Venezuelan President Chavez Calls Videogames 'Poison' (There would be some good stuff in there)

From ign

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, and would be punishable up to five years in prison.



We have that game and he doesnt complaing at least in the article. WOW!!!!

holy shit, 5 years prison. Thats very extreme.

lol

you heard it from the presidente himself the playstation is poison, and causes violence, and bombings guess since an update takes forever the people playing get bored, crazy, and strap on c4 and take a stroll,

I liked that game, just to get to bomb the shit out of thing

Video Games banned in Venezuela, thats fucked up.

5 Years in prison???? holy shit!

This is why South America continues to stay 5% technological in any way XD

(If that offends you, its just a joke)

"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison,"

Cant stop laughing at that.

http://www.insing.com/news/technology/sony-s-playstation-is-poison-to-children-chavez/id-c84d0800?nav=50000



"Sony's PlayStation video game console is "poison" and leads children down the capitalist "road to hell," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.

Chavez, in his weekly radio-TV show "Alo Presidente," called on Venezuelan manufacturers to make "educational" toys and dolls with indigenous peoples' features to replace capitalistic counterparts like the Barbie doll that "have nothing to do with our culture."

In expanding on his dislike of western toys and games -- he already slammed Nintendo for promoting "selfishness, individualism and violence," Chavez Sunday took on the world's top selling game console ( I THINK THIS IS WRONG ), Sony's PlayStation.

"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison. Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him.'"

The firebrand leftist president said any game that "bomb cities or just throw bombs," are sold by capitalist countries to sow violence so they can "later sell weapons."

They "promote the need for cigarettes, drugs and alcohol so they can sell them. That's capitalism, the road to hell," he added.

Venezuela, Chavez said, should be making "educational games," and suggested designing "little indigenous dolls" to sell in place of dolls "like Barbie, that have nothing to do with our culture."

Venezuelan lawmakers in October passed a law outlawing the sale of "bellicose" games and videogames that can be punished with up to five years imprisonment."


Finally a man who the ps3 fanboys can't flame without getting shot.

This is already being posted...so I will merge it for ya!................OK I just tryed to merge to threads instead of deleting popjacks original thread but I think I fucked up...sorry I'll need a bit more time with the mod tools...again sorry.

day walker wrote:

you heard it from the presidente himself the playstation is poison, and causes violence, and bombings guess since an update takes forever the people playing get bored, crazy, and strap on c4 and take a stroll,

ROFLMAO!!