Gradually, standards slacked, and lascivious-mined titles like Monster Monpiece, Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed, and Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus started making their way onto digital marketplaces, adding a bit of puckishness to portable systems. Naturally, depicting anything even remotely sexual was unconceivable at the time. Even the seemingly innocuous crosses on the coffins in Super Ghouls ‘n Ghost were modified to reduce religious implication.
It was a bewildering time when Nintendo tweaked RGB levels, converting Mortal Kombat’s bloodshed into a sweat-splashing romp complete with family-friendly finishing moves. Veteran gamers might recall the industry’s puritanical era.
