p2pnet - rss feed: GTA ad ordered off tv
p2pnet.net News:- Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered Take Two to instruct its Rockstar Games to take ads for its Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas off tv spots that might be seen by children.
The adverts were shown before nine pm during breaks in Channel 4’s Scrapheap Challenge, says BoomTown, quoting the BBC.
"We could understand the parents’ concerns that it was inappropriate for young children to see this level of violence in advertising for a product which was only available to adults," said the ASA. "The advertising was shown in breaks around programmes which, although not designed specifically for children, were considered to be acceptable family viewing."
Rockstar Games has said its policy was to only advertise during programs where, “half the audience were under 18,” says the story.
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Take Two - Take down Take-Two, p2pnet, January 2, 2004
BoomTown - GTA advert ban, March 2, 2005
March 3rd, 2005 at 6:00 pm
“half the audience were under 18,”
So? 75% of the players of this game are younger than 18…. lol
Yeah there’s a few older gamers out there… ok alot of us.. but these games are marketed straight at young kids.
Nobody had a problem with me playing mortal kombat’s many versions when I was a teenager…7-11 got used to me dropping many a dollar into their machine after school….. I dont own a weapon and I don’t even want to chop people up in a fatality either… It’s a game!
Paranoid buggers.
_-Jile-_
March 3rd, 2005 at 6:24 pm
Hey _-Jile-_
You have your head screwed on the right way. But apart from that, mortal kombat isn’t in the same league as the Rockstar ‘games’ - and teenagers aren’t the real problem.
There are pre-teens out there who come from homes where the parents’ idea of fun is to go and get stoned and/or pissed, leaving their kids - doesn’t matter what age - in front of a box with GTA titles, and other video games with horror-show heroes and maximum blood. Then they wonder why their kids have problems.
I like video games, and I like shoot-em-ups. I don’t play them because if I did, I’d never get any work done. But you have to have limits and standards, and as far as I’m concerned, Take Two titles have neither.
Would you let any of your kids play GTA? I wouldn’t.
Cheers!
March 4th, 2005 at 1:43 am
Its all been said before, parents need to take responsibility for their childrens actions. Crappy parenting, not violent video games, movies, music, or anything else is to blame. The only way these things would have an effect on a child is if they havent been raised properly or have some real emotional or psycological problems. Enough already.
March 4th, 2005 at 2:39 am
Young kids’ brains are like unexposed photographic plates.
Figure it out.
Cheers!
March 4th, 2005 at 3:10 am
right or wrong theres nothing you can do about it - so wake up
March 4th, 2005 at 8:58 pm
GTA and GTA2 (both released as freely for download which that alone gained them points in my book) were fun games to play..
I wouldn’t want my kids playing them until they were mature enough.. Though the games didn’t harm me lol…
_-Jile-_
February 9th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
MUDA FUCKA