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[TheChosen]

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!!!

[Lulu_Jane]

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:

[Mighty Midget]

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

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.

[Icewolf]

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.

[marko river]

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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.
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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.

[Lulu_Jane]

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

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?

[Borodin]

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.

[MdaG]

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.

[Icewolf]

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I have no mouth and I must scream
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OOoooh, could someone review that game? It looks amazing! And I like the story that they summarize at mobygames!

[Blood-Pigggy]

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I have no mouth and I must scream
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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.