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Post by acidonia on Jan 15, 2011 20:43:09 GMT -5
Panic! and The Lawnmower Man for the Sega CD. I actually kinda enjoy both of them, but Panic is just... weird, and the gameplay is nothing more than pressing a button over and over again; while Lawnmower Man is nothing more than lame mini-games and horrendous FMV. Battle Royale for the TG-16. A shockingly bad wrestling game with about three moves you can perform and ONE type of match you can play, the over the top rope battle royal, over and over and over again (to be fair, you can alter the number of wrestlers you go up against, but you're still essentially playing the same type of match). Despite this, I friggin LOVE the game, I suppose because I'm a freak and must've been dropped on my head multiple times as a child. The game is rife with terrible humor, the wrestlers are some of the most stereotypical pro wrestling tropes you can possibly imagine (one of the characters is like an amalgam of Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, AND the Road Warriors rolled into one), the menu music is this godawful 'special bulletin' style tune (can't explain it any better than that, you'll have to listen to know what I mean), and when a grappler is thrown out of the ring they let loose an absurdly out of place Wilhelm scream - as if they were being thrown into a tank of deadly piranhas and electric eels. I'm almost ashamed to admit how much I've played this silly game, but I feel I've spent more than enough time playing it to know that it is 100% kusoge. The most pathetic thing about the Mega Cd version of the Lawn Mower man is. The PAL version will not work on Pal Machines because the Idiots printed it with the NSTC code instead of PAL so only PAL versions that work on a PAL console without a Region bypassing chip/ Cd is the Demo of the game. What makes this even more funny is they never made any copys of the full game with the PAL code making the PAL boxed copys a sorta collectors item that is unplayable to most in that region. It's not the only Mega Cd with a huge problem like this Mortal Kombat had a nasty glitch where it always crashed at final boss they did fix it but fixed copys have the exact same cover meaning you can not tell if its the buged version or not.
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Post by A Winner Is You on Jan 16, 2011 2:01:59 GMT -5
The most pathetic thing about the Mega Cd version of the Lawn Mower man is. The PAL version will not work on Pal Machines because the Idiots printed it with the NSTC code instead of PAL so only PAL versions that work on a PAL console without a Region bypassing chip/ Cd is the Demo of the game. What makes this even more funny is they never made any copys of the full game with the PAL code making the PAL boxed copys a sorta collectors item that is unplayable to most in that region. Very interesting information! You'd think SOMEONE would have caught such a major league screw-up during production. I wonder if a game qualifies as kusoge if you can't even boot the bloody thing up in the first place?
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Post by vetus on Jan 16, 2011 8:42:44 GMT -5
For some reason I like Chiller. It's short and it's incredibly easy on MAME thanks to mouse control but I can't imagine it was too difficult in the arcade either since nothing attacks you. I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of killing innocent people in games and if there was every a realistic remake on a current gen system I'd probably be sickened. Still, I think it's fun to play every once in a blue moon and marvel at the fact such a crazy game exists. Personally I wouldn't consider it as a kusoge. Putting aside that, I also love Chiller (you see, I do love splatter games), expecially since you wouldn't find such gore games like this back then on the arcades. Here is a nice article for this game: www.ironicconsumer.com/videogames/chiller.htmlAnd an interesting fact I found on Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Hamster_Software ): Just imagine a compilation of Exidy games including Chiller. As if!
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Post by megatronbison on Jan 16, 2011 14:52:23 GMT -5
Does 'Incredible Crisis' count? It's pretty awful by and large but there is something awesome about a game that has you running from a big Boulder thing Indiana Jones style and then soon after answering daft trivia to avoid being electrocuted by insane paramedics, doing a back massage for a lady that sounds like she is too into it and also cracking a safe via the medium of men in wolf masks playing the trumpet!
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Post by Jave on Jan 16, 2011 20:07:29 GMT -5
Just imagine a compilation of Exidy games including Chiller. As if! Back when Hollywood did that terrible remake of Death Race, if only someone could have brought back Exidy's arcade game.
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Post by vetus on Jan 17, 2011 4:49:17 GMT -5
Does 'Incredible Crisis' count? Hmmmm...I would say it counts more as a cult, qualitative game. Moreover, it has a great soundtrack from Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, one of the most well-known ska/jazz bands in Japan and it was one of the best ancestors of WarioWare series. It deserves to be released on Playstation Network.
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Post by A Winner Is You on Jan 17, 2011 21:13:43 GMT -5
I got another one - Jurassic Park Interactive for the 3D0. A total shitburger of a game... which of course means I have a soft spot for it.
I guess part of this is simply nostalgia. I remember playing it as a kid. Even though I knew it was garbage then, I was hooked on all things Jurassic Park, so I plugged away at the gawdawful mini-games, some of which were broken and nearly unwinnable. And - seriously - who exactly was clamoring for a Jurassic Park version of Space Invaders anyway?
Then you had the arcade sequences. One of these saw you shooting at the Dilophosaurs (the spitters) with the worst gun in the world (the controls are mind bogglingly sluggish). Another saw you attempting to drive one of the park jeeps away from the T-Rex. Just like in the movie, right?! Sure - if you play the movie in slow-motion.
The only slightly redeeming sequence in the game is the 'Raptor Maze', where you have to wander around completely weaponless in darkened generator rooms trying to avoid the Raptor trapped inside with you. The first-person perspective and super-creepy music really adds to the immersion and atmosphere... but the fun is usually over far too quickly and it's back to blasting Spitters with your taser again.
Also amusing were the short FMV sequences of the park visitors stranded on the island. The developers weren't able to use the likeness of the actual actors in the film, so we have some public access television lookalikes instead. Each FMV consists of a few seconds of a Grant or Malcolm lookalike running through some trees in California dodging invisible dinosaurs. The comedy never ends.
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Post by vetus on Jan 18, 2011 10:55:28 GMT -5
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Post by megatronbison on Jan 18, 2011 13:22:29 GMT -5
Also amusing were the short FMV sequences of the park visitors stranded on the island. The developers weren't able to use the likeness of the actual actors in the film, so we have some public access television lookalikes instead. Each FMV consists of a few seconds of a Grant or Malcolm lookalike running through some trees in California dodging invisible dinosaurs. The comedy never ends. Please tell me there is a youtube compilation
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Post by clubamerica on Jan 18, 2011 19:32:22 GMT -5
Castle Shikigami 2- this is a good game gameplay-wise and has the amazing benefit of probably the most nonsensical voiced English dialog in video game history, not to mention tons of it depending on what character you play the game with and if you are playing with a second player. Ditto, it's fun to play and laugh at with friends.
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Post by vetus on Jan 19, 2011 20:51:49 GMT -5
Even Castle of Shikigami 3 for Wii/X-Box 360 which was localised from a different publisher was dub-only (at least on Wii version, I don't know about X-Box 360 version). T_T At least the dub is ok but still laughable mainly because the non-sense dialogues of the game. XD
Putting aside that, I do love Shikigami no Shiro series on their original, japanese pc version. If only there was a decent compilation for the consoles with japanese audio.
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Post by DojoCasino on Jan 19, 2011 22:52:45 GMT -5
Since when is every wacky game a kusoge? Incredible Crisis is awesome... Nothing about it is bad, the gameplay is shallow but fun and not broken or anything. And the game is hilarious, and has a great soundtrack as already mentioned.
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Post by annoyedgrunt on Jan 20, 2011 20:22:01 GMT -5
I had a fun time mocking Space Pirates on the 3D0 with friends but I'm not sure it's kusoge level bad. I mean, FMV light gun games are usually pretty bad and this is no exception but I don't know if it's exceptionally worse than any of the others. I guess the one thing that would put it apart is that the low budget and bad effects are even more apparent when trying to do a sci-fi epic compared to a western or cop game.
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Post by evilakito on Jan 20, 2011 22:03:40 GMT -5
Since when is every wacky game a kusoge? I was wondering the same thing. Based on what I've read in this thread, I can't help but wonder what game isn't kusoge. I always thought of kusoge as a game that's on the quality level of a Color Dreams game. It's not just any bad game, but a special kind of bad game that's so poor in quality that it's barely playable. Not every bad game is kusoge. Not every wacky/unconventional/fucked-up game is kusoge.
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Post by Snarboo on Jan 20, 2011 22:16:28 GMT -5
There was a discussion on this in the Weekly Kusoge thread. It seems no one can agree on the terminology. I always took it to mean a "guilty pleasure": something you know is bad but can't help but love.
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