San Andreas Banned In Australia

UoNTidal writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that following the revelation that the 'Hot Coffee' sex minigame was included in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the Office of Film & Literature Classification has revoked the game's classification, making it illegal for the game to be sold in its current form in Australia. As the highest classification available [PDF link] for computer games is MA15+ (as opposed to R18+ for films that can be sold in all states and territories), the sex scenes in 'Hot Coffee' pushed the game outside the permitted content for that rating, effectively banning the game."

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When games are outlawed...

[TykeClone]

Only outlaws will have games!

Re:wait, that doesnt make sense

[Anonymous Coward]

Yup. And New Zealand was founded by inlaws. I'm not sure which is worse.

Bill Gates: "640K of memory should be enough...."

[orthogonal]

"As the highest classification available [PDF link] for computer games is MA15+ (as opposed to R18+ for films that can be sold in all states and territories), the sex scenes in 'Hot Coffee' pushed the game outside the permitted content for that rating, effectively banning the game."

But but, but Bill Gates said "MA15+ ought to be high enough a rating for anybody"!