Insane Ruling: Plastic Wii Zapper Gun Toy Gets PEGI 18 Rating
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Playing cowboys and native American indigenous peoples with plastic pretend guns was about the best fun you could have as a six-year old growing up in the wilds of South Yorkshire, SPOnG fondly remembers (perhaps with slightly rose-tinted specs).
Alas, with the modern fear and moral panic over everything and anything to do with guns, it seems that children will not be allowed to play with Nintendos new Wii Zapper, which is to be slapped with a PEGI 18-rating when it comes out next month.
Perhaps the ban makes a little more sense when you realize that one of the main Wii games to make full use of the gun is the genuinely scary, on-rails survival shooter Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles which Capcom has announced will be hitting shelves on November 30.
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[Source: N4G.com : News Feed]
Labels: nintendo wii, Wii Zapper
posted by Wasted Rage @ 10/19/2007 02:07:00 PM,
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