It's been remade for Steam, still sprite-based but at a higher resolution and very smooth. I'm tempted, but I didn't have a NES back in the day, so I only played it a few times when visiting cousins. So the nostalgia thing isn't really there.
Now that said...
It's actually beyond crazy with how strict they are. Porn isn't allowed to be in the same neighbourhood as violence. One porn thing was banned because it was about a Private Eye who was tracking down a kidnap victim. That was the set up and presumably it changed to "a story about a guy in an old PI jacket fucking various women just because" within one minute, but that was still too much.PhoneLobster wrote: 1) No sexual violence, not even implied off screen.
Another one was banned because there was a newspaper article about a murder in one of the scenes. That article had nothing to do with the plot, it was probably just an actual newspaper that was lying around.
No pretend weapons of any kind, that's right out.
The bolded bit is, to these people, even worse. The problem isn't the exploitation of minors (in their eyes), it's the fact that minors are having sex at all. So if it's consensual (let's sidestep the "At seventeen you're too stupid and confused to give real consent" debate) and they're both seventeen, that's more wrong (to these nutjobs) than what the local pastor does.2) No under age sex, even consensual, even with all parties under age, even implied off screen.
Yeah, every show for kids involves some case of a violent bully, and how standing up to them is the right answer, even though historically that's been a pretty bad solution unless you stand up to them with enough force that they need to re-learn how to walk. The fact is, every show for kids violates it, but "whatever, that's not what we meant obviously..."This of course was bat shit fucking crazy. Kids shows that included a violent bully (let alone an adult villain that so much as ever slapped a kid once) SHOULD have been banned.
I know you mention this later, but that would be wonderful. No more SVU.The entire basic premise of Law and Order SVU basically should have seen the show automatically banned on at least two or three counts before the end of the monologue in the opening credits.
The earliest case I remember for games being banned in Australia was Carmageddon, which is not exactly a realistic portrayal of violence. Pretty sure that came (shortly) before GTA, but the whole point of that one was "drive over pedestrians, gain points for it". With Mortal Kombat-esque blood splatters. It was stupid, and not even a good game, but it got banned for the gore/violence, not for being a shit game (otherwise the Call of Duty series wouldn't have made it here, oh snap!)
