The 6 Most Politically Incorrect Video Game Moments
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#3.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
While we're on the subject of western developers, Haitian and Cuban communities both protested the content in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, especially in missions such as "Dirty Lickin's."
The mission features a Haitian gang leader, Auntie Poulet, who uses her Voodoo powers and some hallucinogenic drugs to force protagonist Tommy Vercetti to slaughter all the Cubans on the street outside. As upsetting as it usually is to hear someone advocate small-scale genocide, by this point in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City you've already performed a drive-by in a golf cart and chased an obese man down a public street while wielding a chainsaw. So to be fair, we're not even sure the word "genocide" means anything in a game where you accidentally kill two people every time you back up your car.
Almost As Bad... Twelve years earlier, Kaneko released DJ Boy for the Sega Mega Drive (the Japanese Genesis) and gave us a first level boss who was a large woman with exaggerated facial features named Big Mama. She had a different kind of Voodoo, and by that we mean a fireball would shoot out of her anus on command.
Holy shit! It's one thing just to perpetuate your grandfather's decades-old stereotypes, but it's another thing to make up a new one. This is one area where we really don't need innovation, Japan. #2.
Punch-Out!! Series
The classic Punch-Out!! boxing games are interesting, in that you saw where Nintendo drew the line on what they considered offensive. For instance, when still in the arcades, Super Punch-Out!! introduced players to Vodka Drunkenski, a perennially inebriated Russian who guzzles his namesake between rounds.
Nintendo thought better when they transported it to the NES as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!. They turned Vodka Drunkenski into Soda Popinski. However, that doesn't change the fact that the entire game involved fighting a string of wacky cultural stereotypes. So the game still featured a weak, cowardly Frenchman named Glass Joe, an effeminate Spaniard named Don Flamenco and Great Tiger, an Indian whose turban flickers when he's susceptible to an uppercut (a stereotype the people of India have fought long and hard to shed).
From the looks of the trailer of the newest installment of Punch-Out!! for the Wii, Nintendo has finally learned its lesson.
Now Little Mac can literally punch the croissants out of Glass Joe. Almost As Bad... In another classic sports game for the NES, RBI Baseball, everyone is white, including the African-American players. You automatically think that it must have been some kind of technical limitation. After all, it was 1987 technology and it's not like Nintendo was completely unfamiliar with the concept of black people playing sports. But you can't avoid the fact that while the programmers successfully varied the colors of the uniforms, they were somehow unsuccessful in determining how to do the exact same thing for Kirby Puckett's face.
#1.
Custer's Revenge (1982)
If you had heard of Custer's Revenge, you already knew it was going to take the top spot. We're guessing that if video games continue as an art for 100 years, this one will still not have relinquished its throne.
In fact, perhaps nothing in the world of political incorrectness will rise to the level of this game, and it did it all in about six seconds of gameplay: Oh, yeah, that's General Custer's huge, flopping erection, and this game is a American Indian rape simulator. Almost As Bad... By 1989 we were all more sensitive to the idea of violence toward women, so when it came time to translate the arcade game Final Fight to the Super Nintendo, some took issue with the fact that you were frequently pounding on two female enemies named Poison and Roxy.
They even revealed a large measure of underboob cleavage when struck:
Staff at Capcom objected to the heroes brutally thrashing the ladies and, if we may say so in an article about offensive cultural generalizations, the designers came up with a uniquely Japanese solution: They decided that Poison and Roxy were actually transvestites or, possibly, that they had both male and female genitalia. You know, because then it would be okay to pound them. The technology wouldn't allow it back then, but man, that plot point could have made for some of the most entertaining cut scenes of all time. For games that may have been PC but went above and beyond the call for gratuitous violence, check out A History of Violence: 6 Old School Games as Brutal as GTA. Or find out which video game developers sold their souls in The 10 Least Subtle Product Placements in Video Game History. And be sure to visit Cracked.com’s Top Picks to see what we're looking at instead of working. |
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Funny, Kung Fu Chaos was a great game
I agree with zombie hobbit...especially if the attacking female is swinging for the fences with some sort of weapon...if thats the case its fair game and she deserves to get worked over like a man would be.
I am sorry, and I now I will probably anger most of you, but not hitting women is very not-PC. If they are violent and start a fight, they shouldn't get special treatment. Women are not the weak glass-kittens as depicted in the old black and white movies. They are strong and just as dangerous(at times even more so) then men. I am not saying to slap them around for no reason. But a fight is a fight.
theyre gonna have to rewrite this list now that gtaIV lost and damned as a f*****g penis in it, thats right. a dudes genetalia, in all its digital glory.
Idiot Indiana State Trooper swaps job for b*****b: watch news story here!
http://www.tokillfor.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ef094ba80bd0b8c4e04b&page=1&viewtype=&category=mr
To be fair, I doubt anyone in Japan has ever seen a black person before.
Weeellll, violence against women is no more intrinsically wrong than violence against men, right? That's what gender equality means. The ancient idea of a man being ALLOWED to beat his wife because he's a man and she's a woman is what was the enemy all this time. If a woman comes at you determined to reduce your face to pulp, as in the video games, the only sensible gender-correct thing is to return the favour. What are you gonna do, refuse to hit her because she's a girl? What's wrong is that the female enemy in the game shows some alluring cleavage while getting the s**t knocked out of her, which comes from the sexist habit of dressing video-game women bent on violence in scanty clothes for the amusement of men. But you must understand that when your website lusts after the computer-generated ass cheeks of the heroine from the unreleased Starcraft game, who if completed might quite reasonably be shot to a pulp while scantily clad, and then goes on to say that violence against the women in the SEGA game is wrong because they show tits, it doesn't add up. Violence is wrong in general, except in video games, which is why we play them as a safe release for our primal destruction instinct. Among the rights that feminists have been fighting for (although it might be less obvious than some others) has been the right to get smacked in the face like a man because if you're going to do it to a man, which you shouldn't, you might as well do it to a woman, because we are all people.
I think all that needs to be said about Auntie Poulet from GTA:VC and the things she's representing/advocating is that the person providing her voice is none other than Miss Cleo.
It' tough to beat NCAA Football 2004. You could create your own team with a bunch of different options for how good your team would be. A couple of them were "Juggernaut", "Pass Happy", "Tough D", etc. The worst team of all of these was the "Academic" team that you could create. That is not what is offensive. The fact that the "Academic" team was comprised of all white players is what made it offensive, and hilarious
The article fails to mention the Mexican wrestler in on of the Punch Outs, who, literally, spits on your face when he gets serious. So screw the creators who correctly portray my nations wrestlers. At least they could have given him booze like the V. Man.
where can i get these games?f****n great
..for some reason I couldn't keep myself from watching all 25+ minutes of YouTube video game footage in this article. What's wrong with me?
To the comment on Barret from FFVII: I'm not sure having a gun for an arm could be considered stereotypical for black people. At least, I'VE never seen that sort of thing in any case besides the Final Fantasy series.
I like how the paramedic are over there playin on the gurney while that ladies burnin in the house
want to help someone down on thier luck?
http://www.digitalcharity.com/m.php?id=53454
In #2 they mention NES baseball. I have that game and I just looked at it again and wondered how i missed the color thing.
*is a total Poison fanboy* XD
Penis or not, she's hot XD
But I'd like to ask, why did Barret from FFVII get an honorable mention? He's a burly black man with a gun for an arm that, in the English translation, constantly curses and talks in Ebonics.
The video for #3 look like he's protecting a "smurfing" world record attempt.
Custer's Revenge was made by a single person by modifying an existing ROM.
I remember the very first time I saw Ash. I was f*****g shocked.
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Whooo for Zombie Hobbit! Thank you! "But a fight is a fight."
Women are not weak and we most definitely will fight dirty, so I see no reason why any human being shouldn't take it to us when the s**t's hitting the bricks. I actually have a friend who, in junior high (for the people who had never heard of it, that's middle school, as in grade 7 and age 12) took a roll of quarters to school and used it as an informal brass-knuckle weapon.
Hardcore. At any rate, while men hitting women is culturally deemed wrong, it should be perfectly acceptable for men using self-defense or those of you who have to finish a fight (especially if you're the non-agressor in a domestic situation---the cops are gonna hate you for the whole mess anyway, live it up). Don't be afraid to headbutt a b***h.