Thrill Kill
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| Developer(s) | Paradox Development |
| Publisher(s) | Virgin Interactive |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
| Release | Cancelled (intended for mid-1998) |
| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Arcade, Versus, Practice and team |
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 suggestive names such as "Bitch Slap" and "Swallow This".
As it was essentially completed before it was cancelled due to conflicts with Paradox Development, 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 the extremely rare Entertainment Software Rating Board "Adults Only" (AO) rating for violence; all prior AO ratings had been for sexual content.
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 £122.5 million in the summer of 1998.
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