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    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.

    Bassamn! 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.
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    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 !##$!@!!!!

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

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    #vbender

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    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.
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    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.

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    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!"
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    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.
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    Wow... I actually liked KingPin.
    But, I'd go with Megaman 7 as well.
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    Probably Duke Nukem on shareware for me as well. On a console, FF7.

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    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.

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    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.

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

    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!

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    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.
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    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.

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    Some of the Violent Rockstar games

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

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    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...

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    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!

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