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01-19-2010, 02:16 PM
Venezuelan President Chavez Calls Video games 'Poison'
"Some games teach you to kill."
by Jim Reilly
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January 18, 2010 - The AFP reports Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called videogames "poison" during his weekly radio-TV show "Alo Presidente."
"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison," Chavez said. "Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him.'"
The game Chavez is referring to is Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, which his supporters attacked back in 2006 due to its depictions of the South American country being invaded by military forces. Chavez, however, was never featured in the game.
He would continue on saying any game where players "bomb cities or just throw bombs" are sold by capitalist countries looking to "promote the need for cigarettes, drugs and alcohol so they can sell them."
This past October, Venezuelan lawmakers passed a law banning the sale of "bellicose" videogames that is punishable up to five years in prison.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/106/1061726p1.html (http://ps3.ign.com/articles/106/1061726p1.html)
:hilarious: What game was that?
"Some games teach you to kill."
by Jim Reilly
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January 18, 2010 - The AFP reports Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called videogames "poison" during his weekly radio-TV show "Alo Presidente."
"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison," Chavez said. "Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him.'"
The game Chavez is referring to is Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, which his supporters attacked back in 2006 due to its depictions of the South American country being invaded by military forces. Chavez, however, was never featured in the game.
He would continue on saying any game where players "bomb cities or just throw bombs" are sold by capitalist countries looking to "promote the need for cigarettes, drugs and alcohol so they can sell them."
This past October, Venezuelan lawmakers passed a law banning the sale of "bellicose" videogames that is punishable up to five years in prison.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/106/1061726p1.html (http://ps3.ign.com/articles/106/1061726p1.html)
:hilarious: What game was that?