Graffiti Game Banned in Australia

afaik_ianal writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that 'Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure' has been banned in Australia. The game involves battling the authorities to overthrow corrupt officials using only street fighting skills and graffiti. From the article, "The decision was endorsed last night by the Federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, who had asked the board to review of the game's MA15+ classification after local councils and state governments voiced concerns that the game would promote graffiti.""

that sucks

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I guess kids will have to stick to the real thing.

You Fuckstick!

[Chuck Chunder]

Sorry, the form heading said "Reply to: Philip Ruddock" and I got carried away by the moment....

shouldn't somebody resign ?

[richlv]

"The game [that] involves battling the authorities to overthrow corrupt officials..." "...has been banned by authorities"

Re:You Fuckstick!

[MichaelSmith]

I got carried away by the moment

We need to be carefull. His media manager's assistants are going to have to print out 50 pages of /. on friday morning. Phil is not going to be a happy chap after spending friday reading at -1.

Better carry my passport around for a while, just in case.

Its a vicious circle

[fatted]

...It looks like the only way to beat these corrupt officials is with street fighting skills and graffiti! Everybody was kung foo fighting WHAH! HOO HAH!

(I don't know any lyrics for spray painting).

Don't Panic

[craznar]

The only differences this decision will have on the game in Australia are:

1. Increased popularity of the game
2. Lower profits to the manufacturer
3. Larger US/AU bandwidth usage for a few weeks.

That's about it really.

Re:GREAT!

[wease21]

Really? Where? I was at Home Depot yesterday and walked down an entire aisle of spray paint and didn't see a lock anywhere in sight. The locks were 3 aisles over next to the doors.

Re:...and so they should !!

[prionic6]

And its predecessor Jet Set Radio on the Dreamcast. Damn. That was a good game, with maybe the greatest soundtrack ever in a video game.

Lets say they should also forbid all the games where private or public property is damaged in any way. In addition to every game where lifelike things are damaged in any way. phew. Breakout... Are these public walls you are destroying brick for brick?

The writing is not on the wall

[slushbat]

And from that day forward no graffiti was ever sprayed on the walls of Australia again. The clean grey concrete canyons were the envy of the rest of the world where no other nation had the foresight to ban this evil computer game.

Expected this...

[3.14159265]

So, I guess it was banned by those corrupt officials, eh?

I think we need a game....

[gijoel]

... where you play a concerned citizen or parent and campaign to get video games banned.

Re:Not surprising - the games are coming up!

[FlopEJoe]

"It would be a much better use of time if they could stop the trains on the Frankston line smelling like stale piss."

The fresh piss has been on back-order for ages.

hahaha

[CrazyJim1]

City officials attempt to shut down game that trains people how to overthrow Corrupt City officials.

Re:...and so they should !!

[PaganRitual]

So computer game names are voted on sort of like UN resolutions? Most country votes wins? The US version is Jet Grind Radio. You corrected me like a smartass because you didn't know. Get over it. I hope the time you spent looking up each terriories variation for your response was educational. You made the fact that you did pretty obvious by splitting up PAL and 'Aussie'. I patiently await your thirty-second Google researched response on how I'm now incorrect about the passing of UN Resolutions.