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Title: Newsflash! Austraila not crazy!
Post by: vudu on November 02, 2005, 11:22:12 AM
 Australian Official Attempting to Remove Mature Video Game Ban.

It seems there's a lawyer in Australia who is attempting to un-ban violent video games.  Hurray!

Out of curiosity, what big name titles (besides the obvious ones) are banned in Australia?  Any surprising ones?  Are the ones you get edited like they are in Germany (e.g. instead of people with red blood you kill robots with green blood)?
Title: RE:Newsflash! Austraila not crazy!
Post by: Infernal Monkey on November 02, 2005, 09:04:58 PM
God bless him. ;_; The latest game to get refused classification was the 50 Cent game, due to drug use. Same reason NARC got banned. A lot of games manage to make it through under the maximum rating, MA 15+, such as Carmageddon, RE4 and Ninja Gaiden, which were edited for Germany. It's a crazy system. Die Hard on GC, which was rated 18+ in the UK, got released here with a PG rating (8 years and over).  
Title: RE: Newsflash! Austraila not crazy!
Post by: wandering on November 03, 2005, 09:49:14 PM
So, wait, instead of allowing inappropriate games to be labeled as only being appropriate for adults, adult games are just re-labeled so that it appears that they're appropriate for younger kids?

I suppose porn in your country is labeled as 'kid's educational programming'?
Title: RE:Newsflash! Austraila not crazy!
Post by: Dasmos on November 03, 2005, 10:27:13 PM
Oh yeah...
Title: RE: Newsflash! Austraila not crazy!
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on November 11, 2005, 04:50:16 PM
The title of this thread tells me it belongs in the funhouse.
Title: RE: Newsflash! Austraila not crazy!
Post by: Nephilim on November 12, 2005, 12:03:49 AM
naw just some polly who proberly got contacted by a bunch of school kids
he thought it was good to rep these kids, so he released a press release of himself speaking for the people of australia
few online media places run the story and gets a 4line artical inside the papers at page 89
Mean while australians could care less, cause the porn industry as been turned into pirated porn and burnt R rated games are easy to find from ur mate
Title: RE: Newsflash! Austraila not crazy!
Post by: RABicle on November 12, 2005, 02:11:44 AM
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Mean while australians could care less, cause the porn industry as been turned into pirated porn and burnt R rated games are easy to find from ur mate




The funhouse can come to this topic.
Title: RE:Newsflash! Austraila not crazy!
Post by: wandering on November 13, 2005, 01:18:26 AM
See, this is the problem with the funhouse lifestyle. Sure, funhousuals SAY their deviant behavior has no affect on society at large and that funhousuality can't spread to non-funhousuals....but this thread is clear evidence otherwise! Here we are, decent Reggie-fearing individuals discussing serious gamecube related topics, and then, bam! funhousuality rears it's ugly head.
Think of the children! Shut TY's funhouse down now!
Title: RE:Newsflash! Austraila not crazy!
Post by: Shift Key on November 15, 2005, 10:20:35 PM
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I suppose porn in your country is labeled as 'kid's educational programming'?


You know the expression ROFL? Well I actually fell on the floor laughing at this. It hurt my head. So I'm gonna sue you for being so damn funny.

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Think of the children! Shut TY's funhouse down now!


You're kidding right? This is the only reason I'm back at PGC. *insert mayhem here*