Bully For You: Concerns Over New Video Game
BULLY is the new computer beat-‘em-up game from Rockstar.
The Sun says the game features a bully (see title) who “shoves heads down toilets, gives Chinese burns and fires at staff with catapults.”
“Teachers leader” Steve Sinnot is “deeply concerned”.
As are we. Not, that the skinhead teen star of the show is more self-assertive than bully, but that bullying has moved on so little.
This might have something to do with Bully being a game produced by older boys nostalgic for the 1970s and 1980s - or for 2006, when the game came out.
Game fans may have to wait a while for Bully XII when the youth is armed with a gun and mobile phone.
But by then that might too look anachronistic and less than real…
Posted: 28th, January 2008 | In: Tabloids Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 28th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Games don’t cause shootings. It is ultimately the parents responsibility to govern what their kids watch and buy. If you are a good parent your kid couldnt have access to a gun. Sure you may think kids are resourceful or that things are different. Things will never get so different that being a parent means you don’t have to watch your kids and teach them the difference between right and wrong. There is a ratings system in place for a reason. There are clear descriptors for exactly what elements the game presents. All you have to do is be able to read. The resources are there to be able to choose. It just means parents will have to get up off their asses and actually give a crap.
aw359
January 28th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Sort of explains the random shootings by some victims. There’s a crazed mentality in the ether.