Games are no strangers to controversy, that's for damn sure. Whether it's the same old 'oh the games are corrupting our youth to be violent' whenever Marcus Fenix has some fun with his chainsaw, or of course the 'it's so obsessed by SEX' whenever Ivy goes into battle wearing what looks like a watered down Domintrix uniform controversy is everywhere you look. Most of the time however the controversy is extremely uncalled for... like when Jack Thompson told Bill Gates that Halo 3 was 'too violent' or of course the Mass Effect sex scene (something I am never, ever going let the media forget about as I have never seen such a misinterpertation in my life) most games are just victims of unfair imaging.
However dusting off the sands of time and looking into the past we can see that every so often we come across games that deserve nothing less than to regarded with controversy. Most of these games are obscure and I only ever found out about them by way of the interweb, others are just really old like Custer's Revenge for instance.
For me though a personal choice for this thread goes to a game with a title I forgot that was about the Columbine shootings, a sort of RGP kind of thing. Naturally this was deemed offensive due to the nature it set out and the extreme insensitivity that derives from it.
However that's just my example from the past or from an obscure source. Can anyone else here think of a game from the past, obscure source, or even a recent release that was controversial and that the controversy was well and truly justified?
However dusting off the sands of time and looking into the past we can see that every so often we come across games that deserve nothing less than to regarded with controversy. Most of these games are obscure and I only ever found out about them by way of the interweb, others are just really old like Custer's Revenge for instance.
For me though a personal choice for this thread goes to a game with a title I forgot that was about the Columbine shootings, a sort of RGP kind of thing. Naturally this was deemed offensive due to the nature it set out and the extreme insensitivity that derives from it.
However that's just my example from the past or from an obscure source. Can anyone else here think of a game from the past, obscure source, or even a recent release that was controversial and that the controversy was well and truly justified?
