(The skeptic in me says “Well, Kid Icarus was produced by Nintendo and Castlevania was produced by a third-party, so you can guess which one got the benefit of the doubt.” The skeptic in me also thinks that the government secretly infected Magic Johnson with AIDS to put a famous face on the disease, though, so perhaps we shouldn’t give the skeptic in me too much credence.)Ībove is a screenshot from Kid Icarus where a few topless Venus de Milos (not the gummi version) managed to make the final cut. While Castlevania III got the full-on censorship treatment, a few years earlier, Kid Icarus managed to slip almost the same thing past the watchdogs. I guess if you’re gonna censor Itchy and Scratchy you’ve got to censor her too. And in the second one, they decided a topless statue wasn’t artistic enough to remain that way, so they covered her up. In the first one, you can see they decided to give Medusa a mastectomy… turning her into a buff, snake-haired pink man. market.Ībove are two side-by-side comparisons (via GamesRadar) comparing the overseas and U.S. With Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, they took nudity out of the Japanese and European versions of the game before it could hit the U.S. Nintendo has, historically, worked its little Pacific Northwestian ass off to be a catcher in the rye for American video gamers. (More on their aggressive censorship policies to come in this list.) One of the tarot cards featured a back view of a nude man and woman.Īnd another tarot card featured, from what I can see below, a very pixelated view of the chick from Total Recall. Taboo has the distinction of having the most blatant nudity of any game that was given the “Nintendo Seal of Approval” by the higher-ups. No one would ever have spoken about it again, if not for the nudity. There wasn’t any action or gameplay or anything it would just give you a quick, generic tarot card reading. Taboo: The Sixth Sense was a tarot reading “game” for NES. Long before the sixth sense was associated with Mischa Barton vomiting brown milk onto Bruce Willis the Friendly Ghost, it was the subtitle of an aggressively mediocre Nintendo game.
In theory, this list might be not safe for work… though these screenshots are about 500 miles away from actual nudity. Here are the finest 11 nude moments from old school NES games. Yet that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying. (They even discussed that on an old episode of 30 Rock.) My theory: Older video games were too pixelated and/or cartoonish to be sexy… and any nudity in modern video games would hit the uncanny valley. The Leisure Suit Larry games took double entendres to a level that would make a Three’s Company writer say, “Whoa, slow down.” And in today’s modern video games, kids can take a quick break from committing grand theft auto to rape a prostitute, so that’s cool.īut while sex has found a smooth integration with video games… nudity has not. Sure, since even the Atari days, people have integrated sex into video games (games like Custer’s Revenge and Burning Desire featured blocky characters doin’ it). Nudity and video games have never really mixed. Nintendo has a history of aggressive censorship, but occasionally some 8-bit nudity slipped past their watchful eye.
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