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I’m Sorry: 7 Bizarre Video Games Courtesy Of Japan

Oh, man, Japan. Yes, Japan remains a source of bewildered amusement for peering western eyes. Sure, a lot of what we think about Japan is probably a load of old hyperbole, but it's not just the neon lights, dinner-serving robots, and school girls that throw about the peace sign like it's the actual law that makes Japan seem so at odds with western civilisation... it's the strange and otherworldly practices that the country seems to embrace as if they're, like, normal.

3) Boonga-Ga, Boonga-Ga (2001) (Arcade)

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This game is actually Korean, but was made and distributed for a Japanese market, making it 100% Japanese for the sake of this article.

Have you ever felt as though most games are missing a gigantic ass to slap? Yeah, so did the developers behind Arcade smash Boonga-Ga, Boonga-Ga, a game which has a gigantic fake posterior embedded within its cabinet. Firstly you select who you want to punish (of course), and there’s a whole host of all your favorite characters to choose from: ex-girlfriend? Mother-in-law? Prostitute? How about child molester?

Once you’ve selected whose buttocks you want to slap for a couple of minutes (“Mother-in-law!”), the game rates your whacking ability, scores you, and then prints a card detailing what it thinks of your sexual adequacy. If only Super Mario Bros. had done something like that back in the 80s.

The weirdest thing about this, though, isn’t actually the game itself: it’s the fact that it’s based on a Japanese prank in which (and you can quote us on this) “two fingers are inserted into the anal region of the prankee whilst distracted.” Oh, you should have said – it’s just a prank.