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A Survey of Nintendo's Game Censorship Policies
ccnull writes "Found a page which offers a survey of Nintendo's policies on censorship, paying particular attention to how U.S. games differ from their Japanese counterparts. It's not just blood splatters, the author has interesting comparative screen grabs showing "clothed" statues and de-Nazified Hitlers."
There was a treasure in Pikmin 2 worth 666 Pokos in the Japanese version and changed to 670 in the US. What's far worse is that all new games (only in the US) now have a 5 second health warning EVERY TIME you start them because of that stupid lawsuit earlier this year.
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Well in the re-released versions of these games from SNES to GBA the game was further edited to remove things like cigarettes, which I think ruins some of the fun.
Now, if Nintendo tried to sell some of those games in Germany, for example, it would be forced to get rid of some of the offending material by the country's law, not by the marketplace.
Sony censored BMX XXX more than Nintendo did.
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I think they define a range with that, anything, from nudity to rape, is to much.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
When private individuals or groups of individuals revise materials they created or created at their behest, it is usually referred to as editing and not censorship.
Auto manufacturers in both Japan and the USA change designs between countries to best suit each market. A concept is being muted in the transition; so is that too censorship?
The altering of products to conform to different markets (i.e. what research has led someone to believe different markets will respond best to) is nothing new. I don't see it as particularly evil, either.
There's an article that discusses Nintendo's censorship for Maniac Mansion on NES
...and that's all there is to it.
The fatality moves were included, but so were several non-violent finishing moves, such as the "friendship" moves in which instead of executing your opponent you could give him a present or do a little dance.
Anyone who's played MK2 in the arcade knows that friendships were in the arcade version; they were NOT added by Nintendo to make the game "nicer".
My Lord, Nintendo is censoring games? Removing sex and violence? How horrible! How awful!
Oh, wait, what's this? A telephone message from 1994? You say they want their fucking news back?
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Blame the very vocal "think of the children" advocates in America.
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This isn't like the days of those un-approved Tengen NES carts, where Nintendo definitely did not approve the publication of those games.
Did you forget that Nintendo owned Rare for a while before Microsoft? Rare developed the game, but they didn't publish it.
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Sorry, but this statement is very silly. Stories about human beings might include domestic violence. Books, movies--why not video games? Not video games for kids, certainly, but this is what is meant by the author when he says these rules locked Nintendo into being a "kiddie" company.
I watch The Sopranos--it doesn't make me a sicko, and neither would a video game showing domestic violence in a similar context.
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People have a problem with ORGANIZED prayer, which, if a teacher was leading it, might make those who aren't religious or of a different religion, uncomfortable.
Anytime you think about organized prayer in schools, pretend the organized prayer is to Allah. Still comfortable with it? Or is it only comfortable when it's Christianity.
This is not directed at the parent but at "prayer in school" people in general.
God Bless America. Why? Did it sneeze?