Got carded for a game yesterday...

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Went to Best Buy to pick up VF4:evo for $5(with the coupon, go get it!) and American McGee's Alice which is rated M.

The guy scans Alice and a little thing came up on the computer that asks him if I was born on or before a certain date...so he carded me. then it came up again before I paid.

I guess that bill in Illinois is serious business. very strange...that's the first time that's happened to me.
 
In NJ at Toys R Us I will always get carded for an M rated game. I think it's pretty obvious I'm over 17, but like you said, the computer just tells them to ask. I like it actually, I'd rather go through the very small hassle of showing my license then hear parents bitch about games like GTA causing their kids to rape their cat and murder their pet sea monkeys.
 
Dude, I haven't been carded to get into a R movie or buy a M rated game and I am 23 years old. The reason why I am saying this is because I have been able to do both since I was about 12 years old.
 
[quote name='cdeener']Dude, I haven't been carded to get into a R movie or buy a M rated game and I am 23 years old. The reason why I am saying this is because I have been able to do both since I was about 12 years old.[/QUOTE]

But it you didnt have to have to be a certain age to get an M rated game when you were 12.

I get carded all the time because I look pretty young, and more importantly im 16 so I can't technically buy those games... Most of the time they let me anyway though.
 
I support the retailers voluntarily requiring ID for M games [and R movies.] Like Mr Unoriginal says, if the status quo remains, the [hopefully] small yet [unfortunately] very vocal minority of parents who don't want to be involved with their kids, and want the government to help raise their kids, will cause more state or federal congresses to create laws about selling 'inappropriate materials to minors'. Those laws could be as simple as 'you must card', to censorship or the banning of certain materials within certain states/stores. Let's cut it off before it gets that far.
 
[quote name='Apossum']Went to Best Buy to pick up VF4:evo for $5(with the coupon, go get it!) and American McGee's Alice which is rated M.

The guy scans Alice and a little thing came up on the computer that asks him if I was born on or before a certain date...so he carded me. then it came up again before I paid.

I guess that bill in Illinois is serious business. very strange...that's the first time that's happened to me.[/QUOTE]

I get carded for games allll the time in Illinois (haven't really tried anywhere else though o_O). I live in Melrose Park and the only place that doesn't card me is Gamestop. Every BB/Walmart/Target I've been to (couple Chicago stores, Berwyn, Cicero, and Schaumburg) cards me. I'm 19 and everyone says I look about 23 (I actually was a bouncer for a bar for a couple weekends when I was 17), so I guess it is serious business because it concerns fines. I remember there was an article in the Sun-Times about the Schaumburg BB selling 3 M rated games to a 14 yr old back in the Fall. They got some big fines :)

Also, I even got carded for the Freddy vs Jason movie by no doubt someone who was younger than me. Makes me angry. GRR
 
Up until a few weeks ago, I wasn't being carded. Looks like everyone is taking the new law seriously...
 
I got carded shortly after Mortal Kombat: DA came out at Blockbuster and I was 15 or 16 at the time, she looked at it then let me rent it. I was surprised because I was underage, but I guess she sucked at math or didn't care.
 
[quote name='Rig']Up until a few weeks ago, I wasn't being carded. Looks like everyone is taking the new law seriously...[/QUOTE]

This isn't a law, it's a store policy.
 
so DDF you're under 18? my suspicions have been confirmed ;-)

That was strange to be carded but I guess it is worth it, like ya said mr. unoriginal. So people don't sue Rockstar when they were too busy smoking crack through a coke can behind a gas station dumpster to notice their kid re-enacting manhunt.
 
[quote name='Apossum']so DDF you're under 18? my suspicions have been confirmed ;-)

That was strange to be carded but I guess it is worth it, like ya said mr. unoriginal. So people don't sue Rockstar when they were too busy smoking crack through a coke can behind a gas station dumpster to notice their kid re-enacting manhunt.[/QUOTE]

i see you're stupid. neither your suspicions, nor your "confirmations" are correct.
 
It will be good for the older gamers that enjoy mature games, if the retailer were held responsible. Yes parents are partly to blame, but a parent can't protect their child from everything that is out their, espically if they go to a friends house
 
[quote name='ryanbph']It will be good for the older gamers that enjoy mature games, if the retailer were held responsible. Yes parents are partly to blame, but a parent can't protect their child from everything that is out their, espically if they go to a friends house[/QUOTE]

Exactly.
 
[quote name='DenisDFat']i see you're stupid. neither your suspicions, nor your "confirmations" are correct.[/QUOTE]

Right. i wasn't being serious. ?
 
I haven't gotton anything M rated recently but I know TRU always ask for an ID and Targets sometimes would just ask for the year you were born. My Gamecrazy or local GS wouldn't care so much on being 18 or whatever. I never tried if BB would ask for my ID or something..
 
IIRC I've never gotten carded for anything, except when I try to take tests for the anytime/anywhere college class I'm taking, and thats just because they have to make sure I am who I say I am.
 
[quote name='doodle777_98']What games were they,dcfox?[/QUOTE]

The games I've been carded for? I think the last time might have been when I bought Hitman Contracts at target.
 
I'd say I get carded 2/3 of the time when buying M rated games.

I remember riding my bike out to Best Buy to buy a copy of Mortal Kombat II for the SNES. They had a warning on the front that the game was for 17+ only and I was 13 at the time. I was scared stiff that they would card me and I wouldn't be able to buy it without my parents.
 
[quote name='ryanbph']It will be good for the older gamers that enjoy mature games, if the retailer were held responsible. Yes parents are partly to blame, but a parent can't protect their child from everything that is out their, espically if they go to a friends house[/QUOTE]

The government is not a substitute for parenting.
 
I'm 22, don't get carded for beer, but do get carded for games, and sometimes dvds. Go figure :roll: While I do think it is an ok thing to do (whatever stops people from blaming games and movies for violence in society) it does get annoying. Especially knowing I can drink myself retarded without anyone checking to see if I am of age, but its not ok for me to fight in a fake world without everyone looking at me and secondguessing if I'm old enough.
 
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