Your First VIOLENT Game

[RetroYoungen]

I was thinking about stuff I used to do when I was younger, and one thing that came up was that once a week at a summer day camp I went to we'd go to a small waterslide park, and in it's little (VERY little) arcade there was one game that few people really got into, but I loved, and can now realize as my first truly violent game experience:

Time Killers!

I just recently was playing this again courtesy of MAME and was wondering why I loved it so much , but alas, it keeps a spot in my blackened heart. What was your first truly violent game experience, in game or out?

[Darth Sensei]

Space War. I used to beat my friend like a red-headed step child on that game.

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[esquire]

Activision Boxing for the Atari 2600.

[AB Positive]

I was THERE... when the first arcade in town got that fated Mortal Kombat cab... and the owner pulled off Sub-Zero's fatality in front of all of us. All our jaws dropped, we couldn't believe this was real. He put it on free play that first day, and sure enough it was like a first hit of crack-cocaine because we all came back with quarters a'droppin.

Too bad, kinda. I was getting real good at SF2 before that hit...

-AG

[Flack]

If you think about it, most video games are violent. I mean, I guess my first violent videogame experience would be when I shot someone's tank in Combat.

[Nightwing]

Well,for game violence - Combat for the 2600.
Real violence? When I cleaned out my sisters bank on Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack for the Intellivision. We got into a fight over it,& I lost my gaming privileges for two weeks.

[Hitman Tyler]

Mortal Kombat for Sega Genesis... good times, I remember I was like "this game is good". also till this day I relive that day by playing my Mortal Kombats for Sega Genesis. Maybe thats why I have all the Mortal Kombats for PS2.

[Nebagram]

Mortal Kombat, Genesis, yet again.

[mezrabad]

Great Idea for a topic, I'm glad it's resurfaced.

I'd have to say the first violent videogame I ever played was Boot Hill (Midway, 1977) in the arcades. This is the first game I can think of having played where the goal was to end the life of your opponent's character. I just thought it was cool because you could shoot away the cactus (yay! destructable environments!)

Prior to playing Boot Hill I don't remember playing anything other than driving or PONG-type videogames. After Boot Hill I think it would be a toss-up between Combat and Air-Sea Battle. Of course, Air-Sea Battle was only "violent" if you played the version with "battle" in the title, otherwise it was merely "Target Fun".

Now if the question, as some have clarified, pertains to gory, bloody violence, I'll need to think about that.... Adventure for the VCS! Seeing that duck/dragon wilt on my terrible sword was pretty gory.

No, I honestly can't remember the first time I saw "blood" in a videogame...maybe on the PC... Ultima Underworld had *some* in it if I recall and so did Ultima VII (genuine, brutal dismemberment), both of which I'd played before I'd seen/played Wolfenstien 3D or Doom. (Also, keep in mind that in 1992/93/94 I hadn't laid a hand on a videogame console since I'd played my Atari maybe back in 1985/86 so I hadn't seen anything in the home and I don't recall having played a gory game in the arcades at that time.)

[captainfrieza]

Mortal Kombat for Snes. The good old days

[super nes]

Killer Instinct for the SNES i still remember all the good times me and my cousins had together when we played it...

[hezeuschrist]

I was THERE... when the first arcade in town got that fated Mortal Kombat cab... and the owner pulled off Sub-Zero's fatality in front of all of us. All our jaws dropped, we couldn't believe this was real. He put it on free play that first day, and sure enough it was like a first hit of crack-cocaine because we all came back with quarters a'droppin.

Too bad, kinda. I was getting real good at SF2 before that hit...

-AG

Same for me, and I'd assume this is going to be the most common answer. Sure, mario has you killing goombas and hammer bros, and there were plenty of war games on the nes and before... but this to me was my first explicitly violent videogame. It was violent for the sake of violence, not gameplay.

I remember it being a 20 minute drive to the mall where Tilt, the former greatest arcade ever, had this game and I had never heard of it. My friend was all excited he would get to play it again and he was telling me about it in the car all the way there, I was so geeked to see all the blood. Man, that was so long ago... amazing to think how far we've come these days. It was glorious to see all that blood, the tokens lined up all the way across the bottom of the screen and "I got next!" to be heard from both floors of the arcade.

Man, those were the days, and it makes me real sad to know Tilt has been gone for probably a decade now. There was a hole in the mall there for years, but now there's some newage food court... crappy tradeoff if you ask me. It was in Lakeside mall in Sterling Heights, MI... any of you remember it?

[Oobgarm]

Mortal Kombat, no doubt. I'd played some other 'violent games', sure, but this one sticks out as the first one that made me realize how violent it really was.

I remember seeing it at Malibu Gran Prix, during one of my birthday parties when I was 13-14 years old, or something to that effect.

[NintendoMan]

Definately "truely violent" game was Mortal Kombat for me.
Alot of my friends had the game, and I thought it was only an ok game. To me, if couldn't even come close to Street Fighter.
Too bad no one can make a good mortal kombat game anymore. I wish all the good fighting games would take advice from the Soul Calibur team.

[udisi]

The first one that I'd truely consider violent was NARC on the NES...you used missles to blow drug dealers into 8 bit animated bits. also there were deranged porno clowns that would stab you psycho style with knifes. I'm so surprised congress didn't make a big fuss about the violence in this game, but then again . the object was to bust and kill drug dealers so I guess that made violence ok.

[Cmosfm]

Well...as mentioned before, just about all games are violent. So technically my first would be Super Mario Bros.

BUUUUUTTTT....sticking with what you actually mean here, I'd have to say either Street Fighter 2 or Mortal Kombat. Other than that I can't really remember.

And I've grown up well despite all the violent games I played as a youth, I have yet once ripped out someone beating heart while walking down the street. YET *goes to play more Grand Theft Auto*

[Zubiac666]

I think it was "TURBO" for Amiga 500
It's a racer but u can run over people and they vanish in a lake of blood

[NE146]

Well when I was a kid I heard about Death Race (I think I read about it in some magazine).. but I had never played it. And now that I look at it, I sort of doubt I would've thought of it as violent even then...

I think the first videogame I encountered that I thought was graphically viloent was Tecmo Knight.. it sort of shocked me in the beginning how they showed 1) A girl getting stabbed in the head.. and 2) a guy getting his head torn off and 3) in the game, you claw at heads until your rip them off. I was shocked!

Or of course Chiller.. but I'd never encountered one of those back in the day :P

[gamergary]

Doom on a windows 95.

[Crush Crawfish]

If Street Fighter counts, but there's not really any blood in that. So my first would be Killer Instinct on the SNES. I never really was a fan of mortal kombat back in the day, and I'm still not.

[Sotenga]

It would have to be Doom for me, which I was playing ever since I was five years old. Seriously. I remember referring to the puddles of rotted flesh and numerous hanged corpses as "decorations." Yeah, I was one messed-up lil' guy back in the day.

[YoshiM]

I'll go with the Jackie Chan definition of violence: pretty much anything that includes blood (I'm assuming he meant a gratuitous amount) as "violent" while his movies he considers "action" (very seldom does one get bloodied up).

So my first "violent" game would have to be Freedom Force for the NES. It was the first home game I ever played that had blood when you shot somebody. It wasn't much: a simple splotch on the chest of the terrorist but it was blood nonetheless. First real violent game that comes to mind has to be NARC. It was located toward the back of Aladdins and there was always a stack of tokens with someone trying to beat it. Great game and not just because of the violence.

[eolsen]

My first was the original Doom on PC. My dad bought it new years eve one year. Scared the crap out of me.

[blissfulnoise]

Here's one for the ages: Libyan Army on the Commodore 64. It was actually kind of tame on the normal levels. Like the Paratrooper games where you have to shoot them out of the sky before they hit the ground.

The 'bonus' level involved you machine gunning POWs lined up across the side of a building in gory fashion. They were all blindfolded of course and completely stationary.

If you got a high score, you printed your initials across three prisoner’s shirts who were then led up to a guillotine and then beheaded.

The game may go by another name, but my friends copy had Libyan Army written across it. Good clean fun.

A game to inspire violence? Rainbow Road on SNES Mario Kart with a sibling. Insert violence here.

[eolsen]

If you got a high score, you printed your initials across three prisoner’s shirts who were then led up to a guillotine and then beheaded

Sounds...fun!