The Most Controversial Games Of All Time

7. Custer's Revenge

1983 Mystique As primitive as Custer€™s Revenge seems now, the unlicensed €˜adult€™ Atari cartridge made use of advanced graphics for its time. Therefore you probably have to imagine the image of an erect cowboy waddling towards a tied up girl with today€™s modern graphics to truly understand why it was so shocking. Maybe it was just as laughably shoddy then as it is now, who knows. Sold unofficially in sex shops and down dark alleyways by men in trenchcoats, the game was only one of the many Atari sex cartridges produced by Mystique. Seeing as one of the others is titled Beat€™em and Eat€™em, Custer€™s Revenge seems somewhat tasteful. The main reason for its ability to offend then and even now was the casual depiction of rape, with the box even stating that "she€™s not going to take it lying down". http://youtu.be/qY2AqKCpGkk
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Cult horror enthusiast and obsessive videogame fanatic. Stephen considers Jaws to be the single greatest film of all-time and is still pining over the demise of Sega's Dreamcast. As well regularly writing articles for WhatCulture, Stephen also contributes reviews and features to Ginx TV.