Suburban Arcade Pulls Plug On Violent Video Games

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Jan 7, 2013 8:20PM

An arcade owner has decided to remove 12 games that he deems violent from his place in Algonquin in response to the shooting in Newtown saying, "I just don't want to think I had anything to do with being part of the problem."

"For adults, it's one thing, but we have 8- and 9-year-old kids coming in ... blasting away," Kevin Slota, co-owner of No Limit Arcade, told the Daily Herald. "I said, 'We don't need these games.' I can replace them with something else."

Slota said he removed games that involved a gun used to kill people or zombies. Aliens and animals are still fair game, and Mortal Kombat's martial arts fights will remain.

The games that will be removed are were made in the 1990s or early 2000s including Revolution X, Virtua Cop 2, Maximum Force, Warzaid, Gunblade, The House of the Dead, CarnEvil and Zombie Raid.

Slota said he plans to replace the 12 games with nonviolent, 1980s classics. "With the video games, you have the violent imagery — it's not going to hurt anybody by taking them out," he said. "When Newtown erupted, I guess it was like a tipping point."