Supreme Court To Address Video Game Legislation

[N-5/Prudii]

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/04/26/Supreme-Court-To-Address-Controversial-Video-Game-Legislation.aspx

...Seriously?

[ChAiNz.2da]

Sad but true. Tired of all this bureaucratic nonsense, all things considering the current state of affairs. Seems there is more important things to worry over imo

 

Still, as good as any opportunity to point people to the link in my sig (the VGVN check mark). Join if you haven't already and make your voice heard.

[Mav]

too lazy to read

 

tldr version?

[N-5/Prudii]

Some wacko parents are trying to get the feds to regulate video game sales.

[RC-1162]

If a 16 year old can't get an M rated game from a store he's just gonna steal it off the web. I assume piracy is more illegal than a little gore exposure?

 

And don't they already ask for ID when you want to buy M games? I had to show one to get ME2 from Walmart.

[Sabretooth]

And don't they already ask for ID when you want to buy M games?

 

Oh dear, how naive of you! Everyone knows that all the "cool" kids use forged IDs and forged passports to buy their precious M-rated games, which they are desperately addicted to.

 

Tabby (name changed) was addicted to all the newest and hottest violent video games on the market with names such as Your Duty: Modern Warfare, Counter-Strike: Source of Death and Grand Theft Auto: Vice Unlimited. In games such as these, players score "points" for each "kill" they make, with bonuses for the most violent kills.

 

"I reached Level 24 of Modern Warfare with only 2 lives left," Tabby says, "and the feeling was unmatched - I was hungry for blood."

 

When his parents confiscated his games and console, Tabby left home and started living on the streets of New York, where he lived on borrowed money to fuel his game addiction by day, and sold his body by night.

 

"It was dirty, but I felt I just had to do it," Tabby says.

 

In view of this growing menace, the government is considering a blanket ban on video games, to curb their dangerous influence on society at large.

 

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[JediAthos]

lol Sabretooth...to me this issue has always been a pay attention to what your kids are doing thing. Its good that the industry has regulated itself but the real responsibility is with the parents...the Supreme Court has better things to do imo.