Apple Bans "Hot Dog Down a Hallway" Game
Apple Bans "Hot Dog Down a Hallway" Game
May 21, 2009
Inexplicable content decisions continue to be made by the people running the iTunes AppStore.
In the latest example, Apple has banned a new version of Metaversal Studio's Hot Dog Down a Hallway game due to sexual innuendo. However, an earlier version was previously approved and remains available - double entendres included - for $0.99.
As reported by the Boston Globe:
In the game, players try to launch a hot dog down a corridor lined with various hazards. Players earn "achievement" awards, which are described using suggestive slang terms.
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Posted 11/20/09 at 05:42pm
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ZippyDSMlee: oh may the cute stab out your eyes, http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:17pm
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:10pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No thank you I don;t want your cooties...or STDs...
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No thank you I don;t want your cooties...or STDs...
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:01pm
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:59pm
DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:49pm
JDKJ: I cud caer lez. =^^= *wakes up in mid-afternoon after staying up until 3:00AM soldering resistors on to circuit boards, stumbles around in formerly white but now grey underwear, while simultaneously scratching groin with vigor and making coffee*
JDKJ: I cud caer lez. =^^= *wakes up in mid-afternoon after staying up until 3:00AM soldering resistors on to circuit boards, stumbles around in formerly white but now grey underwear, while simultaneously scratching groin with vigor and making coffee*
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:46pm
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:44pm
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:42pm
DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:33pm
JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No and I ain't touching any part of you or your friends!! :P
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No and I ain't touching any part of you or your friends!! :P
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:25pm
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Lik Mitaint?
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Lik Mitaint?
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
ZippyDSMlee: neill and bob,oldest giveing head joke and most lamest...
ZippyDSMlee: neill and bob,oldest giveing head joke and most lamest...
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:for the record I told you you can suck your own dck.
ZippyDSMlee: JD:for the record I told you you can suck your own dck.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:07pm
JDKJ: Naw, man. That's Mueedeegiaap and Bob. And you can stop bobbing. I got Zippy bobbing now, too.
JDKJ: Naw, man. That's Mueedeegiaap and Bob. And you can stop bobbing. I got Zippy bobbing now, too.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:56pm
DarkSaber: OH I get it now! It's Men In Black quote! The twins that run the comm centre in HQ.
DarkSaber: OH I get it now! It's Men In Black quote! The twins that run the comm centre in HQ.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:49pm
JDKJ: I'd like to introduce you to them. First, Neil. Then, Bob.
JDKJ: I'd like to introduce you to them. First, Neil. Then, Bob.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:47pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:I know they are intimate friends of yours...
ZippyDSMlee: JD:I know they are intimate friends of yours...
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:44pm
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Neil and Bob?
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Neil and Bob?
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This is happening and will continue to happen until they can admit the need for a content rating system, hell, any "system" at all would help them to look less like mindless idiots.
The reason this probably happened is because when the 2nd version was banned, there was no call to review the system to see if other games under the same title were available.
I'm not in any way saying the 2nd game deserved it's ban, i'm just offering suggestions. The Apple store looks more every day like a comunity driven website, with tonnes of opinionated moderators and no administrators keeping them on the same path.
NO! No content rating system! If there's a content rating system, then there's a clearly defined set of rules. If there are rules, someone will bend them without breaking them. If that happens, then the same things that are happening to games will happen to iPhone apps.
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people should know by now if you go with apple you will be beholden to arbitary restrictions on what you can do as determined by apple and how it currently feels now.
When was the last time microsoft, nokia, google or anyone like that told you what you can and can't do with your product?
apple is the nanny state of technology companies.
They're only doing this for people with no sense of humor.
Onec again the Bipolar process of iTunes App store approval. They need to stop all this. First it was the on again off again baby shaker and now the denial of the sequal for issues present in the first.
What the crap?
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Here's a more "What the crap?"
Ebook application rejected because it can download the Kama Sutra off of Gutenburg.
As can several others that have been approved, as well as Safari itself.
Link about the EBook application, Eucalyputus, being rejected because it can read the Karma Sutra:
http://www.blog.montgomerie.net/whither-eucalyptus
Here's an idea Apple, create a policy on content, and stick with it. If you want, you can come right out and say you won't have 'adult' themed content on your system. But to just randomly ban certain apps that happen to catch your eye is only going to encourage more 'hidden' content and more user backlash.
If my ex had any money to buy an iPod touch, I'd send this to her as she could relate to the game no problem. Hmmm... maybe have the dirty old man she shacked up with buy it perhaps?
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I guess the popular Apple phrase "It just works" does not apply to the app store's content approval system.
I don't think there is an "approval system", just a complaint based afterthought moderation system.
There is.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/21/218213&art_pos=2
Hold the man-ase!! -- ZippyDMSlee
Oh my dog! Sexual innuendo! What are we gonna do?
Does this trend ever stop? It's like this is a race to beome the worlds most prudish bunch. And everyone's a winner untill they all have blue tennisballs or tingly tummies.
Seriously, this overly prudish act is not healthy.
Why did someone not stop them and say "At least it's not about shooting people"? Or better question...what would be the average response to that statement, when said in the context of being offended by sexual material? We should carry out this experiment.
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*snicker*
Blue tennisballs...
kinda remins me of Dungeon Keeper, most creatures shot a screaming red suage looking thing in FP mode.
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