10 Dumbest Controversies That Dogged Popular Video Games

8. GTA's Hot Coffee Sex Mod Being Intentionally Left On The Disc

An oldie but a goodie, the GTA: San Andreas Hot Coffee scandal went from stupid to face-meets-palm ridiculous.

Starting when a handful of PC modders discovered remnants of what appeared to be a sex minigame on the retail version of the game disc, it was immediately snapped up by media outlets claiming Rockstar had done it intentionally. The real reason came from an in-progress minigame being left on the retail build of San Andreas, and Rockstar/Take Two were quick to remedy that in all future pressings of the disc.

Hot Coffee's reputation quickly snowballed, and the scene's presence in the game at all meant San Andreas would have to be re-rated, to which the ESRB responded by making it AO (Adults Only). This is the highest rating for any title in America, putting San Andreas alongside pornography and removing it from sale in the majority of stores.

The worst part? Rockstar knew the code was on-disc. Initially included so that PC players could "unlock the darkness" (according to Rockstar's Sam Houser), Hot Coffee was named and hidden on the PS2 disc to evade censorship.

If only Rockstar had taken such a gargantuan risk on something that didn't look completely ridiculous.