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Boong-Ga Boong-Ga
(“Spank ‘Em Spank ‘Em”)
Year: 2001
Category: Proctology simulator
In this coin-op arcade game from Korean
publisher Taff Systems , you jam a
finger-like plastic nozzle up into a recess
between a pair of jeans-clad buttocks.
Onscreen, you choose a dislikable buttowner
- “Ex Girlfriend, Ex Boyfriend,
Gangster, Mother-In-Law, Gold Digger,
Prostitute, Child Molester, Con Artist” -
and watch him or her react in anguish to
each thrust. “The funny face expressions
will make people laugh and relieve
stress,” says a Korean sales brochure.
“After detecting your power with a
sensor, a card will come out. It will
explain your sexual behavior.”
How well did Boong-Ga penetrate the
market? Not too deep. The following year
(2002), Taff Systems pulled out and
lined up a contract to design a Vulcan
Automatic Cannon Simulator for South
Korea’s Infantry School of the Army. In
2003, Taff sold a majority of its shares to
Korean netbiz firm NeoWiz, which said it
would refocus on “game development
based on more stable management
foundation.”
Roommania #203
Year: 2000
Category: Roommate coaching
From Sega of Japan, a game that casts
you as a heavenly emissary sent down to
straighten out the life of college kid Neji
Taihei (Japanese for “terrible screw”). By
clicking around his apartment, you get
him to wash, iron, clean the room,
bleach his hair, and converse with friends
and even (wow!) a girl. Roommania
#203 was weird until The Sims became a
megahit, whereupon this game became
retroactively ordinary.
Cambrian QTs (cuties)
Year: 2004
Category: Sailor Moon meets
Burgess Shale
If you were devising a unifying theme for
a Magical-Girl anime knockoff about
venturesome young things fighting evil,
the first place you’d turn for inspiration
would be - yes! say it with me! -
Cambrian-Era fossils! Cambrian QTs beat
you to it. Originally a one-page manga
strip in the overstuffed monthly
Japanese anime magazine
Megami, Cambrian QTs became a
webcomic, then a PS2 game from Global
A Entertainment.