Censored!

[AdamJW]

Its not really dumbing down but the recent Super robot Wars Original Generation games that are being released by Atlus in America for GBA very shorty have suffered from many obscure name changes. They have done this to get round the licensing issues that are created in cross continent Mecha game publishing.

[Decider-VT]

Not censorship as such but Alex Kidd eating the rice cake on the map screen got changed to him eating a hamburger.

This reminds me of the dubbed Pok?mon cartoon, where Ash, Misty and co. would greedily tuck into what were clearly rice balls while exclaiming "Yum, doughnuts!"

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Well who could forget the Street Fighter name swapping? Also the Sick coming out of fighters being toned down to a different colour.

One that im sure i have mentioned before is Onimusha 1, when you fight that woman near the end of the game. Tentacles sprout from her err nether regions in the Jap original. But in all other versions, yah jus see tentacles sprout from out of nowhere, lol.

Oh the classic ninja turtles name became heroe in Europe for some strange reason, and Michaelangelo always had censored nunchuks.

Oh and err......... SHINE GOT!

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[Flabio]

what were clearly rice balls

Clearly to you, maybe. Probably not quite so clearly to the intended target audience who most likely have never even seen one before.

Cultural localisation. Necessary evil sometimes.

(There's a bit in Xenosaga part 1 where they eat a curry, but it's what Europeans would call a curry, so there's a cultural explanation in the in-game encyclopedia )

[Generic_Chaos]

thrill kill ended up being called wu tang clan: feel the pain

Thrill Kill and Wu Tang weren't the same game, they just shared the same engine.

[Generic_Chaos]

You're all forgetting Pac-Man which was originally to be called 'Puck-Man'. Was changed for obvious reasons.

[NekoFever]

It's not sad, it's bad. We lost one of the last DC games (Propeller Arena) because it had, shock, horror, planes in it.

It's retarded and frankly it's not the fault of game developers if a few people take offense. I find a whole lot of stuff offensive (such as religion) but I just switch the channel, I don't moan and bitch to the production companies, start petitions, call ambulance chasing lawyers or send death threats.

Yeah, but it's inevitable when something like that happens. Look at the outcry against anything with guns in it whenever there's a school shooting. I guess the scale of 9/11 just made people go even more stupid, banning anything with any reference to planes in them at all.

I've actually got an advert I clipped out of an old magazine that I found - it's for Red Alert 2 which would put it around October 2000, and it shows New York with the WTC front and centre, with ships shelling it from the harbour and a couple of planes flying towards it. The tagline is "Paint the town red"

[buster_broon]

Thrill Kill and Wu Tang weren't the same game, they just shared the same engine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrill_Kill

read into that how you will

but i reckon EA just used what was there and converted the rest to wu tang clan

i read about it in the day as i was looking forward to actually buying it

[Phar]

Snatcher exists in so many different censored versions I don't know what's censored and what isn't. Does the PC Engine version have the hentai vid in it?

I've played both the PC Engine and MegaCD versions all the way through and they removed from the MegaCD the porn video you find in platos cavern, the part in the shower scene where you can see Katrina nipples through her towel, although I think there was a code to put that back in, they also changed her age from either 15 or 16 to 18 years old.
Saturn and Playstation versions were edited even more although I never understood that as they were only released in Japan like the PC Engine version.

[vertigo]

So it's them we have to cuss when our version of Ninja Gaiden has no decapitations, for example

Hmm, the version of Ninja Gaiden I have includes decapitations, it's a PAL version bought in Australia.

Oh the classic ninja turtles name became heroe in Europe for some strange reason

The reason being Margaret Thatcher. The only thing she ever did wrong, IMO

[Lyris]

The clansman looking dude was removed from the US version of Bangaioh.

That's hilarious, I never knew that. They painted a vest onto the naked kid