WEIRD PS1 Games That Are Actually GOOD

[@CulturedVultures]

Which slightly weird but GOOD PS1 freakazoid deserves more love? Leave your suggestions down below

[@AlmostCoolGuys]

@@CulturedVultures my only freaky weird game. Is Wild 9. The dudes who made Earthworm Jim. Using just the sounds its a weird ass game.

[@AlmostCoolGuys]

I actually own blast chamber. LOUDEST game i own

[@CulturedVultures]

​@AlmostCoolGuys I just recorded something on Wild 9! Long live WEX MAJOR

[@mctapoutos7426]

Did you removed one video ??? With coyote on the thumbnail???

[@klaarkprod]

Planet Laika, definitely !

[@KerenskyTheRed]

Sheep, Dog, and Wolf actually looks legitimately eye popping like a cartoon!

[@thetoytrove754]

If he called wiley coyote, wolf one more time i was gonna fly to london and kick his ass.....

[@pharmcat8484]

Each video must be like 5 hours research, 3 hours writing, 2 hours editing. Genuinely impressive with your output

[@neetpride5919]

Editing always takes longer than you think it will too

[@pharmcat8484]

@ even more impressive then. And yes, I always underestimate the editing process

[@AshBates93]

You forgot the 3-5 hours of procrastination in between all that as the writer stares lifelessly into the void, hoping words will magically appear.

[@Resimaster]

There are probably multiple people making each video.

[@AmateurGameReview]

​@@neetpride5919 clicked to say this exact thing lol

[@ChaoticHoly]

Fun Fact! Koudelka was going to feature Resident Evil-type combat with on-screen monsters, but at the 11:59th hour the dev team rebelled against the producer, hence why the battle system is so bleh and the castle is so empty. Awesome game still. I'd love to see someone hack the Shadow Hearts ring-system into the game, though.

[@holeshapedgod]

I liked the battle system in koudelka. Also, there are not enough turn based horror RPGs. It is is a while since I played it, maybe you are right the combat system is undercooked. I wish the shadow hearts games would be more like koudelka. They are so goofy that overshadows the horror elements for me.

[@lustisnotlove6226]

After all these years of watching video games lists, this is the first time i hear “first person pin ball game”

[@benmcreynolds8581]

Sheep dog and wolf looked AMAZING! I have never seen anything about that gem of a game before. The art design, graphics style & character animations is everything i love in video games. Man i wish we still got video games like that

[@AbrahamLure]

It was really big in the UK and Australia!

[@tartaruganinjas]

4:08 i have been searching for this game since 2002, when my brother got his ps1 this game come in a demo with others game, i never had find in any “all ps1 games” here on youtube, you ended my search casually, thanks bro

[@AshRiot81]

I think the weirdest PS1 game I ever played was the LSD dream simulator game

[@misterfuzzyflippers]

I played through Mizzurna Falls with a friends recently because we're both massive Twin Peaks fans and we both loved it even though we got a bad end.

[@ToABrighterFuture]

Azure Dreams. I couldn't tell if it was a roguelike, monster catching, town building, dating sim, or a town building, dating sim, monster catching roguelike. But I liked it, and thought it was underappreciated (still do).

[@AbrahamLure]

It goes so hard

[@brotbrotsen1100]

Back then we just called it a Dungeon crawler. I know the actual game, rouge, is ancient but it feels like the term rougelike just poped up at around 2010

[@aldotrioksidi]

Destrega has actually been on my list for like a decade, but I have never managed to find a copy. I fell in love with it way back, since I played a demo disc it was on, along other games that some of I have managed to get my hands on, such as T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger.

[@klown1988]

I am so happy to see Incredible Crisis finally get some deserved recognition. It was the most bombastic, weirdest game I ever played, but I loved it's oddness...even if I could never get past the ferris wheel scene. And why did we never get a Destrega sequel is beyond me.

[@CerealSensei410]

Seeing Blast Chamber on this list warmed my heart.

[@businesscat380]

Weird PS1 games y'say, my speciality...try these out for size: - ...They're Here - weird survival horror in a Japanese school - Aconcagua...point-n-click survival games with a dash of South American politics - Akuji the Heartless - Soulreaver, but more voodoo-ey - Baroque...weirdly dark FPS dungeon crawler in a post apocalyptic world - Fluid...the weird music game - Gamera 2000...Star Fox 64 / Panzer Dragoon, but with a giant rocket firing turtle as a sidekick - Gegege No Kitarou - like Japanese Ghouls n Ghosts with a creepy kid that can fire headlice - Hakaaiou: King of Crusher - play as a guy with anger management issues wrecking the place and becoming the god of anger 🤬 Iblard: City of Hatching Laputa - this is like a Star Trek TNG season 1 away mission as a game 😂 - Kaze No Notam: Notam of Wind - a hot air balloon-em-up...yes, really - Liberogrande - the football game where you play as one player only - LSD simulator - pretty infamous - Mad Panic Coaster - fun! - Moon RPG - an RPG where you're playing as a guy sucked into the RPG he was playing, Inception style - Oh no! - distilled Japanese weirdness - Planet Laika - adventure RPG set on Mars, but everyone's a dog... - Power Shovel - oh how I love Power Shovel...complete various nonsensicle tasks in a JCB - Remote Control Dandy - play as a kid controlling a city destroying robot, from the perspective of the kid at ground level - Rising Zan!!! The Samurai Gunman...great theme tune 😂 - Slap Happy Rhythm Busters - lovely cell-shaded 1-on-1 fighter, also a rhythm game - Warpath: Jurassic Park - sod Primal Rage, full 3D dinosaur fights, yes! - Welcome House - a weird puzzle game in an abandoned house

[@CulturedVultures]

Warpaaaaaaaaath! man I started playing that to record footage for our best PS1 games list and I dunno why but it got me HOOKED haha thanks for the awesome suggestions! - Jimmy

[@dumbstruckempire]

I watched someone play Blast Chamber not too terribly long ago, and I want to say it was those brilliant maniacs at Retro Pals.

[@halfbakedvidja]

David Lynch is huge in Japan. The cast of Twin Peaks even did commercials for Japanese canned coffee and you can see the influence in things like Shin Megami Tensei (evil old lady and young kid), Persona (Velvet Room is the red room with a bonus that it's also made of blue velvet), and the old anime movie Perfect Blue had a heavy Blue Velvet feeling imo. There was also some vampire anime that felt like it, and so did Higurashi to an extent. Even Dune was popular. I liked the Lynch Dune. My only beef with the new movies was the lack of narrating their internal dialogue.

[@retrojoe85]

Every video of yours is a true gaming documentary, you guys always make an outstanding job! Kudos for featuring Destrega, the game was nuts and even the soundtrack alone was a banger. I remember of Spider, the cover was featured on a lot of promotional PlayStation flyer by Sony but nobody gave a s*** about it back in the day. Hellnight was... yeah, something like cursed. But it was so damn fascinating (at least for me).

[@greendropmedia]

PS1 era.... Good times

[@Puddicure]

It’s absolutely wild watching this video, because just the other week I watched Bride of Reanimator and SAT UP seeing the name ‘Screaming Made George’ pop up in the credits for monster sfx. I literally said aloud to my roommate, “OF COURSE someone with that name worked on this movie! GOD, the 80s ruled.” I was clueless to this man’s legacy until today…thank you.

[@nattzero5315]

2:22 3 years before GTA 3, 1 year before Driver and Shenmue.

[@dudestep]

You can’t talk about Screaming Mad George and not mention Freaked(1993). It’s on KZbin and you owe it yourself to watch it. It just may be the best movie ever made.

[@EngineHeadCW]

I love Spider! I bought this game when it first came out and it's still in my collection. I didn't find it too difficult, as I beat it fairly easily. There were always new mechanics to master. It's also in my short list of games I've actually beaten. Great game!

[@MSorge13]

Loving the references to Twin Peaks and David Lynch! 👍

[@greendropmedia]

Lol morning Sam... Morning Ralph 😆 never knew they made a game of those two!

[@no-iv2ig]

"Blast Chamber" was weird, but an absolute blast with 4 players. Nothing similar has come out since.

[@Arley42]

I had this on the Sega Saturn. My friends laughed when I bought it secondhand for about £3. But it was hilarious and we had a great time

[@matthiasgoldschmidt8134]

Hellnight is a cool one. Weirdly chill horror survival. Kinda an early precursor for Alien Isolation. Good stuff

[@DanYellowTheeMan]

Wow! I have a few things to say: Great video of course! Screaming Mad George should've have worked on some of the Silent Hill's. His style is great for that. Wolf Sheep N Dog is a game I had never heard of, but it's possibly one of the best PS1 games I've ever seen. It's absolutely crisp, colorful, and beautiful. It looked like a PS2 game! I remember Blast Chamber! I rented it from Block Buster and my cousin and I used to have a TON of fun with that game. I tried buying it but it was impossible to find at the time. A friend of mine used to live in Chinatown in NYC. He had access to some foreign games and we got to play Destrega and LOVED that game. The rest of our friends thought we were making it up. If that game had a good following, I feel it would have went places but Power Stones took that thunder. I remember seeing something about Hell Night in Gamepro magazine (or one of those gaming magazines at the time) and wanted to play it so bad. I feel it would still be very scary with the weird PS1 type of graphics and ambiance! Again, great video!

[@tarnetskygge]

Sentient (1997) firmly belongs on this list. Similar gameplay concept to Mizzurna Falls (investigative mystery featuring NPCs with their own schedules and multiple time-looping story event paths/endings) set on a space station and using the most awkwardly ambitious dialogue system for conversing with NPCs. The story itself is also an incredibly strange and confusing mishmash of psychological SF/cyberpunk ideas.

[@BritPopVP70]

Great video as always 🖤 If you do another one of these anytime soon, please consider Racing Lagoon. Another Japan only game released in 1999 developed by Squaresoft as a CaRPG. It has its flaws(a lot i feel are at least alleviated with emulation), but it has such a charm and vibe to it and the story while starting off fairly simple becomes so convoluted and insane the further you get 😂. The soundtrack is also amazing, an easy S tier in my book sitting along side the greats of that era from Square.

[@ThrillhouseToTheMax]

Big fan of your videos. Good selection of games, good commentary, well edited, British humour. A* across the board.

[@ZephyrFate]

A missed mention in the koudelka part is that the voice acting is easily some of, if not the best on the entire system. The actors really gave it their all and it was clear the directors wanted them to be theatrical about it

[@pharmcat8484]

I’ve heard of some of these, but only from previous videos.

[@adamantium4797]

Same

[@stlfatman]

My sister and I played the Sheep Raider demo for hours as kids. But finding the full game in stores was seemingly impossible.

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

I thought that was Danny Tanner on the thumbnail

[@holeshapedgod]

I wish the shadowhearts games were more like koudelka. The goofy, silly tone of the games really clashes with the horror elements for me. Koudelka has a more consistent mood. Cool video!

[@metamorphicblood]

I had a feeling Spider would be on this list. As someone who grew up in the sidescroller era with a taste for absolute weirdness, I found that one to be a lot of nostalgic fun. Gotta love the blatant ripoff of “Miserlou” in the soundtrack. I’m really wondering how I hadn’t heard of Paranoiascape before! Seems kind of like a 3D Crush Pinball game with mobile flippers. I love a lot of movies that this Screaming Mad George guy has worked on, but now realize that he has dug an elaborate psycho punk rabbit hole that I have no choice but to completely dive into.

[@GoodnightwithGlomstad]

"Why is me mate callin Wile E. Coyote, Raff Woof." ...TIL they aren't the same.

[@theREALfearsKLOWNs]

Played Sheep Raider and Blast Chamber... both were genuinely good times. Surprised Skullmonkeys didn't make the list though - a claymation side-scrolling sequel to The Neverhood, where one of the weapons you have access to is called the Universe Enema. 🤯

[@nickparsons337]

Nice Noel Fielding name drop. Huge Mighty Boosh fan here!

[@ckckck12]

Ha ha ha! Titanfall 2 > Apex Legends hidden on the newspaper at the end! Perfect

[@XxSanderMLGamerXx]

Paranoia Escape's visuals are absolutely terrifying - reminds me of Postal 1 loading screens!

[@alexsudati]

LSD: Dream Emulator, this one is so odd and surreal it left me uneasy when I was a kid. Every now and then it pops un my head. Even though it's not actually a game, more like a contemporary art, but still.

[@fedintotheabyss]

OMG BLAST CHAMBER YOU JUST UNLOCKED SO MANY MEMEORIES OF A GAME INEVER KNEW THE NAME OF WOW THANK YOU

[@kolpik3708]

Muppet Race Mania probably isn't quite weird enough. I mean, it may seem like a cash grab with all the "cart" racers that came out back then, but being a Muppets game, it so happens to be both weird and fun. There are a ton of Muppets to unlock and a few game modes.

[@brownpaste]

i put many many many hours into the destrega demo from a magazine demo disc back in the day. good fun multiplayer game

[@D_Vice88]

that Mazurna Falls game location made me chuckle knowing that South Park might be right next door :P

[@CalTheHogNosedBat]

The PS1 needed more collaborations with Matthew Kelly

[@billiammonty]

Destrega legit really looks decent, nice idea

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Pssst Sheep Raider is a better name actually

[@brazilianmegaman258]

I love this channel, the scripts have me pissing myself at times.

[@ChristainMecha]

Ever since going back to ps1 I stopped looking at my dads toes

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

I actually know Screaming mad George I love his work especially in Freaked

[@Retronawigacja]

Overblood 2 , pierwszego wydania nie dało się skończyć, zawierał błąd w 2 misji.

[@CulturedVultures]

ooh thanks for the video idea!

[@Retronawigacja]

@CulturedVultures z chęcią obejrzę gra jest ciekawa, i nie zasłużyła na ocenę 4/10. Jest naprawdę dziwną mieszanką gatunku . Platformowa, horror ,scfi i RPG. Czekam na materiał, w końcu to spadkobierca (Doktor Hauzer) z 3do

[@damianramos1947]

Ironically, this vulture is keeping us fed. I thank you.

[@GerritTV187]

The unholy war and future cop LAPD are my "not everyone knows them* PS1 games. Oh and battle arena toshinden 3 but that one isn't really hidden or unknown

[@SoaringKiyo]

Mizzurna Falls definitely reminds me of a proto-Shemue on a older generation console. Also the Looney Tunes game has VERY good graphics for a PS1; I am impressed.

[@frydemwingz]

wasnt blast chamber a game on that demo disk that came with early PS1s? I remember some weird games with mine.

[@alanfike]

My favorite weird game that is no joke really fun is Dynamite Cop! It's like of Japanese game designers wrote a sequel to Die Hard with a different character. Very lost in translation, and very enjoyable!

[@JeffisWinning]

You left out Pepsi Man, Steel Harbinger, and LSD Dream Emulator.

[@todahouse19]

Those graphics are sheepdog and wolf are insanely good

[@MichaelDude12345]

How am I just now learning that the wolf and the coyote are different characters??? Wtf?

[@melody3741]

Guys please try Harmful Park. Its amazing and some of the music like the level 3 theme is insane

[@Ratchetcomand]

Destrega was trying to Power Stone before that game was a thing

[@returnofmerenguespersempre]

Koudelka had a seriously kickass soundtrack. /Proud owner of every Koudelka game in franchise

[@Austin1638]

FYI - the video segments are labeled wrong.

[@Austin1638]

Oh. I see ... By the Spider segment, I see your purposefully being cheeky.

[@davidtharp2125]

I remember playing Blast Chamber on a demo disk with my brother growing up…

[@niveketihw1897]

Blast Chamber was a big favorite in my neck of the woods -- we the multitap and had some epic matches! That Looney Tunes one looks interesting!

[@funkychicken4509]

Spider the video game, the definitive adaptation of a spiders experience

[@CulturedVultures]

this happened to my friend Paul

[@Metal-Josh]

I own blast chamber and it’s a fun game. Wish it was longer. And Sheep Raider was so much fun

[@adamantium4797]

Great video. The weird stuff the good stuff in gaming

[@texascheeseheadgamer327]

Deadly premonitions was such a great game I just finished it last month

[@randic421]

Am I the only one who thinks this guy (5:34) looks like Danny Tanner from Full House?

[@LlamaRoyal]

I actually played Spider: The video Game, it's actually pretty good.

[@sethdownn575]

Blast Chamber was fucking fantastic!!! I never forget about this game. My dad and I would play the hell out of this.

[@austinzusi9021]

I know it was for Ps2 but Stretch Panic is awesome

[@jamierose6046]

Sheep, Don n Wolf is my childhood!! FUCKING LOOOVE THAT GAME!!

[@sirprintalot]

I was sure you were making these up and these were PC games with the PS1 look - UNTIL I saw Sheep Dog 'n' Wolf, bizarre game I owned with even more bizarre cover art.

[@sirprintalot]

I also owned Incredible Crisis as a kid and just didn't get it, but I was chuffed to see the businessman show up in Astro Bot.

[@letsplayclassicgames5024]

Intelligent Qube is another great yet weird PS1 game

[@burgervonstadt6503]

Thank God fish aren't into cash. 1:45

[@JMFSpike]

Koudelka is an amazing game, but the battle system is very different from Shadow Hearts. Thankfully, it's still great so that's not a problem.

[@AlmostCoolGuys]

These videos fill my "Must buy" lists for my PS1 and PS2 collection

[@Doognukem]

My punk band put out an album this year called Paranoiathon and the music video for the single was a ps1 graphic looking trippy video. It’s blowing my mind that (as ps1 nerds) we never knew a punk musician made a game called Paranoiascape!!!! My mind is blown rn lol

[@BGID7]

Throw a mustache on the thumbnail guy, and he can almost pass for Tom Selleck

[@mekman4]

Great Stuff!!

[@mekman4]

Thank you for the like!

[@dumbstruckempire]

Gasp! Not WEIRD games!

[@pharmcat8484]

Oh yeah! LET’S GET WEIRD!!!!!

[@dumbstruckempire]

@@pharmcat8484 I collect old teddy bears and write about video games for money. I *can* get weirder, but I don't know. The last time that happened, the cops came, and ah I've said too much.

[@theodanielwollff]

I played sheep raider ! It was actually really good.

[@DrMuhannad86]

Hi 👋 will from Japan.

[@lemonlemons]

Sentinel Returns

[@neetpride5919]

"screaming as if the allegations were just hitting their inbox" goes hard.... wait unless that's a penus reference nvm good joke

[@HeroJournalism]

"Ralph Wolf"?!? Wtf...

[@adiosk80]

Mr. DOMINO

[@ghevaer1]

Destrega was awesome.

[@kolpik3708]

I played Koudelka back in the day, and I don't get why so many KZbinrs cream their jeans over this game. To each their own, sure, but I found it slow, boring, and I wish I still had a copy, so I could give it another try to see if I feel differently now. I think I traded it for Tetris Plus. Guess which one goes for a few hundred dollars now and which one goes for the price of a cup of vending machine coffee in an ER waiting room? Of course, I do still play Tetris Plus, so despite missing the chance to cash in on Ebay, maybe I made a good trade after all.

[@partofthetribe3277]

Azure dreams has better be on here!

[@DarkCloud_64]

Spider was an awesome game

[@OrangeHarrisonRB3]

With the exception of Looney Toons, every one of these looks less like an actual PS1 game and more like one of those modern itch-io Indie games with exaggerated faux-PS1 graphics. Especially that "Germs" game.

[@Telzrob]

I enjoy your videos but I wish you'd show all the retro games at their original resolutions. High resolutions just show off all the low poly flaws. Why do you show some at higher resolutions than others?

[@videogamesruinedmylife3769]

LSD didn't make the list?

[@mjdf122]

PS1 time with the Vultures

[@dantesaints4339]

Mad Panic Coaster