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Quite a while back, gaming blog, Kotaku, posted a short item about Australia. It’s always good to see our little corner of the world getting a bit of videogaming exposure. This little gem was titled ‘How Australia destroys box art’. Expecting something dramatic (think – book burning for the new millennium) I clicked through, to read the post and accompanying comments, hoping to see exclusive footage of bonfires, molten game cases and smug angry zealots brandishing placards.

Turned out videogame box art wasn’t being destroyed by an angry mob, but by the Office of Film and Literature Classification. Apparently, the author of the post, as well as some of those who added their comments to the article, felt that the OFLC was guilty of a something no less disturbing than book burning – they were defacing their precious video gaming box art with the OFLC colour-coded classification markings.

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