Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 5 days ago
A very console focused perspective.
80s/90s console games (and in some way even today) were much more vanilla and restricted in their perspective.
This was never an issue with computer games. 80s/90s PC games had a broad spectrum of presentation.
The original Leisure Suit Larry was released in 1987.
DosDude@retrolemmy.com 5 days ago
Though your point is correct, using Larry in the context doesn’t prove your point. There isn’t much violence other than the back alley brawl.
Even then the Atari had games like Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Chiller was even on the NES.
Most controversial games on PC are in the 90s with carmageddon and wolfenstein 3d/Doom being obvious frontrunners.
radix@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And Mortal Kombat hit consoles in 1993, so the big, controversial hits weren’t limited to PCs in the early 90s.
vrek@programming.dev 5 days ago
You’re forgetting about Duke nukem as being controversial
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 4 days ago
Sure, I meant that computers offered an open platform, be it for violent games or games with sexual themes.