A History of Video Game Controversy 354
Decaffeinated Jedi writes "Sex, violence, animal cruelty, and scandalous pixels -- GameSpot has posted an in-depth feature examining the history of controversy in the video game industry. The feature examines several "major offenders" dating back as far as Death Race in the arcades up through more recent games like Grand Theft Auto III and Manhunt. Also included in the feature is coverage of the so-called "retail rogues" (games controversial enough that they were pulled from the shelves), as well as a docket of game-industry lawsuits and a look at the lighter side of game controversy. Who wants to bet that that the use-confiscated-drugs-for-short-term-benefit gameplay of Midway's upcoming NARC will make the cut in future articles about video game controversy?"
Currently in development (Score:3, Funny)
Quake IV:Disembowelment Edition
and my favorite....
Catholic Priest Online
I love video games....
Pulling Games (Score:5, Funny)
I want to know where the groups are to get games pulled for being absoulute pieces of garbage, and leave deep mental scars simply by existing.
Re:Blue Max (Score:2, Funny)
Good game. Reminds me of Zaxxon, both of which were some of the first games I ever played.
Ah... Barbarian, Commando Libya, both sources of moral panic at the time. There's also that old game... what was its name.. General Custer?
Games like these don't excite me anymore (Score:4, Funny)
In the game, you played as a comic facsimile of General George Armstrong Custer, the infamous 19th-century military officer who contributed to a seedier side of American history until he met his (and his entire unit's) death at Little Big Horn in 1876 at the hands of Native Americans. As the game version of Custer, you embarked on little more than a rape romp, as you ran literally across the screen from "enemy" arrows toward a Native American woman strapped to a pole. Once there, Custer would get it on with (or, according to many critics, "rape") the woman for points. Game over.
is for kiddies. Having outgrown all that, what I really need, is a game where I can murder helpless kittens.
I must REALLY be out of date... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Been there, done that (Score:1, Funny)
Then I'd go on a drunken killing spree with my dragons tooth sword... I could never seem to keep that thing from hacking down bystanders. It's like stormbringer
After playing Fallout II... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm heading to New Reno now, travelling west along the Dead Zone. I hear that there are mutants in New Orleans. It's my duty to take care of them on my way.
Vault 13, here I come.
Most offensive game is Mario (Score:4, Funny)
You got Mario and his brother Luigi jumping on clouds and mushrooms. Mushrooms the size of the screen. What's worse is Toad. A character that consumed so much XXXX, he's a mushroom himself. Come on people.
Why, sure, I play Zork, proud to say it... (Score:5, Funny)
My friends, either you are closing your eyes
To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, or you are not aware of the calibre of disaster indicated by the presence of an arcade parlor in your community.
Now I play PC games myself, mighty proud to say it;
I consider the hours I spent with Zork are golden--
Helps ya cultivate logic, and horse sense, and a keen mind.
But just as I say it takes judgement, brains, and
Maturity to solve a puzzle,
I say that any boob can punch a button on an arcade console
And I call that sloth
The first big step on the road to dee-gradation.
And all night long your River City youth'll be fritterin' away their hard-earned quarters
Stick the coin in the slot, don't worry about taking out the garbage--
And, my friends, ya got TROUBLE!
Yeah, ya got TROUBLE!
With a capital T and that rhymes with V and that stands for GAMES...
Its not funny. (Score:5, Funny)
Bad parenting? Perhaps, but I discovered later that my nephew had finished playing the copy of Grand Theft Auto III he had received for this birthday. Yes, it could be a coincidence, but this about this: How else could a 7 year old child have learned that banging a prostitute can heal wounds except through that video game?
Are we going to continue to allow these games to poison the minds of our children? I pray that we shall not.
Re:One that is never mentioned (Score:3, Funny)
Check it out, headkicking goblin and all [vgmuseum.com]
I did get a good laugh at the old c64 guys, because I remember the Apple 2 version had better graphics. Of course, then I saw that the c64 got a sequal! Not only did they get Barbarian 2, but B2 had overt sexuality and animalities! [vgmuseum.com] The picture of that chick was damn wankable back then. Those C64 guys got everything ^_^.
Re:More violence doesn't mean better (Score:3, Funny)
Water Closet (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Parental Failure (Score:2, Funny)