Sometimes you're playing a video game when
you see something... "Stop right there!" "Who the hell are you?" "Department of Censorship!" "You cannot play this game in this country!" "What then–what are you doing!?" This is why today we'll be diving into 10 of the strangest moments of censorship that ever happened in video games. "Harrumph!" "I'm taking this too!" "Hey!" Brought to you by Privacy.com, a safer way
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that really wouldn't seem so based off of initial impressions, as it is intended for
ages 3+ in the UK and mainly has you completing a number of
fun missions across the environment in a race to find your dognapped friend Daisy. The game takes a total turn for the worse,
however, towards the end, when Jake finds Daisy at a cat food factory, ready to be obliterated by the machinery run by the Cruella de Vil-inspired Miss Peaches. The final level makes for an insane and unexpected
tone shift for a kids' game, where the designers apparently thought it made sense to splatter
blood all over everything, looking like something straight out of Silent Hill. And this wasn't even the censored part! The final scene has Jake very classily fart
his way out of harm, with Miss Peaches falling into the machinery herself and becoming a
can of cat food... ...which was censored in the Japanese version,
who seemed to maybe appropriately think that this may have been too much for children... ...as the game fades to credits before Miss Peaches is wheeled back into the machine for a second
time to meet her ultimate demise. Did I mention that this is a game intended
for ages 3+? Half-Life. The German Federal Review Board for Media
Harmful to Young Persons is infamously stricter on video games than other media, and no game probably best exemplifies this
than what they did with the original Half-Life as the developers had to go as far as replacing
all of the game's human soldiers with robots... ...characters could no longer bleed... ...boob animations were removed... ...and when you killed any NPC, they would seriously
just sit on the floor and shake their heads instead of dying. That's right, you couldn't even kill anyone in a first-person shooter. Talk about overcompensating. Most ironically, there's still blood, dead
bodies, and people dying all over the place so I'm not exactly sure what they were trying
to protect us from. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is the
second title in the Paper Mario series, which also has an unusually high number of changes
in its international versions from the original Japanese release including small changes in the environment numerous animations, and even the genders of its characters. Strangely in Rogueport, the hub world and
starting point of the game, the player can find a back alley of the central Plaza behind
Podley's Place where some of the game's shadier characters
can be found hiding at certain times in the game. Back here can also be found a dilapidated
shed with nothing interesting to note that is, unless we look at the same scene
in the Japanese version, where we can see was originally a horrendous crime of a murdered
character with blood splattered all over the walls and floor. In fact, on the US version, if you look closely
on the walls, you can still see the blood but without the proper context you wouldn't
have known it was there. The localizers said they only removed this
out of fear that the ESRB would have seen it and gave them any rating besides an E for
everyone, which could have jeopardized the marketing they had already paid for. I wouldn't have been surprised though, if
they removed this just to remove it as I have no idea why something like this would be in
the bright and sunny world of Mario. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Grand Theft Auto is a series that can basically
be expected to be censored wherever it goes in some form or another. And in the Japanese version, this was no exception,
a version that Rockstar developed after the US release with Capcom where they had to make a number of changes to appease to Japanese censors. The most interesting change occurs in the
Vercetti Estate, aka Diaz's Mansion, as the rooms populate with objects from the game's story the further you progress through the game. Some of these objects were obviously going
to be deemed too racy by the Japanese censors, such as the photos and posters that you obtained
from an adult film set. What's particularly odd about this change
is how they chose to censor these objects as for some reason, someone over there at
Rockstar or Capcom thought to replace all of the photos with pictures of adorable kittens... ...which must've been wildly confusing to most
Japanese players, who would be unaware of what was going on, who would have likely thought the game's protagonist Tommy Vercetti was slowly losing his mind. Though I guess considering the subject of these images they're not exactly too far off from what the original pictures were.... [Meow] Mermaids of Atlantis: The Riddle of the Magic Bubble. Mermaids of Atlantis: The Riddle of the Magic
Bubble is a SNES title published by American Video Entertainment in 1991, which is about
as innocent as a children's title gets in a game that's very similar to Tetris where
you have to match colored bubbles before they fill the entirety of the screen. But of course, all of that changes the moment
you look at the original Japanese counterpart which was actually called Bubble Bath Babes. That's right, Mermaids of Atlantis that was
sold as a children's game in America was actually an adult game from Japan, which was actually
being distributed in the market without Nintendo's approval. So while children in the US were stuck playing
boring, old Mermaids of Atlantis, adults in Japan were playing the same exact game, except
now trying not to get distracted by the naked girl. Wait a second, where exactly are all these
bubbles coming from? Final Fantasy VII. While Final Fantasy VII has had its fair share
of mysteries, no discovery was once more mysterious than the mystery panties that were found by
datamining the game. And I'm not embellishing that. That's seriously
what they're called. For years it was assumed the mystery panties
were a cut object from the scene where Cloud has to cross-dress in order to rescue his
friend Tifa from crime lord Don Corneo who also owns the Honey Bee Inn brothel where
Tifa's supposedly been recently recruited. Hackers managed to find a large number of
unused assets related to the Honey Bee Inn that included an extra playable room that
didn't appear in the game, which had characters in it who for years appeared to only say gibberish text. Ohimm forum members and dataminers Shademp,
GlitterBerris, and Asa were able to figure out the text was only changed due to being
an unused font with a formatting issue. 15 years after the game's release, the team
was able to finally reveal that this man in the jacket tells Cloud that he stole panties from a clothesline behind Tifa's shop. Cloud takes them only to realize they have
a young girl s pattern on them. Okay. Making him question whose panties they really
were, thus the mystery panties. He then adds that they might come in handy
for cross-dressing, and the man says "Our destinies are now intertwined." What? Why this was removed can actually be found
in the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega Book as Kazushige Nojima remembered fellow event
writer Motomu Toriyama was in charge of writing for the Honey Bee Inn and said at first, what took place there
was more extreme and everyone was saying that's going too far... ...a unique situation as the mysterious panties weren't
actually censored by a publisher or an overly relentless rating board but by the game's own development team who
were starting to grow worried about certain writer... ...which really says a lot, considering all the things they still let him put in the game. Conker's Bad Fur Day. I'm no stranger to pointing out the hypocrisies
of Nintendo's family-friendly reputation, and no game probably highlights this more
than their 2001 release Conker's Bad Fur Day. Granted, the game is definitely one I remember
fondly, but I still had to give myself a pretty hard facepalm when I saw this one. The game is widely remembered for its countless
movie parodies of late '90s culture, which leads to a few disturbing sequences parodying
the movie Saving Private Ryan. In one scene, Conker walks into a lab where
two teddy bears are smoking a cigarette, who humorously break the fourth wall discussing
the game that they're in. "Really, that's incredible." "I mean, what if you were to give this game
to say, twenty intelligent people? I mean, what would that do? Let's face it, what would it do?" "Really, that's interesting." "What the [bleep]!" "It's that bloody squirrel! Quick, into character!" But it turns out this wasn't the original scene at
all, as what you see here in the final game was originally intended as an outtake for
the final credits. The original scene can be seen in a recovered
beta of the game... "This is a bit different..." ...and was originally a much more chilling
scene of the bears performing a creepy experiment on a live teddy... "Oh no..." ...who's completely missing from the final game. "What are they doing?" When Nintendo saw this, they basically said
hell no and forced them to swap out one of the bloopers from the credits in place of
the actual scene. In this situation, I do actually agree with Nintendo. The way I see it, this is supposed to be a
comedy game and I can't figure out for the life of me how this in any way was actually
supposed to be funny. Dragon Power. Dragon Power just so happens to be the first
Dragon Ball media that ever hit stateside in 1988. However, this isn't the more widely known
Dragon Ball Z. It's Dragon Ball, an earlier, much more humorous
and odd series about a monkey-tailed boy who befriends a teenage girl named Bulma on an
adventure to find mystical dragon balls. US viewers who caught the show on its Cartoon
Network run may still be surprised to know that Dragon Ball was also originally way more
perverted, as the censors directly cut whole plot points involving Bulma's underwear... ...which occurred in many instances, such as
using it as bait to capture a shapeshifter Oolong, which in the US version was changed
to money. In another extremely questionable scene, Master Roshi requests to see Bulma's underwear in exchange for his dragon ball... ...a scene that actually did appear in the Japanese version of Dragon Power. The red flashing also suggests that Roshi
is receiving a nosebleed, which culturally in Japan means he ...really likes that underwear. The US and French versions, however, decided
to censor this cutscene in a rather unusual way as instead of underwear hovering around
Master Roshi there's now sandwiches. Right, and why not cut the whole scene? Strangely, on the US version the red screen
effect inferring Roshi's nosebleed is still there meaning he now appears to have a very unhealthy
obsession with sandwiches. Truth be told, I get it. I can always go for a good sandwich. "A-tatatata." "Nooooo..." "THIS is censored as well! Nah!" "Will you get out of here!?" "No!" Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled. The Crash Bandicoot series is a series without
much needed introduction, although you may be unfamiliar with its number of wild censorships
that happened throughout its 25-year run. Crash Bandicoot 2, for example, was noted
for upping the series' Looney Toon-inspired violence, which included this notorious death animation where he waddled away as nothing but a head and some shoes which was rendered to look completely flat
in Japan because according to game director Jason Rubin, reminded them too much of a boy in Japan who was responsible for a series of beheadings at the time. But despite that whole hell of craziness a more recent censorship in Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled manages to raise even more of an eyebrow as Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled brought back a newly styled version of Crash's girlfriend Tawna, from the original game as a purchasable character from the game's Pit Stop store—microtransactions. After finishing a single race in first place
with Tawna, the player unlocks a special, darker-toned version of Tawna called Summertime Tawna. Well, this is actually a censored version
of the original skin that you would have unlocked as the game was patched to remove the former skin's look... which was called this before being removed from the game. If for any reason this confuses you, you may
be innocent enough to not know the racial connotations of watermelons in the US as watermelons were introduced to the US via the slave trade and remain used to this day as a highly offensive
way of perpetuating prejudices against Black people. Looking at her outfit, you can see the darker
version of Tawna is wearing a watermelon-styled outfit. So while you could argue it was in some way
the product of somebody being tone deaf the removal pretty much confirms that somebody over there had some sense that this in no way should stay in the game or probably should have shown up in any game for that matter. Holy moly. Phantasy Star Online 2. Thanks to Juan2334 for submitting this on
my discord server. Phantasy Star Online 2 is an online action
role-playing game published by Sega where a space organization known as The Oracle searches
the universe for planets to potentially colonize all while suppressing the threat of aliens who exist to destroy the universe. In episode four, things get meta when Hitsugi,
a new recruit to the Oracle organization, is revealed to be the avatar of a human teen
girl on Earth playing Phantasy Star Online 2. Hitsugi is sent back to Earth and her avatar
manifests back home as a boy she names Al and the Oracle organization observes from afar. Situations with Al and Hitsugi tend to get
more than a little odd, so much so that much of the game was censored when it came overseas
to America. Despite this, it was uncovered there were
fully dubbed voiceovers that appeared to have been completely finished in English before
they were cut from the game... ...which the YouTube channel Audio Visiphone
PS02 matched to the original Japanese cutscenes here. "Just hold your horses and deal!" "Whoa!" Hitsugi and her friend Kohri take a blindfold to Al and bring him into the girl's bathhouse after school public bathhouses being a common aspect of Japanese culture that may not have been as well understood in America. Al, for some reason, keeps calling Hitsugi
Sis and keeps accidentally touching her boobs. Pretty sure that's not sibling behavior. The scenes proceed to lay on the crazy as
Hitsugi shames Kohri for having large breasts before Al is taken to the boys' bathhouse,
and some female teachers enter the girls' bathhouse. The scene ends with one teacher becoming more
and more enraged that her breasts are the smallest which then cuts to the boys' bathhouse where some male teachers talk to Al about Hitsugi and Kohri only to get in a heated argument about whether small or large boobs are the best. Honestly, the Oracle's reactions, who are watching
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Dogs Life is one of my favourite games! Always thought the last scenes were rather dark for a kids game
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