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@@aurawolf664 Imagine wasting everyone's time and the people's money to fight over entertainment when there are loads of worse problems more worthy of attention.
I have never seen a copy of the game or the arcade game go up to children and start beating the shit out of them, what drugs was he on back then? Disclaimer: this is a joke
Still, there are far less harmful games for children to play. I've been on the fence with this issue for a while, but there is something wrong with exposing children to violent and gory material at a young age.
Really shows the stupidity of the people who get offended by this 'violence' in video games but find violence in any other medium like movies completely fine. Edit: Substitute "any other form of entertainment" in place of 'medium', my point got a bit muddled up there.
@@Viceroy_Sundercles_III Yup. The older generation always finds something to hate about the younger generation. Did you know Plato was against writing because he thought it'll make people stupid? "If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written... it is no true wisdom... they will be a burden to their fellows." -Plato
ever since my child started playing Mortal Kombat he's been transforming himself into a penguin and detonating his sister. Anyone know how to stop this behaviour?
"How do you feel about cutting his head off?" "Well, ma'am, in terms of some of the other, more graphical entertainment outlets that exist without much parental supervision, such as television and movies, the latter which helped inspire this video game, and combined with the genuine horrors of everyday life, such as poverty, racial tensions, drug abuse, and war, I find that arcade games provide a safe means to vent the frustrations of the daily grind. But, to pertain towards your overall question; *fun*."
Crazy that they actually cut the actors' heads off and had to film all the fatalities for real. Those were some extremely dedicated actors. My hat is off to them and I will never forget their sacrifice.
@John O'Neill "As you can clearly hear from this child's testimony, videogames are the sole cause for his apathy at life, and no other factors can be traced back to his violent behavior"
It's funny watching adults try to get kids to say that playing video games feeds into their violent tendencies when kids don't even have the vocabulary to even properly describe why they enjoy something besides "it's fun." What do they expect? "Well, it's not that I enjoy violence itself--obviously there's a disconnect between what I'm doing in the video game and how I actually feel about ripping someone's head off. There's an unspoken agreement that I'm supposed to suspend my disbelief and just engage with the mechanics and the nature of this fictional world."
Frogger, an innocent game? I think not sir, that's a game where you are constantly forcing a frog to cross a busy highway against it's will with no end in sight. ;)
You're playing it wrong; frogger is an RPG. In my headcanon I'm a frog trying to run from his tumultuous past, and the cars represent the obstacles keeping him from achieving a meaningful future.
If there was a game incouraging kids to punch sac I'd want it banned too. The basic framework of morality on which democracy rests is Not in the Face, Shins or Balls. Call me old-fashioned and unhip, but I think kids should be taught to respect those rules
Droopy Dog: “This game encourages the player to consume these so-called ‘power pellets’, at which point they become feared by their enemies, whom they pursue and consume in the act of running away from them. This is encouraging drug abuse, in my estimation.”
You steep on goombas in mario that is clearly discrimination against midgets and promotes child abuse as we didn’t know if the goombas were child or adult.
I like how the dude in court said that "the game encourage kids to shoot this gun" and not "a gun". He wanted to emphasize that the game encourages kids to shoot that specific toy gun he was holding.
@@Dweebus Really irresponsible of him to bring that gun out of its 8 inch thick steel safe with 12 digit combination lock, but I suppose the point had to be made
He was talking about a different game in that part dude. And that game came with that gun controller, so yes, the game encouraged to shoot that gun This hearing actually had some valid points, it's interesting how they came up with the ESRB from there
That’s not just a courtroom, that’s a bright blue plastic nerf-lookin ass gun being presented as a threat to society on the floor of the fucking US Senate
What if (and I know that this sounds crazy) his dream was to be a comedian? Think about it, that's the only way he found to express his true self. That's the only logical explanation.
"Them video games teach our children violence, and our children clearly can't tell what's good and what's bad cause we're failures of parents, but we'll just blame video game developers for everything wrong with our children and avoid our responsibilities once again. And it's not going to backfire at all, and when it will, we'll just blame something else. Isn't life beautiful?"
Real talk though, dunkey's "I'm done making good videos" phase has really made me appreciate the sheer standard of quality this man has sustained for over a decade. The sources he pulls for these vids are phenomenal and I can tell he puts so much time into researching and storyboarding. Good job, Dunkey.
Because Scorpion was added in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Sheeva already got the scorpion animality back in vanilla MK3, where animalities where introduced. They make up for it by giving him a scorpion one in MK4 tho.
@@propheinx2250 as someone who wasn’t allowed to play Pokémon as a kid because it was “teaching kids how to summon demons,” I now feel pity more than anything for that brand of clueless lol
Governemnt: How do you feel being taken an advantage of by us old rich people and sending you to a bloodbath overseas for our own gains , and which we basically forced on you by hyperinflating college prices and making you not want to take down the offer since we agreed to 'paying' your college student debt, (which shouldn't even be there to begin with), if you agree to the offer? The same kid in the video but grownup now: F U N
Violence is F U N Poor kids these days don't stand a chance Neither did past generation of kids Or the generation before that... Kids in general don't stand a chance
The overly offended politician is what makes this video hilarious. I think it's one of the greatest forms of promotion, when government goes against something it's like the greatest reason to check it out for all the kids who want to be edgy.
Mortal Kombat would have been far less popular if it weren’t for governments promoting it, and that was probably done deliberately. It gave them an excuse to fight against videogames in general. If a government actually sees something a company makes as a threat, they will not publicly talk about it at length, they will try to discourage them from continuing in various discreet ways. Look at the death of the Tamagotchi franchise in the West. [Edit to explain] If governments had been constantly complaining publicly about Tamagotchi’s distracting children (they were hated by schools more than phones are today), they would still be a hit. Instead, Tamagotchi was pushed out of the market by floods of terrible bootlegs available everywhere that were somehow legal to imply or even outright state to be the real thing until people thought the franchise sucked. This could have been done with Mortal Kombat way more easily - no unique hardware needed, no unique characters so it would be hard to sue over copying them...
I mean, can you blame them for being wary of such violent games? It was its inception and people didn't know what a consequence it would have. Fortunately it proved to be just harmless fun in 90% of the cases, but imagine even having the slightest concern that your child might become a crazed psychopath. Don't scoff at things that you feel are "primitive" in today's world.
fun fact: one of the ex developers said it was actually a photoshopped chicken egg, cause they couldn't find a real penguin one to make a jpeg of it in time.
The first 3 games give me so much nostalgia, i remember when i was like 5 years old, my uncle would take me to the arcade and i would always play Mk2 by mashing random buttons, my parents were fine with it. Then, with the early days of the internet, i remember looking up a move list for MK Trilogy, that was mind blowing to me at the time. I miss those days, the new MK games are really good but it just doesn't feel the same, it doesn't have that aura of "mystery", the easter eggs, secret characters and all of that. Even if they did, dataminers ane hackers would figure everything out in minutes and you could solve it with 1 google search. Maybe i've just changed, idk.
@@suronia1 Keep up Scruggs, Funky said he was done making good videos and went a week making "content" every day, among us mondays, among us tuesdays, dare I say it, among us saturdays. It was a wild ride boyo, but we're back on track.
I'll always class the early years of Mortal Kombat when game developers had massive balls to do whatever they wanted and make the game that they wanted to make, I hope that one day there is a renaissance of it
@Josh Hall Racism makes sense in a game like Rust, a primitive survival game based on a time when tribes often slaughtered one another based on skin tone and iq. Shouting racial slurs is one way that players can truly immerse themselves in the experience.
Thanks to featuring it in this video, I was FINALLY able to remember the name of the first video game I ever beat as a kid. It was the Devil’s Crash pinball game on Sega Genesis. Thank-you Dunkey.
"This is a danger to children, it's teaching them how to turn into a penguin and drop explosive eggs. Imagine if they start marching, dancing, or surfing next." -some butthole politician
It might just be that humans need logical structure to their entertainment that reflects the berteneress of our instincts. Whethwr you attribute that to religion, or just common sense cooperation that aided human beings leaving the caves. The arguments about long term exposure to violent imagery, interactions, and music, was actually very reasonable. Unlike where we are now. I'm in my 40's and despite growing up with this debate happening in my childhood and early teen years I value oldee media that doesn't have much of any ot that. There absolutely was an innoceane lost. If you think otherwise you're either delusional or too young to know better.
I remember that time as a kid. All the news coverage just made more kids go out and get that game. Samething happened again in the early 2000's with GTA III.
Thanks for a nice refresher! Brings back sweet memories. I think I uttered my first grown-up swear word playing MK when it was first out, good times :) Together with Heroes of Might and Magic, these were my first steps into gaming.
"What really caught people's attention with Mortal Kombat were the Fatalities which is ironic because back in the day nobody actually knew how to do them" lmfao this is so true RAGINGBAMBADAYYY
@@i7887 but they are bad, they're cancerous games that demand you pay for secret maps, currency , supplies, cosmetics and a season pass in £60/$60 game. Then we have the half baked stories, boring side missions, shitty side content thats recycled over and over for example ac odyssey go rescue someone from a bandit camp over and over and over, combat that was ok in early games but became boring and repetitive in later games. The present day storyline being a road block of a snooze fest, uninteresting characters but it does have cool settings, nice graphics (Valhalla not included) I could go on such as ubisofts rape culture, serial harassment and mistreatment of staff although thats a company problem rather than a game one but nonetheless has to factor into the equation as these games were built on the backs of people who were abused.
What gets my attention the most is that both this video game franchise and its creators/developers nevee took themselves too seriously, it's all cheesy, goofy, stupid but THEY KNOW it is. While the parents and adults complaining at them just don't seem smart enough to notice this, and the game is not even subtle with its silly humor.. Like, common, the voice acting and grunts sound funny, the story and characters are cheesy af, the Dan "Toasty" Forden appearing on a corner uttering his iconic line, the Animalities and Friendships that are so silly and so humourously unfitting yet they work. This is a fighting game that makes fun of itself and fighting tropes and I just love it for that.
Oh did I mention the Ninjas and Robots that, appearance-wise, are just copies of one another? Heck, Reptile has abilities of both Sub-Zero and Scorpion, so they painted his attire green cause that's the colored you get by mixing Sub-Zero and Scorpion's clothes. Ermac was a glitch in which Scorpion would get his attire in red rather than yellow, and fans themselves were speculating it was a real hidden characters, so the developers ran with the meme and made it official (and they made it the most broken character), and Rain? It was just created out of a joke, they were literally thinking what other color they hadn't used for a ninja yet, and ALSO, they liked Prince's "Purple Rain", so they painted him purple. Did I mention Sub-Zero has two more brothers?
Some of the earliest 3D shooters are still banned in Germany, while you can buy grotesquely violent stuff like TLoU2 in every market. Sometimes some agency updates their ban lists and then these age-old titles go from "this is too violent to be sold legally" to "its fine for everyone 12 and older". The 90s and early 2000s were a really crazy time. Politicians losing their damn minds over all the new stuff in this "internet" that will never catch on anyway. By the 2010s most of them had realized that everyone was on "the internet" and played "the videogames" and being against it was a losing position. Ironically, today it seems like "the internet" radicalized the older generation much more than the younger ones. Little Timmy who played Mortal Kombat as a kid turned out fine, but grandma just stormed the Capitol hell-bent on hanging the Vice President because she couldn't handle Facebook. Times are a-changing.
well, when Warheads came out, I was in the 5th grade and kids would bring them to class because of how we were all obsessed with them. Because it was "fun" to try an eat a super-sour candy and to play games who could eat the whole candy without spitting it out. Can't remember if the school banned them or not after a while...
I like how dunk's idea of 90s graphic art is literally the design that's been on every disposable coffee cup for the past forty years. That gag got me good.
@@YasirTufekci if you're referring to what happened at the US Capitol, I'm sure that many of the people there were gamers, they were probably edgy call of duty kids who spent way too much time on the internet and became radicalized
