10 Video Games Banned Overseas For Ridiculous Reasons

Here we have another example of a game being refused classification in Australia unless the developer and publisher acquiesced to very specific forms of censorship.

One could think of a few reasons Fallout 3 might be banned or censored: references to cannibalism, cultural symbolism/appropriation, allowing the player to detonate an atomic bomb and destroy a city (this one was, understandably, removed from the Japanese release).

Oh right, and the rampant, nearly consequence-free use of hard drugs by the player.

One drug specifically - Med-X - was once, in early versions of the game, just straight-up morphine. All other drugs in the game have completely made-up names - Buffout is steroids; Mentats are Aderall; Jet is PCP; etc. - but in just this one instance, Bethesda chose to depict a real drug with its real name.

Morphine was renamed Med-X, not just for the Australian release, but for all versions of the game. This is a strange one because the game's potential banning and subsequent censorship just made it more consistent with Fallout's own lore. It just makes sense.