I also still remember the times before the internet, you would order often via the phone at a shop and they would show their games and prices in a print magazine. So back in the day you would go to your favorite game shop, ask for it and they would be allowed to sell it to you if you can prove your age. However it was fully legal to still sale the game under the counter. It was not allowed to be openly marketed or advertised to protect children from it. To get banned in germany nowadays you really have to push things beyond reasonable, basically to the point where a game would get an AO rating in the US, or actually even beyond that I bet.Īs already pointed out “ban” is the wrong word. I think it was simply the case of older people that were responsible for age ratings got replaced with younger people and policies changed due to the fact that the younger people grew up with videogames, when old ones didn't. and games like Max Payne 2, which literally makes killing people look as cool as possible, even encourages you to kill people as cool as possible, also never got banned. There was a rapid change in the policies of the BPjM back in the day, while Goldeneye was banned, Perfect Dark never got banned. no game these days gets banned anymore for violence. This doesn't happen anymore, hence why it was unbanned. Goldeneye specifically was banned because of its dynamic death animations that "glorified violence" or some shit. Back in the old days many violent games were banned or heavily censored in germany.
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