10 Gaming Moments That Led To Massive Lawsuits

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, video game controversies were practically daily news. Ever since Mortal Kombat, politicians and broadcasters were placing blame squarely on video games for turning children into degenerate hoodlums through their depictions of violence and sex. One such incident was the circus surrounding the Hot Coffee Mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

At one point during development, developer Rockstar had planned to include a sex mini-game as a climax (nailed it) for the dating sim elements that were new to the series. After a successful date, your date would invite you back to her house for "coffee." Likely out of an interest to avoid this kind of controversy, the sex mini game was eventually cut, but it was left unfinished, buried somewhere in the game's code, to be forgotten.

Until it was exhumed as a user-made PC mod and all hell broke loose. Take Two patched the content out of the game entirely and removed it from all future retail versions of the game, but not before suffering a cavalcade of lawsuits.

Angry parents and government officials saw a gold mine. Take-Two eventually settled for $1-2 million. Of course, that's not that much money when divided among a lot of people and their lawyers.