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Jack Thompson's Modest Video Game Proposal

Submitted by mcdrewski on
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It's all over the intarweb, exactly as he intended, but if you haven't seen US [url="http://www.stopkill.com/"]Anti-Violence-In-Games Lawyer Jack Thompson's[/url] (not to be confused with Aussie actor [url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860233/"]Jack Thompson[/url]) [url="http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883"]"Modest Game Proposal"[/url] you should take a look.

Basically, he promises to donate US$10k if a company makes and sells a videogame based on his intentionally offensive idea. In summary, the game is as follows.

A kid is murdered by an obsessed gamer acting out his favourite game using a baseball bat. After the court case the kid's father swears violent revenge on the video game industry. In his revenge, the father kills:[LIST][LI]in New York - Female CEO of the game company, her husband and kids[/LI][LI]in Philadelphia - The company's lawyers [/LI][LI]on his way west to E3 - people in video arcades, staff in stores that sell games[/LI][LI]in LA - all video game execs at E3[/LI][/LIST]

Is it a bluff? Should it, in fact, be called?

Personally, it sounds to me like it would be fun as an indie mario-esque side-scrolling platformer... :)

Submitted by LiveWire on Wed, 02/11/05 - 1:03 AM Permalink

listening to that gameshout interview at the moment - after playing vampire and listening to the funy adds on the radio in that game, i had a good laugh thinking they were stupidly over the top (intentonally)- but i had no idea that US adds are actually like that! seriously, even if your not interested in jack thompsom's comments all that much, at least listen to the audio files for the adds! they're funny cos they're serious!

Posted by mcdrewski on
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It's all over the intarweb, exactly as he intended, but if you haven't seen US [url="http://www.stopkill.com/"]Anti-Violence-In-Games Lawyer Jack Thompson's[/url] (not to be confused with Aussie actor [url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860233/"]Jack Thompson[/url]) [url="http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883"]"Modest Game Proposal"[/url] you should take a look.

Basically, he promises to donate US$10k if a company makes and sells a videogame based on his intentionally offensive idea. In summary, the game is as follows.

A kid is murdered by an obsessed gamer acting out his favourite game using a baseball bat. After the court case the kid's father swears violent revenge on the video game industry. In his revenge, the father kills:[LIST][LI]in New York - Female CEO of the game company, her husband and kids[/LI][LI]in Philadelphia - The company's lawyers [/LI][LI]on his way west to E3 - people in video arcades, staff in stores that sell games[/LI][LI]in LA - all video game execs at E3[/LI][/LIST]

Is it a bluff? Should it, in fact, be called?

Personally, it sounds to me like it would be fun as an indie mario-esque side-scrolling platformer... :)


Submitted by LiveWire on Wed, 02/11/05 - 1:03 AM Permalink

listening to that gameshout interview at the moment - after playing vampire and listening to the funy adds on the radio in that game, i had a good laugh thinking they were stupidly over the top (intentonally)- but i had no idea that US adds are actually like that! seriously, even if your not interested in jack thompsom's comments all that much, at least listen to the audio files for the adds! they're funny cos they're serious!