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''Thrill Kill'' is an unreleased 1998 fighting video game for the Sony PlayStation. While the technical feat of allowing four players to fight simultaneously in the same room was to be a major selling point, this was overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the game's depictions of violence and sexual content. Examples of this content include BDSM and fetishistic costumes and acts, limb dismemberment, and violent special moves with names such as "Bitch Slap" and "Swallow This". As it was essentially completed before it was cancelled and its code leaked onto the internet, it is one of the most widely available and easily playable unreleased games ever made. Discs and downloads containing near-final versions of the game are easy to obtain via the internet and are playable on PlayStation emulators and modded consoles. The game is notable for being the first video game to get an extremely rare AO rating for its violence, which would later be followed by the PC release of ''Manhunt 2'' in 2009, and ''Hatred'' in 2015. ==History and controversy== ''Thrill Kill'' was developed in the late 1990s for the Sony PlayStation by Paradox Development, later Midway Studios - Los Angeles. There was much hype surrounding the game, billed as the new ''Mortal Kombat'', and expectations were high in the gaming community. The original publisher was to be Virgin Interactive, which was acquired by Electronic Arts for £122,500,000 in the summer of 1998. By this point ''Thrill Kill'' had already finished development in entirety. A few weeks before shipping, the game was scrapped by EA because they didn't want to "publish such a senselessly violent game", as they felt that it would harm their image. They also stated that they deemed the game so offensive that they would not even attempt to sell the game nor to have it released by another publisher. Later, former employees that had worked on the game released the full game onto the internet, along with various beta versions, and bootlegs of the game flooded the market and were still seen by a large share of its original intended audience nevertheless. All files are still widely available through filesharing, and playable through emulators. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thrill Kill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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