Why was the German vidya scene so damn weird? Can't believe their most successful games back in the day were a franchise of chicken hunting games and its zillion spinoffs (crazy chicken wanted, crazy chicken soccer...etc) and knock-offs. Their chicken obsession even reached the realm of board games with Feiges Huhn. That's not even getting into the endless copy-and-paste simulators. Is it really all due to the heavy censorship that was reserved for any game that was dealing with ''mature'' content? Are there any krautanons that could tell us what it was like to game under those conditions? Any war stories?

>>11793581 (OP)
>Are there any krautanons that could tell us what it was like to game under those conditions?
No one gave a shit because everyone just pirated. Do you really think anyone in their right mind played censored versions of games? lmao

Apparently Moorhuhn was so popular that it even had a song that managed to get on the pop charts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdserZX7Bns
I feel like a complete idiot for never hearing about this phenomenon before despite being an old eurofag

Guilt over atrocities committed causes societal reversion to a childlike state
You see it in Japan as well

i really truly miss when every region had its own little gaming identity with its quirks and oddities. you do not see stuff like this unfold anymore at all.

>>11793581 (OP)
>Any war stories?
No, that's literally the problem, themes of violence/conflict/war were taboo in Germany

>>11793581 (OP)
1. The Great Giana Sisters
2. Oil Imperium
3. Mad TV
4. Turrican
5. Turrican II: The Final Fight
6. M.U.D.S.
7. Katakis
8. X-Out
9. Lethal Xcess
10. Amberstar
11. Ambermoon
12. Lords of Doom
13. Das Schwarze Auge: Die Schicksalsklinge
14. Das Schwarze Auge: Sternenschweif
15. Das Schwarze Auge: Schatten über Riva
16. Albion
17. Biing!
18. Biing! 2
19. The Settlers
20. The Settlers II
21. The Settlers III
22. Battle Isle
23. Battle Isle 2
24. Battle Isle 3
25. History Line: 1914–1918
26. Incubation
27. Anno 1602
28. Anno 1503
29. Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
30. Aquanox
31. Aquanox 2: Revelation
32. Gothic
33. Gothic II
34. SpellForce: The Order of Dawn
35. Cultures
36. Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard
37. No Man’s Land
38. Diggles: The Myth of Fenris
39. Port Royale
40. Airline Tycoon

>>11793969
and now German cinema is full of WW2 and GDR slop. But from a personal perspective.
>>11793581 (OP)
German vidya was always strong in the management genre. Figures. Some good strategy games and a few good RPGs and action games, basically what >>11794123 wrote.
Censorship has little to do with the content German devs made, imo. There was a huge swath of "funny" or zany games, in every genre and a surprising amount of erotic content, with that German humor/zaniness attached. It was a wild west in the 90s and there were loads of basement/grassroot developers pushing out their stuff, just like the Bri'ish Speccy devs from the 80s. German nerd humour included.
I just think there was no demand for violent games, but rather a longing for complex sims and management games.
>>11793608
Why'd you have to remind me of that brainrot? Wigald Boning is a good lad, but fucking hell that song.

>>11794123
das it mane

>>11793581 (OP)
>Are there any krautanons that could tell us what it was like to game under those conditions? Any war stories?
Man that post is so retarded that I don't even feel like writing up a sarcastic reply, but everything that needs to be said has already been said anway.

>>11793608
They already had Schnappi das Kleine Krokodil.

>>11793581 (OP)
Anyone else play this fucking masterpiece?

>>11793581 (OP)
German law forbade any games that showed violence against humans or Nazi symbols, so you get stuff like this.

>>11793640
So where's yours? :)

>>11794123
Lunacy

Moorhuhn was just a freeware game every normie played.
It's comparable to a viral flash game the whole office played.

>>11794332
Germans are just like Japanese they're autists who like "thinking" games rather than going around and beating people up or shooting things.

>>11794652
Speaking of german flash games, I remember one in particular that consisted of shooting down an oncoming swarm of ugly ass flies. It had an artstyle that somewhat similar to Road Rash's. Would love to find its name again.