June 13, 2007 -
As reported by GamePolitics , the New York Senate and Assembly are currently trying to work out language in competing bills in an effort to pass video game legislation by June 21st, the end of the session.The New York Times, however, sees gloomy prospects for the video game bill:
Violent and sexually explicit video games can be repulsive and demeaning. But banning them as [Governor] Spitzer [left] and legislators want to do probably will not pass muster in the courts. Also, the defense of such laws can be expensive — Illinois paid out more than $1,500,000 in taxpayer funds when courts found that its effort to ban violent videos was unconstitutional.
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I'd hardly call Leisure Suit Larry "sexually explicit". At the worst it features some bad innuendo, but it's still far tamer than some of the stuff you can find with the wrong keywords in a Google image search.
Yes, but did anyone actually spend money on the guy game?
....The Guy Game were sold a few years back.
A friend of mine got a free copy to review, we played like 3 tedious levels of the game and still couldn't unlock any nudity. It's sexually explicit in concept, but I'll be damned if anyone has the patience to get to that material.
I would have liked the NYT to mention the absurdity of turning retailers into felons over vague language. Pointing this out would give the reader the correct perspective of the bill: that it's utterly ridiculous.
Only the clippings that say the bill would suceed (which are very, very few), apparently. Politicians don't seem to listen very well to voices of reason.
I second that but i doubt it. Remember Soccer Moms don't care about taxpayer's money being wasted so long as it's "For the Children". Politicans don't care about taxpayer's money being wasted as it doesn't come out of their pockets. If i was a resident of New York state, i'd refuse to pay taxes.
Yes they do sell it here. I see it on the rack at Fry's Electronics, available for anyone to look at.
that would be stupid, not paying taxes is a crime, if you want to show you displeasure write a letter to them. Making them guess why you aren't paying your taxes won't help (they may not care anyway, just as long as they end up getting the money).
Really, any game that's THAT sexually explicit will already fall under existing pornagraphy laws, so there's no need to make redundant laws for that matter.
I think I'm going to continue purchasing my games online. Its easier and usually cheaper.
There ARE sexual explicit games, they probably arn’t sold in the stores you’d buy video games at however. And maybe not at most porn shops either. I’m sure its mostly online sales.
The ones I'm thinking of are nowhere on these politicians' radar (good thing too, if they lump online flash games with commercial ones).
Daniel Says:
IIRC Frys has a hentai section so I don’t see why they can’t sell the AO version of Singles. Or is it FYE that has the hentai?
Really, they can't sell Singles? That's odd, I've seen outright porn (animated and otherwise) on their shelves (behind those card things that never stay in place).