10 Things You Didn’t Know About Leatherface
2. He Made His Video Game Debut In 1982
An adult-themed video game adaptation became a nightmare for Wizard Games in 1983 when the studio brought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Atari 2600.
Although the game was a primitive mess of pixels, those pixels were deemed offensive enough for most retailers to refuse to carry the game, and the ones that did stock it hid the thing under the counter.
Video games for adults weren't really a thing back then, so it comes as no surprise that the first one to cast players as a chainsaw-wielding psychopath with no objectives beyond mass slaughter was sunk by controversy.
Notoriety often boosts sales, but in Wizard Games' case it took a chainsaw to them and the studio was forced to close its doors in 1987, with the video game rights to Leatherface ending up elsewhere.