7 Most WTF Minigames We Swear We're Not Making Up

Most minigames make sense in the context of the main game, but not all of them - as you’ll see in these seven bewildering cases, each of which had us wondering if we’d accidentally stumbled into a completely different game and just taken a while to notice. Enjoy the deadly chess, massage puzzling and shoot 'em up flirting, then subscribe for a video like this every Thursday from Outside Xbox.
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[@thatterenceguy95]

Everything about everything in a Yakuza game is the most WTF thing ever, while also being the greatest thing ever. Though the fact that you can lose health if you go on a bad date through the telephone minigame is probably what kills me the most in Yakuza 0...once almost literally.

[@andymcp4752]

Whoever pitched the Oblivion conversation game probably said something like “yeah just think about it like you’re serving portions of conversation pie” with enough dazzling confidence in the dev meeting that no one wanted to question it.. boy could that dev serve that conversation pie

[@bryonyperecat5954]

And thank you for explaining the whole conversation wheel thing better than Oblivion did. (I hate that thing)

[@realism_logic]

I actually found it immensely funny to see all those faces do gymnastics. That minigame isn't so bad after putting the hilarious-factor in the equation.

[@ZlothZloth]

@@realism_logic - yeah, which lasts 5 times max. Then you need to do it another 100 times. Thank goodness for mods!

[@Danceofmasks]

I was going to mention Saints Row, but then I remembered that no matter how ridiculous the minigame, it's thematically appropriate.

[@exalmer14]

When SR3 came out, I thought the side mission when you got superpowers is just wtf. Then 4 came out and I'm like "Yep. I love this series"

[@roguishpaladin]

Yeah. Undertale's snail racing is the same way, since Undertale was a deconstruction of game tropes in the first place. I wonder if there's enough situations like that for a "7 Most WTF minigames that made complete sense to be there" list?

[@ocarinahero3450]

Chuck Manson No u

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

I think the snail race might have in part taken a swing at freakin' Chao racing

[@TurnipCart]

@@exalmer14 lawl ya, Saints Row will always have a place in my heart

[@Mobius08]

Was hoping that they'd mention that in Tekken Bowl, you can screw up the aim so bad that instead of a gutter ball, you end up injuring the spectators off-screen.

[@graywolfdracon]

There are times I aim for Dr. B

[@zadok23]

you mean the minions clapping with rifles in their hands.

[@EllBell-wj1ye]

"Teach a dominatrix to be more assertive" I have never been so confused

[@PlebNC]

For context the dominatrix is a novice and is shy so she struggles with being assertive.

[@meneldal]

She's terrible at her job and has no idea what to do. He ends up telling her what to say and do.

[@420sakura1]

@@PlebNC that's the plot of Blend S. Did it rip off Yakuza Zero?

[@nyanSynxPHOENIX]

Really odd that she wouldn't go to another dominatrix instead. Seems almost problematic that a woman in BDSM needs some random man to teach her BDSM, but i haven't played the game, so idk.

[@tiffyw92]

@@nyanSynxPHOENIX No, you're right. A lot of substories in Yakuza games come out of the blue and don't make sense. I guess it's like Kiryu and the other protags are like local heroes on the side where they go around helping everyone, regardless of the main story, while other times they run into annoying thugs/scammers to beat up instead. There could be a whole separate video about weirdest Yakuza minigames / substories. Most times, it's just random people asking him to help with whatever, from helping find people or saving them from thugs to managing a cabaret club to acting as a temp noodle chef to racing street racers in a taxi to playing card arcade games with kids where the cards are all scantily clad women cosplaying insects... And this is barely scratching the surface.

[@TwojaStaraIFrytki]

Epic phone picking up + simple "moshi moshi" always leaves me rolling on the floor laughing

[@stevenknauer6234]

I replayed that scene in the video like 4 times XD

[@lilthreegame7991]

It's 90% the charm of a yakuza game, not gonna lie

[@rafifenge5092]

Lol Same 😂😂

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Haha they left out the best twist on one of the later ones where it ends up being an okama or a dude when you meet them, I forget haha But yeah, 0 is just such a classic Great combat, the most over the top style and design, being majima.. Kiwami 1 and 2 are great but 0 just has so many epic setpiece fights, and the best boss group to go up against The motorcycle boss in the sewers, it's too cool Plus it sets up 1 really well And yeah.. Some of the funniest most charming goofy stuff

[@dumbass626]

Lol Many things in that game were made to look epic, like scenes from a movie crossed with an anime lmao Even successfully catching a fish, or starting an arcade game look epic

[@edwardgrimes7535]

“The Ultimate Duck: A Penguin.” LOL.

[@PlebNC]

The Untitled Goose joined the chat

[@jessicastrike5640]

One of the greatest sentences I’ve ever heard

[@iangrau-fay3604]

The sheer amount of disdain in his voice made the entire video worth it.

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Such a classic hahah I mean when I played that in Jr high when it was new, it was pretty legendary I had to order it abroad for my Dreamcast since it was only here on xbox and noone got that for Xmas when PS2 was an option hahaha Also MK deception really was like their beta test for ridiculous new ideas, not just chess but the open world story quests and all kinds of other bonkers stuff

[@WillMiall]

Proper burst out laughing at that bit. Andy's sarcasm is great

[@minerjp6873]

Honestly, you probably could have made a whole list with just the Yakuza series... X'D

[@randomnerd3402]

Or the shemune series

[@twilightshadow91]

Or the Mortal Kombat series

[@errorbirdesther]

Or *A* *L* *L* *T* *H* *R* *E* *E*

[@velocityraptor2890]

oh easily

[@angelusvastator1297]

YES

[@alexlee4154]

Im suprised youd show the telephone club over the massage Or the eurobeat taxi Or the disco dancing Or the hostess clubs The thing is yakuza is so weird you stop being suprised after a while

[@Altzar2011]

Yakuza is a WarioWare Sleeping Dogs

[@alexlee4154]

@@Altzar2011 Well they dont have much in common other than setting from what I understand

[@meneldal]

I was expecting the toilet minigame from Kiwami rather than this one.

[@ZachX888]

Hang on, there's an Initial D Taxi? Holy shit I need this game.

[@RenShinomiya121]

@@ZachX888 Yakuza 5

[@amezification]

My new favorite quote... "The Ultimate kind of Duck... A penguin" I actually spat out my soda when I heard that line, and now I need to clean my laptop

[@Bethgael]

My first reaction: "Oblivion has a minigame?" [Speechcraft] Me, morosely. "Oh. Yeah."

[@Reishadowen]

Yeah, and you beat it the way real champions beat most games: bribing the f*ck out of the other guy.

[@Warrax85tp]

Literally I had the same EXACT reaction

[@jacopobertolotti5025]

There was also the lockpicking minigane.

[@Bethgael]

@@jacopobertolotti5025 TOO SOON< MAN! ;)

[@frodobaggins7710]

You know you've played a lot of Yakuza when you can watch the heat moves in this video and think, "That's not even the most painful attack Kiryu can do"

[@alexlee4154]

Everyone gangsta till the rolling eyes fall

[@Fenrigalo]

currently playing the substories of yakuza 0, and hoo doggy, this game is filled with weird minigames and stories but thats just the best thing about the game

[@supernsansa]

The heat action involving the mysterious syringe is perhaps the most dangerous of all. It was the 80s after all...

[@Fenrigalo]

@@supernsansa the syringe and the pliers were pretty hardcore

[@eviltimscurse]

One of my favorites is when he lifts up an entire electrical utility cabinet and pancakes a dude.

[@TrimutiusToo]

"Most dramatic answering of a telephone" sent me laughing...

[@thegreatpineapple4425]

Clearly you haven't seen how Kiryu unzips to relieve himself in the toy-lets mini game in YK2.

[@FourSevenTwenty]

Clearly he hasn't seen literally anything Kiryu does. The man makes slot car racing into a testosterone filled battle of the ages.

[@bensmith1689]

Still not a patch on Light Yagami eating crisps.

[@TrimutiusToo]

@@thegreatpineapple4425 nah it was more about the comment made by the outsidexbox than about visuals

[@narcspector]

Same! I was not expecting it to be as dramatic as it was lol

[@oldharlock7760]

When a stone/paper/scissors mini game about betting on skimpy clad catfight girls or a cabaret club management game with excessive hostess customization doesn't even make the list, you know it is a Yakuza game!

[@CokeDrkrNotSnrtr]

I think the skantily clad bug-girls wrestling in a rock/paper/scissor format should've made the list, and I haven't played much of Yakuza at all

[@christopherhammond5142]

They probably had to stick with one game per franchise, otherwise Yakuza would fill the list half a dozen times over.

[@youdead3758]

Except the phone club, cat fight and carbaret club are all in yakuza 0

[@SirThinkALot42]

Also dont forget the massage game from some of the other games in the series.

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Man the catfight minigame was infuriating. Far too much RNG. Same with the telephone club

[@ChadOfStats]

I'm surprised all the entries weren't filled up by Yakuza XD

[@LovedandTheLover]

Agreed

[@MatheusLima-kc8bc]

Agreed. Was about to type this exact same comment.

[@johnnychopsocky]

@@Gwoblesto189 Let's see, Girl Fight minigame, Pocket Racer, Cabaret Club... and that's just Yakuza Zero.

[@John-Stark]

@@Gwoblesto189 hard to tell tone in text dude

[@willfieldsend]

Me at the start of this video: Ha, I bet they have yoga from GTA V. Me at the end of this video: Wow. I drastically underestimated the surrealist tone of this video.

[@Banquet42]

I think he's banned from mentioning him since his revelation about how he used to murder that cousin in increasingly inventive ways.

[@Adahn99]

@mark undefined The problem is... They never went bowling

[@bentoth9555]

"Something the game replays 9 times!" Oh, that wasn't hyperbole. Ok then.

[@joeschmo3844]

What about literally digging up graves in Ocarina of Time? Made even weirder by the fact that the customer is a child in a graveyard in the middle of the night.

[@dominichoughton8119]

Ocarina of Time also gave us bombchu bowling. Because of course letting random children deploy self-propelled explosive kamikaze robots is a great idea for a business.

[@Alsebra]

​@@dominichoughton8119, to be fair, he has an appropriate range for it. I always wondered about the photography "minigame" in Wind Waker, though...did they really expect a child to have the capability to accurately work a one-of-a-kind mechanical device and get perfect photos of 134 separate subjects?

[@randomthunk]

I have played Oblivion since it came out in an off-and-on capacity, and mark today as the day that I finally learned what on earth you were supposed to be doing with that conversation wheel mini-game.

[@dielaberbrudergaming6288]

yep, i watched a lets play 10 years ago and neither i or the lets player understood that thing, now, 10 years later, i still pay them until they like me.

[@serPomiz]

on one side, you could become friends with guards, and that made it easier to get away with petty thievery (that with the earliest of the point&grab of bethesda games, whould happen OFTEN) on the other it was costant pain

[@bryonyperecat5954]

Yep, I might actually try playing a character who can actually talk their way out of a paper bag now.

[@dielaberbrudergaming6288]

@@serPomiz lol, you could also get 100% chameleon and put a live grenade in their ohh wait... wrong game, you could basically steasl everything.

[@gutigerpj]

I had no idea either - I used the smallest pie segment on every quarter to see what they responded to without causing too much of a negative reaction.

[@danielcenteno7920]

This list could be composed of nothing but Yakuza games

[@shawnfields2369]

In fact, someone make that list, please. I'll gladly sub and watch that video. I LOVE the Yakuza series.

[@JeedyJay]

Let's be honest, the same can be said of Final Fantasy games.

[@briangittens7936]

That’s what makes them great!😂

[@mappybc6097]

@@JeedyJay I was going to say there is nothing in contemporary FFs that can match the tamest of Yakuza's minigames but then i remembered the Honeybee Cloud and Andrea's dance number in FF7R.

[@methborton]

ok yeah the yakuza 0 telephone club game was weird but the photoshoot one in kiwami 2,,,, difficult to explain that one to anyone even with context

[@patrickbrennan7438]

@meth borton it must be fairly weird if it's weirder than what Andy described

[@zicyzacbonanza]

@@patrickbrennan7438 The most normal parts of the Yakuza series could be described as fairly weird and it spirals out of control from there.

[@patrickbrennan7438]

@@zicyzacbonanza I'll have to take your word for it 😂😂 I've never played any of them

[@charlestrudel8308]

@@patrickbrennan7438 well, the main game is a pretty serious if not excessive sometime crime movie. but all the rest is minimum weird, and then insane.

[@nerosoul2506]

@@charlestrudel8308 And then majima

[@NGMonocrom]

Ah, those mini games.... It's like watching Mike playing in stealth mode through an action title.

[@voltzoen6262]

3:40 Fighting a horde of zombies and helping an MJ impersonator? How thrilling.

[@raymondjones7423]

I need you guys to beat it with the MJ puns ok? There all just bad. Really really bad.

[@SgtScorpious]

Ha

[@voltzoen6262]

@Lizardguy That does sound Dangerous.

[@roguishpaladin]

@@voltzoen6262 Commenters like you always Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'. Well, it just not that Black Or White. Please...just Leave Me Alone.

[@fearfulsuggestion]

*sarcastic laughter*

[@AilinOGriobhtha]

That is 100% the correct thumbnail for this video! Yakuza is a special brand of mad that can't be matched short of getting suda51 involved.

[@recurvess9569]

During spoiler warnings: There was a mini game in Oblivion? After: Oh yeah...🤦‍♀️

[@YenneferOfDragonstone]

'Because every girl gang needs a Nemesis-' Ah. I see where Umbrella was going with this.

[@McNamarathatghost]

Yakuza 0 Telephone Club, I don't think I've laughed harder with some of the potential answers. I think one persons name is unfairly targeted though as unappealing.

[@moony2082]

All of the entries for this list could be from the Yakuza series

[@blazingfuryoffire1]

Yes... Bowling, slot cars, gambling, cat fights, disco...

[@BlackdragonTheShadow]

Which it’s a good thing they limit it to one per series then

[@nickbender9233]

There once was a game called MediEvil 2. In that game, there was a level that included a boxing mini-game. For those of you who played this gem, back me up on this one: It was COMPLETELY left field.

[@jamestouchette859]

I'm just now finding out there was a second MediEvil??????

[@Daniel-kq4bx]

When i played Witcher i was like : Im not playing Gwint. Well i ended up doing all the Gwint missions.

[@alemarioluiginator]

Its so fun

[@fearfulsuggestion]

Same tho

[@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human]

I really enjoyed Gwent. I get why they changed it, as is it wouldn't make a very compelling game, but I don't find the standalone as fun.

[@PastelBat]

Was it fun at least?

[@Daniel-kq4bx]

@@PastelBat Very. Unless people that play Monster decks, fuck them

[@Monkeyzforever]

Oh man that Leblanc minigame I only play that section when no one's around to see it, easier than explaining xD

[@marhawkman303]

I never thought of it as a minigame since you can't replay it IIRC. It's a weird story objective and once you're done that's the only time you'll see it.

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

I never gave it much thought cause it happens once and is low-key. Albeit her responses will raise eyebrows.

[@delilahchevalier2553]

I was 10 playing it & I would mute the sound on my tv Bc the moaning was SOOOO loud and awkward

[@queencleopatra007]

I had to mute my tv when playing it so my parents wouldn't think I was watching something more...inappropriate lol

[@ltamha]

A little tip for the Oblivion minigame, the number in the middle of the wheel goes up and down according to their reaction, the amount the number changes by is relative to the chunk size of the option you choose and how much they like/dislike the option you chose.

[@mikewood8815]

Top tips for all the new Oblivion players out there :)

[@ltamha]

@@mikewood8815 thanks :) I'm glad to be of help to anyone. It's a sick game too, easily in my top 3.

[@pizzaboy8318]

the Fort Condor side missions in Final Fantasy 7 were kinda odd, never expected a ton of military strategy in that one

[@OfMechanismAndMatter]

I just swarmed the enemies during the Fort Condor missions. Place as many base units as you can as far down the map as possible, then have them march en masse to the enemy swarm points. Instant win in about three minutes each time.

[@patrickphelan279]

I was all for military strategy in there. (I love the bits in those games where you have to use all your characters in multiple parties. Phoenix Cave, heck yes.) What really bothered me was that if you wanted all the good reward bits... you had to let the bad guys get to the end and then just fight them. MY SKILLS ARE NOT BEING REWARDED

[@mikevasquez1103]

I see you don't know about the mandatory massage therapy credit necessary to become a summoner. LOL

[@patrickphelan279]

"I am a summoner, like my father before me! Is the neck good? You hold a lot of tension in your shoulders."

[@q306005]

My favorite interview quote is from Ed Boon when asked if Injustice would have fatalities and in the most condescending tone said "I bet if we made a chess game people would expect it to have fatalities," and the interviewer went "But you did make a chess game and it did have fatalities," and Boon just sat there flabbergasted.

[@rangerecho]

what about Motor Kombat in MK: Armageddon? that was the best Mario Kart stand-in when you didn't have a Nintendo console

[@barrybend7189]

That needs to be back with every character.

[@Bobthepetferret]

The first thing I thought of when I saw the title was that Final Fantasy massage game, so I'm very happy it made it in. It's the perfect example of a minigame that requires some extensive explanation if someone walks in the room while it's happening (even more so than most of Yakuza)

[@codenameu.arctos3747]

Yakuza Kiwami 2 - the softcore photographer game. Teltel club on steroids

[@ImBetterThanYouLOL1]

This whole video could just be yakuza games

[@shawnfields2369]

Exactly. But what about the Real Estate Royale, the hostess recruiting minigame, the shitty Pocket Circuit minigame, the Cabaret Club Czar thing for Majima, the baseball minigame from Yakuza 6, the Clan Creator story, the one minigame where Kiryu tries to help that one dude fight off his former crew, and they have to move strategically, like Combat Chess, and they even have special moves. And there's the Rizap training minigame. Really, every minigame from Yakuza Zero, Yakuza Kiwami 2, and Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life, could be on here. I'd love that. Someone; please make that list. "You look nice".

[@BrognusBelgen]

@@shawnfields2369 Majima Construction. It's a minigame with its own anthem.

[@snukastyle]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail for PC had a few minigames I remember. One was a Tetris clone, but the pieces were corpses you were dropping into a pit/mass grave. There was also Spank the Virgin, which is exactly what it sounds like. I ever did figure out how to get past that bit, though.

[@baneofdan]

Bethesda are going to prove their ability at speechcraft next year when they convince people to buy the 10 year anniversary edition of Skyrim next year.

[@Bethgael]

But they already have! It's called ESO: Greymoor.

[@bjsdemon]

They don't have to convince me- I'm getting it anyway when they announce it. I'm going to get it and put it up. Just like my Deluxe version of Final Fantasy 7 Remake. It's still in the plastic wrapper and it won't be opened. It'll be worth something someday since it has been considered a gaming classic enough to warrant a rerelease some years later. For me anyway, it's nostalgia. It was one of the first games I've beaten.

[@LadyOnikara]

I'm from the future, it worked. I still need to get it though.

[@shantalfabri1860]

Honestly, chess kombat sounds kind of fun! 😆

[@Ragan31687]

It actually really is. It’s the only reason I still have a copy of MKD.

[@shawnfields2369]

Doesn't it, though? It's great.

[@Grimmtoof]

Well there is chess boxing which combines playing chess with rounds of boxing. And yes it is a real sport.

[@m.thorton9305]

it is a lot of fun, probably the only things i liked about MK games i've played after growing up

[@ZlothZloth]

It isn't the first chess combat. The Archon games from Electronic Artists were great fun - and those were inspired by the game you see C3PO and Chewy playing in Star Wars.

[@Artaimus]

My friend and I played the hell out of TTT and the bowling game. If you went to one side, aimed further off and threw hard, you'd be informed that you'd injured someone with the ball.

[@Asiago9]

Player 1: Let's fight the moon lord. Player 2: no lets play golf. Golf form terraria.

[@fosterchair]

I see Kiryu on the thumbnail, I click

[@Flutterbutt225]

Which WhatCulture apparently knows so they've put Kiryu as the thumbnail for at least one video that didn't even feature a Yakuza game. Never clicked Dislike so fast.

[@wafflehammer4725]

Ah Mike! Now all I wanna play is Ker-plunk Kombat, I mean Imagine if there were fatalities for Ker-Plunk?

[@bencarth201]

How about in Link between worlds where in Lorule a place of darkness and despair ... you can play BASEBALL!!!

[@MichaelWarman]

I liked the Oblivion mini game. Sure, it was a bit abstract, but putting a skill test into being charismatic would always be, and they got it relatively close by making it a choice of which aspects of your personality to lead with while it was slightly constricted by the actions of the other. It was also relatively easy to net 0 gain from any round and fly through rounds super quickly to level your spacecraft real fast.

[@nibbles135]

The weirdest minigame in Yakuza 0 is not the Telephone Club. It was the Catfight. You know the game in which you watch two Women wearing high heels and bikinis would wrestle depending on what you chose in a rock paper scissors mingame

[@cosmobayston3750]

I can't believe I've been playing Oblivion for years and I never realized their facial expressions change. I just went through and guessed them

[@codym4340]

The weirdest thing in the video was the Final Fantasy villain calling her bedroom a 'chambre'

[@patrickphelan279]

...Logos is that kind of guy.

[@jaredcrabb]

I believe thats normal in some places.

[@JStryker47]

In Stubbs the Zombie - a lesser known game for the original Xbox, one level has Stubbs wreaking havoc in the city's Police station, where he eventually reaches the chief's office. The chief then calls in four SWAT officers, while Stubbs brings in four zombified cops; all of whom prepare to take part in... a dance competition?!

[@dennis_duran]

I never played even 1 game of caravan.

[@williambrown319]

You've saved yourself a fucking headache

[@absollum]

To be fair to Ringo, if I were in a stressful situation, I would also want to play a game. Also, he's pretty safe where he's at unless the player wants to side with the Powder Gangers

[@mattBLACKpunk]

@@williambrown319 really? I found once I understood how it works it was pretty fun

[@fearfulsuggestion]

“You wanna play a hand of Caravan”

[@DerIrreLeWand]

I tried but never got to actually get the rules or maybe I just can't remember. it's been a while 😅

[@xeepher757]

Yakuza Zeros telephone club sure was weird, but the Cat Fight Club takes the cake for me.

[@SergeantSphynx]

I had forgotten about that Oblivion speech thing. Damn you for making me remember.

[@HinekoAkahi]

I love how five out of seven games on this list are from Japan. Because Japanese pop culture is just legitimately _Like That._

[@bilbo_t_baggins2762]

"Before you move a piece, you have to take part in a one round fist fight." Mike describes what happened when Jane bought in her birthday cake.

[@mar_speedman]

And from now on, it's what happens in all my birthdays, too!

[@spooderbat626]

Honestly all Yakuza 0 minigames are pretty weird when u remember ur playing a game where the main protagonists are ex Yakuza

[@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661]

8:39 man thats actually rather funny, I love it when Games acknowledge the Effort one performs in out of place content.

[@Maxler5795]

Yakuza just has wierd wtf minigames everywhere. Heres some examples: - telephone club - vr board game - cabaret club managment in almost every game. - real estate managment. - cabaret club, but as a client. - guard at a bikini club - client at a bikini club - noodle cooking - fishing (from the smallest fish to the biggest sharks) - skating - drone racing - KARAOKE

[@wouldanyonelikeanytoast5171]

I remember that to get one of the secret Golden Enterprise models in Star Trek Elite Force 2 you smashed a wall and had to jump in a silver pipe.....to play a mario side scrolling platformer to get the secret.

[@princesszelda1997]

There are power up squares in chess! When a pawn reaches the final row of the opposite side it can turn into any other piece!

[@joeschmo3844]

No, that’s a level up square, totally different.

[@RadienOfRaonArashal]

This video told me better how to play that conversation minigame than any in-game tutorial or hint or even the bleeding manual

[@KingOfDoma]

Just want to say, thank you for explaining the Speechcraft wheel. I NEVER understood it when I was playing it, and I'm a guy who likes to talk his way out of things, so to have that barrier between myself and speech check successes was extremely frustrating. Thank you!

[@MrLenny011]

That Todd Howard clip is to great I had to screen record it

[@hotcocoabomb_]

Yandere simulator: maid cafe mini game Yah sure you need money but I’m a Murderer not a maid

[@zackleburg7429]

Yes but would you with a butter knife or a Samaria sowrd

[@Adahn99]

Looks like you really got maid to that minigame

[@BrotherAlpha]

Chess Kombat sounds a lot like Archon. That was an amazing game. Played it on my C64 for hours when I was a kid.

[@AlexB-pv1xq]

Oh, there's also some of the minigames in the Danganronpa series. You play these during the Class Trials in order to put together info. One of them is a parody of Crazy Taxi where you pick up girls if you get the answer correct.

[@mar_speedman]

In Danganronpa, this "minigame" is actually the core gameplay lol

[@patrickphelan279]

"I have to get it straight in my head just what the murderer did at this critical point. It is time... for BRAIN SKATEBOARD."

[@RedYellowBird6889]

Yeah am pretty sure something can't be considered a minigame when it's roughly 50% of the core gameplay experience but semantics i suppose.

[@00pugsly48]

My mum walked in on the FF10-2 mini game and I honestly think I’d have rather been caught watching porn

[@graywolfdracon]

What about Tekken Ball from Tekken 3? Volleyball in a fighting game...what do they think this is, Dead or Alive?!?

[@Alex0101101]

13:44 TFW I finish the section on Chess Kombat and immediately get an ad for a chess training thing.

[@CaitlinRC]

Bit of an odd one but the roller coaster at Dragon Shores in Spyro Gateway To Glimmer. WHY AM I ON A ROLLERCOASTER WITH CANNONS AND BALLOONS AND OTHER CARTS

[@thenightingale699]

Oh yeah that one it was a tad bit strange but then again it is a rollercoaster for dragons

[@thepyroghoul]

Is anybody a little sad that they didn't keep in the kahjiit ear-motional spectrum?

[@chrisclayden8160]

I'm a simple man. I see yakuza I watch

[@Shepard8399]

Ah a fellow man of culture i see

[@zomzee]

Agreed. So far I've only played Zero, but I'm loving the series.

[@definepoetic]

Ah, the old ultimate duck is a penguin ruse

[@ChristyTina22]

WatchDogs had those drug induced hallucinations. Running around Chicago shooting aliens sounds cool, until you realize what you look like to everyone else.

[@cobydavis104]

My favorite mini game has to be bowling from the Spider-man game based on the Toby McGuire movie. Who needs a bowling ball when you could just swing kick the pins?

[@James-gj8rn]

I'm a simple man, i see Kazuma Kiryu. i click (what can I say, the Yakuza series is my favourite game series ever) and for people who haven't played it yet, Pick up Yakuza 0, the stories in the Yakuza games are incredible, the characters are so well realised, so you'll feel for them every step of the way and can i just say that Haruka is the cutest thing ever, adorable and watching her grow up throughout the series is so rewarding for fans (but Haruka isn't introduced until the original game, which 0 is a prequel to, also Yakuza Kiwami is a remake of the first Yakuza game so you can also play Kiwami as a starting point if you want, then Kiwami 2, a remake of Yakuza 2, 3, 4, 5, 0 and then 6

[@Otakukunoichi]

Everytime Andy drags the Shenmue series, I can feel my skin clear and my crops flourish.

[@frankman2]

"And the winner for most dramatic answering of a telephone goes to...." 4:20

[@kayleyanna3164]

I'm expecting all of these to be yakuza

[@shawnfields2369]

Sadly, dude/lady, they weren't. But, please, anyone out there, make that list. I'd gladly sub and watch that video, if they did it. Especially if they were a beautiful lady, with an especially nice voice... sadly, I don't know any women like that.

[@GriffinWolf]

Wow, am I the only one who enjoyed the Oblivion speech minigame? Once you'd levelled up speech enough, you could just bypass the minigame, anyway.

[@warren_r]

What's wild is that the Yakuza series actually has most of these minigames, all on its own..... - Conversation/persuasion (Hostess clubs, especially Yakuza 6) - Bowling - Shogi, aJapanese variant of Chess - Aroma Massage (Yakuza 3 and 4) - Duck racing (Yakuza 5, okay technically it's roosters) The only thing you won't find in a Yakuza game is a shooting gallery!

[@guidedbyechoes]

Final fight: streetwise had the roach stomping mini game that was pretty weird. Ska is also blasting in the background.

[@patrickphelan279]

I think the team just wants to forget Final Fight: Streetwise wherever possible. And can you blame them?

[@vitorta6696]

The commenter edition of this video should include the Cabaret Club Czar from Yakuza 0 just so Majima can appear too (and the Obatarian!)

[@shawnfields2369]

I'd love to see Majima on this list, as an entry. His cabaret club got the shaft in this video, although the telephone club minigame was more hilarious, and more, wtf-y. Really, Kiryu has the weirdest minigames in Yakuza Zero. Like Real Estate Royale, the disco dancing minigame, the karaoke minigame(for those 2, it's not the games themselves, but the way Kiryu does each of them, like the way he sings in karaoke, and the way he dances in the disco minigame), the crappy Pocket Circuit minigame, and the JCC, the bug girl fight club bullshit, you know, real weird shit.

[@outsidexbox]

Majima's getting a shout out in today's vid about weird levelling up systems!

[@vitorta6696]

@@outsidexbox hurray for Gorogorogoro-chan!

[@shawnfields2369]

@@vitorta6696 I agree. Can't wait to see that video. There's also a new Yakuza game being announced, although you don't play as Kiryu or Majima. You play as some new guy named Kasuga, or something. And, they're changing the battle system to an RPG-like battle system. Still, sounds good though.

[@vitorta6696]

@@shawnfields2369 The name of that game is a "resident evil: biohazard" situation all over again, since the name of the series in Japan is "like a dragon". Although it might be appropriate to have a different name since the gameplay is so different.

[@ClumsyByFact]

This list could have been only Yakuza games. Photo booth and MesuKing in Kiwami, cabaret and JCC in yakuza 0 or maybe pocket circuit racing in both games. Yakuza minigames are so weird... and yet really entertaining 😁

[@TJDious]

Actually Chess Kombat is also a nod to Archon, which pitted teams of mythical beasts against each other on a chessboard-like battlefield.

[@Dribbleondo]

GTA V Golf. A game that actively encourages looting, shooting and murdering has a pretty decent golf minigame.

[@blainy-o93]

And tennis. And yoga. And darts.

[@WiiMasterZephermkx]

Rouge Galaxy has a mini-game where you use a factory to make items that you can buy in the world. Trust me, it's a lot more convoluted than than it sounds. All I can say is math is key

[@serPomiz]

the thing is, one of the result from that minigame is one of the 7 swords of legend how the hell do you forge the only exemplary of a sword that is already known for how unique it is, in what's pretty much a glorified grampa's workshop!?!

[@mediocredannyd3612]

Rikku & Paine - 'Yuna how did massaging Leblanc go?' Yuna - 'Fine, let's go' Rikku & Paine - 'But did y-' Yuna - 'I SAID FINE! I don't want to talk about it'

[@SquIDGAmiG62]

Another great Minigame is Motor Kombat from Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. It's pretty much Mario Kart with stage fatalities

[@rtyuik7]

yknow, i think that Oblivion's SpeechWheel stole one of the "7 Spots" for this video, from the Battleship-esque timewaster in Zelda:WindWaker (known by many as the "Sploosh-Kaboom" game)...but in my opinion, the 'WTF?' doesnt come from the mere idea of a Battleship game set inside The Most Nautical Zelda ever, its the fact that speedrunners have basically reverse-engineered all possible enemy placements into a algorithm-based Guide, so that you can guarantee where to attack within about five shots...

[@sagacious03]

Good list video! Thanks for uploading!

[@DanHemsath]

It may seem like double-dipping into the Sega/Yakuza pool a bit, but I'm surprised not to see Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise's bartending minigame here. Seriously, hearing Kenshiro say "you are already drunk" never ceases to put a smile on my face.

[@Eramaeis]

I did not know about any of these and they are all absolutely hilarious. I love this video.

[@bigmurphman]

Remember the dog-races in God Hand? I spent hours watching and betting on purple and pink chihuahuas.

[@xtieburn]

Geometry Wars. The original Geometry Wars. An entire line of games that originated on an arcade machine tucked away in Project Gotham Racing 2 on the X-Box.

[@AdamBladeTaylor]

Chess Kombat is basically just Archon, which was the original "action variant" of chess, with special units, power squares, and spells.

[@stevenlouton6381]

Tekken Bowl was such a surprisingly fun mini game. I remember the first 300 I bowled was with Ganryu first with Bryan Fury as 2nd. Me and my friend had as much fun playing that as we did the regular game. maybe a dedicated Tekken bowling game with ya know, ball design, team logo design, and so on. I feel it would have been a hit.

[@lilbluebox1601]

5:39 I guess love truly is an open door

[@mikewood8815]

BOOO! XD