Jack Thompson, Bill Gates, And Master Chief Walk Into A Bar…

by Chad Lakkis on May 23, 2007 at 1:13 am

Stop me if you’ve heard this one gamers. You guessed it, Captain Jack is back and we aren’t talking about the Caribbean Pirate variety, no this one’s a Miami based lawyer.

Jack Thompson is back in the news again, blasting video game makers … again, and there is nothing funny about it. Someone should remind this guy that he lives in Miami and there has got to be something better to do with your time then write letters to Bill Gates. If you have no idea what we are talking about then have a look below….

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Bill Gates
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, Washington

Re: Halo 3

Dear Mr. Gates:

As you know, the Federal Trade Commission has repeatedly found that games rated “Mature” by the video game industry-captured Entertainment Software Rating Board are routinely sold to kids under the age of 17 despite the age rating. The most recent failure rate of the ratings on “Mature” games, according to the FTC, is 42%. The entire rating system is a fraud, and “broken,” the latter description aptly provided by Senator Hillary Clinton.

As you also know, Lee Boyd Malvo trained on Microsoft’s Halo to further enable him to become the remarkably efficient “DC Beltway Sniper.” That was reported by NBC News at the time and was noted in Malvo’s criminal trial.

You appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes II and rather revealing and usefully noted that “the cool thing about these games is that they transport you to a world you think is real.” Precisely. Capcom has recently disclosed to investors that your video game industry’s violent games, sold to children, pose a real hazard to the health of the industry. Right on.

The hyperviolent Microsoft Xbox 360 game Halo 3 is scheduled by your company for commercial release in September of this year. The Beta version that was released last week shows us all just how violent the game is and how inappropriate it is for play by anyone under 17, as the “Mature” rating it will surely receive indicates.

Here’s the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3.

Regards, Jack Thompson

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Don’t you just love it? Here’s “the deal” Jack, stores already do an excellent job making sure that games of violent nature don’t find their way into the hands of minors. So lets cut the crap here, this is not about kids, its not about violent games, it is about Jack Thompson, it’s about name dropping, and most importantly its about dead presidents.

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