Throughout 2022, there were several leaks in regards to the existence of Silent Hill: The Short Message. First, screenshots were leaked of a playable teaser for the game, where it was known under the working title "Silent Hill: Sakura". Then, in both September and December of that year, the game received age ratings in both South Korea and Taiwan, respectively. Additionally, when Konami began hiring for upcoming projects based on Silent Hill, one of the projects was an unannounced in-house game, which would later turn out to be Silent Hill: The Short Message.
The vehicle-building gameplay of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts has been claimed by many Banjo-Kazooie fans, often with an underlying anti-Microsoft or pro-Nintendo console war motive, to have been a corporate mandate from Microsoft to Rare, who supposedly wanted to make another 3D platformer like the previous games in the series. However, this is a complete lie as the only known influence on Nuts & Bolts from Microsoft was that they wanted Rare to make games aimed toward a younger demographic. Otherwise, the creative decisions made with Nuts & Bolts were entirely on Rare's development team, which was burned out by 3D platformers and genuinely believed that vehicle-building was a natural evolution of the genre.
Wired 2008 interview revealing Rare thought platforming games stopped being innovative after the Nintendo 64, and the team expanded from 13 to 71 people so they could not make projects like they used to: https://www.wired.com/2008/05/qa-banjo-kazooi/
Gamereactor 2008 interview revealing Rare thought the blockier character designs felt more BK than the smooth versions of N64 models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9Il7IKgEI
Steve Mayles 2020 interview stating Banjo-Threeie is Nuts & Bolts, putting work into reimagined worlds from Banjo-Kazooie is the same amount of work as new worlds, at one point Rare's management moved all but two people from the Banjo-Kazooie project, Xbox Market was different than the Nintendo market so they weren't sure it'd sell, and Rare was burnt out from making 3D platformers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8n7QKJZHs
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According to a BBC News article from January 2003, Sony agreed to edit The Getaway after they received complaints from British Telecommunications (BT). BT was concerned about the misuse of a transit van bearing its logo and asked the developers to edit the game to remove BT's appearance entirely. The section of the game that BT objected to was the "Filthy Business" mission, where the main character Mark Hammond must attack and steal a BT van and then raid a police station to rescue another character. BT did not want attacks on its engineers to be portrayed in the game, and they were also worried that the game might incite real-life attacks on them. The section was removed from future releases of the game 12 days after its release, and all following versions of the game have a plain light-blueish van in the mission, with the dialogue also being altered to refer to it as just "a van" rather than a "BT van".
Originally, the game was passed with an MA 15+ rating on November 22, 2002. However, it was resubmitted and banned just five days later due to a cutscene showing the character Johnny Chai being tortured in detail. Another version of the game which censored version of this scene was released weeks later on December 13 with the identical rating.
These censorship changes are documented by the different releases of the game, starting with the 1.03 European version. This version included the Johnny Chai torture scene and the Ford Transit van with full BT livery and Ford badge in the cutscene model. After the game was initially banned in Australia, the developers altered the camera angles of the scene, focusing more on the characters' facial expressions rather than the violence. The cutscene model of the BT van was also re-textured, and the Ford badges were removed. This version is known as the 1.1 European version of the game, which was followed by the dispute from BT, resulting in their removal from future releases of the game.
On August 18th and 19th, 2014, several weeks before Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS launched in Japan, one of the most influential leaks in the series occurred. Footage of the gameplay and the roster (including fighters who were not announced by Nintendo at the time) were uploaded to 4chan, and then YouTube. The legitimacy of the leaks were brought into question by fans (such as the consistency of the rosters compared to the one that was shown at E3 that year), with some speculating that the leaks originated from an employee connected to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), leading fans to refer to the leak as the ESRB leak. It was not until Nintendo took down the YouTube videos very shortly after they were uploaded when they were confirmed to be legitimate. Days later, Shulk would be revealed for the game in a Japanese Nintendo Direct, confirming the rest of the game's unannounced roster.
In 2023, it was discovered that the leaker was a child of a Nintendo of America employee. According to a DidYouKnowGaming? video researching the history of various video game leaks, the employee recorded footage of the game in action, which would be sent to the ESRB for review. The child gained access to it and shared the footage with his friends, before spreading out of control. Nintendo of America fired the employee shortly after word got out.
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The character R. Mika will give herself a buttslap right after activating her Critical Art. In early footage of the game, the camera focused on R. Mika's butt while this happened, but this was later changed so that the camera is repositioned higher up to cut out the view. Additionally, R. Mika and her partner no longer split the opponent's legs.
In a December 2015 article by DualShockers, Producer Yoshinori Ono stated this change was made because they wanted to avoid making players uncomfortable and that the choice was not influenced by external factors. However, in an interview featured in the Best of III webshow, Capcom's Director of Brand Marketing and Esports Matt Dahlgren stated that this change was done due to issues regarding the game's rating, as they wanted to appeal to a very wide audience and keep Street Fighter "a family-friendly franchise".
In a Gamespot article published in January 2016, Ono reiterated that the change was made to avoid making people uncomfortable. However, this time he said that the team took in consideration the criticism that certain characters were too sexualized, contradicting his earlier statement that this change was done without external influence.
Both the original GameCube release and the Nintendo Switch remake are rated E by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), but the GameCube version's rating was simply given the descriptor "Mild Cartoon Violence". The remake’s ESRB rating was updated to replace it with the descriptors "Mild Fantasy Violence" and "Mild Suggestive Themes". These "Mild Suggestive Themes" most likely refer to flirtatious dialogue (i.e. "Aren’t you a fine specimen of a man"; "Perhaps if I…grabbed you and gave you a little sugar") and a character with a large chest/exaggerated proportions, referencing Madame Flurrie.
When Sonic Classic Collection was rated by the British Board of Film Classification, they rated three pieces of content not present in the final game: •A trailer for Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood •A "history of Sonic" documentary video •An unknown item titled "GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE", which was most likely a video. However, all other non-interactive elements in the game such as the credits and aforementioned videos have a runtime, which GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE does not.
Yoshi's Story was the first Mario series game to be rated E for Everyone instead of K-A for Kids to Adults due to the changeover by the ESRB from the previously used K-A rating in 1998.
The description for the level "Frying Saucers" contains the only use of profanity in the series: "Face the big alien boss, and kick his big alien ass." As such, this is the only game in the series to receive an E10+ rating from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board.
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After defeating the 12 rare Zodiac Monsters (the most difficult and time consuming task to do) that appear after beating the game, a special alternate ending to the game will play where six female characters (Holly, Colt, Viola, Minta, Crysta, and Miss Sapphire) confront the player, Errick and Cleo. Holly and Colt tell them they rounded "everyone" up to celebrate the defeat of the Zodiac Monsters, but their extremely suggestive praises of the player and anticipations of celebrating "tonight" (with Viola commenting she wants to see what makes him "tick") anger Cleo who feels that she is not being given proper credit for her work and suspects something is up. She tries to save him from the encounter, but she is attacked by Viola and appears to fall unconscious before he is "captured" and taken away by the six women. What then occurs is a fade-to-black followed by the "rest" theme that plays when you let a monster rest for the week, and the sound of two owl hoots. The scene then cuts to the following morning, where Errick remarks that he is jealous of the player and Cleo returns demanding to know what the player did the prior night as Holly and Colt giggle. She angrily denies him supper for a month, while Holly comments she will give him some of hers behind Cleo's back.
This cutscene heavily implies that the player partook in a harem orgy, with Colt in particular implying that the player took her virginity. Monster Rancher DS was rated E for Everyone by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), but their rating still points out the game features "Mild Suggestive Themes". It's unknown if this warning was added to refer to this scene or if the game's publisher intentionally left out this scene when submitting content to the ESRB for review.
The Game Boy version of Mortal Kombat 3 was released in North America in 1995, one year after the formation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), and became the only original Game Boy game to receive a Mature 17+ (M) rating.
If you put in the cheat code "girlnextdoor" you can play the game as Mary Jane Watson. At the end of the game, where Spider-Man and Mary Jane usually kiss, Mary Jane will kiss herself. This code was removed from later versions of the game, presumably because of the lesbian kiss in an E-rated game.
The Game Boy version of Mortal Kombat 3 was released in North America in 1995, one year after the formation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), and became the only original Game Boy game to receive a Mature 17+ (M) rating.
If you put in the cheat code "girlnextdoor" you can play the game as Mary Jane Watson. At the end of the game, where Spider-Man and Mary Jane usually kiss, Mary Jane will kiss herself. This code was removed from later versions of the game, presumably because of the lesbian kiss in an E-rated game.