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Criminal Girls
Criminal Girls (2010)
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The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail (1971)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Oregon Trail (Game)
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When The Oregon Trail was first being tested with 12-to-14 year olds at the Carlton College, the school faculty reacted negatively to offensive portrayals of Native American people in the game as tomahawk-wielding savages inspired by cowboy movies. While the developers of the game were initially offended by the prospect of changing the depiction, they eventually realized it was the right thing to do after questioning how an indigenous descendant would react to having to fight members of their race in the game.
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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 17, 2023
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Tales of Berseria
Tales of Berseria (2016)
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Attachment Spoiler:The scene where Artorius kills Laphicet was changed for the Western release. Instead of stabbing him directly in the chest, Artorius sacrifices Laphicet through a magical ceremony.
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person ShyanVixen calendar_month March 6, 2018
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Silent Hill
Silent Hill (1999)
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Attachment In the North American version, the enemies known as "Grey Children" bare a strong resemblance to real-life children, however in the Japanese & European versions they were instead replaced by "Mumblers".
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person ProtoSnake calendar_month July 25, 2015
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Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy IV (1991)
subdirectory_arrow_right Final Fantasy IV (Game), Final Fantasy IV Advance (Game)
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Attachment In all versions of the game there is a secret passage in Cafe HOWDY!/Pub Lali-Ho in the Dwarven Castle of the Underworld that leads to a place called the "Developer's Room". In it are recolored sprites that are meant to be the developers of the game. In the DS release, it has the developers of the DS remake instead. This area was cut in "Final Fantasy 4 Easy-Type" and "Final Fantasy 2 (US)" because it's possible to find a pornographic magazine in the room, called Lustful Lali-Ho.
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person Cavery210 calendar_month August 22, 2014
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Antonball Deluxe
Antonball Deluxe (2021)
subdirectory_arrow_right Antonblast (Game)
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Anton was originally supposed to be an alcoholic in Antonball Deluxe, but the publisher forced the developers to remove that element, and he would drink sodas and floats instead. Anton would be made a drunkard in Antonblast, and the plot of the new game would revolve around rescuing his collection of "spirits".
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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month April 3, 2024
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Street Fighter V
Street Fighter V (2016)
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Bakuretsu Muteki Bangai-O
Bakuretsu Muteki Bangai-O (1999)
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Originally Bangai-O was set to have a "woman planet" at some point in development, or the idea was at least thought of by developers. The map designer on the game, Koichi Kimura, specifically stated:

"It doesn’t appear in the game, but there is a 女星 (josei, “woman-planet”) too! But my image for it was like, everything’s colored in pink for some reason, and there’s some annoying melody going “pa-ra-ra, pa-ra-ra-ra~” always playing in the background… and well, I thought we might be getting into sexual harassment territory here if we included this, so I dropped it."
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The King of Dragons
The King of Dragons (1991)
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In-game footage showing the uncensored death in the arcade version:
https://youtu.be/IsM3_h1xav0?t=518

The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/The_King_of_Dragons_(SNES)
ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth
ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth (2002)
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Attachment The design of the Anti-Funk, the final boss of the game, originally resembled the hood of a Ku Klux Klan member. This design made it into early review copies of the game before Sega discovered its existence and rejected it, forcing the developers to change it to a skull just before the game's release. In a 2003 Xbox Nation magazine interview with series creator Greg Johnson, he elaborated on the origin of the design:

"When I was doing it, it was actually an accident. We had done a bunch of designs for the Anti-Funk, and the artist had done this unintentionally. I looked at it and said, “Wow, that’s funny. That looks like a Ku Klux Klan hat.” And then I thought about it for a second and I said, “Well hey, what better villain for these black characters who are spreading the funk than the love and this kind of oblique reference?” Because it wasn’t [obvious]—it was open to interpretation."
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person GamerBen144 calendar_month October 5, 2021
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GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 (1997)
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Attachment Censored Gaming asked 'Martin Molls', the game's director, why the 'Hunting Knife' was removed from the Japanese localisation. He stated that it was related to the 'Kobe Child Murders', an incident in Japan, involving child murder and knives.

This change is believed to have affected Rare's later game 'Perfect Dark' for the same reason.
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person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 3, 2020
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Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VIII (1999)
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Attachment In the NTSC version, "Selphie Tilmitt" wields a weapon called "Nunchaku". But was replace with "Shinobou" in the PAL version, due to media laws in the UK forbidding ninja-related weapons.
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person ProtoSnake calendar_month March 28, 2018
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Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VIII (1999)
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Attachment In the Japanese version, in Ultimecia Castle's armory, there is a sword on the wall with red blood on it. The blood is green in other versions of the game.
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person ProtoSnake calendar_month March 24, 2018
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Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!
Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! (1999)
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One of the enemies in the game was censored in the European release and all Dreamcast versions due to looking like a stereotypical Mexican bandito. They censored the character by turning his hair blond, giving him a white hat, and changing his clothing. However, the character remains uncensored in the American Playstation release or any of the Nintendo 64 versions.
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person MeleeWaluigi calendar_month February 27, 2017
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LEGO Universe
LEGO Universe (2010)
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One of the biggest costs for maintaining the game was moderating the game's community by making sure that there were no obscene Lego models created by players. This meant that every single player created in-game Lego model had to be looked at and catalogued to make sure that it was age appropriate, I.E. no penises. This was to help make sure that the Lego brand remained family friendly.

One developer was almost fired when his in-game built Lego penis was discovered by a child tester during a "kid test".
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WWE 2K15
WWE 2K15 (2014)
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Users who upload the face of Chris Benoit to the Community Creations are banned from the game. Chris Benoit was a wrestler who was signed by WWE prior to an incident in which he murdered his wife and son before committing suicide in 2007. Since then, WWE has tried to remove all records and affiliation with him wherever possible.
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person Deleted User calendar_month December 8, 2014
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Metal Gear
Metal Gear (1987)
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Attachment The book cover for the novelization of the original Metal Gear removed the gun from Snake's hand. While Snake collects many weapons throughout the book, which describes him as a "walking arsenal", he never shoots anyone with them. Seth Godin, creator of the "Worlds of Power" book series, "wanted to minimize the death" seen in many of the NES games.
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person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month December 15, 2013
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It's Mr. Pants
It's Mr. Pants (2004)
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The "Crayon Snake" in marathon mode was originally intended to be called the "Trouser Snake", however the game's publisher, THQ, had requested for the name to be changed. This was possibly due to the sexual innuendo associated with the term.
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Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VIII (1999)
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The boss Gerogero was changed from the original Japanese version. His perturbing organs were changed from red to blue due the censorship. His name is also derived from the Japanese word "gero" which means vomit.
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
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In the Japanese and non-English European versions of the game, Vivian is portrayed as in some way gender non-conforming, with the original Japanese script, like a lot of pop culture addressing gender identity at the time, being somewhat ambigious at to whether she is a transgender woman being referred to in an unflattering light, or a cisgender male crossdresser. A rough translation of the Japanese text for Vivian as a party member reads:

"カゲ三人組の一人だった　オンナのコのようで　ホントは　オトコのコ"
"One of the shadow group, Vivian appears to be a girl but is really a boy."

This was changed in the English localization to make Vivian a cisgender woman with "a bit of an inferiority complex." The Italian version of the game unambigiously portrays Vivian as transgender and proud of her identity.

Vivian: “We’ll defeat that Mario guy! ‘Cause we are ‘The three shadow sisters’!”
Marilyn: “How can you define us as ‘The three shadow sisters’? You are a man! A MAN!”
Vivian: “That’s true, you are two sisters… But I am a woman too now, and I’m proud to have turned into a woman!”
Marilyn: “Hmph. And you surely think you are more beautiful than we are, huh? You deserve a punishment for that!”
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Japanese script example of Vivian's original portrayal:
http://themushroomkingdom.net/pmttyd_j2e.shtml#vivian

"Transgender in Games: A Comparative Study of Transgender Characters in Games" by Emil Christenson and Danielle Unéus:
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1146698/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Article with a quote from the Italian:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210607111528/http://www.fti.uab.es/tradumatica/revista/num5/articles/06/06central.htm
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