10 Weirdest Playable Video Game Characters Ever

10. A Boy’s Imagination - Toy Commander

Toy Commander on the Sega Dreamcast was the game that taught me what the word “mezzanine” meant.

It was also a really, really inventive game, with an intro that contextualises the entire game - a little boy running downstairs, toy aeroplane in hand, doing divebombs and pretending to fire a pencil like a missile. Then, the boy fades away as we see it as he imagines it, all the actions occurring independent of him, with the toys becoming the heroes.

Each level of Toy Commander has a real child-like charm to it. Playing as the toys (that the boy in turn, is playing with), you’ll assault cereal box forts on the kitchen table which come to life, firing cap gun anti-air and elastic band flak cannons.

Whether you’re a toy truck with a pencil sharpener “anti-aircraft gun” sellotaped to it, or a helicopter bringing a water balloon to put out a “forest fire” in the house’s fireplace, there’s always a degree of whimsy and the boy’s unique spin to the unfolding events.

Do yourself a favour, though - don’t bother with the vastly-inferior follow-up, Toy Racer - you only imagined that one.