All video games banned in greece
 

All games in greece are banned from Mobile phone snake game, to gameboy games, computer games, even chess =/

You are fined like 10,000 dollers and goto jail for like 12 months if caught at all. Any internet cafe to have any game in it will be shut down.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/802893.asp?0dm=C14LT&cp1=1

That's just going too far.

Yeah, seriously... I wonder how online chess is figured into the "illegal gambling" melting pot?

damn thats sad.

Time for a rebellion and a new government :p

why the hell would they wanna do that

I dont know

Sux to be greek....

:rofl:

Im glad I live in north america.

i suppose you can still get illegal games. since its not on the market anymore theres going to be loads of ppl pirating them.

yeah, thats true

O.... go to greece and sell them a gameboy for $10,000

What a ridiculous decision. "Let's ban video games!! That will solve EVERYTHING!"

anyways if they are banned parents have a chance to forbid to their childs it's use...So they get more time to study or sports or "productive stuff".........................................Or drugs, fights, stealing or other risky practices....

If I lacked video games guess what I would be doing :p
it's just the nature of the situation I am in

Well if u lacked videogames u'd be prolly raping lil childrens as videogames couldn't keep you away from fighting or drugs :p:p:p

Man thats just wrong raping people?
I could never to anything like that it's fucked up
but you would be surprised how much gaming has tooken away from my criminal life...

To takeaway from risky practices(prefer to say it in that way) the best way is to change ur ambient, the people u mess with...At least it worked with me...I mean, even u play videogames u keep going out with ur friends and doing the same shit...

Thanks very much penguin!
i will probabally use this arcticle in my law class:)

They should just ban the internet there too, it'd get rid of this shit.

http://ads.x10.com/msn/msn8_penny.htm

damn that wireless cam is annoying. It comes up all the time, and it pretty much screams stalker.

Thats absolutly the post insaine thing I have ever seen/heard of in my entire life. In that artical you could appearently get chaged 74,000 for playing videogames.... thats too damn far.

Wow, that really sucks.

Video games are the only thing that keep me sane (and out of jail I might add) If I couldn't shoot people in video games, I'd do it in real life... That's bad... And I'd miss the Goombas...

This is perfect for my International News Article for my World History class. Props to ya Penguin!!!

The BBC reports that a Greek court has thrown out two cases involving the arrest of several Internet cafe owners who were arrested for allegedly allowing its customers to play games online like Counter-Strike and Chess. The Greek court noted during the proceedings that the law passed by the Greek legislature late last month is unconstitutional. The Internet Cafe owners walked away with no fines and no jail time. With such a landmark precedent set, it doesn't look like these anti-gaming laws will be enforceable. The question is, will the Greek government repeal the law or modify it to target gambling?

Support to repeal the law is increasing, with gamers and businessmen in the interactive entertainment and Internet sector protesting heavily on all fronts (both online and in public demonstrations). Internet Cafe owners say that this law will force them to close their businesses; while businessmen in the interactive entertainment sector say that the government ought to focus more on Piracy (a serious problem) in that region instead of infringing on the country's freedoms and liberties.

Are they going to ban trivial too?

WTH??? Even Chess...do they want their kids to grow up and be dumb asses???? i dunno...stupid greeks...wth!

I heard the news the dey they came out, and CNN/Swedish television snapped the news up 5 days later :/

I guess neither of the above really care about foreign politics that much.

common sense still xsist in greece, a court has declared that law inconstitutional(unconstitutional?)
well, here u've got the link http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2249656.stm

thank god. It would be crazy to be banned from video games...lol.

what can u xpect of a country that banned card games and arrested individuals playing cards at home???
BOMB THEM, NOT IRAQ!!!!

awww (lol)

lol pathetic

Bomb them and Iraq! You can always just blame Canada.

Your not shutting the fuck up very quickly...

Haha. Oh yeah. Sorry dood. I think I said something about Canada once more in another post. So sorry in advance. Lol.

yeah, I posted that before we made the anti-flame deal.

"Anti-flame" Haha.

*points at the imp general and laughs*