| Devil World 1984, Nintendo, Famicom |
Here's a wild one for ya'. IN 1984, Shigeru Miyamoto, yes, the guy who created Mario and The Legend of Zelda, and his team came up with a Famicom game known as "Devil World". It's of much amusement to us stateside because of the premise and the religious imagery within.
In Devil World, you play as a green dragon named "Tamagon" who wants to go to hell and "Destroy the Devil's World". Apparently, Hell is an auto-scroll version of Pac-Man where you need crosses and the good book to spit fire and actually eat the holey (hehe, HOLEY, HAHA) donut holes littered about the maze. If you get trapped in the borders of the auto-moving maze, you die, if you get hit by an enemy, you die - raising some pretty interesting existential questions about Tamagon's soul to be honest! We never got this game in America (gee, I wonder why?). As such, once the Famicom fans started to import it and find it amusing because of cultlural differences, let's just say it really shines a light on how different the two countries are. In America, they'd never let this pass the NOA seal of quality, you have crosses (religious imagery), you have the Holy Bible (which would have set off the 700 Club, Washington Wives, and all of their moral legislation cronies in the 80's), and of course, the game is super hard, but fun as all get out. Seriously, some of us in the USA need to get a life.Catchy Tagline - My Experiences Videos Other Stuff |
