This Day in Gaming, July 16th
1998: Cliffy B opens the Cat-Scan contest. "This contest will feature cat-loving owners across the world holding their felines on their flatbed scanners in the name of ART." Oh, Cliffy B, you're sexy and sensitively deep.
2003: Konami releases Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand in Japan for GBA. It's an action game that has a solar cell on the back of the cartridge that refills your "gun de sol" and alters the gameplay environment. Daytime environmental effects included not being able to see a damn thing because the original GBA wasn't backlit.
2004: Federal District Judge Robert Lasnik deems the Washington Video Game Sales Law unconstitutional. The law would have fined $500 to anyone - including that minimum-wage earner at the checkout - who sold a videogame to a minor depicting any violence against law enforcement. Here's what the court said in their victory lap:
Would a game built around The Simpsons or the Looney Tunes characters be 'realistic' enough to trigger the Act? Is the level of conflict represented in spoofs like the Dukes of Hazard sufficiently 'aggressive?' Do the Roman centurions of Age of Empires, the enemy officers depicted in Splinter Cell, or the conquering forces of Freedom Fighters qualify as 'public law enforcement officers?'
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