{"id":5362,"date":"2002-10-15T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-15T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/15\/retailers-boycott-video-game\/"},"modified":"2002-10-15T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-15T14:16:00","slug":"retailers-boycott-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/retailers-boycott-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Retailers Boycott Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and KB Toys have all officially announced that they will not carry Acclaim&#8217;s upcoming BMX XXX game for the PS2. Best Buy has also joined the boycott but remains willing to carry a censored version of the game, if a censored version is created.<\/p>\n<p>BMX XXX, scheduled for release on November 20th, is a BMX bicycle riding simulation\/action game that features &#8220;topless girls, prostitutes, crack smokers, dog poop, midget clowns, and mounds upon mounds of swearing (all crafted by Hollywood&#8217;s top comedic writers, as Acclaim takes pains to point out).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepro.com\/index.html?\/gamepro\/domestic\/games\/news\/26648.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">GamePro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and KB Toys have all officially announced that they will not carry Acclaim&#8217;s upcoming BMX XXX game for the PS2. Best Buy has also joined the boycott but remains willing to carry a censored version of the game, if a censored version is created. BMX XXX, scheduled for release on November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}