“Hot Coffee” scandal

A while back a download was circulating on the Internet that allowed Pc players of the popular Rock star games title, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas to play a realistic sex mini game that featured graphic nudity. Such content in a game usually would mean an immediate AO (Adults Only) E.S.R.B rating. After about a week of circulation in the underground web it finally surfaced on national news, senator Hilary Clinton was the among the first to personally condemn Rock Star video games and the video game business in general over this fiasco. As politicians made attacks on video games, Rock star denied all participation in the making of the pornographic minigame. Rock star blamed the game on a hacker/programmer that made the game. As the argument started to lean more to the sales of ‘M’ rated video games to those under the age of seven-teen bad news surfaced for rock star games. It had turned out that the game was actually in the original encoding of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. As the minigame titled “Hot Coffee” and could be unlocked using the Action Replay Max on the PS2. This of course means a trouble for the game studio.

Here are the codes for the PS2 using the ARMAX

Date & Girlfriend Codes...
D1U0-7U5R-BJ2ZC

Date Modifier...
39VZ-NARK-06RVU
8UQH-1851-EZQPC

Always Driving Date
8JKP-4XPM-Y2W6U
12UF-9DF5-0P0RG
7ZPF-J4VG-C20FY
vAUN4-Y662-7NFV0
7ZPF-J4VG-C20FY

Always Dancing Date
9YZR-17TF-MWZU4
5JC3-M4E8-VQ4CX
6BHH-ZW1G-YH2TU
AUN4-Y662-7NFV0
6BHH-ZW1G-YH2TU

Always Dinner Date
HRHT-J8VC-2P05M
5JC3-M4E8-VQ4CX
NG2H-VX0E-Z0G2T
12UF-9DF5-0P0RG
NG2H-VX0E-Z0G2T

Quick Fun Increase (Driving Dates)
HC35-44B7-1B0QY
DVN8-B67P-H075B

Hot Coffee (After Successful Date)
WARNING: Uncensored Hot Coffee CODE UNLOCKS ADULT CONTENT HIDDEN BY ROCKSTAR GAMES
7UZJ-9YW8-0T45Z
8UQH-1851-EZQPC

Censored Hot Coffee
Note: Use this code if you wish to save game with Uncensored Hot Coffee disabled
1NQR-NVFE-NXV1Q
20MW-A62G-9MQ30

Uncensored Hot Coffee
Note: DO NOT SAVE WITH THIS CODE ACTIVE This cheat will save and MAY corrupt your save USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
You will be stuck in an invisible box after adult scene Press R1 R2 L1 L2 buttons at the same time to escape
JD3N-EV68-AGRW0
4PMG-6VNA-PBZQ7
BKR1-JF84-6Q23C
U7Q0-6H91-6JATX
5540-HY63-181MY
7FB5-3052-PWB8N
03AH-5PBC-9K2T7

In the letter he asks for a criminal investigation into Best Buy and Target in Hennepin County, Minnesota . He claims that the stores are illegally distributing sexual material to minors via the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas game.

He also claims in the letter that he worked with Sen. Hillary Clinton to prepare her for the press conference she held Thursday to call for the FTC investigation into Grand Theft Auto.

It’s a very interesting read.:

July 14, 2005
The Honorable Amy Klobuchar
Hennepin County Attorney
C-2000 Government Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota Via Fax to 612-348-9712

The Honorable Mike Hatch
Attorney General of the State of Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota Via Fax to 651-282-2155

Re: Probable Criminal Sale of Sexual Material Harmful to Minors by Best Buy
and Target in Hennepin County in Violation of Minnesota Statute 617.291, et
sequitur

Dear Ms. Klobuchar and Mr. Hatch:

Recently I had the distinct pleasure of meeting personally with two fine
lawyers in the Hennepin County Attorney’s office regarding the distribution
of violent, mature-rated video games to minors. I appreciate that
opportunity.

My wife, who is also a lawyer, is from the Twin Cities area and a graduate
of St. Olaf College. I have spent many wonderful days in your community
over the past thirty years. Unfortunately, I was sitting in the old
Bloomington stadium with my future father-in-law when Drew Pearson committed offensive interference to catch Roger Staubach’s “Hail Mary” pass in the 1975 NFC title game.

I write to inform you of a flagrant breach of the rules far more
consequential. It involves the knowing theft of the innocence of hundreds
of thousands of children in the Twin Cities and around the country by two
Hennepin County, Minnesota corporations-Target and Best Buy.

I spent time this week working with U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
office which effort culminated in her nationally-reported news conference
today from our nation’s capital. Senator Clinton decried the ongoing
distribution across the nation of a violent video game entitled Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas, which sales are resulting in the viewing of sexually
explicit material by minors.

Given the facts, which are too numerous to relate here, it would appear that
there is probable cause that Best Buy and Target are at their highest
corporate levels involved in the criminal distribution and/or conspiracy to
distribute sexual material harmful to minors in violation of Minnesota
Statute 617.291 et sequitur.

As you both know, your respective offices have certain injunctive remedies
available to you under that statute, in addition to straightforward criminal
prosecutions of the companies and their corporate officers.

I encourage you both to proceed on this urgent matter immediately. I and
others can provide sworn testimony to any grand jury before whom you might
choose to bring this disturbing matter.

Finally, I have urged both Best Buy’s and Target’s CEO’s, Mr. Anderson and
Mr. Ulrich, to stop this activity, and they refuse. Please enjoin them or
indict them or do both.

Regards, Jack Thompson