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 NEW YORK –
The Entertainment Software Rating Board is to release a new classification
intended to address the problem of immature adults spending all their spare time
playing Wii games. By restricting sales of the games only to adults who have a
dependent child below the of 16 with them, the ESRB hopes to encourage parents
to resume more typical middle-aged activities.
Spokeswoman
for the ESRB, Tanya Gooding, had this to say:
“We’ve been
listening to the concerns of young gamers for some time now, and the problem of
excessive middle-aged gaming really needs addressing. While there’s only so
much we can do at the ESRB, we do feel that restricting the sales of Wii games
to people over the age of 25 will encourage parents to re-adopt an interest in activities
like real golf, tennis played outdoors and going bowling.”
Child gaming
groups have become increasingly vocal about the issue of parental gaming, and
welcome the new age restriction.
“What
parents don’t realise is that the Wii is a toy, not an exercise system or
sports trainer,” said little Jimmy Holdsworth, current New York record holder
for Wii Play. “They apparently have no concept of how embarrassing it is for us
when we bring friends home, and they see our parents swinging their arms around
like loonies in the living room, all red faced and panting. It’s about time
this restriction was put in place, so they can get back to housework and
washing the car, and we can get to play on our own games machines.”
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