Freeware & hobbyist Games/TMI can't believe they made that No flash games allowed.

[Scott_Plaid]

So, I was just looking through a site that lets you download games that are no longer sold in stores, also know as abandonware, when I… Hold on a minute. Just so you know, I will not be talking about how to get such games. Unless you have the originals in the attic, it’s illegal. I do not condone anyone here downloading such things. Now that the disclaimer is out of the way, on to the show.

I came across multiple instances of homemade games, some of them quite creatively made, most of which in no way violated copyright law. No, I was thinking about starting a thread about them, but since the only one I have in mind is both original freeware, and bizarre, I am looking for games released for free and commercial games, either bizarre or normal. I suppose an easy way to tell them apart would be to say:

Commercial:
or
Freeware:
before each entry. So, I was going to right up a description of the game I have in mind, Catch the Sperm 2, but the unnamed site I got it from does a much better example.

Catch the Sperm 2 is a superior sequel to the original Catch the Sperm, very popular promotional game developed by Swiss division of Phenomedia, arguably the world’s best promotional game developer today.

Released as part of the ‘Stop Aids’ campaign of Switzerland’s Federal Ministry of Health and Swiss Aids federation, Catch the Sperm 2 naturally carries a positive message: unprotected sex is risky. You are a miniature warrior armed with a condom gun, stationed in the vagina (yes, you read that right) of a woman who is engaging in a sexual act (I know, it’s incredulous to think I may one day be writing this for a non-adult game review). Your job is to fire condoms from your gun to trap the sperms. Your real worry, though, is the AIDS virus. If you let a few sperms slide by, you’ll still be playing the game (albeit with reduced score). But let one AIDS virus slide by, and it’s game over. Different colors of virii award different points, and the accuracy of your shots is important because you’ll get penalized for wasted shots. Catch the Sperm 2 adds more of everything that makes the original addictive: more kinds of virii, power-ups, and even other diseases to the mix (herpes and syphilis to name a few). The graphics is even more spectacular than the original, although it doesn’t look much like you’re inside someone’s vagina anymore

With eye-catching graphics, excellent gameplay, a good sense of humor, and a great message to boot, Catch the Sperm 2 is a fun coffee break shooter that will entertain you and hopefully remind you of the danger of AIDS. Two thumbs up!

The homepage of Switzerland’s Federal Ministry of Health
Download Catch the Sperm 2

P.S. The above example was very mild, however, the only thing I can think that would be inappropriate in this thread would be flash games. They already have plenty of threads already, and while the majority of the are crude and lewd, what I am really looking for are downloadable, or buyable in stores computer games, Console games, RPGs, board games, and the like. That is too say, things which usually take awhile to make, not things where there are a few good ones, and some great animations, but an awful lot of crap that took five minutes to make.

P.S.S. I know some console games ** look** like they took five minutes to make, but they really didn’t. Shooo, flash fans, shoo.

[emekthian]

I came across a ROM of an NES game called Bubble Bath Babes. The game is similar to Tetris, only there are multicolored bubbles rising that you have to make dissapear. The bubbles, incidentally, are apparantly caused by the farting of the (sadly crudely animated) naked woman taking a bubble bath at the bottom of the screen.

I have no idea if this was just made as a ROM, or if a company actually commercially produced this.

[Tentacle_Monster]

emekthian: Bubble Bath Babes was, indeed, available on a cart. A company called Panesian made it along with two other porno games: Hot Slots and Peek-A-Boo Poker. Of course, they were unlicensed games that did not bear the Nintendo Seal of Approval. In fact, they weren’t in regular grey carts at all; they were in baby-blue cartridges. So next time you’re looking through a bunch of NES games for sale, keep an eye out for those blue carts: serious NES collectors will pay a pretty penny for those games.

On the other hand, if one of those powderblue carts is labeled Baby Boomer, drop it and go wash your hands. That game is shit wrapped in plastic.

[ultrafilter]

Once you learn to ignore the woman, Bubble Bath Babes is actually a fairly entertaining puzzler. There are…pictures every few levels that I guess are supposed to be sexy, but mostly they’re just laughable.

[AHunter3]

A CD titled “Ultra Mac Games” (I think it came out with a MacAddict or MacWorld magazine once upon a time) had a game on it, “Return to the Womb 1.1”; I don’t have it with me ,but reconstructing from memory…

You are a spermatozoon. You enter the playing area via the orifice in the skin flute and must work the maze to the good ovum, while avoiding the attack of the contraceptive jelly as well as the attractive forces of the genetically mutated ova which will seek to combine with you…

[Scott_Plaid]

Four responses. That makes four more responses then I expected to get. Thanks everyone!

[Anaamika]

I got nothing to contribute. I just wanted to say: scott_plaid, Cafe Society has been a much more entertaining place since you came along. Honestly! You make some of the best threads, thanks.

[Tentacle_Monster]

I can’t believe they made Conker’s Bad Fur Day for the N64. Sex, violence, drugs, gore, and uncensored swearing from a game starring a character three degrees away from Mario himself.*

What’s more surprising is the news that the upcoming version of CBFD for the Xbox, Conker: Live and Reloaded, will actually be more censored than the original N64 version. Kind of ironic, considering how many Xbox fanboys I’ve heard say that only kiddie games get released on Nintendo consoles.

*Conker started out in Diddy Kong Racing, which starred Diddy Kong from Donkey Kong Country, which starred Donkey Kong who has appeared in several games with Mario, particularly Donkey Kong. Conker also starred in a much more wholesome game for the Gameboy Color called Conker’s Pocket Tales two years before Bad Fur Day was released.