Flagrant Disregard For The Law In Games

Nick · November 2019

Poor Trashman has to dodge pavement cyclists, possible speeding cars and hit and run incidents as well as dogs that clearly are not being kept under control by their owners. All of these would result in the police getting involved.

What other games have situations or game play that, in real life, would result in a visit from the police/council etc.?

Alessandro Grussu · November 2019

Mugsy and They Stole A Million. You can't get more illegal than that (at least as far as Spectrum games are concerned).

dm_boozefreek · November 2019

Paperboy...cars not stopping as you cross the road, cars curb crawling on the side of the street and not giving way to cyclists, the drunk guy staggering down the street who attacks you. Then again the paperboy himself is responsible for several acts of vandalism, and criminal damage to private property that maybe he deserves all the unwanted attention he’s getting.

Alessandro Grussu · November 2019

Another one I remember now from the days that were. In How To Be A Complete ****, you could vandalize the furniture by smashing it with the hammer, or burning it with the matches. You could also electrocute a guest with the battery charger. While being blind drunk, you could also kill one of those frickin' yuppies with the razor blade or the chainsaw, but then you got arrested by the police.

Luny · November 2019

Everyone's A Wally, your robbing a bank for christs sake.
I, of the Mask, its criminal that anyone paid full price for that game. ;)

Alessandro Grussu · November 2019

Robbing a bank? :-? Weren't they trying to get paid for their completed jobs? As per the instructions, "The purpose of the game is to find the combination for the safe and then pay the gangs wages".

RobeeeJay · November 2019

Manic Miner definitely breaks Health & Safety laws.

Dunny · November 2019

And unless the natives in Sabre Wulf are a protected class, I'm not sure they'd be allowed to wander around any self-respecting jungle in a grass skirt while brandishing a (presumably sharpened) spear.

zxbruno · November 2019

Spy Hunter, I can't be the only one who made cars and motorcycles crash on purpose? The game is like a mini GTA.

Zup · November 2019

zxbruno wrote: »

Spy Hunter, I can't be the only one who made cars and motorcycles crash on purpose? The game is like a mini GTA.

But Spy Hunter substracted points when you killed "innocent" cars, so maybe it's not so disrespectful...

I guess Barmy Burgers breaks some health & food rules...

XTM of TMG · November 2019

dm_boozefreek wrote: »

Paperboy...cars not stopping as you cross the road, cars curb crawling on the side of the street and not giving way to cyclists, the drunk guy staggering down the street who attacks you. Then again the paperboy himself is responsible for several acts of vandalism, and criminal damage to private property that maybe he deserves all the unwanted attention he’s getting.

One could probably change the graphics in the game so the Paperboy+bike is a running chav and replace the newspapers with bricks, bottles or half-eaten kebaps and give it a funny name - suggestions please Mr. Boozefreek ;)

crunchy_frog · November 2019

Juggernaut allows you to break the speed limit and drive on the wrong side of the road.
Jack the Nipper breaks several laws, but fortunately for him, he's below the age of criminal responsibility.

Luny · November 2019

Alessandro Grussu wrote: »

Robbing a bank? :-? Weren't they trying to get paid for their completed jobs? As per the instructions, "The purpose of the game is to find the combination for the safe and then pay the gangs wages".

Yeah, ok, I'll come clean. There's no law against it, is there? ;)

Retrobrothers · November 2019

Turbo Esprit - you can run red lights, crash into cars and you are catching criminals too

SnazzyParrot · November 2019

In the dystopian future world Mailstrom its okay to kill the thugs but not Nice Chap (points on the licence).
In Robin Hood Legend Quest... Robin Hood robs from the rich and gives to the poor (or does he, the game is light on the redistribution of the wealth)

Flagrant Disregard For The Law In Games

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