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2154086 No.2154086 [Reply] [Original]

What are some of the most bullshit cases of censorship in games?

I came across this tonight. Like honestly, who could even tell the statue on the left was of a woman to begin with? You could really mistake those 5 pixels as a nude tit? On a CRT in the early 90s? No one would even realize what was being shown, let alone get offended over it. But someone along the line looked at that sprite and said no, that's too much, it has crossed the line and needs to be "fixed". Holy cow the level of paranoia present is astounding.

>> No.2154101

I always hated how some versions of FF6 censored the scene when you first meet Celes. Nothing major happens. While on the subject, the Cliff scene censorship? So silly. Ruins the intentions/feelings.

>> No.2154110

I sold my copy of Super Castlevania 4 when I got the superior Akumajou Dracula. All religious references and blood intact. Some fucking bullshit castlevania censorship is the new generation though, sorry for that one europe. Also changing the mask to purple in the TG16 version of splatterhouse, really? That one just had to be paranoia like I don't get how that could be trademark infringement anyway. Rick is the good guy and Jason Vorhees is a murderer.

>> No.2154130

Ducktales had the Crosses on the caskets changed to RIP for the US.

>> No.2154147

>>2154130
But what if those poor innocent atheist/jewish/muslim kids become christians by accident after having a tiny cross displayed on their screen when they're busy killing mummies!

>> No.2154156

>>2154086
If censorship in video games works just as in film media, then it means the people who do it get payment equal to how much work they did. Some shows get censored just because the people who worked on it get more money the more stuff they messed on.

>> No.2154179

>>2154101
you do realize censorship exists because the Japanese think we would find their games that reference christianity offensive, because if the same happened to them and their beliefs they would be offended?

IIRC the Lady boss of the Kefka final battle is called Maria in the japanese version.

>> No.2154439

>>2154179
>because if the same happened to them and their beliefs they would be offended?
Do you really believe that?

>> No.2154452

I played three SNES beat em ups recently playing the USA version, Final Fight, Ninja Warriors and Sonic Blastman. I was aware that Final Fight missed Poison/Roxy but it pissed me off than Nintendo of America also censored the girls on those other games.

>> No.2154462

>>2154439
yes, because the Japanese are ultra nationalistic lunatics.

>> No.2154531

>>2154179
>censorship exists because the Japanese
What? The people who censored Maria from the NA version of FF6 were Nintendo of America, because it was their policy to remove all religious references from games. It's not because "the Japanese" were afraid of "offending" Americans, it was a policy enacted by Americans to establish Nintendo as a "family friendly" company so that people would buy games for their children.

As for the scene where you meet Celes, that was a different situation... some time after FF6 originally came out, CERO, the organization in Japan that rates video games on content (basically their version of the ESRB) decided that showing violence against a restrained person should automatically bump the game up into a "teen" category. Square-Enix decided that if the port couldn't be sold to younger audiences, it would hurt their sales, so they simply cut the scene from the game to appease CERO.

>> No.2154538

How is Maria a religious reference anyway? There are tons of video game characters named Maria and no one got upset.

>> No.2154539

>>2154179
They censor it in things that are just setting decoration, though, which is silly.

Sure, edgelord stuff like SMT is different. Though that isn't offensive so much as it comes off as cringe-worthy.

>> No.2154542

>>2154538
Ted Woolsey talked about it in an interview. Basically he was the only guy who did it, and the relationship between developers and localization was very awkward in those days. Even if he didn't think it was a grievous offense, leaving in little things like that could sometimes result in having to do another write-up and go through the whole process again, so it was better to err on the safe side.

>> No.2154548

>>2154538

Maria = Mary

You don't need to be a theologian to figure that out.

>> No.2154557 [DELETED] 

>>2154179
Asians are beady eyed hive drones, they don't have metaphysical beliefs

>> No.2154562

>>2154557
Dude just leave.
>>>/v/
You'll fit right in.

>> No.2154738
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this

>> No.2154742 [DELETED] 

its more one intern made a note of all possibly suggestive things in the game and the localization team just changed it to be safe
i've seen worse shit slip by the censors

>> No.2154745

>>2154462
correct, just like all americans are gun wielding christian republicans

>> No.2154757

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alIBAUO_CUM
A classic

>> No.2154759

>>2154110
On the Splatterhouse thing, what I find funny is that if there were sufficient grounds to successfully sue over Rick with the whole mask thing, I doubt simply changing the color would have helped anything.

>> No.2154764

>>2154110
Personally I like the CV4 intro better than Akumajo Dracula. Without the blood drops it seems more dramatic as it pans up.

>> No.2154770

>>2154179
Actually, the scene where you meet Celes that >>2154101 was talking about was only done in the GBA version and was done in the Japanese GBA version as well.

>> No.2154793

The weirdest censorship I can think of has to be in Duke Nukem 64 where the various nude women hanging upside down were changed to dead women who had been ripped in half. Because dead women are less offensive than naked women?

>> No.2154795

>>2154793
i like how in duke 64 you can save the chicks in the slime pod thing

>> No.2154809

>>2154745
You say that like it's a bad thing

>> No.2154823

Early Dragon Quest had some really lame censorship. Ghosts instead of caskets, churches becoming "houses of healing". It kills a big part of the medieval christian setting that's integral to that series IMO.

>> No.2154828

>>2154539
>edgelord stuff like SMT
>minimal graphic violence
>minimal swearing
>no drugs/alcohol references
>no prostitution/slavery/cannibalism
So, basically, world religions imagery and some pixelated tits in sake of drawing cool looking stuff, ticks you off as edgy and cringe worthy?

>> No.2154859
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>>2154086
Did somebody say 'Hippo Tits'? No? Well fuck you and have them anyways!

>> No.2154863

>>2154828
i think hes referring to how you can rebel and kill god aswell as the devil and become your own antediluvian omniscient deity

>> No.2154870

>>2154828
>yahweh as an evil monster you can kill
>world religions imagery

>> No.2154871

>>2154870

>Old Testament God which caused a world flood and rained fire on people
>somehow killing him is a bad thing

>> No.2154873

>>2154871
It's the equivalent of having Jesus as a bad guy zombie thing that you have to kill.
That is way, way more problematic than swearing or sexual imagery, and you're being delusional if you don't see that.

>> No.2154876

>>2154871
their the same god, bro

>> No.2154928

>>2154873
>It's the equivalent of having Jesus as a bad guy
>Jesus caused floods and rained fire on people

>> No.2154936

>>2154873
Not really in most of the world outside of the US Baptist/Dissenter regions.

>> No.2154938
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2154938

Adult magazines? In my Megaman?

>> No.2154940
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>>2154938
Sure, let's just call it "Comic Book". That'll do. It's not like the people playing this have eyes or anything...

>> No.2154945
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>>2154940
"Action Man". That sounds about right...

>> No.2154949

>>2154147
I dont think thats how it works
Their intentions are that they didnt want to offend christians of anything

>> No.2154950

>>2154745
your glorious nipponese are xenophobic beyond belief pal just get over it

>> No.2154973
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2154973

Speaking of censorship in games...replacing people with robots? LMAO yurofags!

>> No.2154979
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2154979

There was FFIV's censoring of the scythe into a huge wrecking ball.

It's bullshit in the sense that a wrecking ball actually sounds more gruesome.

>> No.2154984

>>2154973
I can get the idea of replacing enemies with robots but I have no clue why they also replaced the protagonists.
But they fixed the legal loophole to protect children from the gruesome experience of harming virtual humanoid robots.

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>>2154973
While it's, without a doubt, kind of a silly way of trying to make a game appear less violent than it actually is, especially considering the fact that the contra games usually don't feature things such as blood and guts anyway (unless its part of the stage design), you can't deny the fact that the Probotector robots look fucking awesome. Say what you will about european censorship, they didn't half-ass this one.

>> No.2154989

>>2154738
Is that the Australian version of something?

>> No.2154990

>>2154973
>replacing people with robots?
Only if you were a console babby. Gryzor and Super Contra had uncensored releases in Europe.

>> No.2155002

>>2154973

To be fair a shooting game with robots in 80's sounded pretty rad. Probotector is the one of the only cases where a clever change haven't made the game worse, but actually pretty cool. And I'm not even euro.

>> No.2155007

>>2154990
Because arcade cabinets were only allowed for adults in Germany.

>> No.2155038
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2155038

No alien bumcrack for nintoddlers.

>> No.2155048 [DELETED] 

>>2154179
>>2154531
I've played the JP version of FFVI, and she was never called Maria. The three statues' true forms at the end of the game are called Megami (Goddess), Kishin (Fierce God), and Majin (Devil).

>> No.2155054

>>2155038
To be fair, that looks more a result from the general downgrade in graphics.

>> No.2155072
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>>2154973
>He plays with his homosexual shooty guys instead of superior mechs.

>> No.2155312

>>2154809
Nobody likes americans, we only like your money.

>> No.2155326

>>2154987

Robots with big guns shooting other robots will never not be awesome.

>> No.2155340

>>2154793
Showing violence is always preferable to showing sex in America. Don't know why, that's just how it is. You can have mothers show their kids R rated movies with people getting their heads blown off, but a quick glimpse of a breast sends them into a panic and they rush to cover their kids' eyes.

>> No.2155347

>>2155340
We are violent yet sexually repressed people here i guess

>> No.2155359

>>2155340

That's because of the Puritan roots. Sex and sexuality outside of marriage is a sin and the devil's plaything, it's EVUL!

>> No.2155385

>>2154950
>xenophobic beyond belief pal just get over it

To the eyes of sjw perhaps.

>> No.2155386

>>2155340
If I had to guess, it's probably because displaying sexual themes could be construed as encouraging young adolesents to engage in sexual activity (Which they're going to do anyway regardless of what you do) while most quickly understand that violence and hurting people is never allowed. Kids are more likely to try and look at each others goods than they are to start beheading each other with swords and gunning each other down.

>> No.2155405

>>2154562
crybaby

>> No.2155409
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2155409

They censored the hell out of this game but they missed one tiny little thing...

>> No.2155416

>>2155409
That's the uncensored PC version though. And subsequent NES revisions got rid of that script.

There is an uncensored prototype uploaded by the guy who worked on it, pretty cool.

>> No.2155741

You assume that it was "corrected" based on the sprite itself and not on whatever sketches the sprites were based on.

>> No.2155751

>>2155054
Nah it was intentionally removed to get the license. The Megadrive still had it and the graphics are worse.

>> No.2155764
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2155764

But daggerfall is full of nude women, and its rated T for Teen

God damn you can take all the clothes of your character but you cant have a barren breasted statue you can barely see in Castlevania?

>> No.2155775

>>2154945
Well, there's probably a man getting "action" in these, so that's probably correct on a technicality.

>> No.2155781
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2155781

No alcohol for you.
Juice only!

>> No.2155784

>>2154548
So nobody is allowed to be called Mary now? Christians get butthurt over everything. I have a friend named Jesus, and my father still gets upset about it. If someone else's name offends you that much, just stay in your room/house and don't come out. The world is too much for you to handle.

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>>2154870
>Implying Yahweh isn't evil
Good one m8

>> No.2155846
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2155846

While I don't mind Earthbound's censorship, I found this scene incredibly retarted. Got drunk by cappuchino? Seriously? It doesn't helps the fact that they didn't changed the sprite for the glass of beer he's holding.

Also renaming bars as cafes while the inside doesn't looks like a cafe at all...

>> No.2155848

>>2154950
dude im gonan go to japan and everyones gonna love me for my vast knowledge of videogames and anime and all the hot chicks will want to suck my dick
WHITTO PIGGO GO HOMO

srsly tho chinks only hate other chinks like koreans and chinese and i believe crazy nationalists are a vocal minority, just like /pol/ is to america

>> No.2155858

>>2154979
i never even noticed the huge bowling ball thing fell on rosa during the rescue scene until years later when someone pointed out the censoring

>> No.2155861

>>2155846
its like that scene in the spongebob movie when they get high off ice cream and say they've officially become adults now
smart kids will get it

>> No.2155865

>>2155861
There's a spongebob movie?

>> No.2155871

>>2155865
and its really good, came out just before the tv series went to shit
its old as fuck now i watched it when it came out

>> No.2155923

>>2155865

Has it been cozy under that rock?

Yes, there is. It is pretty good.

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>>2154973
This is done in Germany in particular as an attempt to prevent the next Hitler from rising up.

>> No.2156028

>>2155846
Fun fact; caffeine intoxication is a thing, and incredibly common.

Just throwing it out there.

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>>2155072
>superior mechs
stay mad eurofag

>> No.2156038

>>2156028
fun fact: It won't get you wasted like that and more likely you're just going to have a really bad stomach ache.

>> No.2156052

>>2156038
It actually does impair your judgement. But yeah it's not like getting drunk.

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>> No.2156065
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>>2156062

>> No.2156067

>>2156052
I know, I have had caffeine sickness before, it's not very nice at all

>> No.2156074

>>2156067
On watch I used to take pre-workout or no-doze pills to stay awake. 2 grams of caffeine is not meant to be ingested...

>> No.2156113

>>2156065
this imagine is really inaccurate.
To start with in-game graphics are almost never changed in localization, konami is the only company to really do that and even their stuff was minor.

Why does Korea have the characters changed to robots? The singficant localization change ever made was in the contra series the characters were changed to Europes and that was in the German version not the korean. There is almost no localizing for the Koreans.

Games not localized to fit japanese audience ever, games that are deemed to foreign are just not released.

This comic has the concept of an American game being localized when exported. This stuff never happens. American game companies if anything give the less shit about localization.

I don't even know what the image is supposed to be saying because every concept it brings up is wrong.

>> No.2156117

>>2156113
The korean robot is a unit from Starcraft. It's a joke m8.

>> No.2156129

>>2156113
>To start with in-game graphics are almost never changed in localization
It was very common on Nintendo platforms. And in Germany. Just look at this thread.

>konami is the only company to really do that and even their stuff was minor.
Probotector.

>> No.2156335

>>2156113
>This comic has the concept of an American game being localized when exported.

You read it right to left like a manga. It's the Japanese game that's being changed for western audiences.

>> No.2156340

>>2154876
Tell that to the Greek Orthodox

>> No.2156352

>>2156113
yeah they dont really change it that much, i really wish japanese COD starred animu maids that would be pretty cool actually

>> No.2156387
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>>2156352
>you will never play this game.

>> No.2156447

>>2156387
Would you really be able to stomach seeing your maid comrades dead and mutilated everywhere crying out for help and saying that they just want to go home?

>> No.2156451

>>2156062

>China
Oh god.

>> No.2156452

>>2154987
The cover art is undoubtedly rad, better than two obvious ripoffs of Arnie and Sly shooting the "totally not Alien" Alien.
But my gripe with the Euro release was the name. It sounds like "Probe" and "detector" mashed into one unholy word.

>> No.2156453

>>2156447
japan doesnt allow blood in their videogames anymore

>> No.2156456

>>2156453
They also don't make FPSs

>> No.2156460

>>2156456
actually cod is a huge hit over there, stop listening to what /v/ tells you

>> No.2156467

whenever japan is brought up everyone starts acting really defensive because they dont wanna come across as huge weebs
fuck that

>> No.2156509

>>2154101
Guys I wanted to finally start FF4-6, which version is preferable? I have a (modded so I can play PAL and NTSC) playstation 2, GBA and of course there is always emulators.
Are the playstation versions the one to go? Do they also have censorship?

Something more on topic: Darkness 2 has some sex scenes cut in Germany, which is strange because usually they are only uptight about violence and sex doesnt bother them at all in a 18+ game.

>> No.2156518

>>2154452
>Sonic Blastman

in the PAL version you had girls in Ninja Warriors. Its okay to beat up women in Europe :^)

>> No.2156523 [DELETED] 

>>2154873
yes if you are a religious nut, Jesus cleary want made fun off in movies and imagery

>> No.2156528 [DELETED] 

>>2155359
takbir!

>> No.2156538 [DELETED] 

>>2156447
please, my Penis can only get so errect

>> No.2156550

>>2156518
in the us they were replaced by chimpanzees with wolverine claws
i actually like both designs

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2156554

>>2156113
>what is crash bandicoot

>> No.2156558

>>2156113
>>2156554
fuck i meant to quote
>Games not localized to fit japanese audience ever, games that are deemed to foreign are just not released.

>> No.2156559
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>this is somehow considered offensive

>> No.2156564

>>2156558
thats only cover art tho, ingame its still the same just with japanese text

>> No.2156565

>>2155846
I kind of like the whole Bar -> Cafe thing. Like the kids are so innocent that their perception of "adult" things is hanging around drinking coffee.

>> No.2156567

>>2155846
>>2156565
wouldnt having alcohol references at all make the game rating jump from all ages to something like 16+
even if earthbound came out today they would still need to make changes

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>>2156567
More like 13+.

>> No.2156592

>>2156554
That's a pretty kawaii N-Cortex.

>> No.2156596

>>2156387
Doesn't look too different from Valkyria Chronicles

>> No.2156598

I remember there was some stuff in Final Fantasy 6 that got covered or cut, one of the summons had a visible ass crack and I think most of the women on the final tower assent had pretty exposed cleavage. . . . .we turned out ok.

>> No.2156602

>>2156598
imo barely covered is much sexier than butt naked anyway

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>>2156598
>we turned out ok

>> No.2156615

>>2156605
at least his not a killalkillfag

>> No.2156738

>>2156558
>>2156564
>thats only cover art tho, ingame its still the same just with japanese text
There are a couple, but they're either very rare or I haven't done enough research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jetsons:_Invasion_of_the_Planet_Pirates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psfWgG_7ihw

>> No.2156758

>>2156615

What's the difference

>> No.2156796
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Dinosaurs in Carmageddon 64... as if it wasn't already shit enough.

>> No.2156807

>>2156796
What did they replace? Isn't that from that Carnival level in Carmageddon 2 where it had all the elephants?

>> No.2156810

>>2156758
bad taste

>> No.2156812

>>2156796
>one eyed mammoth

Haha, what

>> No.2156826

>>2156807
Nope. Dinos instead of peds.

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>>2156812

FUCKING SPACE HARRIER, BABY

>> No.2156840

>>2156796
i kinda like it

>> No.2156849

>>2156839
Ah, that was actually the first thing that came to my mind, but I couldn't remember the name. Still weird, though. Was the mammoth in Carmageddon a reference to Space Harrier, or just complete coincidence? I mean, a one eyed mammoth certainly isn't something you see every day...

>> No.2156995

>>2154859
The, what?

>> No.2157012

>>2156995
Link's Awakening. Originally, the hippo chick who was modeling for the painter had tits, and she covers herself up when you walk in.

More widely known, the necklace you get for the mermaid was a bikini top in the original.

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>>2156826
...seriously?

>> No.2157023

>>2156849
Yeah, I only see two eyed mammoths all the time.

>> No.2157050

>>2156796
>>2156826
>>2157017

Wow is it that damn hard to read a manual? Everything is explained in a way that actually makes a lot of sense.

http://www.carmageddon.com/history/carmageddon-64

>In 2026, solar flares contaminated the Earth's atmosphere, and anyone exposed to the toxic fumes for too long became a zombie.
>In the German version, instead of people exposed to toxic fumes turning into zombies, any creature exposed for too long mutated into Dinosaur-like nightmares.

So maybe if you fags want to explain why there would be pedestrians around when everyone has been turned into a dinosaur you can resume criticizing.

>> No.2157054

>>2157050
So does that mean you're a dino too?

>> No.2157079

>>2154979

Came in the thread to post this, also removal of the sprite where Cecil and Rosa kiss. Sonce when is kissing offensive? It's in every Disney movie ever.

>> No.2157085

>>2156605

But that's a Swiss guy who never got to play FF6 on the SNES.

>> No.2157110

>>2156596
this

>> No.2157124

>>2154873
Technically, one of the ways of interpreting SMT is that you actually are the reincarnation of Jesus, and because the gods in the SMT universe are powered by human worship and created from their subconscious hive-mind, Jesus actually comes before the modern Christian permutation of Yahweh where he rises to absolute power. Before Jesus he wasn't really a bigger deal than say, Vishnu or Buddha.

SMT is a story where Jesus turns around and beats up his two gay dads for being bullies and making things hard on him and all his friends.

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>>2157050
Carmageddon is a death race where you have to slaughter pedestrians (humans uh) to gain some time and waste your opponents.

The zombie attack perspective and the dinosaur thing story only serve the censorship ofcourse.

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>>2157124
I randomly named Law Hero as Jesus on my playthrough after seeing him on the cross in the beginning dream, some dialogs and endgame when he bossing you around nuclear powered cathedral in all his glory was pretty cool thanks to that.

>> No.2157151

>>2154979
Not to a culture whose cartoons feature people getting squashed by anvils all the goddamn day.

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2157196

>>2157151
Hey man Wile E Coyote scarred me for life

>> No.2157207

>>2157142
the intro called him a Soul, so I named him SOUL

>> No.2157230

>>2157142
主人公は「あしゃ」
運命女は「あのおんな」
ロー男は「ぎぜんしゃ」
カオス男は「よわむし」

>> No.2157234

>>2154973
Nice one.

>> No.2157242

>>2156567
Earthbound was actually given a T rating when it was rereleased on Wii U VC.

>> No.2157252

>>2155784
First off your fedora is showing.

Second off it isn't the problem of Mary/Maria, it's because that fight with kefka is basically ripping off a well known sculpture in which Mary is holding Jesus' dead body (Called Rest in the fight with kefka).

>> No.2157275

>>2157252

Not that guy, but please leave the fedora shit on /v/.

>> No.2157313

>>2155846
Meanwhile in Mother 3 your whole party eats psychedelic mushrooms. Makes me wonder what an official localization would have done to that scene...

>> No.2157318

>>2157196
For the love of god spoiler that next time!

>> No.2157390

>>2154086
man i remember when censorship was a huge deal, back when the ESRB was created.
remember the hearings with Joe Leiberman against nintendo, ID software, Sega, midway? remember night trap?

>> No.2157970

>>2157313
I Mother 3 you unlock your psy-powers bathing in hotsprings with magical trannies.

>> No.2158016

>>2157970
I need some video link on that!

>>2157012
Eurofag, in fact Germanreichfag here, it was a bikini top here. Did she say stuff like "you pervert" when you dived beside her?

Also when you powder those electric green blob things with that magic powder so they change their appearance and then you talk to them they said stuff like "Nie ohne Gummi"[Never without a rubber] or "Gib mir deinen Saft ich geb dir meinen"[Give me your juice I give you mine(was song by a german group at the time)] I always found that weird and kinda offensive, I was 10 or something.

Cant remember Hippotits though.

>> No.2158113

>>2158016
>video link
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bGlUz1hWp0

Bonus hippotits at 2min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icuCGX70O58

>> No.2158168

>>2156592
C-crash-kun! Don't run off l-like that!

>> No.2158187

>>2158113
When you said Tranny I thought of a hot trap and not a creepy hipster gay guy. Also, did he rape him?
Thx btw.

I dont remember the animal village at all in Zelda Awakening, was it new in DX?

>> No.2158221

>>2158187
>I dont remember the animal village at all in Zelda Awakening, was it new in DX?

No it wasn't. German here, too. I remember the hippotits but even as a child I didn't think it was weird. The crocodile was painting her so it was just art.

>> No.2158306

>>2158016
>Eurofag, in fact Germanreichfag here, it was a bikini top here

in Frogland we had the bikini and the hippotits too.

>> No.2158317

>>2156559
"Look mom, my character is naked!"
Of course parents would be offended

>> No.2158337

>>2158317

But you could see the pig's asshole in StarTropics

>> No.2158350

>>2158221
Hollerö! Another German here. One additional oddity about the hippo model is that in the German non-DX version of Link's Awakening, whenever you'd talk to the her, there'd be a slim chance she'd say "Noch nie eine nackte Frau gesehen?" (never seen a naked woman before?). Knowing how games operated back in the day, I'd say it was probably a 1 in 256 chance, but don't take my word for that. Also, the Blob enemies didn't say "Nie ohne Gummi". What they actually said was "Nie ohne Kondom!". Claude M. Moyse, who's translated a lot of Nintendo games into German during the 90s, would often slip stuff like that into his works. I also remember the German translation of Secret of Mana as being kinda off-the-wall, but not to the point of mentioning condoms...

>> No.2158408

>>2154086
the fact that people care enough to notice this kind of shit in the first place is already retarded. just play the fucking game

>> No.2158409

>>2156447
my boner says yes

>> No.2158410 [DELETED] 

>>2156559
reported for CP

>> No.2158530

With so many games getting censored... I wonder why the NES Golgo games were left almost intact

Golgo 13 Top secret episode:
>nazi logos
>sweet sweet sex
>only minor talk about nazis somewhat changed

Golgo 13- mafat conspiracy
>Actually mentioning countries and political stuff
>Golgo smoking
>The words "kill" and "assasinate" are actually used several times
>the ending is pretty gory(for a nes game), you shoot a guy in the head, in a cutscene you see the bullet hitting him in the head, guy falls to the floor, dies in a pool of blood

I'm not really complaining, but... what the hell?
Where the censorship guys asleep that day ?

>> No.2158532

>>2158530
They had a visit by Duke Togo.

>> No.2158940

>>2158350
Oh Nein, wir verpassen noch die Lindenstraße!

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>>2158530
Even nintendo was afraid.

>> No.2159198

>>2155861
>High
Are you 12?

>> No.2159210 [DELETED] 

>>2159198
That's... a pretty popular idiom actually.

>> No.2160020

>game takes place in a prison
>smuggling items are chocolate bars, juice bottles and horror magazines
i'm sure it's easy to guess what each of these were in the jap version

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>>2156113

>> No.2160095
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Japanese Ly from Rayman The Great Escape. Looks better for me.

>> No.2161364

>>2156456
Sega dabbles in FPSs with Border Break (it's something as odd as a coin-op FPS, but they have L4D2 and other 'murican FPS coin-ops in game centers too) recently, but now we're getting off-topic.

>> No.2161674

>>2155340
'Murica is the land of the (violent) prudes.

>> No.2162458

>>2160046
It's interesting that this game caused a lot of edits because of Japan being offended for once.

Firstly because of the Mudokons working as a caste in a meat packing plant. Secondly and strangest of all they displayed four fingers and like a lot of Asian culture 'arrangements of four' are considered a taboo.

>> No.2162478

>>2162458
>like a lot of Asian culture 'arrangements of four' are considered a taboo.
It's not a taboo, it's just unlucky. Like 13 in the western world. 4 (shi) is prounounced the same as death. I'm a weeb, I know my moon runes.

>> No.2162486

>>2162458

The thing about four fingers being a taboo isn't because of the number 4 being unlucky (it is, but that's unrelated), it's because it's associated with organized crime.

See, among Yakuza families, when a Yakuza member makes a mistake or angers a boss or godfather, they are expected to cut off a portion of one of their fingers in order to ask forgiveness. Further offenses call for the cutting off of more joints and eventually the entire finger. So, hands with missing fingers are very closely associated with gangs and organized crime. A hand with only three or four fingers is almost sort of the Japanese cultural equivelant of a hand throwing up a gang sign.

>> No.2162491

>>2158530
can't censor the Duke mate. the REAL Duke.

>> No.2162719

>>2162486
That's both offensive and discriminatory to people who legit lost their fingers in some kind of accident. So because you had a bad day at the meat packing plant everyone's going to assume you're a gang lord and steer clear of you? That's messed up.

>> No.2162721

>>2162719
>So because you had a bad day at the meat packing plant everyone's going to assume you're a gang lord and steer clear of you?
dude it's japan
the same guys that spend their adulthood daydreaming about highschool girls and shit because they wasted their highschool days thinking about adulthood and studying like crazy

japs are fucked up in the head or something

>> No.2162728

>>2162486
So do you have to cut it off yourself or what

Do they offer counseling as part of their benefits package

>> No.2162742

>>2162719

Well, to be fair, actual Yakuza members are generally not that difficult to distinguish from unfortunate workers/amputees because they also wear tons of tattoos and, unless theyr'e some bottom-rung kneecab-breaker, are probably also pretty well dressed.

So if you just look like some unfortunate worker whose hand got mangled in an accident then most people probably won't assume anything malicious, whereas if you're wearing a suit and your hands are covered in tattoos and you're missing a pinky then yeah, you're probably Yakuza.

>> No.2162749

>>2162742

*kneecap-breakers

>> No.2164390

>>2162721
>japs are fucked up in the head or something
They are just fucked up in different ways than the rest of us.
Can you say that 'murican culture makes more sense?

>> No.2164401

>>2162742
They wear prosthetic fingers and gloves in Japan.

>> No.2164404

>>2164390
Fuck you apple pies, football, guns, McDonald's, jesus, and call of duty is the foundation to all society.

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>>2154086

>> No.2165081
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>>2154086
this counts?

>> No.2165092 [DELETED] 

In tekken 3, anna's jap ending had nina taking off her top in front of guys, leaving her embarrassed.
In the us version, a bunch of guys were checking out anna until nina passed by and followed her. Pretty tame

Tekken 3 : Anna Williams - Alternate Ending [鉄拳3]: http://youtu.be/ux1CX5xGug8

>> No.2165098

>>2165092
I remember thinking graphics would never get better than Tekken 3 FMVs

>> No.2165110

Tekken 3 : Anna Williams - Alternate Ending [鉄拳3]: http://youtu.be/ux1CX5xGug8

Oh no she took off her top. Better not show it to the kids.

>> No.2165115

>>2162486
Fuckin weaboos, jesus christ.
Chinese is to Japan/Korea what Latin is to English speakers.
The word for 4 in Chinese is similar to the word for death. So 4 is unlucky.
That shit about Yakuza is made up. Maybe in the 80s you could get taken for gangster for having all tattoos on you, but people know westerners are angry clowns so the savage tattoos don't fool anybody anymore.

>> No.2165140

>>2165110
Wow that's really egregious. It was already as tame as could possibly be by default, but they had to go and remove even the *implication* of toplessness. Really stupid.

>> No.2165149

>>2154738
Oh my.

>> No.2165156

>>2165081
Neither Claw nor Boxer strikes me as a Tolkein fan

and "Mike Bison", really?

"Vega" actually works for either of them.

>> No.2165351

>>2156113
>This comic has the concept of an American game being localized when exported. This stuff never happens.
Mortal Kombat II with Green blood never happened? fuuuckkk...

>> No.2165358

>>2156572
>add one single naked breast

M FOR MATURE DO NOT SELL!

>> No.2165360
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>>2165358
Yet they can go in to a gallery and see THIS SICK FILTH

>> No.2165361

>>2158530
>Based on an anime movie where a guy fucks little kids
Yeah, Golgo 13 is the most headscratching of NES games to me.

>> No.2165365

>>2162721
>the same guys that spend their adulthood daydreaming about highschool girls and shit because they wasted their highschool days thinking about adulthood and studying like crazy
You just described America.

>> No.2165438

It's not exactly censorship, but I lost my shit when I found out that all the time I thought that I had been fighting to liberate Cuba on my friend's NES Guerrilla War game, I had really been playing AS Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in order to set up the current Communist regime.

>> No.2165503
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>>2165438
They changed the names and story for political reasons. Sounds like censorship to me.

>> No.2165514

>>2165360
Get that filth off of here you sick pedo omg.

/typical American busybody response

>> No.2165534

>>2157050
I'd rather play that version though. Dinosaurs are cooler than just random pedestrians. I don't care if that's censorship or not, it's an improvement.

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>>2165360
>you'll never have a qt GF that looks like this

>> No.2165595

>>2165438
>Dat Liberation

>> No.2165630

>>2165438

To be fair, you *were* fighting to liberate Cuba. From the Batista regime.

>> No.2165637

>>2165630
Batista could take a lot of bullets. And grenades. When he wasn't bombarding us with RPGs.

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2165693

Who needs censorship when you got a "Masturboy" enemy shooting you with piss?

>> No.2165723

Gouketsuji Ichizoku

They censored out Kintaro Kokuin's dick in the home versions.

>> No.2165905
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>>2165438
And the japanese title of Guerrilla War was simply "GUEVARA".

KOF Guerrilla team when? Fidel, Che, but who would be the third member?

>Che is revealed to be alive as a cyborg in his ending
>Fidel has a super called Cuba Libre
>Guerrilla War sequel and crossover with Metal Slug and Ikari Warriors

>> No.2165918

>>2165905
How do he get an Armalite in 1956?

>> No.2165919

>>2165438
>Implying they didn't liberate the Cuban proletariat.

>> No.2165925

>>2165919
The Cuban revolution wasn't originally Marxist in nature.

>> No.2165942

>>2165360
At first I thought that guy was pulling an eagle out of his throat, but it turned out to be a seashell.

>> No.2165957

>>2165637
>When he wasn't bombarding us with RPGs.
Shit, those RPGs will take years off your life

>> No.2165965

>>2165925
But that's how it went...

>> No.2166316

>>2165115
The Japanese and Chinese languages are not even in the same language family. English is a Germanic language, its basis is Old High German, not Latin. Read a fucking book before you try to give people "information."

>> No.2166359

>>2166316
Isn't that what he meant? English uses modified Latin script and Japanese uses a derivative of Chinese script. Now Latin and English are both Indo-Germanic languages but Japanese has no universally accepted family.
Japanese language has Chinese influences which shouldn't be completely surprising.
I have to say the whole 4 thing gets grossly exaggerated.

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>>2165365
>Americans
>Study
God one.

>> No.2166709
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2166709

Because Satan will personally choke you with your own testicles if you play games with ninjas in them.

>> No.2166712

>>2166359
People are really more superstitious about the four in china than in Japan. In China buildings sometimes supposedly miss every floor with a four in it (4, 14, 24, 34, 44 and so on) but I've never noticed this in Japan.

>> No.2166713

>>2166709
>they edited out Michelangelo's nunchuks from everything because they are too violent for kids
>swords and sai are fine

>> No.2166716

>>2166709
What the fuck. Why is there a watchmen reference on orange turtle's skateboard?

>> No.2166746

>>2166316
>English is a Germanic language, its basis is Old High German
Maybe you should read a book.

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>>2156598

Siren

>> No.2166765

>>2165360

fap fap fap

>> No.2166773

>>2166716

>orange turtle

Man, there is really no excuse to not know his name. The Turtles have been around in some iteration or another for the past 30 years.

>> No.2166786

>>2166746

Well it is a Germanic language though. Yeah, its base isn't Old High German, that part's bullshit. Rather its base is Old English. However, Old English and Old High German were pretty similar languages, all things considered.

>> No.2167896

>>2165360

you just triggered 625 of my 900 triggers by this misogynistic piece of disgusting, traumatizing and humiliating piece which sole purpose is to enpower the patriarchy.

>> No.2167913

>>2166716
Watchmen 1986-1987
TMNT 2 1989

A game based on a comic book... HRM WHY DOES IT HAVEA COMIC BOOK REFERENCE?!?!

>> No.2167953

>>2167896
Yeah, but what gave this misogynistic, disgusting, traumatizing and humiliating piece such a retro feel?...