I'm back in ToyFare with issue #97, with two stories in their Monthly Rag section -- one about new toys from NECA based on The Ring, the other about Comedy Central's brilliant action figure based ad campaign for the new season of Reno 911!. I have to say, it's so much fun to hand over these Word documents and see how nuts their design team goes with 'em -- super slick. Both articles include interview quotes with applicable parties, yadda yadda. Get it while it's hot.
Judging from the comments in the last entry, seems like a lot of you are pretty passionate about the ongoing video game violence/sex/whatever debates -- the latest one regarding The Sims 2 is hysterical, with people arguing that by using a mod that removes the blurring around a nude person's privates, we've opened the doors for pedophiles to have a virtual field day. This is made all the funnier after reading that removing the blur only reveals that the characters in the game have no privates. Granted, I'm only half-informed, but it's enough to spark a survey topic...
Survey: Think back, and discuss some of yesteryear's games that either crossed the line or allegedly crossed the line. I know there were plenty of computer games that featured seriously grisly images -- let's see what y'all come up with. Note: It doesn't really count if the game was marketed as an adults only thing.
We've come a long way. I remember getting Ghosts 'N Goblins for Nintendo and thinking that the opening sequence -- with a half-clothed Arthur having a picnic with his lady friend -- seemed a bit risque.
Posted by Matt on 07/23/2005. E-mail me!
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All the games that have been mentioned so far are good examples, but I think there’s a game that crossed the line way before those. It was an arcade game by the same people who made the arcade classic Crossbow called Chiller. It came out in 1986. It was a pretty gruesome game. It was set in different dungeon levels filled with victims in different torture devices. You used a light gun type device to shoot at the different victims or at the torture devices to activate them and cause pain on the victims. One screen featured a topless woman on a rack. When you shot the handle it would turn, stretching the woman until she was torn in half while she was screaming. Very disturbing and creepy game for 1986, to say the least. I only discovered it a couple of years ago on a ROM for the MAME emulator.
Then, of course, there’s that Porky’s arcade game that came out in the early 80s’, but I have no idea what exactly you had to do in that game as I was only about 6 and only remember seeing it in an arcade once. My dad wouldn’t let me go near it.