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How'd this game get past Nintendo's censors?

>> No.3552560
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Haha it's just smiley faces everywhere

>> No.3552569

Are you the only person on /vr/ who hasn't seen the Famicom prototype? The NES game was heavily censored.

>> No.3552581
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F A M I L Y
F R I E N D L Y

>> No.3552668

>>3552569

It was more to avoid lawsuits from movie studios than anything.

>> No.3552737

>>3552410

Maybe they didn't check it to closely. Either that or random blood 'n skulls just weren't a big deal back then and more just considered as gross out "boy stuff." I remember having Mighty Max toys as a kid in the 90s and those had "offensive" things like that and I don't recall people making much of a fuss over them (or at least not to a point that resulted them not being readily available at Toys 'R Us or having ads pulled from TV).

If it had foul language, upside down crosses, or sex or something, that would have had a much higher chance of censorship.

Cartoon Network had some provocative (by today's standards) cartoons on 20 years ago and that was even without television ratings. I don't think people were quite as sensitive or prone to moral outrage as they are today.

>> No.3552760

>>3552668
Yes, but there was definitely a toning down of blood.

>> No.3552769

>>3552410
Came out a bit later on in 1989 when nintendo was putting more focus on the snes. Typically I notice games released later in a console's lifespan are less censored as the company will have less focus on it for their new console.
>>3552569
The NES version still had stuff that would normally be censored in most cases though. Blood and gore, refrences to death, and words like "damn" and "hell" which MP had would never be accepted in most cases.

>> No.3553310

>>3552769
>1989
>SNES
You got your dates wrong m8.

>> No.3553682

>>3552737
>I don't think people were quite as sensitive or prone to moral outrage as they are today.
You mean the era where large amounts of people genuinely thought that rock & roll had real tangible harm on children and youth?

>> No.3553690

>>3553682
Don't forget that playing D&D in our friend's basement was going to turn us into Satan worshipers. Literally they thought we were worshiping Satan. Simpler times... simpler times.

>> No.3553834

>>3553682
>>3553690
Basically this. My dad has stories about how he wasn't allowed to listen to bands like Kiss or Black Sabbath as a teenager because they were "devil worshippers" according to his parents. So he'd sneak records into the house and store them where no one would find them, and listen when his parents weren't home.

The difference between then and now is, back then the outrage came from the conservative right for promoting secularism over religion. Nowadays it's the liberal left whining about things like female characters showing too much skin, and how that's literal rape.

>> No.3553845

>>3552410
Well at least he said sorry.

>> No.3553939

>>3553682
No he's right. Look at Mafia 3 at the outrage it caused just because the guy is black. People will find anything and everything to be "offended" about if it can get them a few seconds of internet fame. Normal people don't care, but they're the ones you never hear about.

>> No.3554037

>>3553834
1. literal >>/pol/
2. How about >muh war on christmas

>> No.3554047

>>3553939
That's how internet outrage is in general. Normal people are out leading their lives most of the day, and they take what happens online with a grain of salt. But there are also lonely, crazy people out there who only have the internet and they're on it all day getting upset about every tiny thing they don't like and they screaming about it because internet drama is all they have in life.

>> No.3554048

>>3554037
>How about >muh war on christmas
That's a different can of worms altogether.

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>>3554047
agreed

>> No.3554124

>>3552410
what is so bad/offensive about it? How is it worse than ghosts n goblins or such?

>> No.3554132

>>3554037
Fuck 'em, I say Merry Christmas. If they don't like it they can GTFO back to Iran.

>> No.3554457

>>3553834
The only thing KISS worships is money, but I actually don't hold it against them, them being merch whores and general sellouts are kind of part of their identity.

As for left vs right outrage, I think things like that just goes through cycles, there's always going to be some loud assholes who complain that fiction hurts their feelings.

>>3553939
The internet makes it easier for assholes to be heard and to interact with each other.

Also what was the outrage about? Racists complaining about a black person or libruls complaining that someone dare portray a black person as a criminal? Or both?

>> No.3554472

>>3554047
This, for every fat neckbeard faggot on /pol/ or r/redpill who complains about the jews and the zog, there's a fat legbeard on tumblr or r/srs who complains about men and the wage gap.

>>3554112
Careful posting that, you might hurt a /pol/tergeist's feelings!