5 CONTROVERSIAL NES Games
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
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The Most CONTROVERSIAL NES Games
The Most CONTROVERSIAL NES Games
The Most CONTROVERSIAL NES Games
Step back in time as we explore the most controversial NES games ever released! From graphic violence to political themes, these titles sparked debates and pushed boundaries in the gaming world. Discover why these games were so contentious and the impact they had on the industry. If you're a retro gaming enthusiast or just curious about gaming history, this video is for you!
Video Chapters
00:00 - INTRO
01:02 - NUMBER 5
02:33 - NUMBER 4
04:18 - NUMBER 3
06:13 - NUMBER 2
07:57 - NUMBER 1 
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The Western Bionic Commando still had hitler as the final boss, and his head explodes violently. His name was changed, sure, but his likeness was still obvious with his signature mustache.
What was it? The master? It also said damn if I remember correctly. Ed: that's what I get for commenting before I finish the video😂.
Nice, there's a SNES WW2 game and you play as Germany. Japan loves nazi Germany. Why do you think Goku's super Saiyan looked like Hitler's ideal idea of a human. Tall, strong, blonde hair and blue eyes. Dragonball naziiiiiii
@@joeszymanski3540 Master-D. But yeah, I saw that scene as a kid, and I was shocked that scene actually got past Nintendo of America's board of censors.
Yep. As a kid I clearly knew it was Hitler and my friend and I were taken by surprise at the gore.
@@jeremyriley1238 , the Golgo 13 games, if I do recall correctly, had little to no censorship as well.
Surprised "Monster Party" wasn't mentioned. That game was insane
I loved that game. I'm 47 and still remember playing it.
Chiller was an unlicensed title for NES. I'm surprised anyone heard of it at release, let alone owned a copy.
The weird thing was that Chiller was actually an arcade game.
Indeed, but there was no official NES port, only unlicensed
Yeah, it was actually an arcade game first and it was damn fun. I just like shooting gallery games, no matter what. And this one had added gore and nudity for added laughs!
Same with Action 52, mentioned a couple games later
I have a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade cabinet in my work's breakroom that, every morning, I pick a game (from the library of many thousands) to set on "attract mode". I'm going to have to let the Japanese Bionic Commando run one day.
Taboo was a Tarot reader? I always assumed it was about a wizard that fooled around with a cousin or something LOLOL
Haha! That would be awful, and would have been instantly banned.
jamie and circi lannister, the game
@SNEStalgia you never seen my sister lol
The most "controversial" NES game I remember was actually Super Mario Bros. 2... there were serious accusations of Nintendo deliberately shorting the supply in USA to create hype... which may have been true
Any accusations of Nintendo deliberately causing this was actually categorically and objectively proven to be false. There absolutely WAS a chip shortage. This has been researched to death already. It was actually well known, it affected the entire electronics industry, not JUST Nintendo and it DID create problems for many tech companies. Nintendo absolutely was not at any fault and they did nothing underhanded in the slightest.
@@teruienages962 Funny how people doesn't look for these facts, it was a big thing back then.
Especially because one day there was enought chips then suddenly, almost every manufacturer wanted more chips for their cameras, VCR's, TV's and other electronic devices.
That need of those chips just boomed.
Honestly, I am convinced that there has never really been a real Super Mario Brothers 2, as the Japanese one was essentially an expansion pack to Super Mario Brothers, while the one that the rest of the world got was a reskinned game that literally had nothing to do with Mario in the first place. Yeah, I just made both sides of that fight mad at me, but if you look at it objectively, then what I say makes perfect sense.
I remember being at Toy’s R Us in the game isle overhearing two older boys talk bad about SMB2 because it didnt have a score. He said theres no reason to play the game if theres no score. I thought that was the dumbest thing i ever heard as a 6 year old haha
@@paxhumana2015 If you truly look thing objectively you wouldn't say Doki Doki Panic never had anything to do with Mario.
That game was made with Mario in mind it was not a random game that was just lying in the shelf.
You should look for it's history it's quite interesting and if you ask was Doki Doki Panic supposed to be Mario game they would say yes.
When you get gyromite as a Christmas present but they forget ROB. Because it was found at a thrift shop. Back when I was a kid.
It plays better without ROB
I second that. You don't need rob. Watch the avgn episode and check out his custom made controller lol
Devil World should get an honorable mention considering that it never had a North America release since people complain about the religious symbolism being used in the game
No, Nintendo was the one concerned over reIigious imagery, it wasn't released here for people to complain about
Mega Man box art. Now that's controversial.
I can speed run Bionic Commando, fun fact. It's one of my favorite NES games. And we all knew who Master D really was. The game had awesome graphics so that left little doubt.
I haven't played it in years, I've been wanting to go back and give it another try.
camera-gun games were so unpopular that this is the first I am hearing about "Chiller."
I didn't know Taboo was controversial. If anything I thought people forgot it existed mostly LOL!
I remember renting it and being like, “WTF, man? Is this all it is???”
the ACTION 52 cartridge cost $199 ?!!
It was an unlicensed game cartridge and they were counting on this scam making people think $199 for 52 games is a bargain. Little did they know how shitty those games were. If it was an actual game licensed by Nintendo, they would never let this fly.
Ok, so, it’s 1987, and 8 year old ME is otw to the creepy Florida fair.. my grandma gave me 5 whole ass dollars to play games and keep me busy for an hour or two while she and my mom go to the craft area. (In the 80’s, little poor kids could run around unsupervised n stuff).
It was open air and there were like 5 or 6 huge ass tents that had dozens of arcade cabinets in them. I played some games, and looked around. I went to the arcade all the time, but they had some games I had never seen.. some kinda weird..
I saw an area a little off to the distance with a smaller tent with about 20 games, but in the very corner I saw a game kind of by itself.. this tent had almost no one around, and I got some weird vibes.. as I got closer I heard that this game was turned up loud! It had a gun for a control. Cool, I had played some army type games that had those.. they usually vibrated when you shot the machine gun, I always thought that was cool. I put in my quarter and saw the scene. People tied up in a torture room. It was Chiller. Real Chiller, with all the blood and fire and screams and stuff.. I had never seen a game like this before. I started shooting people and it was gory.. man, I was 8 😂. There was no spin on this, no story.. just be horrible.. it freaked me out. For years I thought I had imagined it.. pre internet I just couldn’t find anything on this game.. the nes version is a joke compared to the OG. My name is John Wayne Lacey from Tampa Florida, that’s my story.
Super Pitfall is infamous for its glitchy game play and cryptic clues. Worse is the demon world, where you haphazardly stumble into. Bizarre pixaleted characters with elongated heads come after you as a bleak and dark 8-bit soundtrack plays. As a kid, whenever I came across this part of the game, I imagined it was a depiction of hell.
Back then, yeah, I could see these games as controversial. Hell, parents were mad about the Ninja Turtles using their weapons too much in the og movie so the second one was heavily censored. But everything is controversial nowadays so...
i remember playing chiller back then even as a kid i was able to identify how violent it is.
This would have been a much better video if you used the actual music for the game being represented at the time.
Man nostalgia is so powerful with the NES. Btw I found this from discord and I’m actually someone that checks out post in the RUclips group. Great video. I remember there being some controversy around shadowgate.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it, I’ll have to look into shadogate.
I played most of these. Seen all of them. Chiller was one that people talked about but couldnt play because copies were never available.
Now we have companies like Sweet Baby Inc destroying creativity under the guise of DEI
Didn’t Earn It?
DEI destroys everything, because it takes away the focus from what really matters.
The devs don't have to hire or listen to consultants. Sweet Baby shouldn't have sparked a harassment campaign, but at the end of the day they have no power over what the developers do. They are paid to offer advice, it's up to the developers to decide what to do with it. Your anger should be directed at them. I really don't think you have anything to worry about, Steam will green light anything and if there's a void in the market for the games you like, someone will step up and fill it.
Back in the day none of us knew Taboo even existed, very obscure. Most of this list is controversial today and unknown back then.
I guessed that Chiller would be in here, but I didn't know about Taboo.
What I do find interesting is that the protagonist in Bionic Commando was called Super Joe in advertising when the game hit the US - making it a "sequel" to Capcom's original Commando. Nowadays he's referred to as Nathan "Rad" Spencer.
I have a copy of Taboo: The Sixth Sense still in it's original box. It no longer has it's original plastic wrap, but it has never been removed from the box.
Jekyll and Hyde isn’t a bad game….just misunderstood. It’s a much slower game with way different gameplay than most average games of the time. It’s unique for its dual light and dark world theme as well as one of the earliest games with multiple endings. To get the best possible ending you have to reach the goal as Hyde not Jekyll which you only have a small window of opportunity to actually access.
I've always felt that unlicensed games shouldn't be included in these lists, that opens the door to practically any form of software made by anyone. But almost all lists seem to have them, I just thin if it wasn't available in some form of retail consumer infrastructure don't include it, but def still enjoyed the video and subbed
No mention for Maniac Mansion? You can microwave a freakin' hamster and then give the remains back to its owner!
A pet dying is controversial? Happens all the time.
Not in full bloody explosive glory in an NES game for kids.
I don't remember Taboo being a topic of discussion when it came to "controversial games", since it obviously got overshadowed by the next generation games like Mortal Kombat... But considering the theme of the game and it being the 80's, the whole "Satanic Panic" crap that was going on was still in full swing... Since other innocent desktop games like Dungeons & Dragons were also blindly accused for "satanism" and other awful things people to this day still love to use when it comes to things they don't understand nor have the courage to do any research on.
Real Safanism is rainbow people.
Golgo 13 Top Secret episode was pretty controversial. It had smoking, hotel hookups, and Hitler as the final boss(Japan's version)
5:55 poop bird!! 💩 🐦
1:10 - Geez... I remember the protests at the video store near my house when word got out they had that game pak.
4:30 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a real shelf warmer - nobody wanted it.
Most of these weird games I didn’t even know existed…
6:19 Action 52 was bound to show up at some point, and here it is: the prime example of unlicensed garbage that was also incredibly expensive and broken. It was perhaps the biggest scam in video game history.
Action 52 was quite ahead of its time in terms of generic games are concern. The games suck for the most part but the compilations of games is what made it unique for its time.
Bearded sheepdog breeds seem to be really popular in 80's shows.
Hey man... U got a new sub! Funny thing is... I was looking for a video on a brazilian channel LSO called "SNEStalgia", and after that, YT suggested me ur channel... and it's pretty old too, u've been here since 2008! It's strange that I haven't found you previously... go figure!
Anyways, nice video! Gonna watch some other videos from you. Cheers, man!
Up until I saw this video, I had no idea that the original release of Bionic Commando in Japan was about a Neo-Nazi Militia led by a resurrected Hitler.
As for Chiller, I remember seeing the arcade version by Exidy at my old Pizza Hut and nobody ever said a word about it. The NES version was also unlicensed by Nintendo.
And Taboo is one of the games where I learned about Tarot and how to read the cards.
Finally, Action 52 is Video Gaming Nightmare Fuel & Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had Robert Louis Stephenson turning in his grave.
Chiller, a NES NASTY. before DOOM, Wolfenstein, MK. like it.
I wouldn't really count Action 52 on the list since it was an Unlicensed game. Since Unlicensed games didn't need Nintendo's restrictions, they could be anything they wanted.
My parents would not have let me play a game like Chiller back in the day. It's almost laughable when you look at it now. I hadn't really heard of any of these aside from Bionic Commando. Action 52 could be a really bad sequel to Nintendo's "Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics".
Another thing about Jeckyl and Hyde was that it actually had less content than the Japanese version, at least one less level/area. Not that it made much difference, it still sucked in Japan.
wow I never even knew about number 1
Hitler was the main bad guy in Castle Wulfenstein, too.
Three of these games I hadn’t even heard of till now. The other two, Jekyll and Hyde and Action 52 I learned about from AVGN’s videos.
My favorite was Monster Party. Alongside Darkwing Duck
suprised you didnt talk about golgo 13 top secret episode, that game had you get cigs to refill health, a sex scene to an extent... and the final boss was hitlers brain... some of the games back in the day were unique all around and some were just messed up but we still played em all to our hearts content
Lol yoshi island audio made me stay
Bionic Commando was lambasted for the lack of jumping and having to use that arm contraption, making it a difficult experience on young gamers. Nintendo Power didn't even promote it positively. Nothing to do with this moustache man, gamers usually never even got far enough to meet mustache man.
Weren’t Castlevania and Ghosts ‘n Goblins considered controversial for their usage of monsters and religious iconography? I know that Castlevania specifically had to change the Cross to a Boomerang when ported overseas.
It seems only fitting that "Taboo" has to be one of the games in this video 😋
Taboo - Meh, worse has been said about D&D. None of us listened to them back then and we still aren't listening.
Chiller - Considering where games go today for disturbing content, you'd think that NES was about collecting flowers. I personally don't see a need/purpose to go that far in gaming as disturbing content that goes that far isn't entertaining to me, but I have tons of other games I can play so I just ignore it.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - A classic example of nonexistent quality control for the time. Both the game and the manual could've been improved to avoid the mess they made by confusing gamers.
Action 52 - A precursor to game bundles of crappy games today. What Action 52 did back then lives on in spirit. It probably wasn't the first, but it's the first one that most people think about.
Bionic Commando - Since then, a lot more WW2 imagery and such have shown up in games (some more disturbing than others). I think it probably came out too soon for the west to accept such a thing. In the 80s, many of us kids had grandparents who fought in WW2 or knew other kids with family members who were WW2 veterans. It was a time when our parents understood what happened from their parents and that was getting passed on to us, but it wasn't as successful as it was for our parents.
As time marches on, generations get more and more distant from major world events and what those events meant to the people who lived through them. WW2 imagery hit the older generations hard and they cared more about where games came from than did us kids who just wanted to play them. We kids in the 80s didn't see any WW2 imagery in Bionic Commando so we didn't care. Overtime as WW2 gets even more normalized in gaming (some may argue it's already there, and especially among younger gamers), this controversy will be pretty much forgotten except to gaming historians who keep track of such things.
In time, I would not be surprised if content related to 9/11 or other world events shows up in games (if it hasn't already). That's the problem with using anything related to historical events in gaming. Gamers just want entertainment, but for people who lived through the times when the events happened...they may have a different opinion on the matter depending on how it hit them.
If anything these 5 games just mean that what one person finds entertaining, another person won't. No matter what it is. Even the first Super Mario Bros game, one of the most historically significant and well known games of all time, may eventually be seen as 'meh' or even 'bad' by people in younger generations who never grew up with games of that type. Only time will tell, but everyone will always have their own "cup of tea" preference for what they consider "fun" in gaming.
bionic commando, i forgot how good that game was. it had atmosphere. it freaked you out
Early copies of Maniac Mansion had to be recalled as it contained a scene where you microwave a hamster!
Hey Larry! Yeah I remember hearing something about that, dude, thank you for watching!
Larry stop posting on EVERY video!
Yeah...I did it...only because I didn't believe that you could😭😱
Castlevania games were censored to remove alot of religious iconography. Great video man!
Thank you so much!
When i was a child, i got that unlicensed cartridge of Chiller, i never knew what it was, i've just saw the art cover which was great, saw some screenshots and it convence me on buy it. Once i played, i didn't thought that it was a somekind of a gruesome kind of a game, but wasn't that fun after all. Once i understood what's going on further in that game, and unlucking the possible dirty secrets. Ohh yeah, a very bloody experience !!!!!
But that UNL Nes game wasn't that violent or even that gory, go and try to play the Original Arcade version, that was the real disgusting game ever, even the modern games of today won't match it. This Nes port it's kind of a "censored" version.
I have alll of these games. Bionic Commando is one of my favorite games of all time!
I played 1, 3 and 5.
Rented Bionic Commando several times. Lots of fun
Dude i love your channel name
I really love this video. Different, odd, perfect. Reminds me of the 80s 90s. Brings back memories 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
"deep dive"?
I wanna play chiller right now!😅
Sooo. Taboo is controversial? Was Ouija board too?
Yes. Yes, it was, but not to the same degree as tarot cards or D&D back then.
Lol soon as I saw Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde i guessed it was controversial bc it was so bad
Bionic Commando was controversial for delicate unbalanced people.
Zelda 2 is controversial. Everyone craps all over it when it's one of the best NES games of all time. It was even the 8th best selling.
I was born in 85, and it was a staple more so than the original in my house. I don't get the hate. Oh wait, yeah I do. The haters suck at games
@@eviljigglypuff2254 Their save state dependency shows their lack of skills.
The NES had two pornographic games on it, tho
Leisure suit Larry
imagine if Digital Devil Story Megami Tensei came out on the NES. Religious parents would have lost their minds!
Taboo - Nintendo actually *approved* that one?! No real-world religious content was supposed to be allowed on the Nintendo!
Taboo should have been controversial because people may have mistsken it for a real game instead of a silly tarot card application
Representation of gender? I don't remember there ever being any issues with a woman in the NES era. One of the most beloved characters in gaming (Samus Aran) came from that era.
White I don't remember video game gender issues in the 80s, the 90s were when the ESRB came into existence. There was a government hearing about it, stemming from Mortal Kombat, and in the hearing, it was sad that in a majority of the games looked at, women were usually relegated to sex objects, and/or the damsel in distress.
That's not really surprising, because in that era of gaming, the majority of gamers were boys.
Shouldn't deface these crappy games with Zeldas quality soundtrack lol
Please forgive me :)
Bionic Commando is not crappy, dude.
@@tb3411 the Nazi version is
Really? No mention of a certain rather angry nerd, when talking about Dr Jackyll and Mr Hydes?
James Rolfe is a hack fraud.
Emulator and download those crazy games lol
They took Mike Tyson out of Punch-Out!! after his grape conviction. 🥊🍇
Common misconception. His contract was up on it, but because of the grape, it wasn't renewed
@@eviljigglypuff2254 Then I was correct?
@@TheRealCaptainFreedomcorrelation doesn’t always equal causation.
@@jandrem exactly. CaptainFreedom is assuming nintendo would have renewed the contract w Tyson if not for the grape conviction, and we just don't know that
@@eviljigglypuff2254 They would have.
Bionic Commando's ending is like a Tarantino film
Bionic man boss did nothing wrong
Super mario bros 2 is a controvery becauss it is a reskinned Doki Doki Panic.
TABOO
Nice video but next time turn down the music a wee bit.
Noted! Thank you!
talk faster
O
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Do a better job of naming your video chapters.
And ruin the fun?