Abnormal Check (1996)
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Namco
Hardware: Namco ND-1
Dump Status: Dumped
Abnormal Check (アブノーマルチェック) is a quiz game from Namco that determines how weird or abnormal the player is!
The game starts out by showing how many coins have been inserted, which determines how many players (up to 3) will be playing.
After this, each player will choose their gender, and whether or not they're an adult or a minor. Once this is done, the players must select a category of questions. These include categories based on finance, personality, 'taste', 'experience', love, and even a category based on the location in Japan the players are (this is configured in the game's service menu)!
Once this is done, the game will now start the quiz, which consists of multiple rounds with several questions relating to the category. Each player answers the question provided with either the A or B buttons, and when everyone has answered and/or time runs out, the game reveals what % of people have picked either A or B. If any player is on the majority side, they get more points, while players on the minority lose points. When the game is finished, the cabinet prints out the game's results.
The amount of points each player has affects how the final cutscene plays out. These can be very bizarre, as one of them involves the male character sleeping with the female one, before reaching for a gun. However, when he turns back to shoot her, it turns out she was holding a knife, planning to kill him as well!
These characters also have a ton of animations that can play out after each answer! There are many for picking the majority, as well as picking the minority, and there's even animations that can play out differently when there's multiple players! These include getting picked up by an eagle, getting struck by lightning, flexing muscles, smoking a cigarette, and some even involve legacy Namco characters, such as getting eaten by Pac-Man and getting blown up by Dig-Dug!
The game's soundtrack is also very notable, being composed by Akihiko Ishikawa, who later went on to create the 2000 song series for Taiko no Tatsujin!!
The Mishima family from Tekken makes a cameo in the game's attract mode, and one of the tracks in the game is even directly titled 'Mishima Family'
