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You So Crazy!!!!
In the light of Japan releasing wave after wave of quite bizarre (and sometimes terrifying) games, I think it’s time us Westerners get our act together and start trying to out-freak Japan. So if any UK developers (Rare, Acclaim, I’m looking at you) are reading, here are a few ideas that I hope you might take on board.
KRAZY KITTENS
You like kittens? They so cute!? Then you’ll go mad for Krazy Kitten, the ultimate in Kitten extreme! Enter a fun and imaginative world where you pick a kitten from the pet store, name it, nurture it, and then when it’s regulation size go and PLAY TEN-PIN BOWLING WITH IT!!! Yes that’s right, Krazy Kitten sees you hucking little bundles of fluffy cuteness down the bowling alleys. A sublime mix of nurture, RPG and all-out bowling action, Krazy Kitten has a wealth of options, including spin-bowls, crawl-bowls, even the eyeball-popping speed bowl! Play against hundreds of different CPU-controlled opponents, or take your Kitten on a memory card to your friends house and battle your mates! You’ll never look at a cat the same way again!
SUPER HOUSEWORK CHALLENGE
Choose from four beautiful young housewives, and prepare to enter a hectic battle-zone of the kitchen, bathroom and lounge! Hammer hammer hammer those buttons to wash the dishes, pull hairballs out of plugholes and do the ironing in front of telly! All your efforts will be recorded into a league where the winner is awarded with the coveted prize of Super Housework Master. The loser runs the risk of being divorced by her husband, whereupon she must go on the pull every night in a perfectly-recreated version of Tokyo’s Red-Light district until she finds another man’s house to compete in. Multiplayer and Online modes are available. In a clever marketing move, the game was bundled with a pair of Marigolds to protect your hands from the insane button-mashing, and to get you into the feel of a pretty young housewife!
MEGA VOMIT 2000
A uniquely different game that came packaged with a RotaDisc peripheral! In this game, your quest is to make as many people throw up as possible, using the wonderfully versatile RotaDisc…visit a playground in-game and spin your RotaDisc to rotate the roundabout! Spin faster and faster to make the kiddies hurl! Or try and take your driving test and the RotaDisc acts as your steering wheel! Drive the wrong way down roads, pull handbrake turns, and order everything at the McDonald’s Drive-Thru, anything so that your driving instructor spews! In a magnificently open game featuring a whole city full of people, this truly is an open-ended experience and thanks to the awesome power of the RotaDisc, you’ll never tackle any challenge the same way!
FATTY FAT FAT McPHATTERSON’S
In an interesting take on the God-sim, this quirky game sees you buying a plot of land, building a restaurant and running it with the sole intention of getting your customers as fat as possible. However the flipside is that if the customers and ultimately the police get word of your little scheme, then it’s game over. The trick is to build up your customers’ trust through offers and promotions, and then slowly introduce key aspects such as eating contests, bucket-platters, electric chairs fitted with toilets (so customers don’t waste calories moving anywhere) until before you know it the town’s average weight is 16 stone. In a game that seems simple but actually is deceptively challenging, the moral issues of the plot were extremely questionable, doubtful enough for the game to be banned in the US. However release for Japan and Europe is imminent! In fact a sequel, ‘You think that’s a Health Spa!?’ is already well into development.
---So there you have it. With a bit of pro-active thinking (some class C substances wouldn’t go amiss either) and a whole lot of Kerrraziness, I do believe that the West could out-Japan Japan. If only now some Western developers would take the plunge! Believe, and it will happen.
Thanks for reading! : )
In the light of Japan releasing wave after wave of quite bizarre (and sometimes terrifying) games, I think it’s time us Westerners get our act together and start trying to out-freak Japan. So if any UK developers (Rare, Acclaim, I’m looking at you) are reading, here are a few ideas that I hope you might take on board.
KRAZY KITTENS
You like kittens? They so cute!? Then you’ll go mad for Krazy Kitten, the ultimate in Kitten extreme! Enter a fun and imaginative world where you pick a kitten from the pet store, name it, nurture it, and then when it’s regulation size go and PLAY TEN-PIN BOWLING WITH IT!!! Yes that’s right, Krazy Kitten sees you hucking little bundles of fluffy cuteness down the bowling alleys. A sublime mix of nurture, RPG and all-out bowling action, Krazy Kitten has a wealth of options, including spin-bowls, crawl-bowls, even the eyeball-popping speed bowl! Play against hundreds of different CPU-controlled opponents, or take your Kitten on a memory card to your friends house and battle your mates! You’ll never look at a cat the same way again!
SUPER HOUSEWORK CHALLENGE
Choose from four beautiful young housewives, and prepare to enter a hectic battle-zone of the kitchen, bathroom and lounge! Hammer hammer hammer those buttons to wash the dishes, pull hairballs out of plugholes and do the ironing in front of telly! All your efforts will be recorded into a league where the winner is awarded with the coveted prize of Super Housework Master. The loser runs the risk of being divorced by her husband, whereupon she must go on the pull every night in a perfectly-recreated version of Tokyo’s Red-Light district until she finds another man’s house to compete in. Multiplayer and Online modes are available. In a clever marketing move, the game was bundled with a pair of Marigolds to protect your hands from the insane button-mashing, and to get you into the feel of a pretty young housewife!
MEGA VOMIT 2000
A uniquely different game that came packaged with a RotaDisc peripheral! In this game, your quest is to make as many people throw up as possible, using the wonderfully versatile RotaDisc…visit a playground in-game and spin your RotaDisc to rotate the roundabout! Spin faster and faster to make the kiddies hurl! Or try and take your driving test and the RotaDisc acts as your steering wheel! Drive the wrong way down roads, pull handbrake turns, and order everything at the McDonald’s Drive-Thru, anything so that your driving instructor spews! In a magnificently open game featuring a whole city full of people, this truly is an open-ended experience and thanks to the awesome power of the RotaDisc, you’ll never tackle any challenge the same way!
FATTY FAT FAT McPHATTERSON’S
In an interesting take on the God-sim, this quirky game sees you buying a plot of land, building a restaurant and running it with the sole intention of getting your customers as fat as possible. However the flipside is that if the customers and ultimately the police get word of your little scheme, then it’s game over. The trick is to build up your customers’ trust through offers and promotions, and then slowly introduce key aspects such as eating contests, bucket-platters, electric chairs fitted with toilets (so customers don’t waste calories moving anywhere) until before you know it the town’s average weight is 16 stone. In a game that seems simple but actually is deceptively challenging, the moral issues of the plot were extremely questionable, doubtful enough for the game to be banned in the US. However release for Japan and Europe is imminent! In fact a sequel, ‘You think that’s a Health Spa!?’ is already well into development.
---So there you have it. With a bit of pro-active thinking (some class C substances wouldn’t go amiss either) and a whole lot of Kerrraziness, I do believe that the West could out-Japan Japan. If only now some Western developers would take the plunge! Believe, and it will happen.
Thanks for reading! : )
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You So Crazy!!!!
In the light of Japan releasing wave after wave of quite bizarre (and sometimes terrifying) games, I think it’s time us Westerners get our act together and start trying to out-freak Japan. So if any UK developers (Rare, Acclaim, I’m looking at you) are reading, here are a few ideas that I hope you might take on board.
KRAZY KITTENS
You like kittens? They so cute!? Then you’ll go mad for Krazy Kitten, the ultimate in Kitten extreme! Enter a fun and imaginative world where you pick a kitten from the pet store, name it, nurture it, and then when it’s regulation size go and PLAY TEN-PIN BOWLING WITH IT!!! Yes that’s right, Krazy Kitten sees you hucking little bundles of fluffy cuteness down the bowling alleys. A sublime mix of nurture, RPG and all-out bowling action, Krazy Kitten has a wealth of options, including spin-bowls, crawl-bowls, even the eyeball-popping speed bowl! Play against hundreds of different CPU-controlled opponents, or take your Kitten on a memory card to your friends house and battle your mates! You’ll never look at a cat the same way again!
SUPER HOUSEWORK CHALLENGE
Choose from four beautiful young housewives, and prepare to enter a hectic battle-zone of the kitchen, bathroom and lounge! Hammer hammer hammer those buttons to wash the dishes, pull hairballs out of plugholes and do the ironing in front of telly! All your efforts will be recorded into a league where the winner is awarded with the coveted prize of Super Housework Master. The loser runs the risk of being divorced by her husband, whereupon she must go on the pull every night in a perfectly-recreated version of Tokyo’s Red-Light district until she finds another man’s house to compete in. Multiplayer and Online modes are available. In a clever marketing move, the game was bundled with a pair of Marigolds to protect your hands from the insane button-mashing, and to get you into the feel of a pretty young housewife!
MEGA VOMIT 2000
A uniquely different game that came packaged with a RotaDisc peripheral! In this game, your quest is to make as many people throw up as possible, using the wonderfully versatile RotaDisc…visit a playground in-game and spin your RotaDisc to rotate the roundabout! Spin faster and faster to make the kiddies hurl! Or try and take your driving test and the RotaDisc acts as your steering wheel! Drive the wrong way down roads, pull handbrake turns, and order everything at the McDonald’s Drive-Thru, anything so that your driving instructor spews! In a magnificently open game featuring a whole city full of people, this truly is an open-ended experience and thanks to the awesome power of the RotaDisc, you’ll never tackle any challenge the same way!
FATTY FAT FAT McPHATTERSON’S
In an interesting take on the God-sim, this quirky game sees you buying a plot of land, building a restaurant and running it with the sole intention of getting your customers as fat as possible. However the flipside is that if the customers and ultimately the police get word of your little scheme, then it’s game over. The trick is to build up your customers’ trust through offers and promotions, and then slowly introduce key aspects such as eating contests, bucket-platters, electric chairs fitted with toilets (so customers don’t waste calories moving anywhere) until before you know it the town’s average weight is 16 stone. In a game that seems simple but actually is deceptively challenging, the moral issues of the plot were extremely questionable, doubtful enough for the game to be banned in the US. However release for Japan and Europe is imminent! In fact a sequel, ‘You think that’s a Health Spa!?’ is already well into development.
---So there you have it. With a bit of pro-active thinking (some class C substances wouldn’t go amiss either) and a whole lot of Kerrraziness, I do believe that the West could out-Japan Japan. If only now some Western developers would take the plunge! Believe, and it will happen.
Thanks for reading! : )
In the light of Japan releasing wave after wave of quite bizarre (and sometimes terrifying) games, I think it’s time us Westerners get our act together and start trying to out-freak Japan. So if any UK developers (Rare, Acclaim, I’m looking at you) are reading, here are a few ideas that I hope you might take on board.
KRAZY KITTENS
You like kittens? They so cute!? Then you’ll go mad for Krazy Kitten, the ultimate in Kitten extreme! Enter a fun and imaginative world where you pick a kitten from the pet store, name it, nurture it, and then when it’s regulation size go and PLAY TEN-PIN BOWLING WITH IT!!! Yes that’s right, Krazy Kitten sees you hucking little bundles of fluffy cuteness down the bowling alleys. A sublime mix of nurture, RPG and all-out bowling action, Krazy Kitten has a wealth of options, including spin-bowls, crawl-bowls, even the eyeball-popping speed bowl! Play against hundreds of different CPU-controlled opponents, or take your Kitten on a memory card to your friends house and battle your mates! You’ll never look at a cat the same way again!
SUPER HOUSEWORK CHALLENGE
Choose from four beautiful young housewives, and prepare to enter a hectic battle-zone of the kitchen, bathroom and lounge! Hammer hammer hammer those buttons to wash the dishes, pull hairballs out of plugholes and do the ironing in front of telly! All your efforts will be recorded into a league where the winner is awarded with the coveted prize of Super Housework Master. The loser runs the risk of being divorced by her husband, whereupon she must go on the pull every night in a perfectly-recreated version of Tokyo’s Red-Light district until she finds another man’s house to compete in. Multiplayer and Online modes are available. In a clever marketing move, the game was bundled with a pair of Marigolds to protect your hands from the insane button-mashing, and to get you into the feel of a pretty young housewife!
MEGA VOMIT 2000
A uniquely different game that came packaged with a RotaDisc peripheral! In this game, your quest is to make as many people throw up as possible, using the wonderfully versatile RotaDisc…visit a playground in-game and spin your RotaDisc to rotate the roundabout! Spin faster and faster to make the kiddies hurl! Or try and take your driving test and the RotaDisc acts as your steering wheel! Drive the wrong way down roads, pull handbrake turns, and order everything at the McDonald’s Drive-Thru, anything so that your driving instructor spews! In a magnificently open game featuring a whole city full of people, this truly is an open-ended experience and thanks to the awesome power of the RotaDisc, you’ll never tackle any challenge the same way!
FATTY FAT FAT McPHATTERSON’S
In an interesting take on the God-sim, this quirky game sees you buying a plot of land, building a restaurant and running it with the sole intention of getting your customers as fat as possible. However the flipside is that if the customers and ultimately the police get word of your little scheme, then it’s game over. The trick is to build up your customers’ trust through offers and promotions, and then slowly introduce key aspects such as eating contests, bucket-platters, electric chairs fitted with toilets (so customers don’t waste calories moving anywhere) until before you know it the town’s average weight is 16 stone. In a game that seems simple but actually is deceptively challenging, the moral issues of the plot were extremely questionable, doubtful enough for the game to be banned in the US. However release for Japan and Europe is imminent! In fact a sequel, ‘You think that’s a Health Spa!?’ is already well into development.
---So there you have it. With a bit of pro-active thinking (some class C substances wouldn’t go amiss either) and a whole lot of Kerrraziness, I do believe that the West could out-Japan Japan. If only now some Western developers would take the plunge! Believe, and it will happen.
Thanks for reading! : )