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Appalling Anti-Video Game Ads

Category: Random Game: Default Posted on Mar 26, 2009 2:28 am


Article found on Hellforge by Sol Invictus

I stumbled upon these ads on an image hosting service earlier today and the following visuals are visceral depictions of children in relation to video game violence. The images reference a website that no longer appears to be online so I can only guess as to the actual content of the site.

Needless to say, these photo-manipulations strongly portray video games as a bad influence on children, with captions like "He just shot someone in the head" and "Don't train your child to kill", as if violent video games somehow teach us to commit murder in addition to their debatable effects of desensitization.

Whatever your views are on the matter, I just thought I'd share these startling images with the rest of you.

Yeah, because only children play video games. Right, boys and girls?

I am totally appalled by the last image ad they used. Video games don't make me kill, but the dumbass who made these ads really make me want to kill

comments ( 33 )

MeroMix
Post Time : Apr 25,2009 7:29 pm

I hate it when people blame the video games. I mean it's not the games fault, it's the parent's. They were too stupid to tell their child the difference between a game and life. The last ad... that's disrespectful to those who actually been through the vietnam war.

Xesolor
Post Time : Mar 30,2009 6:34 pm

That last pic was from the Vietnam war? Whoever made the last pic is a cheap idiot - what does the Vietnam war has to do with video games? Do these ad-campaigners even realise the horrifying circumstances those children lived in that war??! And they used it in an anti-gaming poster? Won't this give the wrong impression about games, what, associate games with war? Not to mention games, there weren't even TVs back in that time in Vietnam!

This is just going to get parents into deeper confusion with modern games. If more than anything, it's those individual's own fault if they developed some mental disturbance. Nunaru's right, okay games give bad infulences, but most people can distinguish between what real and "fantasy", those who can't, really shouldn't be handed with a game in the first place.

Folder
Post Time : Mar 30,2009 2:51 pm

last pic very disturbing... i actually saw the documentary with the footage he use for the last ad...

Vietnam war.

Suru
Post Time : Mar 30,2009 12:32 pm

The first couple images were interesting, very artistic. I actually thought they were kinda cool. Then I made it down to the last one and my stomach dropped.

That's just in bad taste, not to mention extremely disturbing.   Okay I gotta go back to playing Postal 2, ttyl.

Zukes
Post Time : Mar 29,2009 8:57 pm

That's worse than a kid actually playing a bad video game. Honestly, a game is a game.

If a kid is playing a game that they shouldn't be, it's the parents fault for not watching them more closely.

Nunaru
Post Time : Mar 29,2009 5:45 pm

Seriously? I mean. Ok so how many people play games in this WORLD! More thanHalf!!!!!! And how much of that majority has ACTUALLY killed or taken inspiration from any of these games? Like .0000000000000001%. Seriously this dude is a wacko. He even photoshopped  a kid killing a damn baby! Like WTF?  Let me guess. Oooh I play Tetris. Im gonna kill someone!. Wow. Simply pathetic.

Kazuken
Post Time : Mar 29,2009 11:52 am

That's just sick and twisted.

Yoshio
Post Time : Mar 29,2009 11:08 am

Oh crap, I'm a psychopathic murderer with pedophiliac tendencies because I play First Person Shooters, Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, and Animal Crossing (really, it was a one-time thing). The media is on to me!

... I wonder what Hitler must've played.

hiddencat
Post Time : Mar 29,2009 6:13 am

Hmm, today i killed about 500 orcs, 4 felbeasts, and 1000 something of misc mobs. O.o

And o yea, one badass demon.

scoica
Post Time : Mar 28,2009 2:09 pm

ppl with no real life friends do wierd stuff inspired from games and probably molested kids and the ones who get beat up evry day at school  and emo ppl.only things i kill mmo style are spiders and mosquitos  

kit21
Post Time : Mar 28,2009 9:50 am

Yes i was brought up playing games and i love them.. i guess that makes me a violent murderer eh? Dam.. and here i was thinking im a good guy.. guess ill go do what these ad's say im sopose to be..

Thats what people could think when they see these ad's.. they could have the oppisite effect then intended.. lmao

all in all tho.. these ad's are really lame, who would even believe that? besides maybe naieve parents who know nothing about games

Aeskor
Post Time : Mar 28,2009 7:56 am

 That's a disgusting ad campaign and whoever did it is a heartless, idiotic manipulator.

ajthebaka
Post Time : Mar 28,2009 7:16 am

Strange. Even before I knew what a shooter was, I knew that if you wanted to kill someone with a gun, you held it up to them, pointed the part with the hole in it at them, and pulled the trigger. I didn't need video games to teach me that.

genfar
Post Time : Mar 27,2009 7:26 am

Yea these pic making it look like video games teach people to go out and murder and do all sorts of bad stuff is epic fail. I mean what next lets jsut say before there were games heck before there was T.V or a radio back probly god knows when you can read history about people who murdered people, either on a killing rampage or maybe just random violance, and people doing all sorts of other stuff that was unsafe and there was no video games then. Yea I like how people just make crap like that and not sit for one moment and think something like " Ok did people do this kind of stuff before mature games came out? "

 Just what I think about it.

Glasjaw
Post Time : Mar 27,2009 3:38 am

"Don't train your child to kill"? Because apparently handling remotes, keyboards and mouses is a whole lot closer to handling a gun than a toy gun. I can only guess why this site no longer exists.

sinkingthoughts
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 10:59 pm

nigthdall... please read before commenting.... douche.

Mewanna
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 10:29 pm

"Today he killed over 5,000 people" - WOW!  What's his handle?  I want to join his clan/guild!  He must be pretty darn good. 

 

Hmm, wait, I bet if you sold keyboards and controllers that looked like they were all covered with blood like that, you'd actually get some good sales :D

Katsuo
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 9:50 pm

...A link this great between videogames and killing is only seen in propaganda use and one in a billion circumstances. These are true, but overexagerations, your child isnt going to be scared for life from playing a videogame, nor are videogames like taking drugs. Now parents are going to go ripping thier kids off sonic the hedgehog in fear. Good job Gameover.info.

momocowwy
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 7:51 pm

morbid  +.+

they're worried about video games where theres a publishing company that literally teaches you murder w/ books like  The Art of Strangulation ect. ppl actually used the books to kill on A&E >.>

AkatsukiSwordmaster
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 4:13 pm

lololololololololololol. yes we are all 8 year olds and we can kill 5000 people on CS in one day and I like using hand grenades. funny ads. They are pretty old too. is that a sega controller?! lol.

sdhf
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 3:44 pm

bleh. this is annoying. >.< though that guy is pretty creative. his message sucks ass 

nigthdall
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 2:39 pm

oh wow can you stop posting these bulletings?  Viedo games do not corrupt the kids of today dumbass.

pedrofsky
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 1:35 pm

lol i agree with vollmilch2 5000 kills in one day, you gotta be real pro lol xD

AurasShadow
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 12:47 pm

So, the person who made these ads is saying that a lone child could kill more than 5000 people in reality too. Otherwise that ad would be useless .____.

Andaleon
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 11:39 am

Startling images indeed. It's ads like these that make politicians lobby for anti-videogame propositions. >_> 

gamechaser002
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 11:05 am

pak, agreed

virus, double agreed

sinking, didn't study the vietnam war, but i'm also wondering what these brain-dead monkeys are thinking too

war, get in line

voll, not too hard really

kapten, here's some words for you: 

"die artist, die"

TheKapten
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 10:25 am

 That last image broke my heart, it's.... can't find the words.

vollmilch2
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 8:37 am

He must be good or play long time to get 5000 Kills ...    lolz

 

 -  These ads are really lolable

WarFreakTheSecond
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 8:35 am

Id really like to bash the guy who made this.I play many different types of games and I was never EVER affected.Only stupid people who get too addicted kill because games.

sinkingthoughts
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 7:34 am

The last picture is actually from the vietnam war...

What the hell were these people thinking -_-?

MrVirus
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 7:14 am

Who ever come up with these ads is a dumb ass

Zanpakutou
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 5:46 am

the worst thing is that they actually allowed less extreme versions of these ads in the UK. there was an ad campaign that implied that video games led to heart attacks and death, but if you watch the video clip itself it implies that its okay to kill people for progress which is ironic.

kagamaro
Post Time : Mar 26,2009 4:24 am

I hate those who kill for mmo !!!!

it's just for fun !!  daam why they will do this ? i think it's because of money !! not all people can pay to play !! for example Lord of the ring ! it's an awsom mmo ill love to join but i can't pay !! other will kill for it !! but me no !! no way !! somday ill pay for this game !!