| In the realm of WTF? retro arcade gaming Chiller from 1986 has got to rank up there at the top. Now people talk about how video games today are too violent, and are damaging today's youth. Well the people who are making such claims need to look back at video games from when they were kids. Chiller is a unrepentantly brutal game of unremitting death and torture of what are purposely innocent victims. There's no dressing it up with a "war" scenario, or it being in the context of some kind of Mafia come gangland organised crime in Chiller. |
Chiller was an early "light gun" based shoot-'em-up, where over a series of screens the player has to shoot and kill a bunch of innocent victims as quickly as possible, set in torture chambers, where the victims are chained up, manacled, or tied to various medieval torture devices. Blowing them away isn't how you play the game, the now classic "head shot" will only prolong their agony. The player has to find ways of setting off the torture devices, so that they bring about the death of the innocent quicker than you just simply blowing body parts off them. So Chiller was full of extreme bloody ultra violence, and 8-bit nudity. Seriously, just to reiterate, they complain about video games today?! Did these people who do spend the whole of the 80s completely blinkered? Or never went to arcades, or owned a home computer!
| Anyway (climbing off the soap-box), there was an attempt to port the game over to the NES, for the US market. They tried to soften the torture/horror element of the game... (Let's go back and look at this... The whole game is about torture & horror!) How they did it was by adding a story-line tat claimed all the very human looking victims were actually... [drum-roll]... MONSTERS!!! So that makes the game so much more family friendly. Well done guys... [slow hand clap]... | |
