8 Controversial Video Games The Industry Was FORCED To Change

8. Weird Dreams

Often forgotten as a relic of the Commodore 64 age, Weird Dreams is a title that never really made a lasting impression, initially releasing in 1988 to some mixed reviews. The game features a man named Steve who begins to have the titular Weird Dreams, as unbeknownst to him, the woman he loves is actually a demon called Zelloripus trying to works its way into his mind.

Easy enough mistake to make, we've all been there.

Since his psychiatrist can't figure out the problem, he's sent to a neurosurgeon, put under anaesthetic and operated on, resulting in one last weird-ass dream that you then play through. Dying in the dream results in dying in real life, but the game wasn't always designed that way.

Weird Dreams was supposed to punish the player's death by revealing you wake up in your own surgery and have to endure a brain operation, whilst fully capable of seeing and feeling everything going on. Coming at a time when people were genuinely quite scared of being awake during medical procedures, as well as just being a generally horrifying premise to begin with, the ending was altered to being simple death instead.

It's not a big change, but we might as well start off light here before the next entries...