The issue with letting academia get involved with the remaking of Paradise Café is that it's academia and university--they can't possibly make it better than an indie or even commercial outlet where actual stakes will drive the design. Couple that with how most universities are paid by the state, and by state we mean taxes and by taxes we mean people--people who didn't sign off on their tax dollars being squandered on a project to create a video game about a squanderer. That's not a controversy, that's an indisputable fact--it was going to suck and we all knew it. But that Taito US division diversionary operation against the news reporters? This is my first time hearing about it and I'm shocked I haven't heard of it before. This is the same company behind the single greatest fighting game of all time: VIOLENCE FIGHT!
btw thank you for the clip at 8:18, i read about the creation of Zoo Keeper from "John Morgan's Story Of Zoo Keeper" dadgum games hosts, i always remember it talking of the tv news crew and "the cashbox is a cruel mistress" but i never knew there was video of this interview until today!
Mexican here. That "editor of a Nintendo fan magazine" was Gus Rodriguez, and he was the editor of Club Nintendo, the official Nintendo magazine in Mexico - and probably one of the biggest promoters of their products here for almost two decades. He also hosted a show called NintendoMania for a couple of years, I think the entire series is currently up on RUclips. He was an influencer before the term was coined. He died a few years back. And no offense, when I saw you were gonna talk about Mexico, I thought you were gonna talk about that crazy state governor who got mad about some Ghost Recon games taking place here.
@@st1ka I get it! Now imagine 12 year old me hearing about this whole mess. Sometimes I want to watch it and translate the text but I die of cringe from all the fanboying.
@@st1kaAnd you know... Gus Rodriguez is the reason why the N64 is also so loved in Mexico, it was Nintendoland in the 90s, until piracy increased in the country and the fall of the "Nintendomania" program in 2000 was how Mexico slowly left Nintendo behind, currently it is Xbox (Ugh) that dominates the Mexican market, I think it is the only country where Xbox had solid success.
Here in the netherlands we celebrate when a dutch town is in a game, even in main stream media like the 8o clock news in the "also some fun stuff section" like how well amsterdam looked in that call of duty game one time
@@KopperNeoman Sorry sweetheart but no. That rhetoric is what does exactly what we're describing. Threatening children, scaring them out of being themselves, putting them in institutions for being human. That's inhuman rhetoric. That's child abuse. History, medicine, and law will tell you this, all you have to do is read, and learn.
@@KopperNeoman Last I checked, the moral guardians are fighting to prevent kids from being informed that trans people exist, not protecting the kids who happen to be trans, and when they fail to prevent that, they refuse to accept the kids for who they are. Look up "New Brunswick Policy 713."
The 90s were quite the time for video game controversies. Of course most of them were "It's a slow news day, what can we do to outrage people?" type of non-issue stories. Although the Mexican TV special was pretty awesome!
It had to have been really annoying if you were over 20 and a gamer back then dealing with all these guys that seem to have lost the ability to learn new concepts in 1971. in the early 2000s my teacher thought the ps2 was a scam because there already was a PlayStation .you would think that even if you don't play video games you would understand the concept of technology getting better .like having better video and sound quality on your tv but no .
@@belstar1128 Ironically the 70s is when this all started. People were alledgly outraged over the "gruesome realism" of the arcvade game Deathrace 2000. You play as a very primitive car sprite running over stickmen and they play back REALLY HEAVILY bitcrushed streams.
You completely missed the Rapelay controversy. Mothers in the US screaming at the Japanese government that they needed to ban things that weren't even allowed to be exported.
So, in Australia we have a government Board of Classification. Up until 2013, the average age of people who worked on that board was 63, and they believed that video games were for children. Since we did not have an "adult" classification for video games, any video game with content that could not be shown in a teen-rated movie was banned by the ABoC unless that content was removed/changed (and sometimes not even then). In 2013 we finally got an "adults only" classification for video games, a lot of new & younger people started working for the board and now we're almost a normal country.
So basically the same issue as Germany kind of. Where most of the "Youth protection board" either crept in from the catholic church or were literal ex Stasi members until ca mid 2010s. Whats nice is nowadays they publish old documents for court cases deciding if media should be banned or not. And among them, was a Rammstein album with a pro gay song. And listed amongst people in favor of banning the album, was the german catholic church. Which to this day is quite homophobic. Basically confirming what everyone already suspected. Another personal favorite is the ban document for Tetsuo II:Body Hammer, where the board member in charge admits to not understanding the english language subtitles.
Normal country? Your existence is basically a survival game. I've seen the pictures of monsters that are alive for the sole purpose of trying to kill everything that exist only in Australia lol!
Duuude, the Josue Yrion videos were viral back in the day, and they all were unhinged. The best one was the one about the "spirit epilepsy" provoked by "the nintendos" that made you jump to the roof and whatnot.
Reminds me of some of the 700 Club crap here in the states (his delivery was more entertaining, though Pat Robertson's fixed rictus smile was hilariously creepy in its own right).
@@KopperNeoman Don't try to bring your religious bullshit into this when religion is half of the reason for most of these 'controversies' to begin with.
If anything can be banned or censored somewhere, it sure will be banned or censored in australia. Also germans sure are strict with the censorship, but it make sense since it's well known that the man with the funky moustache became so violent after playing to much nintendos.
America meanwhile will clutch at its pearls while fainting. The biggest takeaway from all these instances is how full of it experts often are, and there is always a quick buck to be had by decrying the youth, so if something were truly bad, you could never be sure.
I give Germany some slack since I figure it's pretty hard on them being the country that committed the Holocaust and they have to make sure something like that never happens again.
Yoo the dungeon chill shoutout, good call St1ka! also the rate at which that sf2 turned into console wars on tv killed me, the 90s was really all about that kinda stuff. It's hilarious looking back at how tribal they wanted marketing to be lol
I used to watch that Mexican show all the time. A couple years after, Gus Rodríguez, the Club Nintendo magazine editor, aldo started a now legendary weekly tv show focused on Nintendo, Nintendomania. I met him in one of the events Nintendo de México organized and we became friends. He dies a few years ago and I miss him sorely. Japanese TV dedicated a special show to him amd his legacy in México and Latin America. He was the absolute gigachad.
Bro said the Super Nintendo is a super charged 12 bit system. Man this takes me right back to 9th grade and all the console wars smack talk. The truth of the matter was it was nothing about loyalty… you just fought for whatever console you had… and if your friend had a TG16, all smack talk went out the window because you couldn’t wait to try the console nobody had. We all just wanted to play and experience everything when it came down to it… we just smack talked video games because if we didn’t, we’d be making fun of each others hair cuts and sneakers. That’s just GenX for ya!
Where's the Guy Game? It was the only game to have a temporary ban in the U.S., and not for what you might originally have thought. That being said, the "issue" was later patched out of the rerelease and was sold again under the same M rating.
I was NOT aware that some copies of the Guy Game don't contain the footage which led to the ban. Is there a way to tell the difference between the original and the 2nd print rerelease version with the patch?
@johnpenguinthe3rd13 Unfortunately, my original thought turned out the be a sort of Mandela effect situation. The "rerelease" actually seems to be a DVD exclusive; it was actually released as a DVD video called The Guy Game: Game Over! which replaced the offending footage with other models.
Australia also banned Syndicate 2012, I think it's still banned but is now available to purchase with an AO rating in New Zealand. Always wondered what that game was like. Great vid!
The DOS English version of Princess Maker 2's only benefit to playing it is that it has sound tracks for MT32 (a relevant sound card at the time) where as the PC98 was typically the PSG or FM-Synth. However (I think this comment got eaten on the other video) the questionable stuff you have to go looking very hard for (That event at 29:42 was altered for example.) The siren outfit is the only outfit that would be considered actually fanservicey as it's the only one that changes with weight and bust sizes.
The Roland MT-32 was a desktop MIDI sound module (not general MIDI it had editable sounds) not a sound card, you are thinking of the LAPC-1 which was the ISA card version.
Yeah that’s weird, considering Stalin killed more under communism as well emperor Mao doing worst then both Adolfo and stalin with his communist Great Leap Forward. Then again as time goes by a lot of American politicians and Hollywood elites seem to live under the sickle and hammer ideology
Oh, man, that Brazilian preacher. Fella, Nintendo isn't a catch-all word for everything to do with video games. I love how he's holding a CD-ROM, which Nintendo NEVER used. Edit: anyone else think the soldiers in the Poppy Game look like Kip Jrordy from South Park?
I remember the outrage from parents and the media when mortal kombat was released and all the kids were performing bycicyle kicks and fatalities on each other IRL.
Gus Rodriguez (The mexican nintendo magazine guy) was such a legend, creating spaces were people could get informed about upcoming and new video games in Mexico. Was fun seeing him in a TV program arguing against sega kids.
Atomic Runner was renamed in the US because you couldn't have a videogame with a Soviet hero as protagonist. This is also the reason why they butchered the Streets of Rage III story. In the original, a Soviet general is potrtayed as a good guy.
Spanish speaker here! Josue Yrion was a sensation on early RUclips for us too! He was especially (in)famous for his Pokémon review, where he starts exposing the satanic evil in Pokémon using Yu-Gi-Oh cards. What a legend.
Omg, that mexican talk show was hilarious. Total chaos, and all the representatives trying not to loose their face and selling their product. I'm pretty sure they did not expect to have that argument that day. Gold... pure gold...
The caption in the Taito interview says "DEEP THOUGHT", rather than Deep Engineering... these guys actually used a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference in their troll, no less. 😂
Some context to the poppy thing: the Royal British Legion use the poppy to fundraise for veterans. We assume any product featuring a poppy is for charity. I don't remember the controversy though, so I couldn't say whether there was any legitimate confusion.
There are some videos of Josue Yrion (Brasilian preacher talking about Doom) talking in Spanish about "Los Nintendos" and how it give kids the kind of epilepsy that is not desease but demon! Also "resident evil" means "your are possessed by evil" and a lot more hilarious stuff.
All these controversies are so nothing-burger. Stores require ID for mature rated games, and I think kids should be accompanied by a parent in most, if not all stores when making purchases of any kind.
I think the school bus ad was for a Twisted Metal style game called Vigilante 8. There were a few ads referencing a heavily armed school bus with that one!
There were another case here in Brazil regarding Carmageddon being banned from the country back in the day. And a harder one over Duke Nukem 3D and Doom after a guy went crazy and started shooting with a machine gun inside a cinema. Look for a shooter in Morumbi shopping, there were a lot of media coverage over that.
I remember as a kid we rented NHL 93 one time (yes, I'm that old) and my brother and I would deliberately try and get into fights. I think at one point we had it to where everyone but the goalies were in the penalty box.
Call me Kevin actually covered Harvester on his channel and particularly highlighted the deputy's inclination to, well, enjoy his own company while on duty.
I lived close to Little Saigon in Westminster when that report was made. I didn't actually know there was an arcade there!! I would have gone. Can't believe they banned Virtua Fighter there. I was closer to an arcade called "Nickel Nickel" and it still had Virtua fighter, as well as some other, more violent games.
I had a friend who got hospitalized by "Pac Man Wrist", or as it's actually known, a Repetitive Strain Injury. It was from playing Fifa though. Rest assured the appropriate amount of fun was had at his expense.
Yeah I used to play lethal and forces to at my local grocery store it was so weird because they had that 1942 in a completely random Sakura Wars columns cabinet. Like the menus and stuff for in Japanese I didn't question it as a kid but as an adult I'm like where the hell did they get that.
I had heard of Paradise Cafe in the playground in the UK, but most of us just assumed it was a myth.. (like the playground stories of the "animal farm" film).. This is the first time - 40 years later - that I find out it was real! Wow!
It was always weird to me which games caused controversies and which didn't. In Germany Dark Forces was on index for a very long time but other shooters which are way more graphic weren't. Also Goldeneye was but Perfect Dark wasn't (if I'm not mistaken).
Well didn't stop Chelnov to appear in Fighter's History: "I don't even try to write the japanese name" for SNES as a secret playable character, and guess what? Chelnov is the cousin of the Data East "mascotte" KARNOV. Anyway yeah Atomic Runner is a really good hidden gem for Genesis.
Omg I loved Guilty Gear for the ps1. I had a gaming story back in the day and a random dude appeared with a bag full of games for selling. One of them was Metal Gear, and the other one was Guilty Gear. It was love at the first sight. Even recorded its music to a CD and tried to play them with my guitar. Those were the days.
15:22 And wouldn't you know it, two years later _Lethal Enforcers II_ *was* set in the wild west. I remember _DreamWeb:_ aesthetics of _Blade Runner,_ themes of _Taxi Driver,_ nowhere near the writing skills of either.
Josué Yrion the pastor from brazil is famous in latin america too, dubbed parts of his reviews went viral and even got remixed into songs that went famous in the last decade lol.
*I called it!* The most violent game we had to guess? (Perceived) Horrible, senseless violence? In the 90's? Not what you expect? I was like, "That's that hockey game, I remember that one!"
@@st1ka Actually, now that I think of it, one of the NHL games in 95 or 96 was known for more violence. Permanent injuries, fights with actual blood that stains the ice... I may be remembering more than what was, it *was* a long rime ago!😅
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Sorry 😅
@@st1ka if your gonna change it every 3 business days, at least make em sfw?
The issue with letting academia get involved with the remaking of Paradise Café is that it's academia and university--they can't possibly make it better than an indie or even commercial outlet where actual stakes will drive the design. Couple that with how most universities are paid by the state, and by state we mean taxes and by taxes we mean people--people who didn't sign off on their tax dollars being squandered on a project to create a video game about a squanderer. That's not a controversy, that's an indisputable fact--it was going to suck and we all knew it.
But that Taito US division diversionary operation against the news reporters? This is my first time hearing about it and I'm shocked I haven't heard of it before. This is the same company behind the single greatest fighting game of all time: VIOLENCE FIGHT!
btw thank you for the clip at 8:18, i read about the creation of Zoo Keeper from "John Morgan's Story Of Zoo Keeper" dadgum games hosts, i always remember it talking of the tv news crew and "the cashbox is a cruel mistress" but i never knew there was video of this interview until today!
Gigachad Taito of America president coming up with the grift of the century just to shut some reporters up. Wow.
Before the Internet, the trolls had to rely on the audience coming to them. Thankfully, the popular press was happy to oblige.
Journos continue to be incompetent to this day
He looks like a old fart to me
Technically, while having 16 address pins, Ricoh 5A22 has only 8 bit data bus.
So the kid actually overvalued the SNES. 😜
It's called "yanking their chain".
"At best a super-charged 12-bits system" is one of the best roasts I have heard.
I'm gonna start calling people 12 bit XD
7:28 "Pac Man Wrist" is probably newscasters confusing it with "carpal tunnel syndrome"
Mexican here. That "editor of a Nintendo fan magazine" was Gus Rodriguez, and he was the editor of Club Nintendo, the official Nintendo magazine in Mexico - and probably one of the biggest promoters of their products here for almost two decades. He also hosted a show called NintendoMania for a couple of years, I think the entire series is currently up on RUclips. He was an influencer before the term was coined. He died a few years back.
And no offense, when I saw you were gonna talk about Mexico, I thought you were gonna talk about that crazy state governor who got mad about some Ghost Recon games taking place here.
Ah thank you for that extra info.
Honestly I thought this was more fun 😅
@@st1ka I get it! Now imagine 12 year old me hearing about this whole mess. Sometimes I want to watch it and translate the text but I die of cringe from all the fanboying.
@@st1kaAnd you know... Gus Rodriguez is the reason why the N64 is also so loved in Mexico, it was Nintendoland in the 90s, until piracy increased in the country and the fall of the "Nintendomania" program in 2000 was how Mexico slowly left Nintendo behind, currently it is Xbox (Ugh) that dominates the Mexican market, I think it is the only country where Xbox had solid success.
That's like when Hugo Chavez tried saying Mercenaries 2 was anti-Venezuelan propaganda made to drum up support for a possible invasion by the US.
Here in the netherlands we celebrate when a dutch town is in a game, even in main stream media like the 8o clock news in the "also some fun stuff section" like how well amsterdam looked in that call of duty game one time
There is so much "think of the children" that translates to "think of how we can abuse and control the children" eh. Surviving this was wild.
My friend's mom had him commited to a mentql hospital because she caught him reading the Dungeon Master's Guide.
She said, 27:23
"Protect Trans Kids" is the modern flavour.
@@KopperNeoman Sorry sweetheart but no. That rhetoric is what does exactly what we're describing. Threatening children, scaring them out of being themselves, putting them in institutions for being human.
That's inhuman rhetoric. That's child abuse. History, medicine, and law will tell you this, all you have to do is read, and learn.
@@KopperNeoman Wrong. Respecting a person's identity is just basic human decency. Cope harder Karen, you're not the parent of every child. 😂😂
@@KopperNeoman Last I checked, the moral guardians are fighting to prevent kids from being informed that trans people exist, not protecting the kids who happen to be trans, and when they fail to prevent that, they refuse to accept the kids for who they are. Look up "New Brunswick Policy 713."
The 90s were quite the time for video game controversies. Of course most of them were "It's a slow news day, what can we do to outrage people?" type of non-issue stories. Although the Mexican TV special was pretty awesome!
I hate everything, I'm violent by nature, I'll blame the media! (Video games)
It had to have been really annoying if you were over 20 and a gamer back then dealing with all these guys that seem to have lost the ability to learn new concepts in 1971. in the early 2000s my teacher thought the ps2 was a scam because there already was a PlayStation .you would think that even if you don't play video games you would understand the concept of technology getting better .like having better video and sound quality on your tv but no .
@@belstar1128 Ironically the 70s is when this all started. People were alledgly outraged over the "gruesome realism" of the arcvade game Deathrace 2000. You play as a very primitive car sprite running over stickmen and they play back REALLY HEAVILY bitcrushed streams.
Now they're never bored because people are doing terrible things to each other 😆😆
@@ArtisChronicles "Now?" Honey, we've been doing terrible things to each-other since the dawn of time.
You completely missed the Rapelay controversy. Mothers in the US screaming at the Japanese government that they needed to ban things that weren't even allowed to be exported.
I feel that one is too well known
In hindsight its so strange it ever was this controversial. Theres so many much sicker porn games. Some even made in America.
@@eightcoins4401 I know right? You can't even **** a stab wound in Rapelay.
Man, Princess Maker 2 isn't even that close to being one
So glad the remaster isn't going to be censored outside of playstation
@@akiradkcn Well, it's as uncensored as Refine is, at least. Not like the original and it's inclusion of -nipples-
12-bits turbo is the best argument ever conceived, the one to end all console wars arguments. Nintendont or blast peocessing has nothing to it
So, in Australia we have a government Board of Classification. Up until 2013, the average age of people who worked on that board was 63, and they believed that video games were for children. Since we did not have an "adult" classification for video games, any video game with content that could not be shown in a teen-rated movie was banned by the ABoC unless that content was removed/changed (and sometimes not even then). In 2013 we finally got an "adults only" classification for video games, a lot of new & younger people started working for the board and now we're almost a normal country.
So basically the same issue as Germany kind of. Where most of the "Youth protection board" either crept in from the catholic church or were literal ex Stasi members until ca mid 2010s.
Whats nice is nowadays they publish old documents for court cases deciding if media should be banned or not. And among them, was a Rammstein album with a pro gay song. And listed amongst people in favor of banning the album, was the german catholic church. Which to this day is quite homophobic. Basically confirming what everyone already suspected.
Another personal favorite is the ban document for Tetsuo II:Body Hammer, where the board member in charge admits to not understanding the english language subtitles.
Normal country? Your existence is basically a survival game. I've seen the pictures of monsters that are alive for the sole purpose of trying to kill everything that exist only in Australia lol!
@@gamescape7758 Except for the salt water crocs, they don't look that scary.....its just that half of them are absurdly venomous.
I still remember the good guys at Dennaton actively encouraging Aussies to pirate Hotline Miami _specifically_ because of that.
@@lowtechredneck6704 at least they look friendly lol
Yes,I loved the Taito Pres.....he owned every reporter involved....it's just awesome....lol
I predict some Harvester footage 😮
You predict correctly :D
Duuude, the Josue Yrion videos were viral back in the day, and they all were unhinged. The best one was the one about the "spirit epilepsy" provoked by "the nintendos" that made you jump to the roof and whatnot.
Oooh link me! I need to watch that haha
Reminds me of some of the 700 Club crap here in the states (his delivery was more entertaining, though Pat Robertson's fixed rictus smile was hilariously creepy in its own right).
18:50 Whoa the console wars live on National TV.
This is gold
Now I need a Toasters and Chainsaws game
RIP Joe Lieberman YOU WERE THE FIRST POLITICIAN I REMEMBER LOVING TO HATE
He did some good for the world. Postal 2 wouldn't exist if he didn't exist.
@@eightcoins4401 That's more a case of "what the Devil intended for evil, God already planned to use for good" thing.
@@KopperNeoman Don't try to bring your religious bullshit into this when religion is half of the reason for most of these 'controversies' to begin with.
If anything can be banned or censored somewhere, it sure will be banned or censored in australia. Also germans sure are strict with the censorship, but it make sense since it's well known that the man with the funky moustache became so violent after playing to much nintendos.
America meanwhile will clutch at its pearls while fainting.
The biggest takeaway from all these instances is how full of it experts often are, and there is always a quick buck to be had by decrying the youth, so if something were truly bad, you could never be sure.
I give Germany some slack since I figure it's pretty hard on them being the country that committed the Holocaust and they have to make sure something like that never happens again.
"The Devil isn't playing with you!" is the greatest fucking tagline you could conceive for a Doom game. What a hypeman.
Yoo the dungeon chill shoutout, good call St1ka! also the rate at which that sf2 turned into console wars on tv killed me, the 90s was really all about that kinda stuff. It's hilarious looking back at how tribal they wanted marketing to be lol
As a Brazilian, you have my blessing (and the story was pretty well explained, congrats)!
That critic reference really hit the spot.
When you brought up Harvester, I thought it would have something to with the actor playing Steve having all that CP in his PC.
Side note on Harvester, the actor who played Steve was busted for possession of CP. :D
I used to watch that Mexican show all the time. A couple years after, Gus Rodríguez, the Club Nintendo magazine editor, aldo started a now legendary weekly tv show focused on Nintendo, Nintendomania. I met him in one of the events Nintendo de México organized and we became friends. He dies a few years ago and I miss him sorely. Japanese TV dedicated a special show to him amd his legacy in México and Latin America. He was the absolute gigachad.
Bro said the Super Nintendo is a super charged 12 bit system.
Man this takes me right back to 9th grade and all the console wars smack talk.
The truth of the matter was it was nothing about loyalty… you just fought for whatever console you had… and if your friend had a TG16, all smack talk went out the window because you couldn’t wait to try the console nobody had.
We all just wanted to play and experience everything when it came down to it… we just smack talked video games because if we didn’t, we’d be making fun of each others hair cuts and sneakers.
That’s just GenX for ya!
You have the best thumbnails
haha
On the Brazilian one, priests really would throw a strop at everything they could get their hands on.
Calling it a Nintendo, fucking hell.
Where's the Guy Game?
It was the only game to have a temporary ban in the U.S., and not for what you might originally have thought.
That being said, the "issue" was later patched out of the rerelease and was sold again under the same M rating.
I was NOT aware that some copies of the Guy Game don't contain the footage which led to the ban. Is there a way to tell the difference between the original and the 2nd print rerelease version with the patch?
@johnpenguinthe3rd13 Unfortunately, my original thought turned out the be a sort of Mandela effect situation. The "rerelease" actually seems to be a DVD exclusive; it was actually released as a DVD video called The Guy Game: Game Over! which replaced the offending footage with other models.
Australia also banned Syndicate 2012, I think it's still banned but is now available to purchase with an AO rating in New Zealand. Always wondered what that game was like. Great vid!
The PERFECT "Y usted que opina?" pronunciation took me by surprise 😂
hehe :P
Thank you for this video. It's refreshing to see a video about video game controversies that isn't USA only.
The DOS English version of Princess Maker 2's only benefit to playing it is that it has sound tracks for MT32 (a relevant sound card at the time) where as the PC98 was typically the PSG or FM-Synth.
However (I think this comment got eaten on the other video) the questionable stuff you have to go looking very hard for (That event at 29:42 was altered for example.) The siren outfit is the only outfit that would be considered actually fanservicey as it's the only one that changes with weight and bust sizes.
The Roland MT-32 was a desktop MIDI sound module (not general MIDI it had editable sounds) not a sound card, you are thinking of the LAPC-1 which was the ISA card version.
I had a feeling Chelnov would make it here. Also that Toasters and Chainsaws story is absolutely wild.
Chelnov is a gigachad
The original version of princess maker 2 is one of the best games ever made.
19:03 This whole meltdown is one of the reasons why I loved the Nintendo vs Sega console wars. I miss those days dearly!
Hey Stalin, Hamlet and Genghis Khan let's go fucking do stuff.
"All of them"- YES
Time Crisis, my favorite light gun too. Silent Scope was a nice concept too!
As an archeologist of strange old games, your videos have given me so much to check out. 💚 You're the best.
Is it really weirder to have a failed painter on your team than Stalin?
Yeah that’s weird, considering Stalin killed more under communism as well emperor Mao doing worst then both Adolfo and stalin with his communist Great Leap Forward.
Then again as time goes by a lot of American politicians and Hollywood elites seem to live under the sickle and hammer ideology
Oh, man, that Brazilian preacher. Fella, Nintendo isn't a catch-all word for everything to do with video games. I love how he's holding a CD-ROM, which Nintendo NEVER used.
Edit: anyone else think the soldiers in the Poppy Game look like Kip Jrordy from South Park?
I remember the outrage from parents and the media when mortal kombat was released and all the kids were performing bycicyle kicks and fatalities on each other IRL.
Darn Stika! I just clicked on the link on twatter, not read it. Now I'm hit with a 'premieres in 50 minutes'. I feel bamboozled, bamboozled I say! :P
Sorry D:
@@st1ka Something good came out of it. I finally noticed that I hadn't subscribed yet (I'm really bad at those things). :p
On the twatter? You mean the twix?
@@tiberiusbrainthe Twax
@@tiberiusbrainXitter (pronounced Shitter).
Gus Rodriguez (The mexican nintendo magazine guy) was such a legend, creating spaces were people could get informed about upcoming and new video games in Mexico. Was fun seeing him in a TV program arguing against sega kids.
Lethal Enforcers was actually one of the first games I owned! We had it on the Mega Drive and it kickstarted my love of on-rails shooters
Atomic Runner was renamed in the US because you couldn't have a videogame with a Soviet hero as protagonist. This is also the reason why they butchered the Streets of Rage III story. In the original, a Soviet general is potrtayed as a good guy.
Mexico TV segment is really funny.
Also your Dad is based.😂
"Come on, Billy boy! You could do better than that?"
Between Hilary and Monica, I'm force to give you a John Cena-like "Are you SURE about that!?"
That Mexico show bit was really wild, I was laughing my socks off at that! Thanks mate!!!
Spanish speaker here! Josue Yrion was a sensation on early RUclips for us too! He was especially (in)famous for his Pokémon review, where he starts exposing the satanic evil in Pokémon using Yu-Gi-Oh cards. What a legend.
The remixes were awesome. "Un niño que juega pokimon, él está a pasos de la destrucción!". XD
@@ginogueli7213 SoyTanSutil hizo un trabajo estupendo, sí.
Omg, that mexican talk show was hilarious. Total chaos, and all the representatives trying not to loose their face and selling their product. I'm pretty sure they did not expect to have that argument that day. Gold... pure gold...
I had most of the early levels of Lethal Enforcers and Mad Dog Mcree memorized. Yes, I love light gun games.
The caption in the Taito interview says "DEEP THOUGHT", rather than Deep Engineering... these guys actually used a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference in their troll, no less. 😂
Rumor has it toasters and chainsaws was supposed to be the fourth game in the Rastan Saga
Your thumbnails are so dank.
Some context to the poppy thing: the Royal British Legion use the poppy to fundraise for veterans. We assume any product featuring a poppy is for charity.
I don't remember the controversy though, so I couldn't say whether there was any legitimate confusion.
There are some videos of Josue Yrion (Brasilian preacher talking about Doom) talking in Spanish about "Los Nintendos" and how it give kids the kind of epilepsy that is not desease but demon! Also "resident evil" means "your are possessed by evil" and a lot more hilarious stuff.
All these controversies are so nothing-burger. Stores require ID for mature rated games, and I think kids should be accompanied by a parent in most, if not all stores when making purchases of any kind.
Duude i have been watching you for a while and never catched that you're a fellow portuguese
21:30 i was eating spaghetti and literally looked on the second 'buy my game' just KNOWING it was going to be Jay Sherman. Thank you, too funny to me.
I think the school bus ad was for a Twisted Metal style game called Vigilante 8. There were a few ads referencing a heavily armed school bus with that one!
I love the fact that half of these controversial game clips are backed by music from Paprium. That's kind of amazing haha.
There were another case here in Brazil regarding Carmageddon being banned from the country back in the day. And a harder one over Duke Nukem 3D and Doom after a guy went crazy and started shooting with a machine gun inside a cinema. Look for a shooter in Morumbi shopping, there were a lot of media coverage over that.
Of course, as a good Portuguese fellow countryman, you had to include Paradise Café. But great video, as always.
Ah, the Spectrum 48k (or Timex TC2068 compatible), good old times!
I remember as a kid we rented NHL 93 one time (yes, I'm that old) and my brother and I would deliberately try and get into fights. I think at one point we had it to where everyone but the goalies were in the penalty box.
This was a great list! Nailed another video ^^
Thank you St1ka!
that zero control segment was so funny
34:08 I think the school bus ad was either for Rogue Trip or Vigilante 8, both car combat games.
Toasters and Chainsaws was truly an Epic Troll gaming moment. 😂
Call me Kevin actually covered Harvester on his channel and particularly highlighted the deputy's inclination to, well, enjoy his own company while on duty.
I'd put money on the armed bus being for Twisted Metal 3 or Vigilante 8. They came out in 1998 with Guilty Gear.
As always, super informative and super interesting with a lot of thing I never knew!
Princess Maker 2 had a outfit birthday suit for any of her ages but in Japan it was acceptable for parents to see their children like that.
I lived close to Little Saigon in Westminster when that report was made. I didn't actually know there was an arcade there!! I would have gone. Can't believe they banned Virtua Fighter there. I was closer to an arcade called "Nickel Nickel" and it still had Virtua fighter, as well as some other, more violent games.
This is the best video you've ever made. Excellent work!
The graphics in the arcade version of Chelnov remind me of amateur made VGA PC games from the 90's.
Those Mexican console warriors warmed my heart. Take my like.
I had a friend who got hospitalized by "Pac Man Wrist", or as it's actually known, a Repetitive Strain Injury.
It was from playing Fifa though. Rest assured the appropriate amount of fun was had at his expense.
"Fifa"
@@SwiftJustice yes
Phantasmagoria and Harvester are definitely guilty pleasures
Yeah I used to play lethal and forces to at my local grocery store it was so weird because they had that 1942 in a completely random Sakura Wars columns cabinet. Like the menus and stuff for in Japanese I didn't question it as a kid but as an adult I'm like where the hell did they get that.
I had heard of Paradise Cafe in the playground in the UK, but most of us just assumed it was a myth.. (like the playground stories of the "animal farm" film).. This is the first time - 40 years later - that I find out it was real! Wow!
It was always weird to me which games caused controversies and which didn't. In Germany Dark Forces was on index for a very long time but other shooters which are way more graphic weren't.
Also Goldeneye was but Perfect Dark wasn't (if I'm not mistaken).
The st1ka origin story was not what I expected
Well didn't stop Chelnov to appear in Fighter's History: "I don't even try to write the japanese name" for SNES as a secret playable character, and guess what? Chelnov is the cousin of the Data East "mascotte" KARNOV.
Anyway yeah Atomic Runner is a really good hidden gem for Genesis.
16:43 Wait up! This Ninja dude has an attack that head butts you while you're in the ground? So, if you move out of the way....
35:58 was made for the computer sent from heaven, the holy Amiga.
Omg I loved Guilty Gear for the ps1. I had a gaming story back in the day and a random dude appeared with a bag full of games for selling. One of them was Metal Gear, and the other one was Guilty Gear. It was love at the first sight. Even recorded its music to a CD and tried to play them with my guitar. Those were the days.
15:22 And wouldn't you know it, two years later _Lethal Enforcers II_ *was* set in the wild west.
I remember _DreamWeb:_ aesthetics of _Blade Runner,_ themes of _Taxi Driver,_ nowhere near the writing skills of either.
LOOK AT THIS NINTENDO I BROUGHT FROM AMERICA!!
IT'S A CD. IT HAS SATAN ON THE COVER!
The bus into a fight has to be vigilante 8, great game
20:57 She seen some "videogame violence" firsthand. 😂
I played a tiny bit of dream web as a teen, I really should play through it
Boy your thumbnails are something else
I'd be more offended if that NHL game didn't have any brawling. It's one of the most iconic parts of any hockey game!
Oh watching Guz Rodriguez again fills me with nostalgia, RIP
NHL 93 is as much of a fighting game as a hockey game. We need more sports games like NHL 93.
Josué Yrion the pastor from brazil is famous in latin america too, dubbed parts of his reviews went viral and even got remixed into songs that went famous in the last decade lol.
*I called it!* The most violent game we had to guess? (Perceived) Horrible, senseless violence? In the 90's? Not what you expect?
I was like, "That's that hockey game, I remember that one!"
haha, Hat's off to you
@@st1ka Actually, now that I think of it, one of the NHL games in 95 or 96 was known for more violence. Permanent injuries, fights with actual blood that stains the ice...
I may be remembering more than what was, it *was* a long rime ago!😅
Those cutscene graphics on Cannon Fodder would have made a gorgeous Choplifter port
Tuesday? Not Thursday? Who are you and what have you done with St1ka? 😂😂😂
Oh usually my days are Tuesdays and Thursdays :P