Grand Theft Auto

Posted in Old blogger by Twenty Major on November 17th, 2004

Parents groups are complaining that the latest offering in the GTA series, San Andreas, is full of violence as well as images and situations unfit for young children.

That’d be why it has an 18 rating slapped all over then. The other thing to bear in mind is, IT’S A FUCKING GAME! I don’t buy this crap about games influencing kids. Not normal kids anyway. You didn’t see me try and jump over pixelated flowers and and walls whilst humming ‘If I were a rich man’ when I played Manic Miner on my trusty ZX Spectrum. Nor did I suddenly find myself surrounded by insects in some kind of Ant Attack. I was unable to Jet Pac either.

I played the games though. I’ve also played the GTA games. They don’t make me want to steal cars, shoot people in the face, go on rampages with rocket launchers or anything else. That’s what games are for. So you can do stuff you’d never do in real life.

Anyone who plays a game like GTA, San Andreas and then thinks ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to steal a cadillac, pick up an UZI and do a drive-by shooting outside my local Tescos’ has something wrong with them to begin with. It’s not the game’s fault.

Anyway, there’s an easy solution for parents who don’t want their kids to be affected by these things. Simply lock your children in the attic until they reach 18, then let them out into the world where they’ll instantly adjust to all the terrible things that happen in real life which you can’t just click ‘restart’ and make better.

Problem solved. Idiots.

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4 comments

  1. Scaryduck says:

    Or, in my case, I don’t buy my eight-year-old son 18 rated games, as I still maintain a certain amount of control over my life and those around me.

    We are turning into a nation of thick cunts.

    November 17th, 2004 at 10:21 am

  2. Twenty Major says:

    What a novel approach you have.

    November 17th, 2004 at 10:48 am
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  3. Mosher says:

    Scary, may I suggest taking the American route instead? Buy him the game, encourage him to go postal and kill 40 people then shoot himself, and then sue Rockstar games as it’s all their fault?

    Great way to make money and get your name in the papers.

    November 17th, 2004 at 3:50 pm
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  4. Albino Neutrino says:

    In my day, all we had was ‘Grand Theft Bicycle’, but we were happy. And we could leave our doors unlocked in the middle of winter.

    November 21st, 2004 at 7:05 am
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