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Walmart pulls Mortal Kombat 1up Arcade and refuses to sell stock
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Yes, a Wal Mart communications representative either not reading or not understanding the question asked by a journalistic outlet and giving a mistaken quote falls under "made-up bullshit."
I pretty much never buy games from Walmart anymore but this is really fucking stupid.
I hope this shit passes soon.
In the meantime.
I hope this shit passes soon.
In the meantime.
These cabinets are shitty landfill fodder that shouldn't exist but this is still fucking bullshit when you sell guns and ammo.
Yah for sure, maybe they are pulling this one, which sucks. I'm just tired of people going to straight to outrage, one social media post isn't proof of anything.
Care to explain? I pre-ordered the Marvel and TMNT ones. I don't expect the level of quality of the real deal but still..
What Richard doesn't get, is that MK is a "M" rated franchise & that it contains blood & gore, unlike SF & FF. That's why those machines haven't been pulled while the MK machine had.
But yeah, Walmart is shit.
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I saw the retraction about violent games being pulled from shelves within hours of someone posting a photo of barren, censored video game display cases. I don't know who to believe.
Are individual stores going rogue and pulling stock at their own discretion? I wonder how corporate would feel about that.
How did you pre-order the TMNT one? It isn't available for pre-order on Arcade1Up's site yet.
I'm wondering if there is a re-design incoming and that's why they pulled them? I think that's more likely than Wal-Mart just pulling the game because of violence or whatever. Them pulling this but not anything else seems odd.
I'm sure the figure is gross and astronomical, likely much more than what video games brings in despite also being a huge seller.
I pre-ordered it at my local EB Games (in Canada).
A redesign for MK would be weird, it's relatively new, and they just started being able to keep up with stocks from what people in the FB group said.
It's also finally available in Canada.
Joke's on Walmart -- without Mortal Kombat in their stores no one will ever become violent enough want to buy one of their guns.
Like I said earlier, Mortal Kombat is a very violent franchise that has blood, gore & fatalities involved. Others like Street Fighter & Final Fight are nowhere near that same level.
You guys need to be real about this. I know we love games here, but they have costs on society. If they sell these our kids might end up turning into dragons and biting people in half.
Also, the only way to stop an undead ninja from melting people with their fire-breathing skull is a good guy with a fire-breathing skull.
Also, the only way to stop an undead ninja from melting people with their fire-breathing skull is a good guy with a fire-breathing skull.
First thing I thought of after reading about this stupid plan by Wal-Mart. Well done sir.
Funny that MK has some of the most PATRIOTIC characters.
SPECIAL FORCES is keeping 'Merica safe from those Outworld invaders, you ungrateful hicks!
Meh. I'll just wait for the home version with the blood code. My parents will be none the wiser.
My thoughts exactly. It only took a brain dead scumbag with a big mouth in the White House, a handful of unrelated shooting rampages, and almost 30 years to see his life long mission fulfilled.
I mean, it's been removed from Walmart's website too. I can't purchase it or even do in-store pick-up.
Mortal Kombat Arcade Cabinet Page
No, Wal-Mart's website does indicate that the machine is no longer being sold.
As for the reasoning - yes, that's entirely based off this guy's post. That's why I'm not convinced.
Walmart.com lists it as unavailable for sale. Not out of stock, completely unavailable. Normally you would get to a landing page that would give you other options if they were sold out (other sellers, in-store pickup) but not now.
The explanation that it's due to pulling violent video games is definitely unconfirmed. I just checked and the PS4 version of MK11 is available for pickup at multiple Walmarts near me. Why would they pull the cabinet but not the more violent current game?
It's like some exec at Walmart literally only remembered the controversy from the 90s and based the decision on that.
EDIT: Ok, false alarm. It seems to be back up on Walmart.com
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Cabinet is back on sale on walmart.com
In an interesting turn of events, the Arcade1Up machine is now showing up online as available in Wal-Mart's stores again.
The US is such an assbackwards place sometimes.
No way the 90's was the best decade ever!!
Back into the Jack Thompson era full speed!
Edit: lol glad to see I wasn't the only reaction like that, hello fellow men in their 30's! :D
Edit: lol glad to see I wasn't the only reaction like that, hello fellow men in their 30's! :D
Interesting. It definitely wasn't available earlier and different stores had pulled sales of it too. Maybe because it was flagged as promotional material or display or something and they realized that was dumb.
I know EB considers it a collectible and not an actual game as you can apply the collectible discount on your edge card.
I can't seem to be able to thread mark from my phone. I'll see to do that once I'm back on my pc.
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