Leynos said:
I was older than 5 when Doom came out, but most people played Doom for free as it was shareware. I was a kid playing Wolfenstein 3D. A lot of arcade games were violent in the 80s and early 90s. As mentioned, Splatterhouse. MK1. Time Killers. Chiller in arcades had gore and nudity. Hell, Atari in the early 80s had porn games. Beat 'em and Eatem where the goal was to cum in women's mouths. Porky's is based on the movie. Custer's Revenge, where the goal was to rape a woman. PC had Leisure Suit Larry. Ninja Gaiden Arcade had a hell of a Game Over screen.
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That's pretty crazy, at least it doesn't show animate the saw slicing in but I have to wonder about Mortal Kombat fatalities. That's wild.
SanAndreasX said:
At five years old, you weren’t likely to be buying video games, and if you were playing them, it was because one of your parents (most likely your father) had them. MDK was released after the ESRB was in place. No, they didn’t have ratings stickers in the USA until Sega came up with their own ratings in the early 90s in response to increased threats from Congress to regulate the industry and possibly arrest people. Nintendo simply censored anything they thought might be objectionable in the USA (and some things still slipped through, such as the ending cut scene from Bionic Commando). The ESRB largely came into existence because of Mortal Kombat, an arcade game where Sub-Zero ripped people’s spines out, and Congress members from both parties started making not too subtle threats against video game executives. American consumers didn’t care until it became a full blown moral panic. Nintendo probably welcomed the ESRB because they felt they could release an uncensored version of Mortal Kombat 2 without getting too much heat from Congress. The first game was censored in varying degrees on both SNES and Genesis but blood was completely cut from the SNES version, which cost Nintendo a lot of sales. |
I was just thinking of Mortal Kombat to Leynos' comment. That's fucking wild. Regardless of being 5, hell being anything less than double digits, That's wild, like seeing some guy pull out another guy spine must have been a shock. I wonder if kids are more fucked up today, the media certainly wants to portray it that way but there's little way to know, they must be with the Internet, they'd have to be.
The fact that people didn't want the version with no blood says a lot about the time.
