Recently, I was looking over an internet list of the top 25 most idiotic moves done by the gaming industry, and Nintendo's censoring of the original MK game popped up. According to the article, instead of praising the decision to do so, most of the parents of the game's fans decried Nintendo as being self-presumptive of their expectations, like they were in full knowledge and acceptance that it was THEIR responsibility to censor and moderate what their children are exposed to, NOT the Industry.

Now, however, those same parents are openly following Jack Thompson and other lawyers trying to put the blame on juvenile delinquency on video games, and demanding that the industry goes back to being the censors of their own work so they won't have to.

Isn't this rather ironic, to anyone else? Nintendo ENDED their restrictions in part because of the accusations laid on them that they were taking the responsibility of censoring what their fans play away from the parents and onto themselves, yet now you'd be hard pressed to find a parent who would NOT want them and any other video game company to do the same. What changed?