History VideoGame / WeirdDreams

* GainaxEnding: Either HereWeGoAgain or [[spoiler:SuddenDownerEnding]]. You defeat the final boss and wake up on the operating table. [[spoiler: Then, one of the surgeons morphs into the little girl from the soccer ball segment (who may be Steve's girlfriend Emily), who then attacks you with her knife. Either your nightmare just got real, or you haven't woken up yet.]]

* GainaxEnding: Either HereWeGoAgain or [[spoiler:SuddenDownerEnding]]. You defeat the final boss, wake up on the operating table [[spoiler:and then one of the surgeons morphs into the little girl from the soccer ball segment (who may be Steve's girlfriend Emily), who then attacks you with her knife. Either your nightmare just got real, or you haven't woken up yet.]]

* GainaxEnding: Either HereWeGoAgain or [[spoiler:SuddenDownerEnding]]. You defeat the final boss, wake up on the operating table and then [[spoiler:one of the surgeons morphs into the little girl from the soccer ball segment (who may be Steve's girlfriend Emily), who then attacks you with her knife. Either your nightmare just got real, or you haven't woken up yet.]]

* GainaxEnding: Either HereWeGoAgain or [[spoiler:SuddenDownerEnding]]. You defeat the final boss, wake up on the operating table and then [[spoiler:one of the surgeons morphs into the little girl from the soccer segment (who may be Steve's girlfriend Emily), who then attacks you with her knife. Either your nightmare just got real, or you haven't woken up yet.]]

* GainaxEnding: Either HereWeGoAgain or [[spoiler:SuddenDownerEnding]]. You defeat the final boss, wake up on the operating table and then [[spoiler:one of the surgeons morphs into what is supposedly Steve's girlfriend Emily, who then attacks him with a knife. Either your nightmare just got real, or you haven't woken up yet.]]

The backstory described in the novella that came with the game is this. The protagonist, Steve, is in love with a woman possessed by a demon. At some point she tricks Steve into taking some pills to cure his flu, thus granting the demon access to his body and mind. Steve's dreams get increasingly lucid, weird and painful. A psychiatrist and then a neurosurgeon try to cure him. The game starts with Steve in the operation room taking an anaesthetic and experiencing yet another dream, hopefully not his last.

* ShamuFu- Fighting a bee with an electric eel and then fighting weird monsters, and then the BigBad demon, with a ''fish''.

* TheScream: Your character screams whenever he dies.

* LetsPlay: Plenty. One of the Amiga version is viewable [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1rhvFW3Lbo here]]
* MonsterClown / PerversePuppet A very tall Jack-in-the-box threatens you in a few rooms. What’s notable about him is that what can be first mistaken for a large, frilly neck ruff is actually a ''[[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily gigantic]]'' {{Cheshire cat grin}}, so big that it extends far off his face. He can ''play his teeth like a piano'' in order to control the giant piano that makes up the floor in an attempt to stop you.

* StalkedByTheBell: If you take too long to kill the man-eating flowers and advance to the next screen you'll be killed by an unavoidable lawn mower.

* MonsterClown / PerversePuppet A very tall Jack-in-the-box threatens you in a few rooms. What’s notable about him is that what can be first mistaken for a large, frilly neck ruff is actually a ''[[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily gigantic]]'' {{Cheshire cat grin}}, so big that it extends far off his face. He can *play his teeth like a piano* in order to control the giant piano that makes up the floor in an attempt to stop you.

* MonsterClown / PerversePuppet A very tall Jack-in-the-box threatens you in a few rooms. What’s notable about him is that what can be first mistaken for a large, frilly neck ruff is actually a **[[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamilt gigantic]]** {{Cheshire cat grin}}, so big that it extends far off his face. He can *play his teeth like a piano* in order to control the giant piano that makes up the floor in an attempt to stop you.

* NintendoHard: No surprise, considering when it was made.
** You've got 5 lives. For new players this isn't enough to get out of the first room. Forgot to grab enough candy before grabbing the pole? Too bad.

* QuicksandSucks There's a quicksand pit in front of the statue that will take you back to the Hall of Mirrors.

* FreakOut: Happens when you die,accompanied by YourHeadAsplode.

* YourHeadAsplode: The most common death animation.'

* YourHeadAsplode: The most common death animation.

The backstory described in the novella that came with the game is this. The protagonist, Steve, is in love with a woman possessed by a daemon. At some point she tricks Steve into taking some pills to cure his flu, thus granting the daemon access to his body and mind. Steve's dreams get increasingly lucid, weird and painful. A psychiatrist and then a neurosurgeon try to cure him. The game starts with Steve in the operation room taking an anaesthetic and experiencing yet another dream, hopefully not his last.

* ShamuFu- Fighting a bee with an electric eel and then fighting weird monsters, and then the BigBad daemon, with a ''fish''.

* WorldOfChaos: What else to expect from a daemon-induced nightmare?

* GainaxEnding: Either HereWeGoAgain or [[spoiler:SuddenDownerEnding]]. You defeat the final boss, wake up on the operating table and then [[spoiler:the creepy little girl with a butcher knife attacks you in real life and the screen fades to black. Either your nightmare just got real, or you haven't woken up yet.]]

* ClimaxBoss: The bee from the beginning of the game eventually smashes its way into the Hall of Mirrors, engaging in a duel with Steve before the final level of the game.

The backstory described in the novella that came with the game is this. The protagonist, Steve, is in love with a woman possessed by a daemon. At some point she tricks Steve to take pills to cure his flu, thus granting the daemon access to his body and mind. Steve's dreams get increasingly lucid, weird and painful. A psychiatrist and then a neurosurgeon try to cure him. The game starts with Steve in the operation room taking an anaesthetic and experiencing yet another dream, hopefully not his last.

* AWinnerIsYou: In the Commodore 64 version. The other versions are no better: [[spoiler:The screen cuts back to the four surgeons, implying that the operation was successful and you've woken up, but then one of the surgeons' heads suddenly turn into the psychotic little girl, the screen cuts to black, a wicked laugh is heard, and the game abruptly dumps you back to the DOS prompt/Amiga Workbench desktop/Atari GEM desktop).]]

* AWinnerIsYou: In the Commodore 64 version. The other versions are no better: [[spoiler:The screen cuts back to the four surgeons, implying that the operation was successful, but then one of the surgeons' heads suddenly turn into the psychotic little girl, the screen cuts to black, a wicked laugh is heard, and the game abruptly dumps you back to the DOS prompt/Amiga Workbench desktop/Atari GEM desktop).]]

* AWinnerIsYou: In the Commodore 64 version. The other versions are no better: [[spoiler:You recover and the screen cuts back to the four surgeons, but then one of the surgeons' heads suddenly turn into the psychotic little girl, the screen cuts to black, a wicked laugh is heard, and the game abruptly dumps you back to the DOS prompt/Amiga Workbench desktop/Atari GEM desktop).]]

* AWinnerIsYou: In the Commodore 64 version. The other versions are no better: [[spoiler:You recover and the screen cuts back to the four surgeons, but then one of the surgeons' heads suddenly turn into the psychotic little girl, the screen cuts to black, a wicked laugh is heard, and the game abruptly dumps you back to the DOS prompt/Amiga desktop/Atari GEM desktop).]]

* AWinnerIsYou: In the Commodore 64 version. The other versions are no better: [[spoiler:You recover and the screen cuts back to the four surgeons, but then one of the surgeons suddenly turn into the psychotic little girl, the screen cuts to black, a wicked laugh is heard, and the game abruptly dumps you back to the DOS prompt/Amiga desktop/Atari GEM desktop).]]