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Graffiti Game Banned in Australia
afaik_ianal writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that 'Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure' has been banned in Australia. The game involves battling the authorities to overthrow corrupt officials using only street fighting skills and graffiti. From the article, "The decision was endorsed last night by the Federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, who had asked the board to review of the game's MA15+ classification after local councils and state governments voiced concerns that the game would promote graffiti.""
I guess kids will have to stick to the real thing.
Sorry, the form heading said "Reply to: Philip Ruddock" and I got carried away by the moment....
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"The game [that] involves battling the authorities to overthrow corrupt officials..." "...has been banned by authorities"
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...It looks like the only way to beat these corrupt officials is with street fighting skills and graffiti! Everybody was kung foo fighting WHAH! HOO HAH!
(I don't know any lyrics for spray painting).
The only differences this decision will have on the game in Australia are:
1. Increased popularity of the game
2. Lower profits to the manufacturer
3. Larger US/AU bandwidth usage for a few weeks.
That's about it really.
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Really? Where? I was at Home Depot yesterday and walked down an entire aisle of spray paint and didn't see a lock anywhere in sight. The locks were 3 aisles over next to the doors.
And its predecessor Jet Set Radio on the Dreamcast. Damn. That was a good game, with maybe the greatest soundtrack ever in a video game.
Lets say they should also forbid all the games where private or public property is damaged in any way. In addition to every game where lifelike things are damaged in any way. phew. Breakout... Are these public walls you are destroying brick for brick?
And from that day forward no graffiti was ever sprayed on the walls of Australia again. The clean grey concrete canyons were the envy of the rest of the world where no other nation had the foresight to ban this evil computer game.
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can leave until the day after.
So, I guess it was banned by those corrupt officials, eh?
... where you play a concerned citizen or parent and campaign to get video games banned.
The fresh piss has been on back-order for ages.
City officials attempt to shut down game that trains people how to overthrow Corrupt City officials.
God spoke to me.
So computer game names are voted on sort of like UN resolutions? Most country votes wins? The US version is Jet Grind Radio. You corrected me like a smartass because you didn't know. Get over it. I hope the time you spent looking up each terriories variation for your response was educational. You made the fact that you did pretty obvious by splitting up PAL and 'Aussie'. I patiently await your thirty-second Google researched response on how I'm now incorrect about the passing of UN Resolutions.