Weird games

CP5670

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Have you played any games that can only be described as weird? I'm talking about games that were not necessarily good or bad, but simply bizarre. Here are some I can think of:

Inca: The mother of all weird games. This review describes it well. The gameplay is part space sim, part FPS and part adventure.

Toxic Ravine: Another strange game where you flew a blimp and had to drop bombs on a lot of random looking crap and then drop apples and elevators on swarms of little guys. This actually had a rather detailed plot although the gameplay had nothing to do with it.

Chex Quest: This was a Doom TC that came in Chex cereal boxes in the mid 90s. You're a piece of cereal who has to blow up some slimy guys, and the pickups consist of various breakfast related items. Surprisingly good and creative. Apparently it still has a large fanbase.

I kind of miss these types of games actually. They made no sense at all but had a certain originality to them. There were tons of them in the early 90s, but I haven't seen any in years.
 

shortylickens

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Bad Mojo

Dark Seed 2 (I never played the first one, but I would assume it too is weird)

Hell

and a crapload of other DOS games.

Those were the days when programmers WERE the developers, and they made what they wanted.
These days its like Hollywood, mass produced crap that feeds the lowest common denominator.
 

CP5670

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Those were the days when programmers WERE the developers, and they made what they wanted.
These days its like Hollywood, mass produced crap that feeds the lowest common denominator.

I think there are far too many games these days that try to be "realistic" rather than creative. I like such games as much as anyone else but I want to see the kind of variety we had in the past, when there were also all these wacky, surreal titles around.

The spanish got into space? I've got to pay more attention...

Not only that, but they got into space with wooden 16th century ships mounted with plasma cannons. :D
 

Ika

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Holy crap, the first thing that came to mind was Chex Quest when I read the title.
 

HombrePequeno

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Originally posted by: shortylickens
Bad Mojo

Dark Seed 2 (I never played the first one, but I would assume it too is weird)

Hell

and a crapload of other DOS games.

Those were the days when programmers WERE the developers, and they made what they wanted.
These days its like Hollywood, mass produced crap that feeds the lowest common denominator.

I could definitely see Dark Seed 1 and 2 being weird. Wiki says they were based on the artwork of H.R. Giger. His works were the basis of the design for Alien.