And those three games were not graphic about it. I can count three (if you count the "God of War" series as one title) where you actually control a male main character in a quest to bed a woman consensually. I can count on one hand the number of those games that included even naked breasts. I have reviewed hundreds upon hundreds of video games in the 2000s. So please, parents and politicians, feel free to dog "RapeLay" but leave regular gaming out of it. While "RapeLay" does sound repugnant and beyond, I would like to strongly urge everyone to realize this: "Rapelay" is a very rare - unique in fact - video game, in that games hardly ever deal with soft sexual themes, let alone rape. The game was made by a company that previously made "Battle Raper." "RapeLay" was for some time available for purchase on Amazon, until someone alerted Amazon to what "RapeLay" was, then the site stopped selling it.Ī writer for Slate points out that this game comes not from the United States but from Japan: "It’s an old cliché that the more repressed a society, the more extreme its pornography."īut there is something far more important to consider, I suggest. And frankly, the details don’t take up much ink. I don’t want to go into all the nitty gritty details. " RapeLay" came out three years ago, but is now suddenly getting some press, as a New York politician denounced the game and called for its banning - thus making it more widely known, so don’t be surprised if sales start upticking. I’ve watched bits of non-sexual video of the game to get a feel for it. Tokyo, Japan (CNN) - The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform."RapeLay" is a PC video game where gamers portray a guy in Japan who revenge-rapes a female, who had turned him in for groping her on a subway, and other females in her family. 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.Īs 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. It is little wonder that the game, titled RapeLay, sparked international outrage from women's groups. Taina Bien-Aime helped yank the game off store shelves worldwide. "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.īut the controversy that led to stopping sales of the game instead took it viral. That was how Lucy Kibble and Jim Gardner in Britain heard about it. "I think the idea that you can do it by wholesale banning is just never going to work anyway because we downloaded it for free off the Internet," Gardner said. It is still readily available on dozens of Web sites, sometimes for free. What happened to RapeLay is an example, said Bien-Aime, of why Japan needs to police game makers. "It's obviously very difficult to curtail activity on the Internet.
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