Weird Japanese Games - List of Strange and Fun Games Published in Japan.
Weird games are created all over the world. Weird Japanese games are ones who end up making the news.
No.1 - Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
This fun and weird game was released in Japan for the Nintendo DS in 2006. Tingle, the main character of this game, made an appearance in the Legend of Zelda series. Tingle is a 35 year old single man who has no job or direction in life. However, one day he is led to a pond where he is told to collect as many rupees as he can in order to enter the wonderful rupeeland. Tingle must find ways to earn rupee in order to survive and to enter the rupeeland. But everyone tries to take rupee away from Tingle so he has to find ways to save his rupee and keep earning more.
No.2 - Koi no Balloon Trip (Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love)
Tingle's balloon trip of love is a sequal to freshly-picked Tingle's rosy rupeeland. In this Japanese game, instead of rupee (money), he goes out to search for love. Tingle is a lonely single man. One day, he finds an instructional book on how to become attractive to girls. However, as soon as he opens the book, Tingle gets sucked into it and must find a way to get back to the real world by finding a beautiful princess who is willing to dance with him at the ball.
No.3 - Kurikin - Nano Island Story
This is a weird roll playing game based on Nano Academy on Nano Island. The island has over one hundred species of bacteria that can be used to fight against each other and sometimes make a new kind of bacteria. The player must complete each mission that is given to them at the beginning of the adventure. The game is similar to Pokemon but it uses bacteria for battle instead of pocket monsters.
No. 4 - Ennichi no Tatsujin
This weird game is developed for the Wii. It is based around the games played during Japanese festivals. The typical games include fishing plastic fishes with magnets, yoyos, and scooping of goldfishes using paper scoopers. If you are Japanese or grew up in Japan, you would have played these fun games at least once. These games can be played by either one or two players.
No. 5 -Theta
Theta is a strange game developed for the Nintendo DS. It was released exclusively in Japan in 2007. It is a collection of puzzles in an aquariam setting. The object of this weird Japanese game is to put together molecules and atoms to create the most suitable environment for your aquariam.
No. 6 - Chin Sports (Odd Sports)
This odd game is developed for the Wii by Sega. It has a collection of ten strange sports games that are actually played in some parts of the world. Some of the strange games include tuna throwing, furniture race, and mud sliding. In tuna throwing competition, each player tries to throw a tuna fish as far as possible. Furniture race uses a furniture as a vehicle to race to the goal. In mud sliding game, a player must knock out blocks that are stacked up to score points.
No. 7 - Tabemon
Tabemon was developed by Bandai for the Wii. The object of this unusual game is to feed the characters called "Pepper" and "Sugar" as much food as possible to make them grow bigger in order to increase their levels. Some people love the simplicity of this game's concept. |
