- 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. Before I let you guys go
I wanted to let you know that I started a brand-new channel called Santoro Gaming, yes I have
finally entered the gaming world. Multiple times a week
I upload gaming videos, on everything from comedy to puzzle games to very-very scary horror
games that make me scream. So if that interests
you and you wanna see me get my ass kicked by various games as I swear up a storm out of rage, be sure to check out the
link in the description and be sure to subscribe, like I said I upload multiple times a week and we have a lot of fun on that channel. Unless of course I'm playing
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you guys later, Baldo out. (video game bleeping)
