In Japan, there were so many that underground subcultures of programmers gathered around the more niche hardware.
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The Japanese game-making scene in the ’80s and ’90s was encouraged by consumer PCs such as the NEC PC-88 and PC-98, the FM Towns Marty (a PC-console hybrid that failed terribly), the MSX, and the Sharp X68000. As we’ve written previously, this was before Windows was the universal standard, and so there were many PC manufacturers competing for dominance. Unfortunately, it’s also the most obscure due to the language barrier and accessibility issues inherent with the computers these games were made on.Ī beguiling stream of unsullied strangeness If you push Nintendo and Capcom to the side, you can find a huge swath of hobbyist PC game makers, making up what is easily the weirdest part of videogame history so far. However, if we’re looking into the benefits of having a vibrant, uncensored type of videogame scene (which we are now), then we must turn to Japan’s corner of the world during the ’80s and ’90s.
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The British Commodore 64 scene is a good one as it was considerably eccentric, largely due to the games being created by hobbyists who took equally from offbeat TV shows they enjoyed, and odd characters that they may have saw around town (and many other unusual sources). But there are plenty of other outlandish videogames made around the same time that could be hoisted in support of a more experimental, carefree attitude towards videogame development.
It’s the kind of game that probably wouldn’t be made today. The classic example is Custer’s Revenge, which was released for the Atari 2600 back in 1983, and involved a cowboy forcing himself on a Native American woman with an erect three-pixel penis. Videogames also underwent an era of unadulterated investigation by its early explorers.
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The period before the Hays Code was when film creators were arguably at their most inventive, but also at their most insouciant. Prostitution, violence, profanity, illegal drug use, full-frontal nudity, bestiality, and abortion were all featured in pre-Code cinema, as well as other topics considered taboo at the time including miscegenation, adultery, and homosexuality. None of which had existed before anything could go. Hays to introduce a number of moral guidelines to the practice of film making.
Having been a Film Studies student, the comparison I’m wont to make is to the 1934 Hays Code (also known as The Motion Picture Production Code). It was drawn up by Will H. This landmark moment, when the officials step up with cane in hand, arrives with the introduction of all new technology as it infiltrates society. So, don’t worry, you’ll still be able to sling your degenerating mind through endless psychedelic videos and weird online paraphernalia. That this didn’t happen means the internet is open, ostensibly favored towards the user, and should mean the endless creativity of the web continues to thrive, for better or worse. If the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had brought in laws that allowed companies to regulate and restrict the internet, the entire online landscape would have changed. We just had a watershed victory with the passing of net neutrality.
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