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Peeing, vomit, nude zombies: Ars finds them, backs up Blumenthal
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Aug 22, 2010 11:12pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Andrew Webster |
| News Date | Friday, July 23, 2010 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Earlier this week, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal released a curious press release. In it, he expressed his desire to protect children from "a subgenre of games that encourages players to commit graphic acts of homicide, rape, and sadism." But what really caught our eye were the descriptions of games that Blumenthal used. Decapitate people with shovels? Beat police to death while they beg for mercy? Slaughter nude female zombies? Do these games actually exist? It was time to find out.
Of all the descriptors used by Blumenthal, probably the easiest to find was rape. It's not all that common, but when it appears in a game, you hear about it. "Parents deserve tools to protect children from games that showcase digital decapitation and rape," Blumenthal said.
Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600 had players taking on the role of a virtual General Custer, wearing nothing but a hat and an erection, as he attempted to cross a battlefield in order to rape a Native American woman. More recently, games like RapeLay have garnered their fair share of faux-controversy for allowing players to act out rape as a sexual fantasy. Of course, one of theses games was released in 1982 and the other isn't available outside of Japan, so they're not something America needs Blumenthal's help to fight. |
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