History QuirkyWork / VideoGames

** [[{{JonTron}} "Excuse me sir, but is that a well with eggplant moons shooting plates at me? Liek..."]]

* The freeware game ''[[http://www.lesmisgame.com/arm_joe.html Arm Joe]]'', a 2D fighting game based on ''Literature/LesMiserables''. It has, in addition to the standard cast of characters; [=PonPon=], a Mini-Cooper driving rabbit from another dimension; Robo-Jean, a robotic duplicate of Jean Valjean, who shoots lasers out of his chest, fires rocket punches, and attacks with lightning bolts; and the AnthromorphicPersonification of the concept of Judgment.

* The freeware game ''[[http://www.lesmisgame.com/arm_joe.html Arm Joe]]'', a 2D fighting game based on ''Literature/LesMiserables''. It has, in addition to the standard cast of characters; [=PonPon=], a Mini-Cooper driving rabbit from another dimension, Robo-Jean (who shoots lasers out of his chest, fires rocket punches and lightning bolts), and the physical embodiment of the concept of Judgment in the book.

* The newest entry in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, contained within the ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' universe, ''TheatrhythmFinalFantasy'', has been described as ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' meets ''EliteBeatAgents''. To restate for candidacy, it's a JapaneseRolePlayingGame anthology fused with a RhythmGame (similar to that of ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' or ''GuitarHero'', with wildly varying graphics (from ''KingdomHeartsCoded''-style chibis, to eight- and sixteen-bit graphics - NintendoEntertainmentSystem[=/=]GameBoy[=/=]SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem[=/=]GameBoyColor-era - to fully rendered CGI (same quality as the PS1[=/=]PS3 or the Xbox360), and it's in the same series as a ''FIGHTING GAME.'' Oh, and it's on the Nintendo3DS, so it's all in stereoscopic 3D.

* ''{{Crimsoness}}'', a short, weird, ang[[strike:sty]]ry, Japanese indie game.
** Because it's Videogame/{{OMGWTFOTL}} [[RecycledInSpace IN MS PAINT!]]
** Whatever the hell ''Crimsoness'' is, it's certainly not angsty. There's WAY too much aggressive face-punching for that.

** ...Because after viewing it, {{SEGA}} [[ScrewedByTheNetwork laughed before claiming it impossible to export.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' is an EasternRPG series in which [[MoeAnthropomorphism moe girls]] are various video game consoles[-[[note]]the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, and the scrapped Sega Neptune[[/note]]-] fighting the UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars, as envisioned by Creator/{{Sega}}, Idea Factory and Compile Heart. They get stronger the more market share they earn for the console they represent. The villains, by and large, are very stylized {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s or various aspects of [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil piracy]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}''. The game about a [[BigEater constantly]] [[BlackHoleBelly hungry]] pink puffball living in a dream land full of happy people, sentient trees, insane walruses, and chef potatoes?

* [[{{VisualNovel/Rewrite}} Rewrite]] isn't as extreme as some examples but it is definitely quite surreal.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': This is a game series in which you play as an Italian plumber and have to repeatedly rescue a princess from an evil turtle-dragon, while fighting off his armies of walking mushrooms, talking bombs, and bumper-car-like turtles. To help in your quests, you get such things as leaves that turn into raccoon-suits which give you flight, flowers that shoot fire balls, mushrooms that make you grow, and an ExtremeOmnivore dinosaur that you can ride. The reason such weirdness doesn't really get addressed by fans all that often is because 1)At the time the original was made, video games rarely made sense to begin with, and 2)Although the former is no longer the case today its long-standing popularity has gotten people used to it.

* ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'', otherwise known as ''Rhythm Tengoku'', which is a minigame collection like
** ''VideoGame/WarioWare'', except weirder, more musical and more Japanese. In fact, ''Rhythm Heaven'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' are both made by the same studio, and it shows. And in the former there's a factory that makes ''literal'' widgets.

* ''BattleCircuit'' from {{Capcom}} is a lesser widget entry than the above, focusing more on anime/game references than the weirdness, though the final boss and Dr.Saturn more than make up for it. And one of the characters is a little girl riding a pink ostrich wearing an eyepatch. The ostrich, not the girl. And the ostrich is MALE. Also for no apparent reason one of the bosses is an Elvis impersonator.

* ''IncredibleCrisis'' is about a family that has the worst day ever [[ASimplePlan trying to get home early for Grandma's birthday]]. You live through each family member's day (The father Taneo, mother Etsuko, son Tsuyoshi, and the daughter Ririka) and guide them through ridiculous scenarios by playing minigames, including, but not limited to, Taneo chased through office hallways by a giant globe, Etsuko fighting a twenty-story tall stuffed bear in a jet fighter, Tsuyoshi shrunk to the size of an insect and escaping a gigantic mantis, and Ririka riding a bicycle to escape from a giant wrecking ball.

* ''WorkTimeFun'' puts the W in WJT. Note also what the game itself becomes [[FunWithAcronyms as an acronym]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' is an upcoming arena-based ThirdPersonShooter game where you use FamilyFriendlyFirearms to spread paint around the level while keeping the opposing team from spreading more paint than your team. You also play as "Inklings," entities made of living paint who can morph between humanoid and squid forms, the latter of which lets them swim through the paint they've spread and jump all the way to the other side of the arena. The single-player campaign, meanwhile, pits your Inklings against an army of sentient octopus tentacles and their Dalek-like weapons platforms. Yeah.

* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' is arguably a strong example of this, given it is ''heavily'' reliant on JapaneseMythology, with an incredible number of references to its source material backing the claim up. Despite the very real threat constantly present in the plot, it is not afraid of, and in fact ''gladly'', embraces every single chance of humor it can afford, which are aplenty. This game is just as humorous as it is epic; it was actually quite-well received by Westerners due to its extremely appealing visuals, CrowningMusicOfAwesome and compelling characters, story and system--it was in fact quite a lot LESS well-received in its home country, largely in part due to the fact that the Japanese didn't find their own mythos so interesting.

%%* ''ArTonelico''... boy howdy.
%%** If it's any consolation, even the Japanese think ''ArTonelico'' went a bit too far. Especially in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoODv8LVib8 this scene.]]

* ''DoshinTheGiant'' probably qualifies, especially the sequel, where you must save Doshin by pissing on things, and running around the show floor of a business convention pissing ''floaty pink hearts at the booth babes''.
* ''YumeNikki'' is one great big horror-fueled widget.

* ''ZenoClash'' is a Wichet (as in, '''W'''eird '''Ch'''ilean '''T'''hing).
** Anything else from ACE Team, like ''VideoGame/RockOfAges'', also qualifies (okay, except for ''VideoGame/BatmanDoom''). They're to Chile as Creator/{{Cactus}} is to Sweden.

** ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' would qualify featuring an upside down boss battle and a boss battle using gimps as baseballs among other things.
*** Not to mention the fact that the game centers around a guy who bought a lightsaber on eBay...
*** These examples do this game and [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle its sequel]] '''no''' justice at all. Other examples include and old granny with a shopping-cart-slash-WaveMotionGun, a CombatPragmatist mailman-slash-superhero-dressed-faux-NiceGuy who attacks via CallingYourAttacks, including FrickinLaserBeams [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything from his crotch,]] a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot korean punk-rock scientist using an earthquake-generating-machine-with-a-BRAIN-for-a-CPU,]] a JerkJock with his 24 identical-looking cheerleaders and their HumongousMecha... The list goes just goes ''on'', and these are only the bosses; there's enough dysfunction in the main characters themselves and the series' weird and quirky humor to make it qualify for this trope.
** {{Killer7}}. Full of MindScrew moments, having even a very unorthodox gameplay, surreal graphics and sound, and being gratuitously violent and depraved. These aspects have made the game very niche, though not without a CultClassic status.

* ''SuperMarioBros'': This is a game series in which you play as an Italian plumber and have to repeatedly rescue a princess from an evil turtle-dragon, while fighting off his armies of walking mushrooms, talking bombs, and bumper-car-like turtles. To help in your quests, you get such things as leaves that turn into raccoon-suits which give you flight, flowers that shoot fire balls, mushrooms that make you grow, and an ExtremeOmnivore dinosaur that you can ride. The reason such weirdness doesn't really get addressed by fans all that often is because 1)At the time the original was made, video games rarely made sense to begin with, and 2)Although the former is no longer the case today its long-standing popularity has gotten people used to it.
** ''MarioVsDonkeyKong'' was developed by the Redmond, Washington-based Nintendo Software Technology Corporation, making it an example of a WHAT sub-series to the above. The games involve Mario facing Donkey Kong after the latter wants some of the Mini-Mario toys the former produced.

* ''GadgetPastAsFuture'', by Haruhiko Shono. It resembles ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', but without any real puzzles; you play a brainwashed secret agent in a nation resembling that from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and have to help a group of scientists gather a bunch of gizmos to build a spaceship to escape earth before a comet hits and [[GainaxEnding its ending redefines the meaning of not providing any fucking explanation for anything]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' is an EasternRPG series in which [[MoeAnthropomorphism moe girls]] are various video game consoles[-[[note]]the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, and the scrapped Sega Neptune[[/note]]-] fighting the ConsoleWars, as envisioned by Creator/{{Sega}}, Idea Factory and Compile Heart. They get stronger the more market share they earn for the console they represent. The villains, by and large, are very stylized {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s or various aspects of [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil piracy]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Putty}}'' is a British game that shows that Japan has no monopoly on {{Platform Game}}s with colorful, cheerfully outlandish environments.

* ''NezumiMan'' is gameplay-wise a ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' clone, but includes a sentient fridge, a kangaroo, and a dragon cosplayer among its bosses. Oh, and nearly everyone is a SuperDeformed ''rat''.

* ''GadgetPastAsFuture'', by Haruhiko Shono. It resembles ''{{Myst}}'', but without any real puzzles; you play a brainwashed secret agent in a nation resembling that from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and have to help a group of scientists gather a bunch of gizmos to build a spaceship to escape earth before a comet hits and [[GainaxEnding its ending redefines the meaning of not providing any fucking explanation for anything]].

''VideoGame/WarioWare'', except weirder, more musical and more Japanese. In fact, ''Rhythm Heaven'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' are both made by the same studio, and it shows. And in the former there's a factory that makes ''literal'' widgets.

* ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'', otherwise known as ''Rhythm Tengoku'', which is a minigame collection, but with keeping tempo.

** ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' would qualify featuring an upside down boss battle and a boss battle using gimps as baseballs among other things. And the game centers around a guy who bought a lightsaber on eBay. These examples do this game and [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle its sequel]] '''no''' justice at all. Other examples include and old granny with a shopping-cart-slash-WaveMotionGun, a CombatPragmatist mailman-slash-superhero-dressed-faux-NiceGuy who attacks via CallingYourAttacks, including FrickinLaserBeams [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything from his crotch,]] a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot korean punk-rock scientist using an earthquake-generating-machine-with-a-BRAIN-for-a-CPU,]] a JerkJock with his 24 identical-looking cheerleaders and their HumongousMecha... The list goes just goes ''on'', and these are only the bosses; there's enough dysfunction in the main characters themselves and the series' weird and quirky humor to make it qualify for this trope.
** VideoGame/{{Killer7}}. Full of MindScrew moments, having even a very unorthodox gameplay, surreal graphics and sound, and being gratuitously violent and depraved. These aspects have made the game very niche, though not without a CultClassic status.
** ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'' seems to be a serious WJT contender. You kill zombies with a chainsaw-toting cheerleader and have ''rainbows'' coming out of them.

* ''NaziZombies'': Four [[SociopathicSoldier crazed soldiers]] fight against zombies in Germany, Japan, USSR, the Arctic, Shangri la, the moon, and post apocalyptic Earth.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** This is a game series in which you play as an Italian plumber and have to repeatedly rescue a princess from an evil turtle-dragon, while fighting off his armies of walking mushrooms, talking bombs, and bumper-car-like turtles. To help in your quests, you get such things as leaves that turn into raccoon-suits which give you flight, flowers that shoot fire balls, mushrooms that make you grow, and an ExtremeOmnivore dinosaur that you can ride. The reason such weirdness doesn't really get addressed by fans all that often is because 1)At the time the original was made, video games rarely made sense to begin with, and 2)Although the former is no longer the case today its long-standing popularity has gotten people used to it.

* The French role-playing game ''BoundByFlame'' isn't especially bizarre but it is also a strong contender for the [[DarkerAndEdgier darkest western RPG]] ever to see commercial release, quite a step outside the norm in overseas markets.
* ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'', otherwise known as ''Rhythm Tengoku'', which is like ''VideoGame/WarioWare'', except weirder, more musical and more Japanese. In fact, ''Rhythm Heaven'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' are both made by the same studio, and it shows. And in the former there's a factory that makes ''literal'' widgets.

* The somewhat strange ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' module ''Resurrection Gone Wrong''.

* ''Super Galedic Hour'' seems to be a recreation of some kind of game show, but it's hard to be sure when one of the events is Butt Sumo, and all the contestants are voluptuous women in skimpy animal costumes. [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpl-v6ZJQic It really has to be seen to be believed]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'' (DMA Design), ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' (Team17) and ''VideoGame/BlastCorps'' (Rare) probably all count as W.B.T.s (Weird British Things... wabbits?)
* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' is definitely a Wabbit. Ignoring the fact that the levels take place on a world made from people's dreams, the characters include a carboard Creator/LeonardoDaVinci wearing 3D glasses, a sexy nurse with an apple for a head and a depressed, cowardly calendar ... whose facial expressions are drawn in ink but can change.

* As with the previous ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' and ''IncredibleCrisis'' examples, most [[MinigameGame minigame compilations]] probably count, including games like ''Bishi Bashi Special'' and ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}: VideoGame/RavingRabbids'' (a WTF considering Creator/{{Ubisoft}} is French).
** ''Tenkomori Shooting'' (1998, Namco) is all about "{{shoot|EmUp}}ing", but is a minigame compilation and WJT. Little easy on the 'weird', but hey, it's about [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys monkeys]] doing minigames to rescue their friends; that's as weird as it needs to be!

* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseFoce'' is a series of budget games about defending the Earth ([[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse mostly in Japan]]) from an army of alien invaders. BigCreepyCrawlies, HumongousMecha, {{Kaiju}}, and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]] [[SceneryGorn leveling city blocks]] ensue.

* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' is another fine example of a WHAT. It's about an earthworm wearing PoweredArmor who battles against lethal foes such as [[FeatheredFiend Psy-Crow (a galactic bounty hunter crow)]], [[CatsAreMean Evil the Cat]], [[EvilGenius Professor]] [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Monkey-For-A-Head]] and his close associate Monkey Professor-For-A-Head, and of course the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Evil Queen]] Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed [[BigCreepyCrawlies Slug-For-A-Butt]].

* ''MetalWolfChaos''. A game where you play as the [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President of the United States of America]], behind the cockpit of a HumongousMecha, as he launches a one-man counteroffensive to take back America, city by city, from his [[PresidentEvil Vice President]] Richard Hawk, confident that he can win because he is [[PatrioticFervor The President of the GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!]] He does by destroying everything in sight with '''[[HotBlooded BURNING AMERICAN FREEDOM!!!]]''' And America [[NoExportForYou doesn't get this game because....]]?

* Swedish example: ''VideoGame/MondoMedicals'' and ''VideoGame/MondoAgency''. Just...''what the fuck''.
** You obviously haven't seen [[http://cactusquid.com/games.htm the rest]] of Creator/{{cactus}}'s games. ''They're all weird.''

* The flash game ''[[http://www.kongregate.com/games/GregAnims/death-dice-overdose Death Dice Overdose]]'' as a bizarre and trippy western video game.
* ''ZenoClash'' is a Wichet (as in, '''W'''eird '''Ch'''ilean '''T'''hing).
** Anything else from ACE Team, like ''VideoGame/RockOfAges'', also qualifies (okay, except for ''VideoGame/BatmanDoom''). They're to Chile as Creator/{{Cactus}} is to Sweden.

* ''[[GaiaOnline zOMG!]]'' is a game that [[EverythingTryingToKillYou has you fight, among other things, gift boxes, lawn gnomes, jackets that behave like wolves, and cyborg alien rodents.]] Your weapons are rings, which have effects such as launching beehives, wrapping the monsters in duct tape, and covering yourself or an ally in cooking spray. Pop-culture references abound. And the game takes place on a WorldOfWeirdness as it is.
* ''PopNMusic'' would lose half its charm without its silly [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters cast of characters]], including but not limited to: the rabbit- and cat-like mascots, a CuteWitch who can turn her broom into a guitar, a girl who continuously runs left really fast as if hopped up on sugar, an angel disguised as a HotLibrarian, and a DJ who occasionally communicates with some sort of devilish spirit. And on top of that, the multicolored notes all have eyes and are called "Pop-kuns."
* ''RoseAndCamellia'' and its sequel, two Flash games about [[CatFight noblewomen bitchslapping]] each other.
** One Internet commentator described it as "Creator/JaneAusten's PunchOut"

* The ''DJMAX'' series has a Weird Korean Thing in the ''NB Ranger'' series of music videos, which consist of ''[[PowerRangers Power Ranger]]'' lookalikes opposing love by ''beating up couples on dates.''

* ''VideoGame/TossTheTurtle''. Get a {{turtle|Power}}, a cannon, your [[WeaponOfChoice Gun Of Choice]], and add several crazy things like smoking French phoenix-like birds, bananas who can shoryuken the shit out of you, and angry ground creatures with a tenuous hold on their sanity, all for the purpose of getting cash, and you got something that is a grade-A '''WHAT'''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Flower}}'' definitely belongs here since it's a game about opening flowers and the inability to lose.

* Another Weird Swedish Thing is ''Videogame/GardenGnomeCarnage''. The premise: You're a garden gnome tied to a building on wheels, and you're trying to hold off elves from dropping Christmas presents into the chimney (because gnomes hate holidays) by swinging into them and dropping bricks on them, in addition to the occasional air strike. Oh, and this game was made by DanielRemar (of ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' and ''HeroCore'' fame).
* Parodied in ''TheSimpsonsGame''. ''Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game'' is a stage built entirely from references to ''{{Okami}}'', ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', and ''KatamariDamacy'', while also using series gags like Mr. Sparkle. Furthered when every character explicitly notes it as being in Japan, much to Homer's frustration.
-->"Okay, so we're in Japan. But I'm not eating any sushi, unless it's covered in chocolate and there's no sushi in it!"

* ''VideoGame/VegetableGame''. As far as we can tell, it's about a crudely-drawn bear hugging escalatingly bad people, from "Jaywalker" up to "UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler". No vegetables involved at all. Also, the game repeatedly tells you not to play it.
* ''VideoGame/ThreeDirtyDwarves'' is a weird Hungarian thing. You control three dwarves who [[IKnowMaddenKombat use sport gears as weapons and armors]]. Enemies include naked ninjas, an entire gym which attack by throwing can of steroids, and a blue troll covered by junkyard dogs biting his body. The backgrounds and the animated intro also have a distinct EasternEuropeanAnimation style.

%%* ''VideoGame/ToeJamAndEarl'' is a WHAT.

* ''{{Catherine}}''.

* ''BunnyMustDie'', a game where you play a playboy bunnygirl cursed with cat ears, and that can manipulate time, who fights such enemies as a photorealistic picture of a cat and an expy of Dracula that spouts [[ZeroWingrish Zero Wing quotes]] and inflicts instant death by flashing you. Those are just some of the named characters, never mind some of the mooks.
* Inverted by the LetsPlay/{{raocow}}-centric ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' ROM Hack, ''VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing'', which was a collaborative effort by the members of the [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/ TalkHaus]] community (being said French-Canadian [=LPer's=] forum), and managed to totally baffle a Japanese {{Lets Play}}er, [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15837620 Ryuu.]]
* The ''[[EdnaAndHarveyTheBreakout Edna & Harvey]]'' [[EdnaAndHarveyHarveysNewEyes franchise]] are a rare example of a PEGS, since both games are [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click adventure games]] in which you play insane female protagonists.

* ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' is a WTF freeware game about a baseball player who wants to exorcise [[BedsheetGhost Bedsheet Ghosts]] from {{Wackyland}}. [[spoiler: Up until the halfway mark of Zone 3 where it takes a very dark turn.]]

* ParappaTheRapper and its spinoff UmJammerLammy are Widget games. Everyone in the game is literally 2-dimensional, as in flat like paper.
* Some of [[Creator/{{Atari}} Atari Corp.'s]] games (particularly under Jack Tramiel's leadership) definitely qualify as [=WATs=] ('''W'''eird '''A'''tari '''T'''hings?). Two of the most notable are ''Ninja Golf'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 7800}}, which combines golf with a side-scrolling fighting game, and ''Kung Food'' for the UsefulNotes/AtariLynx, where the player is a miniaturized scientist who must battle mutant vegetables in his refrigerator.
* ''I'm Sorry'', a 1985 arcade MazeGame that is as weird as it is obscure. The game's title turns out to be a bilingual pun at the expense of Japan's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, and enemies are SuperDeformed celebrities.
* ''{{Insaniquarium}}'', where you raise fish in your own fish tank! Fish that... ''poop money?'' Which are also preyed upon by random aliens that occasionally warp inside your tank. Which you fight off using a laser gun. Yep, ''Insaniquarium'' is a WHAT alright.

* ''Rock Star Ate My Hamster'' is an example of a Wabbit. It's a BritishRockstar management simulator, with all the insanity that implies.

* ''VideoGame/{{Putty}}'' is a British game that shows that Japan has no monopoly on {{Platform Game}}s with colorful, cheerfully outlandish environments.

* ''[[http://www.rabbit-rush.com/ Rabbit Rush]]'' is a rather upbeat STANZA game about breeding a massive army of rabbits to conquer far-off lands. It plays like a mouse-controlled [[ShootEmUp Shmup]]. [[spoiler: ...At least, it does until the game sends you a [[InterfaceScrew fake]] {{Steam}} [[InterfaceScrew message]], telling you to [[SchmuckBait investigate a certain cheat code]]. Doing so "crashes" the game, revealing that it's really a ShowWithinAShow of a much more complicated story.]]

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** ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' would qualify featuring an upside down boss battle and a boss battle using gimps as baseballs among other things.
*** Not to mention the fact that the game centers around a guy who bought a lightsaber on eBay...
*** These examples do this game and [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle its sequel]] '''no''' justice at all. Other examples include and old granny with a shopping-cart-slash-WaveMotionGun, a CombatPragmatist mailman-slash-superhero-dressed-faux-NiceGuy who attacks via CallingYourAttacks, including FrickinLaserBeams [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything from his crotch,]] a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot korean punk-rock scientist using an earthquake-generating-machine-with-a-BRAIN-for-a-CPU,]] a JerkJock with his 24 identical-looking cheerleaders and their HumongousMecha... The list goes just goes ''on'', and these are only the bosses; there's enough dysfunction in the main characters themselves and the series' weird and quirky humor to make it qualify for this trope.
** {{Killer7}}. Full of MindScrew moments, having even a very unorthodox gameplay, surreal graphics and sound, and being gratuitously violent and depraved. These aspects have made the game very niche, though not without a CultClassic status.
** ''LollipopChainsaw'' seems to be a serious WJT contender. Considering how you kill zombies with a chainsaw-toting cheerleader and have ''rainbows'' coming out of them...

* ''SuperMarioBros'': This is a game series in which you play as an Italian plumber and have to repeatedly rescue a princess from an evil turtle-dragon, while fighting off his armies of walking mushrooms, talking bombs, and bumper-car-like turtles. To help in your quests, you get such things as leaves that turn into raccoon-suits which give you flight, flowers that shoot fire balls, mushrooms that make you grow, and an ExtremeOmnivore dinosaur that you can ride. The reason such weirdness doesn't really get addressed by fans all that often is because 1)At the time the original was made, video games rarely made sense to begin with, and 2)Although the former is no longer the case today its long-standing popularity has gotten people used to it.

* ''VideoGame/ToeJamAndEarl'' is pretty much a WHAT.