What are the weirdest video games you've ever played?

I was playing Ib, a small indie RPG about a girl getting suckered into a bizarre universe while visiting an art gallery. Not exactly scary, but it is really freakish.
 
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SAM Simulator 1972. It realistically depicts the work of an operator of Soviet surface-to-air missile systems.
If you manage to find out what switches should you turn on in order to get this bloody thing to work, you will be able to recreate various military engagements, like the incident during the humanitarian bombings of Serbia in 1999 when an American stealth bomber F-117 was shot down by an obsolete Serbian SAM site.
 
Tail of the Sun for the PS1. You control a tribe of cavemen to build a tower of mammoth tusks tall enough to reach the sun. And all the plants and stars in the sky are made of scanned pictures of Japanese candy.
 
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Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention this one:

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Basically, it was viral marketing for MTV. You would buy the game . . . so you could practice beating the game . . . so that you could get a telephone number which would give you a code--so you could unlock a secret level--which, when you beat and then got another code and then called another number on a certain day you could get put in a drawing for a grand prize!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Master

The game sucked, by the way. Even more insulting is that I got it for Christmas in 1992, a full seven months after the contest ended. :evil:
 
Spiritual Warfare for the NES

You are a missionary that throws fruit at raging Atheists and slays demons. Funnily enough, I have a soft spot for it. It's a clone of Zelda, but the layout and everything is still different enough to actually be worth playing and I enjoy Zelda games. It's kind of fun once you get past the weirdness and the premise of it and maybe turn down the volume and put on some different music that makes you feel like a badass demonslayer and not the one that keeps looping constantly.

The cover is even weirder!

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and you thought female armor was skanky. He isn't wearing any pants!
 
I have a certain fondness for Christian video-games made by well-meaning but ultimately clueless developers. War in Heaven? Hell yeah. Bible Adventures? Pass the baby Moses. Noah's Ark? I'll throw apples at goats in Wolfenstein maps all day long.

But I've never heard of Spiritual Warfare. I now need this because of . . . reasons.

(And no, the pantless adventurer on the front isn't one of them.)
 
lol, the guy isn't pantsless at all, he actually looks like one of those door-to-door missionaries.

But I totally recommend it, it's really, really, really fun and the weirdness makes it even more fun.
 
random_pickle said:
Wasn't Spiritual Warfare a Zelda ripoff?
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That should be enough to answer your question.
 
Da Pickle Monsta said:
I have a certain fondness for Christian video-games made by well-meaning but ultimately clueless developers. War in Heaven? Hell yeah. Bible Adventures? Pass the baby Moses. Noah's Ark? I'll throw apples at goats in Wolfenstein maps all day long.

But I've never heard of Spiritual Warfare. I now need this because of . . . reasons.

(And no, the pantless adventurer on the front isn't one of them.)
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Spiritual Warfare was made by the same company, Wisdom Tree. I don't know if they're still around or not but I assume they gave up trying to make video games. Spiritual Warfare was probably their best game, which isn't saying much. And that's only because they ripped off Zelda more closely than they did, say, Super Mario Bros. 2.
 
random_pickle said:
Wasn't Spiritual Warfare a Zelda ripoff?
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indeed it was, but it is still different enough to be enjoyable. It's not just a simple reskin. Instead of collecting triforce pieces, you collect armor of god. Just don't go into the strip club or bar and stuff or else the angel will get really, really pissed and take an armor piece.

There are also bonus quiz rounds that you can do by catching a floating angel and you have to answer Bible questions. They aren't that hard, especially if you have been paying attention in Sunday School. They give you doves which is the currency in this game and if you guess them all right, you get a bonus.
 
The Void

Seriously, this is weird of a high order. Psychotropics are highly recommended to make sense out of it. The game is on Steam, but getting the proper drugs is up to you.

The women all tend to be naked, which is ordinarily a good thing, but you don't really notice because it's overshadowed by the Weird.
 
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Smokedaddy said:
The Void

Seriously, this is weird of a high order. Psychotropics are highly recommended to make sense out of it. The game is on Steam, but getting the proper drugs is up to you.

The women all tend to be naked, which is ordinarily a good thing, but you don't really notice because it's overshadowed by the Weird.
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Ice-Pick Lodge (the Russian studio that developed Turgor/The Void) specializes in making trippy "artsy" games. If you like it, check out their other games, like Pathologic.
 
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Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior
Basically, Viscera Cleanup Detail is a cleaning simulator where you have to clean up all the blood and gibs leftover by a massive shootout on a space station. The game was Greenlit on Steam, but it hasn't been released on it yet, though ironically, two spin-offs have been. This version comes free with the 2013 version of Shadow Warrior, presumably as a joke. You just clean up all the blood and gibs left behind by the first battle in the first level. It's fun for a few minutes, mainly because you're laughing so hard at the thought that this game really exists, but after that it just gets boring. Thank god I didn't have to pay for it.

Grezzo 2
Grezzo 2 is an Italian DOOM wad made to satirize Italian culture. The whole thing is basically POSTAL 2 on crack, steroids, LSD and whatever other drug you can think of. The amount of blood and gore in it puts Brutal Doom to shame. It's full of strange weapons like a nuke, tearing off your arm which then explodes, and a boombox. The whole game is about killing Christianity or something like that, but the whole thing is in Italian, so I really don't know what the fuck is going on with the story. The jokes are supposed to be really funny if you're Italian, but for everyone else, you'll probably just laugh at how fucked up the game is.
The whole game is really hard to describe, so just watch this.
 
Da Pickle Monsta said:
I'm going to have to go with Mr. Mosquito. You run around tormenting the same family for the entire game by biting them and sucking their blood.

Then there's Incredible Crisis, which is a series of button mashing minigames. Basically, you take the role of a Japanese family who's having the worst day ever. The first few levels put you in the shoes of the father, who has to do cardio with his office workers, then gets trapped in a falling elevator, and then is chased out of his office building by a giant, rolling globe.
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Both of these!

I only played Incredible Crisis as a demo, though ChipCheezum (my favorite LPer) has a full LP of it on his channel. But I actually bought Mr. Mosquito and imported it from Japan when I was a kid after seeing a demo of it on a Playstation Magazine demo disc.

It's surprisingly fun for a game where you're a cartoon mosquito trying to suck blood from people. Though the levels with the teenage daughter....should not be played around other people.
 
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