There's nothing like the "I was personally affected by this, hence I want it banned" routine. The mother of a British heroin "victim" wants iPhone App Underworld, a game we mentioned last week, banned because she feels other children will be as stupid as her daughter was.
UK tabloid The Daily Star reports that Amy Packard has been comatose for seven years following her decision to screw around with the drug. Amy's mother Thelma wants Underworld abolished, because of course, getting rid of a game that didn't exist when little Amy was strapping a belt to her arm and playing human pincushion will rid the world of all drug problems.
"My daughter’s life has been ruined by drugs," protests Thelma. "If this game is allowed to come out, impressionable kids will play it and Amy’s mistake will be repeated over and over again. Youngsters like Amy are exactly the people who download and play games like this on their mobiles.
I just want to help other families avoid the nightmare that’s wrecked mine."
Underworld is a stupid idea for a game, and even a little bit creepy, but as always, I must argue that wanting to ban something you're personally upset by is far more offensive than the source material itself. If parents want to load up their spoiled brats with iPhones and let them run around unchecked, they're asking for trouble.
If you take heroin, you're a bloody idiot. No amount of censorship will make stupid teenagers smarter. Oh, and what are the odds that Thelma Packard has never even heard of this game until The Daily Star showed it to her?
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1:42 PM on 12.08.2008
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Totally agree, meng.
Thelma Packard(?) - Old hag that needs to STFU and buy a dog.
Anyone remember those old graphing calculator games that you can play on the TI-84/85/86, like Mario clone game, breakout, and other mindless mobile-like games.
Yeah this was before the DS and psp, heck even before the GBA SP. All we had were gameboy pockets and non color screen cellphones oh those were the days. But with a graphing calculator no one would know you weren't doing math homework instead of playing games, unless of course you were using it in English class, which you can still make the excuse of...well maybe there isn't a good excuse, but we made one up anyway.
From selling crack, where else!
Nonetheless no reason to ban the game just because of this woman's daughters own choices.
Sillies.
Sillies.
No one here posted about TI drug game.
BTW Gameboy pocket came out in 1996 way before gameboy color.
At 24 I think I have right feel nostalgic.
Next you're going to tell me I can't feel nostalgic for my old P2 266mhz PC with 2gig HD and 32mb SD-Ram. I think more than 10 years is enough to be nostalgic.
Technology changes so fast that it makes anyone feel old.
mikeyed (12/08/2008 13:48) oh man, she better not ever play the game sI have on my high school graphing calculator.
WickedCobra03 (12/08/2008 14:01) If I couldn't play drug wars back in highschool during the 90's I would have went crazy. That game was amazing for a TI-89 game!
I'd comment about your laughably recent 'nostalgia' for a P2, but I think I'll leave your complete lack of checking before posting as is.
PS: 2 years is "way before"? Apparently the 360 must ancient at this point huh... You're still talking about a product that is from the mid-late 90s. My point stands.
art imitates life. life inspires art. but only so much can be accomplished if it's constantly suppressed.
No becuase they would not be a victim if they weren't stupid enough to do the drug in the first place. They are FAR from being a victim, and MUCH more close to being a retard.
This woman really just makes me want to vomit, where were you when your daughter needed your help. Where were you when she took that dose that put her in a coma. If you were unaware of it all, then you just aren't being a parent. If you were aware and let them go off and do it you're just an unfit mother. And because your child harbored this addiction that it appears you did nothing to stop, you want to blame a video game, not even a particularly good one, so you can feel better about yourself. If I had a child, and they ingested a mushroom from the backyard and got poisoned, would I blame Super Mario Brothers for telling children eating mushrooms will make you grow twice your size, HELL NO, I've got some dignity. This woman is just looking for a scapegoat, and it really hurts me, having gone through something similar to her, seeing her blame somebody else for her daughter's overdose.
Maybe she is just trying to point out how stupid making a game like this is... I love how people are so quick to criticise mothers and drug takers when they are cosied up to their fucking mother-bought computers and mother-bought 360s.
Obviously not enough people have had to deal with this kind of thing. Perhaps you should be a little more thoughtful about what you write on here.
You're as pathetic as you think this mother is.
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