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News Room Contributor Posts: 1264 Joined: 10 Apr 2007     | |
Section Editor  Posts: 323 Joined: 30 Nov 2007   | I'm sure this will be a huge hit in France, Japan, and all of Asia for that matter. |
BANNED  Posts: 302 Joined: 6 May 2008   | because all smokers have a Nintendo DS User was banned for: Random answer generator request and also do you have any eccentricities?. (Permanent) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 564 Joined: 26 May 2008   |
You took the words right outta my mouth. Seriously, is ANYONE going to buy this game in America? I predict it now: "2 copies sold nationwide!" Hahaha, no, I'm sure SOME people will buy it, SOME people will buy any games. But the question is, will it really help? Furthermore, I think it is wrong to market ANYTHING to smokers. Sure, you have to make money, but I just (would) feel guilty selling a stop-smoking product to smokers. They have a serious addiction, and what if the product doesn't work (as in most cases)? Although, it would be AMAZING if it worked. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 139 Joined: 29 Dec 2007   | Great!!! But mind you....if you are RETARDED enough to smoke in the first place then this game will not help you at all. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3846 Joined: 29 Nov 2007    | HEY!....I'm usually the one to post hatred...*sniff* |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3016 Joined: 21 Jan 2008    | ... Yeh, lets see how this works... |
Paperboy Posts: 21 Joined: 14 Dec 2007 | Ughh... I'm a smoker, but i'm just getting pissed off at all the anti-smoking propaganda flying about... I'm aware of the risks and i don't smoke in places where I'm not supposed to/places it would offend people. But now the videogames industry is getting on the Anti-smoking band-wagon? |
Anonymous Source Posts: 2 Joined: 20 Jan 2008 |
Yay, an American treating people he has no clue about from up high just because he's an American and they're not. America's the only place where people would buy "The Bible game" and no one's laughing, right? I agree about this game idea being bad, but I disagree about your line of reasoning. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3016 Joined: 21 Jan 2008 |
Yes... be glad they haven't gotten several big-name animated characters in a cartoon, to prevent the littins' from smoking... yeh, I'm serious. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 92 Joined: 13 Mar 2008 |
Retarded eh that's a pretty massive generalization there buddy particularly considering retardation is not a choice smoking is...you sir are a moron. |
Paperboy Posts: 21 Joined: 14 Dec 2007 |
Sigh... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1829 Joined: 14 Nov 2007 | Roll on the propaganda. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 84 Joined: 11 May 2008 | I have a DS and I smoke. I forsee some really crappy presents in my future from "concerned" friends. |
News Room Contributor  Posts: 4840 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     | If there's one thing guaranteed to make me want a cig, it's a no smoking advert. Cig adverts never did.
ROFLMAO. Go on then, and perhaps next you can make pigs fly, with lasers. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1444 Joined: 29 Nov 2007   | Gads, what next? A game that teaches me to stop all my pesky questioning of authority? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 131 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 |
A game that prevents drunk driving. Although not entirely true they did make a wine game for the ds. |
BANNED Posts: 302 Joined: 6 May 2008 | How about a game for developers to stop them from making shitty game ideas. User was banned for: Random answer generator request and also do you have any eccentricities?. (Permanent) |
BANNED  Posts: 675 Joined: 6 Dec 2007  | Anyone feel like taking up smoking, just to show 'em? User was banned for: Easiest World of Warcraft Quiz EVER now live. (14 days) |
Paperboy Posts: 21 Joined: 14 Dec 2007 |
Actually... GTA4 kinda puts you off drunk driving... |
Editor-in-Chief  Posts: 706 Joined: 21 Nov 2004   |
Funny you should mention that, LB... ;P Actually, I wonder if it's at all effective? Hey, if you don't wanna quit, have at it. If you don't smoke, ignore it. But there are people I know who want to quit and will try anything to help. If a game can help, interesting idea. I'm for anything that can give a rosier view of games. |
Paperboy Posts: 21 Joined: 14 Dec 2007 |
Well... That's actually a good point... For the people who want to stop, (hey, it's a free country... At least it is here) It might actually work... But i just can't help shaking the feeling that's it's jumping on the "Smokers are the scum of society" band-wagon... |
Muckraker  Posts: 265 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 | Seriously, guys (and girls). This isn't some normal game with an overt anti-smoking message. The 'game' is called Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking. Odds are pretty good that you're only going to buy this game if you are trying to stop smoking. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1444 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 |
I know the slippery slope argument is an incredibly irrational one, but when I see stuff like this I feel like Pandora's Box is about to be opened. Maybe there's no stopping it even. The fact is, games have a stunning potential for teaching and modifying behavior. A 6 year old rattling off a functioning knowledge of Pokemon breeding habits and performing complex math to see when his character will level up is not something to be underestimated. So I'm not shocked that people are hoping to use that potential for good. Hell, stopping cigarettes is an ordeal and even though I switched to cigars, at least those are only once a week (usually Friday, with Bourbon, at a nice porch bar...). So more power to em. But don't mind me if I point out that some very, very screwed up things could happen too. I shudder to think what someone in say...a dangerous cult would consider a good game for the kids to be playing and learning from. |
Paperboy Posts: 14 Joined: 30 Mar 2008 |
Do you remember that cartoon with Bugs Bunny and Garfield and all sorts of characters from WB taught a kid that drugs were bad? I'm pretty sure there was a smoking one too though....just let me put a gun to my inner child's head and I'm sure I'll remember what it was ^_^ |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 482 Joined: 22 Apr 2008  | If the current situation keeps up, smoking will be prohibited everywhere anyway, that should be enough to make most of em quit. Which i find kind of retarded, no smoking in bars? Seriously, i get the no smoking in restaurants, but bars.. things get a little too far, imo. Kind of offtopic, but hell, no one really minds, do they? |
Muckraker  Posts: 297 Joined: 17 Oct 2007  | FUN FACT: It's Rated for ages "3+"! so all those chain-smoking toddlers can cut the habit early. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3846 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 | So... I'm still trying to wrap my mind arond it. It's not a game with non-smoking overtones... It's a "How To", on quitting smoking... So, now it's not a game, and just a manual? |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 532 Joined: 20 Sep 2007 |
That's strange really. As I understood it nothing short of murder with blunt objects will keep a smoker from going into a stress-induced coma when they've gone without for a few minutes. How they're going to pull this out without gallons of blood I have no idea ^^ |
News Room Contributor Posts: 4840 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
You want to re-check that? Smoking is prohibited in everywhere except members bars; which includes the House of Commons; and probably the White House. The non-smokers are complaining about having to pass all the smokers at the entries, and unless they're IV'ing morphine, there is NOTHING that will make giving up anywhere near fun. So, let's check this out : Glue/Knives/Alcohol-16, Viewing Sex-18, Having Sex-16, Smoking-18(Even Herbal) and banned in most places; Watching Lethal Violence, Non-Lethal Violence, Coffee, Sugar, MSG, Tartrazine, Ritalin, Valium...no age restriction. Uhm... Quite apart from the idea of who this is going to appeal to, apart from overprotective parents; how about it not being a game, and maybe is something to stem the increase in bad education, suicidal eating habits and intolerance for others wishes? Or is that being too sane? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1211 Joined: 9 Dec 2007 | "Games aren't bad for your health, see!" And other such remarks. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2717 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 | This is a disturbing trend seeing as how the majority of DS owners are children. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 8 Joined: 26 Jan 2008 | And here I thought Bronchie Health Hero was going to be the last health related game anyone ever heard of. Just had to bring an old trick back for a new dog, eh Mr. Carr? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3016 Joined: 21 Jan 2008 |
Look, I'm sorry if this comes off a little too blunt... but the whole joke was that I was referring to the cartoon I mentioned. I'm sorry, but you kinda killed it... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 813 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 |
Agrees with the moronic claims. MAJOR fecking generalisation there 'DigiKid'. This "game" and others like it are paving the way for more people to tell you what not to do until someone eventually releases a "how to not have fun......ever" game. I'll echo again and say it's nothing more than ignorant, do-gooder propaganda. Trying to make more people buy into the BS that all smokers are in fact evil, nasty people. They should release a game where you go around criminalising other personal choices people make. Oh wait, I think everyone but smokers have claimed some kind of compensation for discrimination already so you'd just be left with smokers and old people travelling on the bus. Damn. |
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Anti-Smoking Nintendo DS Game Due in November
Publisher Ubisoft will ship a book-turned-game aimed at helping people to stop smoking this November.
Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking will be released on the Nintendo DS handheld, lettng smokers looking to kick the habit interactively, inputting details of their addiction and choosing a coach to help the process along.
"Ubisoft's creative team has worked hard to deliver a game that successfully communicates Allen Carr's Easyway method via play," said Christian Salomon, vice president of worldwide licensing at Ubisoft. "The player experiences a truly interactive engagement with the game through which he or she learns that it can actually be enjoyable to quit smoking."
The book has been published in 50 countries and has attracted more than 10 million readers, clinic attendees and DVD purchasers.
Robin Hayley, managing director of Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking, said his team worked closely with Ubisoft to craft the title.
"Our experts worked hand in hand with the Ubisoft team to create an entertaining and illuminating game that delivers Allen Carr's Easyway method in a new, dynamic and highly effective way," explained Hayley.
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