When was the first time you saw "naughty" words in video games

**bombman** · 09-05-2009, 05:02 PM

I first heard them when I played Burn:Cycle on my old Macintosh (also on CD-i and Windows), there's intermittent cursing throughout the game and I was like 'Whoa, that's cool!"

After that I didn't see it for a while until I played Gynoug for the Japanese Mega Drive. When you beat the hardest mode it says like "Fuck you, you are something something" and I thought it was hilarious.

Of course after Grand Theft Auto came out it kind of lost its novelty factor. But before then I was highly amused by such things. (Before anyone mentions it, I'm sure there are a buttload of old PC adventure games that have cursing up the wazoo)

**kupomogli** · 09-05-2009, 05:32 PM

Bionic Commando.

**Sonicwolf** · 09-05-2009, 05:33 PM

Duke Nukem 3D on the PC back in the mid nineties. Lots of naughtiness in there.

**Game Freak** · 09-05-2009, 05:55 PM

Q*Bert

**Kitsune Sniper** · 09-05-2009, 06:09 PM

Ninja Gaiden I or II. Didn't someone say "DAMN!" in one of those games?

**bombman** · 09-05-2009, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Sonicwolf

Duke Nukem 3D on the PC back in the mid nineties. Lots of naughtiness in there.

Now that you mention it, I did play that before Burn:Cycle. But the time gap was pretty long.

**Nebagram** · 09-05-2009, 06:35 PM

FFVII. Seriously, Barret and Cid both had serious issues.

**Push Upstairs** · 09-05-2009, 06:48 PM

Good old Duke3D.

Unless I'm forgetting some random Doom WAD I played years ago.

**ottojello** · 09-05-2009, 06:57 PM

Q-Bert!

**Red Warrior** · 09-05-2009, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by Kitsune Sniper

Ninja Gaiden I or II. Didn't someone say "DAMN!" in one of those games?

That was only in the SNES Trilogy version, and I think it was Jaquio from Gaiden 1 that said it... I think. But yeah, the original NES versions have no cursing.

**Cornelius** · 09-05-2009, 07:44 PM

Well, I know this isn't really what was asked, but the first curse words in a game for me were those I typed in Hero's Quest. You could ask the waitress all kinds of dirty things and she would blush. Unfortunately, as I was asking about the f-bomb and my dad had walked up behind me, having some interest in games. He swatted me on the head with the newspaper he was holding, and that was the end of that.

**jperryss** · 09-05-2009, 07:46 PM

The first one I remember was probably Duke 3D. But as far as console games go, the first Download for the PC Engine beats it by 5 or so years and had lots of awesome Engrish vulgarity.

Scroll to the bottom to see all the death screens.

http://www.thebrothersduomazov.com/s...label/Download

**Kid Ice** · 09-05-2009, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by Cornelius

Well, I know this isn't really what was asked, but the first curse words in a game for me were those I typed in Hero's Quest. You could ask the waitress all kinds of dirty things and she would blush. Unfortunately, as I was asking about the f-bomb and my dad had walked up behind me, having some interest in games. He swatted me on the head with the newspaper he was holding, and that was the end of that.

I was thinking the same thing....I used to type swear words into old text adventure games like Zork to see how the cpu would respond.

**BHvrd** · 09-05-2009, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by bombman

Now that you mention it, I did play that before Burn:Cycle. But the time gap was pretty long.

I'm sure it was cause the language in Burn Cycle was a bit more vulgar in its exectution:

""Listen up Cutter, this is how it shakes down. Every minute you're in the Televerse with my software i'm gonna cut off a piece of that sack of shit you call a body. And I woudn't worry when your dicks gonna go, by then you won't have a hand to stroke it!

Sticks with you a bit more than Nukems one liners, lol. Though yeah I believe he was first, him or as already mentioned Q*Bert.

**hellfire** · 09-05-2009, 08:06 PM

conkers bad fur day (I was like 6 years old when I bought it, rofl)

**mobiusclimber** · 09-05-2009, 08:10 PM

I don't remember seeing any swear words until FF7 except the ones I typed myself into the old text adventures. "I don't know how to 'fuck myself.'"

I remember naughtiness in console games but it was restricted to small bits of nudity, like there might be a topless female enemy (like a faerie or medusa or something) or those magic books in Secret of Mana that would randomly flip open to a Playboy-style spread.

**CelticJobber** · 09-05-2009, 08:19 PM

I'm pretty sure Bionic Commando for NES had a couple of "damn's" in it, that would've been the first I saw in a game.

**Berserker** · 09-05-2009, 08:26 PM

Bionic Commando here for me too. I'd never actually seen "damn" in text before, so it sort of puzzled me at first.

Then Hitler's face exploded.

**jperryss** · 09-05-2009, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by CelticJobber

I'm pretty sure Bionic Commando for NES had a couple of "damn's" in it, that would've been the first I saw in a game.

Good call. It was "You damn fool!" coming out of Hitler's mouth near the end I believe.

**GM80** · 09-05-2009, 09:32 PM

There was a bit of light cursing in Space Quest II (PC), IIRC. That seems to be the earliest in my mind.

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