10 Disturbing Gaming Moments You Just Went With As A Kid

6. Mangling Pedestrians For Extra Points In Carmageddon

Proof, if it were needed, that gaming's 'underground' status (at least in terms of home console gaming) fuelled ideas that really appealed to the most twisted sensibilities inside the human mind, Stainless Games' Carmageddon was a one-way trip to terrified parents and outraged media outlets, garnering them huge success and cult status almost overnight. Word spread like wildfire of 'that game' your older brother/cousin/friend down the road had a copy of, and in a pre-internet age that was all the speculation needed to paper over the fact it didn't actually play very well. "Lies, it played perfectly!" your inner child will be screaming, but it didn't matter - you could barrel through groups of pedestrians for bonuses, wipe out small animals for boosts and best/worst of all, annihilate pensioners to truly own the leaderboards. In the late 90s controversy ruled all, and Carmageddon's slaughter-happy approach was one that paid dividends, whilst also working as a parallel to the disastrous Kickstarter-backed 'reboot' that came and went within minutes in 2014.