Quote Originally Posted by BlastProcessing402 View Post
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.
Though Sega had the Lady Poison, she still didn't have the short shorts.