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pipes on Oct 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Documented source code for Elite on the NES

I never understood why UK and Europe got probotector instead of contra, maybe it was due to Germany's very strict game censorship?

toast0 on Oct 10, 2023 [–]

Yeah, that's my guess. Violence towards humans in video games was often prohibited in Germany, so drop it for the whole region, because two releases is hard.

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