Cracked.com has posted a list of six old-school videogames "just as brutal as Grand Theft Auto IV", although some of them definitely out-GTA GTA. Most of them existed under the radar of the average gamer. Did you know there was a Texas Chainsaw Massacre game (pictured above)? How many people have ever actually seen a copy of Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600, which exists mainly as a game people talk about rather than a game anyone actually played, much less bought?

I do remember Harvester, their #3 choice, not because of the cheesy FMV graphics, but because of the ending. You have to beat your girlfriend to death with a baseball bat while she begs for her life. At which point, you discover you've been in a virtual reality program all along, training to be a serial killer. Psyche! I suppose Harvester 2 would have moved on to actual violence.

Thanks Craig!