Three of the nation’s top retailers, including Wal Mart, on Monday said they had refused to carry a new video game billed as the first major release to feature full-action nudity and with prostitutes and pimps as major characters.
Using the tagline “Keep it Dirty,” video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment Inc. is gearing up for the Nov. 19 launch of “BMX XXX,” a game that also features copulating pink poodles and a variety of racing bike stunts.
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“What we’re doing here is funny,” Fischbach said. “The people that we’re selling to are the people who bought 'Grand Theft Auto.”’
I had hoped that the success of Grand Theft Auto 3 would lead to more games with realistically produced US cities.
Other developers took their own form of inspiration from it, I see.
My bad. I should learn to be pessimistic ALL the time.
I was about to come back and edit my post to clarify, but I see Brian beat me to it. Brian, Acclaim was talking directly to you, they just wanted to pile on to the general feeling of this forum.
The rest of you should read the headline as - Acclaim Thinks Brian Koontz Is An Idiot.
Thanks,
Chet
Acclaim should get in line.