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GTA Sex Game Leads to ESRB Fracas

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the additional-content-land dept.

At first, it was nothing more than a rumour. A "sex mini-game" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, left in the code for the PC version and unlocked by inquisitive players. Then, as more and more information became available it seemed as though the sex game might be real. This revelation has lead to California Speaker pro-tem Yee blasting the ESRB for their apparent slip-up in examining all the content in the game. The ESRB has responded by pledging a "thorough and objective investigation" of the claims to get to the bottom of the situation. Commentary is available from Joystiq, GamesAreFun, and Buttonmashing.

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  1. Larry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear that there's also a code you can enter into Leisure Suit Larry that unlocks a secret driving game.

  2. Re:oh man by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you asking for a pedophile minigame in GTA:SA as well?

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  3. Ridiculous! by Quick+Sick+Nick · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a parent, this concerns me.

    I don't care if my child carjacks a senior.

    I don't care if he runs over innocent bystanders.

    I don't care if he joins the mafia.

    I don't care if he kills police oficers.

    I don't care if he picks up prostitutes then kills them to get their money.

    I don't care if he takes a golf club and starts clubbing to death pedestrians.

    But he may never, over my dead body, have adult on adult, consensual sex!

  4. Re:This is bull by jamsessionjay · · Score: 5, Funny
    unless I live in some Bizzaro World im pretty sure just about every 17 year old has either had sex
    You must be new here, may I greet you to slashdot; advertisements for nerds, stuff that won't get you laid.
  5. Satanic messages too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you play the game backwards, satan is telling you to be nice to old ladies ...

  6. It never ceases to amaze me how sleazebag by multiplexo · · Score: 5, Funny
    politicians such as LeLand Yee (Dickhead, San Francisco) can find the time to bloviate about non-issues such as this while everything else goes to Hell around them. California has huge problems, the educational system is shot, high-tech companies are moving jobs out of the state as fast as they can, it's difficult to start a business there due to the regulatory environment, the infrastructure is decaying and this useless fucktard is whining about a hack to GTA III, a game which isn't exactly kid-friendly to begin with, that allows you to see some pixellated titties.

    Now, perhaps if this was the My Little Pony game and there was an easy hack to allow my little pony to join a donkey show in Tijuana and violate the PowerPuff girls in graphic detail with animations of horse-jism and blood squirting out of Buttercup as she's bent over the back of a chair and held down by the Mario Brothers and introduced to the animal kingdom then I could see some cause for concern. But for fuck's sake, it's GTA III. Leland Yee is a worthless, grandstanding sack of shit and what's amazing is that with this tantrum of his he manages to stand out from the other worthless, grandstanding sacks of shit that comprise the state government of California.

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  7. Re:Double Standard by JohnPerkins · · Score: 5, Funny

    There was a one-page scene in Mad Magazine, I think in the 90s.

    Movie production studio. Guy rushes into the boss's office: "Hey, RJ, I got the ratings people to give (movie) an R instead of an x!"

    RJ: "Great! How'd you do it?"

    Guy: "Remember that scene where Brad takes Michelle home and makes wild, passionate love to her?"

    RJ (looking excitied): "Boy, do I!"

    Guy: "I changed the script. Now he kills her!"

  8. A typical scene from Pac Man by Theaetetus · · Score: 5, Funny
    OK, forgive me if I've missed the whole point, but i actually played Pac Man for about 15 minutes last night, and though I couldn't figure out what the actual object of the game was, this was a typical sequence:

    1. Walk up to a random character. For the sake of illustration, let's say it's the pink one.
    2. Start wiggling the joystick around. Your character begins running in circles while you shout out "no, run away, you stupid biatch!"
    3. Keep wiggling the joystick. Your character will eventually be eaten, while you yell more epithets.
    4. At some point, some music will play. Then you get to do it all over again.

      Wait, so where was I going with this? Oh, right -- judging a game based on 15 minutes of play time without reading the manual, trying any of the objectives, or even having the slightest idea that there could be a concept for the game is a stupid idea.