Mass. Pulls Violent Arcade Games from Rest Stops

Source: Gamespot

The Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation has taken violent arcade games out of rest stops, including some more moderate ones like Time Crisis and Beach Head 2000. Racing games like H2Overdrive (a trash example of that genre, IMO) are still there however.

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Originally Posted by Richard Davey, Mass. secretary of transportation

“A video game in a public space could be used by anybody of any age. At the end of the day, those games are there to entertain kids, probably for a few minutes, while their parents are resting from a long trip."

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OK, my quick 50 cents on the issue. They're not JUST to entertain kids under 13. Removing Mortal Kombat or activating the censor dip on Target: Terror would be somewhat understandable. But TC (rated T as a home game) and BH2k are not that graphic. That's going a little too far. It's up to parents to police what their kids play, not the government. If you're that damn paranoid about it, why not just fill the arcades at rest stops with stuff like Taito puzzle games, Tetris, and DDR?

First reaction- THAS DUMB

Second reaction- are these reststops run by the Department of Transportation? They can do whatever the hell they want then. i'm surprised that they even have arcade games. I hope they have Burger Time. It's truly inexcusable if they don't.

Ah Burger Time.

I thought it was a whole state thing. *phew*

Let Masshole rest stops do whatever they want. Keep the kids quiet etc etc,

beachhead 2000 looks like the dumbest fucking game

It is.

It was pretty rad 462375 years ago on the Commodore 64.

I was a rest stop on the New York Throughway yesterday, and they had the old Midway Terminator 2 arcade shooting game there. That was pretty cool.

You can unload into some robots when you get done unloading into some dudes mouth.

One stop shopping!