Your First VIOLENT Game

[RetroYoungen]

I was thinking about stuff I used to do when I was younger, and one thing that came up was that once a week at a summer day camp I went to we'd go to a small waterslide park, and in it's little (VERY little) arcade there was one game that few people really got into, but I loved, and can now realize as my first truly violent game experience:

Time Killers!

I just recently was playing this again courtesy of MAME and was wondering why I loved it so much LOL , but alas, it keeps a spot in my blackened heart. What was your first truly violent game experience, in game or out?

[Darth Sensei]

Space War. I used to beat my friend like a red-headed step child on that game. :D

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[esquire]

Activision Boxing for the Atari 2600.

[AB Positive]

I was THERE... when the first arcade in town got that fated Mortal Kombat cab... and the owner pulled off Sub-Zero's fatality in front of all of us. All our jaws dropped, we couldn't believe this was real. He put it on free play that first day, and sure enough it was like a first hit of crack-cocaine because we all came back with quarters a'droppin.

Too bad, kinda. I was getting real good at SF2 before that hit...

-AG

[Flack]

If you think about it, most video games are violent. I mean, I guess my first violent videogame experience would be when I shot someone's tank in Combat.

[hezeuschrist]

I was THERE... when the first arcade in town got that fated Mortal Kombat cab... and the owner pulled off Sub-Zero's fatality in front of all of us. All our jaws dropped, we couldn't believe this was real. He put it on free play that first day, and sure enough it was like a first hit of crack-cocaine because we all came back with quarters a'droppin.

Too bad, kinda. I was getting real good at SF2 before that hit...

-AG

Same for me, and I'd assume this is going to be the most common answer. Sure, mario has you killing goombas and hammer bros, and there were plenty of war games on the nes and before... but this to me was my first explicitly violent videogame. It was violent for the sake of violence, not gameplay.

I remember it being a 20 minute drive to the mall where Tilt, the former greatest arcade ever, had this game and I had never heard of it. My friend was all excited he would get to play it again and he was telling me about it in the car all the way there, I was so geeked to see all the blood. Man, that was so long ago... amazing to think how far we've come these days. It was glorious to see all that blood, the tokens lined up all the way across the bottom of the screen and "I got next!" to be heard from both floors of the arcade.

Man, those were the days, and it makes me real sad to know Tilt has been gone for probably a decade now. There was a hole in the mall there for years, but now there's some newage food court... crappy tradeoff if you ask me. It was in Lakeside mall in Sterling Heights, MI... any of you remember it?

[Oobgarm]

Mortal Kombat, no doubt. I'd played some other 'violent games', sure, but this one sticks out as the first one that made me realize how violent it really was.

I remember seeing it at Malibu Gran Prix, during one of my birthday parties when I was 13-14 years old, or something to that effect.

[NintendoMan]

Definately "truely violent" game was Mortal Kombat for me.
Alot of my friends had the game, and I thought it was only an ok game. To me, if couldn't even come close to Street Fighter.
Too bad no one can make a good mortal kombat game anymore. I wish all the good fighting games would take advice from the Soul Calibur team.

[udisi]

The first one that I'd truely consider violent was NARC on the NES...you used missles to blow drug dealers into 8 bit animated bits. also there were deranged porno clowns that would stab you psycho style with knifes. I'm so surprised congress didn't make a big fuss about the violence in this game, but then again . the object was to bust and kill drug dealers so I guess that made violence ok. :)

[Cmosfm]

Well...as mentioned before, just about all games are violent. So technically my first would be Super Mario Bros.

BUUUUUTTTT....sticking with what you actually mean here, I'd have to say either Street Fighter 2 or Mortal Kombat. Other than that I can't really remember.

And I've grown up well despite all the violent games I played as a youth, I have yet once ripped out someone beating heart while walking down the street. YET :evil: *goes to play more Grand Theft Auto*

[Zubiac666]

I think it was "TURBO" for Amiga 500
It's a racer but u can run over people and they vanish in a lake of blood
:D

[NE146]

Well when I was a kid I heard about Death Race (I think I read about it in some magazine).. but I had never played it. And now that I look at it, I sort of doubt I would've thought of it as violent even then...

I think the first videogame I encountered that I thought was graphically viloent was Tecmo Knight.. it sort of shocked me in the beginning how they showed 1) A girl getting stabbed in the head.. and 2) a guy getting his head torn off and 3) in the game, you claw at heads until your rip them off. I was shocked! LOL

Or of course Chiller.. but I'd never encountered one of those back in the day :P

[gamergary]

Doom on a windows 95.

[Crush Crawfish]

If Street Fighter counts, but there's not really any blood in that. So my first would be Killer Instinct on the SNES. I never really was a fan of mortal kombat back in the day, and I'm still not.

[Sotenga]

It would have to be Doom for me, which I was playing ever since I was five years old. Seriously. I remember referring to the puddles of rotted flesh and numerous hanged corpses as "decorations." Yeah, I was one messed-up lil' guy back in the day. :D

[YoshiM]

I'll go with the Jackie Chan definition of violence: pretty much anything that includes blood (I'm assuming he meant a gratuitous amount) as "violent" while his movies he considers "action" (very seldom does one get bloodied up).

So my first "violent" game would have to be Freedom Force for the NES. It was the first home game I ever played that had blood when you shot somebody. It wasn't much: a simple splotch on the chest of the terrorist but it was blood nonetheless. First real violent game that comes to mind has to be NARC. It was located toward the back of Aladdins and there was always a stack of tokens with someone trying to beat it. Great game and not just because of the violence.

[eolsen]

My first was the original Doom on PC. My dad bought it new years eve one year. Scared the crap out of me.

[blissfulnoise]

Here's one for the ages: Libyan Army on the Commodore 64. It was actually kind of tame on the normal levels. Like the Paratrooper games where you have to shoot them out of the sky before they hit the ground.

The 'bonus' level involved you machine gunning POWs lined up across the side of a building in gory fashion. They were all blindfolded of course and completely stationary.

If you got a high score, you printed your initials across three prisoner’s shirts who were then led up to a guillotine and then beheaded.

The game may go by another name, but my friends copy had Libyan Army written across it. Good clean fun.

A game to inspire violence? Rainbow Road on SNES Mario Kart with a sibling. Insert violence here.

[eolsen]

If you got a high score, you printed your initials across three prisoner’s shirts who were then led up to a guillotine and then beheaded

Sounds...fun!

[Queen Of The Felines]

Definitely Chiller. That game actually gave me the creeps when I first played it, but then I beat a few guys at Mat Mania Challenge and it was all good. ;)

I'm honestly surprised there wasn't more of an uproar when it came out since it had everything: Gore, deliberate violence against helpless targets, and even a bit of nudity on level four.

Kristine

[blissfulnoise]

Did a quick search. Game is actually called Commando Libya. Here's a URL with some game details including an animation of the 'high score' screen.

http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3FgameID%3D527

[sniperCCJVQ]

For the standard of the time, Double Dragon was my first violent game.

[§ Gideon §]

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Wülfenstein

(Assuming "violent" = "blood spillage". Oh, and I like using a 'u' with two dots over it. It looks cooler. Edit: I also like double-posts.)

[TNTPLUST]

Hmmmm violent? Maybe Atari 2600 Outlaw

First Blood and Guts....

Maybe Carmagedon

OOOOhh no wait Commodore C64 FIRESTARTER...bitchin game!

[junglehunter]

My first was Mortal Kombat on the arcade (then on the same title when ported to the SNES). :evil:

[PyroPenguin]

I'm pretty sure it was Mortal Kombat on Arcade. A local skating rink had it and people went there just to play it, Of course, all our arcades have been demolished. It sucks. :(
But, I still have the console stuff. And violence drips from most all games now. Even the meek genre of puzzle games want you to kill people. It's a great world we live in :devilish:

[LazingBlazers]

Narc... the arcade machine.

Otherwise, Double Dragon (beat women with bats)... then Crime Fighters (there was Freddy)... and my first videcapitation game: Ninja Kids.

[hezeuschrist]

Did a quick search. Game is actually called Commando Libya. Here's a URL with some game details including an animation of the 'high score' screen.

http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3FgameID%3D527

Jesus that's horrendous. Everything else, meh, but the guillotine animation is ridiculous. And this was aimed at kids.

[KJN]

I remember Commando Libya being used on a TV-debate as an example of the kind of violent games your kids are playing. Dont know if you could actually buy it in a store though, I certanly never saw it. Of course since everybody was copying games it went around, I remeber having it on some turbotape so it probably qualifies as my first violent game as well. That or maybe Bood 'n Guts: Ancient Barbarian Games which was on a compliation I bought.

It was an Epyx-style multievent game with competitions such as cat tossing, tower jumping (be sure to land on your head), push a boulder up a hill (so it could roll down on the other side crushing your oponent) or throwing stones at some poor guy in shackles. The loosing player was decapitated in a guillotine at the end.

[bargora]

Either Atari Combat or Id's Doom, take your pick.

[blissfulnoise]

Did a quick search. Game is actually called Commando Libya. Here's a URL with some game details including an animation of the 'high score' screen.

http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3FgameID%3D527

Jesus that's horrendous. Everything else, meh, but the guillotine animation is ridiculous. And this was aimed at kids.

Break out an old emulator and give it a try. Those bonus levels are more graphic then described. All the little messages make it that much more disturbing. Definately 'a head' of it's time. mwhahahaha. ew.

I played it off of a copy of a copy myself, that's why I got the name wrong (Libyan Army). I seem to remember a copy of Friday the 13th on the C64 that was pretty out there as well. A title screen that showed a knife going through Jason's hockey mask a la 13th part 4 (?). I'll have to do some research on that one, but it sure does scare me to remember it now O_O

[PyroPenguin]

I seem to remember a copy of Friday the 13th on the C64 that was pretty out there as well. A title screen that showed a knife going through Jason's hockey mask a la 13th part 4

I know there is one like that for NES just called Friday the 13th, but I don't think it was jaw-droppingly violent.

[BHvrd]

I was THERE... when the first arcade in town got that fated Mortal Kombat cab... and the owner pulled off Sub-Zero's fatality in front of all of us. All our jaws dropped, we couldn't believe this was real. He put it on free play that first day, and sure enough it was like a first hit of crack-cocaine because we all came back with quarters a'droppin.

Too bad, kinda. I was getting real good at SF2 before that hit...

-AG

My experience exactly though I think I microwaved a hampster in Maniac Mansion first. :D

[ianoid]

I don't really consider Combat violent, I guess.

I'm thinking blood, gore, adult content.

My first really violent title must be The Bilestoad on Apple 2. Anyone?

Also, there was a vector graphics Night Driver rip off that I played at the bowling alley with my brother. You coul run over hitchhikers and cows on the side of the road. Anyone?

[tholly]

not sure...either doom, wolfenstein 3d, or a mortal kombat game

[KJN]

I seem to remember a copy of Friday the 13th on the C64 that was pretty out there as well. A title screen that showed a knife going through Jason's hockey mask a la 13th part 4 (?). I'll have to do some research on that one, but it sure does scare me to remember it now O_O
I remember that game especially the digitized screams from Jason's latest victim, graphics was pretty crappy though. The original game came with a coupple of free blood capsules in the box, try finding those today.

[farfel]

Berzerk.

what is more violent than watching yourself get electrocuted?

[charitycasegreg]

mortal kombat for genesis, I was like 6 or so.

[drwily008]

It never seemed violent to me, but when I was like 13 I used to babysit this kid named JJ and I let him borrow my Friday the 13th for NES. His mom called me up at like 2:00am and said JJ ran into his closet because he snuck into the living room to play the game, and she caught him and scared him and he wouldnt come out unless I would come over and spend the night (10 houses down). I also remember thinking I was breaking the law by playing Night Trap while all that recall nonsense was going on!

[arcade4ever]

I don't really consider Combat violent, I guess.

I'm thinking blood, gore, adult content.

My first really violent title must be The Bilestoad on Apple 2. Anyone?

Also, there was a vector graphics Night Driver rip off that I played at the bowling alley with my brother. You coul run over hitchhikers and cows on the side of the road. Anyone?

I sure do remember Bilestoad, It was great 1 on 1 fighting with battleaxes.

Also i think the racing gaming you're thinking of was speed freak.

[DigitalSpace]

Back when I had an NES, my cousin bought over Double Dragon 2, and I couldn't put it down. I only had SMB/Duck Hunt, Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers and Bump 'N Jump at the time so DD2 takes the prize. A few months later, he let me borrow Ninja Gaiden 2 and I couldn't put that down.

I'm a little surprised nobody's bought up Smash TV yet. No one's discovered video game violence while hearing "I'd buy THAT for a dollar?" Good times.

As for Tilt, they still have one here in Portland at the Lloyd Center mall, and across the river in Vancouver, WA at Westfield Shoppingtown. Every time I pass by the Lloyd Center one they look like they're doing fairly well with business. Portland has a decent string of arcades. We've got a few Wunderlands (even though one closed down), and the Century Theater that opened 5 years or so back has an arcade.

[Famidrive-16]

My dad got Gotcha! The Sport for the NES once and I watched him.

But for play experience, the arcade version of Cruisin' USA at a Chuk E. Cheese's back in 95. It was so impressive to see cows die :o

[acem77]

techno cop sega genesis. one of the 1st 3rd party game for the system.
bought it cuz the warning on the box plus it looked cool.
when you killed some1 they would splater into a pile of blood. you coluld even kill little kids jumping in the back ground.

[kainemaxwell]

Probably Doom, NARC and especially Mortal Kombat.

[Kejoriv]

I grew up on the atari and then nes BUT, no titles stick in my mind as violent. I would have to go with the majority and say Mortal Kombat. I couldnt believe me eyes when I first saw a Fatality done. I had to hide that game from my parents. LOL

[le geek]

techno cop sega genesis. one of the 1st 3rd party game for the system.
bought it cuz the warning on the box plus it looked cool.
when you killed some1 they would splater into a pile of blood. you coluld even kill little kids jumping in the back ground.

Technocop for me as well but for AMIGA. The bad guys also would twitch a few times after splattering... :evil:

Unless you count Forbidden Forest on C64. Low rez, but very creepy when enemies chewed on you...

Cheers,
Ben

[ghostangelofcky]

My cousin got a Atari Jaguar fir his birthday, spoiled little shyte, if you don't remember they were like $400 when they came out. Anyways he bought Doom, Wolfenstein, and Alien vs Predator. But Doom stuck out in my head the most.

I never thought killing people could be so entertaining :D

[Graham Mitchell]

I can't believe that nobody mentioned this game, but...I guess really violent games had been around for awhile at the time, but when I was in 7th grade I brought home the Genesis port of Will Harvey's The Immortal. For those who don't know, the Genesis version had something the other incarnations didn't: cold, graphic, messy, unrelenting violence. When a goblin or troll is killed, you're treated to a messy, splatty, and anatomically correct animation of your character casting some kind of lethal magic on his enemy.

Many of the animations were unique, with multiple ways to kill, like: brains swelling inside the skull, causing cranail explosion, then landing on the floor with a squishy "splat!", or slicing from the dorsal tip of the head right down to the perineum, the goblins 2 halves falling laterally, the legs swinging over the abdomen and squishing out abdominal and thoracic contents as they land on the chest wall...they get better and more detailed.

Anyone interested in a little gore fest should check this game out. There haven't been many games that were this over the top. And as far as I can remember, this is one of the first games to even HAVE graphic violence (it predates Mortal Kombat by about 2 years!)

[Arqueologia_Digital]

mmm...i couldn´t remember, i know that in PC was Blackthorne and in my machines...mmm...maybe a pirate copy of Street Fighter III for NES :P

Matías

[-hellvin-]

Well, as far as bloody violent games go there's just no other answer for me than Mortal Kombat. Watching older kids sling spears into the other player as scorpion as blood was slung into the air was one amazing experience when I was younger.

[ehall]

Circus Atari.

So many dead clowns. :eek 2:

[Gzilla23]

My first Violent game was a game that is one of my all time favorites...Mutant League Football...cant top it.

[VG_Maniac]

Street Fighter II was my first violent game. I remember when my friend first introduced me to the arcade back in late 1991 or early 1992. The beat up and bloody characters that were shown after each match was as violent as my games got back in those days.

I guess I could actually say that Contra was my first violent game. I mean...you do shoot and kill poeple in that game. Although it's not realistic and the graphics are very outdated...it's still considered violence! :D

[legov8]

Vigilante 8

[legov8]

Vigilante 8

[Fatalist]

Doom I think.

[Famicoman]

The first I played was probobly Mortal Kombat. The first I bought was Perfect Dark.

[Jumpman Jr.]

I'd have to say that Mortal Kombat was the first violent game I ever played. It was most likely on the Genesis, and not the SNES.

[Austin]

I was a PC gaming kid, so my first was Wolfenstein 3D.

[MrSmiley381]

I played Mortal Kombat with my cousin Steve. A lot. In fact, I wrote a paper in eighth grade about it, and got an A+. He also rented Doom for SNES, since it wasn't on the Genesis, and he didn't have a 32X. That game made me freak out as well.

MK, then Doom. Or, did I watch him play Splatterhouse first?

[LaRule]

snes doom

[Grobyc]

I remember that my mom was taking me for my "getting ready for first grade haircut", and the lady who was cutting my hair dropped scissors on my ear, and sliced it clean open. Blood everywhere (i was almost six, by the way). I ran to the hospital had stitches and everything, so my dad thought that on his way home from work, he would pick me up a game for my snes. Back then we didn't know about that whole ESRB thing. He got me MK 3, and i of course thought it was the greatest game ever, my mom almost strangled him. It still amazes me that that much blood can come from one roundhouse kick (<- + X)

[evil_genius]

Mortal Kombat

[rayearthknight]

The first time I saw a violent game was when I was at an arcade in Omaha, NE, back in 1988-87 and first heard...then saw or the first time, NARC. I was only 11 at the time but I was thinking--hmmm, there is some heavy duty computing going on in that game. The sight of seeing bodies flying in the air--on fire due to a RPG blast--was a trip.

Long live MAME! Foir being able to bring back that glory.

[kirin jensen]

My first violent game was the legendary Death Race.

Grand Theft Auto?

Bah. Don't make me laugh...

[makaar]

I guess mine would have to be Friday the 13th for the NES. I loved that game. One of the first video games to scare me also.

[Malon_Forever]

MORTAL KOMBAT!!!

[zerohero]

Hard to say cause there were some NES games that were violent (Contra). But I'll have to go with Doom and MK. When those came out I was shocked at all the blood that was in the game. I was only 7 or 9(somewhere in those age's) When I first saw them. Wing commander is the runner up!

[manuel]

My first violent game was Mortal Kombat II on the Super Nintendo.
MKII was confiscated by the state and therefore forbidden to be sold even to adults.
Nevertheless, I bought it in a store when I was 15. :)

If I made a report to the authorities about that store they would probably have been shut down. The penalties were quite severe.

[syd]

It all depends on your definition of violent. Like someone already said, most video games are violent anyway. I'd say Double Dragon and Contra introduced me to violence on the nes, but the game that I'll always remember for the first extreme violence was Doom for the PC. I played Mortal Kombat a little later after this, but Doom was first. That game de-sensitized me for years to come! LOL

[EricRyan34]

I remember the first violent video game I ever played was Mortal Kombat 1 arcade at a small movie theatre in my home town. After I saw all the blood in the game I was instantly hooked, my cousin and I rented/bought every Mortal Kombat game to date, playing them hours on end.

[Xizer]

Violent...hmm...by my definition I've yet to ever play a violent game.

Games don't come close to the amount of violence and gore that can be found on the Internet. If I'm looking for violent, gory stuff I'll take ogrish.com over a video game any day.

[unwinddesign]

Got Goldeneye and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter for my 9th or 10th birthday. I showed my mom the M rating on Turok, and she flipped. I wasn't allowed to buy M rated games for the next five or so years. I had to trick them into buying them for me by "slipping" them into the purchases when they weren't paying attention. :evil:

Ironically enough, they took me to many R rated movies during that time, including ones such as Gladiator. @_@

[Gamebrain]

Doom