Jack Thompson Calls The Wii A Murder Training Device. What Do You Think?

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Is the world ready for Nintendo’s “Wii”pons of mass destruction? Jack Thomson thinks that the Wii is just that, and in the hands of children can be used to train each of them to kill. Sounds crazy at first, but maybe he is on to something here. Please, allow us the opportunity to illustrate his point…

First, we recently obtained this photo which clearly shows that the military is using some sort of modified Wii device to train its snipers. I know, we were shocked as well but it is right there staring us in the face.

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Jack Thompson recently called the M-rated Manhunt 2 Wii a “murder training device”. Nintendo is not fazed, stating that each game has a different audience similar to movies, television shows, and books … yeah right Nintendo, we saw that episode of Southpark. First you try and brainwash our children with Pokemon, and now you want to turn our little sacks of drool into killing machines.

Here is a portion of the letter Jack sent to Florida Governor Charlie Crist regarding the game.

Florida retailers are scheduled to sell a very violent video game called Manhunt 2 which will be available, remarkably, for “play” on the kids-friendly Nintendo Wii gaming platform. The Wii device does not utilize traditional push button game controllers but instead utilizes hand-held motion capture devices… It is a training device.

Wow, can you imagine an entire army of the future trained for less than $300 dollars a head? Alright, a tad more if you include the price of the game, but still that is a bargain.

wii-pons_mass_destruction2.jpgHeck, if we get these kids going early enough we won’t even need an entire army. Years of Wii combat training combined with a healthy diet and plenty of exercise could help us produce a highly trained soldier capable of destroying anything put in his way. A one man show, our future John Rambo, and he could be sucking on his bottle right now with vivid dreams of Wii violence dancing through his head.

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  • Wii Nii

    funny stuff!

  • Kill Joy 82

    Now that is funny. I dugg it man. Nice work on the gun. Keep it up.

  • http://www.ripten.com The Mad Gamer

    Thanks guys, glad you liked it.

    Mad-

  • FES USA

    HAHA. NICE.

  • Wah Ree Yo

    that wii sniper rifle is sick! w

  • NivedraTT

    Thompson is in this for the publicity. He is pathetic and money hungry. Funny story.

  • optimoobeef

    too funny

  • lush

    This was taken WAY too out of context. He didn’t call the Wii a murder training device. He said the game Manhunt 2 was. Have you even seen this game? It’s being called the most violent game ever. You can use pliers to rip a mans testicles from his body.

    Pretty accurate statement. Even if he’s fucked on other campaigns, he’s pretty dead on with this one.

  • http://www.ripten.com The Mad Gamer

    lush,

    While we understand the point you are trying to make, he does refer to the Wii (the nunchuck and wiimote specifically) as a murder training device. He goes on to explain thier use in the Manhunt 2 game which we explain in the article.

    As far as context goes, of course our images are exaggerations but that was the point of the piece. The bottom line is, we agree with Nintendo executives in that the Wii does not have to be a kiddie exclusive machine. If Nintendo wants to launch a violent game (and we are not saying that it isn’t violent) on its system then they have every right to do that as long as they abide by the video game rating system.

    Mad-

  • Hayden

    The wiimote has the pointer end of the controller point up the barrel to the sniper, obvioulsy a load of crap, oh and Rambo would also blow his arm off.