Some game's are just plain weird.

Like Michael Jackson's Moonwalker on Master System. Play as Michael Jackson: Defeat the bad guys and save babies!!!

Bad Mojo was pretty dammned wierd - playing the game as a cockroach and all which that entailed was pretty strange, although it was very cool too.

I picked up a copy of the "Redux" version of Bad Mojo a couple of months ago, and the CD included a documentary of how the game came into being, and how they managed to get the hyper realistic feel without the technology of today - it was even wierder than the game itself, particularly how they came to get the dessicated, rotting rat images onto the screen.

Yeah, very cool, very wierd :blink:

I'd say Postal 2 is downright mental, or the designers at least, has to be... Not neccessarily a bad thing, but mental all the same :D

Monty Python grants some very strange games indeed. Being chased by huge feet is not something I experience on a daily basis.

And, on an old all time favourite of mine: The concept of Lazy Jones is kinda weird: A game about playing computer games.

EDIT: A concept that I found intriguing, was to have two games compatible against each other, like Apache and Hind, only it would be fun in a deranged way to have Apache VS say, Formula 1. I wonder what it would be like to come down the stretch on Hockenheim, driving like a maniac to escape that Hellfire missile at your 6 o'clock.

I remember a game on the C64 where you played a robot. I looked simlar to Number 5 (Johnny 5 from short circuit).

You had to cook. :blink:
I mean, cooking isn't that weird but being a robot having to cook certain recipes in the correct order and manner otherwise the customers become angry and throw their bar stool after you and if you're hit three times the game is over cause the robot's broken.... :blink: That was a weird game...

I tried being good at it for a while but I became frustrated.
Being eight or nine years old my english wasn't too good and I couldn't understand all the ingredients.

Oooh! I'd forgotten about those Monty Pyhton games. Playing tetris with corpses (and of course, some of them not being dead yet) was definitely strange :D

By the way, in retrospect, Michael Jackson dancing around trying to "save" children was almost prophetic. Perhaps he was trying to tell us all something even way back then?

Crazy Golf: giant hamburgers bouncing up and down on the course. Each layer separating at a different rate from the rest so you get a good view of the tomatos, onions, etc.

I have no mouth and I must scream
Aura - Fate of the Ages

They're both weird in that their story either doesn't make any sense or it's just twisted.

Killer7 mos def.

The Neverhood. Claymation + Terry S. Taylor music. Toilet paper, third berry from mushroom, long corridor... Dum Da-Dum Doi Doi Doooi...

Oooh, I've always meant to get around to playing I Have No Mouth But I must Scream, but I've never gotten around to buying myself a copy. One Day I hope.

Also, that game where you "wake up" in a dream inside a fairground, but you're really small. I think it is on Abandonia somewhere, but I can't remember the name - That one was pretty wierd :D

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MdaG @ Dec 5 2006, 02:47 PM) [snapback]270378[/snapback]</div>OOoooh, could someone review that game? It looks amazing! And I like the story that they summarize at mobygames!

I found Unkuulian Adventure (text-based adventure game) kind of odd because you could eat most items in your inventory. Even if you needed them.

I also remember this peculiar mini-game I had from a magazine involving floating heads, a ball and some paddles on the top, bottom & sides. The idea was to stop the ball from escaping the screen with the paddles. But the direction of the ball would change if hit a head. It may have been a Monthy Python game...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Icewolf @ Dec 6 2006, 09:16 AM) [snapback]270504[/snapback]</div>OOoooh, could someone review that game? It looks amazing! And I like the story that they summarize at mobygames!
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It's a badly written game with awkward puzzles and pointless characters, it's only saving grace are the pretty backgrounds and characters, but a lot of the animations are fudged up too. It's only worth noting for Harlan Ellison fans and people who're desperate for an adventure game that takes place other than the generic fantasy settings.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Icewolf @ Dec 6 2006, 02:16 PM) [snapback]270504[/snapback]</div>OOoooh, could someone review that game? It looks amazing! And I like the story that they summarize at mobygames!
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It's still being sold - http://harlanellison.com/herc.htm :max:

There was a game (I can't remember the name no matter how hard I try) in which you were something like a peasant in a Middle-Age village, and you had to protect cows from red goblins. It had a weird tone and weird 3D graphics.

I'm pretty sure there's a game like that on the site.

I'll look for, and if I find I'll let all the people know I found it. And I'll post the name!

The Horde? :)

Yes! The Horde! Wow, man! Memories from... What? 10? 11 years? =~

12, if you played it in the year it came out :P
Weirdest game for me is some kind of Skittles (yes, the candy) action-adventure.
Edit: Or that Yogho Yogho platformer :D

There's also something I have trouble classifying as a game which I got with an old library stash: Eve.
And no, not the modern space MMO thingey.

Dark Skye is what you mean by the Skittles game right? That was actually quite decent.

Darkened Skye.
Yes, it's just the concept of using Skittles for magic. :huh:
But as you might have guessed from the edit, I was referring to entermercials (or commtainment? :P) in general.

What exactly do we mean by "weird"? That's really controverse.

I remember a really cool game from when I was real little. I can't remember the name though.

I remember it had talking slugs, a purple cat, a scene where tiny people tie you up, and a queen that insults constantly. I think it was an adventure game. :sos:

Shiningserpnt, I see you just joined, and welcome. But please: No necro posting, meaning don't dig up dead topics from under the heap. A lot of people here tend to frown on that, you see. Let the ancients rest.

Now: Is this a request, or a stroll down memory lane? If it's a request, then you should post it in the Request thread, if it's just memories, then please find a more appropriate topic. A discussion about the weirdest game hardly seem like the obvious topic to post in. I'm sure you agree.

By all means, keep posting and contribute. Just post in living, relevant topics in the relevant forums or make your own topic in the relevant forum :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ Jan 15 2007, 01:25 AM) [snapback]274937[/snapback]</div>
It was kind of both, It was quite a wierd game, one of the wierdest I've played.

Alice - jumper / FPS with great graphics from the book fun & wierd scenery / boss battles!

The Prisoner 2 (Atari 8 bit / Apple 2/ / PC) Somewhat base on the show, tough puzzles, messes with your head all the time - even threatens to reformat your drive! Search the web for a good interview with the author David Milch on the history of this game.

Remember Atari 8 bit "Revenge of the Lamas" (something like that) with space invaders type play and purple lamas running amok!

Typing game House of the Dead which was great way to learn how to type to shoot zombies!

Chris Crawford games Balnce of Power fame - atari 8 bit game on relationships (forgot the name) where you intract with males and females in influencing people type game. He was trying to create good AI computer oppenets which seem as real life humans in thinking. Also Excaliber which had King Author's roundtable where Merlin can cause plagues and if you got too chummy with Guinevere your other Knights got mad and would revolt against you.

Alien vs Predator 2 Besides single play from all three races as the baby alien you eat (brust) your way out of somebody's stomach(!) at one point.

Old "Deathrace 2000" running over people for points and tombstones.

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The Tone Rebellion by The Logic Factory

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/tone-rebellion

Man, just try to figure out what this game is about. It's by the makers of Ascendancy, my all time favorite game. But when I bought this when it was released, I was a bit disappointed. It just too strange and abstract. Its got floating islands, life forces, and some of the strangest aliens in any game I've ever seen.

"And, on an old all time favourite of mine: The concept of Lazy Jones is kinda weird: A game about playing computer games."

i never figured out the story of that game, but its fun to play and got cool music.. :)

the most weirdest game i remember is "Bath Time" for the C64, where you are supposed to fill up a bath for some guy while dodging animals (atleast i think you got killed by them) crazy sh*t i tell ya ;)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ Jan 15 2007, 01:25 AM) [snapback]274937[/snapback]</div>This may be old, but he didn't really do anything wrong, it's not like he res a request topic that had already been resolved, I mean, this is a topic you can res because it's not like the subject matter ever grows old or irrelevant, it's better than making a new one.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shiningserpnt @ Jan 15 2007, 05:58 AM) [snapback]274933[/snapback]</div>The game is called Torin's Passage. And yeah, it was kinda wierd. :ok:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/torins...ge/screenshots

On the Amiga, there was this game called Odyssey and the baddies kept saying "Ooga" on impact. I thought that was highly annoying. :blink:

I recall a text-based adventure game from a ways back called The Prisoner. It simulated the trapped environment in which the hero found himself in the cult television series by first changing the keystroke effects of your keyboard--so you lacked control over what you could do, until you learned the new rules imposed on you. And then they would change, from time to time. Incredibly frustrating, and quite brilliant. :)

Something I alwys considered as weird is in a quite normal game:

Track and Field, an athletic sports game.

In track and field the controls for running fast or gathering power in weightlifting for example is to push two (mostly the same) buttons alternately. To perform really good you gotta push so fast that it's really hard to do. We made up that we call it mopping or swabbering... :D
Plus, not the person wins who plays most deftly, which you actually could expect from an track and field game but the person wins who can push fastest. The best swabberer!!!

Last year I was playing a game at my friends house that he got off the net and it was really random. Only I have forgotten the name and what site he downloaded it from.

The weirdest game I ever played was definetly School Tycoon. All the time I had that pedophile-meets-peeping tom feeling. Totally creepy...

Well, one of the games in this site, Monty Python Flying Circus, is at least as weird and funny as the show it takes its name from. You throw dead fish to enemies such as flying feet or XVIII century european monarchs, cowboy-gigantic chickens and other surrealistic things. Also you switch bodies between levels, from a normal one to a fishy one, or even a bouncing boot.
The plot has something to do with you trying to recover your brains, which have been kidnapped after escaping your skull. The ransom asked for them involved some particular kind of food.
All in all, quite weird.

There was also that game, Astrotits, that had some curious elements, some of them involving hamsters, I think.

^ Beans! Egg! Sausage! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!

The weirdest game I ever played was Legend of Djel :huh:
And the follow up Ween offcourse.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Frodo @ Jan 28 2007, 09:53 PM) [snapback]276941[/snapback]</div>The game is called Torin's Passage. And yeah, it was kinda wierd. :ok:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/torins...ge/screenshots
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Hey thanks. Wouldn't have found it otherwise

I think that Disorientation is one freaky game. http://www.addictinggames.com/disorientation.html

The weirdest "proper" game I've met so far is probably Supaplex. It is an awesome game, yes, and almost forever playable (and keyboard-thrashable), but still.. weird.

A lot of classic old arcade games are pretty weird by today's standard. Donkey Kong? Imagine trying to pitch that to a major company nowadays. "Okay, a janitor in red overalls climbs up ladders and uses a hammer to smash barrels that a giant monkey throws at him."

I am surprised that no-one has mentioned Richard Longhurst And The Box That Ate Time or any of Captain Mostly's games. "Wierd" doesn't even begin to describe it, but I still love 'em :D

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender. http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/rex-nebu...c-gender-bender

Its a hilarious adventure game like Space Quest, but it didn't seem to get much attention. The game does not take itself seriously at all, its like they just made up jokes along the way and put them in the game as they went without any forward thinking. Its funny though.

Armed and Delirious was very strange. If I remember correctly, you play as a senile old lady who is trying to save the family she hates from an outer space rabbit and live in a house that is floating around in space. She keeps her inventory in her bra.

:max: Omikron: The Nomad Soul, which I am actually playing now for the first time, is strange in same futuristic terms that Blade Runner is, but still interesting to play nonetheless.

However, in term of weirdness, one of my favorite would have to be FREDDY PHARKAS - FRONTIER PHARMACIST. Or maybe that qualifies more as the silliest concept, rather than weird. I guess it depends on your perspective.

On console, Rez is utterly bizzare. On PC, Sentinel Returns has the 'oddest' atomsphere I've seen.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Carcaroth @ Dec 7 2006, 12:10 AM) [snapback]270570[/snapback]</div>It's called "The Horde" and you can even download it from here, I think..

My friend was going through emulator sites one day and found a game called

"Princess Salad and the Tomatoe Kingdom"

Oddly enough it seems like a good game.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Taskmaster @ Feb 16 2007, 08:55 PM) [snapback]279649[/snapback]</div>i thought it was a bit weird myself. especially that mix of FPS, Free Roaming Adventure and Side-on 1-on-1 Fighting

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JJXB @ Mar 1 2007, 11:39 AM) [snapback]281413[/snapback]</div>i thought it was a bit weird myself. especially that mix of FPS, Free Roaming Adventure and Side-on 1-on-1 Fighting
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Me too... there was no such kind of game that time.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Icewolf @ Dec 4 2006, 10:27 AM) [snapback]270159[/snapback]</div>The game is called The Big Deal and it is very weird. Robot in kitchen...
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=265

When talking about old days (C64) i was both scared and confused with Rocky Horror Show. You wander around big mansion while people are chasing you speaking something strange and undressing you completely. Later i found out that there is a movie which explains acting of those people.

Lazy Jones that you mentioned before is also fun game, but it is strange that you have lives but it doesn't really matter because you can't beat the game. You just get to visit each room and see what's in it. Perhaps it is another game, perhaps you'll watch Jones dream, but there's nothing to beat really, it's just for fun.

I also recall He-Man and Masters of Universe also for C64
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1180
You had to save Orco from Skeleton but game itslef is too strange. You start playing the first life in the castle, but if you got killed every other life you start from the swamp. Also, you're in the castle which is side-scrolling and if you push joystick down, He-Man will start going down and will fall of the screen and die. :blink: Am i supposed to figure this out???? There are also some objects in the game, but i never figuered out how to use them. When you reach the Orco all items are simply returned to their positions in the game. It is interesting althoguh too hard and frustrating because there are some parts where you had to discover some things that are not so obvious.

But surely the weirdest game i saw is Franky Goes To Hollywood
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=971
You want a weird game, then you 100% surely won't regret downloading C64 emulator and starting this game. It looks fine and interesting, especially for C64 until you got a hand into it. Man, that's wierd!!! Those mini-games and those pictures and pleasure pills that look like.... well, try it. There is logical part of the game where you have to solve the murder by putting all the hints together, but the main goal is to become human again as you play with a ghost and solving a murder and playing mini-games is the way to do it. You think that's not too weird?? Wait until you start some of the games. Lazy Jones is a completely usual game compared to this.
Franky Goes To Hollywood is the name of that pop band from the 80's. Well, i think they put some of their music into game, but whoever made this game must be on some really horrible chemical drugs.

:max: C64... isn't that some type of explosive? (Just kidding)

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