Graphic Violence
The game's humor was principally very dark and the violence was surprisingly graphic for a title of this period - the tightrope walker gets sliced in two through the midriff when hit by a blade and the juggler is blown to pieces when hit by a bomb, for example. The lack of any kind of media panic in retrospect might seem surprising, although such public outrage only became common from about 1992 onwards, following the releases of Wolfenstein 3D and Mortal Kombat.
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