Starting today, Hokkaido-based MonkeyPaw Games MonkeyPaw Games will be launching the PSN Import Store with classic shmups Cho Aniki and GaiaSeed. The question is, do these titles still hold up in this day and age of space marines and brown?
COG writes - You want to talk about bizarre games? We've got you covered with part two of our look at some of the strangest things you'll ever see in gaming.
Hey Poor Player's Francis DiPersio writes - "Flash back to February of 1995. Ai Cho Aniki, the second game in developer Masaya’s over-the-top Cho Aniki (Super Big Brother) series, flexed its way onto the PC Engine in Japan, delivering a staggeringly strange blend of testosterone-tinged horizontal shooter action to NEC’s 8bit powerhouse. While the original Cho Aniki put players in control of the hero and mystical maiden duo Idaten and Benten as they soared through a variety of stages, blasting biomechanical baddies and dodging bullets in a relatively conventional shooter, the sequel instead opts to squeeze players into the skin-tight swim trunks of the musclebound brothers Adol and Samson as they embark on what can only be described as the most gloriously homoerotic space shooter in homoerotic space shooter history. "
This reviewer certainly gave this game about muscular, sweaty, nearly naked men a pretty good score!
Some games are unique and innovative, while others are just flat out bizarre.
I want to try the second game for lulz.
Hm, I think I'll pass on Cho Aniki.
OMG. SHMUPS! DO WANT
Cho Aniki looks SOOOO bazaar. i gotta give em props for being bold.
Say what you will. At a glance, that is much more interesting than Call of Duty.