- Ah it's me Baldo, I wonder if anyone would buy that game.
From Atari to the NES, all the way up to the mind-blowing
graphics of the virtual reality of tomorrow,
video games have come a long way.
And during the evolution of consoles
we have fell in love with several classics,
that continue to be popular to this day.
But that evolution wasn't without at least a few rejects.
Of course there were many video games
that were created that never became popular,
but within those lie an even smaller minority
of games that were so weird and or shocking
that you're just not even gonna believe they were made.
Yes they are super bizarre and obscure,
but today I'm gonna tell you all about them.
So without further adieu, here are the 10 most
bizarre video games ever made.
Number one is Zombie Nation. (groans)
First released in Japan for the NES in 1990,
Zombie Nation tells the tale of an alien meteor
that crashes in Nevada and changes
every single American into Zombies.
Of course the world's only hope is you.
A floating spectral head of a samurai warrior,
named Namakubi, yep.
You play as a disembodied head that flies around
destroying your enemies with rapid-fire eyeballs
and projectile vomit, all while trying to catch
innocent victims who fall from the damaged buildings.
Oh but it gets so much weirder because
one of the bosses is the evil-possessed Statue of Liberty.
Nicely done Japan, you completely took the premise
of Ghostbusters two and made it into a video game.
More or less, weird.
Number two is the Home Improvement game. (grunts)
As awesome as the '90's show Home Improvement was,
the same definitely could not be said about the video game
that was based loosely and I do mean
loosely off of the show.
Released in 1994 on the SNES,
Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit,
confused children everywhere who
expected it to be like the TV show.
You play as Tim the tool man Taylor
as he tries to save his brand-new line of power tools
from robots, dinosaurs and (throat clears)
acid-spitting mummies.
He does this using different power tools
like energy-wave throwing chainsaws, yep.
Ah but the best part of the game,
its ability to force manliness on you.
No seriously, there are literally no instructions
for the game, the only words that are included are,
real men don't need instructions.
Could you imagine if this game was released in 2016?
Tumblr would explode.
Number three is Manhunt.
Known as one of the most disturbing games ever made,
Manhunt was created by Rockstar games in 2003
and has been the subject of a bit of controversy.
You play as James Earl Cash, a death-row inmate
who must navigate an abandoned city,
stealthily slaughtering gang members
and citizens in creative gory ways,
in order to obtain freedom from the Director.
And the more brutal the execution of your victims,
the more points the Director grants you
and the more disturbing the cut scenes are.
You know, as you get to watch the agonizing murder
unfold from a third-person perspective.
Fun for the whole family!
The brutal depiction of violence is only offset
by how cute one of the schizophrenic gang leaders looks
in his bunny costume, aw so cute.
Hippity hop, I'm going to stab you, hippity hop.
Number four is Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill.
Why does this exist?
Picture this someone's out to steal the launch codes
for America's arsenal of warheads.
So they brought in the most likely hero,
President Bill Clinton's cat, named Socks.
Developed in 1993 for the SNES,
Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill received
such horrible test reviews that it was never
officially released to the public.
In the game you play as the titled feline
as he tries to avoid spies and politicians
sent by ex American presidents,
who for some reason want control of the nukes.
As bizarre as it is incredibly controversial,
there's no wonder this game never made it to market.
Okay let's not pretend like you don't wanna play
as a president's cat who is somehow smart enough
to use its paws meow, to stop nuclear warheads.
Just don't be lyin' to me man, I see you behind your,
behind your tablet or phone or
computer screens just wantin' to be a kitty.
Number five is Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, hee hee.
Moonwalker walker was released for multiple platforms
in 1989 and told the story of Michael Jackson's quest
to save a bunch of children from an evil drug dealer
by using his greatest weapon, dance.
Using his magical dance abilities, Michael can attack
the villain, mister Big's horde of thugs,
by high kicking them, hurling his hat,
or you know, physically forcing them to dance until they die
but hey let's add to the absurdity
by including his pet chimp, Bubbles.
He appears as a powerup and can transform
the king of pop into a laser-shooting robot.
I'm not making this up.
The final level of the Sega Genesis version
finds Michael transformed into a spaceship
and shooting it out with mister Big's ship because science.
Wow I got through all of that without
a single Michael Jackson joke, that's a first on my channel.
Number six is Dark Seed.
Dark Seed is a point-and-click horror adventure
that was released for several systems around 1992.
You control the actions of a regular guy
named Mike Dawson as he experiences horrifying nightmares,
discovers an alien in his brain and crosses
into a visually unnerving alternate reality.
But where the game gets truly disturbing
is in its use of impending doom implanted in the player.
Many actions in Dark Seed must be completed
within a very tight time limit and without checkpoints,
which means that failure to succeed,
results in having to start the whole game over again.
This in turn gives you an escalated feeling
of dread the further you get into the story.
This very much sounds like a rage inducing game.
Could you only imagine getting to the end
and be like I'm about to beat it and then you die,
and then you freak out, you smash the controller
and the system, and then you don't have a system anymore.
So yeah that's why this game wasn't very popular.
Number seven is Seaman.
(mouthing emits air) Seaman.
Seaman (laughs) is a virtual-pet simulator
developed by Sega's Dreamcast console in 1999.
The objective is to raise a talking fish-man hybrid.
Oh but it gets better!
Narrated by the late Leonard Nimoy,
Seaman requires you to give your pet constant reassurance
using the included microphone or else it will die.
Just like a real-life fish-man hybrid.
Of course reassurance is right up there with oxygen.
And the constant need to lecture people on the proper use
of nose-hair trimming in relation to making popcorn.
Did that not make sense, neither does this game.
In the end your pet can evolve into a number of forms
including frog man, pod fish, and gill man.
Which all sound like the names of heroes
Aquaman rejected in the search of his new sidekick.
Fish man nana nana nana nana Fish man.
What?
Number eight is Penn and Teller's
Smoke and Mirrors: Desert Bus.
Developed in 1995 for Sega CD but never officially released,
Smoke and Mirrors consisted of
several mini-games on one cartridge.
Among these strange mini-games was a game
called Desert Bus, where you have to drive a bus
with no passengers at a maximum speed
of 72 kilometers an hour, there isn't even traffic.
Sometimes there's the occasional sign or rock,
and the straight road requires almost no interaction
and you can play it for up to eight hours.
Just that, without the ability to pause.
Yeah that's why it got scrapped.
Number nine is Shaq Fu.
When an evil mummy kidnaps a child
and whisks him away to a fortress in an alternate universe,
there's only one thing to do,
convince a famous NBA player to go after them, der.
Released for the SNES and Sega Genesis in 1994,
you play as Shaq, who on his way to a charity
basketball tournament in Japan,
ends up being tricked into entering a portal where
it suddenly becomes a Mortal Kombat-style fighting game.
You know just the average day for Shaq.
You as Shaq, beat up a bunch of possessed heroes
and children, children.
This game is so bad that there are actually
two online communities devoted to it.
One wishes to erase every single
cartridge of Shaq Fu from existence,
while the other managed to get a sequel, crowd-funded
in order to spread the evil even further.
The internet is a weird place.
And number 10 is Baby's Day Out.
You know before the GTAs and Call of Dutys,
or even the Halos of the world,
was a video game so exciting that it felt like
the world around you was moving at a crawl.
Mostly because it was.
Another bizarre game to be rightfully cancelled
just a day before its release,
Baby's Day Out was developed in 1994 for Sega Genesis,
and had you play as some kind
of ghostly guardian angel thing.
You fly around as you lure a crawling baby named Bink,
through each level by bating it through obstacles,
opening gates for it and letting it fall, fall
off of high ledges, I uh I just
don't know what to say about this one.
A good starter game for parents everywhere, okay.
And now you're just a little closer to nightmares.
You're welcome.
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(video game bleeping)