100 Things You Never Knew About Resident Evil
46. Germany's Director's Cut Censorship
Included in the 1997 re-release Resident Evil Director's Cut was a demo for the then upcoming Resident Evil 2. Much like how most people bought Crackdown to play the Halo 3 beta, it was a big selling point of the reissue of the original Resi.
Which is exactly what makes this entry particularly troublesome. With Germany's tight censorship rules, Capcom decided to forego the demo in that territory because they feared that it would give more of a chance for the German censorship board Unterhaltungssoftware Selbskontrolle (literally "Entertainment software self-regulation") to place their targets on RE2 early and ban or censor it before it had a chance.
This all wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that the box still mentioned the inclusion of the demo that was no longer there.
Oh, and speaking of RE2 box mistakes, the PAL PC version of RE2 must've slipped past Capcom's quality control because it mistakenly refers to Claire Redfield as a reporter. Shame she didn't temp as proof-reader as goodness knows where that came from.