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The story posted in this article is for the second game, not the first.

is it true that you can urinate on the people or etc? --Bluejays2006 20:30, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is true. Anonunit 02:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Major Changes

Added cover art from the official Postal website, more information, reviews, etc... This is my first edit, so I hope it was okay :)

So What?

Can anyone offer some kind of clue as to what this game is about and why it is so controversial? At least offer an outline of the story or something? --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 08:29, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There's no story. You just walk around and score points by killing passers-by for no apparent reason. Allegeldy, the game is also quite bad, and it's painfully obvious that the programmers just included all the violence because they didn't have any interesting ideas, otherwise. 81.232.72.148 23:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But what's the controversy? The article claims that the game is controversial, but there's no indication of what controversy there was. Can someone add a "Controversy" section explaining this? Or at least a sentence? --Elysdir 23:47, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

well actually there is a story, it just the story of a psychopath who has to do some daily chores, you can actually go through the game without killing anyone, the game really is only just as violent as your are ;) , but mostly the game is more humoristic than violent in a "how offensive can we get" sense (shodan | wikipedia at domn.net)

The story mode's only in Postal 2. In the first game you do, indeed, just wander round gunning people down. Humourlessly. It's not a terrible game, but it's doubtful whether it would have even been heard of if it weren't for the controversy.

I would like to point out that Postal 1 most definitely did have a story. This was back in the day when game manuals actually contained relevant information, such as Fallout 1 and 2. If I recall correctly, you perceive the world to be going insane, and your goal is to make it to the center of the mess and discover what went wrong. In the final level of the game, however, you realize that you've gone insane and you shoot yourself. (the final level being a playground full of children, children being invulnerable in Postal1)Floydzamarripa (talk) 11:20, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think you shoot yourself. In the last level, as you say, you shoot at the children but they seem unaffected, then everything becomes blurry and you fall down. Then there's a couple of images and chatter that suggests you're locked up in a padded cell and studied. But in either case, there's absolutely a story - the article is wrong for stating that there is no plot. 83.142.5.155 (talk) 15:33, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would certainly be nice if any of this information was in the article. There's plenty of stuff about the technical info, but not a single word about what you do in the game! (71.192.34.220 (talk) 19:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC))[reply]

There actually IS a storyline. It's in the instruction manual. There's a story description for every level in fact. According to the manual, a "madness plague" has gripped the nation, and the main character is heading to a military base for a reason I don't quite recall (he thinks there's a cure? He thinks it might be a safe haven?). The angle, of course, is that it's all written in first person narrative format, and sounds increasingly paranoid, so the presumption is that there is no madness plague; he got fired, and then went insane, and is now convinced that everyone around him is infected. Unfortunately, I no longer have the manual, as the game was so disturbing, I destroyed both the disc and all the material that came with it.- WraithTDK —Preceding unsigned comment added by WraithTDK (talk • contribs) 03:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't this the game that was banned in thirteen countries? xD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.240.76.225 (talk) 04:00, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uwe Boll

first , OH CRAP :(((( second I find it really funny that someone put that in the summary as if it was that important on the other hand this is usually the worst thing that can happen to a game in my opinion, so I guess I just find it funny that someone else had the same opinion ;) (shodan | wikipedia at domn.net)

Why don't you just say all out that this is a bad game? -Izaak (sorry, I'm not using my account because Ami***** banned be because he was on a field day).

Kimveer Gill

In the same vein as Klebold & Harris of Columbine infamy are mentioned in the Doom article, should there be anything about Kimveer Gill and the Dawson College shooting mentioned? Gwrtheyrn 00:13, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I withdraw the above, it was Postal 2 that Gill played Gwrtheyrn 00:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:20, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SVGA is 800x600, not 640x480 (it says so in the article linked) VGA is 640x480. This should be corrected in the system requirements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.23.5.73 (talk) 13:38, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Playstation?

I'm fairly certain that I played this game for the original Playstation console, yet the page gives no indication that it was released on anything besides the computer; does anyone have any more information on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mshar253 (talk • contribs) 08:58, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No it did not come out of playstation. If there was copies for playstation, then it was a home brew. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.202.195.97 (talk) 16:19, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

System Requirements

There's definitely an issue with the system requirements, I played it on Windows 95, but it claims 98 required (the game was released in 97), I can't find the original specs, but I imagine it would have run on a standard P100. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.72.245.120 (talk) 13:10, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Source

https://web.archive.org/web/20000424001620/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_09/22_postal/index.html

Release date

This article claims that POSTAL was first released on September 24, 1997 given from a "now shipping" date from PC Gamer. However, according to it's page on the official Running with Scissors website, the game was released on November 14, 1997. Inkster2 (talk) 01:00, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The November date is impossible since the game already sold several thousand copies by early October and was the third-best-selling game of that month. IceWelder [✉] 08:19, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RWS themselves said the game released on November 14th, 1997. I've looked at the web archive link, and in that link PC Gamer wrote RWS started to ship POSTAL in 09/24/1997 but that may be misinformation. Inkster2 (talk) 05:39, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It cannot have released in November because, as I showed above, several thousand copies were already sold in October. Someone at RWS misremembered the date (or took the incorrect date from an external source) and put it on the website long after it happened. The Mortal Kombat Twitter has been doing the same this year. Reliable sources from around the release are weighed higher because they capture the information as it happened. IceWelder [✉] 08:28, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]