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->''It goes back a long way, but in the Eighties there was a small trend of releasing ultraviolent movies which had a lot of kid-oriented merchandising. Typically,'' Film/TheTerminator ''was rated-R during its 1984 release,'' i.e. ''"forbidden to audience younger than 16", but in stores we could find a whole bunch of ''Terminator''-themed toys, or even videogames. Which is weird, because they're supposed to be toys or games made for children, but based on a movie they're not supposed to have watched. An other well-known franchise which saw the same phenomenon is'' Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'', a cult movie from Creator/PaulVerhoeven released in 1987 which tells the adventures of Murphy, former cop murdered then brought back to life as [=RoboCop=], a cyborg policeman. The movie is ultraviolent, with [[{{Gorn}} blood galore]], murders, rape attempts, [[BodyHorror people who melt in acid then are run over with cars]]... Ad yet, at the time, "here's your'' [=RoboCop=] ''toy, your videogame, your cartoon, your satchel, your lunchbox, and I hope you'll like it despite not having watched it, because of course you didn't watch it, that would be irresponsible."''
-->--WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier, introduction of the episode reviewing ''Franchise/RoboCop'' videogames adaptations
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