The game was released in Japan as “Hitler’s Revival: Top Secret.” References to Nazism and Nazi iconography were removed from the game for the American market. “Bionic Commando” was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. Nazism has a history in video games, but it has been scrubbed from most games released on home consoles over the past few decades. He and his co-creator had hardly registered that it was offensive, he explained, after working on the game for so long. I felt the skull and crossbones iconography was obviously problematic. As a game designer, what offends me is the absence of critical distance from it.” Rami Ismail, one half of the Dutch game studio Vlambeer, which developed “Luftrausers,” took to the company blog to acknowledge the complaint, apologize for any discomfort caused and respectfully disagree that the game was about a Nazi pilot.
Rob Dubbin, a videogame maker and writer for "The Colbert Report," tweeted, “As a Jew, what offends me is the aesthetic. Shortly after “ Luftrausers” was released, a prominent artist took to Twitter to ask whether playing the role of a Nazi fighter pilot was supposed to be funny. But it also happens to feature pilot art inspired by period Luftwaffe uniforms and a title image that evokes the Totenkopf skull and bones of the SS. It’s a cute, two-dimensional, arcade-type game in which the player flies around in a little airplane and shoots at things in order to rack up points. At first blush, “ Luftrausers” is as innocuous a video game as you could ask for.
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