Jack Thompson has a game idea!

rcaz

Any gamers will probably know who Jack Thompson is. If not, here's it in short: A weirdo American Lawyer who's spent the last decade trying to tell us games are 'murder simulators' designed to train our kids to kill. Also, this site might be helpful.

Anyway, he's got a game idea! Here's the story:

Osaki Kim is the father of a high school boy beaten to death with a baseball bat by a 14-year-old gamer. The killer obsessively played a violent video game in which one of the favored ways of killing is with a bat. The opening scene, before the interactive game play begins, is the Los Angeles courtroom in which the killer is sentenced "only" to life in prison after the judge and the jury have heard experts explain the connection between the game and the murder.

Osaki Kim (O.K.) exits the courtroom swearing revenge upon the video game industry whom he is convinced contributed to his son's murder. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay" he says. And boy, is O.K. not kidding.

But wait, there's more! Go here
to read the entire thing.

Now all we need ir for someone to buy it, kill a member of a game studio, then blame it on the game. Then where will Mr. Thompson be? If his own ideals are anything to by, Jail, that's where. Poetic justice.
But, as the article says,

...Nobody in games would ever want to knock off Mr Thompson. Not only is he an endless source of slapstick entertainment; you just can’t buy publicity like this.

koneko

Jack Thompson is so funny, the man is clearly off his trolley.

Stephen

What a complete and utter nutter.

Hugh Hefner

Jackie boy wrote:

killer is sentenced "only" to life in prison

Wow. Not only does he support the death penalty but also giving it to minors. He's got my vote.

jonnybadd

Man that game would be far to linear for my likings

Serious nut job that man. I wonder if by any chance his son may have shunned a career in Law, for that of a games programmer?

monument

Gamespolitics.com covers the right wing loons and more. They have a podcast with Thompson here... http://www.gamepolitics.com/podcast.htm

johnny_ultimate

This man costantly amuses me.
He has inspired me to become a stark raving 'attorney' (where does he find the time to a) fight court cases and b) make money?) who wont shut up trying to ban mass popular entertainment. Let's see, computer games are gone.. i think ill try and ban the entire output of Hollywood from the last 8 decades. Yes, by deciding my future career path, Jack Thompson is the best influnce of all.
And while we're at it, can i suggest 3 other games to ban?
1. katamrai damacy : causes teenagers to roll up into a large ball and destroy cities.
2. Gran Turismo : confuses the masses into believing crashing your car will result in no damage. Mass car carnage will ensure if this game is no banned!
3.Super Mario Bros : Look - magic mushrooms that make you grow big. What else needs to be said?

And by far the best way to get across my point is by making an ultra violent computer game that echoes the type im trying to ban. Yes that makes perfect sense.

Rant over.

PS great cartoon!

Lord Oz

What a jackass. Didn't he try to sue capcom based on something he read in an IGN review?

Roar

Just read up on him on wikipedia...

christ the mans a nutjob...

tba

I prefer this one

johnny_ultimate

^^^^ ^^^^

CrazyTalk

It seems Penny Arcade had a spot of bother with Jack Thompson too.

www.penny-arcade.com

R0ot

Damn i hate this guy so much

IceHawk

Word on the street is a group of GTA modders actually went and made this game, but instead of playing as Osaki Kim, you play as Thompson. When Jack Thompson found out about it, he refused to honour the promise to pay money to charity. He said the proposal was irony and that gamers couldn't be expected to understand his wit. What a guy. The guys over at Penny Arcade then donated $10,000 to the Entertainment Software Association Foundation in his name. Ironic, No?

koneko

GUYS GUYS
Don't say anything mean about Mr Thompson! He'll sue you!

It's so funny reading all the articles the last few days and e-mails people are reposting, he's threatening to sue just about everyone. He threated to sue Penny Arcade if they ever e-mail him again. He's going to sue VGCats if they ever e-mail him again (even though they were replying to an e-mail HE sent them). He's hilarious.

jaggeh

<edit>
old jackie boy does it again
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27020

Stephen

Just for you Jack:



Here's eurogamer's take on the utter pwnage of Jack Thompson's ass: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=61328

Deadwing

apparrently his game idea has been made, to the letter, but as a text adventure. He never specified it had to be graphical, and now hes refusing to pay the 10,000 clams
EDIT
Just read the above posts, disregard

koneko

jaggeh wrote:

That image doesn't work anymore, presumably because of the threats of arrest (lol):

http://gr.bolt.com/articles/jack/jack.htm

"This animation has not been removed from the Internet despite my request to Mr. Kerner, the COO of Bolt, who returned my phone call about the above. You will note at their web site that Bolt exclaims that there are 4.5 million hits by teenagers at this site monthly.

Please proceed with the investigation and arrest of those responsible."

Love the crocodile drawing on that site.
Pls don't sue me Mr Thompson, boohoohoo

koneko

http://aelon.net/2005/07/jack-thompson-straw-man/

Wow.

[edit]
And more
http://keepyourkillingclean.blogspot.com/2005/02/jack-thompson-is-douche-bag.html

Retr0gamer

Jack Thompson was responsible for threatening a Ice-T with treason (which carries the death penalty) because his 'rap' song that he wrote (which was actually a heavy metal song) cop killer was what incited the LA riots. Of course it had nothing to do with corruption in the LA justice system but was due of course to Americas most dangerous and feared minority.

Hugh Hefner

koneko wrote:

He's going to sue VGCats if they ever e-mail him again (even though they were replying to an e-mail HE sent them).

You know, I used to think that this arsebiscuit was just some idiot right-winger out for his own self-promotion. After reading the e-mail convo. they posted on VGCats I now think he's mentally damaged and pity the family who has to live with....


[Wacko Jacko makes some cereal]
Jacky: DUM dee dum dee dum...
[Jacky boy drops the milk carton]
Jack Thompson, Attorney At Lies/Law: You've made a fierce enemy today, Mr. Milk Carton! I'm going to ban all the cows! In fact, I'm gonna get all mammals banned! Even humans! Who'll be the douchebag then, huh?! By the way, are you a gamer too?

Wertz

How did this guy ever pass the bar exam?His stupidity is seemingly boundless.

jaggeh

hes being going downhill since janet reno pasted him in the state lawyer election

sprinkles

This man needs to be locked up. I'm loving reading his latest delusional press release every day. Trying to shut down penny arcade, because they satirised him!?!? My god think, if he manages to shut them down then who will follow? Every Comedian on tv for taking the p*ss out of public figures? Not to mention the fact that they paid 10k to charity on his behalf because he couldn't put his money where his obviously large and stupid mouth is.

Someone give this man his own tv show!

johnny_ultimate

sprinkles wrote:

Someone give this man his own tv show!

A sitcom where Jack Thompson winds up sharing an apartment with an avid computer gamer who murders people in his spare time. The Ultimate odd couple! Hilarity ensured!

koneko

I hate to drag up threads, but rather than post links for everyone that isn't up to date with everything, I'm bumping this one.

Ole Jackie boy's latest:

http://www.gamepolitics.com/
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
9:39 am Jack Thompson Finds a New Target: Japan

It's at the top of the page (for now), until Jackie boy does something else.

"The Japanese have for a very long time dumped pornography into this country in a fashion they would not tolerate in their own country. It is another version of Pearl Harbor."

Retr0gamer

Pearl Harbour? This guy is having a laugh. However I think this is one battle where he will definitely lose. The japanese love their gore in video games but it is usually far more tastefully used than in the 'gore to boost sales' sense that the American companies use. As for the taking on Sony, as gamepolitics pointed out, they only make the player not the game. Sony should sit Jack Thompson down to a game of their self published work of art Shadow of the Colossus. But then it may spark contraversy over discrimination of tall people.

koneko

Totally. Also, Katamari Damacy is evil. It makes people roll into a ball and crush other people. Jack Thompson is so right, Japan is evil with it's evil pornography.

Hugh Hefner

Jack (but not Jill) wrote:

What the Japanese are doing to our kids is insensitive and racist.

Jack while pulling back his eyes wrote:

The Japanese have a contempt for our culture which is patent. There (sic) dumping of garbage into our culture is a slow motion version of Pearl Harbor.

Sounds like something out of Romper Stomper.

Goodshape

I'll take three grams of whatever he's smoking. Slow motion Pearl Harbour?! And he has the audacity to call them racist?

Lets see now..

Wikipedia wrote:

Rockstar North is the best known Rockstar company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were previously known as DMA Design. They are famous for their Grand Theft Auto series.

Wikipedia wrote:

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. [snip] Development studio locations include San Diego, Vancouver, Toronto, Vienna, and Austin, Texas.

Jack Thompson wrote:

What the Japanese are doing to our kids is insensitive and racist.

Riiiigggghhttt..

BloodBath

He's saying it's because sony pay for the exclsuive rights to gta but he's deluded. He's just trying to drag more people into his stupid war on "violent" games. Making downright racist comments like the ones above will not win him any favours. This man needs to be institutionalized. God knows why people like Hilary Clinton associate themselves with him.