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.
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This.
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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.
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.