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Post by vnisanian2001 on Feb 8, 2011 11:07:32 GMT -5
But others didn't? By that, I mean how come they had no problem with smoking in the U.S. version of Metal Gear, but in the U.S. version of Little Nemo: The Dream Master, they removed the cigar from the Gorilla in stage 2?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2011 11:29:59 GMT -5
That's a good question. There was a couple year difference between the two, so maybe the standard wasn't set yet.
When I saw this thread I thought of Golgo 13; in Greece (maybe somewhere else) there's a pack of smokes that you could keep going back to in order to get health back (accompanied by a smoking animation). And considering that they removed the nudity (although not the implications of sex), it got edited to some degree yet the cigs slipped through.
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Post by Wildcat on Feb 8, 2011 11:32:38 GMT -5
The NES censorship policies and the more than occasional breach of them are pretty fascinating stuff to research. I'll glance around to see if I can find other examples for this particular topic.
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Post by ReyVGM on Feb 8, 2011 11:53:56 GMT -5
Some stuff got censored, some stuff didn't.
To this day I don't understand how Zelda 2 kept all those crosses.
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Post by kitten on Feb 8, 2011 12:19:00 GMT -5
Shadowgate is perhaps the game that most mindbogglingly got away with so many things.
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Post by Discoalucard on Feb 8, 2011 12:23:37 GMT -5
Based on what I've pieced together, for a long time Nintendo of America's standards were pretty vague and weren't fleshed out for a few years, which is why older games (Metal Gear, Golgo 13, Bionic Commando, Zelda II) were held to more lax standards than later ones (Little Nemo, Maniac Mansion, Dragon Warrior). A lot of the time the third party would self-censor the game before submitting it to Nintendo, so they wouldn't have to go through the back-and-forth bureaucracy to get it approved. Would Nintendo have accepted that cigar in Little Nemo? Maybe, but it wasn't worth keeping in if it got the whole game rejected. EDIT: Shadowgate is perhaps the game that most mindbogglingly got away with so many things. It's a violent game, but it's all in text, which people in general tend to care less about it. |
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Post by shelverton on Feb 8, 2011 12:31:40 GMT -5
Wasn't the final boss in Chip'n'Dale: Rescue Rangers smoking a cigar too? That game was released in Europe in 1991, but maybe it was released in Japan an US before Nintendo started caring? If I remember correctly, Little Nemo and Rescue Rangers were released at the same time here.
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Post by Wildcat on Feb 8, 2011 12:45:28 GMT -5
Aye, Fat Cat's attacks were cigar ashes in that game.
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Post by vetus on Feb 8, 2011 16:03:11 GMT -5
As about Bionic Commando from what I have read they censored the Nazi references but they kept its violence (take the explosion of the final boss for example which was very gore for the NES standars).
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Post by llj on Feb 8, 2011 16:04:58 GMT -5
Because Nintendo was occasionally run by Mad Men during those days.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2011 16:09:31 GMT -5
Where's my NES game with Christina Hendricks?
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Post by llj on Feb 8, 2011 16:12:06 GMT -5
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Post by Ike on Feb 10, 2011 12:37:31 GMT -5
In Stinger you play a cute little spaceship that drops bombs on churches. However the fuck that got through is anybody's guess.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2011 13:31:24 GMT -5
In Ninja Gaiden Trilogy they left parts of the unedited script on the first game but censored the blood in the second one. That is hard to ignore when you could see it touch the dark sword in the NES edition. It might have been okay in them to leave a mild curse but blood must be green! Tecmo also ruined the stage that flashed the screen by leaving it lit the whole time, it surely ruined the original charm. At least you can try NG3 like Japan did, before they made it harder with our NES version. I'm not good at these kind of games so I prefer to get less damage at my runs. That whole collection was fucked up. They completely ruined the end credit sequences on each game. I really liked the music that played on the NES originals during the credits. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2011 13:59:54 GMT -5
In Stinger you play a cute little spaceship that drops bombs on churches. However the fuck that got through is anybody's guess. Free Ireland! |
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