The Video Game Critic

I agree.  I can certainly understand Nintendo (and other companies)regulating the games coming out for their systems, but if a game has quite a bit of offensive content that a console maker doesn't want, why not just say that the game can't come out for the console? 

Taking the Duke Nukem 64 example, what's the point of removing only the nudity and language, yet allowing the extreme violence? Both the mature game audience and Nintendo are hurt here; the gamer loses out on the game maker's artistic decisions to include such content (regardless of its existance being justified or not) and Nintendo's "protect the kids" philosophy falls flat because they're keeping them "safe" from sex and profanity, but not from violence.  What's the point in that?

On that score, that's why I like the ratings system (provided it's accurate).  You want a game that's safe for the kids, shop for the E's.  You want something okay for your 12 of 13 year old, you buy a T-rated game.  If you don't like sexual content (as I generally don't), you avoid games with such descriptors.

You only get into trouble when they don't include accurate information, or when you buy used stuff that has the logo on the game but not the descriptors.  Guess that's what the Internet's for!

mOzart, you mentioned 2600 violent games and said "like..that shark game where you were the shark and could eat people."
There WAS indeed a coin-op game in the 70's called SHARK that fits that description (it wasn't very gory though, it was in black and white!), but it was never made for the 2600. Parker bros. PLANNED on releasing JAWS for the 2600 but decided against it precisely because it WAS an "adult" movie.

But video violence has been around for a long time. Anyone remember DEATHRACE 2000? You drove a car on another black n white screen and had to hit as many people as posible (the directions called the people "gremlins" but the cabinet showed the grim reaper driving towards PEOPLE!) ..when you hit a "gremlin" it would scream and a "bloody" (I guess, it was black n white) splotch would appear in their place! And that was the 70's!!!

The zombies make the game very tame though. With the zombies are goo splattering briefly the game is easily T rating at most. They slapped a Mature and says animated blood and gore which by the way there is no blood just goo and certainly no gore. Since they slapped the M and said animated blood and gore they shoulf have left the blood and gore intact. I mean the n64 has killer instinct gold, Mortal Kombat and Duke Nukem (for the violence), why is violence suddenly bad on the n64? If there were to be censorship, censor every game, don't pick and choose like hypocrites.