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Thailand's list of 10 violent games to avoid filched from Detroit list

Posted Aug 7, 2008 at 3:12AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News Tags: 50 Cent, CNET

It seems the murder of a taxi cab driver in Thailand has taken an even stranger turn, besides the whole "It's linked to Grand Theft Auto" business. It seems the Thai government has released a list of games that have been deemed as violent games to avoid.

The only thing about it? It seems to have been taken from somewhere else.

Here's the list, as translated by CNET's Jesada Chandraprasert:

GTA
Man Hunt
Scarface
50 Cent - Bullet Proof
300
The Godfather
Killer 7
Resident Evil 4
God of War
Hitman

GamePolitics compared this to an outdated list of violent games to avoid made by Detroit Prosecutor Kym Worthy, which you can see below:

Grand Theft Auto
Manhunt
Scarface
50 Cent Bulletproof
300
The Godfather
Killer-7
Resident Evil 4
God of War
Hitman Blood Money

If you look at the two lists closely, they're basically the exact same list, only with Hitman: Blood Money turned into Hitman and Grand Theft Auto turned into GTA. Even if the translation from Chandraprasert is imprecise, the fact remains that the two lists are near-identical.

GamePolitics posits the possibility that "Thai bureaucrats are simply grabbing material from the Web in order to support a video game crackdown by the government." Of course, it could just be a lazy bureaucrat filching stuff to look good. Either way, the effect is the same: dark times for video games in Thailand.

Via GamePolitics

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I think we've pretty well proven that politicians in the US are lazy clueless individuals who are wasting taxpayer money on the atni-videogames crusade by enacting laws that are years behind the industry. Why should we expect politicians in other counties to be any different, especially when some countries have a questionable affiliation with democracy.

I don't know much about politics in Thailand, but I'm pretty sure a politician is a politician no matter where you go.

# .. — Torch 2008-08-07 07:14

This is just total BS. These bureaucrats are getting out of hand.

In any case its not like people in Asia buy original games, except for a select few.

# Yep, this happens everywhere — Goglu666 2008-08-07 08:06

This kind of things happens in every big business. People that gets good jobs usually do it by making it seems like they are working hard.

This guy in Thailand probably show a project where he spent 4 weeks of research on behavior vs violence in games. He said he pulled this list with all the result he got.

He started with good intentions, and his boss accepted the project. Now on day 1 he stumbled on the list doing his search on violent games. Now someone did all the work for him, and he is on the other side of the world. No chance that he comes and say that he has done the work.

The guy pulled the list and browse the internet for 4 weeks, at the end he gave the result. His boss think he did some serious research for him to be so sure that his list is the thing to take in concideration. Now they publish it and they look like complete dumbasses. Someone should write to them to let them know, the only one who probably is aware of this is the one who pulled the list out of the internet, while the others all believe that it's the result of intense research and hard work.

# ... — mohaas05 2008-08-07 08:09

this seems more like an overreaction to the taxi cab murder rather than a baseless law.

I don't know why people are suddenly questioning Thailand's democracy. It has been one since the 1930's. Even as countries around it such as Vietnam, China, and Myanmar fell to communist or military regimes.

Though I agree that this law is unfair, it also isn't unfair to suddenly question a country's politics based on a decision like this.

# ...and Thailand — Nevers 2008-08-07 08:18

is on my list for countries I least want to visit... isnt' that where that American kid had to face getting a "caning" for something inconsequential .

but yes I totally agree... Politicians are pretty scummy.

# That's why I've — Nevers 2008-08-07 08:21

Questioned their excessive punitive system for years...

# . — logicbomb.de 2008-08-07 09:51

Actually that was Singapore.

No picnic over there either if you break "the rules"

# Thnks — Nevers 2008-08-07 10:45

for setting me straight... lol...

# ... — mohaas05 2008-08-07 12:04

dunno why you'd say that. I could think of several countries I wouldn't want to be in.

I was just in Thailand last week in fact on vacation. Really nice. The scenery is beautiful, and the locals are all much nicer than back here. Of course though security, especially at airports, is much tighter.

# Hypocrite — girandhistacos 2008-08-07 19:37

"In any case its not like people in Asia buy original games, except for a select few."

You're just as bad as those dumb@ss bureaucrats, perhaps even worse.

# ... — mr_bigmouth_502 2008-08-07 19:46

The teenager who killed the taxi driver was simply using GTA as a coverup.

# What if this happened... — Sanzee 2008-08-07 21:43

Hey guys, lets say some kid gets a hold of some actual "Throwing Stars" which can inflict body injury (the one's that Ninja's use).

Now this kid is also an avid Ninja Gaiden fan, and, after using Ryu's throwing stars in-game, he decides he wants to use them in real life. So he does, and someone is unintentionally killed. This all takesplace in Thailand. So the Thailand government makes Ninja Gaiden the #1 most violent game. But what if this incident never happened. Would Ninja Gaiden still be a violent game to them?

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It's common sense. You could make Mary Kate and Ashley the most violent game for some bull***** reason. Yeah that's exaggerated a bit, but you get my point. Once an incident happens, only then is it banned...? And they say GTA 4 is more violent than Manhunt?

Holy *****, wake up Thailand!

# Word! — Sanzee 2008-08-07 21:47

I know, right! What if they said Soul Calibur 4 was too violent cause some kid dressed up as one of the characters and started attacking people? Why is it that it becomes banned AFTER some incident occurs?

Your right about asian's buying original games though. And ecspecially Thailand. I didn't know ppl could afford consoles there?

# I'm sure it's a beautiful country — Nevers 2008-08-08 05:33

with beautiful people, but I enjoy a bit of things outside their laws which are very stringent. Risking breaking the law in one of those countries would be life destroying... rather just not risk it.

420 FTW

# >TRUE STRIKE — Nevers 2008-08-08 06:55

Just because someone who obviously can't be trusted on a basic level with knowing right from wrong blames something like a vidgame, a movie, a band, or another; why do people lend creedence to this. Responsibilty lies with the person chosing to do the crime, yet it seems to me the "media" wants to shift the blame where it shouldn't be for publicity sake. I'm sure the defense attorney's love this conundrum as well... very very messed up... but no fix in sight. /weep

# huh! — TheNiNJA 2008-08-08 07:31

video games don't kill people!

people kill people!

# The taxi driver killing — Scarface88 2008-08-08 09:05

Jack Thompson must have had an orgasm when that guy got killed.

# Which really kinda > — Nevers 2008-08-08 09:17

says something about him now doesn't it... ?

Taking pleasure in the pain of others... capitalizing and forwarding his agenda in the wake of every tragedy that makes the news.

Basically he's propagating lies that actually benefit murderers during their trial... shameful.. absolutely shameful...

# Top 10 list of games to avoid? — Lunisneko 2008-08-08 14:56

Moar liek top 10 list of games to play amirite?

Oh wait, 300 game is in there. Ah well, never mind then.

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