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What, a grown man can't play with a doll of himself?
So growing up, I saw the birth of the modern video game,
and had every Nintendo system that there was
from NES to N64 and up.
And since then, the video game market has become
a 93 billion dollar market,
so to say it's competitive would be an understatement.
And because of that, game makers are always looking
for new and exciting and controversial ways to sell games.
And the topics of some games have gone a little too far,
so far in fact, that they were actually banned
from store shelves.
So in this video that's exactly
what we're going to talk about,
those games that are going to make you say,
that actually existed?
So let's jump right into it,
These are 10 video games that were banned.
Number one is RapeLay.
Oh my God, RapeLay was released on April 21st, 2006,
for PC, and was created by Japanese game developers,
Illusion Soft.
The main goal of the game is to stalk and engage
in forced sexual encounters with a mother
and her two daughters, with a variety of options
and locations at the player's disposal.
Oh this one's just full of all kinds of cringe.
Shockingly, the game has been banned in many countries,
including Argentina, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia,
and Australia, just to name some,
and basically just because it's a gross
and distasteful game play premise.
Illusion Soft has obviously since then removed
all trace of the game from their website,
and has completely ended distribution,
while Japan has since banned, obviously, all rape games.
You know, the Japanese culture is into some really bizarre,
weird stuff, so if this game is too much for them,
you know it's bad.
Number two is Wolfenstein 3D.
Originally released May fifth of 1992 for PC,
Wolfenstein 3D was actually banned in Germany
for its inclusion of the Nazi army
as the game's main enemies.
That, alongside the Nazi Party's anthem as the game's
musical theme, and a cyborg version of Adolf Hitler
as the final boss.
Nein.
A Super Nintendo Version of this game was released in 1994,
but was drastically edited to remove any themes,
visuals, or references of the Nazi party,
including removing Hitler's little mustache,
and renaming the boss character to Staatmeister.
I see the insensitivity in all of this,
because, you know, Germany and the Nazi, I get it,
but you're fighting Hitler.
It's not like you're fighting Gandhi, Hitler was a bad guy,
let's take out the digital version of him, why not?
Number three is Manhunt 2.
Manhunt 2 was released on October 29th, 2007,
for the PS2, PSP, and Wii,
and was banned in several countries,
including South Korea, New Zealand, Malaysia,
and Germany, for its over the top gory murders.
The game allows players to kill enemies
using a variety of gruesome weapons or objects
leading to a very, very graphic, gory, and horrific death.
Like, really over the top.
Many countries didn't like the idea of teaching young kids
how to kill someone with a plastic bag, or razor wire,
or a sledgehammer, or a shotgun, or hedge trimmers.
Just to name a few.
So, they banned it.
What, you don't want Timmy running around the house
with a pair of scissors being like,
"Mama, I'ma cut your jugular, come here!"
Number four is the Pokemon Trading Card Game.
Wait, Pokemon?
Yeah, I know.
Released for the Game Boy Color on April 10th, 2000,
the Pokemon Trading Card Game was immediately banned
in Saudi Arabia by top religious authorities.
They stated that the game resembles a game of gambling.
They went on to say that certain cards carried religious
symbolism such as the Star of David,
which he thought connected to international Zionism,
and Israel's national emblem.
That, along with cards that depicted
the cross for Christians, and triangles for the Free Masons,
just was a no-no there.
Yo, Saudi Arabia, you need to chill man.
Take a little chill pill, it is a trading card game,
it's not gonna burn your house down,
it's not gonna bring the apocalypse,
it's gonna bring Charizard and Squirtle.
Number five is Homefront.
Released on March 15th, 2011, for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC,
Homefront depicts the United States under forced occupation
from Kim Jong Il and a highly advanced version
of the North Korean military forces.
The game, for fairly obvious reasons,
immediately was banned from South Korea,
mostly because of the strained relationship
between North and South Korea.
In North America, however, we are more tolerant
of these things because it's just a game, brah!
But to this day, games involving actions against the North
are immediately banned in the South,
since North Korea tends to, kind of over react to issues,
just a little bit.
Well we all saw what happened after the movie The Interview,
so, I wouldn't be surprised if a video game made him just
lose his mind.
They made a video game?
Nuke them now!
(shouts angrily)
Number six is Fallout 3.
Released on October 28th, 2008, for the PC, PS3,
and Xbox 360, Fallout 3 is set in a post nuclear war
apocalypse version of Washington DC.
The game includes a significant side mission
in which a player must decide to either disarm
or detonate a live atomic bomb which sits in the middle
of a small community of settlers.
There's a mini nuke launcher weapon named The Fat Man
in the game, which was the name of the nuke
that blew up Nagasaki in World War II.
For this reason, this caused the original game
to be banned in Japan, and only an edited version
was allowed to be sold there.
The game was also banned in India due to the inclusion
of mutated two-headed cows, called Brahmin,
similar to the cow breed in India called Brahman,
which are held in deep respect by Hindus.
See, I don't get that, what's wrong with having two heads?
Yeah, I don't see what's wrong with that, that's weird.
Number seven is Football Manager 2005.
Football Manager 2005, despite its terrible name,
was released on November 4th, 2004, for the PC,
and is a game all about managing a soccer team
in a mostly text and number-based interface
without any real ability to play as the team.
Pretty simple game, except that it was banned in China,
because it included Tibet and Taiwan
as independent countries and not a part of China.
However, in a twist, the ban caused the game
to be heavily pirated in China, and become popular
in the underground market.
A Chinese version of the game was ultimately released
with country edits.
What, China censoring stuff?
What, since when?
No, no it doesn't ever happen.
Number eight is Mass Effect.
Mass Effect was released on November 20th, 2007,
for the Xbox 360, and was promptly banned in Singapore
due to the ability to engage in sexual activities
with the same gender and with an alien.
Whoa, what you got against alien sex, man?
Don't knock it till you try it.
The player's character can choose to play as either gender,
and during the story,
encounters an alien female named Liara,
as the story progresses the player can then romance Liara.
Ultimately, Singapore decided to lift the ban
by labeling the box with an 18 or older rating.
But the game and its sequels are still currently banned
in the United Arab Emirates.
If all of that surprises you, keep in mind Singapore
is the same country that has a $1000 fine
if you walk around your own home naked.
So yeah, they're a little conservative.
Number nine is Mortal Kombat.
The modern reboot of the classic 1992 fighting game,
Mortal Kombat, was released on April 19th, 2011
for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
As the ninth game in the series,
the game stays true to its gory roots,
but adds to the brutal violence
with greatly improved graphics and new features.
New features, like what Matt?
Oh, you know, new features, like extra gruesome
fatal finishing moves which sees fighters being dismembered,
dissolved, bashed, impaled, and even sawed in half
from the groin up.
The excessive violence got the game banned in Australia,
Germany, and South Korea.
All of these finishing moves are on YouTube,
look it up at your own discretion.
And number 10 is Postal 2.
Released on April 13th, 2003, Postal 2 gives the player
a variety of lethal weapons in a small American
trailer park town filled with innocent civilians,
and includes extremely gory effects,
as well as the ability to
pee on the deceased and living characters.
So, in 2004, the game was banned in New Zealand,
and anyone caught purchasing or in possession of the game
faced charges of up to 10 years in prison
or $50,000 in fines.
The developers, Running With Scissors,
which is just such an appropriate name,
tried to get around the extreme controversy
by stating that the story could be completed
without violence but failed to mention
that it is quite difficult to do so.
See I don't agree that video games influence kids like that,
I mean, there's a lot of young kids that watch me,
and you don't see bunch of short, bald, bearded kids
running around, do you?
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