Re: [SWCollect] Early Controversial Games

2001-08-25 Thread Chris Newman
There was a game that caused quite a stir back in 1985-87. It involved the holocaust, but for the life of me, I cannot recall the name. I never played the game, but saw a story about it on the TV news. Given the typical sensationalism of those stories I can only guess about the truthfulness or

Re: [SWCollect] Early Controversial Games

2001-08-25 Thread C.E. Forman
Thanks Karl. Dracula, IIRC, was the first computer game to get an adult rating in England. CRL did a version of Frankenstein with similar content. KZ Manager sounds a little like a game called Auchwitz, same concept. Can anyone tell me if that one was sold commercially, or if it even exists?

Re: [SWCollect] Early Controversial Games

2001-08-25 Thread Karl Kuras
Well I've actually played KZ Manager... heard of Auschwitz, but since there were several public domain games with that theme (including a hacked version of Kaiser, an excellent resource management game from the C64 days) it's possible the game existed. - Original Message - From: C.E.