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LSD: Dream Emulator was number four on this list. It’s kind of cool that they’re comparing a game this obscure with stuff like Portal, Psycho, and Schindler’s List.
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pro-no replied to your post: I finally installed a decent PS1 emulator and got LSD: Dream Emulator working.
WHAT IS THIS THING YOU SPEAK OF?
I’ll let TV Tropes explain it.
The LSD Dream Emulator is a PS 1-era game, only released in Japan. It’s a Cult Classic, especially among Lets Play groups. There is no goal, no combat, nothing but walking around the completely random environments. The main appeal for players is its insanity; One day, you might see a line of elephants walking into a pit, while other times you might encounter The Grey Man, the closest thing to a recurring villain. Imagine a randomized Yume Nikki.
The game also does one particular something completely horrible - it gets scarier as it goes on. The more you dream, the more bizarre and messed-up textures and events you will encounter. The Grey Man will appear more often. One person played the game so long that the system it uses to scarify things broke, and every texture was replaced with glitchy black.
I haven’t gotten very far, so I haven’t run across anything really creepy yet. I downloaded the game from here and I downloaded pSX to run it.
My friend took these photos of me as the Grey Man while filming my LSD: Dream Emulator fan movie in Lucidity the Senseless Dream.
in Lucidity the Senseless Dream
Soooooo one day a friend and I decided to walk around a dead mall that used to be super cool in 90s. Everything kept reminding me of LSD: Dream Emulator, I got all OMG INSPIRED, and I decided to make a fan movie.
This is the culmination of messing around on a Saturday afternoon in a mostly empty mall and a ton of procrastinating on putting everything together into a complete film and getting it uploaded.
I hope it is craptastically WTF enough to live up to the LSD: Dream Emulator legacy.
Enjoy.