As a gamer, it’s hard to forget the first game that freaked you out badly. Do you recall the first time a game freaked you out?
Jo writes "Ash Ketchum’s journey – and our own within the games – across many regions with friends, foes, and fellow pocket monsters turned into a pop culture phenomenon that still reigns as the most successful franchise in its 25th year."
Xfire writes "As you'll soon learn, while it is true that some popular banned video games do at least warrant the censorship or ban they received, some games were banned from sale for some pretty weird and radical reasons."
i dont get censorship in games.
they have warnings on the boxings, age ratings, drug use warnings, strong language and sexual themes and many more.
its not so much the government's job to censor, as it is for parents to make sure their kids dont play those games. and those who are easily disturbed or sensitive, should stay away from them.
i do understand that some things might be triggering for some but.... why do ppl suck so much lol.
but being in debt before 18 or 21 is highly acceptable somehow ha
seriously.
I’m glad there’s not much censorship in the UK towards video games. Reading bully was banned confused me as i don’t recall that at all.
Nintendo has always been bashed for its censorship (green blood in MK controversy) and then they gave us some dark moments like Crocomire’s death in Super Metroid and even let us strangle people to death with the Wii controller. It’s like they have tried at times but there image is very much Cemented as family friendly so I don’t think they will ever be able to stray far from that.
I remember my mom coming home from work with a copy of Thrill Kill and saying “I heard this games banned so I got you a copy” 🙌
Honestly the game wasn’t even that bad, there’s far worse content in books and movies.
Thrill kill at the time was edgy, but there has been much worse. Fun times with Imp the pimp!
honestly, its up to the parents and the players on what kind of experience they want to have, not the publisher.
From Cinelinx:
To celebrate this year's very special Pokemon Day, I take a look back at the original games' impact and how it still resonates today.
Yes in the early 80's on the Atari 5200. Unknown to me at the time the game Rescue on Fractalus had a jump scare. Pretty much a non-thing in gaming back then. The scare happens when the person your rescuing is running towards your ship. Most of the time when the scare is about to happen the person you're picking up looks green skinned, but on rare occasions the skin looks normal and the jump scare happens anyway. The first time it happened to me happened to be a time when it looked like a normal human running to my ship. The scare came out of no where and nearly made me fall out of my chair as I let out a high pitch scream. It seems silly now but when you're a kid in the dark at 2am with the volume on the TV blaring loudly it gets you.
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Project Zero (Fatal Frame in other regions) for me... THAT really got under my skin.
Tomb Raider 2... On PS1... Those damn Tigers. It was the only game I refused to play at night. Resident Evil 3 and Condemned got me as well, and the original Slender freaked me out. Other than that, not much got to me.
Resident evil 1 when spider jumped off ceiling
Resi 1 dogs through the window is the one I remember the most.