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Retailers Won't Sell New Acclaim Game
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..."
and this game is doing it's best to go for the latter. Three cheers for corporations taking responsibility for their products.
I'm not sure I agree with the story's claim that Wal-Mart sells R-rated movies to the 12-and-under audience this game was created for. That would be illegal. Some fact checking appears to be in order.
Dr. Joseph Hairston
Superintendent, CCBC
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You'd be surprised at just how many idiots in this country believe there is a link between you looking at pornography and your propensity to commit sex crimes.
Soft-core porn games aren't. I guess you Europeans can have fun playing BMX XXX, but you will still be under the thumb of an oppressive government. I hope it is worth it!
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
I believe god invented sex to be expressed between my hand and it's commited relationship of flinging my semen out the car window at pedestrians after I jerk off for the 3rd time on the way to work.
John Ashcroft lost an election to a dead guy, should speak volumes about his worth as a leader. I think they shoulda made the dead guy the Attorney General...
You're using her as bait, Master!
I'm not looking for a relationship right now.
Does God give good head?