Revenge of the Sunfish

Posted by Derek Yu Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:13:00 GMT

Revenge of the Sunfish

I love the idea that there are these rogue game developers out there, working silently in their homes after dark, and using The Games Factory/MMF to make crude, bizarre, amazing B-Games just because they get a kick out of it. I also love that, thanks to the internet, I can find out about these games and then expose you to them (against your will)!

JinxTengu’s Revenge of the Sunfish (20 Mb, direct download) is a frightening, psychedelic experience that assaults your sense of good taste with its “terrible” graphics, grating sounds, jarring transitions, and lack of consistent game rules. Gross-out humor and ultraviolence abound, albeit in a cartoonish form. But the game is also strangely playable, which is, I believe, the hallmark of great B-Games (like Sexy Hiking, for example).

JinxTengu (real name: Jacob Buczynski) has a whole page of out-of-this-world games waiting for you to explore. The games are all quite varied. So if you find Revenge of the Sunfish too unintelligible, maybe try Seismic Death… a simple top-down shooter that lets you dig through walls.

Be sure to pick up cncs32.dll and put it in your “Windows/System32” folder if you’re having trouble running the games.

(Thanks a bunch, wourme!)

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  1. Petri Purho said about 3 hours later:

    That was bloody brilliant! The best B-Game I’ve played.

  2. Oob said about 3 hours later:

    MSPaint FTW

  3. GirlFlash said about 6 hours later:

    this is the gaming equivelent of a blender, and my brain went straight through it D:

  4. Grawl said about 10 hours later:

    Kinda old.

  5. BTW said about 11 hours later:

    Noitu Love 2 demo is available.

  6. gulo gulo said about 16 hours later:

    ahahah one of his games is missile command except when one of your cities gets hit instead of being destroyed the game deletes one of the files in C:/windows

  7. kindofsalt said about 16 hours later:

    That was the most insane game I ever played!! the author must be on acid or something.

  8. Mr average said about 16 hours later:

    I can’t believe my comment was deleted, the comment where I said that this was bette than cactus and flashbang games. HELLO MR CENSORSHIP. IN SOVIET RUSSIA, TIGS STANDS BY THE PARTY.

  9. Jeppo said 1 day later:

    more messed up than the knytt stories level ‘Don’t eat the mushroom!’

  10. mjau said 1 day later:

    Reminded me of some old PD c64 games =)

  11. chutup said 1 day later:

    Did anybody get past the level with the spaceship that shoots coins at itself? I’ve got over 1000 coins but I still can’t do anything :(

  12. chinook said 3 days later:

    Yeah, chutup, I beat it. Use the mouse for that stage. Took me a while too.

    The last little area is actually kind of fun.

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