Fun Fact! Koudelka was going to feature Resident Evil-type combat with on-screen monsters, but at the 11:59th hour the dev team rebelled against the producer, hence why the battle system is so bleh and the castle is so empty. Awesome game still. I'd love to see someone hack the Shadow Hearts ring-system into the game, though.
I liked the battle system in koudelka. Also, there are not enough turn based horror RPGs. It is is a while since I played it, maybe you are right the combat system is undercooked. I wish the shadow hearts games would be more like koudelka. They are so goofy that overshadows the horror elements for me.
My punk band put out an album this year called Paranoiathon and the music video for the single was a ps1 graphic looking trippy video. It’s blowing my mind that (as ps1 nerds) we never knew a punk musician made a game called Paranoiascape!!!! My mind is blown rn lol
I am so happy to see Incredible Crisis finally get some deserved recognition. It was the most bombastic, weirdest game I ever played, but I loved it's oddness...even if I could never get past the ferris wheel scene. And why did we never get a Destrega sequel is beyond me.
You can’t talk about Screaming Mad George and not mention Freaked(1993). It’s on TH-cam and you owe it yourself to watch it. It just may be the best movie ever made.
Sheep dog and wolf looked AMAZING! I have never seen anything about that gem of a game before. The art design, graphics style & character animations is everything i love in video games. Man i wish we still got video games like that
Azure Dreams. I couldn't tell if it was a roguelike, monster catching, town building, dating sim, or a town building, dating sim, monster catching roguelike. But I liked it, and thought it was underappreciated (still do).
A missed mention in the koudelka part is that the voice acting is easily some of, if not the best on the entire system. The actors really gave it their all and it was clear the directors wanted them to be theatrical about it
Weird PS1 games y'say, my speciality...try these out for size: - ...They're Here - weird survival horror in a Japanese school - Aconcagua...point-n-click survival games with a dash of South American politics - Akuji the Heartless - Soulreaver, but more voodoo-ey - Baroque...weirdly dark FPS dungeon crawler in a post apocalyptic world - Fluid...the weird music game - Gamera 2000...Star Fox 64 / Panzer Dragoon, but with a giant rocket firing turtle as a sidekick - Gegege No Kitarou - like Japanese Ghouls n Ghosts with a creepy kid that can fire headlice - Hakaaiou: King of Crusher - play as a guy with anger management issues wrecking the place and becoming the god of anger 🤬 Iblard: City of Hatching Laputa - this is like a Star Trek TNG season 1 away mission as a game 😂 - Kaze No Notam: Notam of Wind - a hot air balloon-em-up...yes, really - Liberogrande - the football game where you play as one player only - LSD simulator - pretty infamous - Mad Panic Coaster - fun! - Moon RPG - an RPG where you're playing as a guy sucked into the RPG he was playing, Inception style - Oh no! - distilled Japanese weirdness - Planet Laika - adventure RPG set on Mars, but everyone's a dog... - Power Shovel - oh how I love Power Shovel...complete various nonsensicle tasks in a JCB - Remote Control Dandy - play as a kid controlling a city destroying robot, from the perspective of the kid at ground level - Rising Zan!!! The Samurai Gunman...great theme tune 😂 - Slap Happy Rhythm Busters - lovely cell-shaded 1-on-1 fighter, also a rhythm game - Warpath: Jurassic Park - sod Primal Rage, full 3D dinosaur fights, yes! - Welcome House - a weird puzzle game in an abandoned house
Warpaaaaaaaaath! man I started playing that to record footage for our best PS1 games list and I dunno why but it got me HOOKED haha thanks for the awesome suggestions! - Jimmy
Every video of yours is a true gaming documentary, you guys always make an outstanding job! Kudos for featuring Destrega, the game was nuts and even the soundtrack alone was a banger. I remember of Spider, the cover was featured on a lot of promotional PlayStation flyer by Sony but nobody gave a s*** about it back in the day. Hellnight was... yeah, something like cursed. But it was so damn fascinating (at least for me).
Great video as always 🖤 If you do another one of these anytime soon, please consider Racing Lagoon. Another Japan only game released in 1999 developed by Squaresoft as a CaRPG. It has its flaws(a lot i feel are at least alleviated with emulation), but it has such a charm and vibe to it and the story while starting off fairly simple becomes so convoluted and insane the further you get 😂. The soundtrack is also amazing, an easy S tier in my book sitting along side the greats of that era from Square.
I wish the shadowhearts games were more like koudelka. The goofy, silly tone of the games really clashes with the horror elements for me. Koudelka has a more consistent mood. Cool video!
Played Sheep Raider and Blast Chamber... both were genuinely good times. Surprised Skullmonkeys didn't make the list though - a claymation side-scrolling sequel to The Neverhood, where one of the weapons you have access to is called the Universe Enema. 🤯
Muppet Race Mania probably isn't quite weird enough. I mean, it may seem like a cash grab with all the "cart" racers that came out back then, but being a Muppets game, it so happens to be both weird and fun. There are a ton of Muppets to unlock and a few game modes.
Destrega has actually been on my list for like a decade, but I have never managed to find a copy. I fell in love with it way back, since I played a demo disc it was on, along other games that some of I have managed to get my hands on, such as T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger.
The unholy war and future cop LAPD are my "not everyone knows them* PS1 games. Oh and battle arena toshinden 3 but that one isn't really hidden or unknown
@CulturedVultures z chęcią obejrzę gra jest ciekawa, i nie zasłużyła na ocenę 4/10. Jest naprawdę dziwną mieszanką gatunku . Platformowa, horror ,scfi i RPG. Czekam na materiał, w końcu to spadkobierca (Doktor Hauzer) z 3do
My favorite weird game that is no joke really fun is Dynamite Cop! It's like of Japanese game designers wrote a sequel to Die Hard with a different character. Very lost in translation, and very enjoyable!
Mizzurna Falls definitely reminds me of a proto-Shemue on a older generation console. Also the Looney Tunes game has VERY good graphics for a PS1; I am impressed.
I had a feeling Spider would be on this list. As someone who grew up in the sidescroller era with a taste for absolute weirdness, I found that one to be a lot of nostalgic fun. Gotta love the blatant ripoff of “Miserlou” in the soundtrack. I’m really wondering how I hadn’t heard of Paranoiascape before! Seems kind of like a 3D Crush Pinball game with mobile flippers. I love a lot of movies that this Screaming Mad George guy has worked on, but now realize that he has dug an elaborate psycho punk rabbit hole that I have no choice but to completely dive into.
@@pharmcat8484 I collect old teddy bears and write about video games for money. I *can* get weirder, but I don't know. The last time that happened, the cops came, and ah I've said too much.
With the exception of Looney Toons, every one of these looks less like an actual PS1 game and more like one of those modern itch-io Indie games with exaggerated faux-PS1 graphics. Especially that "Germs" game.
I was sure you were making these up and these were PC games with the PS1 look - UNTIL I saw Sheep Dog 'n' Wolf, bizarre game I owned with even more bizarre cover art.
I played Koudelka back in the day, and I don't get why so many TH-camrs cream their jeans over this game. To each their own, sure, but I found it slow, boring, and I wish I still had a copy, so I could give it another try to see if I feel differently now. I think I traded it for Tetris Plus. Guess which one goes for a few hundred dollars now and which one goes for the price of a cup of vending machine coffee in an ER waiting room? Of course, I do still play Tetris Plus, so despite missing the chance to cash in on Ebay, maybe I made a good trade after all.
I enjoy your videos but I wish you'd show all the retro games at their original resolutions. High resolutions just show off all the low poly flaws. Why do you show some at higher resolutions than others?
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Which slightly weird but GOOD PS1 freakazoid deserves more love? Leave your suggestions down below
@@CulturedVultures my only freaky weird game. Is Wild 9. The dudes who made Earthworm Jim. Using just the sounds its a weird ass game.
I actually own blast chamber. LOUDEST game i own
@AlmostCoolGuys I just recorded something on Wild 9! Long live WEX MAJOR
Did you removed one video ??? With coyote on the thumbnail???
Planet Laika, definitely !
Each video must be like 5 hours research, 3 hours writing, 2 hours editing. Genuinely impressive with your output
Editing always takes longer than you think it will too
@ even more impressive then. And yes, I always underestimate the editing process
You forgot the 3-5 hours of procrastination in between all that as the writer stares lifelessly into the void, hoping words will magically appear.
There are probably multiple people making each video.
@@neetpride5919 clicked to say this exact thing lol
Fun Fact! Koudelka was going to feature Resident Evil-type combat with on-screen monsters, but at the 11:59th hour the dev team rebelled against the producer, hence why the battle system is so bleh and the castle is so empty.
Awesome game still. I'd love to see someone hack the Shadow Hearts ring-system into the game, though.
I liked the battle system in koudelka. Also, there are not enough turn based horror RPGs. It is is a while since I played it, maybe you are right the combat system is undercooked. I wish the shadow hearts games would be more like koudelka. They are so goofy that overshadows the horror elements for me.
My punk band put out an album this year called Paranoiathon and the music video for the single was a ps1 graphic looking trippy video. It’s blowing my mind that (as ps1 nerds) we never knew a punk musician made a game called Paranoiascape!!!! My mind is blown rn lol
Sheep, Dog, and Wolf actually looks legitimately eye popping like a cartoon!
If he called wiley coyote, wolf one more time i was gonna fly to london and kick his ass.....
I think the weirdest PS1 game I ever played was the LSD dream simulator game
After all these years of watching video games lists, this is the first time i hear “first person pin ball game”
I watched someone play Blast Chamber not too terribly long ago, and I want to say it was those brilliant maniacs at Retro Pals.
PS1 era.... Good times
I am so happy to see Incredible Crisis finally get some deserved recognition.
It was the most bombastic, weirdest game I ever played, but I loved it's oddness...even if I could never get past the ferris wheel scene.
And why did we never get a Destrega sequel is beyond me.
Seeing Blast Chamber on this list warmed my heart.
2:22 3 years before GTA 3, 1 year before Driver and Shenmue.
"Blast Chamber" was weird, but an absolute blast with 4 players. Nothing similar has come out since.
I had this on the Sega Saturn. My friends laughed when I bought it secondhand for about £3. But it was hilarious and we had a great time
You can’t talk about Screaming Mad George and not mention Freaked(1993). It’s on TH-cam and you owe it yourself to watch it. It just may be the best movie ever made.
I’ve heard of some of these, but only from previous videos.
Same
Lol morning Sam... Morning Ralph 😆 never knew they made a game of those two!
Sheep dog and wolf looked AMAZING! I have never seen anything about that gem of a game before. The art design, graphics style & character animations is everything i love in video games. Man i wish we still got video games like that
Azure Dreams. I couldn't tell if it was a roguelike, monster catching, town building, dating sim, or a town building, dating sim, monster catching roguelike. But I liked it, and thought it was underappreciated (still do).
Hellnight is a cool one. Weirdly chill horror survival. Kinda an early precursor for Alien Isolation. Good stuff
A missed mention in the koudelka part is that the voice acting is easily some of, if not the best on the entire system. The actors really gave it their all and it was clear the directors wanted them to be theatrical about it
Big fan of your videos. Good selection of games, good commentary, well edited, British humour. A* across the board.
My sister and I played the Sheep Raider demo for hours as kids. But finding the full game in stores was seemingly impossible.
I played through Mizzurna Falls with a friends recently because we're both massive Twin Peaks fans and we both loved it even though we got a bad end.
Weird PS1 games y'say, my speciality...try these out for size:
- ...They're Here - weird survival horror in a Japanese school
- Aconcagua...point-n-click survival games with a dash of South American politics
- Akuji the Heartless - Soulreaver, but more voodoo-ey
- Baroque...weirdly dark FPS dungeon crawler in a post apocalyptic world
- Fluid...the weird music game
- Gamera 2000...Star Fox 64 / Panzer Dragoon, but with a giant rocket firing turtle as a sidekick
- Gegege No Kitarou - like Japanese Ghouls n Ghosts with a creepy kid that can fire headlice
- Hakaaiou: King of Crusher - play as a guy with anger management issues wrecking the place and becoming the god of anger 🤬
Iblard: City of Hatching Laputa - this is like a Star Trek TNG season 1 away mission as a game 😂
- Kaze No Notam: Notam of Wind - a hot air balloon-em-up...yes, really
- Liberogrande - the football game where you play as one player only
- LSD simulator - pretty infamous
- Mad Panic Coaster - fun!
- Moon RPG - an RPG where you're playing as a guy sucked into the RPG he was playing, Inception style
- Oh no! - distilled Japanese weirdness
- Planet Laika - adventure RPG set on Mars, but everyone's a dog...
- Power Shovel - oh how I love Power Shovel...complete various nonsensicle tasks in a JCB
- Remote Control Dandy - play as a kid controlling a city destroying robot, from the perspective of the kid at ground level
- Rising Zan!!! The Samurai Gunman...great theme tune 😂
- Slap Happy Rhythm Busters - lovely cell-shaded 1-on-1 fighter, also a rhythm game
- Warpath: Jurassic Park - sod Primal Rage, full 3D dinosaur fights, yes!
- Welcome House - a weird puzzle game in an abandoned house
Warpaaaaaaaaath! man I started playing that to record footage for our best PS1 games list and I dunno why but it got me HOOKED haha
thanks for the awesome suggestions!
- Jimmy
Every video of yours is a true gaming documentary, you guys always make an outstanding job!
Kudos for featuring Destrega, the game was nuts and even the soundtrack alone was a banger.
I remember of Spider, the cover was featured on a lot of promotional PlayStation flyer by Sony but nobody gave a s*** about it back in the day.
Hellnight was... yeah, something like cursed. But it was so damn fascinating (at least for me).
These videos fill my "Must buy" lists for my PS1 and PS2 collection
Great video as always 🖤
If you do another one of these anytime soon, please consider Racing Lagoon. Another Japan only game released in 1999 developed by Squaresoft as a CaRPG.
It has its flaws(a lot i feel are at least alleviated with emulation), but it has such a charm and vibe to it and the story while starting off fairly simple becomes so convoluted and insane the further you get 😂.
The soundtrack is also amazing, an easy S tier in my book sitting along side the greats of that era from Square.
I wish the shadowhearts games were more like koudelka. The goofy, silly tone of the games really clashes with the horror elements for me. Koudelka has a more consistent mood. Cool video!
Played Sheep Raider and Blast Chamber... both were genuinely good times.
Surprised Skullmonkeys didn't make the list though - a claymation side-scrolling sequel to The Neverhood, where one of the weapons you have access to is called the Universe Enema. 🤯
Nice Noel Fielding name drop. Huge Mighty Boosh fan here!
Muppet Race Mania probably isn't quite weird enough. I mean, it may seem like a cash grab with all the "cart" racers that came out back then, but being a Muppets game, it so happens to be both weird and fun. There are a ton of Muppets to unlock and a few game modes.
Destrega has actually been on my list for like a decade, but I have never managed to find a copy. I fell in love with it way back, since I played a demo disc it was on, along other games that some of I have managed to get my hands on, such as T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger.
wasnt blast chamber a game on that demo disk that came with early PS1s? I remember some weird games with mine.
The unholy war and future cop LAPD are my "not everyone knows them* PS1 games. Oh and battle arena toshinden 3 but that one isn't really hidden or unknown
i put many many many hours into the destrega demo from a magazine demo disc back in the day. good fun multiplayer game
Loving the references to Twin Peaks and David Lynch! 👍
The PS1 needed more collaborations with Matthew Kelly
I remember playing Blast Chamber on a demo disk with my brother growing up…
I love this channel, the scripts have me pissing myself at times.
Overblood 2 , pierwszego wydania nie dało się skończyć, zawierał błąd w 2 misji.
ooh thanks for the video idea!
@CulturedVultures z chęcią obejrzę gra jest ciekawa, i nie zasłużyła na ocenę 4/10. Jest naprawdę dziwną mieszanką gatunku . Platformowa, horror ,scfi i RPG. Czekam na materiał, w końcu to spadkobierca (Doktor Hauzer) z 3do
You left out Pepsi Man, Steel Harbinger, and LSD Dream Emulator.
Ironically, this vulture is keeping us fed. I thank you.
that Mazurna Falls game location made me chuckle knowing that South Park might be right next door :P
Koudelka had a seriously kickass soundtrack.
/Proud owner of every Koudelka game in franchise
My favorite weird game that is no joke really fun is Dynamite Cop! It's like of Japanese game designers wrote a sequel to Die Hard with a different character. Very lost in translation, and very enjoyable!
Mizzurna Falls definitely reminds me of a proto-Shemue on a older generation console. Also the Looney Tunes game has VERY good graphics for a PS1; I am impressed.
Ever since going back to ps1 I stopped looking at my dads toes
I own blast chamber and it’s a fun game. Wish it was longer.
And Sheep Raider was so much fun
Blast Chamber was a big favorite in my neck of the woods -- we the multitap and had some epic matches!
That Looney Tunes one looks interesting!
I had a feeling Spider would be on this list. As someone who grew up in the sidescroller era with a taste for absolute weirdness, I found that one to be a lot of nostalgic fun. Gotta love the blatant ripoff of “Miserlou” in the soundtrack. I’m really wondering how I hadn’t heard of Paranoiascape before! Seems kind of like a 3D Crush Pinball game with mobile flippers. I love a lot of movies that this Screaming Mad George guy has worked on, but now realize that he has dug an elaborate psycho punk rabbit hole that I have no choice but to completely dive into.
FYI - the video segments are labeled wrong.
Oh. I see ... By the Spider segment, I see your purposefully being cheeky.
Gasp! Not WEIRD games!
Oh yeah! LET’S GET WEIRD!!!!!
@@pharmcat8484 I collect old teddy bears and write about video games for money. I *can* get weirder, but I don't know. The last time that happened, the cops came, and ah I've said too much.
Great video. The weird stuff the good stuff in gaming
Thank God fish aren't into cash. 1:45
Intelligent Qube is another great yet weird PS1 game
Koudelka is an amazing game, but the battle system is very different from Shadow Hearts. Thankfully, it's still great so that's not a problem.
I know it was for Ps2 but Stretch Panic is awesome
Throw a mustache on the thumbnail guy, and he can almost pass for Tom Selleck
With the exception of Looney Toons, every one of these looks less like an actual PS1 game and more like one of those modern itch-io Indie games with exaggerated faux-PS1 graphics. Especially that "Germs" game.
I was sure you were making these up and these were PC games with the PS1 look - UNTIL I saw Sheep Dog 'n' Wolf, bizarre game I owned with even more bizarre cover art.
I also owned Incredible Crisis as a kid and just didn't get it, but I was chuffed to see the businessman show up in Astro Bot.
Great Stuff!!
Thank you for the like!
"Ralph Wolf"?!? Wtf...
Sentinel Returns
I played sheep raider ! It was actually really good.
I played Koudelka back in the day, and I don't get why so many TH-camrs cream their jeans over this game. To each their own, sure, but I found it slow, boring, and I wish I still had a copy, so I could give it another try to see if I feel differently now.
I think I traded it for Tetris Plus. Guess which one goes for a few hundred dollars now and which one goes for the price of a cup of vending machine coffee in an ER waiting room? Of course, I do still play Tetris Plus, so despite missing the chance to cash in on Ebay, maybe I made a good trade after all.
PS1 time with the Vultures
Azure dreams has better be on here!
And winner is:
LSD Dream Simulator
we covered it prominently in an earlier video! knew I left something off the script to mention lol
@@CulturedVultures Never mind, I'll go check out the earlier video analysis 😁
I enjoy your videos but I wish you'd show all the retro games at their original resolutions. High resolutions just show off all the low poly flaws. Why do you show some at higher resolutions than others?
LSD didn't make the list?
Hi 👋 will from Japan.
Sheep dog n wolf is a mint game, played it shit loads 😂
MAAAN! How you gonna talk about weird PS1 games, and not bring up LSD Dream Emulator!? haha
we did in a previous video! :D
@@CulturedVultures Ahhh. Haha well thats good
Your accent sounds to me just like Tyrannicon's
I see ps1 I click
very good video , more pls, like.
Koudelka great game
peep Community Pom
Cool 👍
Imagine being so uncultured you believe Wales is a stand-alone country and a good one at that lul
*cocks leek* get out.
@CulturedVultures lul fine on to the next one
Kweh❤
"screaming as if the allegations were just hitting their inbox" goes hard.... wait unless that's a penus reference nvm good joke