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A History of Violence: 6 Old School Games as Brutal as GTA
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Harvester for the PC
Live-action video started to turn up in games around the early '90s, introducing gamers to countless actors who weren't good enough to perform at their local renaissance fair. Harvester was one of the first to use those live-action graphics to depict ultra gory scenes in what seemed like almost every frame.
You play Steve Mason, a man with amnesia who wakes up in a small town called Harvest who has to figure out what he's doing there and what's behind the town's mysterious Order of the Harvest Moon. In order to get to those two truths, he'll have to wade up to his balls in a river of blood, sinue and baby guts. The game got slapped with an M rating before it even hit the shelves and caused quite a stir among game activists when a trailer appeared at the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show. Bans quickly followed across much of the video game-playing world.
So How Bad Was It? The game promotes equality by giving every character an equal chance of being tortured, stabbed, shot, disemboweled and chopped up into little bite-sized pieces, which isn't an abstract description since the game also featured cannibalism. There was violence against men, women, children, old people, young people, fat people, thin people, authority figures, teachers, children--even babies. Here's what happened when you got shot ... Here's what happened when you got stabbed ... And here's what happened when you got your head bitten off at the neck by a man-eating plant ... #2.
Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600
Probably one of the most offensive games of all time was on one of the least technologically advanced video game systems of all time, proving that technological limitations can't stop someone from pushing the envelope way, way too far. After all, how many rape-based games are out for the Xbox 360?
The game was created by Mystique, a company that manufactured pornographic video game titles for the Atari 2600. The company obviously didn't do very well since they went under after making only three games, and we're assuming the 4-bit pornography market wasn't fiercely competitive. So How Bad Was It? The player took control of a naked General George Custer, who had to cross a battlefield of falling arrows in order to rape a Native American woman tied to a tree. We're not quite sure who we'd like to talk to most: The guy who came up with the idea, or the guy whose job it was to animate General Custer's flapping boner as he walked.
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Chiller for the Arcade
Even the most violent video games have some kind of purpose for the gore. It heightens the feeling of danger in the game or drives the story and, Texas Chainsaw Massacre aside, it's usually done in the name of defeating evil. Chiller, on the other hand, lets you torture people for no apparent reason other than you have a handful of quarters and very poor parental supervision.
So How Bad Was It? This arcade game was created by the people who brought you the arcade version of Death Race, and was played with a light gun. Basically you would shoot at innocent people who were already bound and gagged on various torture devices. That was it, your goal was to bloody them up as much as possible. For points. In this game, you're not just evil. You're evil's red-headed stepchild. You can shoot at men, women, decapitated heads, lifeless arms and limbs, a nun and the occasional monster. You can mash someone's head in an apple press, feed someone to an alligator and throw their nerve-twitching body parts in a river of hot lava.
And if you get through all the levels, you play a bonus slot machine level for a chance at a free game. So not only does it weaken your moral fiber and squeamishness on inflicting pain in others, it also teaches you the wonders and joy of casino gambling. Before you go wishing for the good old days, take a look back at The 6 Most Ill-Conceived Video Game Accessories Ever or The 10 Most Irritatingly Impossible Old-School Video Games. For a fly on the wall look at the drug addled minds that came up with these ideas, watch Video Game Pitch Meeting (1979).
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spooky that's no rumor and harvester and chiller just make me cringe :(
What's really sadly missing from the list is "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" for DOS. in order to succeed, you had to do things like play as a jewish nazi sympathizer complete with jew torturing mini-game. Standard point and click adventure, hard as hell, and leaves a weird feeling in your gut when you're done playing.
yea Carmageddon was great stuff. Like driving into the football stadium and chasing down the players
I can't believe Death Race is mentioned, and not Carmageddon. Same game, only a million times better (Carmageddon 2 is probably the best car game ever made), and a zillion times more graphic. Hitting elderly ladies in a shower of gore, anyone? Or how about cows?
It got so gruesome, some countries substituted skin and blood color on the pedestrians, so they could sell the idea that you drove around in cities filled with "zombies". Yeah... that included cows.
I remember Fallout and Fallout 2 were pretty gory for the time, too. Not only the deaths were usually bloody and messy, you also had death descriptions in the text box. "Exploding like a blood sausage", anyone?
Splatter House was pretty violent for its day, plus there's rumors that its gonna be redone for the 360
i agree with you, but in the same awkward way that i would agree with liking a madonna song.
Chiller must be remade, imagine that but with 360 GRAPHICS!!!
hhhooolllyy s**t!!!!
ineed a sega.
The Carmageddon games (there were 3 as far as I know) were great. For those of you who aren't familiar with it image the Twisted Metal games but with more pedestrians, a counter that shows the number of peds killed and had poweups directed specifically at killing peds (there was a dismemberfest powerup for example) It was a racing game but I never once finished a level by completing the race.
in babarian the goblin actually kicks your opponents (i never lost) head across the screen, while dragging his body. awsome game!
Truthiness, if you think Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within was bad you've never played Harvester.
Chiller was also ported on the NES. My father bought it and to this day I don't know where he got it. The NES version had three stages...shoot bats, shoot people in a toture room, shoot ghosts. I remember the manual explained that you were actually shooting monsters and possessed people, "freeing them" from their suffering, but even at the age of seven I knew what was up. For some reason, I listened to Ace of Base's hit album The Sign while playing. God I was a messed up kid.
Man they could have expanded this to at least 12. Contra was pretty brutal, and Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within is one of the most graphically bloody games in history.
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Wow, that Custer one is sad. They should have had someone raping Custer instead, although he kinda had that done to him when he got himself annihilated at Little Big Horn.
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There was a game for the Sega Genesis called The Immortal that was as violent as you could get for it's time. There were so many ways to get brutally murderated that I could not begin to mention them all. I am a little sad that said game didn't make this list because it was the first game that came to my mind when I read the title.