GamePro Lists 20 Biggest Video Game Controversies
- Scribbled on May 5th, 2009 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Features, Game Genres, Industry News, Retro
GamePro, celebrating their 20th anniversary, have listed the 20 biggest controversies in video game history, ranging from Thrill Kill to the God of War II Dead Goat Event to “Hot Coffee”.
An excerpt:
“I don’t want [GTA: San Andreas] being remembered for Hot Coffee,” said Rockstar head Sam Houser in an Edge interview last year. “One of my fears when the Hot Coffee thing happened was that it was going to take this really beautiful piece of work and it was just going to be known for something else.” He may not have to worry about that, but at the time of the interview, Houser was still dealing with the fallout from the normally inaccessible (and more than a little risque) minigame that hackers discovered in mid-2005. That little joke passed around Rockstar’s developers soon charged up an electrical storm of controversy that involved everyone from Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton to the 2,676 people that joined in a 2006 class-action lawsuit against the publisher. Moral of the story: If it’s on the disc, people will find it.
The #1 controversey? The tragic Columbine High School shootings, which was somehow blamed on video games and not easily acquired guns.
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