05-22-2003, 07:22 AM
Surely kids will just get older friends/relatives/parents to buy the game for them?
In the UK, GTA is rated Cert. 18 and stores won't sell it to kids under that age. However, if a parent is with them all the store can do is issue a warning and little else.
Typical scene:
"Madam, this game is rated 18."
"Hmmm?."
"It features guns, violence, swearing and prostitutes."
"Mum, I want it!"
"Okay, we'll take it."
On one occasion this kid came up to me in an independent game store asking if I was 18 and could I buy a game for him. I checked with the sales assistants and they said that they couldn't sell it to him. Dubious reasoning (they wanted the sale), but I took the kid's money anyway and bought it for him. It wasn't cigarettes or alcohol and if the kid was going to be scarred for life it would be from blowing his money on a crap game (State of Emergency).
In the UK, GTA is rated Cert. 18 and stores won't sell it to kids under that age. However, if a parent is with them all the store can do is issue a warning and little else.
Typical scene:
"Madam, this game is rated 18."
"Hmmm?."
"It features guns, violence, swearing and prostitutes."
"Mum, I want it!"
"Okay, we'll take it."
On one occasion this kid came up to me in an independent game store asking if I was 18 and could I buy a game for him. I checked with the sales assistants and they said that they couldn't sell it to him. Dubious reasoning (they wanted the sale), but I took the kid's money anyway and bought it for him. It wasn't cigarettes or alcohol and if the kid was going to be scarred for life it would be from blowing his money on a crap game (State of Emergency).