Naturally, two months later, a cheat code to transform the zombies back into innocent, squashy pedestrians seeped out onto the web… One hasty code rewrite later, and the pedestrians were transformed into evil zombies, the censors were happy, and the game was a huge hit. The first game ever to have been refused an 18 rating, Carmageddon incurred the wrathof the British Board of Film Censors because the people you ran over in your car to score points were innocent – you were killing for kicks. It’s now banned in several countries, but still on sale here. Soldier of Fortune was the subject of a special ruling in Canada that meant it had to be stored alongside the pornography in video outlets.Īfter being implicated in the murder of Leicestershire teenager Stefan Pakeerah, Manhunt attracted a belated storm of controversy – the game, set in a sadistic reality TV show where white supremacists and fetishists suffocate, stab and shoot each other, had been freely on sale for two years previously. Your enemies also begged for mercy when wounded. Soldier of Fortune was the first game to isolate 20 different regions of the body and allow you to inflict realistic damage on each.
With the joypad vibrating in your hand as your victim thrashes about, it’s even worse. There is one mission, however, where it is quite genuinly tricky to watch: you have to wiggle your joypad to pull out someone’s teeth one by one, in an effort to make him spill the beans. We don’t mean the whole game – over the years, GTA’s mellowed to the point where it’s actually sort of comforting. It was developed by Virgin Games, but when Virgin was bought over by Electronic Arts, EA execs were so appalled by it, they not only canned the game, but refused to let any other publisher buy it either. Themed around disability and S&M, the game featured dominatrixes, cannibals and the disabled raping each other to death and eating one another alive. This sadomasochistic beat ‘em up was actually so violent it was never released. Towel-head Terrorist Tent-Dwellers and a mode where a digitised version of Gary Coleman from Diff’rent Strokes fights an army of ‘pale-face oppressors’. The makers loaded also Share the Pain with, ahem, racially charged multiplayer options including team games such as Hasidic Jews vs.
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