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Gambling Issues for Euro Pokémon Platinum

25.05.2009

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In a bizzare move the slot machines have been removed from the European release of Pokémon Platinum.

One of the expected features in every mainline Pokémon release is the inclusion of the addictive Game Corner, where trainers can part with their hard earned cash to try and win prizes. However with the release of Platinum in Europe, it's apparently been removed - along with all slot machines - to shield children from the effects of gambling.

Those wanting their slot machine fix can still find it in the Australian/US editions.

Thanks to Aussie-Nintendo.

Do you agree with this move, or is it another ridiculous 21st century move to overly "protect" children?

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Canyarion 25.05.2009#1

If anything, the slot machines in Red/Blue taught me that they were all rigged.

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JoshSL 25.05.2009#2

Wow, that's.... really stupid.
Not like I ever use the GameCorner anyway.... But Slot Machine was one of the easiest machines to get coins from Smilie

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shiptoncraig 25.05.2009#3

Good old Nintendo, shielding proper Pokemon from kids around the country.

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RudyC3 25.05.2009#4

Ridiculus ! *transforms a boggart into a Chansey*

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Darkflame 25.05.2009#5

Well, if they were realisticly-set machines, then it would be fine, as it would demonstrate nicely how you can piss your money away on them.

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JoshSL 25.05.2009#6

shiptoncraig said:
Good old Nintendo, shielding proper Pokemon from kids around the country.

With censorship like this for the sake of kids I think an MMO is looking pretty impossible right now. Smilie

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shiptoncraig 25.05.2009#7

SuperLink said:
shiptoncraig said:
Good old Nintendo, shielding proper Pokemon from kids around the country.

With censorship like this for the sake of kids I think an MMO is looking pretty impossible right now.

I've seen the light and agree Smilie

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Stulaw 25.05.2009#8

Wow, this really is going a bit far, what's next? the pokemon won't be able to do any attacks to protect kids from violence?( this is sarcasm btw).

Still, when we were kids, Nintendo obviously wanted us to be gambling addicts.

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Ikana 25.05.2009#9

Oh dear. What's next? Is Team Rocket hacking off Slowpoke tails gonna be too graphic a concept for EU HeartGold/SoulSilver? Smilie

Mason 25.05.2009#10

That's weird, there's not been a problem with them in the EU editions before has there...?

JoshSL 25.05.2009#11

Ikana said:
Oh dear. What\'s next? Is Team Rocket hacking off Slowpoke tails gonna be too graphic a concept for EU HeartGold/SoulSilver?

....Damn.
They changed it a bit now it\'s ruined!!!
But seriously that\'d be stupid, especially when Pokémon Special is still epic.

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Cheesing It Up 25.05.2009#12

Pfft, why didn't they just make it a 16+ game? Smilie

Canyarion 25.05.2009#13

SuperLink said:
THREE PEOPLE DIED in R/S!

Yeah they should get rid of that!
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J4K 25.05.2009#14

Nah, its perfectly fan to addict kids to the brand, having them spend billions of dollars on dumb merchandise and obsessing them over "catching them all" -- but the slot machine, darn, that's gotta go. Smilie

jb 25.05.2009#15

Jees that's a stupid move, c'mon - it's been there since the beginning!

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JoshSL 25.05.2009#16

Jacob4000 said:
Nah, its perfectly fan to addict kids to the brand, having them spend billions of dollars on dumb merchandise and obsessing them over "catching them all" -- but the slot machine, darn, that's gotta go.

Actually Nintendo don't want you to "catch them all" anymore. That slogan is defunct because it's too hard to catch them all.

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thisissuperk 25.05.2009#17

It's a completely unnecessary and pointless move.
Especially since, correct me if I'm wrong, Diamond and Pearl, of which has been released looong ago, still have the Game Corner.
And they are pretty much the exact same thing, minus a few extras Platinum added.
It's not like the Game Corner in the Sinnoh region hasn't been exposed to the children already.
And like they use it!
I highly doubt any child focuses all of their time on Pokemon Platinum to getting 9999 coins through the machines
They would just buy the coins.
Nintendo, this is official FAIL.
Now, I'm going to go and let all the children I can find know that there's a Game Corner in Veilstone!
[Because I doubt most of them knew what the building was for, or there.]

Kangaroo_Kid 25.05.2009#18

Come on, who doesn't love to gamble?

PK Mongoose 25.05.2009#19

Well then what the heck are they going to replace it with?

And does this mean that every single game of chance/skill that runs on tokens in Europe will be removed?

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Glenjamin 25.05.2009#20

Overprotective if you ask me... Heck I've been around slot machines a lot as a kid. My mom loves to go to casinos and such. That doesn't make me want to gamble at all though. Nowhere near as good as my mother in playing them as I'd blow $100 in an hour! Lesson learned! Smilie

meeto_0 25.05.2009#21

Another contradictory statement from nintendo. Does it not care for kids in it own region and US.

The same kind of BS statement when they declared that price cuts on hardware were unfair on early adopters. They have no problem charging for wii sports in japan instead of bundling it for free like they do in every other region.

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Mario_0 25.05.2009#22

i think it's simple fact they didn't want the gambling logo located on the box, it may have even pushed the age limit up possibly reducing sales to there biggest audiance, children.

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JoshSL 25.05.2009#23

Mario_0 said:
i think it\'s simple fact they didn\'t want the gambling logo located on the box, it may have even pushed the age limit up possibly reducing sales to there biggest audiance, children.

That\'s the sad truth of it. It\'s really PEGI\'s fault, not Nintendo\'s. 42AllTime Classics had a higher rating due to \"Gambling\", so I don\'t think Nintendo would want that risk with Pokémon.

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