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Wii Zapper Slammed By Angry Parents in US

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Wii Zapper Slammed By Angry Parents in US
Fri, Sep 14, 07 @ 13:23
Posted by midgetiser
Registered: 14 Sep 2007
Posts: 3
Am I the only one who played with cap guns and the like when i was a kid?? what about time crisis, die hard etc. Strangely enough I am good at those games. No idea if i would be good at shooting people though as who in their right mind would!!!

Gotta love the hysterics over something so trivial!!


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Re: Wii Zapper Slammed By Angry Parents in US
Fri, Sep 14, 07 @ 13:46
Posted by Tim Smith [mod]
Registered: 6 Nov 2006
Posts: 1364
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midgetiser wrote:
Am I the only one who played with cap guns and the like when i was a kid?? what about time crisis, die hard etc. Strangely enough I am good at those games. No idea if i would be good at shooting people though as who in their right mind would!!!


My pals and I used to use twigs and sticks (you can tell I'm old because I use the word 'pals') to stand in for pistols and guns. When captured, a member of the enemy would also be hand-grenaded with pine cones and thrown into the nettle patch. This was Twyford in Hampshire by the way, and I've yet to hear of any of my school chums (see, 'chums') being banged up for going postal in Shawford of Compton (both of which scummy hamlets deserved a right proper going over).

As for the idea that the Imperial weight of the U.S. of A doesnt' actively indulge on an orgy of gun-love-making with real bloody weapons... well.... flipping heck! That's all I've got to say.

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Wii Zapper Slammed By Angry Parents in US
Fri, Sep 14, 07 @ 14:14
Posted by Joji
Registered: 12 Mar 2004
Posts: 3888
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This is quite funny coming from the U.S, a nation that hold real guns so highly, that they object to a plastic zapper. What is the world coming too? Always someone to stir the freaking pot for overeactive reasons.

What's really odd is that PS1, PS2 and even Xbox all had light guns of some sort, yet I heard not a whisper of discord. Perhaps this is again the kiddy gamer perception demons of Nintendo at play again.
"Plane!?....I Ain't Gettin On No Plane"


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Wii Zapper Slammed By Angry Parents in US
Fri, Sep 14, 07 @ 14:28
Posted by Thomas
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They are right of course because Nintendo should be raising their children. Parents should be spending all this time and energy fighting all the evils in the world, not spending time with thier children. They should not try to raise thier children to be responsible global citizens. Also it is rididculous to think that a child should ever know anything about guns until they are old enough to legally purchase one. It's not as if anybody on this planet uses a gun for any positive act. Seriously, nobody hunts animals to provide sustainance any more. Everyone can just go to the store to buy food because everyone has a good paying job. You just just keep on fighting the good fight. Oh by the way, your underage daughter's pregnant and your son is stealing to get money for drugs. Hey, at least they don't have a plastic shell that doesn't resemble any firearm known to man to subvert your awesome perenting skills.


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Wii Zapper Slammed By Angry Parents in US
Fri, Sep 14, 07 @ 15:23
Posted by daz
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Replying to midgetiser [go]
well said tom


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