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Posted: Sep 19 2007 05:43 am

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/controversial-games/530593-2

10. Night Trap
09. Mortal Kombat
08. Doom
07. SimCopter
06. Postal
05. GTA: San Andreas
04. Bully
03. Resistance: Fall of Man
02. BioShock
01. Manhunt 2

The list isn't terrible, but the order is completely fucked. It should go:

10. Resistance: Fall of Man
09. BioShock
08. SimCopter
07. Bully
06. Postal
05. Doom
04. Night Trap
03. GTA: San Andreas
02. Mortal Kombat
01. Manhunt 2

Custer's Revenge and Texas Chainsaw Massacre shouldn't make the list, as they were both quietly released and received only limited distribution. Death Race 2000 is worth considering instead of Resistance or BioShock.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 06:26 am

Maybe it's just me, but I've never seen anything in a game where I was like "wow, that is controversial, I don't know how they got away with that."

I'm surprised some wrestling game didn't make the list for allowing violence on women. I always enjoyed pummeling Kim Page in WCW/nWo Revenge with foreign objects, trying to make her bleed.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 06:40 am

I think it's most based on public outcry, not on what gamers think of it.

Night Trap was a shitty game that would have long since been forgotten if it didn't get so much media attention when it came out.

MK was most certainly controversial. It was the first mainstream game to feature gratuitous blood and other graphic violences and parents hated it. Several arcades pulled it to protests, and we all know what happened with the SNES port.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 07:47 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

Night Trap was a shitty game that would have long since been forgotten if it didn't get so much media attention when it came out.

And thank God it did! "Night Trap" is worshiped every Friday from 5 to 6, just an hour a week!

But, yeah, the reorder is better.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 07:52 am

Why is SimCopter controversial?

Posted: Sep 19 2007 07:58 am

Valdronius wrote:

Why is SimCopter controversial?

I assume you play as John Landis.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter#Controversy

Posted: Sep 19 2007 05:22 pm

Florescent nipples? Really?

And why is BioShock on the list?

Posted: Sep 19 2007 05:25 pm

Hehe, I loved killing those guys in SimCopter. I also used that code for the nuclear explosion and ran into the people that were still alive after. And I used the Apache helicopter of course.

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Tebor wrote:

Valdronius wrote:

Why is SimCopter controversial?

I assume you play as John Landis.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter#Controversy

What does the writer and director of "An American Werewolf in London" have to do with the SimCopter controversy?

Also, the controversy surrounding "Resistance: Fall of Man" is rather weak, in my opinion. Yahoo! seriously couldn't come up with a better entry to round out a list of 10?

Posted: Sep 19 2007 07:45 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMX_XXX

Instead of Resistance, how about BMX XXX, a game so shitty that it helped to speed along Acclaim's inevitable demise?

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Syd Lexia wrote:

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/controversial-games/530593-2

10. Night Trap
09. Mortal Kombat
08. Doom
07. SimCopter
06. Postal
05. GTA: San Andreas
04. Bully
03. Resistance: Fall of Man
02. BioShock
01. Manhunt 2

The list isn't terrible, but the order is completely fucked. It should go:

10. Resistance: Fall of Man
09. BioShock
08. SimCopter
07. Bully
06. Postal
05. Doom
04. Night Trap
03. GTA: San Andreas
02. Mortal Kombat
01. Manhunt 2

Custer's Revenge and Texas Chainsaw Massacre shouldn't make the list, as they were both quietly released and received only limited distribution. Death Race 2000 is worth considering instead of Resistance or BioShock.

Is Jack Thomson up to his old tricks again? Seriously though, i like the reorder. It makes more sense to have MK and GTA in the lead, for they are the games people like to bitch about the most. I've heard roomers that Uwe Boll is planing on making a Postal Movie. I wonder how conversational that will be. Now that i think about it, has Jack voice his mighty opinion on VG based Movies?

Posted: Sep 19 2007 09:05 pm

Tebor wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Night Trap was a shitty game that would have long since been forgotten if it didn't get so much media attention when it came out.

And thank God it did! "Night Trap" is worshiped every Friday from 5 to 6, just an hour a week!

But, yeah, the reorder is better.

Huh? Tebor what do you mean by that?

I think another thing that immortalized Night Trap was that it starred the ill-fated Dana Plato. Starting wth Night Trap, her career began a steep toboggan ride into porn, C movies, arrests, and ultimately suicide.

You can watch Night Trap on Youtube in movie form, a.k.a. no interface and just the FMV sequences. It makes for perfect MST3k style commentary.

Here is the first of five sequences:

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Char Aznable wrote:

Florescent nipples? Really?

And why is BioShock on the list?

You have the option of killing little girls I guess.

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resistance is a fantastic game.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 10:14 pm

JEW wrote:

resistance is a fantastic game.

It's no Gears of War.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 10:19 pm

They forgot " naked erin esurance altered beast" on this list.

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Syd Lexia wrote:

JEW wrote:

resistance is a fantastic game.

It's no Gears of War.

apples and oranges, sir.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 11:26 pm

What about CamQuest I?

I think it should have been the most conterversal game of all time.

For those of you who are not in the know:

CamQuest I was a Textbased PC game released in 1995 by Waybehind Technologies. In the game you played as a Sophmore High School Student trying to survive a day at school. The game featured such controversal things as:

Guns at school: Including being able to shoot other students. (This was pre-Columbine, so I guess it wasn't a big deal at the time.)

Teen Suicide: At one point in the game, you could jump out of a third story window resulting in the players death.

Drugs: You could find drugs and then barter them to other students in exchange for other items.

Teenage Sex: In the "Best" ending, the student was sucked into his locker into an aternate demention where he was surrounded by "Hot Nympho Chicks" and "Spent the rest of days scoring with them."

I would personally pick this game to be somewhere around number 3 or 2 on the list.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 11:39 pm

Well, people have to have heard of a game for it to be controversial.

I mean, otherwise why not pick "Love Potion", a translated hentai game released in the US in 1998, where you play an undercover officer investigating disappearances at a school? While posing as a teacher, you can force yourself on the principal as well as engage in relations with any number of suspiciously well-endowed underage girls. Also, the game is completely linear, so you can't actually lose.

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sounds like my kind of game.

Posted: Sep 20 2007 11:44 am

Chunx wrote:

Char Aznable wrote:

Florescent nipples? Really?

And why is BioShock on the list?

You have the option of killing little girls I guess.

Only if you're a fool and don't want to get the most Adam!

I've been playing Bioshock for a couple weeks (through each difficulty mode, I'm not that bad a gamer.) I suppose I'm just desensitized to violence, shoving huge syringes in my character's arm and flinging enemy corpses into electrified tripwires doesn't faze me one bit. But seriously, they ranked it number two? I don't think so.

Posted: Sep 20 2007 03:46 pm

I'm suprised Super Mario Brothers was never controversial, it condoned racial sterotypes, mushroom consumption, animal cruelty towards turtles, and arson.

Posted: Sep 20 2007 09:50 pm

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Tebor wrote:

Valdronius wrote:

Why is SimCopter controversial?

I assume you play as John Landis.

What does the writer and director of "An American Werewolf in London" have to do with the SimCopter controversy?

Didn't you hear? Decapitated. We had a funeral for a bird.

Office references aside, John Landis co-directed a little movie called 'Twilight Zone: The Move'. During production a few actors were decapitated by a helicopter. Landis was greatly blamed for the accident and forever put a tint on his career. This story is better told on the IMDB and Wikipedia.

IMDB wrote:

While filming a Vietnam-set battle sequence where a hovering helicopter is chasing and shooting at Morrow, whom is carrying two Vietnamese children out of a deserted village and across a small lake, a SFX explosion caused the helicopter to crash on top of them, killing all three instantly. Renee Chen and My-ca Dinh Le were not officially part of the cast, and their parents had been paid in cash because it is illegal for children to work at that hour (the crash was at about 2:30 am). In 1987, director John Landis and four others crew members were tried and found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

Grimmriffer wrote:

Tebor wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Night Trap was a shitty game that would have long since been forgotten if it didn't get so much media attention when it came out.

And thank God it did! "Night Trap" is worshiped every Friday from 5 to 6, just an hour a week!

Huh? Tebor what do you mean by that?

It means I play the game a lot, enough to even jokingly assign a reserved time for the sole purpose of playing it.

Posted: Sep 21 2007 02:05 am

Blackout Boy wrote:

I'm suprised Super Mario Brothers was never controversial, it condoned racial sterotypes, mushroom consumption, animal cruelty towards turtles, and arson.

1) That is an ethnic stereotype, and it wasn't an issue until N64 when he gained the power to speak.

2)Mushrooms that cause growth are not illegal, just the ones that kill you or give you a crazy drug trip.

3)Koopa are not turtles, and its assumed that they are evil and intentionally cause harm to Mario whenever he walks into them whilst they wander. Self defense.

4)There are no instances of lingering fire damage in the mushroom kingdom environment. Bowser on the other hand keeps his castle filled to the brim with lava and fire snakes.

Posted: Sep 21 2007 06:23 am

Actually, Mario spoke before Mario 64. Nintendo used to have this thing they did at trade shows called MIRT (Mario In Real Time) where they had a rendered 3D Mario head on a screen and then they had a guy standing behind a curtain who'd yell random things at passersby. This is what Charles Martinet was originally hired for.

As for games, Mario first spoke in Mario Teaches Typing.