10 Most Ridiculously Over-The-Top Examples Of Gaming Censorship

4. Wolfenstein 3D (SNES)

As we've already established, getting a violent game on the SNES with all of its content intact was harder than trying to tie your shoes in the dark without any fingers. iD's Nazi-slaying shooter Wolfenstein 3D suffered much worse than than the previously mentioned Mortal Kombat. Nazi references such as swastikas were taken out. Hitler was replaced as the final boss by a dude called Staatmeister that actually looked a lot like the Nazi dictator (minus the moustache and Nazi armband, of course). On top of this enemy soldiers spoke English instead of German and Nazi Germany had its name changed to Master State. Blood was also removed, dogs were replaced with giant mutant rats and health was changed to "H.P" for reasons only Nintendo will understand. But wait - there's more! Ammo was changed to shot in the HUD and bullets were removed from the clip's graphic. The censorship was pretty intense and took away a lot of what made Wolfenstein so great (namely shooting Nazis). Nintendo eventually learned that there was a place for mature content on their consoles and decided not to censor the later SNES ports of Doom and Mortal Kombat 2.