Yay! Teenagers can now buy Doom in Germany

RemadERemadE Global Moderator
edited September 2011 in Spurious Generalities
Fucking killjoys. They probably realised you can download it and that CoD etc are a lot more violent.
Some Countries are so behind the fucking times.
A German ban on selling Doom to teenagers has been lifted after 17 years.

The classic video game was put on an index of controlled titles in 1994 as it was deemed likely to harm youth.

Like pornography, sales of the violent shoot 'em up were restricted to adult-only stores.

News.

Comments

  • edited September 2011
    Wow, what the hell kind of ban is that? :facepalm: I'm glad they've lifted the ban, but I'm guessing it had absolutely no effect as people would have torrented it, no doubt :)
  • LSA KingLSA King Regular
    edited September 2011
    This coming from the same self-hating country that will throw you in prison for denying the Holocaust or showing empathy towards the Nazi's.
  • DaktologistDaktologist Global Moderator
    edited September 2011
    LSA King wrote: »
    This coming from the same self-hating country that will throw you in prison for denying the Holocaust or showing empathy towards the Nazi's.

    This.
  • ThirdRockFromTheSunThirdRockFromTheSun <b style="color:blue;">Third<em style="color:pink;">Cock</em>FromThe<em style="color:brown;">Bum</em
    edited September 2011
    Oh lord. I just...

    :facepalm:
  • dr rockerdr rocker Regular
    edited September 2011
    LSA King wrote: »
    This coming from the same self-hating country that will throw you in prison for denying the Holocaust or showing empathy towards the Nazi's.

    That is the amazing thing. In trying to right something done in the past they are commiting a wrong. Trying to control thoughts - that is bad government. More than 400 years ago, Queen Elizabeth said she had 'no desire to make windows into men's souls', meaning that as long as people generally worked towards the good - at the time, I suppose the strength of the nation - then she did not give two fucks what they thought in their spare time - a time of the split with the catholic church a lot of western Europe had.

    Such wisdom and such a solution - if only politicians of today could think of such.

    I do remember getting Doom for free in '94 or '95 with a computer magazine - it was something like 1/3 of the game. I do remeber deaming that big nasty pink brain thing with legs was attacking me, but I had put the cheat code in so I could not die so it just kept attacking me and I had run out of ammo but as I was being gored by some strange space creature I could not put the cheat code in to get more ammo.

    There was a similar game on what must have been the Mega-CD, but that was a few years earlier. I also remember a game on the megacd that I think you did a rape in - it was some kind of video play / choice to progress thing. It showed the sex hardcore. I think that got banned in the UK.
  • edited September 2011
    ^ Looking back on things like that, it makes you laugh that they banned such a game for showing some heavily pixellated objects grinding together and depicting it as a sexual act :facepalm: Oh how realism has advanced over the years :D
  • dr rockerdr rocker Regular
    edited September 2011
    trx100 wrote: »
    ^ Looking back on things like that, it makes you laugh that they banned such a game for showing some heavily pixellated objects grinding together and depicting it as a sexual act :facepalm: Oh how realism has advanced over the years :D

    It was quite good graphics - it was on CD Video. The thing is, I remeber back when I was 6 their was a big trade in porno VHS tapes - anyone that went to work in Germany came back with loads of filthy tapes and sell them around the bars. It was like a second tax free income for some.
  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited September 2011
    Germany is screwy when it comes to video games violence. In the mid 90's I contracted with Westwood Studios in Vegas and did QA and C&C and C&C 95 along with a few lesser known titles. As many of you may recall in C&C/C&C95 when an infantry unit was killed there was a screaming sound as the barely distinguishable human form turned into a little red spot before fading off the screen. To ship this title to Germany the code had to be altered so the the screaming became the sound of some sort of mechanical robot like break down and the red spot was changed to a black spot to represent oil instead of blood.
  • 1357913579 Death Cog Machine
    edited September 2011
    It was originally banned all together in Germany because of a particular level that, when switches were flipped, walls would rise out of the floor in the shape of a swastika. I think it was the control room level in episode 1.
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