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List the top 10 or 5 or whatever games you think are some of the strangest ever.

I would have to say a lot of atari games are pretty damn wierd ie: custers revenge, x-man, beat um and eat um, gigalo, mario's time machine, and bachlor/bachlerette party. I had to throw in marios time machine cause, well I'm sure you can figure it out.

Katamari Demacy for the PS2 is pretty amned weird. At the start, you et like singing cows, and then your a dude with a rectangular head that rolls a big ball with axes and mailboxes etc. Weird.

I can only think of 2 right now, but if I think of more, I'll post them:

Katamari Demacy
(Any) Wario Ware

Syd of Valis
Katamari Damacy as said before
Sillouette Mirage
Stretch Panic
Yu-No (some Stupid Dating Sim my Friend Bought)

all i can think of right now.

Zombie Nation.

The evil alien Darc Seed has taken over America. He wants a sword. He can only be stopped by one thing...

An old samurai master sending a holographic image of his head to defeat the alien by spitting its tongue and eyes at every building in America.

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When I think of weird, the first thing that comes to mind is the Oddworld games. Not only are they weird, but they're really cool! Puzzle-type-strategy games... with rather, well... odd characters. Decap Attack for the Genesis is strange. You attack by throwing your head at the enemies! I think you have eyes on your body as well, if I remember correctly. Really weird

The oddworld games were wierd and fun. Especially as you could fart in them.

Speaking of games with farting, i think the first GTA, you could walk around and press R2 (?) near people, they say something like "F*ck off you sick bastard* or something. I thought it was pretty funny.

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When I think of weird, the first thing that comes to mind is the Oddworld games. Not only are they weird, but they're really cool! Puzzle-type-strategy games... with rather, well... odd characters. Decap Attack for the Genesis is strange. You attack by throwing your head at the enemies! I think you have eyes on your body as well, if I remember correctly. Really weird

Decap attack was my First Genesis Game, or ours as in my Family's.
we got it at sears for 50 bucks i think, .

Monster Party.... seriously, what the !??!? a damn fine game though
Zombies Ate My Neighbors.... yeeaaah!!? great game
Toe Jam and Earl.... speaks for itself

How about Pressure Cooker for the Atari 2600? What were they thinking?

I'm pretty sure that stretch panic tops the list easily for myself.

Katamari is wierd, but it 'makes sense' once you figure out what's going on. At least that was the way I felt about it. There was a definitive flow and direction to the game.

So many early games lacked documentation that would make the game a lot more bearable. Like trying to play Shingen the Ruler without seeing the label art once. Oh, god forbid, as somebody mentioned trying to jump into mario is missing.

THe way stretch panic is made you know that you're making progress and doing the right thing, but all along the way you're not sure of why you're doing it and what is right vs. wrong.

But then again I am dense in the head.

Chibi-Robo has a good chance at being wierd.

I'm pretty sure that stretch panic tops the list easily for myself.

Katamari is wierd, but it 'makes sense' once you figure out what's going on. At least that was the way I felt about it. There was a definitive flow and direction to the game.

So many early games lacked documentation that would make the game a lot more bearable. Like trying to play Shingen the Ruler without seeing the label art once. Oh, god forbid, as somebody mentioned trying to jump into mario is missing.

THe way stretch panic is made you know that you're making progress and doing the right thing, but all along the way you're not sure of why you're doing it and what is right vs. wrong.

But then again I am dense in the head.

Chibi-Robo has a good chance at being wierd.


I had completely forgotten about Strech Panic! I only got maybe 1/2 way through, I got confused. I thought the big boobed ladies were funny!

E.T for the 2600.

burger time,
international underground league of pain for PSX, Never played it just sounded stupid.

Seaman for the DC was kind of weird.

Seaman rocked!

I would like to mention Atari porno game, starting with Custer's revenge (you rape a Native American tied to a cactus). Very bizarre.

I would also like to mention Okage: Shadow King (PS2). That game did
get the recognition it deserved.

Description:
(EDIT-This is a better description than mine was, and conveyed the true meaning of the game. You can read the full review .)

"Once upon a fish, in a land far away (yet closer than you think), a scatterbrained father decided to sell his son's soul to an evil demon king named Stan in order to save his daughter from speaking Pig Latin for all eternity. The evil demon king Stan, being evil, attached himself to the boy's feet, made the boy his evil demon king slave, and turned the boy's sister's shadow a lovely shade of fluorescent pink. Eventually, the boy teamed up with a girl with a fighting parasol and an unusually insane scientist with a penchant for ghosts and not making sense, and together the three of them went to the big clock in the middle of the sea.

Ay-yup. If you think non-sequitur madness is something sorely lacking in today's RPGs---and don't really care about stuff like "deep gameplay" or "logic"---then Okage: Shadow King is the game for you. "

And I thought I was the only person to play Okage!
Gotta love him, he was such a jerk.
Sadly like much games, I never did finish it. I got lost in some caves (or it might have been a labyrinthy type thing). Then I got pissed (after days and days of being completely lost), then I thought I'd even the score and sell it. (Don't ask, my thinking isn't always rational)

Seaman rocked!

I would like to mention Atari porno game, starting with Custer's revenge (you rape a Native American tied to a cactus). Very bizarre.

I would also like to mention Okage: Shadow King (PS2). That game did
get the recognition it deserved.

Description:
(EDIT-This is a better description than mine was, and conveyed the true meaning of the game. You can read the full review .)

"Once upon a fish, in a land far away (yet closer than you think), a scatterbrained father decided to sell his son's soul to an evil demon king named Stan in order to save his daughter from speaking Pig Latin for all eternity. The evil demon king Stan, being evil, attached himself to the boy's feet, made the boy his evil demon king slave, and turned the boy's sister's shadow a lovely shade of fluorescent pink. Eventually, the boy teamed up with a girl with a fighting parasol and an unusually insane scientist with a penchant for ghosts and not making sense, and together the three of them went to the big clock in the middle of the sea.

Ay-yup. If you think non-sequitur madness is something sorely lacking in today's RPGs---and don't really care about stuff like "deep gameplay" or "logic"---then Okage: Shadow King is the game for you. "

Turn-based?

Very much so. Kind of clunky menus, though.

More or less standard rpg fare, gameplay-wise, but it's the personality that makes it a truly unique experience.

Weirdest games? Let's see...
Athena-NES--some of the weirdest enemies ever, & the whole game is just a surreal experience.

Stinger-NES--another set of bizarre enemies..coat hangers & popsicles?!
Castlevania Simon's Quest-NES--I'm not insulting it, I liked it, it was just weird.
As for the most recent one I've played on the weird side it had to be Hurdy Gurdy for PS2, that and Monkey Island.

I was playing a Japanese NES ROM the other day... it was labeled as "animal attack". Apparently, you're a schoolgirl with the unusual ability to fly and shoot... things. I think it's pretty wierd.

Ill Bleed (Demonic amusement park) for the Dream Cast
Yoshinoya Beef Bowl (a game where you serve people noodles before their heads explode) for PS2
Dark Eye (claymation based on Edgar Allen Poe stories) for Xbox

harvest moon is kind of a weird game

as well as animal crossing

Yoshinoya Beef Bowl (a game where you serve people noodles before their heads explode) for PS2
How old is this one? I must acquire it. It sounds weird to pass up.

harvest moon is kind of a weird game

But a damn great one. EVerybody go buy Back to Nature for PS1 right now.

Yoshinoya Beef Bowl (a game where you serve people noodles before their heads explode) for PS2
How old is this one? I must acquire it. It sounds

It's two years old last month. You can get it at Gamestop.

Thank you. Oh yeah, and I've got to list Miss World '96 (arcade) as another very, very weird game. This one got me back into the Qix addiction, though.

Battle Monsters (Sega Saturn)
Its very much Time Kllers meets Clayfighter. There are these Digital/ Claymation characters that you pit against. The Characters alone make this game bizzare. To add to the mix, there are platforms in the stages which you can jump off of. Beleive me, grab this game while you can.

Thanks for the tip. I will look for that on my next trip to Japan. I hope I can find it for cheap.