!@#$%

[Scissorman]

Let's face it, bad language has become more frequent in videogames lately. Years ago, however, when these games were meant for "children", this rarely happened. What I am asking is when did you hear your first curse word ever in a videogame?

The earliest one I can remember is from Mega Man 7 for Super Nintendo. It's when you meet Bass before fighting Shade Man.

Bass:Damn! I was careless!

I know "damn" isn't really that bad of a curse word, but I was like 10 or 11 when I first played it and it shocked the hell outta me.

When I first played Doom on shareware, the ending text to the first scenario had some tasteful language in it as well.

Other than that, Blood for PC. I remember while I was playing it, my mom was right behind me when the main character, Caleb, decided to yell out "Son of a bitch must pay!". All I have to say is there was no end to that lecture.

[-hellvin-]

Heh, I remember when I checked out this really crappy fps demo called Kingpin. Holy hell, I was never so shocked by a game before that. The language was quite over the top unlike most games that were out at the time and needless to say I played that one with headphones around the house, lol. Ugh...such a horrible game though...

I'll be back mother !##$!@!!!!

[GrandAmChandler]

I believe the earliest curse was Q*bert. In fact, that's what I thought this thread was about.

[Niku-Sama]

what did Q*bert say?

[GrandAmChandler]

http://www.tomheroes.com/images/NES%20qbert%20box.JPG

[MegaManFan]

I wonder if I was the only one who got sick of dying in Zork and tried >go f#%^ or >tell grue to suck d#%! at the prompt.

[shoes23]

Duke Nukem 3D had a tasteful one-liner:
"I'm going to rip off your head and shit down your neck." Followed by a quick cutscene of Duke ripping off the bosses head, and hunkering down to read the daily newspaper.

[Garry Silljo]

pre-dating Mega Man's curese would be the appearance of "Damn" in NES Bionic Commando. That's actually how I heard about that game. Nothing about how great it was, just "Dude, there's bad words in there..... an Hitler!"

[scooterb23]

I'm with hellvin... Kingpin demo was my first taste of swearing in a game. I heard it, and said "that wasn't as cool as I thought it would be" and turned the radio back on.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Wow... I actually liked KingPin.
But, I'd go with Megaman 7 as well.

[boatofcar]

Probably Duke Nukem on shareware for me as well. On a console, FF7.

[smokehouse]

The first one that I can clearly remember is Barret saying damn in Final Fantasy 7. I was playing games long before that but can’t remember seeing anything.

[njiska]

The first "REAL" swear i heard in a game was shit and it happened in good ol' duke. Oddly i experienced nudity in a game before swearing.

I think it was something called Deliverence for the MAC. Big Nude Statues in the background.

[RJ]

Funny- I was just thinking about this a few days ago... LOL

I cant really remember back very far; I do remember Barrett saying damn & thinking it was probably a bit racy for back in '97 (I only got around to playing it last year).

I dont personally consider words like "damn", "hell" or "bitch" to be swear words, since they say them on prime time network TV. I guess when I heard "f-ck" in BloodRayne was the first time I noticed & was a bit shocked, even unsure whether I heard it or not!

BloodRayne: "What the f-ck?"
me: "What the f-ck?"

[Scissorman]

Speaking of Megaman 7 again, I just noticed something weird. In the Megaman Anniversary Collection, Bass's "damn" is censored, which I find kind of weird. In this day and age where it is more commonplace for videogame characters to curse, they censor one little word from Megaman. I guess they consider Megaman games more geared towards kids. I find that strange because the Megaman X games get pretty dark. I think we all remember the death of Zero.

Anyways, when I picked up the anniversary collection, Megaman 7 was the first one I started playing because it's the one I have the fondest memories of. When I came across that part, I was just kind of weirded out to see that they censored it.

[Damion]

I think most of you are forgetting that it was either Cid or Barret of FFVII that says Shit It had $ or something similar. It was near the end I belive the first time the airship was in crisis.

[Joker T]

Some of the Violent Rockstar games

Max Payne
GTA
Manhunt

[legov8]

I think it was from Loki's quest from Vigilante 8.

[Yago]

In the early days of PC gaming Leisure Suit Larry quickly comes to mind. I remember buying it at Egghead Software. Back then even though it was an adult themed game, nobody really cared how old you were. I bought it with no problems and I was like 13-14 at the time. Soccer moms these days... :roll:

[ghostangelofcky]

Maybe I'm a little bit "old school" But does anyone else remember Pie Man on the Apple II?

That game dropped da F bomb yo!

[NeoZeedeater]

Not the oldest examples but Sega CD games like Silpheed and Time Gal had words like shit and bitch. I remember thinking how pathetic the industry was in terms of self censorship in that tame stuff like that even stood out.

[mills]

I clearly remember Barret saying "Shit"

[Nirvana]

I remember how surprised I was when I'd always read Barret's dialogue in Final Fantasy VII. He swore up a storm all the time in that game. LOL

[TEND]

I remember playing FF7, reading Cid's dialouge and trying to figure out what words he was saying considering the censor wasn't like $%#&, it was like $#@*&+@%$^#@%#$!*%!&, I mean what the hell could he have been saying there?

[Julio III]

Quite a few of the ones mentioned above are familiar. In certain styles of games you kind of expect it I guess more than others. I was actually shocked in Shenmue the few times there were swear words in it, mostly delivered by Gui Zhang

[Crush Crawfish]

I'm pretty sure the first time I heard a swear in a game was from the Gold Fly in Breath of Fire 2. When you beat him, he says something along the lines of "Uhhhhh.....Damn" No period, of course- this is BOF2 we're talking about.

Needless to say, I was pretty surprised by that as a kid.