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Game Backlash

by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 01, 2002 7:16am PST
Related Topics – Rockstar, Games: PC, Jack Thompson

It had to happen, parents upset with America's Army Operations game. Recruitment tool or not, some parents are concerned the game teaches kids how to be real killers. Thanks Blues News.

Jack Thompson, a father and a Miami attorney is fighting the Pentagon. He says it's wrong for the military to unleash this game on America's youth. "I'm a father of a 10-year-old boy," Thompson says. "And every day I drop him off at school, I know that he's at greater risk because some of his classmates, as well as others in the general population, train obsessively in these shooter games." Thompson, who has represented the parents of children killed in school shootings, says he will file an injunction in federal court next week, if the Army doesn't pull the plug. "While the Defense Department was trying to find the serial sniper in the Washington, D.C., area," he continued, "they were training new snipers to take their place."
Also on ABC News is this article about Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Washington Post columnist Mike Wilbon calls for Rockstar people to be stoned in the street, something which will probably result in a few extra copies being sold.


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    By: Solar Jetman x
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    What yellow journalists fail to understand about the GTA series is that it is violent ENOUGH not to be a bad influence. Yes, I can drive around, run over 6 pedestrians, drive-by shoot 4 more, and then easily escape the cops. Or I can blow up a whole bunch of cop cars, kill a dozen cops, and then when the FBI comes after me, kill them and steal their car. But at the end of any of these rampages, I either die or get busted -- which results in me either coming out of the hospital after 5 seconds, out a meager amount of money, or doing the same only with jail. It is OBVIOUS that it is just a video game, that there's no way you could ever do any of it in real life.

    And so it's not going to influence my real life behavior in ANY WAY. Even if I'm an impressionable 13-year old, I know that if the car I'm in blows up, or if the cops catch me after I kill 2 dozen people, I'm not going to be walking around on the streets 10 seconds later. So I'm not going to do the stuff I do in GTA. And if I'm in a bad mood, and feel like driving maniacally or going on a killing rampage, I CAN JUST GO HOME AND PLAY GTA3.
    Nov 01, 2002 12:42pm PST

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    By: krillin This person is cool! x
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    Jack Thomas = shmoo. Notice he's a lawyer that has represented familys of kids killed in school shootings. He's doing some free promotion work. "yes, well, I am the lawyer that got the pentagon to pull their fps". Only person that is going to benefit from his crusade is him. I'd like to complain to the Law Review Board that images of lawyers promoting frivalous lawsuits in order to make money is adversely affecting the morality of this country. I know he's at greater risk when he goes to school b/c some kids are watching these tards obsessivley and will steal my son's lunch money.

    Another thing, saying playing a sniper game trains you to be a sniper is like saying watching Matlock obsessively = his law training. Rrriiiggghhhhtttttt.
    Nov 01, 2002 11:38am PST