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And they weren’t entirely unsuccessful in their efforts, as multiple major retail stores in the UK and US refused to stock it and Brazil banned it entirely.

That clip is from a segment on G4TV’s Attack of the Show from before Bully came out, when lawyer Jack Thompson (who later got disbarred) spoke on behalf of the anti-videogame violence activists and parents’ groups - none of whom had played Bully or even seen the game in action, but all of whom had apparently assumed that it’s a high school shooting and bullying simulator from the makers of what they had previously argued was a prostitute murder simulator. If it were a movie, Bully might have been painted as a poignant tale of growing up, finding your place, and standing up for what’s right - weaved into a John Hughes-esque schoolyard satire. My book, The Secret History of Mac Gaming, is available in bookstores in the UK and Australia, as well as online from the likes of Book Depository and Amazon. Please remember to tell other people about the show, and to leave a review by following the links at /ltvg. Or for one-off donations you can use /mossrc. If you'd like to become a supporter, for as little as $1 a month, head to my Patreon page and sign up. Thanks as always to my supporters on Patreon - especially my $10+ backers Vivek Mohan, Simon Moss, Wade Tregaskis, Eric Zocher, and Seth Robinson. And I wonder why, nearly 15 years on, open-world games continue to strive for bigger and bigger playgrounds filled with more and more trivial collectibles rather than building on the legacy of Bully's deliberate, glorious smallness.

How 2006 PS2 hit Bully (aka Canis Canem Edit) showed an alternate future for Rockstar and the open-world genre, with its compromised-yet-brilliant schoolyard satire - here I dive deep into the game, not for its overblown controversies but rather for its struggles against technological limitations and its triumphs in world-building, satire, and focused, more intimate and structured open-world game design.