Last week, daily Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun (via Yahoo! Japan) reported that the Japanese Association of Psychiatric Hospitals has asked Gamecock Media Group's Japanese distributor Interchannel to pull DS game "Dementium: The Ward" from store shelves.
Released in Japan in June, "Dementium" is survival horror first-person shooter with a plot that has the protagonist in a dilapidated hospital filled with gruesome surgical experiments.
From the translated Yahoo! story, it seems that the organization was concerned that the game might "encourage discrimination and prejudice" against those with psychiatric disorders.
MTV Multiplayer contacted Gamecock CEO Mike Wilson about the association's request to yank the selling of "Dementium" in Japan. He said to MTV Multiplayer in an e-mail...
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Every week, Austin plays a game from long ago. Sometimes they're classics. Sometimes they are duds. Either way, whatever he's inspired to write about based on that game becomes Retro Weekend. This week, he played Dementium: The Ward and has his mind completely blown by what the game accomplishes on the Nintendo DS.
I don't think anybody's going to mistake those 8 bit graphics for a real person with psychiatric problems
They want this game taken off of the shelves but they're ok with a game where people prod under aged girls?
Messed.