was the easter egg in this really not known till James Rolfe discovered it?
FUCK OFF BIN LADEN
>spends half the entire episode on this one singular jokeWHATWERETHEYTHINKINGGGGGGGGGGGG
>>728901213tbf, it's insane, I remember that game as a kid, had no clue it had the F word in it
HEY KIDS, ET SAYS FUCK OFF BIN LADEN
ET GO CUM
I still like AVGN and treat it as I would a TV show.
i liked how he bitched about the enemies running off the plantforms when he wasn't even stunning them in place
>>728901213The singular joke was that funnyFUCK YOU in an E rated kids shovelware games is crazy BUT THEN IT KEEPS GOING IT SAYS FUCK YOU BIDEN LADEN Absolutely insane that this wasn't widely known about it's too good
>>728900760No no no, of course it was super well known before this.>appears on wikipedia right after the episode.
>>728900760It was a really good episode
>>728900760Can developers face any consequences for something like this only being discovered long after the game released? Do they have an obligation to inform the ESRB about this or does that responsibility lie on the ESRB?
>>728902279AVGN complains about a lot of things that was his or Mike's own mistake, but even so, what is the point of defending something in a game that's already shitty and sucks ass overall?
>>728904139San Andreas and Oblivion both got their ratings changed after the fact, so in theory yes. But if you manage to sneak some shit for literal decades they’re not going to bother changing the ratings. Wild Woody had a topless woman and it’s still K-A.
>>728904454But can they face any legal punishment?
>>728904454>Wild Woody had a topless womanwhere?
>>728904976
>>728905050oh man, that gives me a woody, a wild woody
>>728905050Woody's rape face says it all
>>728904842No, because the ESRB isn’t a government agency.
>>728906772then why'd everyone shit themselves over hot coffee so hard?
>>728900760James didn't discover it.https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/08/random-this-ps1-e-t-game-includes-an-insult-directed-at-a-terrorist-leader-but-youll-need-a-cheat-codeBut he made it well known enough that someone finally bothered to put it in the Wikipedia article.
>>728906904Americans moral panicking over sex in their mature murder simulator. What does that have to do with ESRB? Because they re-rated it afterwards?
>>728906904While still dumb the concern there wasn’t tricking the ESRB, it was having pornography somewhere minors could access it since 17-year-olds can still buy M-rated games.Showing porn to minors is illegal. Saying “FUCK OFF BIN LADEN” to a minor, while really weird, is not.
>>728907280Now whenever I think of ET, I'm going to end up thinking this message.
>>728906954but sounds unknown prior to this year, while I wanna "fuck off Bin Laden" sounds vaguely familiar, it would have bene age age I heard about it being in an ET game, I don't think I knew about it
>>728906904because a) It was a hotbotton issue that got a spotlight by the media and politicians (One of the things that also made Jack Thompson well known)b) GTA is a popular game and still being sold when the whole controversy erupted.
>>728900760i can't believe avgn is still going wtf
>>728907313that's a good point actually
>>728907628THE GOOD OLD DAYS AFTER 9/11 were really fucking weird, there was so much random "WE NEED TO KILL BIN LADEN" shit that the E.T. game really was white noise.
