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Venezuelan president says PlayStation is 'poison,' leads children down 'road to hell'

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jan 18th 2010 4:15PM

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Venezuela's extreme leftist president Hugo Chavez recently took aim at the PlayStation and non-indigenous toys in his weekly radio-TV show, Alo Presidente. According to the AFP, Chavez stated, "Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison. Some games teach you to kill." El Presidente had previously knocked Nintendo for promoting "selfishness, individualism and violence." He believes video games reinforce capitalism which, of course, is "the road to hell."

Chavez would like to see Venezuela making "educational games" instead of Super Murder Simulator VI and "little indigenous dolls" in place of Barbie. Venezuela's (sometimes paranoid) government outlawed violent games last October in an effort to curb the country's extremely high violent crime rate.

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Tags: chavez, hugo-chavez, venezuela

Reader Comments (135)

They'll always have Ball In a Cup.

Real 3d true to life graphics, point to point motion control and extreme difficulty.

Even if the you don't get the ball in the cup, the ball is attached to a string which is attached to the cup, allowing you to play ball in a cup for hours on end!

Ball in a cup!

In Soviet Venezuela, cup balls you!

Your FACE cups balls!

Ball In a Cup is the road to hell!

Be careful with multiplayer though. You don't want the balls to touch.

@ Greatsam(psn:samtheman91)

Yes, because conservatives like Bush Jr. did such a great job running ours...?

Two Venezuelans, one cup.

@ Greatsam(psn:samtheman91):

If it'll make you feel better, I'll let you cup my balls liberally.

There are too many balls in these posts....

BALLS OF STEEL

i love you guys in blue.. -dead @ ball in a cup multiplayer.. comments make joystiq worthwhile..

LOL I've never seen so many funny comments in a row, good work guys!

After reading these comments, I had to check the URL because I felt like I was on YouTube.

God, I love the internet.

I Raikage endorse this thread of comments.

Also. Vote for me.

-Raikage (Future Venezuelan Presidential Candidate)

This coming from a guy who tried to abolish further "elections" because they were inconvenient to his agenda. I guess democracy is the "road to hell" as well. How about releasing the Ball in a Cup: Road to Hell Edition. It includes a demo for Super Murder Simulator IV!

Sweet, sweet poison.

I am sure that Venezuela has many problems, as the centuries of governance that removed assets from Latin America cannot be wiped out in one generation.
Here is something that perhaps is worth sharing. Since 2003, the year Venezuela took control of oil company, the GDP grew by 94.7% in 5 years, or 13.5% annually. Most growth in non-oil, and non-government sector. Poverty rate cut by 1/2, from 54% households in 2003, to 26% at end of 2008. Infant mortality fell by 1/3, and the number of primary physicians grew twelve-fold. Enrollment in higher education tripled. Unemployment fell from 13.3 to 7.8, and the old age pension number of beneficiaries doubled. In 10 years, total government public debt fell from 30.7% GDP to 14.3% GDP. Foreign debt fell even more, from 25.6% to 9.8%. of GDP. Source: Center for Economic Policy Research, Washington, DC. Notable advisory Board Members, Nobel Prize winners Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz, Rich Freeman, Professor of Economics, Harvard.

There is a little info that will interrupt all the folks who are drinking the Chavez is a dictator Kool-Aid.

...you know, besides the fact that he is.

Guess what Ben, we do know.
Actually youd be surprised to realize how many COD players are venezuelan. There was once a VZA clan, i couldnt play three matches in a row without one of them.

But it is true, i guess, most venezuelans who have a ps3 -> smart geeks -> realize Chavez is a monkey.

@Imran: You are obviously not living here and have no idea at all.

"But it is true, i guess, most venezuelans who have a ps3 -> smart geeks -> realize Chavez is a monkey."

Having a PS3 makes me an smart geek?

@ Vaitork

Your "You are obviously not living here and have no idea at all." response is intended to end debate. But geographical location of doesn't invalidate Imran's comment.

Using your trick he could of said "You are obviously not one of those living in poverty in Venezuela and you have no idea at all."

Isn't another term for alcohol... poison?

Raise your champaign glass full of PlayStation in a toast to Chavez.

No, No, NO!

Don't drink the playstation! Hasn't Blendtec taught you the right way yet?

Playstation smoke, don't breathe this!

Jeeze.. take me straight to hell then, I am obviously an evil satan like character with world domination plans....

Oh wait... and I have not even turned my console on!

Jesus, this is just like the 4th Tropico game which exists solely in my head!

Cue Sony Fanboys, "Just because you can't afford it...."

Try as you might, you can't come up with a good come back, Caveman.

You're still here caveman spouting the same nonsense?

How was it a come back?

It was a joke.

Go back about 3 years and you'll see there were quite a few people that said those words.

Sure, some people may have said that about the PS3 back then but CAVEMEN
WARNING BAD PUN INTENDED
Stop living in the Stoneage.

PS3
*XMB clicky noises*
So easy, a caveman can do it
... Yes I re-used and changed a joke I made >.>

So it's True! Chavez is an Xbox Fanboy! Glad we've finally got that all sorted out.

dam i just realized i didnt have to post the same thing in like, the last comment of this whole post.

Thank you. Now ill have to keep eyes open in Joystiq for another Chavez related post. THANK YOU.

I mean, I am the one who really hates him ..*keeps cursing while walking way*....

so...360 fanboys support powerful foreign paranoid American hating dictatorships?

So... Hugo Chavez is Sprinkles?

Quick, someone get a transcript of his radio show to see if he says "Holier then thou"!

The infection has spread.

We have to quarantine it, and fast...

Hugo Chavez is the village idiot of the American Continent.

Sprinkles? I thought we were tight

Fuck Hugo Chavez.

Vote Dante G.

Para Presidente ; )

Estaríamos mejor con Lopez Obrador.....

OPS!, wrong country, xD

It's actually for the SNES; it looks terrible now.

Goddamn Nintendo teaching kids individualism, I've got a dictatorship to run here!

I knew there was a reason I killed you at the end of Mercs 2, Mr. Venezuelan President.

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