Not the oldest examples but Sega CD games like Silpheed and Time Gal had words like shit and bitch. I remember thinking how pathetic the industry was in terms of self censorship in that tame stuff like that even stood out.
Not the oldest examples but Sega CD games like Silpheed and Time Gal had words like shit and bitch. I remember thinking how pathetic the industry was in terms of self censorship in that tame stuff like that even stood out.
I clearly remember Barret saying "Shit"
I remember how surprised I was when I'd always read Barret's dialogue in Final Fantasy VII. He swore up a storm all the time in that game.
I remember playing FF7, reading Cid's dialouge and trying to figure out what words he was saying considering the censor wasn't like $%#&, it was like $#@*&+@%$^#@%#$!*%!&, I mean what the hell could he have been saying there?
Quite a few of the ones mentioned above are familiar. In certain styles of games you kind of expect it I guess more than others. I was actually shocked in Shenmue the few times there were swear words in it, mostly delivered by Gui Zhang
I'm pretty sure the first time I heard a swear in a game was from the Gold Fly in Breath of Fire 2. When you beat him, he says something along the lines of "Uhhhhh.....Damn" No period, of course- this is BOF2 we're talking about.
Needless to say, I was pretty surprised by that as a kid.
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