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:Acclaim... by Xenopax · 2002-10-15 01:03 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Oh god, why did you remind me of that horrible, horrible game. I actually bought that piece of crap.
Re:Christians LIKE sex! by PaganRitual · 2002-10-15 01:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

... didnt see anything about an emotional commited relationship there ... must have missed it.