07-30-2003, 03:55 PM
Does anyone think it odd that video games have such lax enforcement? Sure it says Mature on the box or something but I've never seen, neither in Britain nor abroad when I've travelled, any attempts by shops to stop children buying games
The only one I can think of that had any problems is Lula, Sexy Empire which I read that a handful of shops stopped stocking after they realised it was about playing a porn queen and that an underlying aim of the game, admittedly a comic one, was to reveal as much bare flesh as you possibly could. And that only happened after it had been out for a year
Nor do a lot of parents seem bothered about what their kids play. "It's just a game, right?"
I don't particularly like censorship but I do find it odd that we have one standard for film and another for games which are nowadays really quite similar to films
Maybe the powers that be still think it's all Pac-Man and Galaxian
The only one I can think of that had any problems is Lula, Sexy Empire which I read that a handful of shops stopped stocking after they realised it was about playing a porn queen and that an underlying aim of the game, admittedly a comic one, was to reveal as much bare flesh as you possibly could. And that only happened after it had been out for a year
Nor do a lot of parents seem bothered about what their kids play. "It's just a game, right?"
I don't particularly like censorship but I do find it odd that we have one standard for film and another for games which are nowadays really quite similar to films
Maybe the powers that be still think it's all Pac-Man and Galaxian