Takeshi no Chousenjou

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Takeshi no Chousenjou may be the hardest videogame ever written. With a title screen warning that it was "created by somebody who hates videogames" (actually writer/actor/director/comedian Takeshi "Beat" Kitano) "Takeshi's Challenge" forces gamers to endure such tasks as singing karaoke for an uninterrupted hour and holding a single button for four straight hours. Players who endure to the end are rewarded by having to hit the final boss 20,000 times. If you don't speak the language, you might be able to enjoy the game as a Japanese precursor to Grand Theft Auto, but those who understand it more fully see it as "a videogame that riffs on human disappointment for as many hours as the player is willing to search for redemption."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_no_Chousenjou

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

There was plenty of interesting talk about this one in that article on Earthbound a while ago, but I can't find it.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2004/2004-04/22-mxc-inside.jpg

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

It was obvious from the start that Beat Takeshi, then just getting started on his movie-directing career, never intended to make another videogame. His first and last game was something of a big practical joke. Takeshi's only reason for making it was so that guys like me could sit here fifteen years later and write about how the game caused thousands upon thousands of little kids to call Nintendo's hint lines weeping.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Takeshi's only reason for making it was so that guys like me could sit here fifteen years later and write about how the game caused thousands upon thousands of little kids to call Nintendo's hint lines weeping.

MY HERO

― Dan (Best Videogame Ever) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

HATES CHILDREN:

http://www.lequotidienducinema.com/critiques/battleroyale_critique/1.jpg

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Years ago, I'd heard about a mythical unreleased videogame developed by Penn & Teller for the Sega CD and 3DO. The game was supposed to be an oddball adventure game, with some cruel magic tricks and minigames thrown in for good measure. This Absolute Entertainment press release from March 1995 sums it up nicely.

The most infamous part was "Desert Bus," a "VeriSimulator" in which you drive a bus across the straight Nevada desert for eight hours in real-time. Then you drive it home. Also, I'd read the bus veers to the right, so you can't just leave the joypad propped up. The rumor was that if you won the game, you got one point.

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

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