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]

286 Games

Stretch Panic
Stretch Panic
Segagaga
Segagaga
Ribbit King
Ribbit King
No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!
No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!
Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream
Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream
Battle Golfer Yui
Battle Golfer Yui
Aqua Aqua
Aqua Aqua
Harmful Park
Harmful Park
Hameln no Violin Hiki
Hameln no Violin Hiki
Cookie's Bustle
Cookie's Bustle
Chu-Teng
Chu-Teng
Off
Off
Hard Truck: Apocalypse
Hard Truck: Apocalypse
Nishijin Pachinko Monogatari 2
Nishijin Pachinko Monogatari 2
S.C.A.R.S.
S.C.A.R.S.
Bakusou Dekotora Densetsu: Otoko Ippiki Yume Kaidoi
Bakusou Dekotora Densetsu: Otoko Ippiki Yume Kaidoi
Monster Bass
Monster Bass
Robbit Mon Dieu
Robbit Mon Dieu
Ling Rise
Ling Rise
Magic Castle
Magic Castle
Power Shovel
Power Shovel
Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi
Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi
Cosmology of Kyoto
Cosmology of Kyoto
Gender Wars
Gender Wars
Man Enough
Man Enough
Deus
Deus
NSYNC: Get to the Show
NSYNC: Get to the Show
Life & Death
Life & Death
Biing!: Sex, Intrigue and Scalpels
Biing!: Sex, Intrigue and Scalpels
Giza
Giza
Crystal Pixels
Crystal Pixels
Comer
Comer
Ultra Resort Keroncuel
Ultra Resort Keroncuel
Trip World
Trip World
Densha de GO! 64
Densha de GO! 64
Gallop Racer
Gallop Racer
Gaball Screen
Gaball Screen
Rhythm 'n' Face
Rhythm 'n' Face
N2O: Nitrous Oxide
N2O: Nitrous Oxide
Kaze no Notam
Kaze no Notam
Jungle Park
Jungle Park
Jellyfish: The Healing Friend
Jellyfish: The Healing Friend
Doki-doki on Air
Doki-doki on Air
Fluid
Fluid
Pipo Saru 2001
Pipo Saru 2001
Roommania #203
Roommania #203
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!
L.O.L.: Lack of Love
L.O.L.: Lack of Love
Planet DOB
Planet DOB
Enigma
Enigma
The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain
The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain
The Journeyman Project
The Journeyman Project
Pandora's Box
Pandora's Box
Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages
Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages
Backpacker: The Lost Florence Gold Mine
Backpacker: The Lost Florence Gold Mine
Popol Maya
Popol Maya
Largely atextual adventure thing focused on communication through animism or something?

Obscuritory article
Ballistics
Ballistics
E.V.O. : Search for Eden
E.V.O. : Search for Eden
Frogger
Frogger
WTF: Work Time Fun
WTF: Work Time Fun
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.
Altered Beast
Altered Beast
Toilet Kids
Toilet Kids
Oh Shit!
Oh Shit!
Noir: A Shadowy Thriller
Noir: A Shadowy Thriller
The Legend of Lotus Spring
The Legend of Lotus Spring
Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel
Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel
Peter Gabriel: Eve
Peter Gabriel: Eve
Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure
Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure
David Lynch and Guillermo del Toro love this game!

Obscuritory article
Caper in the Castro
Caper in the Castro
First known gay and lesbian themed computer game, made in Hypercard

LGBTQ Video Game Archive page
3 In Three
3 In Three
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
Urban Yeti!
Urban Yeti!
Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure
Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure
This game blows but it has Olive Garden music.
Mega Man II
Mega Man II
First game where Mega Man can slide - ported by people that never played Mega Man.
Pyongyang Racer
Pyongyang Racer
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
Utsurun Desu.: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!
Utsurun Desu.: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!
Manages to take the absurdist source material and translate it pretty well into a game.

HG101 article
Garfield no Isshukan: A Week of Garfield
Garfield no Isshukan: A Week of Garfield
Japan only Famicom release, it stinks. Garfield's sprite is cute though!

HG101 article
Spanish for Everyone!
Spanish for Everyone!
Intensely racist and it condones illegal activity. And it barely teaches you Spanish.
Heaven & Earth
Heaven & Earth
Meditative spiritual puzzler thing with gorgeous color-cycling art.

Obscuritory article
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou
Osamu Sato's first game

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

Obscurity article
Time Gal
Time Gal
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.
Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness
Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness
Slave rebellion strategy game by an Afro-Caribbean developer set in Martinique. Made in 1988.

Obscuritory article
Top Banana
Top Banana
Holy shit.
Perihelion: The Prophecy
Perihelion: The Prophecy
The commitment to its aesthetic alone makes this fascinating.

Obscuritory article
Knights of the Crystallion
Knights of the Crystallion
Psygnosis was offered the game before U.S. Gold, but turned it down for being too weird.

Obscuritory article
Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em
Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em
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.
The Labyrinth of Time
The Labyrinth of Time
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Labyrinth of Time the 43rd-worst computer game ever released.

Obscuritory article

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