Games that are "worse" than those that get media coverage for it

[LAGO]

All i have to say to that is... Night Trap.

And Custer's revenge don't forget that one.

[OatBob]

All of the arcade gun games didn't ever get press. Time Crisis taught kids to kill people with guns (sarcasm). I am surprised these games didn't get a beating just because of the guns.

They pulled through, somehow. Sega tried pulling the plugs on light guns with the Dreamcast in the US market as a fear of backlash as a result of the Columbine shootings. They never made their own light guns for the systems but published several games! Third parties stepped up and there are a small handful of them available.

This wasn't the only instance of them avoiding unwanted negative media attention. Sega cancelled a fully developed game called "Propeller Arena" because with airial combat in urban settings, people can crash into buildings, and with the September 11, 2001 tragedy... well, you get the idea. Fortunately, a final development copy was given to the dev team, and one managed to stream out to eBay, where the highest bidder dumped and shared the disc image, and honestly, its one of the best Dreamcast games.

[njiska]

They pulled through, somehow. Sega tried pulling the plugs on light guns with the Dreamcast in the US market as a fear of backlash as a result of the Columbine shootings. They never made their own light guns for the systems but published several games! Third parties stepped up and there are a small handful of them available.

This wasn't the only instance of them avoiding unwanted negative media attention. Sega cancelled a fully developed game called "Propeller Arena" because with airial combat in urban settings, people can crash into buildings, and with the September 11, 2001 tragedy... well, you get the idea. Fortunately, a final development copy was given to the dev team, and one managed to stream out to eBay, where the highest bidder dumped and shared the disc image, and honestly, its one of the best Dreamcast games.

RE: Survivor. One of the worst games affected by the great US media fear.

[roushimsx]

They pulled through, somehow. Sega tried pulling the plugs on light guns with the Dreamcast in the US market as a fear of backlash as a result of the Columbine shootings.

It's not like the Japanese gun was all that good to begin with. I was greatly disappointed when I got home with House of the Dead 2, loaded it up, and was stuck using....that. Yuck.

Anyone know if it's possible to convert a stunner to work on a Dreamcast?

[8Ways2Tuesday]

Rule of Rose seemed to get jack shit for negative press. Being a sub-average game and getting published by Atlus (as opposed to Rockstar, EA, Ubi, etc) probably helped.

I remember reading quite a bit about Rule of Rose being banned in some European countries, actually. But in the US - indeed, I can't say I remember any commentary.

[TheTrench]

Wasn't there some arcade game called Time Killers or something like that? It had way more blood than Mortal Kombat and never was a big deal.

[Cryomancer]

Do you guys think Persona 3 is going to be targeted by this kind of thing? For those who don't know, you release your character's personas by having them shoot themselves in the head. And apparently there's a dog character too.