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''[=ParanoiaScape=]'' is a {{Pinball}} game developed by Mathilda Studios Japan, made by Japanese VFX artist Joji Tani a.k.a "Screaming Mad" George and released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation only in Japan.

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''[=ParanoiaScape=]'' is a {{Pinball}} game developed by Mathilda Studios Japan, made by Japanese VFX artist Joji Tani a.k.a "Screaming Mad" George and released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation Platform/PlayStation [[NoExportForYou only in Japan.
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* LongTitle: Some ports will title the game as ''Screaming Mad George's [=ParanoiaScape=]'', InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt.
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-> "I don’t like real violence, but I like created violence. You can enjoy fake violence even if it’s a really, really horrible thing. But I don’t like violence when it’s real. I don’t like anything that is real."
--> "Screaming Mad" George and his attempts at justifying the game's existance
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''[=ParanoiaScape=]'' is a {{Pinball}} game developed by Mathilda Studios Japan, made by Japanese VFX artist Joji Tani a.k.a "Screaming Mad" George and released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation only in Japan.

It's also played from a First-Person perspective and quite possibly one of the most ''insane'', MindScrew-inducing games ever made.

For reasons unexplained in-game, you're now in hell, whose environment are coated with flesh and random organs, from eyes in walls to floors carpeted with gaping mouths. There are demons and all sorts of undead, too, but luckily you're accompanied by a pair of skeletal imps armed with bone-paddles, with a bouncing ball of flames right in front of you. At which point you began controlling the imps to send the ball at incoming obstacles.

Words do NOT do this game justice, it needs to be ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO0FVV9iaj8 seen]]'' to believe.

Compare with ''VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator'', a similar game from the same era who seems to be designed to give players migraine by default.

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!! Convulse... ARRRRRRRRGGH!!!!!!!
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: One stage have ethereal (and human) arms and legs sticking from the ground and above the skies at you, which you cannot damage in any way. The arms will try swatting you as you pass, while the legs will try a GiantFootOfStomping.
* BadWithTheBone: You fight demons and undead using your bone paddles, though instead of hitting your enemies you're sending a ball of flames at your targets.
* EldritchLocation: How hell is depicted in this game, from skies filled with eyeballs to mouths randomly growing on walls and disembodied limbs sticking out of surfaces.
* FacelessEye: You'll be crossing a ''field'' of gigantic, disembodied eyeballs. That you explode with your trusty bone paddle, but there doesn't seem to be a limit to the number of floating eyes spawned.
* JumpScare: More than one instance in the game - notably, failing to clear one area will have the scary-looking female demon face (pictured on top) suddenly filling the screen and screeching at you.
* LongTitle: Some ports will title the game as ''Screaming Mad George's [=ParanoiaScape=]'', InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt.
* MindScrew: It's a pinball game made on acid. The paddles being made of bones and the ball being made of flames is just tip of the iceberg.
* MonstrousScenery: The game's background are as menacing as the foreground's main action, but thankfully none of them can actually hurt you. From a field of gigantic severed limbs, to walls adorned with mouths and hellish-looking, SandWorm-like abominations, you name it.
* MultipleHeadCase: [[spoiler:Towards the ending, you confront God and Satan simultaneously where they've somehow merged into a single being, each sharing half a body with two heads on it's shoulders]]. [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j9CaGRv-y_8/UCjvnf29C2I/AAAAAAAAA00/ps4oYPn3TYU/s1600/4.png It looks like this]].
* RibcageRidge: The first "Internal" stage is set in a corridor made of conjoined, giant ribs of some unknown monster.
* RoboticReveal: Because most of the game is played from a first-person perspective, it's not until the final stage where [[spoiler:you are revealed to be a wind-up, clockwork doll]].
* SkullForAHead: One of the bosses is an arachnid-looking monster who somehow have a human skull for it's head.
* ToBeContinued: The game ends on one such announcement, but given it's a standalone game with barely a plot, let alone a resolution, it's not really meant to be followed upon.
* TheWallsHaveEyes: Not just the walls, but one of the earlier stages have it's sky covered in eyeballs.
* WombLevel: Several stages are set inside the intestines of some gigantic, netherworld monster, including one level where you can [[HellIsThatNoise hear the sound of a massive heartbeat]] in the background while travelling down a corridor resembling intestines and another in which you end up in a monster's stomach.
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--> The Origin of Life. \\
A New Life was Established in this [[InheritedIlliteracyTitle Surrear]] World Just Now. \\
This is the end of the Screaming Mad George Surrerar World.\\
ToBeContinued; See you Next Time!

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