fatboyclone
June 19, 2003, 12:28 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11042-2003Jun18.html
i guess we've started to ban video games.
i guess we've started to ban video games.
Theater Pulls Plug On Sniper Game
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spacemanspiff
June 19, 2003, 12:41 PM
i tried playing that game last time i went to the movies. couldnt figure out how to work the scope. think it wasnt working properly, it wouldnt zoom in.
another theater has an even better game, where you have to stand on a pad and it can tell when you move up, down, left, right, and you have to do those movements to duck behind cover and reload. i've gotten pretty good at it, moving from cover to drop one bad guy at a time with a double tap.
its good exercise too, i break out in a sweat after 15 minutes of ducking, juking side to side, and whatnot.
another theater has an even better game, where you have to stand on a pad and it can tell when you move up, down, left, right, and you have to do those movements to duck behind cover and reload. i've gotten pretty good at it, moving from cover to drop one bad guy at a time with a double tap.
its good exercise too, i break out in a sweat after 15 minutes of ducking, juking side to side, and whatnot.
GlocksRock
June 19, 2003, 12:44 PM
Of course, blame it on the video game, that will make things better.
Razor
June 19, 2003, 12:45 PM
Liz Hart said that every time she and her friends go to the movies at the theater off Sudley Road, they pass the Sunoco station where Dean Harold Meyers was shot as he pumped gas. She is reminded of the shooting and the terror she felt.
Removing the game is "a good idea," she said, "because it's one more thing we can eliminate from being reminded of that whole incident. Whatever we can do to make Manassas life as good as it was, I'm all in support of that."
Gosh, sounds like they ought to remove that Sunoco station also.:rolleyes:
Removing the game is "a good idea," she said, "because it's one more thing we can eliminate from being reminded of that whole incident. Whatever we can do to make Manassas life as good as it was, I'm all in support of that."
Gosh, sounds like they ought to remove that Sunoco station also.:rolleyes:
OEF_VET
June 19, 2003, 12:54 PM
It's amazing how there were no mass murderers before the advent of TV, movies, and video games, but now we have a spree of violent crimes everywhere.
What? You mean there were murders, rapes, and other violent crimes before TV and the like became popular? You must be joking, how could there have been? It must be your revisionist history mindset that makes you think there were such things. Afterall, we know it's the games that cause people to kill each other!
Some people just infuriate me.
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
:cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss:
What? You mean there were murders, rapes, and other violent crimes before TV and the like became popular? You must be joking, how could there have been? It must be your revisionist history mindset that makes you think there were such things. Afterall, we know it's the games that cause people to kill each other!
Some people just infuriate me.
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
:cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss:
mtnbkr
June 19, 2003, 01:11 PM
Hey, I go to that theatre. I imagine the complaints only gave them an excuse to get rid of that game. People rarely played it. I played once and was unimpressed. However, they did have a better game in the upstairs gameroom (this is a rather large theatre). It was a gallery style quickdraw game where you pulled a Colt SAA type revolver from a holster on the game machine and shot physical targets (plates, cups, etc) for time. It only shot light beams, but the targets made a sound and fell down. I blew 2 bucks on that game the one and only time I saw it there. :D It too probably left because it wasn't making money. The locals prefer soccer oriented games and car racing games. BTW, the theatre really is within earshot of a shooting at that Sunoco station.
Chris
Chris
Skunkabilly
June 19, 2003, 01:15 PM
Quickdraw? Damn that sounds fun.
I don't want to register for thw Washington Post (done it before don't feel like recreating the acct) but if they're talking about silent scope, it just don't work right...kinda cheesy but kinda fun I guess... :rolleyes:
I don't want to register for thw Washington Post (done it before don't feel like recreating the acct) but if they're talking about silent scope, it just don't work right...kinda cheesy but kinda fun I guess... :rolleyes:
Andrew Wyatt
June 19, 2003, 01:15 PM
Silent scope is really friggin cool, I blew four bucks on it the first time I saw it.
it doesn't really train you to be a good sniper, as there are is no wind or bullet drop.
It does make a pretty decent way to teach someone the fundimentals of aiming, since there's a little picture in picture deal with the image from the scope in one corner.
it doesn't really train you to be a good sniper, as there are is no wind or bullet drop.
It does make a pretty decent way to teach someone the fundimentals of aiming, since there's a little picture in picture deal with the image from the scope in one corner.
Poodleshooter
June 19, 2003, 02:58 PM
Moments later, her 13-year-old son, Michael, walked over and was about to play Silent Scope.
"It looks cool," he said.
"But it's snipers," his mother said.
"So? The snipers are the good guys," Michael said. Still not good enough.
"You can play a nice game," she said.
Another victim of the neutering of America's male youth. :cuss:
"It looks cool," he said.
"But it's snipers," his mother said.
"So? The snipers are the good guys," Michael said. Still not good enough.
"You can play a nice game," she said.
Another victim of the neutering of America's male youth. :cuss:
Ol' Badger
June 19, 2003, 03:03 PM
I like that came too. I want to invent one that has nothing but Cats and People I don't like in it. Then it would be real fun!
Nathaniel Firethorn
June 19, 2003, 03:19 PM
Another victim of the neutering of America's male youth. :cuss:Not by a dern sight. The 13-year-old will now learn E&E of Mommy.
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Solinvictus70
June 19, 2003, 05:31 PM
Get "Enter the Matrix" for tons of gun fun. SMG's, scoped rifles, and M16.
gamegod86
June 19, 2003, 06:50 PM
Idiot Liberal Sissies.
That game is OOOOLLLLLLDDDD. There is a Silent Scope 2 that is pretty old, too. I had one for a while. It is a fun game. The bitching about it has started about 4 years after I figured it would.
It's a GAME! It's NOT REAL! No one is harmed!
The fun things about games are that you can "get crazy" or drive like a fool or shoot everything in sight WITH NO CONSEQUENCES!
It's a GAME, IDIOTS. WIMPS. :cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss:
MORONS.
OK, just let all the little "brown shirts" stand in line and sing "Kum-Ba-Ya" to Krishna or clinton or stalin or whatever the hell these mind-numbed, drooling fools are being trained to purge on command.
Screw It. I have had it with STUPID PEOPLE.
(time for a prozac.....)
That game is OOOOLLLLLLDDDD. There is a Silent Scope 2 that is pretty old, too. I had one for a while. It is a fun game. The bitching about it has started about 4 years after I figured it would.
It's a GAME! It's NOT REAL! No one is harmed!
The fun things about games are that you can "get crazy" or drive like a fool or shoot everything in sight WITH NO CONSEQUENCES!
It's a GAME, IDIOTS. WIMPS. :cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss:
MORONS.
OK, just let all the little "brown shirts" stand in line and sing "Kum-Ba-Ya" to Krishna or clinton or stalin or whatever the hell these mind-numbed, drooling fools are being trained to purge on command.
Screw It. I have had it with STUPID PEOPLE.
(time for a prozac.....)
winstonsmith
June 20, 2003, 01:42 AM
If I recall correctly, which I think I do, the weapon used in the DC "sniper" shootings was a Bushmaster. Furthermore, the shots were made at distances around 100 yards. Hardly a shot worthy of the moniker sniper.
Course, that has nothing to do with how people respond to this game.
Go play a nice game...
Like :cuss: ing brickles? Pong?
Goddam.
Course, that has nothing to do with how people respond to this game.
Go play a nice game...
Like :cuss: ing brickles? Pong?
Goddam.
kalibear45
June 20, 2003, 02:38 PM
I've played Silent Scope 2, its pretty cool when two people play and go head to head with each other. Nobody's beat me yet! :D
On the subject, I don't see any harm in it considering there are plenty of arcade games out there that are far more violent and graphic, like Mortal Kombat (another cool game) or Soul Calibur...
On the subject, I don't see any harm in it considering there are plenty of arcade games out there that are far more violent and graphic, like Mortal Kombat (another cool game) or Soul Calibur...
MicroBalrog
June 20, 2003, 02:41 PM
I LOVE Silent Scope 1. It's my only way to access anything near a gun.:mad:
grenadier
June 20, 2003, 03:03 PM
Video games are as responsible for real life shootings in the same way that advertisements for ice cream were responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell rather portly, if I do say so myself...
blades67
June 20, 2003, 03:53 PM
From the Washington Post story:
Yesterday morning, before the game was removed, several moviegoers said they would like to see it gone. "I can understand why it would be offensive," said Frances Heim. "I wouldn't want my son to play it."
Moments later, her 13-year-old son, Michael, walked over and was about to play Silent Scope.
"It looks cool," he said.
"But it's snipers," his mother said.
"So? The snipers are the good guys," Michael said. Still not good enough.
"You can play a nice game," she said.
Like Old Maid or something?:rolleyes:
Yesterday morning, before the game was removed, several moviegoers said they would like to see it gone. "I can understand why it would be offensive," said Frances Heim. "I wouldn't want my son to play it."
Moments later, her 13-year-old son, Michael, walked over and was about to play Silent Scope.
"It looks cool," he said.
"But it's snipers," his mother said.
"So? The snipers are the good guys," Michael said. Still not good enough.
"You can play a nice game," she said.
Like Old Maid or something?:rolleyes:
4v50 Gary
June 20, 2003, 05:12 PM
Spacemanspiff - you couldn't get the scope because you're too old.:neener: Welcome to the old farts' club. Last Thanksgiving, I couldn't get this spaceship to fly on the GameBoy so I smashed myself into an obstacle everytime. Must have made a record for brevity.:o
spacemanspiff
June 20, 2003, 05:40 PM
:( i'm getting closer to the big 3-0....
i miss the original gameboy. all this new color dx pocket advanced mumbo jumbo makes my head spin.
thank god i still have an original nintendo!
i wish more games were made with those light guns. think i'll go to see x-2 again tomorrow and play some more shooting games.
i miss the original gameboy. all this new color dx pocket advanced mumbo jumbo makes my head spin.
thank god i still have an original nintendo!
i wish more games were made with those light guns. think i'll go to see x-2 again tomorrow and play some more shooting games.
Betty
June 20, 2003, 05:49 PM
"I can understand why it would be offensive," said Frances Heim. "I wouldn't want my son to play it."
Lady, did you know that your kiddo is probably drawing a picture of a gun right now, or he's playing cops n' robbers with little Billy down the street, using a deadly finger gun? Stop him, NOW! The horror! :rolleyes:
I played that sniper game. It was fun, but it sure doesn't beat holding a real rifle and sniping some groundhog.
Lady, did you know that your kiddo is probably drawing a picture of a gun right now, or he's playing cops n' robbers with little Billy down the street, using a deadly finger gun? Stop him, NOW! The horror! :rolleyes:
I played that sniper game. It was fun, but it sure doesn't beat holding a real rifle and sniping some groundhog.
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