Video game violence isn’t just for kids anymore
For those of you that can’t get enough of the government legislating good parenting, finally there’s some good news.
I was reading today’s “Daily Variety,” and I noticed… oh wait, for those of you who don’t know, that’s the newspaper to all of us soulless Hollywood hacks. Anyway, there was an article about video game violence. It seems that Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman are trying to get legislation moving that would make it illegal to sell video games rated M or AO to minors. I knew that M stands for “Mature”, but I had to look up AO to find out what it stood for. You can see for yourself here. I was wrong in my guess of “About Orgasms.”
These days, the violence portrayed in video games has become fairly realistic, at least compared to the good old days. In modern games you can take pleasure in shooting innocent bystanders, watch them writhe in agony, and then finish them off, still finding time to sleep with prostitutes. I guess the lawmakers feel that this is not something kids should be seeing as part of their play time. Continues after the jump »
A lame NES knockoff? What are the chances?
Vintage Computing has a fairly in-depth thrashing of the Messiah Entertainment Generation NEX console. Turns out it’s a giant piece of crap. It doesn’t work with all of the games on their compatibility list, and the games it does work with have issues. Oh, but it does have 2.4 GHz wireless…for some reason.
I have to say I’m a little bummed on this. It would have been a fun little machine to have, since my NES crapped out on me like 10 years ago. I’ve never been a very big game collector though, and I only had like 12 games, so I wouldn’t have really missed out on much.
My advice? Just get a nice controller and stick to playing emulators on your computer like everyone else.
Update:
I’m a little relieved to see that Jake of 8Bit Joystick offers a more positive review.
I know a lot of gamers were really looking forward to this, so it’s good to see that there’s still hope.
