History VideoGame / TakeshisChallenge

** Trying to fly away without having the real treasure map, not having divorced your wife, or not having quit your job causes the plane to explode for absolutely no reason.

The game does anything it can to annoy the user, such as making him sing with the second controller's microphone, press a button for hours, [[BossInMookClothing hitting the same enemy thousands of times]]... all while being attacked by hard-to-avoid enemies. The player can beat people up, get fired and divorced, [[INeedAFreakingDrink drink until he passes out]], and learn new skills.

The game sold 800,000 copies in its lifetime and was made available in Japan's Virtual Console for the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} in 2009. LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab has also done a LetsPlay of the game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvglwFi_OEU here]]. WebVideo/JonTron has also done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6MIlJYiJUs a review of it]]. Kim Justice has also done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyo5a7QFgtQ an overview video]] on how the game came to be and how some of its weirder aspects match up with Kitano's sense of humor. For those who understand French (but there are English subtitles), the WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEk2sNBhcE two]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5mjngf1Mg parter]] on it.

* MagicalAsian: Ruthlessly parodied when one shows up to give you the paper that turns out to be a map to hidden treasure. [[CrossesTheLineTwice The player ends up beating him to death in the middle of the bar]]. He functions as a KaizoTrap, predating the TropeMaker.

* WideOpenSandbox

* ImmersiveSim

* GuideDangIt: ''The entire game.'' In fact, an official strategy guide was released alongside the game, but it wasn't enough (it literally didn't contain all the steps needed to beat the game), so another was published not too long after. The company has claimed that this happened because the original guide's author literally *died* while writing it.

* GuideDangIt: ''The entire game.'' In fact, an official strategy guide was released alongside the game, but it wasn't enough, so another was published not too long after.

The game sold 800,000 copies in its lifetime and was made available in Japan's Virtual Console for the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} in 2009. LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab has also done a LetsPlay of the game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvglwFi_OEU here]]. WebVideo/JonTron has also done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6MIlJYiJUs a review of it]]. Kim Justice has also done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyo5a7QFgtQ an overview video]] on how the game came to be and how some of its weirder aspects match up with Kitano's sense of humor. For those who understand French, the WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEk2sNBhcE two]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5mjngf1Mg parter]] on it.

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''[[TheStinger "What would you do if a game like this were serious?"]]''[[/labelnote]]

* INeedAFreakingDrink: You can drink until you get completely hammered. [[spoiler: You need to in order to complete the game.]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted. You can beat up your own children in the game and kill them (insofar as any character in the game dies.)

The game has a WideOpenSandbox world and ImmersiveSim elements, and allows players to get up to all kinds of shenanigans in an urban city, making it like a distant precursor to something like ''GrandTheftAuto''.

%%* BossInMookClothing

* HopelessBossFight: Don't try to punch your wife rather than pay the alimony. She has infinite health.

* MagicalAsian: Ruthlessly parodied when one shows up to give you the paper that turns out to be a map to hidden treasure. [[CrossesTheLineTwice The player ends up beating him to death in the middle of the bar]].
** He functions as a KaizoTrap, predating the TropeMaker.

* ObligatorySwearing: There is no attempt at censoring in the game, so you will be cursed out regularly and you can curse out people as well.

** The game also calls you out if you start yelling or swearing into the microphone, telling you to shut up.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Once you get to the hotel, you can actually restore your hearts. You're gonna need them.

*** Let's be honest here, though: that ending is subjectively much better and more thought out than the true "ending".

* WaitingPuzzle: The infamous piece of paper.
** [[GuideDangIt Unless you]] [[spoiler:yell into the microphone after waiting at least 5 minutes, but no more than ten after you get the paper wet - too early or too late and you ruin it.]]

''Takeshi no Chousenjou'' (Takeshi's Challenge) was a 1986 troll VideoGame on the Famicom, made by Creator/{{Taito}} under the direction of Japanese comedian Creator/TakeshiKitano, known as ''Beat Takeshi''. The player controls a despondent {{salaryman}} that must go through a lot of tribulations to find great riches.

The game sold 800,000 copies in its lifetime and was made available in Japan's Virtual Console for the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} in 2009. LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab has also done a LetsPlay of the game [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvglwFi_OEU here]]. WebVideo/JonTron has also done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6MIlJYiJUs a review of it]]. For those who understand French, the WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEk2sNBhcE two]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5mjngf1Mg parter]] on it.

* UnbuiltTrope: The creator of the game in the ending basically takes a jab at people who dedicate so much of their time just to finish a video game and find all of its secrets no matter how bad the game is. This is before the time of players that play to find every hidden EasterEgg and developers making their games catering to that type of behavior.

The game sold only 800,000 copies in its lifetime and made available in Japan's Virtual Console for the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} in 2009. LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab has also done a LetsPlay of the game [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvglwFi_OEU here]]. WebVideo/JonTron has also done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6MIlJYiJUs a review of it]]. For those who understand French, the WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEk2sNBhcE two]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5mjngf1Mg parter]] on it.

* BlackComedy
* BossInMookClothing

* {{Salaryman}}: The PlayerCharacter at the beginning of the game.

[[TheStinger "What would you do if a game like this were serious?"]][[/labelnote]]

[[caption-width-right:250: [[EstablishingSeriesMoment "You just haven't been performing lately."]]]]

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* INeedAFreakingDrink: You can drink until you get completely hammered. [[spoiler: You need to to complete the game.]]

* AWinnerIsYou: "Amazing!"

The game sold only 800,000 copies in its lifetime and made available in Japan's Virtual Console for the {{Wii}} in 2009. LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab has also done a LetsPlay of the game [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvglwFi_OEU here]]. WebVideo/JonTron has also done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6MIlJYiJUs a review of it]]. For those who understand French, the WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEk2sNBhcE two]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5mjngf1Mg parter]] on it.

--> '''[=JonTron=]''': Never in my life have I said "Goddammit I shot the wind again!" and meant it. And '''meant''' that.