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In the early 90’s Nintendo was famous for removing religious iconography and references from video games for North American release. Have times changed, or is religion still a taboo subject in the video game industry? Any discussion of religious censorship in games inevitably leads to Nintendo of America in the early 90’s. Religious themes, images, ideas, references and or depictions were banned from games for the NES, Super Nintendo, or Game Boy, at least as far as obtaining the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality was concerned, which led to many Japanese games being modified for release in North America.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); The Japanese have always been more relaxed regarding the inclusion of religion in their video games. Take the Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior in the states) series. The beloved role-playing game series has long featured strong religious overtones, with characters visiting a church in order to be healed of their wounds. Nintendo of America instituted changes in the North American releases, renaming the churches Houses of Healing, though players young and old understood that these were indeed houses of worship as well. Several Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Game Boy titles were modified to fit within Nintendo’s policies. Enix’s ActRaiser and its sequel, ActRaiser 2, explore profound religious questions. The first game in particular ends with the game’s protagonist, the Master, ascending into the sky, having ended the suffering of his people, causing them to no longer have any reason to attend church and pray. It’s an obvious allegory to God; in fact, in the Japanese sequel the text reveals that the protagonist’s original name was God. The North American releases of these titles removed any references to God or his arch-enemy, the Devil, though the subtext was clearly still in place, and savvy players didn’t have to squint their eyes to see the truth. While the ActRaiser and Dragon Quest series received some of the most notable changes, countless titles had minute details changed in order to ensure there would be no religious controversy surrounding Nintendo games. The Japanese release of Super Castlevania IV, for instance, featured crosses on some of the tombstones in the introduction, which were removed for European and U.S. release. Darlene Waddington, a producer on Disney’s Duck Tales, recalls having to remove the crosses from coffins in one stage of the game. “…the crosses on the coffins had to go. Not just a Nintendo issue. I don’t think any publisher would let that go back then. Don’t know about now. Seems a little silly to me, but apparently this is the world we live in.” Indeed it was the world at the time. There’s even a m358 เครดิตฟรี 188 Wikipedia page dedicated to Nintendo’s censorship, citing at least a dozen examples of games being modified due to religious content. Nintendo has become a lot more tolerable of religious references, especially since doing away with the official Nintendo Seal of Quality, but the end of one censorship promoting process came after the formation of another – the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, or ESRB. The introduction of the ESRB actually made it easier for religious themes to be presented in video games, as long as publishers were willing to accept a rating higher than the all-ages friendly E for Everyone. In one case, Sony Computer Entertainment was not. In its original form, stage six of PlayStation Parappa the Rapper follow-up UmJammer Lammy saw the game’s heroine die and go to hell, forced to battle Teriyaki Yoko to win back her life. Here’s the original stage: And here is how the stage turned out in the U.S. release: As you can see, the references to hell have been obliterated, with song lyrics changed to remove references to the devil. UmJammer Lammy scored its E for Everyone label, and went on to sell not nearly as w69 slot เครดิตฟรี 188 บาท well as its predecessor. Sony would later stumble upon more religious trouble with LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3, famously recalled for containing a song track the contained words from Islamic religious text the Qur’an. Later, an Islamic group would speak out on the recall, calling it censorship https://kotaku.com/littlebigplanet-faces-worldwide-recall-for-quran-refere-5065076 Microsoft hasn’t been immune to religious censorship either, having famously recalled copies of original Xbox fighting game Kakuto Chojin for a similar reason. Religious references found in the game included a song that contained phrases from the Qu’ran being chanted, which led to the game being pulled off the shelves in 2003. Unlike LittleBigPlanet, Kakuto Chojin wasn’t modified and re-released, as it wasn’t very good to begin with. For all of the examples we can give of games having their religious iconography and themes toned down, perhaps the greatest loss to come from the schism that’s formed between religion and gaming is all of the ideas that never came to fruition for fear of prosecution, or struck down by publishers unwilling to explore such themes. Video games have long been a place where gamers could experience power far beyond that of mere mortal beings, exploring grand stories from the point of view of the heroes and heroines involved in them. Some of the grandest stories of them all can be found within religious texts. Stories that inspire and empower people, driving them to new heights of greatness with their inspiration. Just imagine how inspiring pxj เข้าสู่ระบบ they’d be if we were allowed to experience them on a more personal, interactive level, say with a video game controller in hand.