Game 'Mad Nurse' from Firebird
While doing some reading on Retro Gamer issue 178 article about CRL's horror adventure games I found a side note on other bloody 8-bit games, where they mention 'Mad Nurse'.
I got curious...
It reads: "A cheap and cheery platformer is perhaps not where you would expect to find notoriously controversial game design, but here was the ability to electrocute, poison or drop babies down lift shafts. All done with a cheeky sense of humour, but a slighly disturbing one, nonetheless."
I can't believe I missed this game back in the 80's!!
But now that I am older this doesn't feel right, so how could a publisher put such a game out in the market? Didn't Firbird get lambasted for that?
I got curious...
It reads: "A cheap and cheery platformer is perhaps not where you would expect to find notoriously controversial game design, but here was the ability to electrocute, poison or drop babies down lift shafts. All done with a cheeky sense of humour, but a slighly disturbing one, nonetheless."
I can't believe I missed this game back in the 80's!!
But now that I am older this doesn't feel right, so how could a publisher put such a game out in the market? Didn't Firbird get lambasted for that?
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And how would that affect someone's sense of humor?
Where's the public outcry over the cruelty to animals exhibited in Lemmings?
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But then again I never liked that game or actually played it, so perhaps that's why when I first read about Mad Nurse on Retro Gamer my stomach felt weird...
Ok, if the goal is to prevent the terrible accidents from happening I suppose that changes something. Nevertheless I still don't feel at ease with the setting of the game because it relates very closely to real life situations whereas babies vs. spiked pits, fireballs, or prostitutes with electric prods sounds more like a parent's nightmare.
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I have to concur.
And that is not the only one, I just remembered that two years earlier the infamous sex-crime was released (well, not exactly) but still was available to kids to buy from certain shops (and then pirate-copy to everyone interested in trying the game).
I should know, I was one of them, I just didn't understand at the time the meaning of rape.
Looking back now it seems almost impossible how such a game slipped unnoticed or didn't cause some unrest.
Does that make me a bad person? :))
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You haven't heard of the two player game on steam Who's Your Daddy where one player is the dad trying to make the house safe for the baby and the other player is the baby trying to kill himself?
Go to around 5:30.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
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The church of Wos absolves your sins. Now take these green crayons and draw a picture of Jesus whilst drinking 3 bloody Mary's. Peas be with you.
Failure to create more JSW games can make you a bad person! :))
No, no. It's completely ok to ridicule and offend christianity nowadays. On the other hand, if you had named the section Mohammed Juice Factory, well...
I seem to remember a game called Mad Muslim, but i must be wrong. Can't find it anywhere...
Politically correctness has gone way to far, soon we can't talk and write about anything else than the weather.
This is the internet, you can write and talk about anything that's legal, and actually illegal, the same as you always could. If you don't think that's true, you need to go on Twitter more.
Well yes, what i meant was you can't talk about anything (on the internet or elsewhere) without a lot of people getting offended, and a lot of hate coming your way.
"...Firebird initially refused to publish the game, because dying babies were too controversial..."
So even the publisher, initially at least, had some worries.
Well the Jesus Juice Factory was tied into the whole thing about Wacko Jacko supposedly feeding wine to the kids that stayed at his house in Coke Cans, and the baby throwing bit was from the time the dozy sod dangled his baby over a balcony. So yes I was taking the p*ss, but it was all based on real life stupidity.
Not that I actually give a sh*t about any religion if truth be told though.
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And still to be found in the WoS archive! Glad to be proven wrong there, let's just hope the WoS "office" don't go the same way as the Charlie Hebdon office.
Neither do i, and we should be able to make fun of religion, any religion.
I remember reading that Salman Rushdie said if he had written The Satanic Verses today he would be considered a racist. The world has changed a lot just in a few years, and not for the better. We're going fast to achieve a world of George Orwell's 1984.
So really, you want to be able to say anything you want, without anyone else saying anything they want back? :)
I dunno? Maybe it was easier to machete them to death? But he got them drunk on "Jesus Juice", and touched their knobs, and arses instead...