GUILTY GEAR: Clinton show ad during June 1, 1999 speech on Video Game Violence

[@ryancurtis5425]

"Mankind knew they cannot change society, so they blamed the beasts."

[@Nobody-xe9fc]

Pottery

[@holloworacle3140]

XD

[@minayaki6453]

HEAVEN OR HELL

[@CherrySmug]

let's rock

[@adhamsalem9121]

get it right

[@Micha-Hil]

This was the most exposure Guilty Gear got in the 90's

[@secondarygumby319]

I mean yeah, the first game came out in 1998

[@lorenzomazzaro7303]

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jupiterapollo4985]

Correction! This was the most exposure Guilty Gear has ever gotten in its existence.

[@DR3ADER1]

It was ironically essential in solidifying Guilty Gear's success in North America, specifically the United States. Ironic because Clinton's speech was all about "Advertising's bad, m'kay, protect the kids" as it took place a couple of weeks after Columbine. And now the average Guilty Gear and BlazBlue player is younger than this very speech or was too young to properly remember Clinton and Columbine happening.

[@itsjudeau5275]

​@@jupiterapollo4985 Bridget

[@kennylauderdale_en]

I did NOT drop that combo.

[@Tomatonator]

Oh shit, waddup

[@ggrinky11]

He’s salty he went 1-2 in bracket, and that 1 was a DQ.

[@JohnLick96]

He lost to Joe Biden

[@I-oh_Badguy]

I’m surprised guilty gear didn’t blow up at this point.

[@dudenamedzelda3179]

Wait for XX to come out

[@sehtuk3953]

He didn't say "Guilty Gear" out loud, so I think most people didn't even know it was GG at the time.

[@I-oh_Badguy]

@@sehtuk3953 yeah. Then it would’ve been as big as street fighter or tekken back in the day.

[@thejman5683]

@@sehtuk3953 yeah that was what I was thinking too

[@linkskywalker5417]

@@I-oh_Badguy And it would've resulted in anime getting popular in the west as far back as the late 90s.

[@obiecomie]

'Push the stick that pushes back and feel your pain' has to be one of the rawest lines I've ever heard.

[@Zetagipp]

YO FELLOW POTS ENJOYER

[@AlexYT20202]

I have found my fellow jet set enjoyers

[@Lovelle1]

Que the guitar solo.

[@Nobody-xe9fc]

"I have a feeling Bill was secretly buying a copy and playing that game with his wife so he could kill her guilt-free" -Norm MacDonald, probably

[@neosgx96]

You my friend deserve all the likes in the world. Mixing guilty gear and Norm McDonald is hilariously.

[@linkskywalker5417]

Even though the game is called "Guilty Gear" you can "kill your friends, guilt-free". I don't get why Guilty Gear, or anime fighters, or anime other than Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and Dragonball Z didn't get more exposure than they did right then and there.

[@totalstranger9880]

the Clintons kill real people

[@epicbuttcrack15]

Killing wives??? Holy shit, this really *is* Guilty Gear!

[@Buoyant_Bear]

1:16 Bill Clinton also predicted Fortnite 18 years ahead of time.

[@greencomet2011]

We are truly "Gaming in the Clinton Years" this time

[@yukarinclips]

@/caddicarus

[@LemonCircuits]

Diabetus would like to know your location

[@amia7z]

He went 0-2 in bracket against a Chaos main

[@demiurge2501]

When I went to a local I went 4-2 and lost to 2 different HC mains

[@ghostryderr]

He blamed the beasts

[@AirKangLocker]

Bill Clinton for Strive DLC confirmed

[@Darkrai110]

There's a picture of him in the oval office in Strive's photo mode

[@dressigvil]

Bill vs Goldlewis would be a 10-0 match cause Bill would just fire GL on the spot

[@goby1764]

They're gonna water bill down

[@Mind_Crimes]

Nah Rider's got him booked back in 94.

[@adhamsalem9121]

dude we already have Chipp.

[@RowletGameing]

It's funny how Guilty Gear is framed as violent when the gore in Missing Link was much more stylized and tame compared to what Mortal Kombat was trying to go for at the time.

[@PabloRMemeLord]

Joe Baiken

[@coomcharger6105]

@@PabloRMemeLord No

[@buzzlightyer2948]

also by x2 accent core, most blood was straight up gone, except for the more horror-themed characters' sprites themselves, and was pretty much relegated to cinematic impact by xrd honestly for the better, seeing characters like may or bridget just absolutely getting their blood lost in gallons is goofy as shit

[@RowletGameing]

@@buzzlightyer2948 X2 was rated M entirely because of the I-no victory animation where she takes off her shirt

[@buzzlightyer2948]

@@RowletGameing switch re-release was re-rated to T

[@mattkramer6061]

To be fair, those infinites in GG1 are morally inexcusable :p

[@holloworacle3140]

In that case those insta kill are a fucking sin XD

[@karanoelle4819]

@@holloworacle3140 Are you implying that you aren't preparing for an IK with the very not-so-ominous red screen and the particle effects when activating it? I mean I know in GG IK's are bullshit, but that's only if you get hit by it and didn't prepare accordingly... Much less so in XX and on. That said, getting 1 shot literally because you messed up a combination of buttons or got caught out is still BS.

[@DrEarthwormRobotnik]

@@karanoelle4819 Thing is, even if they IK is super telegraphed in Missing Link, it's still bullshit as the IK wins the fucker the match instead of just the round, and there's no penalty for failing the IK.

[@stealphiee]

@@DrEarthwormRobotnik the penalty for whiffhing IK is being in recovery. Considering this is game with infinites starting from big pokes, Yeah if you're too careless you'll just Die.

[@zeywop]

@@DrEarthwormRobotnik there is a penalty, if your opponent deflects the IK (which is really easy) they get invulnerability for 10-30 frames dependent on character. Baiken and Kliff are the only exceptions.

[@GEB_Rosee_PPS]

"more fun than shooting your neighbors cat" is insane 💀💀💀

[@VitalityRichPlus]

Oh hey, a Gummo reference

[@MrMonsterKen]

And now its a reference in strive, congratulations.

[@Galaxa3396]

Oh where's it at?

[@bekkfxst]

@@Galaxa3396if memory serves, I’ve heard there’s a picture of Clinton in the White House (it’s likely in the background of a scene in the story).

[@nuclearcatpotatoe3714]

Mankind knew they could not change society, so instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the games

[@minnmaxxing6432]

*All these scandals blazing!*

[@HarmonicVector]

Meanwhile, Sol Badguy gets Aria killed, and is a guilty man for it.

[@DR3ADER1]

Don't worry, she comes back to life 3 times and gets a pretty memetic crouching pose in the process. Making her better than Rik Mayall, Nick Gage, Fabrice Muamba and James Hinchcliffe combined.

[@lkcdarzadix6216]

perfectly age like fine wine

[@tchitchouan]

axl main

[@richardmacdougall7812]

the real crime here

[@hellionglassocean]

a true axl main kills their friends, guilt-free

[@Maxler5795]

23 years later, we are now very much guilty

[@spiralpower9808]

This is truly a (Armor-Clad Faith 1:10) moment

[@NagalandHH]

Truly a gamer moment to win an award

[@DI3BS]

GUILTY GEAR strikes Back

[@otokobhanchou4477]

Aw yeah.... Guilty Gear.... That shit was every morality squad's nightmare right there. A violent fighting video game (gasp) about those "Japanimation boobie cartoons" (increased hushed awe) and that ROCK N' ROLL METAL DEVIL MUSIC (crowd is in an entire upset discord). Oh, and did I forget that it has D&D styled FANTASY AND MAGIC TOO? (crowd is in an riotous outroar) Long live the alt revolution of the 90s and long live Guilty Gear. Some of the biggest middle fingers to the "morality in media" imagination police and its hotbeds and strange bedfellows in the establishment. And they thought Mortal Kombat and Beavis and Butthead was the harbringers of the endtimes. This shit was lowkey af.

[@damienlc8895]

"biggest" i dont know man, i doubt guilty gear had even a quarter of the exposure that mortal kombat had in those days

[@VitalityRichPlus]

​@@damienlc8895 Bruh

[@Persephone_07]

What playing against Ram, Nago, and Happy Chaos does to you.

[@dappykenny38]

Gamer of the Year

[@kyokari4]

and now hes in the oval office of strive.

[@SilvercrestYT]

Congrats to Elden Ring for winning GOTY

[@hellionglassocean]

elden mid

[@GoldInk-ds5up]

​@@hellionglassocean 🤓

[@hellionglassocean]

@@GoldInk-ds5up cope

[@california236]

All video game ads are for kids is a hell of a take.

[@persecom]

Grats to Elden Ring

[@FireBomberBassist]

THAT IS BULLSHIT BLAZING

[@thehousealwayswins5051]

Gamer Rabbi

[@nhaprophet]

Ok, raise your hand if you come here because of Max.

[@armoredsquirrel946]

i have too, i couldn't believe it

[@MauZangetsu]

It's just too good to not search for it

[@NewCrimson100]

I thought it was fake I believe now, I just had to see it with my own eyes

[@hitoshura7]

i come because of gg iceberg

[@the1andonlydrmixxel]

🙋‍♂️

[@dziewiaty]

I was sure that meme was reference to the kill list, not this.

[@trcsonic]

I'm here because of Frank from Fighters Generation.

[@indigo3351]

Now you too can "kill your friends guilt-free" anytime in Guilty Gear Strive!

[@BlackWACat]

bro i gotta fucking know what games were on that list apart from GG i have to know more

[@Mamato4525]

If i had to guess, it's either Redneck Rampage or Postal (1999)

[@RJ-hk7oj]

The school bus game is Vigilante 8

[@jorgemoreno5585]

@@RJ-hk7oj In Vigilante 8, Molo is one of the Coyotes (villains), and the original Vigilante 8 had a school bus as Molo's vehicle. This, combined with how Molo was once expelled from school because of his bad behavior, is why Molo is the most likely "psycho" that the Clinton speech formation was talking about. Vigilante 8 reacted to the Columbine High School shooting (20 April 1999) and the subsequent Bill Clinton speech (another reaction, which was on 1 June 1999) by replacing Molo's school bus with a prison bus in the sequel (Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense) and the Microsoft remake of the first game (Vigilante 8 Arcade). Even though Vigilante 8 Arcade was developed in 2008, that remake and its developers still reeled from Columbine even nine years after the tragedy. It was why the Microsoft remake understandably replaced Molo's school bus with a prison bus.

[@Buoyant_Bear]

I was already gaming when this speech was given, and the propaganda was insane. Schools were boycotting Harry Potter over the Christian panic about it being 'witchcraft', etc. GTA was already a hit and the news was consistently running stories on it featuring gameplay (that's how I discovered it in the first place, for the Gameboy Color)... yapping about how it's "teaching children to murder our brave police officers", and all of this bullshit. This was the narrative they used to scapegoat the gaming industry for somehow being responsible for Columbine, when those two kids had the most lax parents I've EVER seen, and had mental health issues completely ignored/brushed off. But their HOBBY came into scrutiny by the government, not their ridiculous parents (Harris' father was a bomber pilot during the Clinton administration...wonder if that had anything to do w/ it... seeing as he knew Eric made pipe bombs but didn't care and helped him detonate them for fun). Instead, they villainized the gaming industry, and this continued all the way through 2005 when Rockstar was the topic of discussion in the halls of Congress, namely by then Senator Hillary Clinton, who was one of the top people fearmongering about children playing video games. Rockstar responded to this "Hot Coffee" fiasco by making the Statue of Happiness in GTA 4 a doppleganger of Hillary Clinton, holding a hot cup of coffee instead of a torch. The Clintons have a weird history of animosity toward the gaming industry. It probably isn't much deeper than boomer-tier thinking "uh gun in game cause violent kid, yurr".

[@rickymcgruder4868]

shut up. that ad was disgusting. the game is suppose to be a teen rated dragon ball z game. but if i was a old timer parent who did not know baout video games. and i saw that ad. i would be so afraid and not let my child play dat either. or teen. by the ad you would think its a rated mature cartoon version of mortal kombat. they could of sold the game without that violent slogan ad. they target these games towards children and anime lovers who are mostly children. and teens. that not how you sell a game to kids nad teens. espically in this violent era.

[@Grimm_Flame]

​@@rickymcgruder4868Yes, because words are scary. Lets ignore the fact that in that same ad, if we flip the page, we see Faust/Baldhead doing roadrunner and tom & jerry shit and a little girl throwing Dolphins while carrying a giant anchor one handed. All of the characters in Guilty Gear ps1 are like this, there is nothing actually akin to real world violence in both the game and the ad aside from the text.

[@Buoyant_Bear]

​@@Grimm_Flame The fact that violent video games now make more money/revenue for the government to tax than the Clinton Foundation or their incomes combined do is poetic justice albeit hilarious 😂

[@Buoyant_Bear]

@@Grimm_Flame It's comical, and it was even funnier in the early 2000s. News anchors talking about games like GTA as if they were going to inspire mass panic/crime waves. God, people think the media TODAY is laughable, they missed out on that circus.

[@ammi5311]

Fighting game do be like 2:01 "kill your friends guilt free"

[@hollowman7168]

So they blame the beast

[@DR3ADER1]

Politicians always blame the beasts, even though the beast is within them all along.

[@Maski500]

Mr beast

[@cookiefdz4513]

Anybody here from the FGC?

[@freezeburn9875]

yes

[@zazenbo]

I miss my wife

[@bormby_jones]

This was when bill Clinton's heart was not blazing😢

[@hardcoremagicalgirl]

This is bullshit

[@nuclearcatpotatoe3714]

Hes just mad he got bodied by bidens chipp

[@dramallama111]

He's doing this so nobody would suspect that he mains Bridget. Pretty Cunning.

[@josuebasterretxea3923]

Here we have! Everyone, the secretary of absolute defence.

[@nkvd1606]

I miss how insanely edgy videogame ads used to be

[@holloworacle3140]

This is so crazy

[@AziDoesQuestionableThings]

GUILT FREE

[@tarian1357]

Gaming in the Clinton Years

[@Taygon45]

No fucking way this is real

[@DR3ADER1]

This is real, it's on C-SPAN's website.

[@sidekickspam7574]

I didn’t know Myizaki was such a big fan of Guilty Gear.

[@mad-dash6448]

1:12 gg and fortnite confirmed???

[@Zrbrcr]

Squid games

[@TenguBlade]

AMOGUS

[@jacobjackson935]

SQUID GAMES‼️

[@damienlarson4145]

Who do you think is Bill's main in Guilty Gear?

[@bastardblizzard]

may. he likes them young.

[@AziDoesQuestionableThings]

​@@bastardblizzardrather unfortunate that may is in her 20s then

[@RawrX32009]

​@@AziDoesQuestionableThingsThen Bridget I'm pretty sure theyre 16 in xx

[@Grimm_Flame]

Bedman but only on strive.

[@Cirnein]

Chaos Main

[@KnottsBear-yTalesPreserved]

Guilty Gear in the big time baby

[@lncomus]

Damn, I was so sure it was ai generated, then I checked the date

[@UserOfTheName]

If it said kill Iraqis guilt free then he would have loved it

[@Acidictasteaftervomit]

He got beat to death by briskets yo-yo and wasn’t prepared for it

[@JoJoFan87]

No where does he reference Guilty Gear.

[@vj7248]

This is why Strive's story mode is set in the White House

[@kamikazilucas]

not the best gaming in the clinton years episode, no george wood for 1 idk who this bill guy is but he dosent really seem to be passionate about video games

[@woaddragon]

The crushing irony

[@Javi_the_n00b]

hi doods

[@MauZangetsu]

Yo!

[@Javi_the_n00b]

@@MauZangetsu videogames

[@MauZangetsu]

@@Javi_the_n00b now we're talking

[@Nobody-xe9fc]

hi dead

[@romacalor]

@@Javi_the_n00b Hear me out... video games where there is martial arts based combat

[@battleroyale1056]

UNREAL TOURNAMENT > FORTNITE

[@hellionglassocean]

always has been that way.

[@chrisnichols9014]

Bill Clinton is fucking hilarious.

[@knuclear200x]

Back when Rurouni Kenshin was a girl

[@komradekradles8731]

What is this in reference to?

[@josealcala7765]

@@komradekradles8731 Daisuke thought Kenshin was a woman at the time, which was his inspiration for designing Baiken

[@komradekradles8731]

@@josealcala7765 Oh, thanks for the explanation

[@DimiRoeder]

that bullshit did blaze

[@Radec_G]

noway

[@BobbinRobbin777]

Biden’s not gonna like this.

[@paisenpaisen]

unbased

[@mcgardenshedsofficial]

mf blamed the beasts ☠☠

[@Bol_Sadguy.]

Beast blamer

[@NationalistAF]

lol

[@SunAlfiChannel]

yo

[@zel_guy]

🕵️‍♀️

[@jjwrx8]

Ngl all those ads were pretty awful and seemed pretty fair to call out.

[@nielron301]

jogo de luta 👎👎👎👎👎

[@icecoldfr]

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