Games you can't believe exist

[Anonymous No.4079117]

A thread for discussion of games that completely confound you as to why they were ever made.

Pic related. It's time for another round of good idea, bad idea.
Good idea, making a sequel to Outrun, a super enjoyable game with a great soundtrack and features some of the most comfy visuals to date.
Bad idea, making it set in the future with a sub-par soundtrack and none of the charm.

[Anonymous No.4079120]

It always reminded me of Night Stalker...but without any of the awesome

[Anonymous No.4079121]

>>4079117
it was only renamed into an outrun game late into development.

[Anonymous No.4079145]

>making it set in the future
I see no issue

>sub-par soundtrack
Compared to Outrun maybe, but it's still great.

>none of the charm.
But double the RAD

[Anonymous No.4079212]

thats some badass art!

[Anonymous No.4079215]

>>4079117
>sub-par soundtrack and none of the charm.

You are a faggot.

[Anonymous No.4079228]

>You play as a monkey with a backpack
>Ok, sounds fun
>Your goal is to find a key to unlock a door somewhere in each level
>Where is the key?
>Being held by living fruit that will try to kill you
>How do I get the key out of their hands?
>You attack the fruit
>How do I do that?
>You make a jelly ball pop out of your skull
>I do what?
>You make a fucking jelly ball pop out of your head and then you gotta bounce it off your skull a few times so it gets bigger
>And hitting them with that will kill them?
>No it only stuns them
>Then how do I kill them?
>You press another button while the jelly ball is in midair which turns the jelly ball into one of 5 different sports balls. Hit them with that, and it kills them so you can get the key
>Sounds crazy. So what's the final boss to this game, a giant pineapple?
>A witch with a bird.
>A fucking what?
>The pineapple boss is earlier

[Anonymous No.4079991]

>>4079117
If it ran a little more smoothly and didn't look like mud I wouldn't complain

>>4079121
See also: Ghoul Patrol, a much worse game, much more of a disappointment to anyone looking for a real ZAMN sequel

[Anonymous No.4080013]

>>4079117
>Bad idea, making it set in the future with a sub-par soundtrack and none of the charm

I like that it has a different setting it is part of the charm for me. Love bpth games a tpn.

[Anonymous No.4080158]

To this day I can't see why anyone through that there was a demand for shitty tarot reading simulator on NES.

>Captain Novolin, Rex Ronan, Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus and Packy and Marlon
I guess this quadrilogy of games meaning to educate people about health problems like diabetes and dangers of smoking also deserves a "honorable" mention.

[Anonymous No.4080186]

Street Fighter 2999, sidescroller starring ken

[Anonymous No.4080204]

[Anonymous No.4080205]

>>4080013
>Love bpth games a tpn.
wat

[Anonymous No.4080207]

>>4080204
Gorbachev is kawaii as fuck

[Anonymous No.4080239]

>>4080158
I'm sure someone in a trailer park somewhere bought it to pick his lotto numbers. Nintendo sometimes dabbled in titles that were outside of the province of games. There's also the King James Bible on Gameboy.

[Anonymous No.4080621]

>>4080158
>shitty tarot reading simulator on NES.
I bought the cart a long time ago, because why not. It's weird because it's super limited, even for just a dumb little fortune telling program. It might have been interesting if it actually did a full star chart based on your actual birth time (like "real" astrologers will do) with your rising signs and shit, but it's super basic. It feels more like a demo or somebody's programming class project.

[Anonymous No.4082083]

>>4080186
It was Street Fighter 2010.

[Anonymous No.4083253]

How about a SD Battle Arena Toshinden that is absolutely awful? Why the fuck this is a thing?
How bad it is? Worse than Tekken 1 bad. The camera is spastic and the characters warp in weird ways, possibly to simulate "cartoon effects".
>hey, like Sonic The Fighters? That wasn't too b-
No, not like Sonic The Fighters. It's really fucked up.

And, my God, there's also a Toshinden CARD GAME! WHY? Was Toshinden really THAT big?

[Anonymous No.4083254]

>>4083253
When they finally cleared their act up with Toshiden 4 nobody seemed to care anymore.

[Anonymous No.4083258]

>>4083253
The card game had a lot of lore hidden in it, if you like the storyline of the game.

There's also a Puzzle Arena Toshinden.

[Anonymous No.4083262]

>>4083258
I like some character designs. The busty ones.

[Anonymous No.4083358]

>>4083253
Toshinden was the first system seller of the PSX. It was the SF2 killer: the first 3D fighting game we could play at home, as it got released before Tekken. It was the only thing we had, and all we wanted.

[Anonymous No.4083359]

>>4083253
>Tekken 1 bad

fuck you

[Anonymous No.4083376]

>>4083253
>the characters warp in weird ways, possibly to simulate "cartoon effects".
wow, I've never actually seen the game in motion -- it looks REALLY weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_VN7ONXlRE

[Anonymous No.4083378]

>>4083359
Games don't age, fighting games don't become obsolete once a new balancing update is released and Tekken 1 graphics still look amazing to this day.

[Anonymous No.4083379]

>>4083376
Total Kusoge, lol. I want to see this played at high level on EVO

[Anonymous No.4083386]

>>4083378
>fighting games don't become obsolete once a new balancing update is released
Yes because the difference between Tekken 1 and 2 is TOTALLY just a balancing update. FUCK OFF.

[Anonymous No.4083387]

>>4083378
>fighting games don't become obsolete once a new balancing update is released


They basically do though.

[Anonymous No.4083424]

Junker's High only got Outrun name just like US Gold's Outrun Europa , I'm pretty sure no original devs are involved in them. That said, OR2019 is a pretty solid game, I actually like it more than the console version of Turbo Outrun, which is a 'true' sequel

[Anonymous No.4083496]

>>4083358
>It was the only thing we had, and all we wanted.
You, perhaps. It was 1994 and all I wanted still was Street Fighter and games with blood like Mortal Kombat. No one gave a fuck to Playstation at first.

>>4083378
>Tekken 1 graphics still look amazing to this day.
Yeah, sure...
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>>4063893
This is an amazing looking game. Released in the same year as Virtua Fuckin' Fighter 2.

[Anonymous No.4083502]

>>4083496
Looks good to me. Man, it sure is hot outside. All the kids came together to shitpost on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.4083507]

>>4080158
That game has nudity and wasn't censored back then, and it isn't japanese.
There is also other Tarot games that I know of, one for Super Famicom, and another for Game Gear, both japan-only.

[Anonymous No.4083537]

>>4080204
>>4080207
What is this game about? What does it has to do with Gorbachev and the USSR?

[Anonymous No.4084078]

>>4083502
>Looks good to me
You got some pretty poor eyesight then.

[Anonymous No.4084847]

>>4079120
>reminded me of Night Stalker.
what night stalker?

The Night Stalker (1972 film), a 1972 made-for-television movie starring Darren McGavin
Kolchak: The Night Stalker, a 1974 television series based on the movie, starring Darren McGavin
Night Stalker (TV series), a 2005 remake of the original Kolchak series
The Night Stalker (1987 film), a 1987 horror film starring Charles Napier
Nightstalker (film), a 2002 horror film directed by Chris Fisher
Nightstalker, a 2009 horror film directed by Ulli Lommel
The Night Stalker (2016 film), a 2016 psychological thriller directed by Megan Griffiths and starring Lou Diamond Phillips
Nightstalkers (comics), a horror fiction comic book
Night Stalker (video game), an early 1980s game for the Intellivision


you cant possibly mean pic realted

[Anonymous No.4084857]

>>4083537
Its a puzzle game. Sort of a combination between Pipe Dreams and Tetris.

[Anonymous No.4084858]

>>4084847
Whoops, I meant Night STRIKER.

[Anonymous No.4084883]

>>4079228

I like how everything important on that box art is fucking CRAMMED into the left side. Where did they get it from, a tape cassette box or something?

[Anonymous No.4084901]

>>4084857
Sounds fun

[Anonymous No.4085004]

Fantasy Zone: The Maze. A mashup of Pac-Man and the Master System version of Fantasy Zone 1.

[Anonymous No.4086085]

>>4085004
They really, really, really liked mazes and labyrinths.

How about this Sonic game where Sonic is SLOW? How the fuck this is a thing?

[Anonymous No.4086694]

>>4086085
If you remove Sonic from this picture, it could be a prog-rock album cover.

[Anonymous No.4086715]

>>4086085
Labyrinth isn't actually that bad of a game. It's nothing like Sonic, but is a decent puzzler in it's own right.

[Anonymous No.4086721]

Everything about this game feels like a hoax. It's like Atari releasing a game satirizing the video game crash in 1984.

[Anonymous No.4086726]

Everything about this game feels like a hoax. It's like if Atari released a game satirizing the video game crash... in 1984. It's an obituary for Sega before Sega was even dead.

[Anonymous No.4086727]

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[Anonymous No.4086730]

>>4086726
It's really weird to see a piece of Japanese media refer to one of it's characters as an "anime boy". It's even weirder that the entire back of the box is in English.

[Anonymous No.4086921]

>>4086727
This made my day. It's made even funnier that I actually LIKE Asia.

[Anonymous No.4086950]

>>4086730
That ain't the real cover you fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.4086957]

>>4086950
Oh.

[Anonymous No.4087063]

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>>4086950
Don't swear.