This warning on the Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law box is written, and is thus ill-suited for its audience. Unless you're shopping for games with a reader, you won't know until you get home that you have to read to play it. Non-readers probably shouldn't be playing T-rated games anyway, but then they don't know what the rating is due to the tragic use of an alphabetic rating scheme. Even our own warnings will go unheeded, because of our disturbing habit of writing the things we put on the website.
According to Wiicast commenters, a bunch of Nintendo games have this warning on them for unspecified legal reasons, but most other Nintendo games aren't text adventures.
[Via Joystiq]
Warning: text adventures contain text
Posted Jan 12th 2008 2:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News
Tags: adventure, capcom, harvey-birdman, words
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-12-2008 @ 2:09PM
Justin Glow said...
It's a good warning for parents who think they may be buying a game suitable for their yet-literate child.
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1-12-2008 @ 3:22PM
JC Fletcher said...
Agreed, and in cases like Tony Hawk or whatever, it's warranted. But this is especially funny because a) it's rated T for "teen," and b) it's a (graphical) text adventure.
1-12-2008 @ 3:24PM
Justin Glow said...
Good point. I didn't know it was rated "T" for Teen!
1-12-2008 @ 3:05PM
Anticrawl said...
This just in, basic reading skills may be required for MUDs and MUSHs.
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1-12-2008 @ 6:31PM
invizzy said...
Goes to show that Nintendo's growing 'casual' market has to accommodate for retards as well. lol
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1-12-2008 @ 11:06PM
SoshiKitai said...
awwww boooo
mentally handicapped can still play video games... just not all the games...
booooo
1-12-2008 @ 11:30PM
Prior Semblance said...
Yeah pokemon games have that warning on them
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1-13-2008 @ 11:47AM
Joop said...
It doesn't seem too absurd to me. For a lot of Wii owners, Wii Sports was the first video game they ever really played. How are people that far out of the loop supposed to know what a text adventure game is?
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