Sure, big studios can make great games: They have money to throw at multiplayer features, killer graphics, celebrity voice actors, etc. But you know what the little guys have that all of their big studio money could never buy? Madness. Here are just a few indie developers who spent years of their lives, sometimes toiling single-handedly, just to bring us a video game adaptation we never wanted and, frankly, are still unsure about.

6 The Dystopian Adventure RPG Starring Charles Barkley

Tales of Games Studios

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Barkley Shut Up And Jam is a 1993 game for NES, Atari, and Genesis that most people have forgotten about. We guarantee you Charles Barkley did. But not Tales of Game's Studios (crazy apostrophe intentional). In 2008, they made an unofficial sequel for PC called Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden, which merges basketball action with ... old-school Japanese RPGs. Of course!

Tales of Games Studios Featuring Tyrone Hill.

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The game is set in a dystopian 2053. Basketball is outlawed after Charles Barkley accidentally dunked so hard that it destroyed New York City, killing 15 million people. That is not our joke description. That's actually the plot of the game. For some reason, Michael Jordan is the enforcer who hunts down and kills rogue basketball players -- because it takes a jammer to catch a jammer?

Tales of Games Studios MJ's terrible fashion sense is the most accurate thing in the game.

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You play as Barkley, on an epic quest to clear his name and restore balance to the game of basketball. Of course, you don't confront your enemies with fireballs and laser attacks; you harness the arcane power of basketball to vanquish your foes.