Retailers Won't Sell New Acclaim Game

Posted by timothy on Monday October 14, 2002 @12:15PM from the our-roof-our-rules dept.

DrEnter writes "According to this Yahoo article, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, and Kay-Bee Toys are refusing to carry Acclaim's new video game 'BMX XXX'. Best Buy has stated it will sell a censored version of the game. Acclaim is billing it as the first major release game to feature full-action nudity, with prostitutes and pimps and main characters. A Wal-Mart spokesman stated "We're not going to carry any software with any vulgarity or nudity -- we're just not going to do it." I'm pretty sure Wal-Mart sells rated-R movies (including those arguably targeted at the same age group as this game is), so make your own judgement..."

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Re:In related news... by uncoveror · 2002-10-14 13:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What was acclaim thinking? Stores aren't going to carry an XXX game in a country where John Ashcroft has "Lady Justice" clad in a burqa.

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Re:Traditional game content by buck_wild · 2002-10-14 15:13 · Score: 2, Flamebait

If memory serves, they treated it as a dirty, necessary evil. Nobody seemed to enjoy it, and certainly nobody ever talked about it.

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Re:Some places sell it by MadKeithV · 2002-10-14 19:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I prefer playing with my girlfriend's software anyway ;)