. Gold, but turned it down for being too weird.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
The commitment to its aesthetic alone makes this fascinating.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Slave rebellion strategy game by an Afro-Caribbean developer set in Martinique. Made in 1988.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
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.
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
Osamu Sato's first game
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Meditative spiritual puzzler thing with gorgeous color-cycling art.
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
Intensely racist and it condones illegal activity. And it barely teaches you Spanish.
Japan only Famicom release, it stinks. Garfield's sprite is cute though!
HG101 article
HG101 article
Manages to take the absurdist source material and translate it pretty well into a game.
HG101 article
HG101 article
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
First game where Mega Man can slide - ported by people that never played Mega Man.
This game blows but it has Olive Garden music.
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
First known gay and lesbian themed computer game, made in Hypercard
LGBTQ Video Game Archive page
LGBTQ Video Game Archive page
David Lynch and Guillermo del Toro love this game!
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
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.
Largely atextual adventure thing focused on communication through animism or something?
Obscuritory article
Obscuritory article
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!
