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Random: Here’s Why Wolfenstein 3D On SNES Replaced Dogs With Rats

“You can’t shoot dogs!”.

We love a good documentary here at Nintendo Life, and CREATORVC’s upcoming film, First Person Shooter, looks like it will fill a big gap in our lives. Shooting for a Q4 2022 release, this 3+ hour documentary is all about the genre’s rise. Ahead of its release later this year, CREATORVC has shared a six-minute snippet with IGN which looks at how id Software first decided to make its first FPS and one of the most pioneering and influential games of all time, Wolfenstein 3D.

Anyone who knows anything about Wolfenstein 3D knows that on its native DOS it’s bloody and brutal, which wasn’t exactly a perfect fit for Nintendo at the time. Still, because the game was such a hit, Japanese company Imagineer contacted id Software to make a Super Nintendo port of the game. And Nintendo was less than happy with the violent content of the shooter.

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