Some retailers won't sell videogame BMX XXX
The videogame BMX XXX, due out next month, combines the extreme sports bicycle riding of Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX with the cartoonish sleaze of Grand Theft Auto 3. The new game features nude animated characters, video footage of strippers, prostitutes and pimps as characters, and dogs having sex onscreen. Wal-Mart, Toys'R'Us and KB Toys have announced that they won't carry the game, while Best Buy says it will sell only a censored version of the game. Game maker Acclaim has set up a promotional website for BMX XXX, a typically lame attempt at hip marketing to those crazy kids, with "banned ads" (allegedly rejected by some magazines) and self-censored screenshots from the game. The Quicktime trailer has lots of non-nude stripper footage and blatant product placements for a New York strip club. A list of the game's cool features includes "hilarious scripted events written by Hollywood's best comedians."
