| Leynos said: I have no idea. ESRB didn't exist yet. Might be MK3U? I played games like Splatterhouse in arcades and MK1-2 in arcades and on SNES/Genesis and played Bionic Commando on the NES, where Hitler's head exploded, but I was also watching a lot of gory, R-rated 80s horror films as a kid. I was allowed to rent them with my dad. |
| Leynos said: 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. |
Yep. Games weren't regulated like that until the '90s. Fortunately, I never played any of Mystique's terrible Atari games but I did play Larry on a friend's PC back in the day. And I never even knew about Chiller until much later.
But yeah, Bionic Commando in 1988 was the first game I actually owned with something as graphic as resurrected Hitler's exploding head:
Love that game; the arcade game is pathetic compared to the excellent NES version.
About a year later, Last Battle on the Genesis was censored in the US because it was actually a Fist of the North Star game in Japan on the Mega Drive:
OP: So, since I never bought Mortal Kombat or Doom, I guess the first game I actually owned with the "M" rating was Turok on N64.
But the first time I was moved by more mature story events had nothing to do with an "M" rating. In Phantasy Star 2 on the Genesis, a girl is killed by her own father near the beginning of the game, who then kills himself:
Later, about midway through the game, one of your main party members dies in the game, permanently. This was almost a decade before Aerith in FF7:
