Quote Originally Posted by Tanooki View Post
That is true, but look at the time span between Final Fight and SF2. Not much, and both pre-MK blowback era too. SF2 had a little blood and scrapes and Chun Li, and the other no ladies and all the spatter taken out. I get their religious thing with the lame Oh my car instead of Oh my God! But it just annoyed me, and what made me think more and more it was nothing of Nintendo's own doing was the decade later GBA release of Final Fight One. The Japanese one had the ladies, the blood, the 'god' line too, and the US version again no blood, stickboys, and so on. Just as neutered on the GBA as it was on SNES a decade earlier which is why I'll never own that game except for the JP version (which I have) as it's insulting.
Instead of comparing it to a much later release (one for a system with a generally young audience, and going for an E rating), you may want to compare it with the SegaCD version, released in the same generation and for Sega with their much more hands off approach towards content.

I don't know how censored that one was just that it actually had two player. I'm only saying it may provide more insight into whether Capcom themselves or Nintendo were more to blame.

NoA was still censoring stuff in the GBA era, like the dancing girl in Final Fantasy 4 Advance not taking her dress off, even though that had been allowed in the localized PSX release. The situation isn't 100% the same, I realize, as NoA actually published the FF4A in America, but it still shows how they found certain things unacceptable that other companies were fine with.