Bully For You: Concerns Over New Video Game
BULLY is the new computer beat-‘em-up game from Rockstar.
The Sun says the game features a bully (see title) who “shoves heads down toilets, gives Chinese burns and fires at staff with catapults.”
“Teachers leader” Steve Sinnot is “deeply concerned”.
As are we. Not, that the skinhead teen star of the show is more self-assertive than bully, but that bullying has moved on so little.
This might have something to do with Bully being a game produced by older boys nostalgic for the 1970s and 1980s – or for 2006, when the game came out.
Game fans may have to wait a while for Bully XII when the youth is armed with a gun and mobile phone.
But by then that might too look anachronistic and less than real…
Posted: 28th, January 2008 | In: Tabloids Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink
