Nintendo To Release Women's Self-Defense Game For The DS
02.21.06 - Capcom is set to release a "women's self-defense game" for the Nintendo DS, which will hit stores in Japan in March and North America in early April (and the rest of the world in 2009).
The game, entitled "No Touch Breasts!! Fight!!" in Japan, will make use of a variety of DS features. Gamers can blow into the mic to simulate blowing a whistle or spitting in an attacker's face, and the stylus can be used to simulate kicking scrotums, clawing eyes, pulling hair, and even aiming pepper spray devices.
The game is coming under heavy criticism, however. Self-defense programs are claiming that the game teaches hysterical and ineffectual self-defense methods, and that it is a poor substitute for actual self-defense training.
Fathers For Justice also complains that the game would create injury against men by irate women who do not want to be mugged or raped. "Women should not be encouraged to engage in wanton vigilante activities," urged Harrold Balzak, a member of Fathers for Justice. "Whatever happened to teaching girls the 'Three C's' - cooking, cleaning and changing diapers?"