TIGSource: Revenge of the Sunfish

Revenge of the Sunfish

Derek Yu — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:13:00 +0000

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!)

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by chinook

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:32:43 +0000

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.

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by chutup

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:24:19 +0000

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 :(

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by mjau

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:59:39 +0000

Reminded me of some old PD c64 games =)

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by Jeppo

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:02:05 +0000

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

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by Mr average

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:22:34 +0000

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.

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by kindofsalt

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:06:22 +0000

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

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by gulo gulo

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:53:43 +0000

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

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by BTW

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:08:16 +0000

Noitu Love 2 demo is available.

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by Grawl

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:30:48 +0000

Kinda old.

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by GirlFlash

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:34:03 +0000

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

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by Oob

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:27:15 +0000

MSPaint FTW

"Revenge of the Sunfish" by Petri Purho

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:55:01 +0000

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