Most of the controversy from this era was laughable. People talked about it but in reality it was pretty clear that it was mostly just a small number of assholes and extremist groups being as loud as possible. Jack Thompson being one of the loudest and most absurd. I was so happy when that clown got disbarred.
Re: the death scenes in Out Of This World -- like none of us kids back then hadn't been primed for them by the often grisly deaths in the Choose Your Own Adventure novels....
I was 10 when the SNES dropped, and remember the MK and Lethal Enforcers controversy, along with Doom and Wolf3D, but the rest? Kid Klown?!?! Who??! Who was mad about Kid Klown?! Same with Another World, Knights of the Round, etc. WHO?!?!
This is the comment I was looking for. Maybe they made a big deal at this guy's church or something. Also it's unnecessary to say the SNES was a family friendly console in every entry.
I think the video creator dug up maybe one old message board post where somebody said they thought there had been controversy but with zero physical proof. It was nice seeing these games again but I dont believe a lot of research was done here.
Don't knock them games , try on an emulator, their actually good SNES games . Can't get over someone was "butt hurt" about Knights of the Round , it's a Folklore story
I have to say, while I enjoy nostalgia bait, I feel like this video repeated itself way too often. When you have the same criticism in the more or less in the same words levied at more than half the games featured in the video, it gets old _very_ fast. Imagine you're writing an essay. You have a unifying idea holding it together, but the problem here is that rather than restricting your thesis statement to the opening and closing, you repeated it for pretty much every paragraph.
Wouldn’t you expect specific quotes and clips to support any critiques against the games? Nah Take my word for it! And one scold does not a controversy make
@@thecheese4255 Your suggested addition of quotes and clips would make for a more interesting video, I think, but my critique was more about how repetitive the video itself was, rather than the lack of verifiable quotes The segment on _King Arthur and the Knights of the Round_ was at least a little interesting because I had not heard of the alleged controversy before.
Repetitive across several entries? I was getting annoyed that references to violence and mature themes were often repeated several times in the same game!
Where did you get that these games were controversial? Other than Mortal Kombat, Wolfenstein and Doom, none of the other games were "controversial". I read about every gaming magazine back in the day and none of these except for the 3 I mentioned were deemed controversial.
I suspect a lot of the complaints were either from foreign media (especially the UK and Europe) and ONE scold who got put in print or had a mic put in front of them Where this all fails is the “take my word for it” approach No magazine quotes? No clips? You’ll see this “shocking!” claim made about weird but harmless commercials from the time
Lethal Enforcers did have some controversy. Was mainly the arcade version though since it used a "realistic" gun to play the game. I think the only thing that happened with Shadowrun was more that it was based on the PnP game so it had the same air about it like D&D, plus it wasn't as widely known. Knights of the Round had no controversy that I know of, and especially Kid Klown. No one cared about that game and I hadn't even heard of it till now (and I lived through that era). If anything was said about Star Wars, it would only be super fans that cared about the story. That was a pretty beloved game overall though. Out of this World and Lawnmower Man were also not widely known games at the time, think I only saw a copy of Lawnmower Man once in my life. Loved Out of this World though, wish the sequel had been made.
Good thing Joe Liberman is no longer with us. The Stephen King Lawnmower man had absolutely nothing to do with the movie or game. It simply shared the Title. That said.. Great work Man!
I think 'mythological' is the current thinking... there's no hard evidence that Arthur existed AFAIK, but the story has been retold for so long that its origin is unknown. At some point, the tradition of telling the story becomes historical, even if the events depicted in it are not. If that makes any sense....
I have to call bullshit on the first game being controversial. I remember very well when Knights of the round came out and there was zero mention of it being "controversial".
I was around for all of these games released and read virtually every magazine you could get. Most of this didn't happen at all. Also, Arthurian legend is a legend. There was no controversy over its historical accuracy.
@greenmachine5487 There were no unlimited continues, (they only gave you 3) however there was a code you could enter on the title screen, that would increase your number of lives and continues to close to a hundred.
The final game Super Return of the Jedi was hard (especially THAT LAST LEVEL) but for the most part, it was a more balanced game than the previous two. I didn't need to enter any debug codes on the title screen to play it.
Because when you are out every day providing for your family, returning home to be greeted with "THAT"S WAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS!!!" type of tune, it's your upmost priority to have a constantly renewable guide to video games (that doesn't, obviously, existed) to know what you are buying. In the end, all that they wanted is a separation of content, that was eventually provided with a simple marking, something companies could've came out with on their own.
Pretty sure this was the time before MPAA ratings on games, so most times parents didn't know what kind of game they were buying. They just bought what the kids say they wanted. Then they watched them play it and were mortified that such things would be in games supposed to be for children. In simpler terms...they were the Karens of the early 90s.
As someone who grew up with these consoles I can tell you parents did not know back then what they were buying we didn't have the internet and they didn't read video game magazines so all they knew was what I wanted and I asked for Mortal Kombat and then once my parents saw Mortal Kombat they didn't want me to play it any more. They didn't make me get rid of it or take it from me but I never played it when they were around. They wouldn't even get me booger man teenager I had to get that once I was an adult what's the name of the game was a reason they wouldn't buy it.
If only there were some sort of monthly publication for parents to reference. Something you could get delivered right to your door. Like, imagine, they could write essays about the games. You know, like a review or something.
2:25 Percival and Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table are not historical figures. The only true history in that entire story is: Their was a king named Arthur
Shadowrun didn't resonate with their creators, so they got an entirely different version created on the Genesis effectively using the second edition tabletop rules adopted to a real-time game, complete with decking basically taking no in game time no matter how long it was in real world time. It's very true to the actual tabletop game.
For me, the most "controversial" SNES game is PilotWings. Terrible game that relied entirely on gimmicks that somehow became successful. As a Sega fan, I could never understand how the discussion of how bad this game is didn't come for decades.
I mean, I've never even played Pilotwings and I never heard anybody really talk about it at all. It doesn't show up on anybody's "Best SNES Games" lists, and it doesn't show up on anybody's "Worst SNES Games" lists. I think there is just not much to talk about, either way. It's profoundly unexciting, and doesn't illicit much of an emotional response from anyone.
@@0Fyrebrand0 I hear what you're saying, but this is probably a generational thing. I'm guessing you were born sometime after 1986? Old school consistently bring it up as a 'Franchise that Should be Brought Back", but if you aren't into the retro scene, and are too you young to have been there, than I get it. If you bought a Genesis before the SNES came out and watched this gimmick of a game take over, trust me, you hated it. For a solid year PilotWings was brought up by the (obviously paid off) media (ahem, GamePro, ahem) as a reason the SNES was better.
This is quite honestly the dumbest list I’ve seen. Mortal kombat and some games like doom caught flack. Not kid clown or the other games. Games like super Star Wars were tough but nobody cried about it. You got better and beat the games. It was part of gaming.
Movies were one thing & Video Games were a whole different beast. i stayed away from Movie titles like, Lawn Mower Man on the SNES. However, Star Wars knows how to make money & i think they realized most people bought only titles that begun with SUPER in it. i know i was one of those people who only bought SNES games like that! Super Star Wars was the 1st movie to Video Game i bought just because it had SUPER in the front of the title & i was not disappointed at all. i still love playing that game!
It was an enjoyable video. I personally differentiate the arcade style shooters with first person shooters due to the fixed screens and often having whack-a-mole type enemies that pop up from behind cover. The mention of family friendly console was definitely constant, but this is exactly what lead to the first games ratings system that denoted kid friendly,teen friendly and adult friendly games.
I never knew such a tame on violence game like Knights of the Round would be controversial. Same for Star Wars, being hard and take liberties isn't controversial ppl
Great video man! Thanks for the trip down memory lane... I loved Out of this World and I was only 11 or 12 years old. Luckily my parents realized that video games are in the same vein as Loony Toons. It's cartoon violence at best. Well it was back then. The books I used to read were much worse than anything on the SNES.
Oh man, you mentioned Out of the World. I loved that game and I was never any good at it. I miss Blockbuster nights, rent 3 games that I knew nothing about, no data or reviews besides Game Informer. Those were fun times.
Videos games caught flack because they were not an 'invested' medium like the comic industry or even more so the film industry. Most of their so called 'reasoning' is just a hypocritical stretch to complain and point their sodium bloated fingers at a cash cow that might take profits from their invested mediums. 'Too much slapstick' as a critisim from the generation that grew up with tom and jerry/wille coyote and the road runner. Who were they kidding?
I remember being able to flip through some gore filled comics and the like at a supermarket down the street but thats not a problem right? Video games are a problem as they light up a camel joe in their third trimester.
I am partially joking here... DK3. I mean some of it was thumb rupturing hard to get through on a first play through. I mean reverse directions on a long fly by dumb parrot level. Or like every fighting game. Maybe FF3 counts... It was the 90's a shorter list is one of games without controversy.
I'm surprised that you didn’t mention the game N.A.RC. It involved drugs, addicts, dealers, and if I'm not mistaken, there were enemies that threw frickin' syringes at you! Lol! I was born in the 80's. When nes dropped, I remember when parents were freaking out of the Asian "300 games in one" NES cartridges. There was some WEIRD games like strip Rock, Paper, Scissors. (It's exactly as it sounds!) Sure, kick up dust about something like that. When it came to my mom, she bought me my Sega Genesis with Eternal Champions! She LOVED watching me play and seeing the fatalities and stage fatalities!
Was Super Star Wars difficult? Yes. I got good because it's an amazing and rewarding game. It's got such a great feel and yeah, there's extra stuff. It's a game. But it has a great feel overall. I beat it a few times. The rest of the trilogy was also good, but the first felt the best.
So many of these "controversies" stopped being an issue to rational people one the ESRB became a thing. I prefer ratings systems and warnings to a government bureaucracy telling me what games I can't play (and my condolences to any Australians reading this).
I gotta say I think the most controversial thing in regard to the SNES and these games is how limiting people were by insisting on the SNES continue to only market toward younger audiences. I mean I remember this whole era and I felt this way back then as well, and I was a little kid lol.
Watching the gameplay footage of _Lawnmower Man_ reminded me that I actually played the game. More accurately, I remember the VR stages. They were genuinely enjoyable... at least that's how I remember it.
I didn't knew they ported Knights of the Round to the SNES. Yes, Super Star Wars was hard as f***k, I never made it past the Land of the Sand People stage.
it is quite simple really if a game offends ya in someway just don't buy or play it. This is the reason why I stayed with the PC. Censoring games because you don't like something in said game is pathetic, because you are stopping other people from enjoying the game. Great video man I subscribed.
I owned out if this world for SNES. It was - and still remains - one of my favorite SNES titles. I don't recall there ever being controversy about it, besides it being known for being punishingly difficult. Yes it does have dark death scenes, but I don't remember this ever being a source of discussion much less controversy.
Final Fight (SNES) for cutting out 2 player and Guy (although a seperate Final Fight Guy came out later on), WWF Wrestlemania Arcade for removing YokoZuna and Bam Bam Bigelow (who main evented Wrestlemania XI the year the game cane out)
I gave this a shot, but you didn’t bring up much actual controversy the existed. Knights of the Round was viewed as a standard beat ‘em up, not as a distortion of historical figures and events. If you have facts to prove me wrong then please put them in the video.
I'm sorry but I have to say I think you might have been incorrect about a lot of the alleged "controversy" for these games. I distinctly recall Hillary Clinton going on a crusade against Mortal Kombat and I vaguely recall hearing a couple of complains about Lethal Enforcers but thats all. Good video anyway.
I was 8 when I first got my SNES, and surprisingly only played half of these games. I expected Mortal Kombat, Doom, and Wolfenstein on the list, the others I can see but pale in comparison, other than Lethal Enforcers. I never played Lethal Enforcers, but was pretty good at Lethal Enforcers 2 on the Sega Genesis. Out Of This World destroyed me as a kid and I couldn't get myself to pick it up again. Super Star Wars and Lawnmower Man made me rage a lot back in the day. Mortal Kombat was ok but the 2nd was more fun. Doom I could never beat. And I grew up on Wolfenstein for the PC so I was highly disappointed by the SNES version, so once I beat it I never picked it up again.
"The game often opted for frenetic action which some felt overshadowed the story elements" This sounds an awful lot like every single Star Wars movie to me :)
Loved Shadowrun, Another World and Super Star Wars. Awesome games. Another World was ported from the Amiga, and wasn't aimed at children as an audience. I was in my 20s when it came out on the SNES. Manchild, eh. Still am ;)
"This game shouldn't be allowed because the machine it's played on is often marketed to children!" reads very much to me like "This movie shouldn't be made available on VHS because VCRs are often used to play Disney movies!"
You know how people these days always complain about everyone being too sensitive and getting offended by everything? That's how you know you're not talking to someone who lived through the 1980s. People took offense to _everything_ in the 80s.
I never had one as a child, but I bought one years ago and still have it. I'm wanting to do a video about it and it's games one day :D. Thanks for watching!
Only commenting because you mentioned you wanted comments - I think these styles of videos work better when you cite references and sources from the time period. Some of this controversy seems a bit like a stretch, I was there I lived in the time period, not all of these games were “controversial” at all. But maybe I missed something; citing some sources at least bolsters the credibility of the claim
I enjoy the flashback but there is literally nothing controversial about any of these games. Any controversy must have been so incredibly minimal to have no mainstream air time. The only games I remember having any of this in retro days were mortal Kombat a little and the mega CD game night trap.
I feel to ask, but if you going to call a game controversial, you should add more detailed including using resource materials and events that showed said controversy. Also the fact that Nintendo did censored the first Mortal Kombat, they DEFINITELY made sure the sequels were uncensored. Family friendly indeed...
Lol Knights Of The Round compared to GTA, MORTAL KOMBAT or just about any game today just seems so humorous to me, the way we've desynthesized ourselves and our children is just ridiculous and sad...
With all the respect, not mentioning the sources, makes this video barely believable, i never heard many of those controversies and sounds like you made them up.
If wolfenstein is on this list, then Duke nukem better be. Lol My brother and I hid this game from our parents in a plastic bag under some gravel in the back yard.
Most of the controversy from this era was laughable. People talked about it but in reality it was pretty clear that it was mostly just a small number of assholes and extremist groups being as loud as possible. Jack Thompson being one of the loudest and most absurd. I was so happy when that clown got disbarred.
Re: the death scenes in Out Of This World -- like none of us kids back then hadn't been primed for them by the often grisly deaths in the Choose Your Own Adventure novels....
I would put my finger in the spot to choose "don't chase after the rabid bear" and skip back to that spot once the fun choice ran afoul....
@@williemasterofdestruction5339 An age-old tradition!
I was 10 when the SNES dropped, and remember the MK and Lethal Enforcers controversy, along with Doom and Wolf3D, but the rest? Kid Klown?!?! Who??! Who was mad about Kid Klown?! Same with Another World, Knights of the Round, etc. WHO?!?!
😂😂😂agreed, I was 11 and I don't remember anyone complaining about knights of the round
This is the comment I was looking for. Maybe they made a big deal at this guy's church or something. Also it's unnecessary to say the SNES was a family friendly console in every entry.
I think the video creator dug up maybe one old message board post where somebody said they thought there had been controversy but with zero physical proof. It was nice seeing these games again but I dont believe a lot of research was done here.
Don't knock them games , try on an emulator, their actually good SNES games . Can't get over someone was "butt hurt" about Knights of the Round , it's a Folklore story
I have to say, while I enjoy nostalgia bait, I feel like this video repeated itself way too often. When you have the same criticism in the more or less in the same words levied at more than half the games featured in the video, it gets old _very_ fast. Imagine you're writing an essay. You have a unifying idea holding it together, but the problem here is that rather than restricting your thesis statement to the opening and closing, you repeated it for pretty much every paragraph.
Wouldn’t you expect specific quotes and clips to support any critiques against the games?
Nah
Take my word for it!
And one scold does not a controversy make
@@thecheese4255 Your suggested addition of quotes and clips would make for a more interesting video, I think, but my critique was more about how repetitive the video itself was, rather than the lack of verifiable quotes
The segment on _King Arthur and the Knights of the Round_ was at least a little interesting because I had not heard of the alleged controversy before.
Repetitive across several entries? I was getting annoyed that references to violence and mature themes were often repeated several times in the same game!
Where did you get that these games were controversial? Other than Mortal Kombat, Wolfenstein and Doom, none of the other games were "controversial". I read about every gaming magazine back in the day and none of these except for the 3 I mentioned were deemed controversial.
Yeah this list is full of bullshit 😂
Also the original Mortal Kombat on SNES had no blood so basically the violence was similar to Street Fighter without the blood 🩸
I suspect a lot of the complaints were either from foreign media (especially the UK and Europe) and ONE scold who got put in print or had a mic put in front of them
Where this all fails is the “take my word for it” approach
No magazine quotes? No clips?
You’ll see this “shocking!” claim made about weird but harmless commercials from the time
Lethal Enforcers was somewhat controversial.
Lethal Enforcers did have some controversy. Was mainly the arcade version though since it used a "realistic" gun to play the game. I think the only thing that happened with Shadowrun was more that it was based on the PnP game so it had the same air about it like D&D, plus it wasn't as widely known. Knights of the Round had no controversy that I know of, and especially Kid Klown. No one cared about that game and I hadn't even heard of it till now (and I lived through that era). If anything was said about Star Wars, it would only be super fans that cared about the story. That was a pretty beloved game overall though. Out of this World and Lawnmower Man were also not widely known games at the time, think I only saw a copy of Lawnmower Man once in my life. Loved Out of this World though, wish the sequel had been made.
Good thing Joe Liberman is no longer with us. The Stephen King Lawnmower man had absolutely nothing to do with the movie or game. It simply shared the Title. That said.. Great work Man!
King Arthur was a historical figure? I'm pretty sure he is a fictional character.
I think 'mythological' is the current thinking... there's no hard evidence that Arthur existed AFAIK, but the story has been retold for so long that its origin is unknown. At some point, the tradition of telling the story becomes historical, even if the events depicted in it are not. If that makes any sense....
I have to call bullshit on the first game being controversial. I remember very well when Knights of the round came out and there was zero mention of it being "controversial".
@@Randpage
True, also the violence was NOT brutal. Not even close. It's the standard level of restrained , family friendly fare of the time.
@@Randpage remember it depends on the country.
@@JustinSevenTwooh like Jesus.
I really hate that "family-friendly" has become synonymous with "infantile."
Agreed... though we really only have years of Iazy corporate marketing to blame for it.
Was a console marketed toward kids…..this video could be a drinking camel for how often you replete the same things over and over and over
Even earthbound and illusion of gaia are far more controversial than the 70% of this list.
I was around for all of these games released and read virtually every magazine you could get. Most of this didn't happen at all. Also, Arthurian legend is a legend. There was no controversy over its historical accuracy.
Those Super Star Wars games were brutal
Yeah, but if I remember right they gave you unlimited continues.
And I loved them
@greenmachine5487 There were no unlimited continues, (they only gave you 3) however there was a code you could enter on the title screen, that would increase your number of lives and continues to close to a hundred.
The final game Super Return of the Jedi was hard (especially THAT LAST LEVEL) but for the most part, it was a more balanced game than the previous two. I didn't need to enter any debug codes on the title screen to play it.
Parents complain yet they were the ones buying the games for the kids.
Because when you are out every day providing for your family, returning home to be greeted with "THAT"S WAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS!!!" type of tune, it's your upmost priority to have a constantly renewable guide to video games (that doesn't, obviously, existed) to know what you are buying. In the end, all that they wanted is a separation of content, that was eventually provided with a simple marking, something companies could've came out with on their own.
Pretty sure this was the time before MPAA ratings on games, so most times parents didn't know what kind of game they were buying. They just bought what the kids say they wanted. Then they watched them play it and were mortified that such things would be in games supposed to be for children. In simpler terms...they were the Karens of the early 90s.
As someone who grew up with these consoles I can tell you parents did not know back then what they were buying we didn't have the internet and they didn't read video game magazines so all they knew was what I wanted and I asked for Mortal Kombat and then once my parents saw Mortal Kombat they didn't want me to play it any more. They didn't make me get rid of it or take it from me but I never played it when they were around. They wouldn't even get me booger man teenager I had to get that once I was an adult what's the name of the game was a reason they wouldn't buy it.
If only there were some sort of monthly publication for parents to reference. Something you could get delivered right to your door. Like, imagine, they could write essays about the games. You know, like a review or something.
2:25 Percival and Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table are not historical figures. The only true history in that entire story is: Their was a king named Arthur
Zero proof that there was ever a
"King Arthur" .
"The historical inaccuracies and liberties with King Arthur." King Arthur IS a historical inaccuracy!
The first one was an arcade port.
Shadowrun resonated with it's intended audience?!!! What a controversial thing to do!
Shadowrun didn't resonate with their creators, so they got an entirely different version created on the Genesis effectively using the second edition tabletop rules adopted to a real-time game, complete with decking basically taking no in game time no matter how long it was in real world time. It's very true to the actual tabletop game.
Story wise I liked the SNES version better, but for game play reason I would recommend the Genesis version.
Wow it seems like people were hostile to the video games back in the day. Just because a game exists doesn't mean you need to play it.
For me, the most "controversial" SNES game is PilotWings.
Terrible game that relied entirely on gimmicks that somehow became successful. As a Sega fan, I could never understand how the discussion of how bad this game is didn't come for decades.
Yet there were a few games on there that were fun to beat when bored of the regular games no?
I mean, I've never even played Pilotwings and I never heard anybody really talk about it at all. It doesn't show up on anybody's "Best SNES Games" lists, and it doesn't show up on anybody's "Worst SNES Games" lists. I think there is just not much to talk about, either way. It's profoundly unexciting, and doesn't illicit much of an emotional response from anyone.
@@0Fyrebrand0 I hear what you're saying, but this is probably a generational thing. I'm guessing you were born sometime after 1986?
Old school consistently bring it up as a 'Franchise that Should be Brought Back", but if you aren't into the retro scene, and are too you young to have been there, than I get it.
If you bought a Genesis before the SNES came out and watched this gimmick of a game take over, trust me, you hated it. For a solid year PilotWings was brought up by the (obviously paid off) media (ahem, GamePro, ahem) as a reason the SNES was better.
Super Star Wars? Really? Sure it's hard, but at least Vader doesn't turn into a scorpion in this version.
This is quite honestly the dumbest list I’ve seen. Mortal kombat and some games like doom caught flack. Not kid clown or the other games. Games like super Star Wars were tough but nobody cried about it. You got better and beat the games. It was part of gaming.
Movies were one thing & Video Games were a whole different beast. i stayed away from Movie titles like, Lawn Mower Man on the SNES. However, Star Wars knows how to make money & i think they realized most people bought only titles that begun with SUPER in it. i know i was one of those people who only bought SNES games like that!
Super Star Wars was the 1st movie to Video Game i bought just because it had SUPER in the front of the title & i was not disappointed at all. i still love playing that game!
It was an enjoyable video. I personally differentiate the arcade style shooters with first person shooters due to the fixed screens and often having whack-a-mole type enemies that pop up from behind cover. The mention of family friendly console was definitely constant, but this is exactly what lead to the first games ratings system that denoted kid friendly,teen friendly and adult friendly games.
I never knew such a tame on violence game like Knights of the Round would be controversial.
Same for Star Wars, being hard and take liberties isn't controversial ppl
Take a drink every time he says family friendly you won't get past 5 minutes
I'm sloshed...
Autocorrect made this sentence legible....
I love how adorable Kid Clown looks like as he's launched into the air with his adorable thick hair. 💗😂
Cool shout out to The 7th Saga at the end. One of my favorite SNES RPG and no one talks about it.
I think that Super Nes and was discontinued in 1996 when N64 came out not 2003.
Thank God Night Trap never came to a Nintendo console. 🧢
Basically, this video showcases that the ESRB/ESA needed to be formed a lot earlier to keep whiny people from being as annoying as they are.
Helen Lovejoy: OH, WON'T YOU PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!?!!😅
Great video man! Thanks for the trip down memory lane... I loved Out of this World and I was only 11 or 12 years old. Luckily my parents realized that video games are in the same vein as Loony Toons. It's cartoon violence at best. Well it was back then. The books I used to read were much worse than anything on the SNES.
Oh man, you mentioned Out of the World. I loved that game and I was never any good at it. I miss Blockbuster nights, rent 3 games that I knew nothing about, no data or reviews besides Game Informer. Those were fun times.
Was a mob boss one of the parents that complained about lethal enforcer? Can't have mob bosses getting killed, they're a big part of society.
Videos games caught flack because they were not an 'invested' medium like the comic industry or even more so the film industry. Most of their so called 'reasoning' is just a hypocritical stretch to complain and point their sodium bloated fingers at a cash cow that might take profits from their invested mediums. 'Too much slapstick' as a critisim from the generation that grew up with tom and jerry/wille coyote and the road runner. Who were they kidding?
I remember being able to flip through some gore filled comics and the like at a supermarket down the street but thats not a problem right? Video games are a problem as they light up a camel joe in their third trimester.
"Purists" is an interesting euphemism.
Nobody hates Stat Wars more than Star Wars fans.
I am partially joking here... DK3.
I mean some of it was thumb rupturing hard to get through on a first play through. I mean reverse directions on a long fly by dumb parrot level.
Or like every fighting game.
Maybe FF3 counts...
It was the 90's a shorter list is one of games without controversy.
I'm surprised that you didn’t mention the game N.A.RC. It involved drugs, addicts, dealers, and if I'm not mistaken, there were enemies that threw frickin' syringes at you! Lol! I was born in the 80's. When nes dropped, I remember when parents were freaking out of the Asian "300 games in one" NES cartridges. There was some WEIRD games like strip Rock, Paper, Scissors. (It's exactly as it sounds!) Sure, kick up dust about something like that. When it came to my mom, she bought me my Sega Genesis with Eternal Champions! She LOVED watching me play and seeing the fatalities and stage fatalities!
Earthbound is another controversial SNES game.
;)
Soooooo , you're not going to explain why ?
Was Super Star Wars difficult? Yes. I got good because it's an amazing and rewarding game. It's got such a great feel and yeah, there's extra stuff. It's a game. But it has a great feel overall. I beat it a few times.
The rest of the trilogy was also good, but the first felt the best.
So many of these "controversies" stopped being an issue to rational people one the ESRB became a thing.
I prefer ratings systems and warnings to a government bureaucracy telling me what games I can't play (and my condolences to any Australians reading this).
I gotta say I think the most controversial thing in regard to the SNES and these games is how limiting people were by insisting on the SNES continue to only market toward younger audiences. I mean I remember this whole era and I felt this way back then as well, and I was a little kid lol.
Those who complained about Lethal Enforcers had obviously never seen Operation Wolf or Thunderbolt 🤦🏻♂️
It’s so crazy how toned down the original Mortal Kombat was for SNES, yet Mortal Kombat 2 was nearly arcade accurate.
You forgot Blackthorne
Stay tuned ;)
Watching the gameplay footage of _Lawnmower Man_ reminded me that I actually played the game. More accurately, I remember the VR stages. They were genuinely enjoyable... at least that's how I remember it.
Wtf ??? who was the soccer mom karen reviewing Knights of the Round ?
Forgot about a lot of these, cool video!
I didn't knew they ported Knights of the Round to the SNES. Yes, Super Star Wars was hard as f***k, I never made it past the Land of the Sand People stage.
it is quite simple really if a game offends ya in someway just don't buy or play it. This is the reason why I stayed with the PC. Censoring games because you don't like something in said game is pathetic, because you are stopping other people from enjoying the game. Great video man I subscribed.
I owned out if this world for SNES. It was - and still remains - one of my favorite SNES titles. I don't recall there ever being controversy about it, besides it being known for being punishingly difficult. Yes it does have dark death scenes, but I don't remember this ever being a source of discussion much less controversy.
Final Fight (SNES) for cutting out 2 player and Guy (although a seperate Final Fight Guy came out later on), WWF Wrestlemania Arcade for removing YokoZuna and Bam Bam Bigelow (who main evented Wrestlemania XI the year the game cane out)
I gave this a shot, but you didn’t bring up much actual controversy the existed. Knights of the Round was viewed as a standard beat ‘em up, not as a distortion of historical figures and events. If you have facts to prove me wrong then please put them in the video.
I'm sorry but I have to say I think you might have been incorrect about a lot of the alleged "controversy" for these games. I distinctly recall Hillary Clinton going on a crusade against Mortal Kombat and I vaguely recall hearing a couple of complains about Lethal Enforcers but thats all. Good video anyway.
I never heard anyone ever complain about knights of the round growing up, everyone i know loved it
When I was in third grade I threw an apple at a kids face and I just told the teacher I wanted to be Mickey from Castle of Illusion.
I was 8 when I first got my SNES, and surprisingly only played half of these games. I expected Mortal Kombat, Doom, and Wolfenstein on the list, the others I can see but pale in comparison, other than Lethal Enforcers. I never played Lethal Enforcers, but was pretty good at Lethal Enforcers 2 on the Sega Genesis. Out Of This World destroyed me as a kid and I couldn't get myself to pick it up again. Super Star Wars and Lawnmower Man made me rage a lot back in the day. Mortal Kombat was ok but the 2nd was more fun. Doom I could never beat. And I grew up on Wolfenstein for the PC so I was highly disappointed by the SNES version, so once I beat it I never picked it up again.
Blackthorne definitely should had been mentioned over some of these games
Early 90's parents: "this is an outrage! Stop exposing my kids to the violence of Knights of the Round and Kid Klown"!!
Doom Eternal: "🤣🤣🤣
You should've talked about Soldiers of Fortune and Flashback.
Shadowrun was one of my favorites when I was a kid, still play it on the snes9x emu to this day.
Don't blame the product blame back seat parenting, would a parent but their kids alcohol, cigarettes no so why should entertainment be punished
These are the same parents who whined about Marilyn Manson, Gangsta Rap and Beavis & Butt-Head back in the day.
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Much appreciated!
"The game often opted for frenetic action which some felt overshadowed the story elements" This sounds an awful lot like every single Star Wars movie to me :)
Knights of the round was an arcade game before the SNES port
Loved Shadowrun, Another World and Super Star Wars. Awesome games. Another World was ported from the Amiga, and wasn't aimed at children as an audience. I was in my 20s when it came out on the SNES. Manchild, eh. Still am ;)
"This game shouldn't be allowed because the machine it's played on is often marketed to children!" reads very much to me like "This movie shouldn't be made available on VHS because VCRs are often used to play Disney movies!"
No matter how tame or milquetoast a game is, there’s always SOMEONE who will take exception to it for whatever reasons…
You know how people these days always complain about everyone being too sensitive and getting offended by everything? That's how you know you're not talking to someone who lived through the 1980s. People took offense to _everything_ in the 80s.
I miss my Super Scope. Childhood nostalgia.
I never had one as a child, but I bought one years ago and still have it. I'm wanting to do a video about it and it's games one day :D. Thanks for watching!
Nice video. 👍🏾 Good work. 💯
Only commenting because you mentioned you wanted comments - I think these styles of videos work better when you cite references and sources from the time period. Some of this controversy seems a bit like a stretch, I was there I lived in the time period, not all of these games were “controversial” at all. But maybe I missed something; citing some sources at least bolsters the credibility of the claim
I think Knights of the Round to me looks like Nintendo’s answer for Sega’s Golden Axe series at the time.
Nah it's a Capcom game, and an arcade port at that, it was made so they could have a different style of beat-em-up than just punching guys.
I enjoy the flashback but there is literally nothing controversial about any of these games. Any controversy must have been so incredibly minimal to have no mainstream air time. The only games I remember having any of this in retro days were mortal Kombat a little and the mega CD game night trap.
Good job providing specific examples from magazines and videos to support your claims
Oh, wait…
Good job leaving a comment that actually adds to the topic..wait.
@@SNEStalgia
Dude
Keep reading
You’re going to pick up on a theme
Wait…
Did we just have some controversy?!
I think we did!
Very good video. Subbed
Shadowrun takes me back.
I feel to ask, but if you going to call a game controversial, you should add more detailed including using resource materials and events that showed said controversy. Also the fact that Nintendo did censored the first Mortal Kombat, they DEFINITELY made sure the sequels were uncensored. Family friendly indeed...
Literally none of these were controversial,not one parent ever said "the themes in this Lawmower man game are too mature for little Timmy"
Well they finally got to Mortal Kombat, so whoops on me
History figures? None of the people mentioned in the Arthurian tales are real people. None of them existed, they are legends, not history.
Lol Knights Of The Round compared to GTA, MORTAL KOMBAT or just about any game today just seems so humorous to me, the way we've desynthesized ourselves and our children is just ridiculous and sad...
I love knights of the round,lethal enforcers
Shadowrun should be a Deus Ex prequel
With all the respect, not mentioning the sources, makes this video barely believable, i never heard many of those controversies and sounds like you made them up.
You should add what was your own experiencie playing each game
If wolfenstein is on this list, then Duke nukem better be. Lol
My brother and I hid this game from our parents in a plastic bag under some gravel in the back yard.
Boogerman was awesome and so was Shadowrun!
I can't remember the game but it was a fighter game that I rented and it had profanity so my parents made me return it 😂
Bro... I think "controversy" is a stretch for most of these games. 😂
Moral consequences for the actions of a video game character?? What?😅
You simulate a virtual world not stimulate 🤦🏻♂️😂
These parents were the literal worst. 🙄
Forgive me, but are you making this all up? I was there, most of these games caused zero controversy
People really did have nothing better to do with their time
Bomberman was kinda controversial
i cant believe how bad the graphics were
Knights of the round? seriously? it is far from the top ten games i'd choose as most controversial on the console.
I'm sitting here listening to how far we have fallen from this in society 😂 now days kids don't even know what bathroom to use
Good Bett kids know about the harsh truth about the world straight up front in there face from day one
All this bs about "younger players" was, and still is, STUPID! If you don't want you kid playing, don't buy it for them!
I played that Street fighter rainbow that was memorable I never knew that was a fake😂😂😂
How about Final Fantasy and it's POOF POOF action performed by random women found in precarious places?...