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The legendary Rareware Shooter GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 got prematurely scrabbed from the German Index by the Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors, which can index media these days if they for example don't receive a rating by the USK (for games) or FSK (for Movies and Music).
These games then can't be legally sold or promoted in Germany.
Many games over the course of the gaming history got put on the index, which deemed harmful for minors. But over the years Germany got more liberal and open-minded towards games and these days very few games get indexed (usually something like denying the holocaus or promoting nazi shit and alike).
But Games can get scrubbed automatically fromt he index 25 years after they got onto the index, The USK would rate it again after it.
GoldenEye got indexed on 31.03.1998, so normally it would have been delisted in March of 2023, which means Nintendo, the Publisher of the game filed for an early delisting
of GoldenEye 007 which got granted today. Schnittbereicht.com is saying that the game got a USK 18 rating
This is a welcoming but unusual move by Nintendo, since they are not in possession of the James Bond license, not have they ever applied for an earlier delisting of
one of their games beforehand. Which begs now the question... will we see GoldenEye 007 in its original form for Nintendo Switch Online?
Source: Eurogamer.de