By Tony Smith
Published Wednesday 22nd December 2004 13:17 GMT

A PC, PS2 and Xbox-based trivia game has been banned in the US after a teenager alleged that the title contains topless video pictures of her, used not only without her permission but filmed when she was a minor.

Called The Guy Game, the software poses the player with a range of trivia questions. Answer them successfully and you're shown shots of young women cavorting on beaches, usually in a state of undress.

The plaintiff, who remains unnamed, took the game's developer, Austin-based Top Heavy Studios, and its publisher, Take-Two subsidiary Gathering of Developers, to court on the back of her allegations, and this week was granted an temporary injunction banning the game from sale.

The teenager claims to have suffered humiliation, embarrassment and shame as a result of her alleged appearance in the game, which went on sale in the US in the summer, offering piccies of "over 60 smokin' coeds" and "real video of actual Spring Break hotties". Women "proudly show off their 'assets' for your personal enjoyment", runs the game's spiel.

Unfortunately, the footage of the plaintiff was taken when she was 17 years old, she claims. That not only renders the content illegal, but her status as a minor negates any consent she may have given to the game's developers to take and/or use the material.

"The plaintiff is still a teenager and wishes to attend college, develop her career and be active in her community and church," the lawsuit said.

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Damn. That game sounds stupid and pathetic to begin with, they deserve to get sued.

But she willingly let them film and take pictures of her? And all of a sudden she decides that she doesn't like it and decides to sue?

I heard about that game on Judgement day on G4 Tech tv, very low ratings. It was suposed to be a "counter weight" to Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, but i guess that won't happen.

I was thinking that. Definately sounds like two sides of the spectrum. On the one hand, you have an idiot 17yr old who goes on spring break, lets people take photos of her on a beach skantily clad because thats what dumb teens do.
Now she's suing because of this.

But on the other hand, she was only 17 and therefore cannot leagally give her consent to these type of pictures. It is up to the company itself to be mindful of such things or else, as seen, it'll come back and bite them in the arse.

Maybe 3 sides. On the beach it is quite normal for people to be scantily clad, even topless or completely nude if the beach allows. So even if someone was taking film of her so what, people take film of friends on the beach. I can only think that she never thought they would end up on a game.

Although she must have thought something was amiss when she spotted people running round with cameras at a beach at spring break where there are nude and semi-nude underage teenage girls floating around. They werent there for the surf.

Maybe she didn't see the camera or they used some kind of spycam.

How do you hide a camera on yourself on the beach? Actually never mind.

I think if that game developer gave her a profit sharing, then she'll okay. It's a matter of money.

Hire Desert Photographer Commandos...

I think it is immoral to take someones picture without asking their permission first... Especially in a 3rd world country.
If she agreed to the picture, let her face the consequence.
If she did not or did not know, let the company face the consequence.

What a bunch of corrupt and sad videogames they are releasing these days...
Let us a wage a holy war against the videogame industry!