Atari 8-bit: Alien Garden
5Alien Garden has some of the most unusual gameplay I've ever encountered. There are no enemies as such, there's no exploration in the usual sense of the word, and it's not really a puzzle game or an action-based challenge of execution.
Instead, you have an alien creature in a garden of alien flowers, which you can interact with using your mouth, wings, or stinger. Hitting a flower with one of these affects it in one of three different ways, randomly chosen when you start the game: grow it (wing/stinger) or eat it (mouth), make it explode, or mutate it. Eating bits of flower gives you points, growing one gives more flower to interact with (or explodes it if grown too much), exploding one destroys the body part that triggered the explosion, and mutating one turns it into a different type of flower with a different appearance and different properties.
Mutating flowers does more than just make the garden more interesting. The number of different flower types that currently exist also acts as a point multiplier, and creating a new type of flower for the first time regrows lost wings or stinger (understandably, losing your head is instantly fatal).
The garden automatically scrolls up and down continuously. Your score displays on each side, with the walls growing as it increases to display additional digits. This has the novel effect of reducing the space that you have to work with on the sides, in an interesting case of the game interface directly interfering with the gameplay instead of staying entirely on the fourth wall and out of the way.
After coming to a game over, you can choose to restart the same game, with all the flowers keeping the same properties as they just had. If you take notes or have a good enough memory, you can use this to "map out" how each type of flower will respond to each action you can take, and use that information to your advantage. So, that sort of turns it into a type of exploration, but again, not in the usual sense of the word.
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