The game that introduced blood and violence into the videogames world.

User Rating: 8.5 | Barbarian C64
In 1981 and 1984 Arnold Schwarzenegger acted as Conan the Barbarian, so it’s quite a surprise it took so long to create a videogame based on such amazing movies.
But the long waiting was rewarded: Barbarian can be considered as the first violent videogame in history, and one of the first with a M ESRB rating.
As if it’s not enough, it was a revolution for beat’em ups.
You play as a barbarian who must save a princess (nothing new); in order to complete your mission, you can perform many lethal moves by your sword, including the splatter decapitation that made this game so famous; you can block attacks (and that’s new for the genre).
Graphics were very realistic for that time (consider C64 was 8 bit machine).
Sounds are fit to create the fantasy atmosphere of the Hyborian era.