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A list of ...odd... games played and collected over the years. Certainly not all of them are good, but many show marks of obsessive creation, or the kind of alien design that you just cannot get from more mass market productions.

This was kind of the predecessor to geeklists from the old Gaming Dumpster. This list of games was just a static page on that website. Aldie had been thinking about doing an Amazon list sort of thing, but ended up putting it into production after I requested that this was the only artifact from the Dumpster that was really missing from BGG.
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1. Board Game: Tower of Babylon [Average Rating:6.00 Unranked]
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A baffling high speed game composed of 120 hand painted (3 segments on each piece) tongue depressors. A psychotic amount of labor involved in making a mediocre game. However it is strange down to its little wooden core.
 
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2. Board Game: Evolution [Average Rating:6.17 Unranked]
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A classic evolution type game that is remarkably complex for an educational game. Includes drifting continents, mutations, and your object is of course to BECOME A MAN. (Read that as evolve to human.)
 
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3. Board Game: Hexenjagd [Average Rating:1.00 Unranked]
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Game where you spin the top of a mountain to try to locate the sound of a laughing witch. The most frightening thing about this game is that you can learn to do it accurately.
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4. Board Game: Polarity [Average Rating:6.51 Overall Rank:964]
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One of my favorite games ever. (And most pics I've see on the net seem to have at least some part of my anatomy hiding in them.)
 
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So then, those must be your breasts?
 
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Hmm. Big furry pudgy individual wearing a gaudy shirt covered with cows.

Can't think of many other options for the subject apart from myself.
 
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5. Board Game: Axiom [Average Rating:6.98 Overall Rank:1832]
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Ah Axiom. The best 3D game ever designed. And one of the most visually impressive.
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6. Board Game: Die Schlacht der Dinosaurier [Average Rating:6.11 Overall Rank:4251]
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The game doesn't need to be good, but it is a decent beat-em-up. But the dinos cause more drooling in male gamers than Raquel Welch in a fur bikini.
 
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terrific bits, it's true!
 
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Raquel, or the dinos?
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I spent 200 GG and all I got was this lousy overtext!
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Both.
 
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7. Board Game: Pain Doctors: The Game of Recreational Surgery [Average Rating:5.60 Overall Rank:6422]
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Extremely disturbing art and premise mask a mediocre game. The art on the surgery cards is TRULY brilliant. And not for the squeamish.
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This game is on my MUST HAVE list. I simply love sick things to break up the monotony of happy gaming. That's why I have Rat Splatter.
 
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8. Board Game: Cosa Nostra [Average Rating:5.01 Overall Rank:7177]
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Also released as Vendetta (Not the Doris & Frank game). Lovely gammon variant with mafia overtones, and a huge random element with a giant spinning car that takes men out at random. Somehow the elements and theme surpass the basic roll-and-move gameplay to make this enjoyable.
 
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An enjoyable game for the "families"!

The giant plastic wheel-of-doom spinner holding the cars with the gun wielding assassins helps level the playing field a bit and is one of those classic overproduced family gaming bits.
 
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9. Board Game: Capital Punishment [Average Rating:4.57 Unranked]
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A guest review from the Dumpster. I've never played this one. Looks pretty tedious to me.
 
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10. Board Game: Mare Mediterraneum [Average Rating:6.61 Overall Rank:3711]
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An insane production--even by Jean du Poel standards. Somewhere in there might be a good game, but sorely needing development. Long random, and slightly fiddly. That said, I still enjoy playing it far more than I should. There is some nice theming and flavor here.
 
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11. Board Game: The Gothic Game [Average Rating:6.40 Overall Rank:4132]
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A roll and move Talisman-like game. The dark theming, and inherent viciousness actually do it for me. The woodcut cards and dark humor are quite appealing.
 
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12. Board Game: Quackshot [Average Rating:6.83 Overall Rank:3217]
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The most violent children's game ever created. And not just in theme---pieces fly everywhere. This really should get a new edition so that it can terrify parents everywhere.
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Fresno
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Although it's really cool how the animals spring wildly 1+ ft into the air when you hit them, the best part is that the archer ducks have a firing range which allows you to shoot at the players on your right & left. Granted, this has no purpose in game terms, but that's just so darn cool.
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13. Board Game: Krakatoa [Average Rating:6.45 Unranked]
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What if Cosmic Wimpout had a dexterity element, and an advanced version with some strategy and arcane scoring. Another totally unusual offering from Joli Kansil
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I completely agree on this one. The dice are little dodecas with 3 yellow sides, 4 red, and 5 blue. You throw all nine of the little beggars, and then have to re-thrw certain subsets of these dice in order to hit at least one of the dice still on the table, changing its face. The scoring is sort of like bowling on a hullucinagenic. Somehow, against all odds, it works.
 
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14. Board Game: Trial by Pylon [Average Rating:2.94 Unranked]
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About 200 cards with metallic gold backs and seperate art for EACH card. Nice full-color fantasy art as well. Terrible game, though.
 
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I agree, TERRIBLE GAME PLAY, but gorgeous cards. The metallic backs are so impressive in person.
 
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15. Board Game: Bowling Bunnies [Average Rating:5.08 Unranked]
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Showed up an Xmas present a couple years back. Cute adorable little bunnies, and you must hit tham hard with cabbages. Proff that weirdness in games is far from a new thing.
 
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16. Board Game: Golfwinks [Average Rating:6.11 Unranked]
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The Brits get all of the odder games, and Waddingtons led the pack. Surprisingly good golf simulation though.
 
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17. Board Game: Grade Up to Elite Cow [Average Rating:4.50 Unranked]
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It is the game about Bull semen. I honestly am DESPERATELY searching for a copy of this UK game, and have begun to wonder if it is a hoax.
 
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Dan Blum
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It's not a hoax - I've seen copies on eBay.
 
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Definitely not a hoax, as I own a copy. (Have you tracked this one down yet?)
 
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  • Posted Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:31 am
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I've had a copy for about a year now. I have yet to play it because....people are cowards. The whole roll and move thing just turns the Eurogamer crowd off worse than...um...bull semen.
 
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I'll play this if you bring it to GenCon or Origins.
 
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18. Board Game: Legend of Zagor [Average Rating:5.91 Overall Rank:5610]
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Rather more interesting that TSR's Dungeon, and most of the dungeon crawl games thanks to: A Shop, and a fairly diffidult game. The British accents and monster falling down a flight of stairs sounds when you win can't hurt either.
 
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British accents? Are you from this strange group of Americans who identify the villain (esp. in movies) by their distinctly English accent?

There is a great range of accents on our small but proud archipelago, and most of us do not sound like the stereotypical public schoolboys or Shakespearian luvvies who seem to grace Hollywood's chamber of horrors.
 
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Chris Busse
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Yah, but stereotypes make it easier for human beings to identify people, it's how the human brain works; we categorize things into groups so that when we run into something else that has the same traits as a certain group we can quickly assess it's threat/potential, otherwise we would not recognize our own faces in the mirror each morning, we would have to relearn it each day.

Now run along and go brush your bad teeth, eat your over-steamed vegetables, pack the extra food in your aluminium, get to the football match, get into a fight, and regale your mates with the glory over a pint of bitters.
 
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I would object, but since I can't place an American accent more closely than "the USA" (I can tell the difference between different American accents, but I'd never be able to state where each was from), I really can't talk.
 
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These are British accents as rendered through an early 90's toy voice recorder. Pretty much it sounds like a couple of British voice actors trying to be overly dramatic while speaking loudly through a closed door.

...and not really much like actual Brits.
 
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19. Board Game: Pig Pong [Average Rating:6.05 Overall Rank:5656]
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It starts with ready, set, OINK! and just gets sillier from there. One of the wackier concepts in games, but actually quite fun.
 
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I concur. It's ping-pong crossed with that nameless but ubiquitous game where you try to keep a balloon or other light object from touching the ground (in this case, by squeezing a plastic pig, which emits a puff of air).
 
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??? This sounds like a complete 'rip-off' of Videlectrix's 'Population: Tire' game! damm them purported perpetrators of porscine predicaments! angry
 
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20. Board Game: Meander [Average Rating:6.29 Overall Rank:3341]
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Meander. A very odd and clever two player abstract with a short playing time. Insane production with precise molded resin pieces. And as it turns out, a good game. The crew promise an expansion in November.
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What a great list! Thanks.
 
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Thanks, Michael, but can a person even find a game by its ID number?
 
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You can just by edit the URL on your browser to something like:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/7869

I typically do this when I want to go to the Die Macher page, since "game/1" is quick to type (I also remember Settlers=13 and E&T=42).
 
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The Island of Misfit Games list actually predates geeklists by a couple of years. It was a section of the old Gaming Dumpster that never found a home on the geek until there were geeklists. *AND* it was a list that was slowly added to over about 3 years as I discovered stuff. The last entry on the list was added in like 2000.

I figure as I write this (1/2004), that I had to have seen something freakishly odd in the past 4 years...


Wow. Tiger Island isn't even in the 'Geek. Must fix.
 
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fbranham wrote:
The Island of Misfit Games list actually predates geeklists by a couple of years. It was a section of the old Gaming Dumpster that never found a home on the geek until there were geeklists. *AND* it was a list that was slowly added to over about 3 years as I discovered stuff. The last entry on the list was added in like 2000.

I figure as I write this (1/2004), that I had to have seen something freakishly odd in the past 4 years...


Wow. Tiger Island isn't even in the 'Geek. Must fix.


Do you still have a copy of the final version of that list anywhere?
 
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