Feh. Nothing mentioned here even compares to the Hentai games. Battle Raper , anyone?
Hmmm…hentai games…how about a blast from the past?
Custer’s Revenge for the Atari 2600
“I got him!”
*Originally posted by widdershins *
The Hindu pantheon, could take on Mohammad or even Allah. Just trying to imagine the cool character designs for Kali, Ganesh, and Shiva.
Old Testament God (vengeful and angry) could fight New Testament God (personafied by Jesus I guess) they could both perform major moves or multi-hit combos once the energy bar for their Holy Spirit topped out. Or even a God fight between the various forms of the same God with a roundrobin battle of Yahweh (Torah), God (full OT), Jesus (NT) and Allah (Koran) for maximum Judeo-Christian-Muslim fighting action.
Budda might be underwhelming as a fighter, but he could withstand lots of punishment if locked into meditation with his zazen fighting stance.
The Norse, Egyptian, and Greek (or Roman) gods could try withstanding the elemental assaults of Gaia. As bonuses for success at the game you could unlock Satan and various other demons like Beelzebub, Baal, etc. Or tons of awesome oni, tengu, and creatures from Japanese folklore. Or the animal spirits of Native American shamanism. Sure lets offend everybody.
But wait, wait, what’s that? Who just turned up to fight them all with a phalanx of lawsuit filing attorneys to have them all removed from public - why it’s Madalyn Murray O’Hair!
Throw in some figures from Wicca, Voodoo, and Black Magic or anybody else I missed. I know I missed Sikhism for example. **
What, not Cthulhu?
And shouldn’t Madalyn Murray O-Hair be in a giant robot?
StanDup
September 20, 2003, 2:04am
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Is it me, or is this a leeeetle bit fucked up?
This thread reminded me of an interesting Gamespy article, The Top 10 Offensive Games .
Some highlights:
Psychotic
From the makers of Dungeons and Dragqueens comes Psychotic, an old Mac game in which you step into the role of Jason, an escapee from the Patton Institute for the Criminally Insane. The goal is to escape, kill anyone who can identify you, and rape and pillage the outside world.
Here’s a quote from the game’s readme file:
“Anarchists United is a small group of programmers dedicated to the complete annihilation of all ethics associated with computers. Therefore, this program is not sold commercially and is not shareware. It’s 100% free. Our only request is that you give it to someone who will be shocked, outraged, and offended by it. Uploading to religious and business oriented Bulletin Boards is recommended. We might even copyright this program so you can feel justified in illegally pirating it!!!”
Damage
Unfortunately, I don’t know too much about this game, and I’ve never played it myself, but Damage is an obscure Amiga shoot 'em up in which the goal is to kill ten thousand innocent people accounting for the entire population of the city in which the game takes place, and then go on to destroy the rest of the world with nuclear weapons. The main character can survive multiple bullet wounds by ingesting massive amounts of illegal drugs and there are at least two instances of necrophilia. To top it all off, the ending screen shows your character masturbating in the wake of a nuclear explosion. Neat. And to think it wasn’t ported to the NES.
Evangelist Wars
In a close race, Evangelist Wars takes the cake. An old BBS door game (door games were kind of like a predecessor to massively multiplayer games like EverQuest, only they were text-based and didn’t allow nearly as many people to play at once) in which you play the role of a religious evangelist. The goal of the game is to get rich by building up your church, milking thousands of bucks from honest, god-fearing suckers. Along the way you can partake in such holy activities as boning your secretaries, diddling your choirboys, buying crack, getting drunk off your ass, and jerking off in whorehouses. The Christian Coalition would love it!
I’m sure we missed a whole bunch of other, equally offensive games, not to mention some interesting easter eggs in “clean” games such as SimCopter. Early versions of SimCopter have an easter egg in which, on a certain date, the city becomes populated with men in women’s underwear who engage in, err… obscene activities with each other. It was removed from later versions of the game and the programmer responsible for it was fired. And who could forget Thrill Kill, a game deemed so offensive by EA that they refused to release it? I guess they thought the blow-job of death was a little over the top, but as someone who has actually played the game, I really didn’t think it was all that bad. Guess I’m not easily offended.
*Originally posted by widdershins *
I played this game. Well, ok it was only the “war” gods from mostly nonactively worshiped pantheons, i.e. Mars, and Anubis(?) etc. I like your idea and may set out to start programming it. Well first I better learn how to program, but I’m in the middle of that anyway. So If I get it done I’ll post a message here in the pit. Check back in about 3 years. >:)