PARENTS.....PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF WHAT YOUR KIDS ARE WATCHING ON TABLETS

[AP3.0]

Fam... We're from different eras. There was no rating system back in the late 70's/early-mid 80's because there was no reason to have it. Aside from Custer's Revenge and one more game who's name I can't quite remember for the 2600 (and both were only available from porn shops), there really wasn't anything out there "adult oriented" or questionable for consoles.

The first game I can remember that raised eyebrows was Leisure Suit Larry, and that was a PC game that came out when I was 15 or 16.

Even in the next wave of gaming (NES, Master System, XE GS) there wasn't anything like that. Actually, the worst thing I can remember for consoles was Night Trap for the Sega CD, and I was 20 by the time that shit came out and it's tame as fuck by today's standards; you can see worse shit on an episode of Family Guy.

you're right

i keep forgetting the age gap

i agree with some or your points tho

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Not to butt into ya'lls conversation, but you know what's funny to me. MK was like the first game I could remember really catching hell about content. Developers saw that, and did they pull back and decide "maybe we should tread lightly with this kinda content?" Hell nah, they released like 20 copycat fighting games to try and capitalize of that gore market.

 

[konceptjones]

Not to butt into ya'lls conversation, but you know what's funny to me. MK was like the first game I could remember really catching hell about content. Developers saw that, and did they pull back and decide "maybe we should tread lightly with this kinda content?" Hell nah, they released like 20 copycat fighting games to try and capitalize of that gore market.

You're right, but there was a precedent set prior to MK.

NARC was before it and despite the positive anti drug message in the game it was pretty fuckin violent in the arcades and tamed way down for the NES. Smash TV was worse by it being just mindless violence without a purpose at all, again tamed down a bit for the SNES and Genesis versions. All three games were made the same company: Midway.

They kept pushing the envelope themselves progressing from NARC, to Smash TV, to Mortal Kombat.