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Leisure Suit Larry Banned

Posted by michael on from the punny-title dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude has been refused classification and banned by the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) due to its sexual content. Being produced by Sierra, Larry's exploits are more cheeky than they could ever be offensive, so is this really justified? Oh well, off to bit torrent I go..."

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  1. Why? by JavaLord · · Score: 4, Interesting

    refused classification and banned by the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) due to its sexual content.

    Maybe some of our Australian friends can help us out with this, but why would they ban this game? It can't be any worse than an "American Pie" type movie, or any other recent comedy films. Is Australia this strict with it's movies also?

    1. Re:Why? by DrSkwid · · Score: 5, Informative

      why would they ban this game?

      because the Australian Game rating system only goes up to 15

      so *all* games that would be classified 18 in other parts of the world are automatically banned for sale in Australia

      American Pie the original was classified 15 but, according to this bbc report American Pie 2 was classified R which means that if it was an Autralian Computer Game, it too would be banned for sale.

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  2. Who Cares? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sure it is a whole country that Sierra can't sell to, but I think the very content that they are banning the game for is the very reason a lot of people play the game (or at least got into the series in the first place), so changing it in any regard to get around the sensorship would comprimise the marketability of the game.

    Eventually, we will look back on these days when we tried to control the media content people were exposed to and laugh.... or we will all be in cages with a barcode tattooed to our necks.

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  3. really funny by alatesystems · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you really want to experience this game in it's full glory, you can rip it to you hard drive after you buy it and then apply a patch to it that you can download online. It unlocks all these things like nudity and other stuff that isn't normally available. This isn't like the nude hack for DOA replacing textures, this is actually unlocking portions of the game that I guess they had to lock for distribution in various markets.

    It's a very hilarious game.

    Chris

  4. Shhh! by koi88 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It can't be any worse than an "American Pie" type movie

    Shhh... don't say the name so loud. It won't be cheap, but I know somebody who can get you this kind of stuff...

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