TIL it is better that children become desensitized to violence at an early age
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Unexpected inappropriate moments in "child friendly" games
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TIL it is better that children become desensitized to violence at an early age
This one's old and obscure, but it's pretty funny.
Get Off My Garden is a very simple game where you have to water some flowers while avoiding obstacles. So far, so typical 80s Euro budget game.
On the top of the screen, a scrolling message is constantly displayed. It's rather lengthy, so most people probably won't read all of it. If you stick around however, the message takes a rather interesting turn. Suddenly, the writer goes on a monologue about bongs, explaining what they look like and what they're used for.
Get Off My Garden is a very simple game where you have to water some flowers while avoiding obstacles. So far, so typical 80s Euro budget game.
On the top of the screen, a scrolling message is constantly displayed. It's rather lengthy, so most people probably won't read all of it. If you stick around however, the message takes a rather interesting turn. Suddenly, the writer goes on a monologue about bongs, explaining what they look like and what they're used for.
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I should have added more context to the Knack video: that was when my daughters were 4 and 2 and I thought they could just watch the game. I was just surprised at that opening with guns and war since also back then I had assumed the game to be super child friendly (now I will remember to read the PEGI ratings better in future). Anyway that was way too much war and "real violence" for my taste to play it it front of my girls.
I know this scene was part of the movie, but was I the only one to feel uneasy seeing this whenever you died in the game?
Wow, I'm surprised I missed that considering I replayed Ground Zeroes not that long ago. Guess I thought Nintendo wouldn't make a reference to something so dark.
Ah, alright then. I suppose I can understand that. Different cultures view things very differently, and I can understand wanting to keep the horrors of war away from your children a while longer. I grew up in a military family, so perhaps I'm slightly desensitized to that type of thing as a result of how I was raised, such is why I didn't understand what was offensive about it. I certainly don't want my daughter to join the military as I hated it when I was in, so perhaps keeping her away from realistic war violence like that would have actually been the more sensible parenting option, but it's not the choice I made when raising my daughter. I get your view point though, for sure; hell it might be the right one. Thanks for the conversation at any rate.
Core Design before creating Tomb Raider, turned a child friendly arcade port into an X-rated one, via an easter-egg that was discovered 30 years later
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Nah that was known at the time, I remember playing it as a kid on my amiga and found out about it. Def fits the thread though as I remember 11 year old me sitting there wondering wtf was going on there!
I remember playing that game on Amiga too but apparently the teen that owned the system either did not know or he did not want to show us the content to avoid problems with his and our parents. I guess it was the latter. Though he showed us Party Games
The T rating existed from the beginning of the ESRB and the E rating was just a renaming of K-A that happened a few years later; nothing else was changed at that time. The big change was the addition of the E10+ in 2005 to fill in that nebulous gray area between E and T, and that's the rating the remastered N. Sane Trilogy was given.
NNK2 is weird in that 90 percent of the game is like, a story for 5 year olds, dumber and less appealing to adults than even the worst Dreamworks movie, and then the other stuff is like, "Im the president of the United States and here's my handgun!"
Playing Crash Team Racing with my kids and there's this cool looking DeLorean knock-off dlc car called... Probulot 2000 lol. The kids really want the car but I don't have enough coins yet but I'm certainly calling it Probe You Lot even if it's supposed to be Probe a lot (not sure).
Some of the win animations in Mario Strikers Charged. Waluigi basically tells you to suck it and Daisy declares herself hot stuff while showing her rear.
(1:43 if it doesn't start there automatically.)
(3:34 if it doesn't start there automatically.)
(1:43 if it doesn't start there automatically.)
(3:34 if it doesn't start there automatically.)
Puyo Puyo Tetris' localization team had a ball with the script. Too bad the dub wasn't up to the same standard.
Mega Man Battle Network 2 has one of my favorites:
And the game was just shockingly dark and intense in tone throughout in general. Same with Battle Network 3, to a slightly lesser extent. I loved it, haha.
And the game was just shockingly dark and intense in tone throughout in general. Same with Battle Network 3, to a slightly lesser extent. I loved it, haha.
You must be weary of any Japanese games or shows. You never know what awaits you.
Dragon Quest has always been shockingly horny for what is considered a "family" series in Japan. The first game introduced "Puff-Puff"ing into the gaming lexicon.
(Screenshot from 8, but what do you think those Slimes represent?)
Eventually CERO caught up to them, and later re-releases of the series occasionally tone things down to keep it's standard "A" Rating.
PS2 said:
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Yeah, people in the west really need to learn the difference tbh. They'd be scandalized looking at a local area map in Japan
Manji is just the Japanese word for swastika. It can have either orientation.
Meaning it's useless as an argument.
I've far more often seen the kids whose parents set no limits grow up to be insufferable and incontrollable assholes, and kids that were actually parented grow up to be loving and well adjusted; several examples of both, on my generation, and also my generation's kids (I'm over 40). But of course, my own anecdotes don't line up with your narrative, so you will summarily ignore them.
I got caught once...
I don't have any problem showing PG13-ish games to my kids. I warn them often enough that what's in the TV STAYS in the TV, games are fiction, don't go doing that at school, yada yada and they usually get the message because they know that gaming is a privilege (and that I'm lucky enough to have good, smart kids overall).
They're watching me playing Persona 5 which is a very PG13-ish game overall. My kids liked P4 and P5 is just oozing with style so they're hooked to the dungeon gameplay as I lose them when it's time to invest on social links.
I'm in the first dungeon of the school teacher who loves girl and it shows female statues with bikinis. Ok so far...
Then I get to the first miniboss (which is the top part of a man's private part).
I am completely speechless, I'm currently fighting a man's genital part in front of my young boys. It's clear as water for me.
What do I say? What are they seeing right now?
My oldest son then says "It's a funny mushroom you're fighting!"
THAT'S IT! It's a mushroom!
I got a clear example that kids have a different vision of what us adults see when they don't have to deal with adult stuff at an early age.
I'm not sure if I'll tell them this anecdote when they're older.
Of course, I don't expect such a different vision in a more realistic game such as Call of Duty or GTA so this is why these games are off-limit for them until they get old enough to play them.
I don't have any problem showing PG13-ish games to my kids. I warn them often enough that what's in the TV STAYS in the TV, games are fiction, don't go doing that at school, yada yada and they usually get the message because they know that gaming is a privilege (and that I'm lucky enough to have good, smart kids overall).
They're watching me playing Persona 5 which is a very PG13-ish game overall. My kids liked P4 and P5 is just oozing with style so they're hooked to the dungeon gameplay as I lose them when it's time to invest on social links.
I'm in the first dungeon of the school teacher who loves girl and it shows female statues with bikinis. Ok so far...
Then I get to the first miniboss (which is the top part of a man's private part).
I am completely speechless, I'm currently fighting a man's genital part in front of my young boys. It's clear as water for me.
What do I say? What are they seeing right now?
My oldest son then says "It's a funny mushroom you're fighting!"
THAT'S IT! It's a mushroom!
I got a clear example that kids have a different vision of what us adults see when they don't have to deal with adult stuff at an early age.
I'm not sure if I'll tell them this anecdote when they're older.
Of course, I don't expect such a different vision in a more realistic game such as Call of Duty or GTA so this is why these games are off-limit for them until they get old enough to play them.
The original Japanese release also has this:
Whoops, just saw your edit.
I had a game called Spankeys Quest about a monkey who's power was to bounce balls off his head
Donald is tired of fucking around with Xehanort.This shit was crazy in KH3
Anyway I sold the game but in NNK2 that dude comes from the "real" world which is why he has that
Rare had a bunch of cheeky blokes. "Grabbed by the Ghoulies" was a play on "goolies," slang for testicles.
That thing is called Mara, and it's basically a running gag in Shin Megami Tensei games. I assume you haven't beaten the game yet, because the thing you fight in the first dungeon isn't even its true form, and let's just say that the real version of it is much harder to pass off as a mushroom.
Probably the only Mario game where the localization had to remove offensive content too:
It took me a while to realize you are talking about the the white murder line and not goomba giving mario blowjob....
I remember some kids who weren't allowed to play Zelda because it had witchcraft, lol.
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I totally get your perspective as well. Growing up in a military family has to create a different view point for sure (on top of any cultural differences).
My 8 months mandatory military service was also a time that I won't be missing ;)
Is this real??This is in a Kirby game:
Granted it's not exactly easy to notice without looking at the full level layout
Still dunno how it slipped by, honestly
This is hilarious.
I hadn't realised this even though I've played the game. Pokémon has a ton of these it seems.
Mother 3 is not at all what I would call a child friendly game, hahah.
Core Design before creating Tomb Raider, turned a child friendly arcade port into an X-rated one, via an easter-egg that was discovered 30 years later
nsfw
lmao.
Doesn't help that Lana is Anal backwards... Not sure if intentional, but given that text you never know.
Are you serious? Persona 5 is rated M. What did you expect? Even Persona 4 is rated M. Sounds funny and I don't think that there is big harm, but both games have their ratings for a good reason. :P
The Sun & Moon cafe thing was such a weird and unnecessary thing that I appreciate.
It was a different time.
