The Bully Game

Immediate News Release 3/10/05

Makers of Grand Theft Auto to Release The Bully Game, Featuring School Kids Beating One Another

A confidential video game industry source has informed Miami attorney and anti-violent video game advocate Jack Thompson that Take-Two Interactive’s Rockstar Games is working on a new violent video game called The Bully Game.

This new title, according to this deep industry source, will pit rival gangs against one another in a virtual reality school where they can mercilessly beat and harm one another, turning virtual schools into cauldrons of chaos.

Given the fact that video games spill virtual violence into reality, this schoolyard violence is not what America’s schools need right about now.

Today Jack Thompson is contacting the Bush Administration’s Department of Education to alert the President.

If the video game industry is allowed, unchecked, to continue to raise our children, then at this pace pretty soon “No Child Left Behind” will morph into “No Child Left Alive.”

President Bush’s oft-repeated mantra that the answer to the entertainment industry’s assault upon our children is that “parents need to be better parents” is an insufficient firewall against the above outrage coming to a school near you.

CONTACT Jack Thompson at jackpeace@comcast.net for additional information.