20 Ultra-Violent Arcade Games with Brutal Dismemberments

Video games were created primarily to entertain the public, being simple algorithms and computer codes that translated into pixels that interacted with each other. Today games have evolved to represent real or fictional bodies in a 3D scenario with complex mechanics, even simulating the bleeding and explosion of viscera when an enemy is defeated by the protagonist of the game, i.e. us.

Although blood and gore as such have been part of video games for several years, very few remember how difficult was the transition to its acceptance. It was in the 1990s that the improvements really kicked in when fighting games like Primal Rage, Time Killers, and especially Mortal Kombat, began to feature dismemberments in arcades. In fact, it was Sub-Zero’s fatality that prompted the introduction of the ESRB, which is responsible for giving an age rating to video games in the United States and Canada.

Over time games became increasingly violent and specialized in this gore sub-genre, but what are its origins in the arcades? Today we want to list a series of arcade video games that earned the hatred of many organizations, but also the appreciation of thousands of gamers thanks to their graphic and daring treatment of violence. Sometimes the stress of everyday life asks us nothing else than to feed our sadism with a video game. And is there anything more cathartic than playing a violent game to take away the anxiety of the day?

In this video we cover the history of arcades in search of the 20 most viscerally explicit games ever created. Find out!

In this video you will find:

• Some of the most brutal arcade games ever created
• Information related to each game such as release date, developer company, game genre and system it was released on.
• Official game box arts with a 3D presentation.
• Educative and/or critical comments on the importance of the video game and why you should play it

Intro and Outro Music

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00:00 Intro
0:21 1988 Narc (Arcade)
0:49 1988 Splatterhouse (Arcade)
1:13 1988 Tecmo Knight (Arcade)
1:41 1989 Altered Beast (Arcade)
2:05 1990 Smash T.V. (Arcade)
2:29 1990 Beast Busters (Arcade)
2:54 1990 S. A. R. Search And Rescue (Arcade)
3:19 1993 Total Carnage (Arcade)
3:44 1994 Battletoads (Arcade)
4:10 1994 Time Killers (Arcade)
4:36 1994 Night Slashers (Arcade)
5:01 1994 Blood Warrior (Arcade)
5:26 1994 Bloodstorm (Arcade)
5:52 1995 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Arcade)
6:17 1995 Zombie Raid (Arcade)
6:42 1996 Red Earth (Arcade)
7:07 1998 House of the Dead 2 (Arcade)
7:32 1999 Zombie Revenge (Arcade)
7:57 2004 Samurai Shodown V Special (Arcade)
8:22 Outro

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