Weird nintendo games

While Atari was a great game system and computers had certain advantages over their cartridge-bound cousins, the NES brought gaming into the mainstream. More than 60 million units of the NES were sold, and a generation of kids came to know the Mario Bros.

But as an early home videogame system, it wasn't immediately clear what sorts of games might be popular. And with such a large installed base, you could throw anything against the wall and garner some sales. So, there was a lot of experimentation on the NES, particularly for unlicensed games, which did not receive Nintendo's stamp of approval. Here are 11 we found particularly interesting. Don't believe us? Check out Negative Man.

This actual boss in an actual video game pops on the screen with a look of pain on his face. While he will attack sometimes, he mostly uses his turns to comment about how life is meaningless or to insult himself all while easily the most epic song in the game plays in the background.

Whether he's begging to die or depressingly lamenting about how his horrible life never changes, this boss battle is equal parts hilarious, strange, and sad.

Star Fox was a stunning game for its time. Launching in , the game really cemented the polygonal art direction that defined the rest of the decade as crude 3D games gained more popularity. Yet, while the game does play like a run-of-the-mill space-shooter, it takes a turn into the weird with the "Out of This Dimension" level. While flying through space, players are treated to creepy planets with faces shifting back and forth through the background in a hypnotic manner while dodging random space debris.

The stage ends with players pulling the lever of a slot machine. The whole stage is like a mushroom trip from the weird visuals, to the strange music, to the big climax at the end. Animal Crossing is a calming, relaxing game to play when life gets a little too stressful. Things aren't going well at work or school?

That's OK, the characters of Animal Crossing will be happy to see you back in their world! Yet, if you want to watch TV at a. For such a cute and cuddly game full of the feel-goods, this is completely unexpected and pretty creepy. He doesn't say anything, instead he just kind of stands there silently, before the video makes a hard-cut to what looks like him screaming. In an attempt to distance itself from the cartoony Wind Waker , Nintendo did everything possible to make The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess as dark and gritty as possible.

The culmination of this thought process is a down-right disturbing cutscene that is supposed to give players the history of Hyrule. It starts innocent enough, discussing how the world was chaos until the Goddesses created order, but then it takes a turn into the creepy when the story discusses the wars of the land.

Here, Beth's eyes lose their pupils, and she attempts to stab Link, who then runs toward a triforce only to be stopped by a group of Dark Links and a pupil-less regular Link with a terrifying smile. A popular Battlefield cheat maker is ending their support of the game due to its technical problems and dwindling popularity. It was controversial at the time for giving a female character emotional power, but as strange as it is I liked it. Each chapter acts like one big puzzle.

You can only transfer your soul into one object at a time in a pattern. On the bottom screen is your battle map wherein you set up targets and pathways. Fox McCloud and his crew deserves better. The WarioWare games have always been bizarre what with the titular character as the star and its inclusion of random mini games like picking your nose and trying not to get caught.

Well WarioWare D. So now the weirdness level is up to you! Will you help Wario start a thriving video game company, or will you choose to plummet his stock. The choice is yours. It definitely goes places. Radiant Historia was the subject of the first article I ever wrote when I started in this profession. It acts like a puzzle. Your way is constantly blocked so you then have to investigate the past in order to solve the solution to move forward in the present. For example, an early part has you rescuing two mercenaries that then save your party from a foe too powerful.

It also just got a re-release on 3DS. Check it out! Really gross mini games like operating on a spleen and stapling it back together, but a mini game nonetheless. Yes, there are pretty doctors here too Kirby: Canvas Curse boggles my mind. It took everything away from what made the Kirby games special. You control Kirby with the stylus by drawing lines. Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in Secretly he enjoys the Just Dance series a little too much.

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