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Honduras Bans All Violent Games & Toys
DaytonCIM writes "Honduras has issued a blanket ban on all violent videogames and toys, which is set to come into effect next June - giving retailers in the country a six month grace period to clear stocks of the games from their inventories. Among the banned games named are Resident Evil, Shadowman, Street Fighter, Turok, Perfect Dark, Quake and Doom. Read more here."
I always wondered why Honduras was such a violent place. Guess it was all those videogames, huh? Well, now that the problem has been solved, I guess I'll take the Misses to that now-peaceful paradise for a second honeymoon...
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God... all 3 consumers in Honduras won't be able to support id software anymore.
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Banned chess.
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
What are they gonna do when all the Dinosaurs come over from that damn island again? What will their citizens use to train to defend themselves?? :)
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Only wizard's chess will be banned.
(see gauging vs. gouging)
In other news:
Honduras officially voted "worst country to be a kid."
Outside of Africa, that is...
Honestly, I can get just as worked up over an abstract game (tetris, space invaders) as one in which I see the human form maimed and injured.
As a Martian-American, I find your comment thoughtless and insensitive. Maiming space invaders is not okay! >:-[
No more street fighter!?! Oh well, I guess the streets will be safe from stray Hadoken fireballs and Sonic Booms.
--- If we knew half the things we shouldn't we'd stop wishing we knew it all
I worked on one of the games mentioned. It's mildly amusing that the game they're judging is a toned down version of what the original design included. Near the end of development, there was a big surge in media condemnation of violence in computer games in the US. Very probably at the time of one of the school shootings, but my memory isn't what it used to be. Anyway, management reviewed the game and understandably - after donning clean pairs of trousers - asked us to remove a fair amount of the more questionable content.
I recall one instance was a room with a disembowelled body pinned to the ceiling with various medical implements. It was hastily removed by one of the artists just deleting the necessary texture maps, rendering the object invisible. The subsequent bug report I got was something along the lines of "Level x, room y : ceiling bleeds when shot"...