10 Blatantly Racist Video Games

3. Custer's Revenge

Custer's Revenge celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, though we can't imagine many will be revisiting the Atari 2600 classic beyond the mere morbid curiosity that articles like this will, erm, arouse. The game was developed by a pornographic video game company called Mystique, who have remained infamous ever since the release of this game, which isn't just content to be racist; it's offensive to just about every subset of society in one way or another because of its themes and the goals it hands to the player. The player takes the role of General Custer, and the objective, believe it or not, is to rape a vast number of Native American women while avoiding the arrows being fired at you from afar by the native men. In our permissive, tolerant society of 2012, it's amazing to think that something so crude and horrific could get a mainstream release; we imagine these days it would be limited to a free download on some crummy website. What's worse is how the developers tried to defend it at the time, with literature accompanying the game declaring "if the kids catch you and should ask, tell them Custer and the maiden are just dancing". Furthermore, lead designers claimed that the game wasn't glorifying the rape and racial domination of whites over Native Americans because the woman was being seduced, not raped, and that makes what we're seeing all the more acceptable, apparently. In short, Custer's Revenge is just a game that offends a whole lot of people.