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From the ITC website - complaints about Zelda 64 TV ad

http://www.itc.org.uk/ itc_publications/complaints_reports/advertising_complaints/ show_complaint.asp?ad_complaint_id=155

Complaints Reports
Television Advertising Complaints Reports
These reports are case summaries of complaints which appeared to raise issues of substance in relation to the interpretation of the ITC Advertising Standards Code. Summary statistics of non-substantive complaints can be found in the full reports which are obtainable from the ITC.

NINTENDO – ZELDA

Complaint from: 72 viewers

Background

The advertisement consisted of footage of the Nintendo Zelda game showing a young boy ‘mediaeval warrior’. Sequences of superimposed text asked the player questions about how well or bravely they would play the game, ending with the quesiton: “Willst thou get the girl?.....or play like one”. Viewers, 15 of whom were men, complained that it was offensive and sexist and that it would discourage girls from playing computer games because they were made to feel inferior. Four young girls, between 10 and 11 years of age, said that they were upset because they were ‘just as good as boys’, or ‘better than most boys’ at playing the game. Other comments related to glorifying violence and encouraging bullying.

Assessment

The ITC recognised that the sexist overtones of the phrase: “Willst thou get the girl....or play like one” had upset some viewers and annoyed young female game players. The ITC believed, however, that such tongue-in-cheek treatments were unlikely to have the widespread negative effect that those who complained feared, and did not justify the removal of the advertisement from air. It did not agree that the advertisement glorified violence or would encourage bullying.

Conclusion

Complaints not upheld.

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Well, there's always something unethical about something.

Like playing football, coming indoors, taking your shoes and socks off, then stuffing one of your sweaty socks into someone else's mouth.

That's the way to go.

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I deny all rumours of me consuming my grandfathers trousers.

(pantaloons = trousers? French = rusty)

That ~was~ one of the funniest adverts that I had seen though...

And I don't know if Joe Dark knows, but that was Zelda OOT.