Gay/Pedo marriage? Pfft, Great Greed did it first.

[ReyVGM]

Great Greed is a decent monochromatic Game Boy RPG released in 1992 where everyone and everything has a food-related name.

Throughout the game you encounter several NPC's that help you out: a couple of guys, an old woman, but the rest of them are the King's daughters.

After beating the game, you are given the choice of marrying one of the daughters. But just for fun, I tried saying "Yes" to one of the guys (hilariously named Lunch Box and Lunch Break), expecting the usual JRPG "yes/no" questions in which the game forces you to pick an answer or else the conversation doesn't continue... but I was surprised to realize that you can totally say yes to marrying them... and the rest of ending reflects that option!
It's hard to see due to the minuscule sprites, but the text says it all.




Pedophilia? One of the king's daughter is 11 years old... and you can certainly marry her too:




But wait, there's more. You can even marry the Queen and the King:




And of course, since you can marry the King himself, then you can also marry the old woman and one of the daughters who's already married to someone else. This game is sick sick sick and got away with it!

[Allie]

Yep. I've mentioned this so freaking much.

The best part. If you refuse to marry anyone from Greene Kingdom, the ending scene with the wedding circle shows you marrying your own FATHER.

[lanceboyle94]

That's fucking NUTS, honestly.

[X-pert74]

I've never heard of this game before. Looking at this thread I assumed it only came out in Japan and was fan-translated, but it actually got an official English release? Holy shit

[Allie]

Aug 23, 2012 21:44:38 GMT -5 lanceboyle94 said:

That's fucking NUTS, honestly.

The entire game is completely insane, honestly.

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There's a point in the game where Microwave (the old woman) says she'll kill you if you don't do what she says, and if you don't, she follows through and kills you (and then says 'just kidding' and says she didn't really kill you), there's a point where you have to counter-rig a rigged election, there'a a haunted record factory, there's literal garbage everywhere to gum up your item slots (and you have to pay to have someone throw it away for you), there's a point where you have to eat a hot pepper that drains your life in order to run fast enough to get through a certain part of the game...

[wyrdwad]

...This game sounds amazing.

-Tom

[Allie]

Aug 23, 2012 23:11:41 GMT -5 wyrdwad said:

...This game sounds amazing.

-Tom

I just suddenly realized the most amazing thing to be that it came from freaking Namco, they of the infamous "No, we're not going to translate our RPGs into English." persuasion.

[caoslayer]

At least they ask you, in certain capcom game

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Dragon Dogma

picks randomly your love from whoever you treated best.

Married women? Check.
Bald old men? Check.
The shop keeper after buying a lot of things from him? Check.
A preteen rich girl? Check.
A poor boy? Check.

And remember you can custom your character to look as a child itself and that will not stop you from banging someone while wearing a silk thong.

[Allie]

I sometimes think a reason I'm so messed up is because I played Great Greed and Cobra Mission (which isn't related, but it's just as insane) as a child.

[Ike]

this was a weird thread to have pop up while I was surfing at work

[Feynman]

This is the most batshit insane thing I've ever heard of in a Nintendo game from that era. I can't believe they managed to get away with that.

[ReyVGM]

It's a Namco Game Boy game, not a Nintendo one

[X-pert74]

Nintendo still licensed it to appear on their system however. I'm not sure whether this or Bionic Commando's exploding head is more shocking to see.

[Sac (a.k.a Icaras)]

Aug 24, 2012 17:35:05 GMT -5 Ike said:

this was a weird thread to have pop up while I was surfing at work

Yeah, I found it a little embarrassing when I came across it at work too, heh.

[megatronbison]

Aug 24, 2012 17:35:05 GMT -5 Ike said:

this was a weird thread to have pop up while I was surfing at work

Your telling me- I think this is what got HG101 finally banned in work for me- that's where I made half my posts too