animaldude
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I found this very interesting article on gamespot:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6172704.html?tag=latestnews;title;0
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6172704.html?tag=latestnews;title;0
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The introduction of controversial games featuring photo-realistic images, such as Mortal Kombat and Night Trap, led to calls from the tabloid press for games to fall under the Video Recordings Act. The UK games publisher trade body ELSPA responded by introducing a voluntary age rating system in 1994. The ELSPA ratings were succeeded by the pan-European ratings system, PEGI, in 2003. However, although games are generally exempt from the Video Recordings Act, those depicting sexual content, or gross violence towards people or animals, must still be submitted to the BBFC for consideration. BBFC ratings are legally binding, and British law imposes stiff penalties on retailers who sell to under-aged customers.
Carmageddon, in which the gameplay involved mowing down innocent pedestrians, was the first game to be refused classification in 1997 (effectively banning it). The game's publisher, SCI, had a modified version created in which the pedestrians in question were replaced by green-blooded zombies, which completed a successful appeal against the BBFC to overturn their original decision. The uncensored, unmodified version of Carmageddon was later released under an 18-certificate.
In 2004, the parents of a murdered 14-year-old boy blamed the game Manhunt as having been "connected" to the murder (It was later found not to be, as the game was found in the victim's home, rather than the killer's.) [7]; however, Leicestershire police "did not uncover any connections to the computer game." [8] The accusations prompted some retailers to remove the game from their shelves [9]. However following this incident the sales of the game rose due to the free publicity from newspaper headlines. The sequel to the game, released in 2007 was banned in the UK, by the BBFC [10].