In 1985 and 1986, a variety of other, less codified terms were sometimes synthesized at the author's discretion, usually combining a pejorative with the word "game" or "soft" (a wasei-eigo abbreviation of "software") – examples include dame-soft (ダメソフト, lit.
[3] A variety of similarly constructed terms exist to describe other subjective attributes – for example, kamigē (神ゲー, lit.
This is similar to paracinema or camp appreciation of works of art: often but not always ironic; reveling in what is incoherent, odd, absurd, flawed, or broken.
[7][8] This counter-cultural appreciation of kusoge can at the very least be traced back to the Bishoku Club Bakagē Senka [ja] (美食倶楽部バカゲー専科, lit.
Taito described Takeshi no Chōsenjō as "that legendary kusoge"[a] in marketing for the game's 2017 smartphone re-release.