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Discussion Topic: Atari Unveils Deer Hunter Tournament. Will You Play?
Apologies to those who’ve already seen the following over at our Whitetail365 blog. I posted it there last week, meant to put it up here, too, and well, spaced it. My bad. Here it is:
From Thunderboltgames.com (a website dedicated to video games and gaming)
One of biggest surprises here today at [the] E3 [gaming show in Las Vegas] for me came from Donny Clay, a producer at Atari. The game? Brace yourself: Deer Hunter Tournament. . . . The game was made even more fun by Donny’s colorful attitude. He wasn’t afraid to make a joke or two and seemed to thoroughly enjoy the product he was pitching. “There are two kinds of hunting,” according to Donny. “There the days when you go out and get hammered with your friends and shoot at everything that moves and the kind where you go out and you cover yourself in deer piss and try to nail a big buck. This is a game for the deer piss hunters,” Donny laughed.
So, does Donny’s description make you more or less apt to buy the game?
He's an idiot, i'd rather play dumbass deer hunter at the arcade before i buy this garbage
Posted by: BP | July 24, 2008 at 12:01 PM
I read this on the other blog, and along with Petzal's blog on Non Sequitor, I must say, I think us red blooded americans, well to put it nicely I think its yall's time of the month. Yall are letting some un PC BS get your panties bunched up. Its a video game, made by people who PLAY video games, people who don't have nothing better going for them other than Video Games. It sounds to me that this guy thought his description was funny, and he was aiming that description at 15 year old kids who play video games. Donny Clay probably isn't over the age of 30 and more than likely has never seen a real woman, so why do we all care. Will I play the game, probably, how long will depend on how good the game is.
Posted by: Scott | July 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Scott's right. This toad probably is under 30, has never had a date and lives in his parents basement (because he can't bear to be away from his mommy).
Jim
Posted by: jstreet | July 24, 2008 at 12:47 PM
It does matter. To those who don't know any better--which by the way is the majority--this paints us all as drunken idiots. It doesn't matter a whole lot that the source has never had a date. It still isn't good.
Posted by: Joel | July 24, 2008 at 03:58 PM
Anyone here old enough to remember the ABC "Guns of Autumn" segment aired September 1975. It just goes to show that history repeats itself.
Posted by: JohnR | July 24, 2008 at 05:38 PM
What many of us older guys fail to understand is that gaming is mainstream now. When we were kids, it was the entertainment of nerds and misfits. Now, every 7 to 17 year old kid has a Gameboy in his hands. The makers of these games have tremendous influence with young people today--including some of the same kids we are trying to recruit as hunters. So what this guy says about hunting can certainly have an impact on how young people view our sport.
And of course, what he said is idiotic and damaging to us.
Posted by: JohnT | July 25, 2008 at 09:00 AM
I can predict with certainty that the kids are going to love it and if they say it's o.k maybe I'll take a peek
Posted by: Brenda | July 25, 2008 at 10:20 AM
NOPE, DONT PLAY GAMES AND I SURE AS HE** DONT LIKE SOME DUMB A** DAMAGING MY REP. BY CALLING ME A DRUNKEN HUNTER.HES AS BAD AS PETA.
DON
Posted by: don m. | July 25, 2008 at 09:56 PM
There's one kind of hunting, whether you're covered in deer piss or not. That other stereotype, while it certainly appears to keep itself alive through some perennial news story, is little more than a running gag to those folks... no different than Elmer Fudd.
Does it hurt the sport of hunting? Yeah. In some small way it keeps alive the negative images that will lead the public to vote against hunters at the polls whenever hunting issues arise.
Does it do serious harm? No.
Will I play the game? I might. Because sometimes, on days I don't go hunting, I like to sit around and get hammered with my friends and play video games.
Posted by: Phillip | July 28, 2008 at 03:13 PM
Thanks for reading, guys! That was a fun interview and Donny was a great guy. I think you all need to really relax about the whole "hunting stereotypes" thing. As someone who never hunts, I don't think that hunters are just a bunch of dudes who get drunk in the woods and shoot at things. And what Donny said was simply tounge-in-cheek, having a laugh with me. The game looks great, it's very professional, and I think serious hunters such as yourself will likely enjoy it. Please stop taking personal shots at this guy that you don't know because he made a joke. He was an extremely nice guy and seemed very interested in making a very good hunting game.
Posted by: Matt Wadleigh | August 07, 2008 at 04:54 PM
A little late in seeing this... My take is that for those folks out there who see hunters as maggots, trailer trash, killers, etc.... They will Always see hunters that way. Nothing you can say or do will change that... Do his comments hurt all hunters, not... It may anger true hunters, but it does not hurt hunters as a whole. Too many other more blatant and more serious things make hunters look bad...... Those are: real guys going out and getting drunk and shooting at everything. Real guys shooting someone else during hunting season. Real guys trashing private property, poaching, leaving wounded animals, killing farm animals, etc... Crazies going out and shooting several others during hunting season... That one was very damaging for me. I used to be a hunter (a respectable one) and I will say, after that deal, I would not want to go to any public hunting areas any more. I know how it turned off a lot of people to hunting as a whole and the NRA didn't help much...
Hunting will always be a controversy and somehow the anti's will overcome hunters and stop it as a sport, except for the very wealthy, just as in europe, but this one guy's comment won't matter at all in the great scheme of things...
Posted by: Justin | August 29, 2008 at 06:36 PM