Have these games just gone too far?
The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, “Can I help you with something?”
That is when you, the player, can choose your method of assault.
With the click of your mouse, you can grope her and lift her skirt. Then you can follow her aboard the train, assaulting her sister and her mother.
As you continue to play, “friends” join in and in a series of graphic, interactive scenes, you can corner the women, rape them again and again.
The game allows you to even impregnate a girl and urge her to have an abortion. The reason behind your assault, explains the game, is that the teenage girl has accused you of molesting her on the train. The motive is revenge.
“This was a game that had absolutely no place on the market,” said Taina Bien-Aime of women’s rights organization Equality Now which has campaigned for the game to be taken off the shelves.
But the controversy that led to stopping sales of the game instead took it viral.
Hard to believe this game is free and has gone viral. Some people will download anything.
Japan is one of the only places on earth where
anyone can walk around the streets at 4 am
with total safety.
This stuff has been around forever, nothing new. My personal observation is that this kind of stuff is prevalent in japanese pornography because japanese males are generally too timid to actually carry out rapes.
So, are computer games analog? No other reason why you would need to digitize one.
This is an old story about an old game first off. The only reason it is getting more press again is American feminist groups have been out to reform Japanese society to their view.
Grand Theft Auto did not increase rates of grand theft auto. The game Doom didn’t cause Columbine. Video games and reality are very different and 99% of the population can make that distinction.
Games allow people to simulate what they can’t in real life. It is an outlet, an experience, a SAFE PLACE where you can try something you would otherwise not do. Nobody gets raped, no hookers get run over by your car, and nobody dies in a hail of gunfire when you are sitting at home on a computer.
The legislation of morality really has to stop. It’s not effective and it is a huge burden on liberty. Then to take it one step further, go to a foreign country to bitch about the games they sell.
If these feminist groups want to fight a battle worth fighting, go to the middle east and spread your crap. Tell the women they don’t need to wear a burka or get beat by their husbands, see how that goes. Trying to take down a video game niche in Japan really just makes them look pathetic when woman’s rights face much greater danger on a global level.
To follow-up the previous post (#24, Anon):
Attention radical feminists:
(1) stop FGM – WORLDWIDE
(2) stop MGM – WORLDWIDE
(3) stop REAL rape – WORLDWIDE
You’ll be dead long before you get even .001 of the way through (1), so I won’t bother telling you when if ever it will be time for you to stop video games and fictional accounts of rape.
The video sound byte at the end of the segment is golden. Obviously inserted intentionally by the editor…
What’s next, an expose on Second Life call girls and the online BDSM scene? Where’s the feminist outrage on that subject? Oh right, they’re all on there as Dommes…
An actual female gamer interview said she wasn’t offened as a woman. I’m offended as a HUMAN by the feminist group trying to use this reporter to push this agenda of international censorship and conformity.
Plus, I kind of laughed at the fact that the Japanese g’mnt didn’t want to talk to the South Korean born reporter for an American “news” orginization. DUH.
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The desperate Libtards at cnn are scraping the bottom of the barrel (they are the closest to the bottom in the ratings so the scraping is easy) with the rapey ropey thing. Next it will be cannibalism and incest.. basically anything to boost their saggy viewership. Go ahead, fill your boots morons, nobody is watching you.
I love playing games like Gears of War 2 and CODMF2 but playing a game where the objective is raping a girl is uncalled for.
#29
I love playing games like Rapelay but playing a game where the objective is mindless killing of people, and even unarmed civilians at times is uncalled for.
If you allow people to legislate what games are acceptable and what are not, you start down a slippy slope.
WTF?!
I was reading the post, I thought it was an April’s fool joke…
I have been gaming since the early 80s and I must say that this is absolutely disgusting. I hope the Japanese government outlaw it.
#30 Anon,
To counter your claim – if I develop and market a game where players need to crush babies skulls will it be ok?
I agree that it is a problem to try and mold it into a law, but I think that the gaming industry and the gamers themselves should sanction the development and publishing of “games” such as Rapelay.
I guess you guys are too young to remember Sega’s “Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker” game. The special levels in that game were cringe-worthy. It would be difficult for a game to be gross enough to puke when you play it, but this came pretty close.
#32
“if I develop and market a game where players need to crush babies skulls will it be ok?”
I have no problem with such a game. You’re not crushing real babies. I don’t think you will sell many copies and it will be a financial failure on your part, but hey, it’s a free country if you want to make a game where you crush virtual baby skulls more power to you.
What I don’t get is where you personally draw the moral line. In CODMW2 you can run though an airport and shoot unarmed civilians as they run for their lives, but suddenly rape, and baby skulls is too much. Hell in Starcraft you nuke other players. It’s all virtual shit that has no bearing on the REAL world around us. Let people have their niche games, they don’t hurt anyone.
And if somebody wants to make a game where you throw flaming babies at the police, don’t buy their game. If other people do, DEAL WITH IT.