I think I am officially awesome now

2005-06-04 11:59:04 am

Part of my dream last night took place in The Palace of Hate, Hell's Atrium and The Pain Maze, in that order even... *is scared now*

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Tub

2005-06-04 01:08:23 pm

m00

back when I was about 13 and (almost legally) playing a doom port on my Amiga I dreamt about running through the demon infested levels rescuing a certain girl from my class from the fangs of some not-quite-immortal beasts. It seems I forgot my shotgun, so I had to take on every single demon with my bare hands.

Never again did I play 8 hours of doom before going to bed.

trihex

2005-06-14 07:28:11 am

Yoshi's eggs are at my mercy!

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back when I was about 13 and (almost legally) playing a doom port

Well, I don't know why, But It's bugging me to not correct you. It's illegal to SELL a T-rated game to a child under 13. But nothing is wrong if you're playing it.

Tub

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Tub: 2005-06-14 12:26:10 pm

2005-06-14 12:13:22 pm

m00

I'm not too sure about the laws (and they're different in every country anyway. I'm German.).
I know an 18+ game mustn't be sold or given to me, so I'm not supposed to play those games without my parent's agreement. Which I didn't have, they didn't know.
I'm not sure if that makes playing it illegal. I don't even know if the rating applies to doom ports using the same .WAD-files or only the official releases.

But I know that nobody sold me doom. That alone makes playing it illegal. Cheesy

Yoshi348

2005-06-14 04:27:53 pm

dinosaur from the past

Wasn't Doom released before the ERSB existed?

TSA

2005-06-14 10:34:47 pm

Retired

ESRB was founded in 1994 after the Senate Committee hearings on DOOM and Mortal Kombat and other violent games.

Gorash

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Gorash: 2005-06-14 11:17:13 pm

2005-06-14 11:14:08 pm

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There's been a similar thing in germany too.

The USK (Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle - entertainment software self-censorship) is the thing that gets closest to teh US ESRB. Founded somewhen '94, one of the first things in their records is Sam&Max (age 12 and older).

There was however the BPJS (Budesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften - national test centre for youth endangering scripts, yes I know, german burocracy loves those names) which had the power to stop a videogame from being advertised and sold to youths (by putting it onto the index of said youth endagering scripts).

Guess what happened to every single id soft game (except Commander Keen maybe...)

In 2003 the new youth protection law saw to it that every game that has not been rated by the USK is automatically not suited for children and therefore may not be advertised, nor sold to youths, while at the same time making the USK rating obligatory. Unfortunately this is also the case for other versions of the same game, which makes it very hard for germans to get import games, because, since advertising of them is banned in general, almost no stores take the risk of stacking up on them.

(nit-pickers: yes, the BPJS was renamed to BPJM, for media)

There's been a similar thing in germany too.

The USK (Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle - entertainment software self-censorship) is the thing that gets closest to teh US ESRB. Founded somewhen '94, one of the first things in their records is Sam&Max (age 12 and older).

There was however the BPJS (Budesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften - national test centre for youth endangering scripts, yes I know, german burocracy loves those names) which had the power to stop a videogame from being advertised and sold to youths (by putting it onto the index of said youth endagering scripts).

Guess what happened to every single id soft game (except Commander Keen maybe...)

In 2003 the new youth protection law saw to it that every game that has not been rated by the USK is automatically not suited for children and therefore may not be advertised, nor sold to youths, while at the same time making the USK rating obligatory. Unfortunately this is also the case for other versions of the same game, which makes it very hard for germans to get import games, because, since advertising of them is banned in general, almost no stores take the risk of stacking up on them.

(nit-pickers: yes, the BPJS was renamed to BPJM, for media)