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Soundwave on 11 July 2017
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Mnementh said:
SegataSanshiro said:

Eh Snatcher is on SEGA CD and it was a much more gory version of Blade Runner plus nudity and swearing. Also Policenauts. MGS on PS1. Tomb Raider Saturn/PS1,same with RE. Sweet Home on NES. Many games existed before Xbox that were towards a mature audience and the average age of gamers in the early 90s were mid 20s. They already tapped into the mature audience market and with Mature games. SEGA with Night Trap and Midway with Mortal Kombat are pretty much the sole reasons why gaming even has a ratings system. SEGA and Nintendo sat before the United States Senate to debate such a system and these gory and mature games. The mature era of gaming began there.

Yeah, There were single games that were mature. But they also already were on Nintendo systems too. Mortal Kombat is one of the first I think strongly pushing mature content. But the majority of games stayed cartoony and whacky. The major shift came in XBox which first pushed mature content in volumes and PS3 and X360 following in that steps.

Games were already getting violent. Mortal Kombat and DOOM were huge, huge blockbusters, we're talking like the GTA and Call of Duty of their time. It was inevitable that there would be a flood of violent video games from that point onwards. 

Even NINTENDO at the time was so smitten by the draw that they decided they had to have their hyper violent fighting franchise as such Killer Instinct was pushed to market. 

So if Nintendo was even on board with the trend, obviously every other developer would be too. Saying Sony or MS showed up and only then did developers start thinking abou violent games and they only made Mario clones before that is just silly crap. That's not how any of that happened. 

Let me just say again too ... Mortal Kombat was 

A. 

BIG. 

FUCKING.

DEAL. 

I remember walking into a 7-11 and seeing it for the first time and thinking "holy shit, this will change gaming", and sure enough it did. It opened a pandora's box that's never been closed since. There were lineups down the street just to play it once word caught on. After that what was allowed in games and what wasn't completely changed.