How much of the Family Entertainment Protection Act, which prevents minors from buying violent home video games, is a purely political exercise? Is it congressional teeth gnashing or is there genuine concern? How do you explain the phenomenon that Democrats are the main proponents of this measure, not Republicans?
Will the amusement industry ever feel the brunt of these actions, or is it all much ado about nothing?
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The big issue for me is when the American political system complains the consumer games industry (the target) tries to link arcade games into the complaint - for example they always claim the senitors are referring too House of the Dead, when obviously they are concerned with Grand Theift! And sadly our associations find themselves unable to defend the attack!
You should definitely print the above comment in your next issue. The spelling and grammar speak volumes about the future of coin-op, and the rhodes scholars that are running things...
yep, quick typing means poor spelling for me. Though your remark speaks volumes of your issues!
As noted before in this forum, the user posting under the name "editor" is affiliated with another publication (The Stinger Report) and is not the editor of RePlay Magazine or its blog site.
Must be another election year if those politicians are looking for grandstanding to get themselves noticed in the eyes of voters. I just wish they would focus on more pressing issues such as the current price of gas. The industry already has a ratings system in place; it's up to the parents to educate and control their children's access to such media...not the government.
Right on Mensa!!!!!
I choose which games are appropriate for my kids to play. No one else. When the government gets involved with our own personal choices, it spells trouble.
Grand Theft Auto is a GREAT series of games...for adults. I wouldn't let my 12 year old daughter play, or even be exposed to it. Do I own them? You bet.
Freedom of choice
Your 12 year old has freedom of choice, when you are not around. Nobody can control what their kids do all the time. Ever hear the language on a School Bus? You cannot protect them because you are not with them 24/7.
If you watch the news at dinner the violence becomes the norm, oh "another roadside bomb killed....." TV shows with violence only encourage more violence with copy cat criminals.
Kids today know a lot more than you think they do and a lot younger. Maybe you can keep the Grand Theft Auto away from them but the neighbors may have worse than that when your kids go there to play.
Take your head out of the sand. The way to raise children is with love, education, trust, understanding and reality not by withholding something that they will only seek out more because it is withheld.
The pleasant job a parent has is to take responsibility and be an active part in the development of a quality human being. The future rests with the youth of today - what ethics and morals are we teaching as a society with all of this violence?
That's why government gets involved, because many "parents" are too busy with their jobs or hobbies to parent to their children. They either will not or do not understand that it's wrong for a 12 year old to play GTA....duh......
Think about it, what video games in our industry have made the most money over the longest period of time?
Driving Games - Golf Games, Touchscreen games, Ms. Pacman is still going strong......even Big Buck Hunter Call of the Wild is a green sticker game.
editor - why don't you change your damn blogger name, so the Replay Editor doesn't have to adding a disclaimer every time you post?
okay, any thing to help - no matter my Blog address was first!
the only question is... how?
Done!
The recent E3 show here in Los Angeles was interesting in that there was little media focus or attention on the violent home titles. There was more interest on new hardware (Sony's Playstation 3 and Nintendo's Wii) as well as mobile phone software. It was also nice to see coin-op equipment on the floor but why were they pieces not available to us operators yet (Time Crisis 4 and DDR Supernova)?
Good point on the arcade pieces at E3.
On the floor (and in our next report) there was 'GuitarFreaks' 'Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova', 'BeatMania IIx', 'Time Crisis 4', 'Virtua Fighter 5' and a hoard of classic titles.
It looks a little rough for the arcade sector that E3 can encourage VF5, BM and GF over, but the industries second largest exhibition can't! Try and explain that to the distributors!
The players loved the arcade games, Namco and Sega representatives concerned that VF5 and TC4 was getting more play than some of their consumer titles.
Did any of our trade associations send a representative? Will the Stinger Report be the only one running news from the show floor?
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