wondering about past religious anti-video-game fanaticism 

we were just reminded that pokemon got a *ton* of hate in the 90s from religious people, claiming it was somehow demonic or something

and now i'm thinking

why did *pokemon* get that and not like, castlevania??? they were both wildly popular series but castlevania has literal demons in it
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wondering about past religious anti-video-game fanaticism 

@Felthry my guess would be that Pokemon had shows, movies, and all sorts of merch that Castlevania didn't, so it was what their children would have been ambiently exposed to

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re: wondering about past religious anti-video-game fanaticism 

@starseeker that makes sense, just seems like castlevania has a lot more stuff in it that would be objectionable to religious fanatics

though i guess you could make the easy argument that in castlevania it's shown pretty unambiguously that the demons are evil, too
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