Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 11

The most memorable thing about NAM-1975 by SNK? For me, it’s the damsel in distress. If you came to her rescue, you didn’t just free a hostage; you gained a comrade-in-arms. 🙂

I’ve got your female empowerment right here. 😉

Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 10

Kids say the darndest things sometimes.

You know your game’s controversial when this is one of the LEAST problematic scenes in it. 

Today’s nap time has been sponsored by Bernd and the Mystery of Unteralterbach (Bernd und das Rätsel um Unteralterbach) by BerndSoft.

Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 9

There are some words you never expect to appear together in the same sentence.

Wait…wasn’t this a deleted scene from “Desperately Seeking Susan”?

Today’s word salad comes to you courtesy of Vigilante by Data East.

Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 8

Go home, Atlus and CAVE Co. Ltd. Your lawyers are drunk.

DAMN YOU AND YOUR LEGALESE, JAPAN! DAMN YOU TO HELL!

Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 7

I’m not sure what I find more bizarre: the U.S. being in the midst of a crime wave perpetrated by ninjas…

Drugs and ninjas everywhere. Growing up in the 80s was rough, man.

…or that Americans seem to be on a first name basis with the President of the United States.

Well, if I weren’t, then I wouldn’t have inserted those quarters, now would I?

Today’s moment of incomprehensibility courtesy of Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja by Data East.

Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 6

I can’t stand ambiguity.

WHAT IN GOD’S NAME DO YOU WANT FROM ME? WHAT?!?

Borderlands 2 is a copyright and trademark of Gearbox Software, LLC. Special thanks to Spiceybutth0le for the screenshot.

Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 5

For everyone who things that bad taste in video games is a relatively recent phenomenon, I’d like to offer you this little gem from 1982:

When the Dow drops, so do the bodies.

Behold! Wall Street by Century Electronics UK Ltd., where, among other things, you play as a pair of firemen carrying a life net...and attempt to bounce suicide jumpers into the safety of a nearby ambulance as the Dow Jones Index takes a nosedive.

Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 4

What kind of knight makes time with his fair princess in a graveyard? In his underwear?

"Fair princess, mine codpiece doth chafe in thy presence."

You know, I’d gladly chalk this up to an innocent misunderstanding, but given the kind of information the sequel to the above game volunteers to us about the fair Guinevere. a.k.a. Princess Prin Prin…

"Canst thou convert thy measurements to the metric system?"

…I’m suddenly feeling much less generous when it comes to giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Ghosts’n Goblins and Ghouls’n Ghosts are copyrights and trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd.

Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 3

If you’re facing a giant boss in a shoot ’em up, there are many acceptable targets: head, eyes, mouth, heart, and hands, just to name a few. But there are certain lines that shouldn’t be crossed.

Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!

I said the eyes! THE EYES! THOSE AREN'T EYES!

This lesson in fighting dirty courtesy of Sexy Parodius by Konami.

Strange Moments in Video Gaming – Part 2

There’re awkward conversation topics. And then there’re awkward conversation topics with the armless Rin Tezuka.

True friendships don't require time outs once a month.

This combination of brutal honesty and too much information courtesy of Katawa Shoujo (かたわ少女/Disability Girls), a freeware visual novel developed by Four Leaf Studios.