Cool video. I find it more interesting when the controversy is about politics/content/social implications than when it's about game quality or playability. I'm not really a gamer. I'm 46 and the only 2 consoles I ever had were NES and Sega Genesis. I only had 3 games for Genesis. I did have an old school game boy and a game boy advance. But the NES is far and away my favorite video game system. I'm super nostalgic for it. The other day, I had a video suggested to me that was a review of a mini NES that has every game ever released for the NES in North America (700+ games). The review demonstrated that it was an official Nintendo product and not a knock off. The review was very positive. I also heard from someone I know who has one and someone who knows someone who has one and they all said it's awesome. The video had a link to buy it in the description and I ordered one. It hasn't arrived yet. But I can't wait to play the old classics that I loved and check out some of the popular games that I never had and never played. And I'd like to check out some of the controversial games in this and other videos. I'm awesome at Mike Tyson's Punch Out, The Legend of Zelda, and Contra, but I pretty much suck at all other video games. I'm useless in any game with more than 3 buttons 🤣
I think this compilation is quite well done! That being said, for the younger viewers, count how many times he said "outraged" in an hour and that gives you a pretty good idea as to how much things have changed since the 1980s. Which is to say, not much. Quick explanation: as kids growing up in the 80s and 90s we had to deal with the "do it for the children" generation led by people like Tipper Gore. They wanted everything from music to video games censored. But we can turn on the TV at any time and see people pulling off horrific acts on the news.. in real life.. and that particular group said squat. However - Elf boy fights 8-bit dragons with a wooden sword. Time to panic cuz it's satanic. Sorry for the rant, I grew up around so many of these individuals that it just dredges up those feelings of annoyance from the depths.
Back when they’d show car chases live and they wouldn’t pull the camera away when the inevitable roll over fatality happens and the chase ends. Can’t have a plumber jump on an evil mushroom as that’ll turn me/kids to violent murdering but I can see a car literally disintegrate as it rolls 15 times on the news because “it teaches you not to do bad things or you’ll end up dead”. 😬😬😬 Kinda kills the message when you find out years later (thanks internet/Wikipedia!) a couple of those fatalities were ppl with minor things like broken tail lights that had a panic attack due to past ptsd and hit the gas the moment they saw the cop lights. Then it was too late to just pull over because it’s not like your anxiety has calmed down now that there are 15 cops and a helicopter following you….😅😅😅 Personally. I’d rather have not casually watched people die on the news as a child. . . . The car chases we’re just the start, there was so much worse shown too. But remember! Video games will lead you to drugs and gangs! Only the news can show you gory murders! 😂😂😂
Nintendo removed from Maniac Mansion the nude statue, the skeleton, Edna's lines about tying the male characters into her bed, yet they kept the microwave hamster trick without assigning a rating on the box, but that's none of my business. (meme of Kermit sipping tea)
It's probably worth noting that Chiller was an unlicensed game and as such it didn't have much distribution. You couldn't exactly go to a KayBee Toys and pick it up, and this was long before Gamestop so most people weren't even exposed to its existence. It was really the arcade version of the game that was controversial and that wasn't exactly an easy machine to find either.
When I was a kid, we had a mom and pop video store near our house. I remember renting "Chiller" for the NES. I didn't know that game wasn't officially licensed.
I like how you assume that parent's & critics sparked debates on inappropriate games back in the day while most couldn't tell one game from another. A good example was my aunt, she called all videogames systems, "A Nintendo". It took Mortal Kombat and a DB called Jack Thompson for parents to take their blinders off and pay attention. Still liked your video.
I dunno why everybody says or thinks Mighty Bomb Jack is a difficult game. When i was a kid in the 90s i owned the game, played it quite a bit and never thought it was particularly hard or difficult. And im by no means a game master, but i did grow up gaming during the best and definitely the most difficult game era.
Have you gone back and played it and see how well you do now? I know when I go revisit the early megaman games I absolutely suck at it when I was younger I could consistently blow through them lol It’s embarrassing
Very ice list I knew Chiller was going to be on there. Kind of shocked by most of this list. Punch-Out not so much because I was a kid when the whole Mike Tyson case went on so I remember that. Maniac Mansion I had no idea as a kid was so censored. The only game I have issue with is Taboo. Not for its content being occult, but because that's not a game. I could buy a couple of literal Tarot decks for the cost of that at release. Or even better a Tarot deck and a book on how to read them assuming I ddn't already know how to.
I loved many of the games on this list and played all of them before reaching age 12. So I wasn't irreparablely harmed by any of them. Bionic Commando was such a great game. I can't tell you how many hours I spent playing Maniac Mansion. One thing you forgot to mention with Punch-Out was the censorship of Vodka Drunkinski. Who became Soda Popinski on the NES. I always thought that was so lame.
Abadox reminds me of Gradius. Smash TV was very very disturbing. I rented it for SNES. I do appreciate the intent of it though. Much like Hunger Games, it accomplishes exactly the undertones you described.
In Bionic Comando what to expect about a game placed in nazi enemies?? And they still show a gruesome dead of the final boss that still has resemble to some German dude, so it wasnt modified at all The strange is that Raid 2020 was made by Wisdom Tree a company by a "christian" group which makes no sense
That was before they became Wisdom Tree, and they didn't convert due to having a company-wide change of heart, they turned their bootleg games into bootleg Christian games so Nintendo of America couldn't touch them while they could grab some cash from the Christian media movement that gave us VeggieTales, Bibleman, and Colby the Christian Robot.
90% of the controversies listed here are great proof of why this country (USA) is so dangerously sensitive to this day, and especially how hurtful and dangerous special interest groups and their disingenuous concerns are to general society.
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If I remember right, you could feed near anything to the tentacle, with wax fruit and fruit drinks being the 2 items needed for him to let you pass. Anything fed would vanish from your inventory, possibly causing a game over in the future because you got rid of a key item by accident. It is a very unforgiving game.
I had to stop watching because this is maybe the most repetitive script I have ever heard. I get that there will be similar stories behind many of these games, but using almost the exact same sentence about family-friendly content almost every time makes it VERY hard to sit through.
I am just going to go back to what I say about any form of media, the parents of children should always be there to be parents. It is not the media being consumed that should shape the child's life it should be the parent and this problem is still a problem with many other systems beyond media today.
Sorry for commenting twice, but really, "Rolling Thunder and Smach Tv" was controversial? My mom was a "bigg" holy roller, and she let me play those games when i was like 8.If she would have heard that, my mom would have shut it down. Ps. I kinda like "Rolling Thunder" and play it on the Switch, and yes, it's difficult.
Nightshade isn't a dark and serious game. It's a goofy comedy that is meant to be taken everything but seriously. "Nightshade strapped to table with a laser descending toward him" What? That doesn't happen at all. There are "Game over" death traps you have to escape from but that isn't one of them. I have a hunch you never played these games and are just reading from a script or maybe even a synopsis that someone else wrote. So where in Clash at Demonhead were there skimpy outfits and risque dialogue? You see, you're talking about games I'm very familiar with here. I don't recall any skimpy outfits at all. What "adult humor"? Also what media backlash? Do you have a source? This entire video is ridiculous. You could actually show something on the screen to give examples but you don't even present evidence. There's a nes game called Menace Beach, which was turned into a bible game called Sunday Funday. An actual controversy you could talk about is how in Menace Beach, you have to save your girlfriend and as time goes on her clothes are removed. That game was turned into a bible game. Would be nice to see some actual controversy in this video.
I completely forgot about Golgo 13. That was a great game. I had no idea it was so controversial.
@@jamiemacdonald436 It WASN'T. It ISNT. (Meanwhile you go out and pay way too much just to own it haha)
Cool video. I find it more interesting when the controversy is about politics/content/social implications than when it's about game quality or playability.
I'm not really a gamer. I'm 46 and the only 2 consoles I ever had were NES and Sega Genesis. I only had 3 games for Genesis. I did have an old school game boy and a game boy advance. But the NES is far and away my favorite video game system. I'm super nostalgic for it. The other day, I had a video suggested to me that was a review of a mini NES that has every game ever released for the NES in North America (700+ games). The review demonstrated that it was an official Nintendo product and not a knock off. The review was very positive. I also heard from someone I know who has one and someone who knows someone who has one and they all said it's awesome. The video had a link to buy it in the description and I ordered one. It hasn't arrived yet. But I can't wait to play the old classics that I loved and check out some of the popular games that I never had and never played. And I'd like to check out some of the controversial games in this and other videos. I'm awesome at Mike Tyson's Punch Out, The Legend of Zelda, and Contra, but I pretty much suck at all other video games. I'm useless in any game with more than 3 buttons 🤣
But the 6-Button Controller is the coolest!
I think this compilation is quite well done!
That being said, for the younger viewers, count how many times he said "outraged" in an hour and that gives you a pretty good idea as to how much things have changed since the 1980s. Which is to say, not much.
Quick explanation: as kids growing up in the 80s and 90s we had to deal with the "do it for the children" generation led by people like Tipper Gore. They wanted everything from music to video games censored. But we can turn on the TV at any time and see people pulling off horrific acts on the news.. in real life.. and that particular group said squat.
However - Elf boy fights 8-bit dragons with a wooden sword. Time to panic cuz it's satanic.
Sorry for the rant, I grew up around so many of these individuals that it just dredges up those feelings of annoyance from the depths.
Back when they’d show car chases live and they wouldn’t pull the camera away when the inevitable roll over fatality happens and the chase ends. Can’t have a plumber jump on an evil mushroom as that’ll turn me/kids to violent murdering but I can see a car literally disintegrate as it rolls 15 times on the news because “it teaches you not to do bad things or you’ll end up dead”. 😬😬😬
Kinda kills the message when you find out years later (thanks internet/Wikipedia!) a couple of those fatalities were ppl with minor things like broken tail lights that had a panic attack due to past ptsd and hit the gas the moment they saw the cop lights. Then it was too late to just pull over because it’s not like your anxiety has calmed down now that there are 15 cops and a helicopter following you….😅😅😅
Personally. I’d rather have not casually watched people die on the news as a child. . . .
The car chases we’re just the start, there was so much worse shown too. But remember! Video games will lead you to drugs and gangs! Only the news can show you gory murders! 😂😂😂
Nintendo removed from Maniac Mansion the nude statue, the skeleton, Edna's lines about tying the male characters into her bed, yet they kept the microwave hamster trick without assigning a rating on the box, but that's none of my business. (meme of Kermit sipping tea)
And let's not forget the playable characters are teenagers. But oh how Lucas Games bellyached about the censorship!
Pixel nipples...
😂😂😂
It's probably worth noting that Chiller was an unlicensed game and as such it didn't have much distribution. You couldn't exactly go to a KayBee Toys and pick it up, and this was long before Gamestop so most people weren't even exposed to its existence. It was really the arcade version of the game that was controversial and that wasn't exactly an easy machine to find either.
When I was a kid, we had a mom and pop video store near our house. I remember renting "Chiller" for the NES. I didn't know that game wasn't officially licensed.
"One hour of controversial games" - not games you exclusively will have played
I never notched that NARC has signs in the background that say "Adult Books XXX"
I like how you assume that parent's & critics sparked debates on inappropriate games back in the day while most couldn't tell one game from another. A good example was my aunt, she called all videogames systems, "A Nintendo". It took Mortal Kombat and a DB called Jack Thompson for parents to take their blinders off and pay attention. Still liked your video.
Omg!! I totally remember playing "Chiller" in the arcades as a kid. (It was an older game.) Not like MK2 that I grew up with.
The worst for me was Elevator Action. The first day I played it, Uncle Mitch just kept tickling me.
Right at peak Satanic Panic for some of these.
Seeing someone other than The Nerd talk about Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is kinda wild man.
in retrospect it does make sense the game was basically a cursed hallmark on the NES, it really IS that bad
What does he say after violent? 28:26
Darn, you didn’t add the clip from Bionic Commando when Master D had a case of head exploding
I dunno why everybody says or thinks Mighty Bomb Jack is a difficult game. When i was a kid in the 90s i owned the game, played it quite a bit and never thought it was particularly hard or difficult. And im by no means a game master, but i did grow up gaming during the best and definitely the most difficult game era.
Anyone who thinks the NES is the hardest gaming ever got, never played a ZX Spectrum or C64.
And avoids modern indie sadomasochism.
Have you gone back and played it and see how well you do now?
I know when I go revisit the early megaman games I absolutely suck at it when I was younger I could consistently blow through them lol
It’s embarrassing
This is something i can fall asleep, too. Idk why this is so soothing.
it's the fact that it is incredibly repetitive
Great vid. Well done for giving credit to the musicians
What's sad is it was $199 for 52 games when I now have an app on my phone with twice as many NES classic games and it was free.
I'll still buy action 52 for the collection sadly 😅
Very ice list I knew Chiller was going to be on there. Kind of shocked by most of this list. Punch-Out not so much because I was a kid when the whole Mike Tyson case went on so I remember that. Maniac Mansion I had no idea as a kid was so censored. The only game I have issue with is Taboo. Not for its content being occult, but because that's not a game. I could buy a couple of literal Tarot decks for the cost of that at release. Or even better a Tarot deck and a book on how to read them assuming I ddn't already know how to.
The true taboo of Taboo was introducing the digitization of everything physical in our lives, replacing all our objects with virtual versions. 🤯
I loved many of the games on this list and played all of them before reaching age 12. So I wasn't irreparablely harmed by any of them. Bionic Commando was such a great game. I can't tell you how many hours I spent playing Maniac Mansion. One thing you forgot to mention with Punch-Out was the censorship of Vodka Drunkinski. Who became Soda Popinski on the NES. I always thought that was so lame.
Abadox reminds me of Gradius. Smash TV was very very disturbing. I rented it for SNES. I do appreciate the intent of it though. Much like Hunger Games, it accomplishes exactly the undertones you described.
In Bionic Comando what to expect about a game placed in nazi enemies?? And they still show a gruesome dead of the final boss that still has resemble to some German dude, so it wasnt modified at all
The strange is that Raid 2020 was made by Wisdom Tree a company by a "christian" group which makes no sense
That was before they became Wisdom Tree, and they didn't convert due to having a company-wide change of heart, they turned their bootleg games into bootleg Christian games so Nintendo of America couldn't touch them while they could grab some cash from the Christian media movement that gave us VeggieTales, Bibleman, and Colby the Christian Robot.
90% of the controversies listed here are great proof of why this country (USA) is so dangerously sensitive to this day, and especially how hurtful and dangerous special interest groups and their disingenuous concerns are to general society.
I remember seeing some dystopic material as a kid, in fact illustrating this premise
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Thank you so much! I hope you like what I have.
Man the mike Tysons punch out music will be embedded in my head forever!!!! As soon as I hear it I know what it is and to play it
The intro theme music for Mike Tyson's Punchout came from Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports, 1958. I didn’t learn that till recently
You left off Hogan's alley it should of been on here for promotion of gun usage and just it was a sweet game
What is the song at 7:50, its sounds so familiar, but I just can't place it.
That is Bowers boss music in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island :D
The title was an instant sub ✊🏽 let's go!!
Nightshade has to take down Sutekh and you have a picture of Sutekh from Doctor Who. That is awesome!
You’re the first one to catch that! Doctor Who is my favorite show.
16:02 I've never played this game, but I can't help but wonder if you can feed the hamster to the tentacle thing.
You know, I hadn’t thought about that. I’m sure, with as many things you can do in Maniac Mansion, that could be one.
If I remember right, you could feed near anything to the tentacle, with wax fruit and fruit drinks being the 2 items needed for him to let you pass. Anything fed would vanish from your inventory, possibly causing a game over in the future because you got rid of a key item by accident. It is a very unforgiving game.
Solid video but the audio mixing needs work. The music is VERY loud compared to the talking.
I had to stop watching because this is maybe the most repetitive script I have ever heard. I get that there will be similar stories behind many of these games, but using almost the exact same sentence about family-friendly content almost every time makes it VERY hard to sit through.
I am just going to go back to what I say about any form of media, the parents of children should always be there to be parents. It is not the media being consumed that should shape the child's life it should be the parent and this problem is still a problem with many other systems beyond media today.
Sorry for commenting twice, but really, "Rolling Thunder and Smach Tv" was controversial? My mom was a "bigg" holy roller, and she let me play those games when i was like 8.If she would have heard that, my mom would have shut it down. Ps. I kinda like "Rolling Thunder" and play it on the Switch, and yes, it's difficult.
Hey man! Just wanted to thank you real quick, this chennel kicks a$$
Well thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying my content.
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Nightshade isn't a dark and serious game. It's a goofy comedy that is meant to be taken everything but seriously. "Nightshade strapped to table with a laser descending toward him" What? That doesn't happen at all. There are "Game over" death traps you have to escape from but that isn't one of them. I have a hunch you never played these games and are just reading from a script or maybe even a synopsis that someone else wrote.
So where in Clash at Demonhead were there skimpy outfits and risque dialogue? You see, you're talking about games I'm very familiar with here. I don't recall any skimpy outfits at all. What "adult humor"? Also what media backlash? Do you have a source? This entire video is ridiculous. You could actually show something on the screen to give examples but you don't even present evidence.
There's a nes game called Menace Beach, which was turned into a bible game called Sunday Funday. An actual controversy you could talk about is how in Menace Beach, you have to save your girlfriend and as time goes on her clothes are removed. That game was turned into a bible game.
Would be nice to see some actual controversy in this video.
But did any of these games develop a cult following over the years? 🤔🤣
They sparked debate
Yes, punch out and clash at demon head plus a few others
My dude really relied on that phrase 🤣
Wow a tarot card reading game, rare is do innovative! Fanboys can hype up anything
nothing controversial about any of this people who complain about it don't matter and no one should listen to them
Could be wrong.....but it almost sounds like you're complaining.
Controversial? They’re just games people, 8 bit games.
Ok the action 52 thing was pretty bad.