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sbp
10-14-2002, 09:53 PM
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.

But major retailers Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Toys R Us Inc. and KB Toys all said they would not carry the game, a potential blow for the game's exposure.

"We're not going to carry any software with any vulgarity or nudity -- we're just not going to do it," Wal-Mart spokesman Tom Williams told Reuters.

However, Best Buy Co. Inc. said it intended to sell a censored version of the game for Sony's PlayStation 2

more here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20021014/tc_nm/tech_acclaim_xxx_dc)
Nija
10-15-2002, 01:48 PM
so...

where can I buy it? :D
Cantacuzene
10-15-2002, 01:51 PM
I wouldnt buy it. Its a crap game that will only sell because of the controversy. If you need a bmx game get Freekstyle.
Tommy Boomfiger
10-16-2002, 06:13 PM
a censored version? what good what that be? and what would it be called? BMX "R"
apmiller
10-17-2002, 08:21 AM
The only reasong they put in topless riders so they can try and actually sell the game instead of being just another BMK game. Guys at work here are all freaking out over it because it will have half naked chicks in it. Frankly a computer image of a gal just doesn't do it for me. I'll take a REAL BMX game over this crap any day.

Accliam sure is pushing buttons these days to get their games sold. Name your kid Turok contest. Pay for speeding tickets to promote Burn Out 2. Their marketing department needs a good old fashioned smack up-side the head.
Ladogaboy
10-17-2002, 01:25 PM
I'm sure Fry's will have a section for it. :naughty:

Anyway, I thought the Temperance movement died long ago? :shrug:
kain9i6
10-17-2002, 01:52 PM
I pre-ordered this game today.. and from the reviews I saw, there is supposed to be a strip club you can go into where you get a LIVE strip show.. not a computer generated one..

I figure hell.. I buy it.. I beat it.. then I walk down to the closest elementary school and sell it to one of the kids since his mommy will only buy him the pg-13 version from toys r snuff..
spigidygak
10-19-2002, 07:42 AM
Originally posted by kain9i6

I figure hell.. I buy it.. I beat it.. then I walk down to the closest elementary school and sell it to one of the kids since his mommy will only buy him the pg-13 version from toys r snuff..

LMAO! Guess times have changed, instead of selling drugs to the kiddies it digital pohnoh.