5 CONTROVERSIAL NES Games

The Western Bionic Commando still had hitler as the final boss, and his head explodes violently. His name was changed, sure, but his likeness was still obvious with his signature mustache.

Chiller was an unlicensed title for NES. I'm surprised anyone heard of it at release, let alone owned a copy.

Mega Man box art. Now that's controversial.

Surprised "Monster Party" wasn't mentioned. That game was insane

Taboo was a Tarot reader? I always assumed it was about a wizard that fooled around with a cousin or something LOLOL

This is like an ad for the Angry video game Nerd lmao

NARC was a pretty controversial game when it came out

I have a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade cabinet in my work's breakroom that, every morning, I pick a game (from the library of many thousands) to set on "attract mode". I'm going to have to let the Japanese Bionic Commando run one day.

When you get gyromite as a Christmas present but they forget ROB. Because it was found at a thrift shop. Back when I was a kid.

The most "controversial" NES game I remember was actually Super Mario Bros. 2... there were serious accusations of Nintendo deliberately shorting the supply in USA to create hype... which may have been true

Devil World should get an honorable mention considering that it never had a North America release since people complain about the religious symbolism being used in the game

I can speed run Bionic Commando, fun fact. It's one of my favorite NES games. And we all knew who Master D really was. The game had awesome graphics so that left little doubt.

I have a copy of Taboo: The Sixth Sense still in it's original box. It no longer has it's original plastic wrap, but it has never been removed from the box.

Nice to know that the theme for the haunted house in SMW comes from Chiller! :P

Ok, so, it’s 1987, and 8 year old ME is otw to the creepy Florida fair.. my grandma gave me 5 whole ass dollars to play games and keep me busy for an hour or two while she and my mom go to the craft area. (In the 80’s, little poor kids could run around unsupervised n stuff). It was open air and there were like 5 or 6 huge ass tents that had dozens of arcade cabinets in them. I played some games, and looked around. I went to the arcade all the time, but they had some games I had never seen.. some kinda weird.. I saw an area a little off to the distance with a smaller tent with about 20 games, but in the very corner I saw a game kind of by itself.. this tent had almost no one around, and I got some weird vibes.. as I got closer I heard that this game was turned up loud! It had a gun for a control. Cool, I had played some army type games that had those.. they usually vibrated when you shot the machine gun, I always thought that was cool. I put in my quarter and saw the scene. People tied up in a torture room. It was Chiller. Real Chiller, with all the blood and fire and screams and stuff.. I had never seen a game like this before. I started shooting people and it was gory.. man, I was 8 😂. There was no spin on this, no story.. just be horrible.. it freaked me out. For years I thought I had imagined it.. pre internet I just couldn’t find anything on this game.. the nes version is a joke compared to the OG. My name is John Wayne Lacey from Tampa Florida, that’s my story.

I didn't know Taboo was controversial. If anything I thought people forgot it existed mostly LOL!

Early copies of Maniac Mansion had to be recalled as it contained a scene where you microwave a hamster!

Man nostalgia is so powerful with the NES. Btw I found this from discord and I’m actually someone that checks out post in the YouTube group. Great video. I remember there being some controversy around shadowgate.

Bionic Commando was awesome. Me and one of my best friends played it religiously. When my best friend calls me, his ringtone is the music from area 5.

i remember playing chiller back then even as a kid i was able to identify how violent it is.