The Nintendo game that was BANNED in Iran
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2024
- Nintendo's games seem pretty inoffensive. But there's one Nintendo game that got BANNED in the country of Iran, for pretty unexpected reasons. Just what upset the Iranian government so much?
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- globalvoices.org/2016/07/20/p...
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- Damavand Mountain photograph taken by Safa Daneshvar - more details here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:98...
- Tehran photograph taken by David Stanely - more details here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidst...
- Aerial photograph of Tehran taken by Ninara - more details here: www.flickr.com/photos/ninara/...
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- Iran protest video: / 1419581229427478533 - เกม
*OBJECTION!!!!!!!*
Have you guys picked up the new ace attorney game yet??? It's really fun. I'm playing it right now lol
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Nope, I haven’t played ace attorney before.
ok
Hello everybody me name is markiplier
bought it for a deal, can't wait to play it
th-cam.com/video/yLtEDxRlYJg/w-d-xo.html
Let’s just appreciate that he didn’t stick a NordVPN ad in there.
Honestly it would have been fitting atleast. I don't blame a man to get paid
I felt like he should've gotten a sponsor from NordVPN. He deserves the money and it would be so smooth to put it in the script for the video.
Sadly
Yes, talking about controversies and then adding a sponsor would've been terrible
Or ExpressVPN
This seems sort of like a “you can’t fire me, I QUIT!” kinda situation
You can't quit, you're a *frog*
I'm not your wife, you're MY wife
oh hey honey how was work
pretty good but i quit my job.
You can't quit you'r job you'r fired
An important Iranian religious official is.. Miyamoto's silhouette?!
praise be
ok
"I'm playing both sides so I always come out on top"
How can this be?
Miyamoto-san, alayhi as-salām
When something gets banned, it just becomes much more desirable to obtain it regardless of legality.
Case in Point: The Prohibition in the United States
In the case of digital media, it really doesn't change anything.
Yeah like nukes and rocket launcher, that's why everyone around me buys them illegally.
@@Liggliluff The internet is a blessing to the common people and a curse to these censorship organisations ...
The High Counsel of Digital Spaces sounds like something that would be made up as the villains for a kids TV show about video games.
Sounds like a Mega Man Battle Network villain group.
sound like a knd villan group lead by Father
aka number zero brother.
Honestly sounds more British than anything else to me
@@toumabyakuya seems like not only me who had the same idea
Sounds like a bunch of online stoners 🖖
the high council of virtual spaces is the coolest name i've heard for any government body
Unfortunately, it's not as cool as it sounds.
@@copperfish8816 that's what i guessed
It sounds like a cheap villains corporation in a children's show
@@zunigairving sounds like they would embrace that weird trope that one day in the future VR would be widespread and the world would suck even more, so people would escape to this VR game that is run by a dubious company that owns both the game and headset, and has been locking users inside the game without drawing any attention in order to drain them of their money l
Trust me, they are scary
Primary source here: I was actually in Iran around the time of PoGo's release and distinctly remember getting the game with a VPN (even downloading apps occasionally requires one given that the App Store gets randomly blocked) and it really wasn't even fun. All I could catch were Rattatas and Pidgeys, PokeStops were generally pretty annoying to get to and the fact that the average LTE speed is around 100 KB/s really didn't help the experience either. In the end, I just used a jailbroken phone to change my location virtually and play that way.
At the time, I didn't know about any of the stuff discussed in the video so it was really cool learning about it now. Thanks Thomas.
As a side note, I had previously also played Ingress (Niantic's other title and the reason Iran even has PokeStops) and that was a better experience. I got to see some cool sites that I wouldn't have otherwise and it was overall more enjoyable. Still a pain to get around though and the internet speeds were dreadfully slow.
The ratatta problem is because the distribution of Pokemon is based on phone density. This is because Pokemon was built on Ingress' engine, which also based it's stuff on phone density. Of course, this mechanic made more sense in Ingress due to how the plot worked.
I was in Iran a little after PoGo's launch. All my parents' friends were like OMG U HAVE THE ILLEGAL GAME and I thought I was the coolest kid in the whole country lol
Edit: I have to add that almost everything is banned in Iran, including TH-cam and lots of other things.
@@SurfRaichu make sense
Imagine somebody moving to another country because they cant play Pokemon Go
Y-yeah, imagine
@@funtimefxlet6659 Hehe yeah
Couldn't be me...
I would leave anyways. The Iranian government isn't nice enough to deserve having a population
@@rickvanleeuwen9589 it's either gonna be beaten to death by America or israel, both are shit.
@@ahmadzahraniAAZ Isn't that the plot of Fallout: New Vegas?
I feel bad for the Iranian people who had this as their first Pokémon game.
I feel bad for them because theyve been living under a fundamentalist authoritarian regime for the past 50 years... This Pokemon nonsense is just the shit-icing on the turd-cake
same
@@AdamFaruqi Feel bad for yourself , not for us .
@@mangoknight5035 Hm? He is right, I feel bad for our people all the time aswell
@@AdamFaruqi I live in Iran it's mostly a big dictatorship and don't worry that people in Iran can't play Pokémon because most of the are homophobic bigots anyhow I can't wait to get out of this terrible country I mean yes it is my home country but the main people running it have turned it into a place where people who have EAVEN a different religion are killed......well yup that's all sorry for the rant and see ya
5:55 that’s some “She didn’t break up with me I broke up with her” type of vibes holy shit
"hey can i release this game" "sure but you gotta do all this tedious stuff that dont really need to be done" "nevermind, dont wanna release it there lol" "ur banned haha gottemmmm"
Better question: What game ISN'T banned in Iran?
Nothing. Love my family but hate visiting bc iran
Wish it was a one way road muchacho we’re limited from the inside and also banned from the outside so we can’t even buy anything unless spending 20 times the actual price but cracked content can just be downloaded over the internet with ease and I mean any title getting its drm crushed can be found on Iranian sites instantly its not North Korea.. yet and there’s no copyright so indigenous publishers will also publish those games selling on behalf of themselves so what the heck this place is where I call the worlds end feel free
@@themerchantofpueblo من براتون دعا میکنم (sorry if my farsi isn't that good)
@@shystemc3888 thank you so much man I really appreciate it and god knows we need it but don’t know why we get nothing so anyway crack a cold one beer or soda your choice and remember us when happy and know we’ll survive somehow someway we always do life goes on hell we’re still here
@@themerchantofpueblo Cheers from the USA, I'll crack both kinds of cold ones to you and yours. Sorry our government (and frankly, our populace) is so full of bastards― sounds like you know the feeling to some extent, though. As the comrades say in Greece: *_Για μάς, και μπάτσοι μακριά μάς!_*
As someone who is from Iran it makes sense why the rulers would do something like this seeing as they're so strict
@@silverrain6330 Fun is not allowed
No gods, no rulers, no masters, yes video games
Come on man this is the minimum they do. They just want to make the world think they’re independent and happy and need nothing from no one while we clearly see thats not the case and people are just dying in most cases these days for not having access to basic needs like medicine and surgery tools that the country cannot make
I live in Iran it sucks
@@bendy2421 yep im a 12 yo Iranian student who loves art but this country is FRICKING SUCK MORE THEN NORTH KOREA and im not proud of being a Iranian but yeah being proud to be a asian
As a person who is from Iran and is in the UK now I still remember playing Pokemon Go with my dad like everyday and it was so fun, we got so far and then all of a sudden my dad deletes the game and im like "ok"
F
Wow. Not a common sight to see a fellow Iranian who isn't completely obsessed with a first-person shooter.
Yeah no instead Im obsessed with Angry Birds lmao
@@StormRetro Better than fortnite lol.
Fair point lol
4:14 Ensuring pokemon didn't spawn and there were no stops in high security areas would not have been that hard. They literally would just need the GIS data (basically coordinates) of those locations and use that to blacklist the areas. You don't have to check every square meter of the country, you'd just have to blacklist the areas the IRCG didn't want the game to work in.
In fact, I'm sure Niantic does exactly that for pretty much every country it operates in.
The server thing is probably what broke the deal. It costs a lot of money and would have created a precedent where every country could have asked the same thing
@@gglobensky Honestly, forcing nyantec to do that is a positive for many reasons; it means Iranian citizens are not powerless if Nyantec mismanages their data.
Thank you for all of your videos!!! You are definitely the beat part of my day when a nee video comes out. Thank you!!
thank you so much!!
Just come on your videos omg so good lol
@@ThomasGameDocs IRAN 🇮🇷 GOVERNMENT:POKÉMON GO Is Banned
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I can't believe pokemon go released in Portugal, Spain and Italy before Canada, or even Japan. That's wild.
Non so se essere felice di essere Italiano o no. Non è che sia il massimo l'italia
Don’t you hate it when the Nintendo game you want to play is banned in Iran
The game is banned in Ukraine too
Nice Pit profile picture👍
Then how will you feel when the nintendo game you want to play is banned in your country?
@@sajjadtenor im safe
British government wount ban a nintendo game
@@Weezeler Pokémon go was a phone game I thought, not ninetendo
I really hope that the High Council of Virtual Spaces holds all their meetings wearing VR headsets and seated on elevated platforms bristling with glowing wires.
...wait, maybe that's what the Iranian Supreme Council of Cyberspace meetings look like. I'm always getting those two confused 😅
KNZKMDFSXD LMAO
Ah I remember when it launched in Croatia, my sisters and I went all around our town but there were no pokestops or for that matter no pokemon lol. I also remember when I ran up and down the street in middle of a heat wave just so I could get pikachu as a starting pokemon😂
What is that? (Edit: I know pokemon
I live in Iran. These sorts of things are normal. they happen often. Many websites are banned for unknown reasons and the internet speed is honestly shit. The ISPs are money hungry and we can't do anything about it because going to a different country is kind of expensive.
Let's see how much of a masterpiece this video is...
Edit : that was really good and entertaining
This would have been a perfect video to have a Nord VPN ad lol
a VPN ad that is really a ad for vpn clever .
Imagine if the game was accessible worldwide on release date... It already wouldn’t load as it was. The entire system would probably combust if they released it everywhere at once lol
Can you believe that Pokémon Go was at it's peak 7 years ago!?! It really feels like yesterday & I was in the car being driven to school trying to catch Pokémon, but I haven't played it in a while now.
The apple software garage band was banned in North Korea for being able to record people’s voices
Too be honest though, because of how many horror stories and incidents relate to this one game, I think they secretly did the right thing here
You mean creepypastas
@@muffin8460, I mean Pokémon Go Pasta that is creepy
@@muffin8460 I'd say they are talking about people walking into traffic or off cliffs while playing pokemon go, which is something that happened in the height of its popularity.
It's not really the game's fault if some people are too stupid to read the "check your surroundings" warning.
And even if it wasn't there it'd still be the person's fault for not paying attention
@@manuelredgrave8348 Yeah, the warnings always there when you open up the game to play and it has warnings to not go into other people's property or to check you're surroundings and if you're in you're car and someone else is diving it'll have a warning to not play and drive at the same time but people will always press the "I'm a passenger" button even if some are actually driving but it's their fault if they die or get permanently injured not the game or company.
Im so happy somebody finally talked about it! Thanks for the great video.
You just keep knocking it out of the park! I love when I see you uploaded something new. Always entertaining (without being stupid or annoying about it) and full of facts.
It's really wonderfull that people actually think about Iran !
wait, can someone check my logic on this one, would it be that iranian players could not make friends with non-iranians, or leave their pokemon in Gyms outside of the country, because then their data would be with other national servers?
As a Iranian, I should say that it was expected
With how "some people" portrait us as terrorists and
try to manipulate our people
Starts with a "J" ends with a "W"
@@babyeater639joe mamaw
I remember the scandal with a freaking coffing in Oświęcim in the early days of the game. So I can see the point behind Iran wanting to ban some places from the game's map. Prevent kids from doing some potentially offensive hunts in mosques or something...
You included the entirety of Ireland in your image of the UK
Northern Ireland is part of the UK but its in Ireland so he has to put in Ireland too
I'm an Iranian, and while you say pokemon isn't very popular in Iran, in all reality, no Nintendo franchise PERIOD is popular in Iran. Also the Iranian government is literally pure evil. The dictator in charge can literally choose to execute someone over the crime of "being an enemy of the military" which is absolute bullcrap.
Also it's nice to see someone actually acknowledge the existence of this country at all so that's pretty neat.
Amazing video as always!
I am from Finland and I say that Iran is fucking weird
@@minemine7_ It is. It really is.
My family is Iranian Armenian and most of my family lives in Iran, I totally expect stuff like this to happen lmao it's always Iran
Yeah feel bad for our people, just waiting for the day the regime falls
Based country
Isn’t our country great!?
@@Poker2735 It is, but the people who rule over it are not
Your videos are so interesting to watch, I think I'm addicted!
"The game launching in new countries one by one at a pretty slow pace" .
Yeah us switch users know what slow pace Nintendo uses when it comes to the NES and SNES apps. Trickle 1-2 times a month and it is typically games no one asked for.
Ah yes the definition of my childhood, Jelly Boy
for instance, pokemon go released in india after its decline
Loving the Zero Escape soundtrack choice for the background music!
I mean, pogo does tracks your location, wifi and bluetooth status. With all these data being collected and stored in a hostile country, it looks like a security risk to me.
Nostalgic to hear that Picross 3D 2 music...I want a 3rd game so bad!!!
such a good game!!
Hey, an Iranian here, (!سلام) I liked your video.
In Iran we basically have to do a bunch of stuff like piracy and tinkering with VPNs to watch content, even to watch this video (TH-cam is blocked) since Iran has a closed internet.
Iran isn't that great of a country with the censoring and other shit they do, the economy is so shit we had to 10x our money (Rials) and call it Toman, which is what everyone counts money by but the cash bill still say Rials and some places. Iran has a rich history but a very dark one too. Our history books are literally just boasting about our country and declaring death upon everyone else. (It's literally written in our passports lol)
Sorry about the rant, nice video.
(Also it's not pronounced like " I ran" it's pronounced like the "ee" in Eel instead of "I" and instead of "Ran" like the action it's "run" like the action. In Farsi it's written as "ائران".)
I've always pronounced it as "ehrán". Also, it sucks that you're in such a closed off country. Iran is a beautiful place and I'd love to visit if it didn't have so many major problems.
One particular reason given their religious ideology has psychic powers, supernatural phenomena and Magic which is sorta taboo in the islamic faith in general. If it were legal, major changes in the pokedex entries to fit their demographic, outright pokemon exclusions, and other such things would be altered signifigantly.
Yay. a new Thomas Game Docs Video.
I love how he says that he had to wait a while in the UK even though Wikipedia states that they were the third place it realesed
Yeah, it only took about 2 weeks but I remember waiting even as an American a couple days. It was huge the second it dropped
If I remember correctly
Back in the late 90s/early 2000s we in Iraq (a country next to Iran) banned Pokemon because appearantly Pokemon names meant stuff that were anti-religion
Stuff like: "Allah/God is a lie" and "Mohammed is a lier" according to some religious "expert"
I still laugh at them lmao
me too, what a piece of crap they are bcoz they lack of everything,context,etc.
Usually i respect most of religious believes but this one is quite hilarious and nonsense lol
Religious leaders in America said very similar things. It’s extremely silly and pretty self-important to think something like that would even cross the mind of Japanese developers making games primarily for their own country.
Pokémon GO, a game that killed millions, and made lots of accidents, including my younger cousin who died in finding a pokestop, but it turned out that it was a restricted ocean area. He fell down, and drowned.
Neat video! Thanks for uploading!
What was the point of banning Pokémon Go in Iran if no one from Niantic or Nintendo bothered releasing the game to the country anyway?
Vpn guys
6:59 immediately thought that was the silhouette of Shigeru Miyamoto lol
Oh wowwww that’s crazy.
Good video! What a king! 👑😊
seeing zero: escape music as the background for this video suddenly made me so nostalgic lol..
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hope it went well! 🦷🦷🦷
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Why a picture of Mario on a video about Pokémon go?
I remember that they banned Pokémon in my country because of a kid jumping from 8th floor shouting “I’M PIKACHUUU”
What the fuck.
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That's a very dumb reason.
What the hell
I love this style of content your realy good at it
"High Council of Virtual Spaces" is the best band name
Another amazing video! Love your content!!!!!!!!
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@@ThomasGameDocs LMAO
@@ThomasGameDocs can you heart the comment
hey he changed the video name and thumbnail. strange, but oh well
..and changed it back again!
I've been watching your vids all day including a second ago and here you upload immidalty after finishing your last vid
you cannot escape me 👀
legend has it that you are never more than 500 feet away from thomas
-endless stairs music plays-
You're voice has a very good tone. I could listen to you the same way I breathe for hours. You are among some of the greatest voices of all time, including Accented Cinema, Beyond Ghibli, Scamboli Reviews, Super Eyepatch Wolf, STEVEM, & that one Khan Academy math teacher with the deep voice. Keep on talking!
among us
@@tripple8860 You people are everywhere
@@DABUNGINATOR ikr
Iran, more like Iban
Ah yes
So basically Iran banned a game that wasn't going to be released in Iran in the first place.
Love the mii news bit!
i just started playing it again like last month cause before i didnt have data and didnt know what to do back in 2016
I can't even play it bcus my religion says it's illegal...
That sucks 😞
Yeah apparently it encourages kids to gamble.... I mean why would they?
They were thought in school that you should never gamble..
@@TonsilsIsSad You don't have to conform to that religion you know, be who you are
@@Bagel_Le_Stinky But I don't even play Pokemon...
@Epicdude gurl you expect me to go against my religion?
Facebook, TH-cam and Telegram are band here, Pokemon is nothing compared to those.
then uhhhh
howw are you typing this?
@@BeamGuy694 vpn bruh
Loving the casual Tomodachi Life music ya got there!
And the cameo of Mii news
(2:35) The abbreviation is from "Iran National Foundation of Computer Games", shortened to "Iran computer games" and finally "IRCG".
Are u still working on the MLP wiki?
Did you know that Nintendo has the rights to a Super Mario parody video with Ron Jeremy? Yes, with adult content.
A wtf fact. Especially for a kids game company but they've done a bunch of adult stuff with some other companies so not so surprising.
@@katedp7825 Well, they bought the video after it was done to make sure it never was distributed. They weren't involved in creating it.
TGD vids are on the "stop everything and click this right now" level
Now I haven't heard of this case before.
The release page though... Damn, it was only released in Turkey this year?
I’ve been having a pretty shitty day and then I saw a new Thomas Game Docs video and now it ain’t so shitty any more. Thank you Thomas :)
But in iran people are having a shitty day
remember when we thought world war 3 was gonna happen in january 2020?
yeah.. remember..
I like how the silhouette matches Shigeru Miyamoto
I live right next to Iran in saudi arabia and pokemon go wasn't banned immediately so there where pokestops and gyms and weirdly the gyms and pokestops where still being updated
You haven't covered a non nintendo game in a while. Any particular reason or plans to do so in the future?
0:21 Im just the one who is imagining an "I've come to announcement" like scene?
pokemen go has a lot of problems that are VERY dangerous , one of the well-known games [ *can't remember the name*] got a bunch of complains saying people got kidnapped trying to find pokemens
Did not expect the Zero Escape music.
I'm glad this video was a bit more light-hearted than the last video.😄
Great video 😌
I like how when I pressed play there was an ad for pokemon go.
Alright, now THAT'S a not clickbaity title. I'll leave my like and come back to watch when I have the time ✌️
Thanks for make video
Oh my god your music is always so ✨amazing✨
Hi, very epic video like always
name of the outro music?????! pls
Its a shame my country has such strict rules for games i hope in the future there is going to be less restrictions
6:32 the council has decided Pokémon’s fate
In my country Pokemon Go was released,I install it in 2016,It don't appeared me never a Pokestop and Gyms too,Because that was for me too difficult to catch Pokemons,I remembered using a app for appearing me Pokemons
0:55 surely I can't be the only one that fully expected an ad there...
Bro I feel bad for the people who were waiting for the release
Part of it was understandable I wonder what other countries Pokémon go is still currently banned in?
At first i thought Iran was a person but I read the description and now I know it's a country
DidYouKnowGaming hire this man pls