{"id":88753,"date":"2016-04-21T15:33:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88753"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:33:11","slug":"the-weirdest-games-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88753-the-weirdest-games-ever-made","title":{"rendered":"The weirdest games ever made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every form of art and entertainment has its weird elements, and gaming is no different.<\/p>\n<p>The weirdness listed below ranges from enticingly intriguing, to disturbing nightmare material.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the weirdest games ever made, guaranteed to leave you asking, \u201cwhat did I just play?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Japan World Cup 3<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Let\u2019s kick things off in Japan, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, a virtual sports betting game from Japan made headlines all over the English-speaking world for its thoroughly entertaining depiction of horse racing.<\/p>\n<p>While the jra-jwc.jp website no longer seems to be operational, the videos of this gem remain online and are well worth a watch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sdmsRcsl_xA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Goat Simulator<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Beating out Farming Simulator for the spot of wackiest simulator game on this list, Goat Simulator seemed to achieve success by not taking itself seriously at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoat Simulator is a completely stupid game and, to be honest, you should probably spend your money on something else, such as a hula hoop, a pile of bricks, or maybe pool your money together with your friends and buy a real goat,\u201d a disclaimer on the game\u2019s store page says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Goat-Simulator.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88809\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88809\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Goat-Simulator.jpg\" alt=\"Goat Simulator\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Goat-Simulator.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Goat-Simulator-230x130.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Samba De Amigo (Dreamcast)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Originally developed for Dreamcast, and later ported to Wii.<\/p>\n<p>Samba De Amigo is a rhythm game\u2026 for maracas. Literally Guitar Hero for maracas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HGxzxoAt-QQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Space Giraffe (Xbox 360)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This arcade shooter features dizzying colours, out-of-place sound effects, and pop culture references for days.<\/p>\n<p>It is best summarised by the message displayed when you beat a level:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCONGRATURATION! YOU SUCCESS!<br \/>\nA WINNER IS YOU!<br \/>\nBUT OUR GIRAFFE IS IN<br \/>\nANOTHER CASTLE!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P1o-Hwyjol8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Catherine (PlayStation)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This bizarre game for the PlayStation 3 is part dating sim, part platform puzzler, and part horror\u00a0game.<\/p>\n<p>It was also one of the highest-rated and most beloved games of 2011, so if you\u2019re still going to play this game, don\u2019t read further.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Here be spoilers]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You play Vincent Brooks, a tormented young man who starts having nightmares when his girlfriend, Katherine, begins to pressure him into marriage.<\/p>\n<p>When he meets the beautiful and mysterious Catherine, and begins an affair with her, the nightmares grow more intense.<\/p>\n<p>During the day, you navigate Vincent through the tricky task of juggling two women. By night, you climb a staircase tower while being chased by whatever disturbing imagery Vincent\u2019s subconscious has cooked up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Catherine-dream.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88807\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88807 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Catherine-dream-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine dream\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Catherine-dream-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Catherine-dream-230x130.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Viscera Cleanup Detail<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>South Africa has a bit of a reputation for developing games with a quirky sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I made that up, but between games like Desktop Dungeons, BroForce, and Viscera Cleanup Detail, we should have a reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Viscera gets the nod for this article, because it asks and answers the delightfully dark question: What happens after Freeman, Duke, or Master Chief have rampaged through some sci-fi installation and left nothing but blood and giblets in their wake?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Viscera-Cleanup-Detail-early-access-gameplay.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88805\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Viscera-Cleanup-Detail-early-access-gameplay-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Viscera Cleanup Detail early access gameplay\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Viscera-Cleanup-Detail-early-access-gameplay-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Viscera-Cleanup-Detail-early-access-gameplay-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Viscera-Cleanup-Detail-early-access-gameplay-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Viscera-Cleanup-Detail-early-access-gameplay.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Giraffe Attack<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Soviet Union has chosen a giraffe to be the first creature sent into space.<\/p>\n<p>Comrade Giraffe is not well loved by the other nations of the world, however, and so they try to bomb him as he ascends.<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQ_CsTM9qFg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Harvester<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>[Spoiler alert for violent 90s adventure game. It\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/287020\/\" target=\"_blank\">available on Steam<\/a> for R65 if you want to play it before I reveal the big plot twist.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The year is 1996, and the hysteria around video game violence is beginning to grip the US.<\/p>\n<p>While the term \u201cmurder simulator\u201d for games like Doom and Grand Theft Auto would only emerge after retired army Lt. Col. David Grossman coined it on a TV special, the rumblings had already begun.<\/p>\n<p>Harvester made sure that you knew it didn\u2019t care about gratuitous violence in video gaming by letting you murder everyone in the town its set in.<\/p>\n<p>And then it reveals the big secret: it\u2019s all really a virtual reality simulation designed to turn gamers into serial killers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Harvester-game.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88815\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88815 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Harvester-game.png\" alt=\"Harvester game\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Seaman<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>No list of weird games is complete without a mention of this gem from the Dreamcast.<\/p>\n<p>You must raise a human-faced fish called Seaman, and use the Dreamcast\u2019s microphone to talk and interact with your somewhat unfriendly pet.<\/p>\n<p>To crown it all, the game is narrated by Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the original Star Trek series and films.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Seaman-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47042\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Seaman-1.jpg\" alt=\"Seaman\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Seaman-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Seaman-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Seaman-1-250x154.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More gaming articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/84947-worst-games-of-2015-according-to-the-reviews.html\"><strong>Worst games of 2015 according to the reviews<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/84595-the-most-ridiculous-in-game-purchases-sold-in-the-best-way.html\"><strong>The most ridiculous in-game purchases, sold in the best way<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember children, what has been seen cannot be unseen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":88813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[17931,17927,12013,17937,21,17929,17933,17939,17935,17923,17925,10658,9739],"class_list":["post-88753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-catherine","tag-disturbing","tag-goat-simulator","tag-harvester","tag-headline","tag-japan-world-cup-3","tag-samba-de-amigo","tag-seaman","tag-space-giraffe","tag-uncanny","tag-unnerving","tag-viscera-cleanup-detail","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89935,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753\/revisions\/89935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}