I've been interested in weird games lately. What are the most weird, unusual and strange games for Nintendo?
This thread is for the NES. I'll make another one for Super Nintendo later.
Monster Party is a game where you’re a little boy with a baseball bat sent to an enemy planet fighting all kinds of monsters. What makes it truly weird is that most of the game’s enemies are weird, and they get crazier and crazier, and borders well into the insane eventually. Where else do you fight a dog with a human head? Or a talking shrimp tempura? Where else do you meet a boss you don’t get to fight because he is dead? Or creepy dogs with human faces?
Taboo is not even a game. Its a tarot card simulator for NES! It’ll read your future, and find your personalized lucky number. Perhaps the most bizarre concept out there for the console?
Its a shooter! You play as huge old ugly captivated samurai head that destroys buildings and cities. Crazy concept indeed.
Action 52 is a strange multi-cart of games in itself. Instead of trying to make one half-decent game, Active Enterprises split all the effort into 52 horrible games, and then released it when most games weren’t even finished. Its a car crash of a multi-cart.
The strangest game on the collection however is arguably Time Warp Tickers. You play as two fingers in a surreal world with checkerboards and floating doors. When you touch things it says «time?». And there’s no explanation why. The world slightly reminds me of the Amiga game “Weird Dreams”, although far less developed obviously.
An unlicensed zapper game that involves protecting a little crawling baby from dangers by shooting dangers that comes in your way by your gun from great distance. Like any responsible good parent should of course! The later levels the dangers get quite absurd.
This is a point-and-click adventure game which is cute, weird and.. fruity. This is definitely for anyone fascinated by the limits of strange Japanese humor. You take the role as Sir Cucumber and have to rescue Princess Tomato from the evil Minister Pumpkin. Not for everybody perhaps, but the game has gained a strong cult-following.
Its an anti-drugs game for kids. Sure! Best to warn the kids about drugs and alcohol while they’re still children, right? Its cool to say no to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. I'm sure they all will be convinced. I personally always found children concepts like this more than a bit strange.
Someone once said Tetris was promising... but it needed hats. They then went on to make Hatris!
Ever wanted to play a game being a rich frat boy buying shares and doing taxes on Wall Street? But be careful. If you don’t earn enough money for your girlfriend she will leave you.
Only a Famicom release, but this one is too strange to exclude. Perhaps its the strangest game of them all? Made by none other than Takashi Kitano, the famous director and actor who for some reason got to make a Nintendo game. Even though he disliked games he seemingly tried to do something very different. And guess what, the result is something very different.
You play as a married guy with a weird static smile. When you start you meet a guy at a desk who asks if you want to enter a password. You can do that, but if you don't have a password you can also choose to punch this guy. Only catch is you’ll get Game Over immediately before the game even starts. The actual game starts with you being get told by your boss you are not doing a good enough job. You may choose to punch him too, quit your job or some other option...
When you get home to your family you can divorce your wife and even kill her. You can also kill your kids. Then you may choose to go to the bar and get drunk if you want. Its a very strange game, because of the various options. Other weird stuff of notice: When you walk around in the city there’s a building with the sign “Grilled Mormons”, and much more.
Someone seemingly once thought mixing a RPG and a pinball game was a good idea. The result is Pinball Quest.
Gotta give them credit for thinking outside the box, but its definitely a strange idea.
You have some cartoony dinosaurs you can color with paint buckets. “For Ages 3 to 6” it says on the cover. You can’t do much else than some limited coloring in of some dinosaurs. Is it really weird? I don't know. If nothing else, the complete pointlessness of this one makes it a completely weird entry in the NES library which usually consists of, well, games.
Panesian made three adult-themed games for NES. They were really strip poker, Tetris and a slot machine game, but they included nude woman and erotic sequences/soft porn if you won. These games were mostly for rent, and obviously not licensed, which has made the games incredibly rare and expensive for collectors. Its a very strange to know Nintendo carts were rented out along with adult movies though.
The gameplay itself arguably isn’t too weird. Its usually deemed as a quite below average platformer, but the concept(as implied by the title) involves saving your friend from alcoholism. Your friend Master Hu failed defeating the Hindu god Shiva and started drinking. So you have to defeat Shiva so he can stop drinking himself out of his misery. Thats some game concept for a game from 1989! Well, if modern developers are looking more original concept than yet another game of a hero saving his girlfriend or a random princess, this is a rare idea for you, because more modern games should have the hero try save his friend from alcoholism.
Its only for Famicom, but here you can be instructed how to make sweaters with knitting of Super Mario! Yep, its a real game. So strange.
A strategy game from KOEI where you play as the cruel mongol war leader Genghis Khan? Strange in itself. Also, Genghis Kahn was rumored for having raped and impregnated hundreds of women in Mongolia(so the myth goes that "all" mongols are related to the old war leader.). This game doesn’t ignore or polish this perhaps disturbing fact. Along with trying to take over the world has the goal of fathering children. Bizarre.
Futuristic game where you play as a longhaired military agent. Oddly, the weapon of the protagonist is his hair, which he whips and headbangs his enemies with.
One of the more controversial games of all time due to it involving torture, blood, violence and nudity. In the arcades you played with guns shooting at the screen, so for NES you naturally use the good old zapper. The NES version(obviously unlisenced) is a little bit butchered down from the original, but there’s still enough to shock most people who thought Nintendo games were all innocent and cute.
There were some odd shooters for the console. Gun Nac with all the rabbits is one is another hot candidate for weird shooters, but Parodius probably takes the cake, as its a parody of shooters like Gradius. You fight basically anything in this game. Anything. Silly crazy randomness all the way.
Getting your kid on a skateboard to Sunday school at church might be the dumbest concept for a game ever, but it officially exist with Sunday Funday. This is a christian re-make of Menace Beach released in 1990, where you have to save a girl before her clothes rots of her body(quite absurd in itself perhaps). Instead your teacher nags you for being late for Sunday school in Sunday Funday.
Here’s a picture of the ending, when the teacher finally gets to welcome you to Sunday school.
The game also includes an karaoke of the christian song “The Ride” by the Christian band 4Him where you can sing along on an electronic 8-bit tune. Your dreams has finally come true!
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NES 646 (331 Manuals 319 Boxes)
Wii U 158
SNES 311
N64 189
Original Gameboy 48
