17 FORGOTTEN Gaming Controversies That SHOCKED The World!

[@docwhogr]

this video is at best 9bits

[@st1ka]

hahah! You win!

[@JaxCoolKartunes]

Probably at best 7 bits! Well that was the Atari 7800 at best....

[@docwhogr]

@@st1ka what i have won?? is it an AI replay? btw: isn't ironic that a politician doesn't know that doom means "a terrible fate" given that that is their job? to doom us!!!

[@st1ka]

No, it's not an AI reply. I mean your comment was so funny I had to pin it haha

[@docwhogr]

@@st1ka ahwww... ppffff.... i haven't noticed i was pinned.... finally my career as a comedian is taking off! :p

[@atomic_xfire]

Love how the news always manages to find 'experts' from nowhere and without any real sense of what makes them experts to begin with

[@st1ka]

Yeah 😅

[@colinsmith1495]

And good to be reminded that this isn't anything new. It's been going on for decades. And people wonder why we don't trust the media any more.

[@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy]

Basically every article everywhere. 99% of time all I seen and experienced that experts expertly failed to do their jobs and expertly ruined something that someone else had to waste time and resources to fix all the mistakes So I am fed up for life when someone is labeled a "expert" in something when me who is a nobody in their field can do a lightyears ahead better job then what they do.

[@LoneWolf-gz9mr]

There will ALWAYS be an "expert" willing to have an opinion that is wanted... That's just the human condition.. That and they get PAID to TALK about said opinion.

[@MiloTheMightyDude]

Gigachad Taito of America president coming up with the grift of the century just to shut some reporters up. Wow.

[@anthonygranziol7957]

Before the Internet, the trolls had to rely on the audience coming to them. Thankfully, the popular press was happy to oblige.

[@zacharykelly7434]

Journos continue to be incompetent to this day

[@dutchcinephile1362]

He looks like a old fart to me

[@volo870]

Technically, while having 16 address pins, Ricoh 5A22 has only 8 bit data bus. So the kid actually overvalued the SNES. 😜

[@TiroDvD]

It's called "yanking their chain".

[@Optimusj1975]

"At best a super-charged 12-bits system" is one of the best roasts I have heard.

[@RawrX32009]

I'm gonna start calling people 12 bit XD

[@st1ka]

right?! It's so funny

[@MadsterV]

looks 13 or 14 bit to me, tops!

[@ungeschaut]

this was so cringe man hahaha

[@noop9k]

Well, it's a 8/16 bit CPU that is a cheap upgrade of a 8-bit 6502, on a 8-bit bus, with 8-bit cartridge data bus etc. Read bandwidth for a SNES cart VS MD cart is, depending on the chips used is at least 2x worse. The fastest Sega cartridge should be about 5 times faster than the slowest(average) SNES cart. Nintendo fanboys quote that 65C816 MIPS rating is actually better than 68K, but that only if you are, say, adding 2 numbers together repeatedly without doing any useful work. Any real data movement or more serious calculations with multiple 16 or 32-bit values and its performance plummets, because it is essentially the most basic 16-bit CPU you can slap together from a few transistors and its bus is still 8.

[@kloa4219]

7:28 "Pac Man Wrist" is probably newscasters confusing it with "carpal tunnel syndrome"

[@DerivativeWorker]

Also not to be confused with Pac Man Fever

[@st1ka]

yep, though to be fair, I only covered that segment because of the Toasters and Chainsaws thing

[@Rpm2878]

It was definitely an expression and should be recognizable to most Americans of a certain age, especially if they were around for "Pac-Man Fever." I'm a little younger than that (turning 40) but I was familiar with the phrase. It was referenced well beyond Pac-Man and arcade's relevance, in American gaming/news media.

[@SetTopGames]

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 KZbin. 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]

Ah thank you for that extra info. Honestly I thought this was more fun 😅

[@SetTopGames]

@@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.

[@CEJOTA1800]

​@@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.

[@Anomaly188]

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.

[@tiberiusbrain]

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

[@pablozambrano16]

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.

[@quintessenceSL]

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.

[@XxDigitalDaftPunkxX]

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.

[@st1ka]

haha

[@joeszymanski3540]

He was a humanitarian until he played Redneck Rampage 😂😂

[@RayneOfSalt]

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.

[@eightcoins4401]

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.

[@gamescape7758]

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!

[@lowtechredneck6704]

@@gamescape7758 Except for the salt water crocs, they don't look that scary.....its just that half of them are absurdly venomous.

[@CoralCopperHead]

I still remember the good guys at Dennaton actively encouraging Aussies to pirate Hotline Miami _specifically_ because of that.

[@gamescape7758]

@@lowtechredneck6704 at least they look friendly lol

[@Choralone422]

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!

[@BalgaBear]

I hate everything, I'm violent by nature, I'll blame the media! (Video games)

[@belstar1128]

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 .

[@eightcoins4401]

@@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.

[@ArtisChronicles]

Now they're never bored because people are doing terrible things to each other 😆😆

[@CoralCopperHead]

@@ArtisChronicles "Now?" Honey, we've been doing terrible things to each-other since the dawn of time.

[@DioBrando-qr6ye]

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.

[@st1ka]

Oh interesting.

[@VolkColopatrion]

Streets of rage 3 had a censored opening because of sensitivity for the Oklahoma City Bombing.

[@VolkColopatrion]

No...

[@VolkColopatrion]

​@@st1kanot sure if that is true Streets of rage 3 had a censored opening because of sensitivity for the Oklahoma City Bombing.

[@noop9k]

Are you trying to say these policies were wrong, considering what we have now?

[@DPedroBoh]

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

[@st1ka]

Right?! It's so funny

[@parrata]

Now I need a Toasters and Chainsaws game

[@st1ka]

me too haha

[@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898]

@@parrata One can only hope an indie developer with a vision sees this.

[@miciso666]

sounds oddly like warhammer... :D

[@AronFigaro]

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.

[@InfiniteJustice]

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

[@KopperNeoman]

"Protect Trans Kids" is the modern flavour.

[@AronFigaro]

@@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.

[@dangerousdays2052]

@@KopperNeoman Wrong. Respecting a person's identity is just basic human decency. Cope harder Karen, you're not the parent of every child. 😂😂

[@CoralCopperHead]

@@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."

[@s3np411]

"The Devil isn't playing with you!" is the greatest fucking tagline you could conceive for a Doom game. What a hypeman.

[@st1ka]

right?!

[@siamantube]

I predict some Harvester footage 😮

[@st1ka]

You predict correctly :D

[@joeedwards8863]

Yes,I loved the Taito Pres.....he owned every reporter involved....it's just awesome....lol

[@st1ka]

it's so funny!

[@scottlemiere2024]

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.

[@st1ka]

I feel that one is too well known

[@eightcoins4401]

In hindsight its so strange it ever was this controversial. Theres so many much sicker porn games. Some even made in America.

[@CoralCopperHead]

@@eightcoins4401 I know right? You can't even **** a stab wound in Rapelay.

[@marhawkman303]

@@eightcoins4401 It's because the masses didn't have journos telling them to hate it.

[@liveyourdreammedia]

You have the best thumbnails

[@st1ka]

haha

[@IndaglowMatinée]

I was about to comment the same thing. If you don't have the time to watch, his thumbnails alone will brighten your day.

[@PabstOban]

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!

[@st1ka]

Love me some classic console wars

[@yogirajmore63]

psychologist was waiting for violence to happen.

[@volo870]

It is strange. I had no console in the 90s and only relatively recently invested into buying 4th generation hardware. Yes, I love my SNES - it is best in every way, but if I have a spare hour or two, more often I have a go on Genesis or PC Engine. Don't know why! SNES game design and controllers feel more... stuffy. Perhaps this feeling was a contributing part of those playground wars in the 90s.

[@WaywardKill]

That critic reference really hit the spot.

[@st1ka]

hehe

[@Conan_the_Based]

You give the Lethal Enforcers furor too little credit. The leap to a real-looking gun & photorealistic graphics from joysticks & pixels was significant. Even as kids we noticed it. Chalk it up to a 'you had to be there' moment.

[@st1ka]

Oh interesting. I guess that makes sense.

[@TargetRenegade]

I was there. It wasn't a big deal to anyone with half a brain. I had it on Mega CD, it was OK, but nothing worth shitting the bed over.

[@cassandracastro2759]

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.

[@st1ka]

Oooh link me! I need to watch that haha

[@lowtechredneck6704]

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).

[@Vugtis_El_VillaVODS]

18:50 Whoa the console wars live on National TV. This is gold

[@st1ka]

right?! haha

[@gleisonvinicius5469]

As a Brazilian, you have my blessing (and the story was pretty well explained, congrats)!

[@st1ka]

Faço os possíveis :D

[@gleisonvinicius5469]

@@st1ka Some more fun info: this "priest" screaming at Doom was also Brazilian, but he live in the USA for A TIME, a short time. Thats was enough for him to always talk im that fake english accent you see in the video. If you want more fun stories, search about the war on Yu-Gi-Oh! that lead to cards being burn by mom's and when the government banned Counter-Strike YEARS after the release because of a mod.

[@Highretrogamelord]

Thank you for this video. It's refreshing to see a video about video game controversies that isn't USA only.

[@st1ka]

I try ^^

[@Kisai_Yuki]

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.

[@atomicskull6405]

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.

[@st1ka]

makes sense

[@cameronbosch1213]

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.

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

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?

[@cameronbosch1213]

@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.

[@st1ka]

I feel the Guy Game one is fairly well known. I wanted to go obscure and forgotten ^^

[@k-boi420]

Didn’t know it got a patch rerelease. All I heard was that it was banned for having cp.

[@GarthTheDestroyer]

When you brought up Harvester, I thought it would have something to with the actor playing Steve having all that CP in his PC.

[@st1ka]

I actually didn't know about that, but even if I did, I'd probably avoid that topic

[@DeletarTepes]

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

[@st1ka]

Dungeon Chill is awesome

[@warrenburger9907]

Dreamweb was one of my favorite games when I was younger. The atmosphere and music was incredible. The Diary of a Madman was a really neat touch, too.

[@ericj.1170]

19:03 This whole meltdown is one of the reasons why I loved the Nintendo vs Sega console wars. I miss those days dearly!

[@st1ka]

right?!

[@WanOlDan]

"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!?"

[@ShinzouKatsune]

Thank you and I love this international perspective on gaming every time I see your videos.

[@Monhamd1000]

Man, Princess Maker 2 isn't even that close to being one

[@akiradkcn]

So glad the remaster isn't going to be censored outside of playstation

[@DJ_AwesomeSauce]

@@akiradkcn Well, it's as uncensored as Refine is, at least. Not like the original and it's inclusion of -nipples-

[@st1ka]

hah!

[@Pyrrha312]

The original had some really questionable content hidden behind a cheat code. Luckily that stuff won't get into the remakes, yikes.

[@HedgehogY2K]

20:16 actually he's not far off. It has an address width of 24 but the data width was 8. Was it really technically a 16 bit system if it wasn't truly 8 or 24? I guess relatively it was close enough to be regarded as such so they went with it.

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

On the Brazilian one, priests really would throw a strop at everything they could get their hands on. Calling it a Nintendo, fucking hell.

[@st1ka]

haha

[@TheMattvf16]

To my parents back in the day, any electronic toy was a Nintendo; they weren't alone in saying that.

[@jeremyrichard2722]

A very minor correction. As a fan of the "Escape From Hell" game I can tell you that it wasn't just an attempt to be edgy specifically. See, during the 80s and 90s shared world anthology series were popular, these including things like the "Thieves World" and "Wild Cards" series, as well as one called "Heroes In Hell", this game is heavily inspired by that. "Heroes In Hell" was a shared world of short stories and novels by a lot of the best sci-fi and fantasy talent of the time, that explored the idea of The Devil sort of losing control of Hell as it was a torment for him as much as anyone else, and it dealt with versions of all these historical figures meeting each other there, as well as various original characters showing up and interacting with them. There were several different meta plots at times, but you had concepts like divides between "The Ancient Dead" ganging up together creating alliances between former historical rivals based on time period, and holding off territory from newer, more modern, figures, and also being far more established. There were shadow versions of various cities, and it was all written with a degree of comedic intent. You had some of the ancient dead carving out an area and pretty much running it as "The Elysian Fields" to give people from their time period a place of peace, and in exchange for being allowed to hold that they had an alliance with The Devil to sort of act as enforcers at times, but they had their own agendas. Sometimes The Devil trying to force order made him a kind of contextual anti-hero. You had gags like Napoleon and Wellington living together sort of like "the odd couple" and being a force a lot of other dead forgot about given their combined military genius, you had things going on as well with like Helen Of Troy dealing with the risk of being replaced by Marilyn Monroe as The Devil's favorite concubine, and so on. At any rate the video game did some things differently, and was it's own universe, but has a few references to that series in there, it should be noted that Austrian Painter Guy is in a special prison where the devil keeps extra special people. I won't go into what roles he can play, but obviously a big deal.. however it should be noted he's considered to be the modern (as of the time of the books, and I guess present day still) "most evil person" so has special attention from the devil. You'll have to make judgements, but one point it makes I believe is that other historical figures have held that distinction and been in his private cells before, but then were replaced based on who the devil was supposed to give personal attention to. When you start getting into historical atrocities, and proportional damage, and things like that they do raise some questions about who the worst of the worst might be, and also by it's nature the stories raise questions about redemption, and things like context. There are angels involved at times, and of course when mortals get stuck there, which souls come to their aid and who the actual "heroes" are can make contextual sense, and sometimes surprise you, but the series does have the title it does for a reason. I believe a few times god was made to accept some... symbolic metaphysical points... so to speak.

[@st1ka]

Oh thank you so much, I didn't know that. I grew up with an Ms-dos computer, but I didn't discover Escape From Hell until later. I actually had a lot more to say about escape from hell, but ended up removing it for time

[@maynardwayward12]

RIP Joe Lieberman YOU WERE THE FIRST POLITICIAN I REMEMBER LOVING TO HATE

[@eightcoins4401]

He did some good for the world. Postal 2 wouldn't exist if he didn't exist.

[@KopperNeoman]

@@eightcoins4401 That's more a case of "what the Devil intended for evil, God already planned to use for good" thing.

[@CoralCopperHead]

@@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.

[@st1ka]

haha

[@TargetRenegade]

Stop moralfagging. Lieberman was Jewish.

[@kilomandarin9950]

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!

[@st1ka]

wow, really? But that game is so mild

[@kilomandarin9950]

@@st1ka we also banned Left 4 Dead 2 lmao Australia is completely cooked

[@timvangenechten5258]

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...

[@st1ka]

It was hilarious!

[@Jef_Vermassen]

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

[@st1ka]

Sorry D:

[@Jef_Vermassen]

@@st1ka Something good came out of it. I finally noticed that I hadn't subscribed yet (I'm really bad at those things). :p

[@tiberiusbrain]

On the twatter? You mean the twix?

[@subtledemisefox]

​@@tiberiusbrainthe Twax

[@JediMB]

​@@tiberiusbrainXitter (pronounced Shitter).

[@Edyeso]

Spanish speaker here! Josue Yrion was a sensation on early KZbin 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.

[@ginogueli7213]

The remixes were awesome. "Un niño que juega pokimon, él está a pasos de la destrucción!". XD

[@Edyeso]

@@ginogueli7213 SoyTanSutil hizo un trabajo estupendo, sí.

[@st1ka]

haha that's amazing

[@MarkKrauth]

"Sega rules and Nintendo drools" is the second best slogan in videogame history, after "Sega does what Nintendon't"

[@st1ka]

haha

[@Kainlarsen]

Side note on Harvester, the actor who played Steve was busted for possession of CP. :D

[@st1ka]

oof :\

[@burgertim7878]

He even wears a checkered shirt very similar to his ingame one in his mugshot.

[@mxporygon2]

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.

[@st1ka]

A shame he wasn't a Sega guy :P

[@mxporygon2]

@@st1ka well, nobody is perfect

[@josephsmith7114]

Man, your voice is so hilarious sounding. You always sound so excited about everything you are saying.

[@GlerpidyGlarson]

Hey Stalin, Hamlet and Genghis Khan let's go fucking do stuff. "All of them"- YES

[@st1ka]

pretty much yeah xD

[@wpeniche]

Love the shout out to Dungeon Chill, I’ve been a fan of him since he had like 50 subs and each and everyone of his videos is so informative and entertaining just like Strika!

[@st1ka]

Dungeon Chill is absolutely S-tier. Love his channel

[@hamishfox]

The original version of princess maker 2 is one of the best games ever made.

[@st1ka]

I love the DOS version

[@grimnir7749]

That Mexico show bit was really wild, I was laughing my socks off at that! Thanks mate!!!

[@st1ka]

It was my favorite part of the video

[@grimnir7749]

@@st1ka The psycho lady is probably like:"What the hecks' goin' on?!?"

[@MarkDeSade100]

"All female character models come in two varieties: scantily-clad and less than that" My friend, that's how you know you're playing a truly great game.

[@st1ka]

Haha

[@meliodas8409]

The PERFECT "Y usted que opina?" pronunciation took me by surprise 😂

[@st1ka]

hehe :P

[@Shinesart]

Mexico TV segment is really funny. Also your Dad is based.😂

[@st1ka]

Hell yeah! My dad is awesome

[@Rpm2878]

You could make a pretty lengthy video on games banned in Australia. I counted 53 games, in the list on Wikipedia and there's a list, around the same length, of games that were eventually unbanned.

[@st1ka]

yeah, I've noticed haha

[@aliyamarah7796]

Your thumbnails are so dank.

[@st1ka]

hehe I aim to please

[@Kaveeteh]

Im kinda surprised the controversy for Harvester wasnt when the actor for the playable character was arrested for child pornography

[@st1ka]

KZbin doesn't like when you talk about those things

[@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898]

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.

[@PerseusClassic]

"Gigachad"? LOL. More like a crybaby and an a$$. He wrote a 6-page rant about the show in his magazine the next month.

[@st1ka]

It was really funny watching the whole segment

[@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898]

@@PerseusClassic in the context of this video, there's no difference between cry-babying and gigachadding, because it's on public TV. Remember when Nirvana was asked to not play R*pe Me on tv, but they did anyway? Basically the same thing: being childish when it was expected a "mature" behavior.

[@pengabob]

As an archeologist of strange old games, your videos have given me so much to check out. 💚 You're the best.

[@st1ka]

Glad I could help ^^

[@0xPRIMEgs]

Pixel blood, gore, and violence: Look how silly they're being over nothing! Pixilated titties: Yeah, I get the controversy. It's a good video, but I always find the hiporacry of how people view whats acceptable for violence and sex for gaming and media in general.

[@st1ka]

I get your point, but the truth is, even today violence is much more accepted than nudity in games, hence why I understand it.

[@alexandrebrochu4265]

Time Crisis, my favorite light gun too. Silent Scope was a nice concept too!

[@st1ka]

agreed

[@VorkKnightOfGood]

Tuesday? Not Thursday? Who are you and what have you done with St1ka? 😂😂😂

[@st1ka]

Oh usually my days are Tuesdays and Thursdays :P

[@kennylauderdale_en]

Honestly, if a game ever makes it on the news it's gonna be something negative. there's never a new story going "New game came out, it's really good & fun & there's nothing controversial about it. Back to you Sean."

[@st1ka]

Please Consider Subscribing: kzbin.info You can also find uncensored versions of my videos on Patreon: www.patreon.com/St1ka

[@m.k.b.3880]

Please st1ka, please keep 1 thumbnail

[@st1ka]

Sorry 😅

[@m.k.b.3880]

@@st1ka if your gonna change it every 3 business days, at least make em sfw?

[@christopherthibeault7502]

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!

[@summerlaverdure]

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!

[@GameRiff]

The Mexican Street Fighter segment could be its own video. So funny!

[@st1ka]

right?!

[@marscaleb]

Dude, that story about the Mexican TV show discussing Street Fighter 2, that story alone was worth the cost of entry!

[@MarkDeSade100]

At 54 minutes, this feels more like a documentary about obscure games and gaming history than a YT video. Great work St1ka! BTW it took me several hours to finish watching it because I kept pausing to go and download some of these games.

[@st1ka]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :D

[@ditmarvanbelle1061]

To be fair to the kid ... early 80s home computers indeed had 12 bit graphics (4 bits in Red, Green and Blue) so he's not THAT far out of line xD

[@st1ka]

Haha

[@Juicepepper]

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.

[@st1ka]

haha

[@Jimalcoatl]

I remember when I was in seventh grade my family got our first DOS/Windows PC, a Dell 486DX. I excitedly told my homeroom teacher about it. The next day he gave me the Doom shareware disk. Best teacher ever.

[@st1ka]

I see someone had a cool teacher

[@khatdubell]

Any game that lets you sleep with your daughter is a win in my book

[@fungi6612]

I had a feeling Chelnov would make it here. Also that Toasters and Chainsaws story is absolutely wild.

[@RawrX32009]

Chelnov is a gigachad

[@st1ka]

right?!

[@Krendall2]

For 1992, Lethal Enforcers was pretty realistic. At least, they used digitized images of real people to make the sprites, which was a new concept at the time. In Doom II, "Let Hell possess you." Uh, no, you're fighting them off, buddy.

[@AthosJosue]

Pretty cool video, I love that the segments are from all over the world and not just US.

[@st1ka]

Yep, I try to cover a bit of everything ^^

[@DreJoystick]

Duude i have been watching you for a while and never catched that you're a fellow portuguese

[@st1ka]

hehe

[@falcougeoutpost1585]

Regarding the Guilty Gear one, I believe the ad Clinton mentioned that said "More fun than shooting your neighbor's cat" was for the game "Point Blank" by Namco. And the one about the school bus sounds like it was for "Vigilante 8".

[@st1ka]

Oh that makes sense

[@Polygonlin]

Am i the ONLY one who noticed you're playing as Bob Ross in Escape from Hell!?!

[@st1ka]

haha that completely went over my head

[@Polygonlin]

@@st1ka Mine too! i just noticed it randomly while watching the video again hahaha!

[@marscaleb]

Mad props for running vanilla Doom for the Doom II footage.

[@swempytimes]

Oh NHL 93, Blades of steel, NBA Jam, Tecmo Super Bowl, NFL Blitz, FIFA Red Card and FIFA '02 are peak sports games

[@be-noble3393]

I had most of the early levels of Lethal Enforcers and Mad Dog Mcree memorized. Yes, I love light gun games.

[@st1ka]

ooh mad respect

[@danedearmond4905]

I love the claim made by the reporter around 1:23 that "Redneck Rampage" was somehow "Immersive and life-like".... HAHAHAHAHA Clearly they never actually played Redneck Rampage...

[@st1ka]

yep haha

[@almaelma11]

This was a great list! Nailed another video ^^ Thank you St1ka!

[@st1ka]

thank you ^^

[@kissalude9032]

Lol. I'm old enough to get that "The Critic" reference at 18:30. "Buy my book! Buy my book!"

[@JohnMartin-ll9cw]

I know of a few controversies, particularly with the SNES port of Primal Rage keeping Chaos’s fatality where he pees on his opponent, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’s “Hot Coffee” mode in the PS2 release, and more recently TPCI’s usage of AI to issue DMCAs and C&Ds regarding Pokémon fangames and ROM Hacks.

[@OmegaBlades]

I think regarding the NHL game, I believe it had blood in it. Like their head starts bleeding/pooling on the floor when a player is knocked down in a fight. I swear that it was possible to dismember or cut people with your skates as well when you ran over them on the ice, but I may be mixing another genesis/sega cd/saturn era hockey game in my mind.

[@JGerrity]

41:00 Not mentioned, but Harvester has additional controversy hanging over it after-the-fact as Kurt Kistler, the actor that portrays Steve (the "Protagonist") was indicted on two counts of Possession of CP in 2010, and then another count in 2016.

[@st1ka]

Yeah, some people told me about that. Man, that game is just one big Pandora's box

[@JGerrity]

@@st1ka It’s crazy, yeah. I mean, some games/movies/media-as-a-whole get flak for really no reason, but I personally have made a point of never purchasing Harvester on moral grounds, solely that Kistler does not see a dime of it.

[@bes03c]

I always wondered what country St1ka was from. Now I finally know.

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

The one about [Mystery Game X] is proof that Poe's Law has been in effect for a long, long time...

[@st1ka]

hah! agreed

[@Little-Buster]

I played Princess Maker 2 when I was a kid. And played Mass Effect all three parts as an adult. Good times.

[@st1ka]

hope you enjoyed the video ^^

[@Little-Buster]

@@st1ka I did.

[@SylveonTrapito]

As always, super informative and super interesting with a lot of thing I never knew!

[@st1ka]

Glad I could help!

[@MattiaBulgarelli]

If you're ever going to do a sequel video, I have plenty of material about Italy. I toured a panel (available on KZbin but it's in Italian) about moral panics and of course there was a video game section. Rule of Rose was a big deal for a month or so, here.

[@st1ka]

Oh feel free to link me to that video. I'll probably be able to get the gist of it ^^

[@MattiaBulgarelli]

@@st1ka here in the comments, or should I send it privately? If so, how?

[@seanfsmith]

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

[@st1ka]

The game is so much fun

[@chrisdacorte9566]

gotta love how society always tries to scapegoat popular things (like video games) rather than admit and fix its own faults and influences on its own degeneracy.

[@trelard]

Cannon Fodder was such a fun game. I owned it for the Commodore Amiga back in the day. That was a great system.

[@acomingextinction]

cannot believe how much I enjoyed this video. some crazy stories I've never heard of before. that Taito prank was SICK. and oh my god, that Mexican talkshow

[@st1ka]

Haha, glad you enjoyed it

[@mage1439]

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?

[@st1ka]

Apparently the preacher has a long history of anti-videogame rants. I almost want to do a full video on just this dude

[@JaxCoolKartunes]

Yeah you should make a full video on him alone there is a lot to cover I'm just baffled by Game rants (Mostly reviews but also those type of crud XD) so yeah it would be a pretty good way to explain the guy to a English-speaking audience.

[@javaly78]

Rumor has it toasters and chainsaws was supposed to be the fourth game in the Rastan Saga

[@st1ka]

Oh how interesting

[@javaly78]

Lol we wish right?

[@juanthegamer7834]

I can't believe that some spanish was showed here, I like it. I can't believe that boy made such question, literally the heall was released there 😂

[@st1ka]

@juanthegamer7834 hey, I speak a little Spanish and I have decent Spanish pronunciation :P

[@noaht2005]

I think part of the issue with Lethal Enforcers was the name Justifier, like it’s justifying violence

[@Mankey619]

It's crazy that the entire audience were having an intense console feud over SEGA and Nintendo, and completely forgot the question that they were talking about. This is what we call real console wars between console fans. Also the president of Taito of America has delivered one of the biggest trolling in video game history.

[@st1ka]

right?! I love that whole segment

[@poolhalljunkie9]

Tendonitis when doing something for leisure. Not ok. Tendonitis when doing a job. You're not working hard enough.