Girl, 9, Gets Dating Game Instead of Pet Monkeys
There could have been some monkeying around, but definitely not the same kind as the one Petz offers.
A girl hoping to play with a virtual pet monkey on her Nintendo DS instead found herself in the middle of a dating-simulation game meant for an older audience.
According to KOMO News, Kara Petrich went to Big Lots in Tacoma and bought what she believed to be Petz: My Monkey Family on Nintendo DS for her nine-year-old daughter Paisley.
After playing the game cartridge in her Nintendo DS for a while, Paisley asked her mother why this game wasn't giving her the pets she wanted. Kara then discovered that the game wasn't actually Petz at all, but rather a different game altogether.
Kara noted that the game contained sexually-charged dialog such as "Make sure you bring your life jackets, condoms," and "You wanna rock my mountains, don't you?"
"(I was like) 'You wanna what?'" said Kara Petrich.
It turns out that the game was actually Sprung, a dating simulation released in 2004 by Ubisoft – who also publishes the Petz series. The news report said that the error goes beyond just a wrong-box mix up, as the game cartridge itself is labeled with Petz branding.
Petrich says that Big Lots is not to blame, but she is pointing the finger at Ubisoft.
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damn... not much else to say about that.
Ubisoft is in the news a lot these days....
The thing that I don't get is...
Who names their daughter 'Paisley'?
She got to play with a different kind of virtual monkey.
For those who don't know: Big Lots is a liquidation store. You can get anything from broken stuff, to stuff nobody wants, stuff that didn't sell at other stores, etc. It is almost like a Salvation Army store, but the stuff is new.
This is the new drm ubisoft is using.. You may not even get the game you want to buy! HA take that pirates!
She got to play with a different kind of virtual monkey.
I would find this funny, but the girl is only 9 which makes this comment seem a little off-color.
Yes ... I agree.
I imagine Ubisoft will shower them with some free games appropriate for a child and send them a nice letter of apology.
A mixup with the stickers on the cartridges at the factory.
We need to shield our kids and the best way to do that is supervise them well ... so mum / dad should have checked the game first.
From a collectors stand point, I wish I could pick one of these up. Surely it would be easy to fake but an original saved with the proof of purchase with the right date would be enough to prove its originality. I remember when Tetris for the Genesis was selling for something like $200.
I would find this funny, but the girl is only 9 which makes this comment seem a little off-color.
I don't think it was centered around her age, just a play on words
this give me a great idea for a game
"who wants to date monkey?!"
Whoops!! Did it have to be logged into the internet to play?
UbiSoft continues to catch fires!
Ah yeah, after 15 minutes of mountain rocking she realized that she should tell mom this isn't Petz.
I do not see what the problem is, why do Americans have such fear of sexuality. Muhhamed married his first wife when she was 9 y/o. Recently after much searching I donwloaded a japanese rape simulator game and had as lot of fun playing it with my 12 y/o sun and 10 y/o daughter. You are just sexually repressed.
She was his last wife, and that was 1400 years ago.
I do not see what the problem is, why do Americans have such fear of sexuality. Muhhamed married his first wife when she was 9 y/o. Recently after much searching I donwloaded a japanese rape simulator game and had as lot of fun playing it with my 12 y/o sun and 10 y/o daughter. You are just sexually repressed.
So believe in some mythalogical prophet justifies you desensitizing your children?
And before you jump me about the prophet comment, I'm agnostic, so leave the christians, jews, hindi, and everyone else out of whatever poor attempt at a concernerable response you post.
This is the new drm ubisoft is using.. You may not even get the game you want to buy! HA take that pirates!
+9000
I do not see what the problem is, why do Americans have such fear of sexuality. Muhhamed married his first wife when she was 9 y/o. Recently after much searching I donwloaded a japanese rape simulator game and had as lot of fun playing it with my 12 y/o sun and 10 y/o daughter. You are just sexually repressed.
Playing a rape simulator game with your preadolescent children? It's kind of a shame that one needs licenses to operate motor vehicles, different degrees to hold certain kinds of jobs, but needs no qualifications at all to raise a child.
This is the new drm ubisoft is using.. You may not even get the game you want to buy! HA take that pirates!
Backwards. When a pirate downloads something, assuming it isn't a trap file, he gets exactly what he expects. This is another case of "take THAT, legitimate buyer!"
psychodad's comments if meant to be funny are far from it. In fact, in many countries, admitting to pedophilia even on a forum is an arrestable offense. The mod's should be tracking the source of this post and reporting them to the local police as required by law.
OH, MY, GOD. The horror for that child. I'm sure a large monetary compensation will fix everything. What a world...
I do not see what the problem is, why do Americans have such fear of sexuality. Muhhamed married his first wife when she was 9 y/o. Recently after much searching I donwloaded a japanese rape simulator game and had as lot of fun playing it with my 12 y/o sun and 10 y/o daughter. You are just sexually repressed.
HOW DID YOU FIND A STAR THAT YOUNG?!?!
Anyway, your name says it all.
I keep wondering why things like this gets in the news. Yes it is news, but still.
If I would get such a mixe up, I would go to the store and report it, ask for an exchange. Someone must be really wanting that 15 minutes of fame, to contact any kind of news source and give them this kind of story.
Pick up game, find out it's not the one you purchased, quick contact the media, stop the presses, go on Oprah! Anything but get an exchange...
Never heard of Sprung... and never knew Ubisoft would make something like that, lol.
ultra invasive drm an now this!, i see bad things coming to ubisoft
The only way that game would sell is if you mislabeled it, from those screens it look terrible.
Oh no, the worst thing about this entire story:
'I was like...'
That must be the most horrible expression ever invented.
meh at least it was teaching the child safe sex...
Some Petting go on in both games.
Funny how the kid getting stabbed in the head gets laughed at by everyone but this story gets all kind of controversy....
What b.s.
I remember something of the opposite happening back years ago when I was working at a big-box store. Somebody bought a Music CD of what was supposed to be popular hard rock group (Metallica I I think). However, it was not Metallica on the CD. Instead it was KID's music, possibly reading railroad or something similar.
I wish now I would have bought that CD for myself after exchanging it - it would have made for a nice collectible.