Full-frontal nudity! Stealthy royalty! Multiplayer solitaire?
Here are our favorite WTF moments from Xbox and Xbox 360 history.

Sometimes, when we’re not expecting it, an idea, a quote, a commercial, or a gameplay feature pops up in the middle of whatever we’re doing and so thoroughly confuses us that the only sane reaction is “WTF?” — often followed by “OMG” and giggling. Ladies and gents, we present you with the moments in Xbox gaming that stunned us, shortly before a long bout of headscratching and laughter. Or some combination of all of the above. Got your own examples of blissful wacktastic gaming to share? Send them to letters@officialxboxmagazine.com with the subject line “WTF.” (Or, for our more modest readers, we’ll accept “WTGoshDarn” in the subject line. We’re family-friendly that way.)

Solitaire Multiplayer in Soltrio Solitaire

If George Carlin had a field day with “military intelligence” on the oxymoronic meter, he would’ve killed ’em with this poster child of 360 gaming WTF-ness. This multiplayer mode piqued our interest so much that we gave it a recent whirl — only to find the servers empty. So, maybe it’s really only a contradiction in name alone.

Yoda in Soulcalibur IV

Scantily clad dominatrixes brandishing weapons called Magical Sausages? Just another day at the office. But watching a gray-haired, green-puppet-turned-CG-alien Jedi throw down against those dominatrixes? Now that’s something you don’t see every day!

Butter Cookies in Beautiful Katamari

Okay, so maybe this whole game qualifies as a disc full of WTF moments. But the pièce de résistance can be found only in multiplayer, where you and your opponents fight…er, roll it out to win, what else? Delicious-looking butter cookies? Nuts to money, women, and fame — we want butter cookies.

A Master Chief head in a black bag for Halo 3: Collector’s Edition

When we first netted our mighty expensive, preordered Collector’s Edition versions of Halo 3, we were ecstatic. When we opened up our giant boxes and pulled out the contents inside? Still ecstatic, but tempered with a wary grimness evoked by a replica of Master Chief’s head packaged in a soft, black, cinched bag. Morbid, morbid stuff.

Xbox 360 “Live Your Moment” ad campaign

Pairing slow-motion with a frozen look of death-masked “joy” on a gamer’s face, only to swing around to show that the back of their head is completely hollowed-out and populated with a diorama-version of the gameplay setup they’ve got going on? Oh, my — that’ll take years of therapy to erase.

Jimi Hendrix in Guitar Hero World Tour

You’ve just wrapped up a kickin’ set when you’re ready to greet a special guest. The crowd goes wild, and out walks…Jimi Hendrix?! We’re all for honoring long-deceased greats, but having a famously dead guy inexplicably stroll onto stage with no context for his appearance is more than a little weird…not to mention incongruous. Didn’t we just play Bon Jovi, fer cryin’ out loud?

Full-frontal in GTA IV: The Lost and Damned DLC

Going into a Grand Theft Auto game with an open mind for the unexpected is probably the wisest thing you can do, and Rockstar’s first batch of GTA IV DLC certainly didn’t disappoint — right down to a crowded all-male sauna scene that got very, uh, Harvey Keitel.

Dead or Alive Kasumi 3D mousepad

Just when you thought it was safe to come out from under the burden of society’s stereotype of gamers as basement-dwelling bundles of social awkwardness, here comes the “ultimate in wrist support” — a well-endowed, gel-filled mousepad featuring DOA fighter Kasumi. So over-the-top, it’s practically camp.

Installing Halo 3 to the Xbox 360 hard drive

Whereas most games load faster after you install them to your 360’s hard drive, Bungie organized the Halo 3 game disc so specifically that copying it to the hard drive will actually make the game load slower. WTF? To get the full technical reason for this oddity direct from Bungie, visit http://tinyurl.com/halo3nxe.

“We are going to reach 1 billion people with our medium!”

So claimed J Allard, the former Xbox and Xbox 360 maven, during his E3 2005 speech where the 360 was unveiled for the first time. A million skeptics’ eye-rolling followed, but what might’ve seemed WTF-impossible back then seems maybe more sane now given Allard’s very careful wording. Uh, what does “medium” mean anyway?

Animal CHIPS in Phantom Crash

When you reach for a computer chip to upgrade your mech (bear with us here, these are videogames), do you also expect it to be imbued with some sort of animal intelligence — one that can then accompany you as a sidekick until you decide to upgrade again? If yes, then we have a cat-based CHIP named Salsa for you.