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To be honest, I have no idea. The rules are foggy there (I think)

It's like if a police officer comes over for dinner because he knew your dad from 'the days' and sees you (lets say a 15 year old) playing Grand theft Auto. If he knows you are 15, and the game is R18/18+ what can he do? Does the law say he fines your parents or confiscates the game? I have no idea. Wait here while I Google away. (Of course this could vary from country to country, but I'm guessing it would generally involve a 'stern warning' that never gets followed up.

This is de-railing from your question a little I think, but I suspect it would be something like that. And more about the retailers responsibility to distribute the game properly, rather than the parent's to share it with the youngens. (Kinda like booze?)

EDIT: (I need to stop doing this) Okay, it is foggy as hell. Maybe they can cease banned games, maybe they can't, the internet can't make up their mind. While it would seem some banned games have been ceased before, there are plenty of Australians playing banned games, and getting away with it fine. Not like they are doing drugs or anything?

But the main reason for this EDIT was to make you aware of the fact that there are games you and I don't see, and can't play because they are banned for us too. However these games are too bad to talk about, so we'll leave it at that.

EDIT2: Okay banned means banned. Final answer.

What if there's several games that we thought were canseld, but are actually just banned from our countries?

When a kid is like 10 years old, he can buy GTA/CoD/etc. as long as he has his parents by his side. Ithink most people find the ratings on games 'overrated' in most cases. Just like pirated entertainment. If a cop enters somebody's home and find a stack of bootleg DVDs, he ain't gonna arrest you for that. It's simply not that much of a crime (Not that I agree on that).

As long as your parents agree on the games you buy, our law will let you have them. Which I find is a good rule to go by. And if the really big boys need some censorship just to keep someone's mind at ease, so be it.

Pirated stuff is treated VERY seriously 'round these parts (I assume the rest of the world just as much). If you're monitored while pirating, you're busted. I've heard of it happening to people before.

As for buying restricted games. Well it doesn't seem to matter if you're 17 years old and with your 40 year old dad (The sad thing is this has actually happened to me) they won't take the money and give me the damn game!


Oh and here is something that is kinda funny. In Saudi Arabia the God of War series is banned. Reason: Banned due to the presence of interactive sex scenes, partial nudity and sexual themes as well as the word "God" in the title.

The word "God".

R16 (Restricted to poles 16 and up) <- Killzone/Resistance

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Kareful there, some people might take that as racist.

Here's a quite fun list of banned games. Ah, Manhunt. Heard so many people about that game, they sold it here.

I also love how Mass Effect and Dragon Age are banned in some countries because of the gay relationsships.

What if there's several games that we thought were canseld, but are actually just banned from our countries?

When a kid is like 10 years old, he can buy GTA/CoD/etc. as long as he has his parents by his side. Ithink most people find the ratings on games 'overrated' in most cases. Just like pirated entertainment. If a cop enters somebody's home and find a stack of bootleg DVDs, he ain't gonna arrest you for that. It's simply not that much of a crime (Not that I agree on that).

As long as your parents agree on the games you buy, our law will let you have them. Which I find is a good rule to go by. And if the really big boys need some censorship just to keep someone's mind at ease, so be it.

It's funny, back in the day parents complained about games because they didn't have a warning displaying what age you had to be in order to play games since kids were playing games ike Mortal Kombat.
Nowadays they don't give a crap, but if they were to remove them parents would complain as much (if not more).

I've seen a kid by himself buying Black Ops 2 BTW.

You're right, I just picked up one of my boxed SNES games and they don't have an age on them. Funny, I never noticed.

I got addicted to LocoRoco music… again!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hbKF6Wjn5T4&list=PLokgZj2u2Z18BdfUIPBKHrXNMjrwiJIZ4

All this talk of cancelled and banned games has reminded me of Riese: Kingdom Falling. Wish it had never got cancelled…

R16 (Restricted to poles 16 and up) <- Killzone/Resistance

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Kareful there, some people might take that as racist.

To be completely honest I was referring to poles as in those cylindrical things (normally steel) used to support structures and frames and all that stuff.

That is… just too perfect.

R16 (Restricted to poles 16 and up) <- Killzone/Resistance

¨

Kareful there, some people might take that as racist.

To be completely honest I was referring to poles as in those cylindrical things (normally steel) used to support structures and frames and all that stuff.

Of course, you didn't write capital P.

Btw. I was going to check out one of my 16+ games right? Turns out I don't any, none that have 16+ on the box anyway. Cause my Resistance disc still states 16+.

Btw. I was going to check out one of my 16+ games right? Turns out I don't any, none that have 16+ on the box anyway. Cause my Resistance disc still states 16+.

Uncharted?
I'm pretty sure that's 16+…
Then again, R&C is 3+ here.

Someone asked what the rating system was like in America, right? From the top of my head:

- eC ("Early Childhood". Reserved only for educational type games aimed at the 3-5 age group generally)
- E ("Everyone". All ages)
- E10+ ("Everyone 10+". Still mostly acceptable for all ages but may contain a bit more violence/language/etc. than usual)
- T ("Teen". Usually contains violence/language/partial nudity/blood to a moderate degree to get this rating)
- M ("Mature". 17+. Stores cannot legally sell these games to anyone younger without a parent/guardian present)
- AO ("Adult Only". The most extreme rating and very few games have this. They aren't generally sold in stores)