Most controversial video games?

[gameleaper]

I was being controversial and mentioning them again then   >:D >:D >:D

[Zulu1966]

He wasn't/isn't a dickhead. He has grown into a fine man. He just didn't realize what he was saying at 8 years old. He didn't think about what really happened that day. Don't worry, I scolded the he'll out of him that day!

Fine ... but in 1985 we are talking 8 bit computing ... I don't agree with the link between video games now but when it was 8 bit definitely not. Don't know what else you think he had done by 8 to be desensitised enough to think some of ther best amongst us getting blown up was cool- but no way was it down to 8 bit computing .

[Boggit]

To look at it another way. Should games (specifically historical) completely ignore controversial subjects.

I.e. The slave trade, the Holocaust, the Vietnam/Cambodian war, the Iran / Iraq war, etc

Absolutely not - if it is relevant to the game, and the game is trying to be true to history, it should be included. People might learn something, even if it is an uncomfortable truth.

As with most things these controversial subjects are a matter of taste, but when you consider our wargames are about re-enacting issues of mass killing we're already at the point of being controversial, yet we enjoy them! Ironic isn't it? >:D ;D