Surprised there wasnt uproar from the Mary Whitehouse brigade when you were going through levels with an uzi or knife killing prams and people !
Great great massacre game going round constantly killing the baddies with various weapons, that uzi is superb ! But like i say i'm surprised an idiot didnt bleat on about how evil the game was for shooting prams etc
Surprised there wasnt uproar from the Mary Whitehouse brigade when you were going through levels with an uzi or knife killing prams and people !
Great great massacre game going round constantly killing the baddies with various weapons, that uzi is superb ! But like i say i'm surprised an idiot didnt bleat on about how evil the game was for shooting prams etc
If I remeber correctly, when defining keys it asked for a murder button rather than fire!
Ha ha yeah thats right. Nice little touch that was.
Love that game, still play it a ton now. Always feel guilty for hitting the missus with an uzi though when she turns up later which obviously p*sses her off (In the game, not real life)
Surprised there wasnt uproar from the Mary Whitehouse brigade when you were going through levels with an uzi or knife killing prams and people !
Great great massacre game going round constantly killing the baddies with various weapons, that uzi is superb ! But like i say i'm surprised an idiot didnt bleat on about how evil the game was for shooting prams etc
There simply wasn't as much media concern about video games back then. Additionally, "Cobra" is incredibly cartoonish and comical and so it was hard to take seriously all the knife-lobbing and pram-attacking in the game.
There simply wasn't as much media concern about video games back then. Additionally, "Cobra" is incredibly cartoonish and comical and so it was hard to take seriously all the knife-lobbing and pram-attacking in the game.
There simply wasn't as much media concern about video games back then. Additionally, "Cobra" is incredibly cartoonish and comical and so it was hard to take seriously all the knife-lobbing and pram-attacking in the game.
Yeah, I like the "Barbarian Backlash" in Crash though, when they received tons of letters regarding the issue 41 cover. Quite a few Mary Whitehouse types in there who cancelled their subscriptions or tossed out their son's whole collection of the mag ... :lol:
Yeah, I like the "Barbarian Backlash" in Crash though, when they received tons of letters regarding the issue 41 cover. Quite a few Mary Whitehouse types in there who cancelled their subscriptions or tossed out their son's whole collection of the mag ... :lol:
I got into trouble for letting my mate play it!!
I believe it was banned in Germany - shows how far down the road of apathy we have gone.....
Soldier of fortune on the PC - Exploding headshots - shotgun mutilations and more - no one said a word....
Now its only uber violent games like Manhunt and its banned sequel that anyone cares about. All the other FPS shooters are ignored - or rather accepted.
Funny you mention that name. Played the Speccy version of Soldier of Fortune last night, i remember buying that game as a kid. One of those 'i have to like it, i have to, i've just bought it for 9 quid !' games.
Try as i might just found it way too frustrating, shame as i think theres a good game tucked away somewhere in it
Edit - Got it wrong. Soldier of Fortune is a decent Ghost n Goblins game, the game i was thinking of and played last night was Soldier of Light. Very frustrating game
I believe it was banned in Germany - shows how far down the road of apathy we have gone.....
Germany had (and I think might still have) ridiculous censorship laws that control anything violent as a reaction against the country's past. Utterly, utterly absurd but there you go. I think "River Raid" and "Commando" had the same fate.
Not sure they were banned so much as made very difficult to obtain. They weren't advertised and couldn't be bought in highstreet shops.
Germany had (and I think might still have) ridiculous censorship laws that control anything violent as a reaction against the country's past. Utterly, utterly absurd but there you go. I think "River Raid" and "Commando" had the same fate.
On a slightly different note, I once read in a band interview that Cannibal Corpse had their first 3 albums banned and to this day are not even allowed to play any of the tracks from those albums live in Germany :o
On a slightly different note, I once read in a band interview that Cannibal Corpse had their first 3 albums banned and to this day are not even allowed to play any of the tracks from those albums live in Germany :o
thats a shame they are missing out on such classics as: "Entrails Ripped from a Virgin's Cunt" and "I Cum Blood"
no wonder david hasslehoff got so big. :)
PS the ban on the albums was revoked in 2006, not sure about them playing the songs live though.
On a slightly different note, I once read in a band interview that Cannibal Corpse had their first 3 albums banned and to this day are not even allowed to play any of the tracks from those albums live in Germany :o
Wikipedia has a detailed entry about the organisation that censors these things in Germany. Some of their decisions were quite bonkers, such as the one censoring "Tarzan" comics in the 1950s (the justifications for which sound a bit nazi-esque to me).
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Surprised there wasnt uproar from the Mary Whitehouse brigade when you were going through levels with an uzi or knife killing prams and people !
Great great massacre game going round constantly killing the baddies with various weapons, that uzi is superb ! But like i say i'm surprised an idiot didnt bleat on about how evil the game was for shooting prams etc
If I remeber correctly, when defining keys it asked for a murder button rather than fire!
Love that game, still play it a ton now. Always feel guilty for hitting the missus with an uzi though when she turns up later which obviously p*sses her off (In the game, not real life)
And the matchstick graphics in Realm Of Impossibility, of course.
There simply wasn't as much media concern about video games back then. Additionally, "Cobra" is incredibly cartoonish and comical and so it was hard to take seriously all the knife-lobbing and pram-attacking in the game.
cos you never feel guilty for hitting your wife with an uzi in real life. :)
And that's how violence should be in videogames.
Otherwise Barbarian should be the "number one" with very big and well drawn sprites and very violent actions.
the flying heads in Barbarian.
Yeah, I like the "Barbarian Backlash" in Crash though, when they received tons of letters regarding the issue 41 cover. Quite a few Mary Whitehouse types in there who cancelled their subscriptions or tossed out their son's whole collection of the mag ... :lol:
Go To Hell
Soft & Cuddly
The graphics are quite comical but morally it's a pretty questionable game, I like it though, but that's cos' it feeds my cruel side :D
I got into trouble for letting my mate play it!!
I believe it was banned in Germany - shows how far down the road of apathy we have gone.....
Soldier of fortune on the PC - Exploding headshots - shotgun mutilations and more - no one said a word....
Now its only uber violent games like Manhunt and its banned sequel that anyone cares about. All the other FPS shooters are ignored - or rather accepted.
Try as i might just found it way too frustrating, shame as i think theres a good game tucked away somewhere in it
Edit - Got it wrong. Soldier of Fortune is a decent Ghost n Goblins game, the game i was thinking of and played last night was Soldier of Light. Very frustrating game
Germany had (and I think might still have) ridiculous censorship laws that control anything violent as a reaction against the country's past. Utterly, utterly absurd but there you go. I think "River Raid" and "Commando" had the same fate.
Not sure they were banned so much as made very difficult to obtain. They weren't advertised and couldn't be bought in highstreet shops.
On a slightly different note, I once read in a band interview that Cannibal Corpse had their first 3 albums banned and to this day are not even allowed to play any of the tracks from those albums live in Germany :o
thats a shame they are missing out on such classics as: "Entrails Ripped from a Virgin's Cunt" and "I Cum Blood"
no wonder david hasslehoff got so big. :)
PS the ban on the albums was revoked in 2006, not sure about them playing the songs live though.
Sure that was Germanys eurovision song last year
i think you are thinking of that german autopsy doctor with the indiana jones hat, on C4.
Wikipedia has a detailed entry about the organisation that censors these things in Germany. Some of their decisions were quite bonkers, such as the one censoring "Tarzan" comics in the 1950s (the justifications for which sound a bit nazi-esque to me).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundespr%C3%BCfstelle_f%C3%BCr_jugendgef%C3%A4hrdende_Medien