2. Chiller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwb5ikIa6xI Here's where things take a turn for the dark, because Chiller, to be totally honest, is a completely f***ed up game. Released originally as a light-gun game in 1986, the game has the player portraying a torturer who has to maim and then murder helpless innocent people who are bound in various states inside a dungeon. Most of the enemies cannot fight back at all, meaning that the player is at free reign to do away with them as they wish. Each screen contains a number of people in shackles, stocks, or hanging from the ceiling, and you have to use the controls to navigate around the screen, either shooting the people to bits or hitting various switches than in turn activate elaborate death traps. In fact, shooting the players mostly does not result in death, quite ludicrously; it only causes their flesh to break apart, revealing the bones underneath, and to kill a player with a gun can be time-consuming. The NES version was slightly toned down in places, but basically just as screwed up. We complain about torture porn in movies nowadays, but no movie has ever been as blatant about its miserable blood-letting as this insane game.
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