Insane Ruling: Plastic Wii Zapper Gun Toy Gets PEGI 18 Rating

whooo!! South Yorkshire for the win!!!!

Very strange indeed. So what's gonna happen when Link Crossbow Training hits the market, will they slap an 18 on that too?

I can understand RE:UC getting that rating, but the peripheral getting it is weird.

It's shaped a bit like a firearm.
As such it could have fallen under the RIF (replica imitation firearm) definition in the Violent Crime Reduction bill and been banned from manufacture, sale and import entirely (as any toy guns which aren't transparent or brightly coloured have been since October 1st).
Such is the country we live in.

I hope not, but that's the suggestion the article gives.

Please say it isn't so. I'm not usually one to gripe overly about certification (I'm mostly in favour of it), but this is quite clearly madness.

at least it isnt banned! and they believe that a sensible adult can tell the differences between a piece of white plastic and a metal death machine, although you would of `thunk` otherwise!

I used to use gun-shaped twigs or sticks when I was growing up... maybe we should ban trees.

(We were too poor to afford plastic, even my plastic mac was made out of compressed grass)

Tim

anyone ever remember throwing sticks in the air as a kid and instead of runing out of harms way, just crouching with arms over your head, like that would stop the pain when it innevitably hit you...

but that just might be me my mum did say i was special?? eee i remember what it was like to play before my spectrum xmas morning..

STFU daz - West Yorkshire represent! BRRRRRAAAAAPPPPPP etc...

*cough*

sorry, don't quite know what just happened...

does this mean Links Crossbow Training will be the first PEGI 18-rated Zelda game? Maybe that's why they dropped the LoZ prefix??? Curious.

Rated Certificate 18 - Excessive Zapping and Gratuitous Peripherals

what a farce this is. the next g-con should be outright banned if the zapper is worth an 18

WTF?

I remember playing with the light gun which came with the nes when i was a small nipper..

18 rating? Most insane f**k-witted-knee-jerk-reaction to daily mail reading scum that i've ever heard!

Doesn't it look more like a shelf bracket than a gun?
It's not even a complete product until you put the controller you've already got in it.
And that controller's called a nun-chunk don't you know...

The next thing on PEGI's agenda will be to re-classsify Wii Sports as an 18+ for the simulation of blunt bludgeoning instruments such as baseball bats and... er, tennis rackets.

It strikes me as rather odd that PEGI gave a useless, vaguely gun-shaped shell an 18+ but not the Wii remote itself: because most Wii games demand it, people held it like a gun anyway. Why not give said controller a poorly judged age rating as well for catalysing the role of Wii Zapper?

This whole situation speaks volumes about the integrity of game classification boards, and about the tenuous reasoning behind its ratings (in this instance, its affiliation with Resident Evil – which doesn't even <i>need</i> the Wii Zapper). And how come you can still buy other better, more realistic lightguns without having to worry about its rating?

i suspect its the resi evil package only that has a 18+, not the actual zapper, but we will see.

I'm pretty sure all of us who work on SPOnG, and who grew up in Yorkshire, did so in West Yorkshire.

I have an awful feeling that this piece was written by one of our non-Yorkshire writers who does not realise this fact, nor the offence the misattribution might cause.

That is f**kin ridiculous; for a plastic shell that attaches to what is basically an advanced gamepad/remote control!

What the f**k is the world coming to?

How many retards are out there making these decisions?

It worries me!