Deep within the bowels of gaming companies, there's a group of people who gather around a table amongst cups of coffee, doughnuts and whiteboards and try to thrash out ideas for games. Many times they succeed and deliver the next big thing, but for every Uncharted or Batman, there's a ludicrous collection of nonsense that should have never got out of the door in the first place. In fact, these probably should have never been spawned forth from the mind of the person who invented them in the first place. To see an example of the latter, you only have to take a look at this week's ludicrous release: Goat Simulator. Yes dear reader, now you can channel your inner desires to eat everything in sight, bleat and cause havoc as a goat of your choosing as you make cars explode, ragdoll your smelly animal friend and complete various other completely insane goat-based activities. In celebration of the release of this quite ludicrous and (possibly) quite awesome goating experience, it's time to delve into the true crazy moments in gaming history where utterly stupid ideas either flopped like they deserved or instead - and completely against the odds - actually managed to be so ridiculously mental that they somehow captured our hearts.
Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.
