Live Magazine February Issue February 2014 | Page 32

on this’ and one game was actually called ‘Seduce me’. It was half
card game, half fantasy novel, but
it was written by women, for women and it actually has a lot of high
resolution art work. It was classy
all the way and unfortunately they
get hounded constantly by religious groups, anti gay lobby’s
constantly hounding them. So
there are definitely people that
try to do a sexual game, but in a
classy way.

want to see. There shouldn’t be
any censorship at all. But, parents
censoring what their children, I think
that’s just parenting. When you’ve
come of age and your old enough
to see what you want to see and do
what you want do, so I’m all for it.

That’s good, I’m all for that. It just
hasn’t been done very well in the
past.

Oh good! Finally!

So what is in your mind about sex
in video games that makes some
people freak out?
I think its because video games were
originally seen as children’s toys. I
think it all grows from that 30 years
ago. Kids play with Atari 2600’s and
then Nintendo’s and you know, but
all those kids are now 35 years old.
They’ve all grown up into mature
adults and in my mind, they should
be able to play whatever it is they

This article actually stems from
the fact that we only just recently
got an adult rating approved for
video games in Australia. We
never had one before.
We finally got one! I do believe
that censorship begins in the
home, but we have a lot of people contacting us and asking us
our thoughts because they want
to play absolutely everything. If
you don’t want to see something
or play something, it should be as
simple as you don’t buy it.
Yep! Amen. That’s exactly the way
it should be. It was always odd to
me that the stores that sell essentially soft core pornography in the
novel sections and maybe even

Sports Illustrated Swim Suit issues
and all the other sexual overload
that modern consumers are faced
with, then suddenly to be become
very prudish to video games just
makes no sense what so ever. If
you can watch an R rated movie, if
you can buy a novel and read the
novel about explicit sex, then why
cant you interact with it in a game?
I think that the interactive nature as well as the fact that video
games were seen for children
can tend to freak out children.
I think mainly mothers. When I
was growing up, I would have
been around 6 or so, but I got
Mortal Combat and was sneaking
around to my cousins place and
playing LSL on the ol’ DOS. My
dad was of the opinion that ‘it’s
just a video game. Your kids are
smart enough to know what they
do and don’t do.’ But it was the
interactive nature of things that
tended to freak out my mother a
bit more.
What bothers me is the people that