Benet Simon

Ban this evil rag!

Benet Simon on the video game Manhunt, whose sales were boosted by a Mail campaign against it

issue 14 August 2004

The last time I visited my cousins — three boys between the ages of eight and 13 — they were playing a new video game that their mother had bought for them. The eight-year-old had hooked the computer up to an overhead projector and was cruising city streets in an enormous tank, pausing occasionally to point a flame-thrower in the direction of passing pedestrians, policemen and prostitutes and burning them to death.

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