sometimes they’re serious sometimes
they’re stupid and sometimes they’re
misleading but they all got people
talking welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down one of our
highest voted topics from our
suggestions page the top 10 video game
controversies the these games in many
cases need a warning simply so people
know that they can be addictive and
psychologically damaged yeah a lot of in
order to get on this list a
controversial story needs to have been
covered by more than one new source not
just a one-off by a single channel on a
slow news day will surely be adopted one
spot well Tom flat compared number 10
mass effect sex scenes in 2008 just
after Mass Effect’s release conservative
blogger Kevin McCullough claimed that
players in Mass Effect could quote
engage in the most realistic sex acts
ever conceived meanwhile over on Fox
News author Cooper Lawrence had this to
say they don’t show women as being
values for anything other than their
sexuality and it’s a man in this game
deciding how many women he wants to be
with only problem is neither of those
statements are true there are sex scenes
in the game but they only last one
minute and would bore your grandmother
bunk here tonight Caden he’s made number
9 Pokemon controversy magnets when
pokemon was at the height of its
popularity the series was accused of
pretty much everything from being
satanic so Pokemon is a game that
teaches children how to enter into the
world of witchcraft how to cache spell
to encouraging gambling even promoting
blackface racial stereotyping with the
jinx Pokemon leading to a purple face
change in more recent years PETA has
accused the franchise of encouraging
animal abuse even going so far as to
make a shocking flash parody game twice
Pokemon world is a world of the demonic
number eight night trap now here’s a
game that would have been all but
forgotten had it not been for the
controversy a full motion video game on
the ill-fated Sega CD this game made it
all the way to the US Congress where it
was stated that gifts
effort to trap and kill women once again
just like Mass Effect that claim was
totally bogus
but night wrap would still go down as
one of the seminal examples of
controversial video game violence all
right you are perfect nobody’s ever done
that number seven Mortal Kombat another
game that ended up before the US
Congress this one over it’s graphic
fatalities involving decapitation and
heart ripping along with night trap it
helped forge the nonprofit ESRB
unlike night trap however Mortal Kombat
did really feature the violence that so
horrified congressmen and parents alike
it’s just like any other form of
entertainment there’s a stain you can go
there to have fun you go there to play
the game the violence was censored on
the SNES version and hidden but
unlockable on the Sega Genesis when word
got out about the Blood Code the genesis
version outsold the SNES iteration LP
number six banned in Australia in
Australia on the other hand game
classification is maintained and funded
by the government but thanks to this guy
games that were always intended for an
18 plus audience like left 4 dead 2
mortal kombat and The Witcher 2 are
refused classification and can’t be sold
even though Australia now has an R 18
plus rating it didn’t seem to do much
good as Saints Row 4 and state of decay
were both denied under the new system so
now what
hey so Australia really doesn’t like
these like anal probes that’s good to
know
number 5 grand theft controversies GTA
is another series prone to controversy
though unlike Pokemon the intention is
more deliberate notable instances that
got people talking include the torture
scene from GTA 5 but the violent
rampages that players can go on at will
have been garnering negative attention
since the series debuted way back in
1997 but the most infamous firestorm
came from GTA san andreas when an
unfinished sex minigame was uncovered in
the game’s code dubbed the hot coffee
mod this resulted in the game being
pulled from retail distribution
laughs CJ number for six days in
Fallujah in 2009 Minnesota based atomic
games was set to develop a realistic
military game with funding from Konami
based on the real-life Battle of
Fallujah in which 200 combatants and
over 600 civilians lost their lives and
thousands more were left wounded and
homeless the game was supposed to retell
the battle through testimonies of US
Marines that were working with atomic
however when the word of the project got
out the developers faced a bombardment
of hatred from anti-war activists and
negative press I have this image of a
bunch of guys sitting around laughing
because they got killed or they didn’t
get killed or let’s start over because
we can my son didn’t have that choice
and as a result when ami bailed on the
project leaving the game unfinished I
think I read somewhere in the notes that
you’ve lost your funding to actually put
this game out to the public is that true
yeah no let’s try obviously you knew
though that you might get some blowback
on it because some people lost their
children in this battle peter Campea
kept remember now rush number three no
Russian call of duty modern warfare 2
after the runaway success of call of
duty 4 modern warfare
its sequel became the most hyped game of
2009 and within days of the game being
released it landed in the headlines when
word got out that one mission had
players massacring a Russian Airport as
an undercover agent embedded in a
terrorist cell
though the mission is skippable and is
included in the plot as the event that
Spurs World War 3 it is still
understandably horrific and the press
had a field day John a lot of people
have a problem though where you get to
essentially be a terrorist and kill
people and it’s very realistic number
two manhunt – a game that was considered
so violent that it was banned in a
handful of countries plus the game had
to be censored in order to be released
on the Wii and ps2 despite the censored
version getting an M rating various US
senators including Hillary Clinton
called for the rating system to be
raised to adults only
so the Wii has motion-sensing controls
and therefore to stab you’re going to
mimic a stabbing motion to swing a
sledgehammer or a shovel you would do
the same the uncensored version was
released digitally for the PC two years
later but is now no longer available it
is quite literally a game about murder
for entertainment after all before we
get to our top pick let’s briefly
mention other controversial moments like
the time the playstation network was
compromised resulting in stolen credit
card information this isn’t the first
time that I’ve come to the stage at an
e3 press conference with an elephant in
the room
or how about Carmageddon which lets you
run over pedestrians for points or what
about when doom was considered by
religious organizations to be satanic oh
and let’s not forget one of the first
games to ever be considered offensive
Custer’s revenge
number one allegations to mass shootings
taking the top spot is one subject that
just won’t go away
a massacre in which dozens of innocent
people lose their lives is tragic but
the ensuing blame game that follows
usually but not exclusively fueled by
conservative news media or by a certain
advocate in Florida who shall not be
named is reckless to say the least but
if this indeed is a strong link right to
mass killings then why aren’t we looking
at frequency a person per person and
also how often they’re playing and how
many – maybe they time out never mind
the fact that it ignores multiple
scientific studies that heavily dispute
the claim it seems that virtual guns are
always to blame when people use real
ones who’d have thought I know it from
what
school shooters have done I’ve
represented the parents input you are
projecting other cases onto this case
you’re projecting what he was doing four
or five years ago one to what he was
doing this weekend agree with our list
which games or scaremongering news
stories pissed you off the most for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
the alleged shooter in Washington DC had
some mental illness issues I mean we
have to look at everything you cannot
just blame it on one video game or two
video games there’s a lot at stake here
and there’s a lot going on here mental
illness is a big problem
they’re stupid and sometimes they’re
misleading but they all got people
talking welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down one of our
highest voted topics from our
suggestions page the top 10 video game
controversies the these games in many
cases need a warning simply so people
know that they can be addictive and
psychologically damaged yeah a lot of in
order to get on this list a
controversial story needs to have been
covered by more than one new source not
just a one-off by a single channel on a
slow news day will surely be adopted one
spot well Tom flat compared number 10
mass effect sex scenes in 2008 just
after Mass Effect’s release conservative
blogger Kevin McCullough claimed that
players in Mass Effect could quote
engage in the most realistic sex acts
ever conceived meanwhile over on Fox
News author Cooper Lawrence had this to
say they don’t show women as being
values for anything other than their
sexuality and it’s a man in this game
deciding how many women he wants to be
with only problem is neither of those
statements are true there are sex scenes
in the game but they only last one
minute and would bore your grandmother
bunk here tonight Caden he’s made number
9 Pokemon controversy magnets when
pokemon was at the height of its
popularity the series was accused of
pretty much everything from being
satanic so Pokemon is a game that
teaches children how to enter into the
world of witchcraft how to cache spell
to encouraging gambling even promoting
blackface racial stereotyping with the
jinx Pokemon leading to a purple face
change in more recent years PETA has
accused the franchise of encouraging
animal abuse even going so far as to
make a shocking flash parody game twice
Pokemon world is a world of the demonic
number eight night trap now here’s a
game that would have been all but
forgotten had it not been for the
controversy a full motion video game on
the ill-fated Sega CD this game made it
all the way to the US Congress where it
was stated that gifts
effort to trap and kill women once again
just like Mass Effect that claim was
totally bogus
but night wrap would still go down as
one of the seminal examples of
controversial video game violence all
right you are perfect nobody’s ever done
that number seven Mortal Kombat another
game that ended up before the US
Congress this one over it’s graphic
fatalities involving decapitation and
heart ripping along with night trap it
helped forge the nonprofit ESRB
unlike night trap however Mortal Kombat
did really feature the violence that so
horrified congressmen and parents alike
it’s just like any other form of
entertainment there’s a stain you can go
there to have fun you go there to play
the game the violence was censored on
the SNES version and hidden but
unlockable on the Sega Genesis when word
got out about the Blood Code the genesis
version outsold the SNES iteration LP
number six banned in Australia in
Australia on the other hand game
classification is maintained and funded
by the government but thanks to this guy
games that were always intended for an
18 plus audience like left 4 dead 2
mortal kombat and The Witcher 2 are
refused classification and can’t be sold
even though Australia now has an R 18
plus rating it didn’t seem to do much
good as Saints Row 4 and state of decay
were both denied under the new system so
now what
hey so Australia really doesn’t like
these like anal probes that’s good to
know
number 5 grand theft controversies GTA
is another series prone to controversy
though unlike Pokemon the intention is
more deliberate notable instances that
got people talking include the torture
scene from GTA 5 but the violent
rampages that players can go on at will
have been garnering negative attention
since the series debuted way back in
1997 but the most infamous firestorm
came from GTA san andreas when an
unfinished sex minigame was uncovered in
the game’s code dubbed the hot coffee
mod this resulted in the game being
pulled from retail distribution
laughs CJ number for six days in
Fallujah in 2009 Minnesota based atomic
games was set to develop a realistic
military game with funding from Konami
based on the real-life Battle of
Fallujah in which 200 combatants and
over 600 civilians lost their lives and
thousands more were left wounded and
homeless the game was supposed to retell
the battle through testimonies of US
Marines that were working with atomic
however when the word of the project got
out the developers faced a bombardment
of hatred from anti-war activists and
negative press I have this image of a
bunch of guys sitting around laughing
because they got killed or they didn’t
get killed or let’s start over because
we can my son didn’t have that choice
and as a result when ami bailed on the
project leaving the game unfinished I
think I read somewhere in the notes that
you’ve lost your funding to actually put
this game out to the public is that true
yeah no let’s try obviously you knew
though that you might get some blowback
on it because some people lost their
children in this battle peter Campea
kept remember now rush number three no
Russian call of duty modern warfare 2
after the runaway success of call of
duty 4 modern warfare
its sequel became the most hyped game of
2009 and within days of the game being
released it landed in the headlines when
word got out that one mission had
players massacring a Russian Airport as
an undercover agent embedded in a
terrorist cell
though the mission is skippable and is
included in the plot as the event that
Spurs World War 3 it is still
understandably horrific and the press
had a field day John a lot of people
have a problem though where you get to
essentially be a terrorist and kill
people and it’s very realistic number
two manhunt – a game that was considered
so violent that it was banned in a
handful of countries plus the game had
to be censored in order to be released
on the Wii and ps2 despite the censored
version getting an M rating various US
senators including Hillary Clinton
called for the rating system to be
raised to adults only
so the Wii has motion-sensing controls
and therefore to stab you’re going to
mimic a stabbing motion to swing a
sledgehammer or a shovel you would do
the same the uncensored version was
released digitally for the PC two years
later but is now no longer available it
is quite literally a game about murder
for entertainment after all before we
get to our top pick let’s briefly
mention other controversial moments like
the time the playstation network was
compromised resulting in stolen credit
card information this isn’t the first
time that I’ve come to the stage at an
e3 press conference with an elephant in
the room
or how about Carmageddon which lets you
run over pedestrians for points or what
about when doom was considered by
religious organizations to be satanic oh
and let’s not forget one of the first
games to ever be considered offensive
Custer’s revenge
number one allegations to mass shootings
taking the top spot is one subject that
just won’t go away
a massacre in which dozens of innocent
people lose their lives is tragic but
the ensuing blame game that follows
usually but not exclusively fueled by
conservative news media or by a certain
advocate in Florida who shall not be
named is reckless to say the least but
if this indeed is a strong link right to
mass killings then why aren’t we looking
at frequency a person per person and
also how often they’re playing and how
many – maybe they time out never mind
the fact that it ignores multiple
scientific studies that heavily dispute
the claim it seems that virtual guns are
always to blame when people use real
ones who’d have thought I know it from
what
school shooters have done I’ve
represented the parents input you are
projecting other cases onto this case
you’re projecting what he was doing four
or five years ago one to what he was
doing this weekend agree with our list
which games or scaremongering news
stories pissed you off the most for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
the alleged shooter in Washington DC had
some mental illness issues I mean we
have to look at everything you cannot
just blame it on one video game or two
video games there’s a lot at stake here
and there’s a lot going on here mental
illness is a big problem
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